To ask which roles you think no-one else could play

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Some actors or actresses embody a role so completely, it’s inconceivable anyone else could ever play the same part. They could never be satisfactorily re-cast.

The first one that jumps into my mind is Peter Falk as Columbo. It’s hard to imagine anyone else in that role - he was and always will be Columbo.

Can anyone think of any others?

Robert Englund is the one, and only Freddy.

Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)

Kelly Reilly - Beth Dutton
Jack Nicholson- Jack Torrance

All the Blackadder cast especially Rik Mayall as Flash

David Jason as Del Boy!

I’d be like to see a reboot, but have it be Columbo’s nephew. (His brother’s child so still called Columbo!). Same MO, in that we see the crime. I’d like to see Owen Wilson do it.

You are both wrong! 🙃 Charlotte Gainsbourg is THE Jane Eyre.

Matthew Rhys! He’d be perfect. And I like the nephew idea.

Omg as soon as i saw your title i thought of Columbo! Love that show

Not a great actor but Arnie in Terminator

Agree. A more up to date one is the young actress who plays Darrell in Malory Towers. It's more than 50 years since I first read the books and she is exactly as I imagined her.

James gandolfini (sp?) as Tony soprano

I used to swoon over Anthony Andrews. Absolutely gorgeous 😍

Literally every cast member in the LOTR films, perfect casting

Yes and Toby Stephens was an excellent Mr Rochester , ( a touch of wolverine in there)

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano

David Dawson as King Alfred in The Last Kingdom

Faye Marsay IS Anne Neville in The White Queen, she’s exactly how I’ve always pictured Anne.

Alan Rickman as Professor Snape

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting - another movie that was perfectly cast.

Oh Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane!

Bette Davis in anything.

Humphrey Bogart as Richard Blaine.

Agree about Joan Hickson. Others may play Miss Marple, she was Miss Marple.

I don't know what's going on with the Bergerac reboot, but there can be only one Charlie Hungerford.

And one Terry and Arfur.

Every character in LOTR other than Boromir and Faramir, I thought they were too old (aw, Faramir sets off spell check, Boromir doesn't!)

Every original character in Red Dwarf.

Rowan Atkinson and Miranda Richardson in Blackadder.

Every character in Father Ted, full stop. And IT Crowd.

And I absolutely adore the Wilson / Stephens Jane Eyre, maybe even more than the book... I think that's my absolute favourite period drama, though I think there are many other possible interpretations of both roles and can see why other people would prefer an adaptation that stayed closer to the text.

Alicia silverstone as Cher in cluekess
Patrick Swayze as Johnny in Dirty Dancing
Stockard Channing as Rizzo

Megan Follows as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables.
Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory.

Kieran Culkin in Succession.

Henry Cavill as the Witcher.
I agree with David Suchet as Poirot.
John Thaw as Morse.
Modern Family cast.