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?

I didn’t read the books till much later. So, to me, Megan is Anne.

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby

I heard that Tim Rotherham was supposed to be an age appropriate Snape but he turned it down to do the Planet Of The Apes reboot.

Showing my age - Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. And Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander.

Yul Brynner in The King and I. 🥵

Bruce Willis Die Hard

Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton in Yellowstone.That character is my hero.

Robert Downey Junior - Tony Stark
John Thaw - Morse
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

Absolutely to both

Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp and Julie Andrews as Maria

Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie Jeeves and Wooster

Ken Scott as Rebus. He just is Rebus.

Was just about to post this!

They were both brilliant in this. Also their comedy series was really funny. A bit of Fry & Laurie.

Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid and Alan Rickman as Snape

Patrick Swyaze, Jonny in Dirty Dancing 🕺🏻

Ruth Jones as Nessa in Gavin & Stacey. In fact most of the cast of Gavin & Stacey, especially Pam & Mick.

Captain Jack Sparrow - Johnny Depp

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby.
James Gabdolfini is Tony Soprano
natalie former - the best Anne Boleyn in the Tudors

Robbie Coltrane in cracker
Dame Thora Hird in waiting for the letter.
infact when they did the talking heads reboot they didnt do this as it was simply impossible to redo
peter o’toole in lawrence of arabia
ian Richardson in house of cards
Alec Guiness as George Smiley

Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter as Soames and Irene in The Forsyte Saga. No remake ever as good. Also Keith Michel as Henry VIII and all actresses playing his wives- Anne Stallybrass as Catherine of Aragon, Dorothy Tutin as Ann Boleyn, a mousy little thing as Jane Seymour, Angela Pleasance as Catherine Howard, Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr. Can't remember who played Ann of Cleves but it was a very, very, very long time ago!

Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet as Rose and Jack in Titanic ❤️

Joanna Lumley IS Patsy
Richard E Grant IS Withnail

I'd say Daniel Radcliffe really

He's just like in the books