Perfectly Cast Movie Roles

Andre the Giant as Fezziz in The Priincess Bride

Tony Cox as Marcus in Bad Santa

Marlee Matlin as Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God

Michael Berryman as Pluto in The Hills Have Eyes
 
Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie the cat

Robert Redford and Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
 
More a TV thing than movies, but William Shatner as James T. Kirk. As my Dad always would say "Shatner isn't a good actor, but he's a great Kirk"
 
How could we overlook the epic performance that Bo Derek gave playing the role of whats-her-name in "10"?

Hey....all the good ones were taken. Its all I could come up with.
 
John Wayne in "The Searchers"

Jack N as Jake Gittes in "Chinatown"

Jack (RP McMurphy), Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched), Will Sampson (Chief Broom), Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd.....hell, all of the "mental defectives" in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Perfect cast in a great film.
 
Several of my favs:

Donal Logue as Dex in The Tao of Steve
Ryan O'Neal as Gregory Stark in Zero Effect
Bill Murray in any movie but especially Meatballs, Stripes, and Caddyshack
Robert Shaw in Jaws
 
John Malkovich

as

John Malkovich

in "Being John Malkovich."

Can't see anybody really playing that part quite as well.
 
Peter Sellars in The Pink Panther.
Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.
Sean Connery, Bond, James Bond.
Jack Nicholson, Chinatown, The Shining, Five Easy Pieces.
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet.
Asta in The Thin Man.
 
Spencer Tracy - Inherit The wind
Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High, Ahab in Moby Dick
Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity
Clark Gable - Gone With The Wind
entire cast - Casablanca
 
Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca
Anthony Daniels as C3-PO
Frank Oz as Yoda
Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name
Bruce Willis as John McClain
Arnold as the Terminator
 
Robin Williams as Garp.

Only twice that I can recall where after I read the book, I wasn't pissed with how the movie was cast.

First, Robin Williams was a perfect Garp.

Second, Robert Duval as Agustus McRae.
 
Patrick Swayze as Dalton in Road House.
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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn - "The Phildaelphia Story"
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell - "His Girl Friday"
Tom Cruise - "Jerry Maguire"
Entire cast of "Sabrina" (Bogart/Hepburn)
Renee Zellweger - "Bridget Jones Diary"
Alec Guiness -"Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Star Wars"
Michael Caine-everything
Paul Newman, Robert Redford and RObert Shaw - "The Sting"
Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal - "The Bad News Bears"
Madeleine Kahn - "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles"
 
Squib, that is really weird. My son is going to attend Alabama. His mother's maiden name was Squibb. When she got a little concerned about the tornado that killed close to 300 in Tuscaloosa, I reminded her of the scene where Garp bought the house because it was "predisastered".

Rickman was perffectly cast as the voice of Mufasa's brother in The Lion King.

Wayne was the perfect Rooster Cogburn.

Eastwood was the perfect Josey Wales.

Hoffman in The Graduate deserves mention

BUT, the best pairing ever was Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in The Long Hot Summer along with Lee Remick, Anthony Franciosa, Angela Lansbury and Orson Welles.

While I thought Pirates 4 was mailed in (but still worth a look), Johnny Depp was excellent as Jack Sparrow.

Belushi as Bluto?

I do understand the distinction between best performance and best casting.
 
Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. I doubt the authenticity of the portrayal but nevertheless, Kilmer's adaptation made that film what it was imho.
 
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