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Zembo
10-12-2009, 05:42 PM
Forget your Routh's and Downey's- I want to see Clark Gable as Hal Jordan, dammit! We can do it! We have the technology!
CYOTI
10-12-2009, 06:05 PM
Audie Murphy as Captain America
Brother Justin Crowe
10-12-2009, 06:11 PM
Ingrid Bergman as Kilowog.
Alex Smith
10-12-2009, 06:15 PM
This is a pretty interesting question...

Humphrey Bogart would probably be a better Hal than Clark Gable, I think.

For some reason I see Gregory Peck as Alan Scott.

I'll try and think about some others.
The Batman
10-12-2009, 06:18 PM
Gregory Peck as Batman/Bruce Wayne.
CYOTI
10-12-2009, 06:31 PM
Gregory Peck as Daredevil would work even better.
Zembo
10-12-2009, 06:41 PM
I just finished watching Night of the Hunter and Robert Mitchum was pretty freaky...He's too big to be Sinestro, but he'd have been a good supervillian...Brrr....
AdamYJ
10-12-2009, 07:06 PM
Jimmy Stewart as the Flash (Barry Allen).

Vincent Price as Sinestro.
M. Bushbug
10-12-2009, 07:09 PM
Doris Day as "good" Mary Marvel.
Jared
10-12-2009, 10:09 PM
Gregory Peck as Daredevil would work even better.

Bruce was drawn to look like a young Gregory Peck in Year One.

Erol Flynn as Iron Man.

Robert Mitchum as The Punisher

Charleton Heston as Reed Richards.
MarvelKnight
10-12-2009, 10:10 PM
Rock Hudson as Superman or Captain Marvel and John Wayne as Hellboy.
Vakanai
10-12-2009, 10:37 PM
Boris Karloff as DC's version of Frankenstein. That'd be a good superhero movie, and since he played as the original Frankenstein, it wouldn't be a stretch.
DetectiveDupin
10-13-2009, 09:57 AM
Gregory Peck as Bruce Wayne.
ThisMortalSoil
10-13-2009, 10:00 AM
I could see Vincent Price as Dr. Strange
jesse_custer
10-13-2009, 10:17 AM
Bruce was drawn to look like a young Gregory Peck in Year One.

I don't see what that has to do with the essence of the character.
Rev. Calibos
10-13-2009, 10:25 AM
William Holden would have made a great Hal Jordan.
Bouncing Boy
10-13-2009, 10:58 AM
I think Gregory Peck would have made a great Superman/Clark Kent actually.

Doesn't this:

http://upsenglish.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/gregory-peck-to-kill-a-mockingbird-posters.jpg
just scream "Clark Kent" to you?
Acecool
10-13-2009, 12:04 PM
Gregory Peck as Batman/Bruce Wayne.

Actually it would be really funny for a miscaste if some one put James Stewart as batman.
fireSTRIKE!
10-13-2009, 12:32 PM
Erroll Flynn as Nightcrawler...
fireSTRIKE!
10-13-2009, 12:33 PM
Orson Welles as the Kingpin...
fireSTRIKE!
10-13-2009, 12:34 PM
Tony Curtis as Spider-Man...
fireSTRIKE!
10-13-2009, 12:36 PM
Orson Welles as the Kingpin...

ok, my bad, this one is a villain... so how about a "classic film stars as villains" thread?
fireSTRIKE!
10-13-2009, 12:38 PM
as I said in the other thread...

Orson Welles as the Kingpin...
Lew Moxon
10-13-2009, 01:12 PM
Richard Widmark as The Joker
James Cagney as The Joker
Jimmy Stewart as Harvey Dent ( I know it sounds like a miscast, but think about it. Dent is often presented as a Mr. Smith type before the incident, and Stewart's natural innocence might serve to make such a murderous turn even more powerful.)
Paul Muni as Salvatore Maroni
Orson Welles as Lex Luthor
Phil Clark
10-13-2009, 01:34 PM
I think we can handle heroes and villains in one thread.
wrecksracer
10-13-2009, 02:10 PM
Cesar Romero as the Joker
Ricardo Montalban as Vandal Savage
Greg Hatcher
10-13-2009, 02:15 PM
Young Peter O'Toole as the Joker.

Humphrey Bogart as Victor Szasz.

Alfred Ryder as Mr. Freeze.

Basil Rathbone as Baron Mordo.

Richard Basehart as Dr. Faustus.

William Smithers as Lex Luthor

Thayer David as Dr. Octopus
Siddon
10-13-2009, 02:17 PM
Judy Garland as Venom
jlmoor
10-13-2009, 02:44 PM
Audrey Hepburn-Cat Woman, with class
Vincent Price-The Riddler
Surtur
10-13-2009, 02:52 PM
Frank Senatra as a really weird version of the Joker. Just imaging a young Frank in the Joker makeup is giving me the creeps.
AdamYJ
10-13-2009, 04:39 PM
Vincent Price-The Riddler

I was thinking that Price should be Sinestro. I mean, Sinestro just looks like Vincent Price with a bigger head, anyway.

Going with some other favorite horror actors:

Bela Lugosi- Sonar (I imagine there's not much difference between a Moldoran and a Hungarian accent).
Lon Chaney Jr.- Sandman (Marvel villian, not Golden Age DC hero or Vertigo guy).
Dwight Frye- The Toad (I always imagined the Rob Liefeld version of Toad being like Renfield from Dracula. A crazy, grinning, bug-eating lunatic).
Boris Karloff- Mr. Freeze (the man is all about creepy pathos).
Monty_Cristo
10-13-2009, 05:31 PM
Burt Reynolds = Sebastian Shaw
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3010959360/nm0000608

Olivia Hussey = Selene
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1064867840/nm0001377
Stony
10-13-2009, 09:10 PM
I think we can handle heroes and villains in one thread.

I think so too.
Vakanai
10-13-2009, 10:15 PM
Dwight Frye - Spider-Man, I think he could pull it off.
Dwight Frye - Venom, I really think he could pull it off.
Zembo
10-13-2009, 10:17 PM
Dwight Frye - Spider-Man, I think he could pull it off.
Dwight Frye - Venom, I really think he could pull it off.

Agreed, he was an underappreciated actor.

Also, this has hit 3 pages! Go me!
Pól Rua
10-13-2009, 10:58 PM
Erroll Flynn as Nightcrawler...

Actually, I'd be thinking Tyrone Power. He was generally more acrobatic than Flynn.
Pól Rua
10-13-2009, 11:00 PM
Young Peter O'Toole as the Joker.

Nice call! As an aside, have you ever seen 'The Ruling Class'?
I suspect you might like it. A landed lord dies and the two sons next in line have gone to war (as is only proper) and died, leaving the estate and title in the hands of the youngest son (O'Toole) who's been committed to an insane asylum for thinking that he's Jesus Christ.
It's a musical.

No, really.

Thayer David as Dr. Octopus
That's gold, that is.
Pól Rua
10-13-2009, 11:02 PM
And one I've mentioned before, Peter Wyngarde as Doctor Strange.
Stony
10-13-2009, 11:51 PM
Young Peter O'Toole as the Joker.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this, what movie are you thinking?
Pól Rua
10-13-2009, 11:58 PM
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this...

How about now...?
http://realitymouse.com/otoole/blog2/photos/otoole1976.jpg
Pól Rua
10-14-2009, 12:55 AM
I just finished watching Night of the Hunter and Robert Mitchum was pretty freaky...He's too big to be Sinestro, but he'd have been a good supervillian...Brrr....

Someone like The Sandman (Spider-Man foe) or Metallo.
Lasko8734
10-14-2009, 01:15 AM
James Cagney plays the meanest Joker around...
Lasko8734
10-14-2009, 01:17 AM
James Cagney plays the meanest Joker around...
jlmoor
10-14-2009, 05:15 AM
Actually, I'd be thinking Tyrone Power. He was generally more acrobatic than Flynn.

But Flynn would make Nightcrawler so happy!

Nightcrawler discussing film: "Everything after Errol Flynn was garbage."
Pól Rua
10-14-2009, 05:19 AM
But Flynn would make Nightcrawler so happy!

Nightcrawler discussing film: "Everything after Errol Flynn was garbage."

But Kurt is ACTUALLY acrobatic, like Power, and ACTUALLY a decent swordsman, like Basil Rathbone... whereas Flynn is just the biggest movie star.
Electric i
10-14-2009, 06:31 AM
Humphrey Bogart ---- The Leader

Vincent Price -------- Sinestro

Katherine Hepburn ---- Poison Ivy
jlmoor
10-14-2009, 06:51 AM
Katherine Hepburn ---- Poison Ivy

Oooooh, I like this better than mine.
fireSTRIKE!
10-14-2009, 08:00 AM
Joan Rivers as Carnage
Stony
10-14-2009, 04:04 PM
How about now...?
http://realitymouse.com/otoole/blog2/photos/otoole1976.jpg

That's not bad, although maybe I'm thinking about this too hard
Anyway,
Ernest Borgnine as Wildcat
Vakanai
10-14-2009, 05:30 PM
Agreed, he was an underappreciated actor.

Agreed. I've only seen him in a few things, but his performances were never mediocre from what I can tell.

His appearance in Dracula as Renfield was pretty good, and the scene from that movie where he spider crawls towards that passed out chick is why I'd think he'd make a good Spider-Man. Though I haven't seen enough to know if he could do Peter Parker.

His performance in that film was better than the Spanish version. The other guy kind of went overboard with the maniacal laughter, whereas Frye's more subdued performance felt creepier to me.

I think he also played the Igor-like character Fritz in the first Universal Frankenstein film, didn't he?
Legato
10-14-2009, 06:40 PM
How about now...?
http://realitymouse.com/otoole/blog2/photos/otoole1976.jpg

He would make a good Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. Even The Joker.
Pól Rua
10-14-2009, 07:27 PM
He would make a good Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. Even The Joker.

I think O'Toole would be awesome as The Joker.
Cagney would make a brilliant Norman Obsorn/Goblin.
http://cdn3.ioffer.com/img/item/105/789/381/o_JIerQW01Rr6x5ix.jpg
Monty_Cristo
10-14-2009, 07:30 PM
looks more like the Leader, in that pic.
Hoss
10-14-2009, 07:55 PM
Woody Allen as Ambush Bug

Marlon Brando as Wildcat

Warren Beatty as Hal Jordan

Clint Eastwood as The Punisher

Audrey Hepburn as the Wasp

Raquel Welch as Maryjane

James Dean as Ghostrider

An HGHed up Sidney Poitier as T'Challa

Claude Raines as Alfred
Legato
10-14-2009, 07:59 PM
Clint Eastwood as Jonah Hex.
Zembo
10-14-2009, 10:29 PM
No no, Peter O'Toole should be the Riddler. He's too refined for senseless killing.

Christopher Lee should be Harvey Dent, he has that magnetism with a dark undercurrent. Or possibly Vandal Savage.
Legato
10-14-2009, 10:36 PM
Boris Karloff could work as Magneto

Fay Wray for Catwoman
Legato
10-14-2009, 10:38 PM
Anyone think Vincent Price might make a decent Lex Luthor?
Wenatchee the Hatchet
10-14-2009, 10:40 PM
Young Peter O'Toole as the Joker actually sounds awesome. I mistook it for young Peter Lorre at first.

Jimmy Stewart as Harvey Dent doesn't fit the "Apollo" part of Dent as a character but, damn, I like that casting idea! In terms of a look I always imagined Gene Kelly had sort of a suave/smug Harvey Dent look to him but I don't think he really had the emotional range for Dent.

I don't know why but Luthor seems more like a George C Scott role than a Vincent Price role. Scott could make Lex an evil bastard while still humanizing him.

Well if young O'Toole is Joker could Alec Guinness pass for Ra's al Ghul? :)
Electric i
10-14-2009, 11:27 PM
Clint Eastwood as Jonah Hex.

I 2nd this motion.
cernunnos
10-15-2009, 03:12 PM
John Wayne as either Captain America or The Punisher
Indigo Al
10-15-2009, 05:37 PM
I like Mark Millar's Orson Welles hoax for this:

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Batman-Orson-Welles-Hoax
Papa Moai
10-16-2009, 05:03 AM
Robert Redford as Captain America

Montgomery Clift as Cyclops

Charles Bronson as Wolverine

Lee Marvin as Sabertooth

Henry Fonda as Reed Richards

Peter Lorre as Toad

Marlon Brando as Kingpin
Zembo
10-18-2009, 02:47 PM
One I thought of today, and he's not really classic, per se....

Peter Weller as the Red Skull.
spoon_jenkins
11-03-2009, 10:43 AM
Louis Wolheim (from the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front) as the Thing.

Fred MacMurray as Mr. Fantastic.

Faye Dunaway as Emma Frost.
Tish-the-Scorpion
11-03-2009, 11:04 AM
Dorothy Dandridge is Vixen
Tish-the-Scorpion
11-03-2009, 11:15 AM
James Dean as Ghostrider

genius!!!!
Phil Clark
11-03-2009, 11:30 AM
Young Elvis as Superman. And Mary Tyler Moore as Lois.
Frank
11-03-2009, 12:07 PM
Humphrey Bogart as Nick Fury. Watch Casablanca and put a patch on this guy.

Charlton Heston as Thor. Look at his 50s/60s movies, give him a blond wig. The voice, the charisma, the arrogance. Imagine the director of the 10 Commandements doing this. Also Jack Kirby's Thor was far thinner than what we see in comics these days.

Yul Bryner as Namor.

Charlton Heston as Magneto.

Jimmy Stewart as Plasticman.

Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces as The Joker.
Pól Rua
11-03-2009, 10:53 PM
I suspect Donald O'Connor or Danny Kaye might make a good Plastic Man.
Lew Moxon
11-07-2009, 11:29 PM
Laurence Harvey as Bruce Wayne
http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/27/2771/SDKTD00Z/laurence-harvey.jpg

Peter Sellers as The Joker
http://www.thegoonshow.net/collectables/autographs/auto_peter.jpg

Marlyn Monroe as Harley Quinn
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z227/Walrus_09/mm.jpg


Orson Welles as Alderman Rupert Thorne
http://runningdownhill.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/orson-welles2.jpg
ponset
11-13-2009, 01:19 AM
Frank Sinatra as a really weird version of the Joker. Just imaging a young Frank in the Joker makeup is giving me the creeps.

Gene Kelly as Batman.
Cyd Charrise as Catwoman.
Van Johnson as Harvey Dent.
Ronald Colman as Alfred.

New MGM Movie, BATMAN: THE MUSICAL. :biggrin:
Brother Justin Crowe
11-21-2009, 08:20 PM
Transmetropolitan (1970)
Written & Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Spider Jerusalem...Malcolm McDowell
Channon Yarrow...Faye Dunaway
Yelena Rossini...Diane Keaton
Mitchell Royce...Peter Sellers
The Beast...Marlon Brando
The Smiler...Donald Sutherland
Fred Christ...Robert Duvall
Joey Deadcat
11-21-2009, 10:50 PM
Not quite a classic actor but Russell Johnson as Reed Richards.
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/westerns/russelljohnson/russelljohnson7.jpg
Eric D.
11-21-2009, 11:02 PM
Audie Murphy as Captain America

i 2nd that.
Wenatchee the Hatchet
11-22-2009, 01:50 AM
Dude, Donald O'Conner as Plastic Man would ROCK!! I'm gonna use up my twin's vote to second and third that one, Pol Rua. :smile:
Papa Moai
11-24-2009, 09:15 AM
Rock Hudson as Superman
http://www.yuddy.com/articleimages/Rock_HudsonNzAy.jpg

Klaus Kinski as Red Skull
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2344/2075646893_cafacc5dac_o.jpg

Robert Mitchum as Nick Fury
http://michaelmanning.tv/blog/uploaded_images/robert_l-745679.jpg