What actor/actress comes to mind?

[Intrepid37]

Julia Roberts

next: never gets the woman

[nakanosunplaza]

next: never gets the woman
[/quote]

Ralph Bellamy

next A coward most of the time

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Bob Hope

Next- smarmy

[Intrepid37]

Bob Hope did play cowardly a lot. But in real life he had been a prizefighter. Boxed under the name Packy East.

Bob Hope

Next- smarmy

Phil Silvers

next: Revolutionary War soldier.

[nakanosunplaza]

[quote=Intrepid37 post_id=176017 time=1678572122 user_id=349159]
Bob Hope did play cowardly a lot. But in real life he had been a prizefighter. Boxed under the name Packy East.

I think Hope would have run away from Robert Ryan though...
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[nakanosunplaza]

next: Revolutionary War soldier.
[/quote]

Robert Stack in John Paul Jones

Next Shyster lawyer

[Feinberg]

Next Shyster lawyer

Groucho Marx as Loophole

Next: a lottery winner

[LiamCasey]

Nicholas Cage (in It Could Happen to You (1994))

Next: a pork pie hat

[KayFrancis]

Next: a pork pie hat

Buster Keaton and then there's Gene Hackman ( Popeye Doyle in the French Connection ) both came to mind

Next: plays a politician

[LiamCasey]

Edward Arnold

Next: a fedora

[ziggy6708a]

Humphrey Bogart

-a hero from the serials

[LiamCasey]

Buster Crabbe

Next: a top hat

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Fred Astaire

Next- curmudgeon

[Feinberg]

Next- curmudgeon

Charles Coburn

Next: WWI Ace

[nakanosunplaza]

Next: WWI Ace
[/quote]

George Peppard in The Blue Max
Next a Viking chief