OK.... give me an actor that could have replaced an actor!

Gotta say it but I read the Bourne novels when they were first written and Mat Damon was peeing his pants. He is simply too young for that role of Jason Bourne. Daniel Craig would've been a better Bourne than a Bond. ( Tongue twister at the end)

 

In the TV series Bewitched, I think Dick Sargent could have easily replaced Dick York as Darrin Stephens?

 

Ok, I’m glad to hear somebody else say this.
He was annoyingly whiny in A New Hope IV and Empire Strikes Back V, and unbelievable as a “cool Jedi” in episode VI.

I looked more like him when the films came out (blond kid), but I always wanted to be Han Solo...he fit my personality more.

 

Steve McQueen was cooler and grittier, and Paul Newman was smoother and funnier, but I’ve often thought they could replace one another fairly handily in most (but not all) of their roles.

 

Brad Pitt and Danny DeVito are fairly interchangeable.

 

Who was interchangeable for Charles Bronson??

 

Henry Silva maybe ?

 

I'm with you man, let me include Nicholas Cage too.

 

My exact opinion, bit wimpy for the role

 

I heard that Deniro wanted the Tom Hanks role in Big. At first I thought, no way, now it seems plausible. But then we have only seen one version of these movies so it is hard to imagine them being any other way.

 

Every time I see the title of this thread, I think “I’m a dude...playing a dude...disguised as another dude...”

 

A younger Jack Lemmon in Castaway...

 

My uncle was a semi-famous actor who had been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting. Sometime after that, he was looking at casting calls in Variety, and someone was looking for a "Leonard Frey type".
Not having a gig at the time, he called for an audition.
Sorry, they said, we want a Leonard Frey TYPE, not the actual Leonard Frey.

 

Crispin Glover would have been a fine Forrest Gump. Throw in Richard Kind as Lieutenant Dan while we’re at it.

 

Richard Thomas!

 

I'm going to have to disagree with the Travolta/Pitt thing. No way Jose. He's a bit overrated, in my opinion. He was great in Moneyball though.

 

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Chato’s Land - Toshiro Mifune
Death Wish - Jack Warden

 

He was utterly believable as a Russian in Hunt For Red October. Not.

 

Surely you mean Tom Cruise and Danny DeVito?