In Your Opinion Which Actors Are True Chameleons?

Elisha Cook Jr.

Edward G Robinson

Peter Lorri

Sydney Greenstreet

George “Gabby “ Hayes

Orson Welles

Carmen Maranda

Ricardo Montalban
and of course
Fernando Lamas

These people’s characters always fooled me. Never could recognize any of them.

Oh, by cracky please forgive me I almost forgot Harry Von Zell !

 

Michael Parks

 

there's no other...I'm crazy about him! I will watch anything his name is attached to...EYAWWWWWWWWWWA..

 

yes, 2 good ones...after seeing Bale in the Machinist I was floored by his performance...

 

Sandra Bullock (just looking at her 2009 trilogy-"The Proposal","All About Steve", and, what is currently, her only Oscar win, "The Blind Side").

 

James Cagney

 

Bingo! I think he's very talented but I agree he largely plays the same kind of performance 99% of the time.

Same thing with Jason Bateman - enjoy him a lot but always get the same tone from his acting...

 

Yup.

I'm starting to think some people here don't know what "chameleon" means. Gary Cooper???

 

Damon is another Hanks - he seems to almost always play the "genial everyman".

Being a great actor and being a chameleon aren't the same thing...

 

Yup! Oldman is the platonic ideal of the "chameleon" in terms of actors.

I think I'd seen him in movies for 20 years before I ever heard his real speaking voice!

 

I thought this was really a chameleon but then I realized it was three different guys!
David Krumholts
Jake Johnson
Oscar Isaacs

 

Tom Hanks is great at becoming whatever the script requires him to be from movie to movie.

 

'The Apostle' & 'Apocalypse Now', great actor

 

me too...I've seen all his films. Johnny Come Lately is no White Heat...he didn't always play a gangster. I have been a fan since I was a youngster.

 

Alec Guinness

 

Stephen Root.

If you're saying "who?" that's proof of what an amazing character actor he is. He played a campaign manager in The West Wing, the insane judge in Idiocracy, Milton in Office Space, the radio station owner in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

He's never played the same character twice.

 

Jim Carey, Fletch, and Dana Carvey

 

I just told my family a couple of days ago that Philip Seymour Hoffman was well on his way to becoming the male Meryl Streep.

Unfortunately, he was much better at being other people than himself.

 

Jimmy James, the arrogant station owner on Newsradio. Boyle's insecure dad on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I swear the man could play the Vice-President Of The United States in one movie and a guy getting fired from McDonald's in another.

 

I'm half expecting someone to say John Wayne and not mean it in an ironic way.

 

Love Stephen Root, great pick.

 

Kate Winslet

 

Four of my fellow countrymen who immediately come to mind Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Christian Bale and an honourable mention to Eddie Redmayne who’s portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything is in my opinion one of the greatest performances ever.