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Actors that played some unrecognizable roles (60 Photos)

January 25, 2013 | In: Art, Celebrity, Interesting, Movies

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Some roles are more familiar than others but almost all of these characters look astonishingly different from the people who played them.

: John Leguizamo in
Spawn

: Tim Curry in
It

: CCH Pounder in
Avatar

: Matthew G. Taylor in Resident Evil: Apocalypse

: Kelsey Grammer in
X-Men: The Last Stand

: Jack Nicholson in
Batman

: Jim Carrey in
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

: Doug Jones in
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

: Roberto Campanella in
Silent Hill

: Jim Carrey in
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

: Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth

: Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth

: Boris Karloff in
Frankenstein

: Wes Studi in
Avatar

: Ryan Reynolds in
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

: Christopher Walken in
Sleepy Hollow

: John Travolta in
Hairspray

: Danny DeVito in
Batman Returns

: Eddie Murphy in
Nutty Professor

: Martin Lawrence in
Big Momma’s House

: Jackie Earle Haley in
Watchmen

: Robert De Niro in
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

: Nick Stahl in
Sin City

: Alan Cumming in
X2: X-Men United

: Sam Neil in
Event Horizon

: Mike Myers in
The Cat in the Hat

: Robin Williams in
Mrs. Doubtfire

: Laz Alonso in Avatar

: Andy Serkis in
The Lord of the Rings

: Andrew Divoff in
Wishmaster

: Brandon Lee in
The Crow

: Ray Park in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

: Scott Heindl in
I,robot

: Maiwenn in
The Fifth Element

: Doug Bradley in
Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker

: Ralph Fiennes in Harry Potter

: Benicio del Toro in
The Wolfman

: Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

: Gary Oldman in Hannibal

: Hugo Weaving in The First Avenger: Captain America

: Doug Jones in
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

: Jonathan Breck in
Jeepers Creepers

: Derek Mears in
Friday the 13th

: Andrew Bryniarski in
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

: Warwick Davis in Leprechaun

: Warwick Davis in Harry Potter

: Kevin Peter Hall in
Predator

: Kevin Peter Hall in
Harry and the Hendersons

: Doug Jones in
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

: Doug Jones in
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

: Mickey Rourke in
Sin City

: Michael Chiklis in
Fantastic Four

: James McAvoy in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

: Brad Pitt in
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

: Peter Mayhew in
Star Wars: Episode IV-VI

: Michael Jai White in
Spawn

: Tim Curry in
Legend

: Stellan Skarsgård in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

: Tom Cruise in
Tropic Thunder

: Michael Keaton in
BeetleJuice

Category: Art, Celebrity, Interesting, Movies

ChodeLauncher

Most of these were really well known
Eric

About 99% of these were obvious. This post was a waste of my life
NikkeD

#55 almost as harry as chewie
red4

*sigh* Somebody doesn't know what the word "unrecognizable" means.
Anyway, #33 is flat out wrong. That robot was played by Alan Tudyk of Firefly fame.
Whateve's

No offense to this post but some of these characters or from facely actors and others transformed into the unrecognizible character during the movie.

Whateve's

Damn! I became one of those! I meant faceless actors.

Pants

#39 Gary Fucking Oldman aka Commissioner Fucking Gordon and Victor Fucking Reznov? Wowzers.
heywood jablowme

how about Matt Damon in Eurotrip?
crazydog

You hit it right on the head….. still think he's a wackadoo but he was beyond fucking hilarious as les grossman
Ryan

Okay, maybe common knowledge for movie buffs and the inanely inquisitive, but good fun for the lot of us who aren't up on our behind the scenes and imdb feeds.
James

Needs to have hugo weaving in V for Vendetta. I was surprised to hear that when I did
hai

Some of these are huge reaches. especially the actors in makeup with no prosthetic parts or the CGIs that are modeled after the actor.

The most obvious one was Michael Chiklis as the Thing, it looks just like him.
Toni

These were all horribly obvious….just saying chive, you have done better with far less…this post was a blunder.
thedude

#46
come on, chive, Warwick Davis was also Professor Flitwick through the entire set of movies.

heywood jablowme

people also forget that he played Wicket in Return of the Jedi.

Ricardo

Someone has already posted it, but the role of Weapon XI in Wolverine, photo #15, is credited to Soctt Adkins, not Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds did enter the movie, but as Deadpool at the begining of the movie. Though it is a great post. Nice to see some transformations.
Jay

#15
Ryan Reynolds played Wade Wilson up until he was transformed into Deadpool. Post transformation, he was played by Scott Adkins.
It's Adkins pictured on the right.
aiesfj

A lot of these are stupid, for instance the fat ass in the nutty professor turned into eddie murphy in the movie.
Bob Swarley

#15 is incorrect. Ryan Reynolds DID play Wade Wilson/Deadpool, but that was not him as Weapon XI, it was a body double.
Adam

Come on dude. 99 percent of these are soooo obvious.
Canucks_Rule

#23 #39 #48 – trippy.
commander cool

this is a stupid pos. agreed, some of them are unrecognisable, but a lot of them were well-known as playing the parts. jack nicholson unrecognisable as the joker? give me a fucking break. try harder Bob
http://coreyvandersleen.wordpress.com CVSleen

Most of these were painfully obvious. But #1, #17, and #33 are pretty good.
i like boobs

what about dave grohl in tenacious d POD?
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Johan

48. I don't see any difference

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