Name a role an actor was born to play

[Masao]

Billy Curtis as The Thing

 

[MGS_OldBoy57]

I’ll also throw in Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, great as Batman but I feel like Keaton was made for his role in Beetlejuice. Also Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean. Also made for this role and I can’t see anyone else doing it.

 

[The Buffinator]

Nah, anyone can play Snake.

Snake Plissken? I thought he was dead...

 

[Masao]

Kristy Swanson as Buffy.

 

[Remembermyname]

Crunchy creamy cookie candy cupcake...

Johnny Depp.....Rango 2011.

 

[Sixth Scale Man]

There’ll be some retreads here, but here goes…
Christopher Reece - Superman
Michael J. Fox & Christopher Lloyd- Marty & Doc
Harrison Ford - Indy/Han Solo
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley
Ian Holm - Bilbo Baggins (actually, the whole cast of LOTR, dammit)
Keanu Reeves - John Wick/Neo/Ted
Gary Oldman - Dracula
Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins - Clarice Starling & Hannibal Lecter
Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner - Spock & Kirk
Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice
Ellen Greene - Audrey
Robin Williams - Genie
Kurt Russell - Jack Burton
Peter O’Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
Jeff Goldblum - Seth Brundle
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Kevin Kline - Otto
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Bruce Campbell - Ash Williams
Jeff Bridges - The Dude/ Starman
Kathleen Turner - Jessica Rabbit
Charlie Sheen - Topper Harley
Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller
Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty
Ron Perlman - Hellboy
Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison / Nick Rivers
Henry Thomas - Elliott
David Bowie - Jareth
Peter Mayhew - Chewbacca

 

[Mondragon]

Doing it backwards.
As they never actually played, yet instead inspired the role (in essence born to play it):

Bill Finger - "Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks [who played Zorro] and Sherlock Holmes."​

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Bill Finger- "My idea was to have Batman be a combination of Douglas Fairbanks [Zorro], Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, and Doc Savage as well."​

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Bob Kane -"Zorro’s use of a mask to conceal his identity as Don Diego gave me the idea of giving Batman a secret identity…Bruce Wayne would be a man of means who put on a façade of being effete. Zorro rode a black horse ... and would enter a cave and exit from a grandfather clock in the living room. The bat-cave was inspired by this cave in Zorro. I didn't want Batman to be a Superhero with superpowers…So I made Batman an ordinary human being; he is just an athlete who has the physical prowess of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who was my all-time favorite hero in the movies.”​

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Alter Ego (Roy Thomas) - "Bill [Finger] maintained (well into the 1960’s) a file of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. photo stills. He showed me the file and said that he would attach selected photos to finished scripts for Bob [Kane] and his assistants to use as models. I recognized pose after pose. The stills I saw (and had never seen before that date) were the familiar swinging poses that characterized the Acro-Batman…"​

So in that spirit Douglas Fairbanks was in essence born to play Bruce Wayne Batman:

Further Fairbanks essentially invented the action-hero movie genre that impacted that first gen. of comic creators, and helped define one the most significant characters in comics history.

And of course The Man Who Laughs- Conrad Veidt was in essence born to play the Joker.

 

[Mondragon]

Fred MacMurray was born to play Captain Marvel SHAZAM!

And Judy Garland, born to be Marry Marvel

Max Schreck was born to play Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana

 

[Mondragon]

...!
I know.

Paul Newman was born to play Hal Jordan, and Elizabeth Taylor to play Carol Ferris

 

[Mondragon]

Jack Palance was born to play Darkseid

Mark Evanier - "it is not uncommon for comic artists to "cast" their creations, using someone they know or have observed as reference, and Kirby used Jack Palance as a model for Darkseid. ...When J.K. wrote dialogue for his comic book evildoer, he was "hearing" Palance"

 

[brylan]

patrick stewart as prof x

 

[Captain Clown]

Jim Carrey as The Mask.

 

[Remembermyname]

Mickey Mouse as Mickey Mouse.

 

[Masao]

Steamboat Willie as Mickey Mouse.

 

[Mondragon]

Mickey Mouse as Mickey Mouse.

Oddly Oswald was born to be their Mickey (as in created to be their main character/corporate mascot role) yet Universal finagled them out of the rights, so they just shortened his ears and gave him shoes.

 

[Masao]

Gil Gerard as Capt Kirk

Jkjk

 

[Remembermyname]

Gary Cooper as Alvin C York....Sergeant York 1941.

Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry 1960.

Audie Murphy as himself.... To Hell and Back 1955.

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler....Gone with The Wind 1939.

Burl Ives as Rufus Hannasse....The Big Country 1958.

 

[Remembermyname]

Oddly Oswald was born to be their Mickey (as in created to be their main character/corporate mascot role) yet Universal finagled them out of the rights, so they just shortened his ears and gave him shoes.

Interesting, it has evoked my memory.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Harrison Ford - Indy/Han Solo

Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

Jeff Bridges - The Dude/ Starman

Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller

Good list.

Sean Connery - James Bond

Humphrey Bogart - Sam Spade

Alan Rickman - Hans Gruber

Heath Ledger - Joker (Nolan version)

Ian McKellen - Gandalf

Geoffrey Rush - Hector Barbossa

 

[ironwez20]

The guy from the bear as Willie wonka