I would normally add my pals Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and Boris Karloff (Frankenstein monster) as they are deeply tied to their signature portrayals....but they also have immediate name recognition on their own merit.
I will say that due to the success of Dracula, soon after Bela was billed as Bela 'Dracula' Lugosi. For proof, simply look at the posters for Murders In the Rue Morgue, White Zombie, and many others.
Boris Karloff, on the other hand, was soon billed simply as Karloff..on par with 'Garbo.'
@MoveAlong That's great! My Dad would tell me what it was like going to the movies when he was a kid in the 30s. My Mom said Lugosi scared the hell out of her.
I got introduced to them in '57 when they came to tv.
I met Bela's son many years ago when the USPS was promoting the issue of their monster stamps.
@JSul3 This was around the mid 50s to early 60s I'm talking about. They used to show some those older movies along with new ones. Every Saturday night they showed a double feature. The theater served as a child setter for teens and tweens while the parents partied.
@MoveAlong How great! I never saw any of them at the movie theater....always on tv until the 70s when a local theater showed King Kong, Dracula, and Frankenstein at a midnight viewing.
The Australian movie and stage actress Judith Anderson was still seen by many down the years as the infamous character she portrayed in the movie "Rebecca" - Mrs Danvers.
@OlderSometimesWiser He actually has pretty unoriginal face that is easy to forget. 😅 Which is a great gift for an actor, this way he's not that easily recognizable. He can jump from a role to role and I won't even immediately realize it's him. Now cast Emma Watson and she'll always be Hermione. 😅
Others will certainly know who this is and/or the character - I just now google-imaged him and got the John Locke/Terry O'Quinn answer. I know the face - it's distinctive, all right - but I've never seen the show. I'm old and mostly watch reruns of really old stuff (Columbo, Laurel & Hardy shorts, Cheers, Fawlty Towers, etc.) Rarely anything new... I don't know why I don't keep up, to tell you the truth.
@OlderSometimesWiser Omg, yes. And few knew that Estelle Getty was younger than both Betty White and Bea Arthur (who played her daughter), or how she looked out of character.
