Other than John Wayne as Ghengis Khan, what was the worst movie casting of all time?

[MrScorpio]

I have to go with Keanu Reeves in Dracula... He hadn't gotten Bill and Ted out of his system yet.


"Whoa, Dude, you just climbed a wall. Gnarly!"

[DarkTirade]

1. I can beat that one easily.

Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing. :)

[MrScorpio]

2. Was he as bad as he was in Something's Gotta Give? nt

[DarkTirade]

4. I never saw that one so I can't say.

But if I hadn't seen him doing high kicks in The Matrix a few years afterward, I would probably honestly believe that he was made of wood.

[WCGreen]

11. He had few lines and was the evil constipated guy....

He didn't ruin the movie because the rest was simply charming...

[WCGreen]

12. Bill Murray as Larry in the Remake of the Razor's Edge...

[csziggy]

41. Actually his sullen demeanor and bad acting made him more believable

As the bad guy. Everyone else was so articulate and clever, it seemed part of the plot that the sullen, inarticulate guy would resent them their happiness and try for revenge.

[WCGreen]

43. Exactly!

Kenneth Branagh sure is a good director...

[sarge43]

36. Thank you

Any actor who can make a Shakespearian villian boring should get the anti-Oscar - an amazing feat.

[unpossibles]

146. that was one role I did not mind him in, shockingly

mainly because the character is such a jerk that it worked for me.

He also can play a good burnout, such as in I Love You To Death. Otherwise, can't stand his acting.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

3. Tom Cruise as a vampire

In "Interview With the Vampire." He's such a limited actor that I just couldn't take him seriously in the role.

[Kali]

5. are you serious?

John Wayne as Ghengis Khan?!! Why don't I know of this awesomeness???

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[csziggy]

16. The COnqueror - one of the worst movies ever made

And to be fair, John Wayne was not the worst actor in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8U1LVNjJx0&feature=related

[whistler162]

33. And many of the actors and crew suffered for it.

http://www.gasdetection.com/news2/health_news_digest225.html

The curse of the Conqueror.

[Kali]

81. OMG!

I must purchase this classic! Thanks for the clip!

Loved the yurt on wheels in the background! A real improvement on one of the original "mobile" homes. hahahahhahaha

[sarge43]

37. Kali, it's a cheese buffet. n/t

[Forkboy]

6. Jack Black as Carl Denham was pretty piss poor casting, imo.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

47. Jack Black in a non-slapstick comedic role just doesn't work.

He was in that movie, The Holiday, and he just seemed so ridiculously out of place that it was embarassing.

[Auggie]

56. +1

I was so disappointed when that was announced

[azmouse]

7. In that same movie, Wynona Ryder as Mina.

I don't know which one of them, Reeves or Ryder, had the worst British accent.

I can't believe two real British actors couldn't be found for those roles.

[Mojeoux]

23. Oh it's Tony Curtis in The Black Shield of Falworth, "Yondah, is da castle of my faddah."

[old mark]

27. Absolutely. One a da funniest pichas eva made - not on poipose...nt

[Demoiselle]

50. Actually, he said...."my faddah da king."

We bad old movie fanatics are sticklers for completeness.
Unless, of course, the line has come down through history incorrectly. Wouldn't be the first time. Play it again, Sam was never actually said either. Now there was a movie with PERFECT casting.

[LibertyLover]

94. Darn - beat me to it!

[Iggo]

65. Yep.

The dead guy (Dracula) had more life than those two put together...lol.

[pokerfan]

8. Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist

in The World is Not Enough (007).

[Lucian]

18. She made that movie watchable.

Well, Sophie Marceau helped also. :)

[jobycom]

29. I think you should add the word almost in there somewhere. nt

[Lucian]

49. Touche.

[LynneSin]

61. She was the absolutely worst Bond girl ever and ruined that movie

The 3 movies prior to TWINE she played a high schooler (Starship Troopers, Wild Things, Drop Dead Gorgorgeous) and then *BOOM* she's a Nuclear Physicist.

It was just horribly bad.

[Orrex]

139. Agreed! And before anyone objects that astrophysicists can be hot...

No one is saying that astrophysicists can't be hot; we're just saying that Denise Richards can't be an astrophysicist.

[Mendocino]

9. Glenn Campbell in True Grit

"I ain't dead yet you bushwacker"

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Hulk Hogan in anything.

Worst. Actor. Ever.

[Lindsey]

14. I'm a big Tom Hanks fan. However, him being cast as the lead

in The Davinci Code IMO was awful. I read and loved the book but I thought the movie sucked.

[Rhythm]

13. Keanu Reeves in just about anything, really...

His dead idiocy was fine and dandy when he was a teenager...

Now? Not so much...

[NewJeffCT]

39. Reeves has a very limited amount of roles

where he can be tolerable - Neo in The Matrix comes to mind. however, anything that requires, ya know, range, he's at a loss.

[Demoiselle]

51. I kinda liked Keanu as the bad guy in Much Ado About Nothing.

Most of the rest of the cast was British, and Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, et all were busting their respective guts overacting and clowning and generally Old Vic-ing everything in sight...while Keanu and Denzel Washington just sort of movie-star strolled through the movie. Keanu sulked properly, which was all he was really required to do, and Denzel was princely and noble and it was something of a relief they appeared on the screen.

[YOY]

72. He was perfect in the Bill and Ted movies...PERFECT.

Shame about Alex Winter. He was and still is a funny cat. Yet not a-list.

[Blue_In_AK]

112. I liked him in The River's Edge,

but he was a teenager then (or played one, anyway).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Patrick Swazy as a PhD philosopher in Road House!

What a howler!

[begin_within]

17. Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Annoying, offensive, stereotypical, nearly ruins what is otherwise a pretty fun film (with possibly the best party scene of all time).

[Frank Cannon]

30. Not only bad casting, but shockingly racist and offensive

[Iggo]

66. Oh jeez!!!

I've never seen that movie before!

And now, maybe, I never will!

[Dr Morbius]

67. Aside from Mickey Rooney, it's an outstanding movie.

Audrey Hepburn gives the performance of a lifetime as Holly Golightly. There's a scene near the end, in the rain, which I will never forget.

So watch it, and cringe at Mickey Rooney's over-the-top Chinese landlord, because it's worth seeing. That aside, it's a four-star movie.

[MrCoffee]

68. No, Rooney completely ruins everything good about it

Horrible, horrible, horrible stuff.

[Frank Cannon]

90. Indeed. His character is so terrible, it's toxic to the whole movie.

The first time I saw it, I could not believe my eyes. Imagine a black guy in a movie with his lips painted white. It's that bad.

[mikeytherat]

70. The Winner and Still Champion!

I was awestruck by Rooney's Mr. Yunioshi - mesmerizingly bad.

mikey_the_rat

[begin_within]

19. Trying to throw Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey together as a couple in "Contact"

Absolutely ZERO chemistry.

[AllenVanAllen]

20. Halle Berry as Storm in X-Men

It should have been someone with more gravitas, like Angela Bassett.

[proteus_lives]

86. Very true!

She didn't have the chops to play Ororo.

I'm a life-long comics collector and I take comic character casting very seriously.

Another bad one-Jessica Alba as Susan Storm? WTF!

[AllenVanAllen]

87. "She didn't have the chops"

She seemed lost most of the time. Storm wasn't written very well either.

As good as Jessica Alba looked in the outfit, it didn't make up for terrible casting.
When you pick an actor to play a superhero you have to stay true to all aspects of the character or it ain't gonna' work.

[SoxFan]

100. Anna Paquin as Rogue

Completely missed the mark. Rogue was a swaggering, badass Southern girl; Paquin was a wishy-washy emo kid.

[MrScorpio]

101. Her Sookie Stackhouse character is much more closer to Rogue than her Rogue was.

[AllenVanAllen]

102. Agreed on that point.

Rogue didn't bug me as much as Storm though.

[MrScorpio]

134. My "perfect" Storm would be...

Iman

[AllenVanAllen]

136. Oh yeah. She's got the stuff I'm talking about.

:hi:

[begin_within]

21. Possibly the biggest missed opportunity:

I wanted Alec Baldwin to play Edward D. Wood in "Ed Wood." Baldwin is virtually a lookalike of the real Ed Wood. And he could have done a good job at it. But, with Tim Burton in control, he of course had to drag Johnny Depp into it like everything else he does. Depp did a good characterization but looks nothing like Ed Wood. That was the biggest lost casting opportunity I know of. However, the same film included the best casting choice and the single best performance of the 1990s, with Martin Landau's masterful embodiment of Bela Lugosi, so that made up for it.

[Mendocino]

22. Ronald Reagan as "The President"

oh wait that wasn't a movie, but he sucked nonetheless.

[edbermac]

55. George W Bush as President in Fahrenheit 9/11.

[Winston Wolf]

84. Agreed Good Sir.

Most excellent, I tip my hat to you.

[NYC_SKP]

24. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood.

[arbusto_baboso]

58. Well, Kevin Costner in anything, really.

[Iggo]

69. No way. He was perfect as The Postman. (n/t)

[whistler162]

133. Disagree.... in American Flyer he was good....

everything after that not so good.

[geardaddy]

104. That movie totally stunk up the joint.

[whistler162]

125. I think he just got beat for worst Robin Hood by that Australian guy

Russel Cow, something like that.

[mitchum]

25. Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce

Hoffman is a fine actor, but he was completely wrong as Bruce

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. The infamous "Robbie Benson as a Latino gang member" film, "Walk Proud."

[Iggo]

71. We still call him Robbie Bensón at my house.

He ain't gettin' away with that one.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

75. It was the stuff of bad legends...so bad I cannot put it into words.

:rofl:

:toast:

[mitchum]

80. He was an "artist in residence" for a year at my university

no joke

[Flying Dream Blues]

108. OMG, never heard of that one, but I think you win.

Bwhahahahahaha!

[wickerwoman]

28. Charleton Heston as a Mexican in Touch of Evil

Keanu Reeves wins worst accent of all time for Dracula, but all logic and sanity doesn't revolt at the idea of him playing Jonathan Harker in quite the same way as Chuck Heston in brown-face.

[Demoiselle]

52. Marlene Dietrich was equally bad in that movie.

..And equally oddly tanned. Difference was that she was near the end of a respectable career. Heston was just starting out. And forget the fake coloring...he was an awful actor. All that locking of jaw and snarling through his teeth! How the hell did he ever get another job!?!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

113. Yes, she was supposed to be Mexican, too, and they dyed her hair black

Otherwise, it's a terrific movie, especially the opening sequence with the car.

[Midwestern Democrat]

83. Heston later admitted that he made a big mistake not even attempting

to do a Mexican accent for the character. Heston playing a Mexican would have been a hard sell in any case, but not speaking exactly like Charlton Heston certainly would have helped.

[Frank Cannon]

106. I didn't even know he was supposed to be Mexican in that movie

I honestly thought he was supposed to be an American expatriate with a tan.

[rcrush]

31. When Thor comes out it will be Idris Elba as Heimdall.

[MrScorpio]

35. Heimdall... The Guardian of the Rainbow Bridge...

Surely, thou jests?

[Iggo]

73. Would that it were false. But nay, he speaks true. (n/t)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. Leonardo DiCaprio

in anything.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

48. Except "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"

He did an amazing job in that movie and it was a bitch of a role to play. I think that was one of his first movies. Not sure.

Otherwise, yeah, I agree.

[DutchLiberal]

76. I liked his portrayal of Dannie Archer in 'Blood Diamond'.

[deutsey]

34. Francis Ford Coppola's daughter in Godfather III

I've only managed to watch it once (out of morbid curiosity) but I seem to recall her character being a crucial element of the story. She just wasn't up to the challenge of it. She may have done some interesting directing since then, but her weak performance in GF III is one of the main reasons it collapsed into such a dreadful movie.

Pacino sucked in it, too, or at least I remember him sucking in the scenes where Michael is trying to win back Kay. His acting seemed very contrived there, although he gave a touching performance during his confession scene.

I love Godfather I and II, but can't bring myself to watch III again. The shame of it is the story wasn't all that bad in general, especially Michael's effort to find redemption for all the evil he's done (like having his brother Fredo killed), only to discover the church is just as corrupt as he is.

[NewJeffCT]

38. It wasn't just her, though

replacing Robert Duvall with George Hamilton? That's like replacing your ace pitcher in the World Series with a class A minor leaguer.

[deutsey]

42. Oh, yeah. I forgot about Hamilton

Cringe.

[Auggie]

57. Not exactly replaced -- Duvall wouldn't do it for the money offered

But I agree, a Class A minor leaguer. Coppola made some strange decisions in that film.

[DutchLiberal]

77. If you would watch it again, you would discover you couldn't be more wrong...

GF III was a worthy conclusion to the trilogy, and I thought Coppola was fine in it. I know there are a lot of haters out there, but I don't know what she did so terribly wrong to deserve all the shit.

[Dr Morbius]

79. I watched it a second time, and while I agree Sofia Coppola isn't bad...

...the movie still disappoints. I disagree.

The Godfather is about power.
The Godfather Part II is about the price of power.
The Godfather Part III is about three hours long.

[deutsey]

96. LOL

:thumbsup:

That's hilarious.

[deutsey]

95. I've seen parts on TV and stand by my original opinion

The reason I've only seen parts is I can't stand to continue watching it, frankly.

I really wanted to like this movie because GI&II are on the list of my top all-time favorite movies. It just doesn't hold up, imo. And part of it is due to Sofia's role. We can agree to disagree on that, I guess. I don't say she's horrible and should be forever banned from the screen, it's just a crucial role in the movie and I didn't find her able to carry it off.

I don't think that qualifies as giving her any shit. I also say that Pacino was uneven in the movie.

[Scout]

99. I'm with you deutsey; sorry Sophia, you cannot act. stick to directing. n/t

[HopeHoops]

40. George Clooney as Batman

Who the FUCK were they kidding? He might have made a good villian - Incompetent Doofus Man.

[NewJeffCT]

45. I blame the director on that one

I actually think Clooney would have made an excellent Batman if he had a decent director and a decent script. Clooney is one of the best at playing the intense brooding type. Unfortunately, he got stuck with Joel Schumacher as director and a god-awful script.

[HopeHoops]

46. No, there's no way Clooney could do the part even if Alfred Hitchcock had directed it.

1) He can't talk without bobbing his head around like one of those stupid hand-outs at baseball games
2) He can't do ANYTHING without smirking (and yes, I've seen "Burn After Reading")
3) He only plays one character, regardless of the movie. Batman requires two distinct characters.

The ONLY redeeming factor that movie had was that Ahhhnold played a convincing Mr. Freeze.

[Frank Cannon]

138. I agree with you completely

That movie was just a complete fucking train wreck all the way around. Clooney wasn't the worst thing about it by a long shot.

Maybe in about 15 years or so from now, George can get another try at it in "The Dark Knight Returns". I actually think he'd do a great job.

[LibDemAlways]

44. Right up there with John Wayne as Ghengis Khan was

Anthony Quinn as Kubla Khan in "Marco the Magnificent."

Also on my list: Mary Tyler Moore as a nun who falls for Elvis in "Change of Habit" and Robert Redford in "The Great Gatsby."

[TheMightyFavog]

53. Putter Smith as Mr. Kidd in Diamonds are Forever.

Mr. Wynt was splendidly done by Bruce Glover, but getting some bass player with no acting experience whatsoever? That really dragged an otherwise decent flick down.

[YOY]

74. Bruce was just as creepy as his son is now. Now Putter? WTF?

n/t

[Taverner]

54. Jerry Lewis in "The Day the Clown Cried"

Wait - that was genius - or was it?

[LynneSin]

62. But no one has ever seen that movie.

He's got a lock on it to stay hidden for a long long time.

[deutsey]

97. Apparently a very select few have seen a rough cut.

Harry Shearer is among them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried

Although never seen publicly, the film became a source of legend almost immediately after its production.

In May 1992, an article in Spy magazine quotes comedian and actor Harry Shearer, who saw a rough cut of the film in 1979:

“ With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. "Oh My God!" — that's all you can say. ”

Shearer also goes on to point out why Lewis would make the film: he believed "the Academy can't ignore this." Upon seeing the rough cut, he told Lewis the film was "terrible", which reportedly made him furious. When asked to sum up the experience of the film overall, he responded by saying that the closest he could come was like

"if you flew down to Tijuana and suddenly saw a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz. You'd just think 'My God, wait a minute! It's not funny, and it's not good, and somebody's trying too hard in the wrong direction to convey this strongly-held feeling."

[arbusto_baboso]

59. William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides in the SciFi channel's remake of Dune.

Okay, it was a miniseries and not a movie. So sue me.

But....

1) William Hurt ruins everything. "Wait, is that a two by four? No, it's just William Hurt's acting."

2) After reading the book, William Hurt is the antithesis of everything that the character of Leto is and stands for.

3) While the first Dune movie sucked ass, some of the casting decisions were brilliant. Jurgen Prochnow as Duke Leto was absolutely perfect, and Hurt could in no way compete with that.

[mitchum]

63. I enjoyed Hurt in A History of Violence...

he seemed to be the only one aware that the movie was ridiculous junk,
and camped it up accordingly. Much like Daniel Day Lewis in "Gangs of New York"

[Hell Hath No Fury]

60. Babs as "Yentl" --

She had no business playing that role -- her ego got in the way of what could have been a good movie.

[pink-o]

64. I don't know if bad accents count for bad acting, but two come to mind.

The one everyone knows: Dick VanDyke in "Mary Poppins". I lived in England, and try as I may I ended up sounding like Madonna within a week. You'd think the director would have sent Dick to London to go hang out at Petticoat Lane for a few Sundays! I can guarantee he would have had it down like a bloody Cockney, Mate.

And then there's Natalie Wood in West Side Story. White Russian with the worst Puerto Rican accent. And she didn't even sing! Now, this breaks my heart, because I love that movie, I first saw that movie when I was 7 years old in 1962 and have loved it ever since. But it's cringe-worthy just listening to her Speedy Gonzalez performance!

[DutchLiberal]

78. Oh no, you did NOT just diss Dick van Dyke!

It's his fake Cockney accent what makes the character of Bert complete!

[Kutjara]

110. But, as you know, Brits adore DvD for that performance.

Mary Poppins wouldn't have been the same without Dick and his frankly mesmerizing performance.

Full revenge had to wait for Michael Caine's American accent in Cider House Rules.

[whistler162]

131. Isn't dissing Dick Van Dyke a TOS violation?????

it should be.;}

two of his three best movies where with a fake British accent.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

135. The original cast album of West Side Story is much better.

Marni Nixon dubbed for Natalie Wood and several other actresses who couldn't sing, like Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. She was called "The Ghostess with the Mostest".

Original cast album of West Side Story with Carol Lawrence will LIVE FOREVER...that is my not so humble musical opinion. Musical director was Max Goberman, famous conductor who hoped to record all the Haydn symphonies before he died, on Odyssey. Unfortunately, he did not finish that project.

[begin_within]

149. Interestingly,

Audrey Hepburn sang "Moon River" herself in "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

I love Marni Nixon's voice and I wish more people appreciated her. Many millions have heard her sing without knowing it. When I was a kid I assumed she must have been part of President Nixon's family.

[begin_within]

147. Oh my God...

Yet another trashing of Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins." If you disregard his fake accent, that is one of the 10 greatest screen performances in history. Julie Andrews won the Oscar but Dick Van Dyke owned that film.

[begin_within]

148. If you want to talk about bad accents,

I would leave the amazing Dick Van Dyke alone, and instead set your sights on Julie Christie (and almost everyone in Doctor Zhivago, for that matter) for bringing along their upper-class British accents to a film populated by Russian characters.

[blue neen]

82. A double bill of horrible casting: Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in "Moment by Moment".

It was a long time ago, but we actually walked out on this movie. It is hideous.

[pink-o]

91. Gee what a shocker there was NO chemistry between them!!!

Like Ellen with that "Mr Wrong" dating movie just before she came out. Some gay actors can fake the chemistry (Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift) and some just can't (no matter how much scientology bio-feedback they're getting!)

[Winston Wolf]

85. Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai

Tom fucking Cruise only can play a cocky douche bag (Jerry McGuire, Risky Business, Color of Money) or an cold-hearted asshole (Tropic Thunder, Collateral). Outside of that, he's useless.

A tragic voice casting role was George Clooney in Fantastic Mr. Fox. His voice so did not fit right in that film.

[geardaddy]

105. Tom Cruise in anything.

[Kutjara]

111. The worst thing about that movie...

...wasn't even Mr. Cruise's self-serving wholesale revision of Japanese history. It was one of the "special features" on the DVD, in which the (Japanese native) publicist for the movie was interviewed. She set a new standard for sycophancy, which she capped by saying something like "the Japanese people should be very grateful that Tom has made this movie to remind them of a part of their history they have forgotten." Bleuuuuuuuugh!!! She should have been exiled.

[MrScorpio]

127. No, she didn't.

She actually said that?


Wow. Simply wow.

[Kutjara]

129. Yep. It was nauseating. n/t

[Submariner]

88. "Curly Joe" as a substitute for "Curly" in any 3 Stooges movie

Shemp sucked too, but not as bad as Curly Joe.

[Auggie]

143. Shemp was an original Stooge with Ted Healy -- before Curly

[WolverineDG]

89. Ten Commandments

Edward G. Robinson, Vincent Price are just the tips of the iceberg......omg how horribly miscast was that movie...there may be more, but I've never seen the movie all the way through. Once Yul Brynner is out of it, I change the channel.

dg

[MrScorpio]

98. "Let it be written, let it be done."

EPIC WIN!

[Ishoutandscream2]

117. It took this long in this thread for someone to say it

Robinson in the Ten Commandments - and we're supposed to take him seriously? LOL

[WolverineDG]

141. Vincent Price too

I missed it this year, so those are the only two who stand out in my mind. Not only was the whole movie dreadfully mis-cast, the script was abominable! They must have had to do a million takes to say some of those lines with straight faces.

dg

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

92. Keanu Reeves as anything except Ted. nm

[Captain Hilts]

93. Streep and Nicholson as Ephron and Bernstein. Dreadful! nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

103. Everybody, in Cleopatra.

Even the damn snake.

[kayakjohnny]

107. Thank you! I've always said how terrible that whole thing was.

Burton tried though and I think he did fairly well.

But Elizabeth Taylor seemed bored and totally devoid of talent or interest the whole way through.

See seemed like she was reading it.

Thanks for your observation.

[dixiegrrrrl]

109. Ironically, I have seen the damn thing about 6 times

over the years.
You know how it is is when you are in the mood for a slow train wreck movie.

[Kutjara]

114. All those white guys covered in bronzer and bedecked with feathers...

...pretending to be "Indians" in countless Westerns.

[MrScorpio]

122. Special Mention goes out to the late Jeff Chandler

What made them think that a Brooklyn born, Jewish kid with blue eyes could play Cochise is a thought that's beyond my comprehension.

[Kutjara]

123. Well, to be fair,...

...it worked for Mel Brooks.



;)

[MrScorpio]

124. Well, I guess that seals it; Brooklyn born, Jewish guys have got it going on... nt

[whistler162]

128. They do a halfway decent Viking(1958) also!

[MrScorpio]

130. With that caveat, let's include Roman slaves.

[Kutjara]

115. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the "Terminator" movies.

He acted like a fucking robot.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

116. Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's was horrible, but another odd bit of

pseudo-Asian casting was Katherine Hepburn as a Chinese woman in Dragon Seed.

If you look at the cast list

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036777/fullcredits#cast

you can see that only one genuine person of Asian descent had a speaking part. The rest of the Asians in the cast were apparently uncredited extras. The other speaking roles were held by Caucasians.

[whistler162]

132. In that vain most of the cast of the Good Earth

and every non-silent era Charlie Chan until late in the century.

But in the Charlie Chan case at least the family where oriental.

[underpants]

118. The entire cast of "The Ten Commandments"

except of course for Heston and Yule Brenner ... so let it be written so let it be done

[DutchLiberal]

142. Especially Heston and Brenner!

What an overrated piece of crap that was!

[frogmarch]

119. Sorry, but

once you mentioned John Wayne as Genghis Khan, my brain couldn't come up with anyone else.

How to Kiss a Woman, by Genghis Khan/John Wayne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsnWOyfMq4I

No one in the history of movie making was more miscast than John Wayne cast as Genghis Khan.

[Walk away]

120. Steve Martin in the "Pink Panther". Steve...what were you thinking? nt

Why would anyone be so stupid or egomaniacal to try to remake a Peter Sellers' role?

[jannyk]

121. Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy in Bonfire of the Vanities...

totally unbelievable as a 'Master of the Universe'. The whole movie was badly miscast, and ranks, in my book, as the worst movie interpretation of a great book.

[bookworm65t]

126. James Dean in Giant

later made up as middle aged? The worst makeup job I'd seen ever at the that time.
The "acting" didn't help either.

[MilesColtrane]

137. DiCaprio as Howard Hughes

[NuttyFluffers]

140. that's hard to beat. best i got is Rex Harrison as King Mongkut in Anna & the King of Siam

i couldn't for the life of me get over that it's a Brit in brown face.

[msu2ba]

144. Christopher Lloyd in Star Trek III......

as the head Klingon. Everytime he opened his mouth, in my mind's eye, I saw Reverend Jim.

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145. Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator."

If he could act...maybe. But as is...no.