I mean famous americans or britains like... Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Winston Churchill, King George VI, you know people like that.
shareWell not for me, but I'm sure people would like a Babe Ruth biopic. I would like to see one of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Laurence Olivier, Jane Austen, and William Shakespeare (no, Shakespeare in Love was not a biopic).
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The best part of waking up is Satan in your cup.
Yhe Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire,...
People like that.
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Julia Pastrana
Grace McDaniels
Grady Stiles Jr.
"Go where the wind takes you."-Matthew McGrory
Johnny Carson
Walt Disney
Fred Rogers
Jimmy Stewart
Ronald Reagan
Jim Henson
Bob Hope
Gene Kelly
John Wayne
Jack Benny
Cary Grant
Roberto Clemente
Charles Schulz
Vince Lombardi
Laurence Olivier
Amelia Earhart
John F. Kennedy
Marilyn Monore
Walter Cronkite
Marx Bros.
Ed Sullivan
Orson Welles
Lucille Ball
Clint Eastwood
Billy Graham
Spencer Tracy
Harry S Truman
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Ben Franklin
George W. Bush
Winston Churchill
Alfred Hitchcock
Jacques Cousteau
Charles de Gualle
Neil Armstrong
Ray Kroc
Frank Sinatra
Norman Lear
Thomas Jefferson
Marlon Brando
Irving Berlin
Arnold Shwarzeneeger
Philo Farnsworth
George Bruns and Gracie Allen
Jackie Gleason
Milton Berle
Carol Burnett
Humphery Bogart
Richard Pryor
O.J. Simpson
Pat Boone
Hugh Hefner
Liberace
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Mae West
Katherine Hepburn
D.W. Griffith
Louis Armstrong
Rodney Dangerfield
Paul Lynde
Henry Fonda
Lyndon Johnson
Bing Crosby
Nat King Cole
The Beach Boys
Steve Allen
Ray Combs
Howard Cosell
Jack Paar
Barry Goldwater
Bob Kane
Flip Wilson
Danny Thomas
Lorne Michaels
Michael Landon
Princess Diana
Harper Lee
Gregory Peck
Huntley and Brinkley
Shel Silverstein
St. Francis of Assisi
Nero
The Who
Doris Day
Gary Cooper
Paul Newman
Errol Flynn
Omar Bradley
Redd Foxx
Jim Croce
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry
Henny Youngman
Dr. Seuss
Shelly Winters
Peter Jennings
John Ritter
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
Michael Jackson
Johnny Carson 1925-2005. We will never forget you.
Arbuckle
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Heddy Lamar and Clara Bow would be awesome.
shareAbraham Lincoln, Ulysess S. Grant, George Washington, and a remake of diry of Anne Frank ( since the 50's one didn't show the mood of the diry)
Sorry for spelling.
British? King Edward the VIII and Lily Langtry. Also, Lily's contemporary, Lady Warwick. Non-British? Greta Garbo.
"I was in a tight spot but I managed to wiggle out of it." Mae West
I'm suprised that:
A. No movie has been made about and
B. No message board has mentioned
BETTE DAVIS !!!!!!!!!!!
that would be a killer movie
Has there been a movie about either Peter Lorre or Lon Chaney because those would be facinating.
"Many girls want to be carnal with me... because I'm such a premium dancer!"
I believe there is one on Lon Chaney, Sr. called "The man of 1,001 Faces." Or something along those lines.
Woooooooooooooooo!
Hmmmm... Let's see...
The Bronte Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Pickford
Bette Davis
Rita Hayworth
Audrey Hepburn (better and more famust version)
Clarke Gable
Uf, I can't think of more at the time... :S
John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.
~Dead Poets Society~
Charles Dickens
Natalie Wood
If you're never enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.
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Movies doing a bio-pic like view on cliqs such as the Rat Pack would be cool.
Woooooooooooooooo!
Freddie Mercury, Errol Flynn, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
shareSome of the people here should look up IMDB more. Many of the people mentioned already have biopics made or in the making. (Babe Ruth, Lincoln)
Me?
I'd like to see...
Buster Keaton
Charles Lightoller (look him up on wikipedia to see who he was)
D.B. Cooper
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Mickey Rourke and James Dean. I know the Dean one has been done several times, but I'm talking about a big screen release with a big star like Leonardo DiCaprio. Maybe have Scorsese direct it. The only one that came close in my mind was James Franco's portrayal.
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Fernão de Magalhães
Vasco da Gama
D. Afonso Henriques
Luís Vaz de Camões
...It seems I'm the only one who's thought about how great it would be to have Jimmy Stewart portrayed in a biopic!
This man had a real and full life even OUTSIDE of making movies (most of them "purdy durn good, fella" as he might put it. He was a war hero (and NEVER bragged about it) and a poet and a good friend, and frequent guest of, Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show."
Stewart, I think, was conservative in his social and political leanings but it is interesting to note that his best friend was Henry Fonda, who was very much a liberal...
John Wayne
A lot of flaws and political incorecctness balanced with honesty and loyalty. Kind of has the same marital problems Chaplin had and struggled with some of the same battles (military service being one of them).
It would be nice to see a biopic made of one of the great philosophers, like Sokrates, Aristotle or maybe Nietzsche. It's very hard for me to understand why nobody ever makes films about philosophers.
GO VEGAN.
...Seriously? Probably because a "Socrates" or "Nietzche" or "Voltaire" or "Emmanuel Kant" flick or any other feature covering the life of some great philosopher would tank at the box office!
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if men like Socrates or Voltaire have been characters in period movies. But neither of those guys could carry a successful picture on their own.
Philosophers, by and large, have nuanced ideas that don't translate all that well to the big screen. We go to the movies to be ENTERTAINED. If we want to be EDUCATED on what Socrates, Aristotle, etc., believed and taught and how their ideas shaped civilization, we can read a book, watch a documentary or take a college course.
That being said, your idea might work better as a TV series on PBS or the History Channel. A season's worth of hour-long episodes; each episode a mini-biopic of one of the "Great Thinkers"...
Mine is probably different then most of yours, but I would love to see one about Amy Lee (even if she is alive).
Some Awesome Movies:
Mystic River
Bridge to Terabithia
Hard Candy
Love Actually
The Mist
Well, Socrates was in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (lol).
Also, Voltaire was in the beginning of "Ridicule". Though, I really think that a Voltaire movie could be pretty entertaining-- he lived through a really volatile period in France (until the Revolution) and he was a pretty big smart-ass, which is always a big draw.
I'm okay with gay marriage, as long a both wizards are hot.
...hmmm...Robin Williams as Voltaire? I'd watch it!
shareRobin Williams as Emperor Norton the 1st
Keifer Suthrland as Wilhelm Reich (Donald played him in the music video based on Reich by Kate Bush; Cloudbusting).
Charles Babbage
Jules Verne
Rudyard Kipling
Roald Dahl
Salvador Dali
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