A-listers and other known actors in superhero films

I start the list with the most of the stars who appeared in the genre before it got to the heights of today. They all had more or less of a career before playing the role, and it didn't become their breakthrough.

What are your opinion on this? Does a known face destroy the character per se, or maybe it can add a certain glow to it?



Marlon Brando

Susannah York

Terence Stamp

Gene Hackman

Max von Sydow (if Flash Gordon counts)

Richard Pryor

Faye Dunaway

Mia Farrow

Peter O'Toole

Jack Nicholson

Kim Basinger

Jack Palance

Christopher Walken

Danny DeVito

Michelle Pfeiffer

Val Kilmer

Tommy Lee Jones

Jim Carrey

Nicole Kidman

Treat Williams



This was only up until 1996. Feel free to add your own from 1997 and onwards.