What actor/actress comes to mind?

[KayFrancis]

H.B. Warner


next: played strong guys

Johnny Weissmuller

Next : actor with a beautiful speaking voice

[nakanosunplaza]

John Dehner
next Another actor with a beautiful speaking voice

[Intrepid37]

Jason Robards Jr.

next: breathy voiced actress

[ziggy6708a]

Marilyn Monroe
Monroe's signature breathy speaking voice was actually a tactic the actress used to overcome a childhood stutter.


next: "we gotta put on a show"

[Swithin]

Denis Quilley

Next: Strict nurse

[Dargo]

Next: Strict nurse

Louise Fletcher

Next: lifeboat inhabitant

[Detective Jim McLeod]

William Bendix


Next- a free spirit

[Intrepid37]

Next- a free spirit

Joanne Woodward (in The Fugitive Kind)

next: lanky

[Cinemaspeak59]

Sterling Hayden

Next: drunk

[LawrenceA]

Dudley Moore


next: behind bars

[Dargo]

next: behind bars

John Garfield (...in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', particularly)

Next: priest consoling a guy behind bars (...and lets say other than Pat O'Brien)

[Sepiatone]

Next: priest consoling a guy behind bars (...and lets say other than Pat O'Brien)

Leo Carrillo

Next: Wife abuser


Sepiatone

[Dargo]

Next: Wife abuser

Marlon Brando (...in of course 'A Streetcar Named Desire')

Next: the perfect husband

[laffite]

Herbert Marshall

next: male school teacher

[LawrenceA]

Donald Pleasence


next: authority figure (judge/police chief/politician/etc.)