I would disagree in part. Though Heston may have been miscast in Touch of Evil, he did what was expected and the movie is regarded as by far the greatest film noir ever made.
Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon.
Keanu Reeves in FFC’s Dracula.
Keanu Reeves as Don John and Michael Keaton as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing.Jack Lemmon as Marcellus and Robin Williams as Osric in Hamlet
Max von Sydow as Jesus, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, and Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate, in The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Marlon Brando in Teahouse of the August Moon and Guys and Dolls.
John Travolta in Battlefield Earth.
James Cagney as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Martin Sheen (wearing a wristwatch) as Robert E Lee in Gettysburg.
The worst thing about Martin Sheen as Lee wasn’t his wristwatch or even his accent - it was that he couldn’t ride a horse.
That movie was SO BAD, can you even consider it was miscast...
The whole movie was miscast...could any actor be cast and not be a laughing stock...?
I'll second that one. That had to be just about the WORST performance I've ever seen an actor give. He should have been fired after the producers screened the first day's rushes.
Also as Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny On The Bounty" in which he attempted English accent with a sissy lisp. It was kind of hard not to burst out laughing every time Brando opened his mouth in that flick.
EVERYONE cast in Battlefield Earth.