Danial Day-Lewis was a character actor .
Examples include Roddy McDowall , Don Cheadle , Vincent Price , Robert Downey Jr , Lon Chaney , Alec Guiness , Robert De Niro , Al Pacino , Dustin Hoffman , Dennis Hopper , Anne Bancroft , Edward Norton , Colin Farell , Brian Dennehy , Gene Hackman , Kevin Spacey , Johnny Depp , Laurence Olivier , Leonardo DiCaprio , Bette Davis , Brendan Gleeson , Morgan Freeman , Samuel L. Jackson , Bob Hoskins , Ronald Reagan , Peter Sellers , Alan Arkin , Errol Flynn , Gary Oldman , Harvey Keitel , Herbert Lom , Chazz Palminteri , George C. Scott , Van Heflin , Christopher Plummer , Angela Lansbury , Ralph Fiennes , Edward G. Robinson , Donald Sutherland , James Brolin , Robert Donat , Elliott Gould , John Mills , Robert Duvall , Anthony Hopkins , Lee Marvin , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Robert Stack , Mickey Rourke , Ben Kingsley , Christopher Lloyd , Nicolas Cage , Meryl Streep , Michael Douglas , Alec Baldwin , Telly Savalas , Lionel Atwill , Jack Lemmon , Michael Keaton , Terence Stamp , Fredric March , Jodie Foster , Gene Wilder , John Malkovich , Ed Harris , Paul Giamatti , Gloria Grahame , Gregory Peck , Shirley MacLaine , Basil Rathbone , Ellen Burstyn , Charles Bronson , Jack Nicholson , Christopher Walken , Jeff Goldblum , Lee Remick , George Sanders , Peter Cushing , James Robertson Justice and Christopher Lee .
Character actor