Celebrities who were always in character

My grandfather used to perform in the Catskills many years ago, and had worked with Buddy Hacket. He said Buddy was the same, no matter where or when you saw him, he was in character. Perhaps that's just how he actually was.

Dean Martin.

Charles Nelson Reilly

Paris Hilton is 37 and she's a millennial as well as in character all the time.

So there you go!

Paris Wonky eye Hilton is middle aged, and still acting like she's 19. Of course, no one's paying attention anymore.

Godzilla. Met him on Monster island and he was a 450 ft radioactive dinosaur just like he plays in the movies.

Don Rickles

Mae West

Jack Nicholson

Pee Wee Herman for a long while.

Elvira for the most part. Marilyn Manson.

This is Prof. Irwin Corey's only appearance on David Letterman. Despite all of Letterman's attempts to get the Prof. to break character and behave himself, he didn't. It was said that Letterman wouldn't have him back on the show, but I don't know if it was deliberate or not.

Two great British TV comedians, Benny Hill and Ronnie Barker (the taller of the two Ronnies), were both extreme introverts who seldom gave interviews or appeared in public as themselves.

Liza with a Z

Lisa Vanderpump. Her constant Vanderfabulous act.

Trump

R13 Ronnie Corbett is a good example of a celebrity who was not in character. I recall an interview on the CBC 20+ years ago when he was downright surly and certainly not there to deliver any jollity. I've always wondered what had annoyed him so much.

Robin Williams (exhausting to watch live). However, a terrific screen actor.

Rodney Dangerfield...

[quote]Robin Williams (exhausting to watch live). However, a terrific screen actor.

While I agree with everything you said, it doesn’t fit the thread. It’s people who never broke character (or were essentially the same person whether it was TV, movies, talk shows, etc.).

Groucho Marx

Cary Grant

Madonna

Stalin.

Rip Torn as well as Rip Taylor. I loved his arrogant southerner version of King Louis XIV.

Jonathan Winters

Phyllis Diller

Kevin Spacey.

Vladimir Horowitz

Barry Humphries ( Dame Edna ) isn't a great example of 'always in character' though?

He has done loads of interviews as himself and he famously did Parkinson as another character 'Sir Les Patterson' .

I think it stopped earlier than millennials.

Angelyne

SNL actress Leslie Jones.

I call bullshit on OP's premise. Many many many celebrities are in character when I see them on talk shows.

Joan Rivers

Anna Nicole Smith

So name some, r32.

Ethel Merman, Jimmy Stewart

Joan Rivers did an interview with Pamela Stephenson where she may or may not have been in character, i'm not sure? But it wasn't one of her standard talk show performances.

Michael Jackson

Red Buttons and John Wayne

Beatrice Arthur

R24, Rip Torn played Louie Cans, not Louie Cat Whores. Jason Schwatzman player Louie Says.

^ JS *played* LS.

Kelsey Grammer

Will Smith

Roseanne

Gilbert Gottfried

I’m a Broadway star damn it, and Sicilian.

I’m ALWAYS on!

Rebel Wilson

Mario Cantone

Tiny Tim

Meghan Markle

Mickey Rooney owns this thread.

LIZA MINNELLI owns this thread! She always speaks in italics...that is, if she still can speak.

Lewis Black

Kenneth Williams

Lucille Ball. I don't think she ever could've effectively starred in anything outside of her unique celebrity personality, like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "The Graduate," or "Klute." She was always Lucy to me.

Oprah...you know she's a cunt behind closed doors

Joan Crawford! She was always a movie star, 24 hours a day. Not in that desperate Norma Desmond way. But she knew how to carry herself in an elegant way for her fans.

Tallulah Banghead

On Merv Griffin Show with Willie Mays in 1966.

Jack Carter

Richard Lewis

Dolan Trump

Please, R62, tell us that's a typo and there isn't another one of them out there!

Amateurs.... All of you!

Bill Saluga

Jeff Foxworthy

Judy Holliday

The stupid mute Teller, of Penn and.

99% of you do not understand this thread.

R56, Lucille Ball was Frank Sinatra's first choice for the Angela Lansbury part in The Manchurian Candidate.

OK, I find it hard to picture that also.

Clarabelle.

Harpo Marx.

Andy Kaufman.

Melania.

Judy Tenuta. Larry King had her on his show back in the day and she never answered one of his questions seriously and kept playing her accordion.

Dolan

The only time I ever saw Foster Brooks not play drunk was on a very special (and very prescient where Jerry Supiran's future was concerned) episode of [italic]Small Wonder[/italic] where he played a homeless man.