Found similar threads on WW2 and ACW so I figured why not WW1
Matching nationality/language is preferable but not a restriction.
Ok, to begin, I nominate Stephen Fry as General/Field Marshal Melc... ehem, sry... as Douglas Haig.
(If this is not the proper forum, feel free to move the thread.)
The list so far: (up to post #41)
Doulas Haig: Stephen Fry/Sean Connery/Anthony Hopkins
John Pershing: Dale Dye
John French: Clive Owen
Adolf Hitler: Adam Scott
Hermann Göring: Jack Black
David Lloyd George: Ian Holm/Anthony Zerbe
Nicholas II: Ewan McGregor
Ferdinand Foch: Geofrey Lewis
H.H. Asquith: Charles Dance
Woodrow Wilson: Donald Sutherland/James Woods/Kenneth Branagh
Mata Hari: Monica Bellucci
Erich Ludendorff: Bruce Willis
Grigori Rasputin: Alan Rickman
Georges Clemenceu: Jean Reno
Wilhelm II: Armin Mueller-Stahl
Jeanette Rankin: Janet Reno (ok...)
Winston Churchill: Philip Glenister
Gavrilo Princip: Ben Affleck/Leonardo DiCaprio/Casey Affleck
Jan Smuts: Simon Pegg
V.I Lenin: Udo Kier
Thomas Marshall: Steve Zahn/William H. Macy
Pierre Joffre: James Gandolfini
Henri Petain: Gene Hackman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Mark Wahlberg
Walther Schwieger: Til Schweiger
Manfred von Richthofen: Daniel Bruhl
Erwin Rommel: Ryan Gosling
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck: Liam Neeson
Horatio Herbert Kitchener: Dustin Hoffman
C.G.E Mannerheim: Mikko Nousiainen
Leon Trotsky: Colonel Sanders (it
is uncanny... maybe the pickaxe man missed?)
T.E. Lawrence: Rhys Ifans
Josif Stalin: Sasha Baron Cohen (just see the pics post #36... unreal)
Arthur Currie: Cliwe Owen
Louis Botha: Robbie Coltrane
David Beatty: Rowan Atkinson
John Monash: Mel Gibson
Aleksandr Kolchak: Aleksey Serebryakov