Also, Gary Oldham seems like an ideal example and I love Jim Broadbent in Gangs of New York but I think thats just coz i love him, the accent was ok. From elsewhere Ben Mendelsohn is incredible. Australian but he can be from anywhere and anytime, unbelievable actor.
North By Northwest and To Catch A Thief are two of the best films I've ever seen. Both Cary Grant, both Alfred Hitchcock. I recommend any Alfred Hitchcock film, every one of them is brilliant. Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Marnie, Strangers On A Train, and Frenzy are up there with the most entertaining films ever.
In my humble opinion, Christian Bale's most stunning rôle was in his first movie. Just 13 years old, he played the central character in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. He was in every scene of this 2h 15m film, as a Welsh boy interned by the Japanese after they captured Shanghai in WWII. Based on a true story, it's an amazing movie.
This movie has been strangely overlooked in the sense that it’s never talked about. I didn’t know about it at all, had never heard of it until a friend who grew up in Tokyo showed it to me about 16 or 17 years ago - and then I’ve very very rarely come across it since. And it’s not because it’s not great, because it clearly is.
Interesting thing is, I'd be really interested to know how many people didn't think there was anything wrong with his English accent as the Senior Mr Dawes the top Bank manager, where Me Banks works also in Mary Poppins. I've never heard any complaints about that accent.
Oldman has played everything American, British, Cockney, Transylvanian, Russian, Jamaican etc etc, even played the 5th Element with a lisp ffs! Now that's an actor!
@@nickm8874 Not really! the simple fact that a white guy from London got the role of a coloured guy from Detroit says it all really! Not to mention "State of Grace" "Leon the professional" "Sid and Nancy" Winston Churchill, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirius Black! "Tinket Tailor Soldier Spy" Jim Gordon! ... perhaps you're right! maybe he's not as good as I think he is! I've been wrong before.
The show they mention called 'Teachers' which Andrew Lincoln was in was amazing, it's basically Inbetweeners but the teachers are the ones misbehaving, it's just a torrent of muppetism, I really hope you get around to it one day Boomer!
@@c_n_b I second that. watched a bunch of walking dead and love actually and all i could see was him from Teachers. I have a similar connection with James Macavoy and Shameless.
I was also going to recommend that one. There have been several series with that name, but the only one worth watching is the original with Andrew Lincoln. The American re-make of it is cringe-worthy awful. Not quite as awful as the American re-make of "Life on Mars" - because nothing in existence beats that for sheer cringe. But it gets fairly close.
My wife and I were talking to two very old ladies in Devon (South West England) a few years back. They were cousins of Archie Leach and used to play with him in Bristol. He used to visit them when he came to England to escape "Cary Grant" occasionally.
Speaking of Cary Grant, Tony Curtis imitates his accent in Some Like It Hot. And there's a funny scene where Jack Lemmon says to Curtis "And, where did you get that phony accent? Nobody "talks loike thet"?"
Christian Bale is such a pro, in his Terminator Salvation on-set meltdown, he not only kept the American accent, but stayed in character as an asshole, too
The most ironic thing is when Hugh Laurie went to audition for the position of house he used the American accent because it was an American TV show and they decided to hire him. They then told him " you are great we wanted somebody with a regular American accent because it's overplayed having the doctor with the British accent and we didn't want to hire a British actor for the role because of that" Hilariously they had no idea that he was in fact British
Good one. They had me completely fooled. First saw them on tv play at Freddie Mercury's tribute show. Then the movie. Totally thought they were English.
@@joegillam1497Lord Haden-Guest no less. It made headlines in the UK for the last opening of Parliament with all the hereditary peers as Lady Haden-Guest, aka Jamie Lee Curtis, was present amongst all the peeresses, complete with required tiara.
the best thing about spinal tap is that every member had a total command of the differences in south eastern English dialects, how vowels are produced. St Hubbins sounds ever so slightly American but the way he's doing it is totally in the way that English rock dudes spoke when they'd lived in LA for a couple of years. Tufnell sounds like he's from bloody Bromley or something. I have no idea where they're meant to be from tbh. I'm gonna check now. Still the best English accents ever done by Americans ever
@@SamThredder exactly Sam. I always took their accents to be Essex and slightly affected mid Atlantic. It’s so subtle and well observed, it’s priceless
@@spnhm34 yeah Tufnel could totally be from Romford. Edit: I just read that he's meant to be from Squatney, East London (obvz made up area) so the Romford/Essex thing is quite close! Turns out St. Hubbins lived next door to Tufnel in Squatney so they're both from there. Totally makes sense that David would put on that mid-atlantic English rockstar in LA voice, making t's into d's etc. He's way more flamboyant than Nigel. Nige is a proper geezer but really cool with it, laid back. Always casually chewing gum too haha
To say Americans didn't know about Hugh Laurie is an understatement, I remember when his friend Stephen Fry went to meet him on set Hugh's makeup artist was shocked when he suddenly started speaking in his English accent, she didn't know because he would always use his American one on set
@@zenarcher9633 truly didn’t know how bad an accent could be until I heard that, seem to remember I ended up skipping those episodes cause I couldn’t stand listening to him! Though Tbf Charlie hunnam’s accents aren’t great either including in soa
Incomparably? No. Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud (sp?), Paul Scofield, David Niven, so many British actors at least as good, if not greater, certainly Daniel Day-Lewis. I’m a fan of Grant’s, but incomparably the greatest? No way.
Cary Grant made a lot of very good films - North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, Charade, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story (High Society with out songs), The Bishop’s Wife, I Was A Male War Bride, Operation Petticoat, Father Goose, Notorious and my all time favourite Arsenic and Old Lace.
King's wife is played by Carmen Ejogo (a Brit), LBJ is played by Tom Wilkinson (a Brit) and Governor George Wallace is played by Tim Roth (yet another Brit!). A major event in American history and they cast 4 Brits in the key roles.
The American whose English accent floored me was the voice actor Troy Baker as Pagan Min in the video game FarCry 4. Even though the character wasn't English (his mother was, he was born in Hong Kong), Baker's accent is flawless. When I played it back in 2014 - I had no idea who voiced who, and when I found out Baker is American, it blew my mind.
If you can find it, might have been ITV, he was in Appropriate Adult as Fred West - he nails that accent, but after bingeing The Wire I did crack into laughter now + then at some of the dialogue.
Hugh Laurie’s accent genius is best shown in an episode of House where he makes a phone call pretending to be English, so that’s an English actor playing an American (from New Jersey iirc) putting on a posh English RP accent. He even makes it sound a bit fake, like it’s forced.
Gary Oldman said on _The Graham Norton Show_ that he now needs an accent coach to revert to his British accent because he's done so many American ones.
I think Hugh Laurie's most immaculate performance with accents is the show Avenue 5 where he's an english actor in the role of an american actor playing a british starship captain. How his head didn't explode I don't know but the way he switches back and forth is brilliant and played for some well earned laughs.
European here, not a native English speaker. I used to work for an American company and was seconded to the US to work on developing features of our products demanded by the European markets. In the process, I acquired a decent NC accent.I then moved to the UK (where I still am) and spent years attempting to brush off that American accent to sound like a native (people now think I'm from Wales, which I'm not).
The most accurate English accent by an American is David Anders; he played Adam in Heroes, and Julian in Alias. He’s from Oregon but when I heard him I would’ve swore he was from the Home Countries. The Daniel Day-Lewis of Americans who can do the English accent. Go and look him up.
Gillian Anderson was brought up in the UK so had an English accent when she returned to the US. She said she created an American accent to fit in but when she's in the UK she reverts back to the English accent. Christian Bales best film is still Empire of the Sun, he's just amazing in it and he's just a kid. Hugh Laurie demonstrated his ability with accents many times during his time doing A Bit of Fry & Laurie. He's just gifted that way.
Trainspotting. Apparently, his Scottish cast mates were surprised when Jonny Lee Miller spoke in his English accent after filming ended. Edit. I didn't know that Martin Compston (Line of Duty) was Scottish until I saw him on Gogglebox. Cut me some slack. I live in Australia now. 😊
There is another actor in The Wire who is British and plays one of the cops. And there was an episode where he did an impersonation of an American doing an impersonation of the English accent. So you had an Englishman doing an American accent and doing an English accent.
Emma Myers was the star of The Good Girl's Guide to Murder on the BBC and her English accent was impeccable and her performance as an English teenager was fantastic.
They always miss another Idris off the list, Damson Idris who plays Franklin in Snowfall, superb accent fooled everyone during auditions even John singleton.
Funny you should mention southern accents , the classic 'Gone with the wind' , Scarlett and Ashley were played by Vivian Leigh and Leslie Howard . Good Cary Grant films - North by Northwest is a good thriller , and Father Goose and Operation Petticoat are worth a watch of you've never seen them .
Stranger things and Walking dead are top 10 shows of the last 20 years. Great Christian Bale film goes under the radar because he was 10 in it, is Empire of the Sun, WW2 movie about being in a Japanese Prison.
You want recommendations for a good Cary Grant movie? Try any of them....they're all worth watching - the guy was probably the biggest screen filler of all time. When he moved onto the shot it all began to happen. Probably the greatest movie star of all time..... the sheer presence of the guy....
Hands down, my favorite is Welsh actor Matthew Rhys. In The Americans, he played a Soviet agent faking an excellent American accent. So during the first season, when he did publicity for the show and came out with his very pronounced Welsh accent, fans lost their minds. Previously, he was in the American series Brothers and Sisters, and lately has been doing the reboot/prequel series Perry Mason, all with American accents. The guy’s amazing.
The most impressive American performance I have seen was actually Leonardo Di Caprio as a Zimbabwean/South African in Blood Diamond. William Hurt also did a commendable job as a South African professor in Endgame. Matt Damon was solid as a South African in Invictus, while Ryan Phillippe was also solid in The Bang Bang Club. Beyond that Americans have genuinely struggled in South African roles.
Cary Grant, to be honest, I don't think there is such a thing as a bad film with him in it. North by Northwest though, is a Hitchcock Film and as good as it gets. I highly recommend it!
No Charlie Hunham from Sons Of Anarchy. He played the lead 'Jax Teller' in that show for 10 years, and it took him quite a while to lose the American when he came back to the UK.
Space Precinct is one of those TV anomalies that was arguably destined for failure. The best way to explain it is that Gerry Anderson(Thunderbirds) was desperate to get away from puppets and unfortunately fell flat on his face.
@@georgerv That's why I can't watch Morse. I've lived so long near Oxford, I keep thinking, "You can't drive down that street and come out on that side of the city!"
I knew this actress, Emma Myers is an American, but her English accent in 'Good gilrls guide to Murder' had me fooled. So much so, that I had to go onto IMDB to make sure it was the same girl who was in the show 'Wednesday'.
The films by Cary Grant are, in my opinion very worth watching. North by North West. He also did loads of others including 4 Hitchcock films. Also, I used to play with Christian (Bale), when he lived in Bournemouth. Anyway, I would recommend Cary Grant films but you might disagree.✌
James Marster's English accent in Buffy the vampire slayer as Spike was excellent. I had no idea he was American until I saw him in an episode of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. Had me totally convinced
I have heard quite a few commentators suggest that there’s a subtle difference in how US and UK actors are taught that plays a part, because it’s so much more competitive in the US over how collaborative acting is treated leads to US actors almost having to have their personality shine through the role, meaning when a british actor plays a famous American they naturally allow the character’s own personality to shine as part of the portrayal, hence why sometimes it’s good to have a UK play a famous American, as long as they can pull of the accent, don’t know how much truth to this there is but it’s an interesting thought! I think peter dinklages Westerosi accents is spot on lol and Batman is from Gotham, I guess that’s effectively based on New York or Chicago and when I think of Batman I don’t think of an American accent at all, I just think of bale’s gravelly “I’m Batman “ or classic adam west and that is from a different albeit parallel dimension 😂 Hi to king b from uk, long time watcher, first time commenting 🇬🇧❤️
Cary Grant was brilliant, and "North by Northwest" is one of the greatest films of all time. I'd also recommend "The Philadelphia Story", where he starred with Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn. A couple of other UK actors who do good US accents: Tom Wilkinson, David Harewood, Sir Antony Hopkins (another one who's played a president - Nixon), and Adrian Lester. PS - there's no "cockney twang" in Christian Bale's voice. Mojo stuffs up again! PS - you should watch Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in "Jeeves and Wooster"!
Almost forgotten now, Americans as Cockneys, Christopher Guest & Michael McKean in "This is Spinal Tap." Also deserving a mention is Chris Pratt on Graham Norton when he did a perfect TOWIE imitation.
It was certainly a lot better than Juliet Landau's Drusilla! 😆 And don't get me started on that potential Slayer in Season 7 who was straight out of the Dick Van Dyke school of accents!
North by North West is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best thrillers.
Seconded - a Classic
this
And Hitchcock was British.
It’s up there with the 39 Steps for me.
I was just about to post that. Prime Hitchcock, and as such, essential viewing. Not the best Hitchcock, but certainly up there.
Surprised Damian Lewis didn't make the list. He's usually one that surprises people thanks to his work in Homeland, Billions and Band of Brothers
Totally agree. I stopped watching Homeland when he left the show ☹️
Also, Gary Oldham seems like an ideal example and I love Jim Broadbent in Gangs of New York but I think thats just coz i love him, the accent was ok. From elsewhere Ben Mendelsohn is incredible. Australian but he can be from anywhere and anytime, unbelievable actor.
Also, David Harewood from Homeland did a good job imo
I think Lewis didn't make the cut not through lack of talent but more through the fact most people know he's British and have done for a long time.
Yeah I agree, it’s a brilliant accent in Band of Brothers. Some other British actors in the cast as well 👍
Rami Malek absolutely nailed his British accent in Bohemian Rhapsody. Doubly impressive because he had to wear prosthetic teeth.
North By Northwest and To Catch A Thief are two of the best films I've ever seen. Both Cary Grant, both Alfred Hitchcock. I recommend any Alfred Hitchcock film, every one of them is brilliant. Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Marnie, Strangers On A Train, and Frenzy are up there with the most entertaining films ever.
Don’t forget Vertigo!
I commented similarly just now. Brilliant works with astounding acting on all productions.
Renée Zellweger did a great British accent in Bridget Jones tbf.
Lol I was just about to say that
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love was pretty good too.
@@joegillam1497 No she wasn't
Dick Van Dyke has forever put Americans in the hole
Nah she did an RP accent, that's not a real accent found anywhere in the UK it's a taught accent in stage schools.
In my humble opinion, Christian Bale's most stunning rôle was in his first movie. Just 13 years old, he played the central character in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. He was in every scene of this 2h 15m film, as a Welsh boy interned by the Japanese after they captured Shanghai in WWII. Based on a true story, it's an amazing movie.
Completely agree, his performance blew me away in that film.
Well, he is Welsh
@@FreeFlyerUk, he’s not Welsh. His parents are both English and he grew up in England
This movie has been strangely overlooked in the sense that it’s never talked about. I didn’t know about it at all, had never heard of it until a friend who grew up in Tokyo showed it to me about 16 or 17 years ago - and then I’ve very very rarely come across it since. And it’s not because it’s not great, because it clearly is.
What do you mean it doesn't work out well the other way around? Are you seriously telling me Dick Van-Dyke in Mary Poppins wasn't actually a Cockney?
Heaven forfend!
Say it isn't so, for the love of god!
Interesting thing is, I'd be really interested to know how many people didn't think there was anything wrong with his English accent as the Senior Mr Dawes the top Bank manager, where Me Banks works also in Mary Poppins. I've never heard any complaints about that accent.
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Well known West Ham face back in the day
@@Loulizabeth It's still bad. The way he says "bank", "run" and "today" are all American inflections
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Oldman has played everything American, British, Cockney, Transylvanian, Russian, Jamaican etc etc, even played the 5th Element with a lisp ffs! Now that's an actor!
Oldman is understandably known as the actors actor.
Drexl was from Detroit. The accent was meant to be bad. Unless you mean a different character
@@nickm8874 Not really! the simple fact that a white guy from London got the role of a coloured guy from Detroit says it all really! Not to mention "State of Grace" "Leon the professional" "Sid and Nancy" Winston Churchill, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirius Black! "Tinket Tailor Soldier Spy" Jim Gordon! ... perhaps you're right! maybe he's not as good as I think he is! I've been wrong before.
Oldman is the actors actor. He's a chameleon.
Dominic West was even more surprising. Especially because he carries himself like a British gentleman.
Well they teach that at Eton.
My son was filming with Danial Day Lewis, him and Sean Bean a few weeks back in Manchester City Centre so he's back
Cary Grant in Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' is an all time classic. In many ways the first Bond.
War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even when it's a cold one.
The show they mention called 'Teachers' which Andrew Lincoln was in was amazing, it's basically Inbetweeners but the teachers are the ones misbehaving, it's just a torrent of muppetism, I really hope you get around to it one day Boomer!
Great show!
@@c_n_b I second that. watched a bunch of walking dead and love actually and all i could see was him from Teachers. I have a similar connection with James Macavoy and Shameless.
Yes Teachers is great, I've got the dvd boxset
Yep, Teachers is fantastic - especially the series with Andrew Lincoln’s character.
I was also going to recommend that one. There have been several series with that name, but the only one worth watching is the original with Andrew Lincoln. The American re-make of it is cringe-worthy awful. Not quite as awful as the American re-make of "Life on Mars" - because nothing in existence beats that for sheer cringe. But it gets fairly close.
My wife and I were talking to two very old ladies in Devon (South West England) a few years back. They were cousins of Archie Leach and used to play with him in Bristol. He used to visit them when he came to England to escape "Cary Grant" occasionally.
Nice one, thank you! He really was a born actor.
Connie Booth in Fawlty Towers does an amazing British accent...born in Indiana
Speaking of Cary Grant, Tony Curtis imitates his accent in Some Like It Hot. And there's a funny scene where Jack Lemmon says to Curtis "And, where did you get that phony accent? Nobody "talks loike thet"?"
It is a Mid-Atlantic accent.
I especially liked Tony Curtis's accent in _The Black Shield of Falworth,_ "Yonder lies the castle of my fodder."
Christian Bale is such a pro, in his Terminator Salvation on-set meltdown, he not only kept the American accent, but stayed in character as an asshole, too
The most ironic thing is when Hugh Laurie went to audition for the position of house he used the American accent because it was an American TV show and they decided to hire him. They then told him " you are great we wanted somebody with a regular American accent because it's overplayed having the doctor with the British accent and we didn't want to hire a British actor for the role because of that"
Hilariously they had no idea that he was in fact British
Jodie Comer is queen of accents. She did so many in KIlling Eve.
Considering she is so Scouse 😂
He needs to watch Help with Jodie and Stephen Graham..Please❤❤
Is she good? Only I got my mother the White Princess dvd which I believe she is the main character?
Her accents are absolutely jaw dropping.
The cast of Spinal Tap were pretty on point with their English accents.
@anarchodolly Christopher Guest had a head-start as he's originally from England.
Good one. They had me completely fooled. First saw them on tv play at Freddie Mercury's tribute show. Then the movie. Totally thought they were English.
Ben Mendelsohns is great also.
@@joegillam1497Lord Haden-Guest no less. It made headlines in the UK for the last opening of Parliament with all the hereditary peers as Lady Haden-Guest, aka Jamie Lee Curtis, was present amongst all the peeresses, complete with required tiara.
Deffo north by northwest
Everyone in Spinal Tap does a perfect English accent. James Marsters as Spike in Buffy was spot on too
James Masters haha. Not if you are from the UK.
the best thing about spinal tap is that every member had a total command of the differences in south eastern English dialects, how vowels are produced. St Hubbins sounds ever so slightly American but the way he's doing it is totally in the way that English rock dudes spoke when they'd lived in LA for a couple of years. Tufnell sounds like he's from bloody Bromley or something. I have no idea where they're meant to be from tbh. I'm gonna check now. Still the best English accents ever done by Americans ever
@@SamThredder exactly Sam. I always took their accents to be Essex and slightly affected mid Atlantic. It’s so subtle and well observed, it’s priceless
@@ianstopher9111 I’m from the UK. His accent is perfect
@@spnhm34 yeah Tufnel could totally be from Romford. Edit: I just read that he's meant to be from Squatney, East London (obvz made up area) so the Romford/Essex thing is quite close! Turns out St. Hubbins lived next door to Tufnel in Squatney so they're both from there. Totally makes sense that David would put on that mid-atlantic English rockstar in LA voice, making t's into d's etc. He's way more flamboyant than Nigel. Nige is a proper geezer but really cool with it, laid back. Always casually chewing gum too haha
Great video 👍 Huge Laure was brilliant in Jeeves& Wooster with Stephen fry 😂😂😂
To say Americans didn't know about Hugh Laurie is an understatement, I remember when his friend Stephen Fry went to meet him on set Hugh's makeup artist was shocked when he suddenly started speaking in his English accent, she didn't know because he would always use his American one on set
Bless those two are amazing
That's really interesting.
I'm from northern Ireland should hear Americans trying to do our accents it's so bad 😂
It always ends up sounding American Midwest or Scottish for some odd reason
Sam Neill wasn't too bad in Peaky Blinders to be fair, but his is a Kiwi lol.
@@maximus6622and I think his dad is from Belfast so he grew up listening to the accent
"Sons of Anarchy" probably has the worst N. Ireland accent ever, well done (?) Titus Welliver!
@@zenarcher9633 truly didn’t know how bad an accent could be until I heard that, seem to remember I ended up skipping those episodes cause I couldn’t stand listening to him! Though Tbf Charlie hunnam’s accents aren’t great either including in soa
Cary Grant is incomparably the greatest movie star to ever come out of Britain...
Your forgetting Stan Laurel, from Laurel and Hardy
Um, Charlie Chaplin?
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Star of the Silent Screen...
Incomparably? No. Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud (sp?), Paul Scofield, David Niven, so many British actors at least as good, if not greater, certainly Daniel Day-Lewis. I’m a fan of Grant’s, but incomparably the greatest? No way.
You're probably right. Maybe not the greatest actor, but certainly the greatest movie star
Cary Grant made a lot of very good films - North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, Charade, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story (High Society with out songs), The Bishop’s Wife, I Was A Male War Bride, Operation Petticoat, Father Goose, Notorious and my all time favourite Arsenic and Old Lace.
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr in Selma is very good.
King's wife is played by Carmen Ejogo (a Brit), LBJ is played by Tom Wilkinson (a Brit) and Governor George Wallace is played by Tim Roth (yet another Brit!). A major event in American history and they cast 4 Brits in the key roles.
Tim Roth in all those Tarantino films!
John Lithgow played Winston Churchill in the crown. No one cared because he did an amazing job.
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it. "The Count of Monte Cristo" is also on my top 10.
“I think it’s called Pikey” 😂😂😂
Really made me laugh 😂
"but I don't want to say it because someone said it's a derogatory term...?"
@@brigidsingleton1596 It is indeed a very offensive term for a traveller. 😥
Incidentally, they used Cary Grants real name as John Cleese's characters name in "A Fish Called Wanda".
The American whose English accent floored me was the voice actor Troy Baker as Pagan Min in the video game FarCry 4. Even though the character wasn't English (his mother was, he was born in Hong Kong), Baker's accent is flawless.
When I played it back in 2014 - I had no idea who voiced who, and when I found out Baker is American, it blew my mind.
McNulty in the wire is British too ;)
Spot on
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If you can find it, might have been ITV, he was in Appropriate Adult as Fred West - he nails that accent, but after bingeing The Wire I did crack into laughter now + then at some of the dialogue.
North by Northwest with Cary Grant is well worth a watch mate.
Hugh Laurie’s accent genius is best shown in an episode of House where he makes a phone call pretending to be English, so that’s an English actor playing an American (from New Jersey iirc) putting on a posh English RP accent. He even makes it sound a bit fake, like it’s forced.
Dominic West does the same in an episode of the wire. The one with the brothel
For a British overdose watch Hugh Laurie in 'Jeeves and Wooster' along with your favourite Stephen Fry
Loads of brits in Band of brothers. Dominic West was also star of the wire. Gary Oldman does good American accents.
Gary Oldman said on _The Graham Norton Show_ that he now needs an accent coach to revert to his British accent because he's done so many American ones.
North by Northwest is a Hitchcock classic.
Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker doing a British accent in Bram Stokers Dracula. Ouch! 😂😂
Grant in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" is a good one!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
North by Northwest is one of my absolute favourite films.
I think Hugh Laurie's most immaculate performance with accents is the show Avenue 5 where he's an english actor in the role of an american actor playing a british starship captain. How his head didn't explode I don't know but the way he switches back and forth is brilliant and played for some well earned laughs.
I know he's lived here for some time and is a huge Anglophile, but Johnny Depp does a good British accent. It's actually quite convincing
Frodo and Sam in Lord of the Rings are both American actors.
You missed Stephen Graham, Boardwalk Empire
European here, not a native English speaker. I used to work for an American company and was seconded to the US to work on developing features of our products demanded by the European markets. In the process, I acquired a decent NC accent.I then moved to the UK (where I still am) and spent years attempting to brush off that American accent to sound like a native (people now think I'm from Wales, which I'm not).
Cary Grant was always worth a watch
North by northwest is a Hitchkock classic. Well worth a watch.
Did you really just ask of North by Northwest is any good? omg
Hi King Boomer from North Tyneside, England.
Glad that you were all safe🙏
The most accurate English accent by an American is David Anders; he played Adam in Heroes, and Julian in Alias. He’s from Oregon but when I heard him I would’ve swore he was from the Home Countries. The Daniel Day-Lewis of Americans who can do the English accent. Go and look him up.
Gillian Anderson was brought up in the UK so had an English accent when she returned to the US. She said she created an American accent to fit in but when she's in the UK she reverts back to the English accent. Christian Bales best film is still Empire of the Sun, he's just amazing in it and he's just a kid. Hugh Laurie demonstrated his ability with accents many times during his time doing A Bit of Fry & Laurie. He's just gifted that way.
Christian Bale as a teenager in 'Empire of the Sun' is worth watching if you've never seen it.
Stay safe king and queen boomer , would love to see queen coming back for some reaction vids, having seen her in a while 👍👍
Trainspotting.
Apparently, his Scottish cast mates were surprised when Jonny Lee Miller spoke in his English accent after filming ended.
Edit. I didn't know that Martin Compston (Line of Duty) was Scottish until I saw him on Gogglebox.
Cut me some slack. I live in Australia now. 😊
North by Northwest is well worth watching Boomer, a Hitchcock classic, haven't seen the other film they mentioned though.
Not forgetting the legendary Gary Oldman.
There is another actor in The Wire who is British and plays one of the cops. And there was an episode where he did an impersonation of an American doing an impersonation of the English accent. So you had an Englishman doing an American accent and doing an English accent.
Cary Grant - I'd try "Bringing Up Baby", "North by Northwest" & "Father Goose"
Jody Comer wins by miles. French, Russian, the blue half of Liverpool. And I could look at her all day. She is beautiful.
Should check out Jodie Comer accent compilation
Emma Myers was the star of The Good Girl's Guide to Murder on the BBC and her English accent was impeccable and her performance as an English teenager was fantastic.
Cary Grant films are so classic especially the Hitchcock directed ones. Definitely some of the best ever made.
How did they miss McNullty from the wire !!!!! Dominic West !!!!!!
Don't forget John Boyega who played Finn in Star Wars. You can see him with his English accent in the comedy 'Attack The Block'.
They always miss another Idris off the list, Damson Idris who plays Franklin in Snowfall, superb accent fooled everyone during auditions even John singleton.
I think most people thought Winslet in Titanic was playing an English lady with an affected accent!🤣
Funny you should mention southern accents , the classic 'Gone with the wind' , Scarlett and Ashley were played by Vivian Leigh and Leslie Howard . Good Cary Grant films - North by Northwest is a good thriller , and Father Goose and Operation Petticoat are worth a watch of you've never seen them .
Stranger things and Walking dead are top 10 shows of the last 20 years.
Great Christian Bale film goes under the radar because he was 10 in it, is Empire of the Sun, WW2 movie about being in a Japanese Prison.
Where was Kevin Costner as Robin Hood!
I jest of course, I really mean Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker!
Dominic West in The Wire is also British.
Derogatory term for a Gypsy?; the Gypsy laughed 🤣
Same. Americans have no idea how bad the word is in Europe.
You want recommendations for a good Cary Grant movie? Try any of them....they're all worth watching - the guy was probably the biggest screen filler of all time. When he moved onto the shot it all began to happen. Probably the greatest movie star of all time..... the sheer presence of the guy....
Hands down, my favorite is Welsh actor Matthew Rhys. In The Americans, he played a Soviet agent faking an excellent American accent. So during the first season, when he did publicity for the show and came out with his very pronounced Welsh accent, fans lost their minds. Previously, he was in the American series Brothers and Sisters, and lately has been doing the reboot/prequel series Perry Mason, all with American accents. The guy’s amazing.
The most impressive American performance I have seen was actually Leonardo Di Caprio as a Zimbabwean/South African in Blood Diamond. William Hurt also did a commendable job as a South African professor in Endgame. Matt Damon was solid as a South African in Invictus, while Ryan Phillippe was also solid in The Bang Bang Club. Beyond that Americans have genuinely struggled in South African roles.
Cary Grant, to be honest, I don't think there is such a thing as a bad film with him in it. North by Northwest though, is a Hitchcock Film and as good as it gets. I highly recommend it!
No Charlie Hunham from Sons Of Anarchy. He played the lead 'Jax Teller' in that show for 10 years, and it took him quite a while to lose the American when he came back to the UK.
Space Precinct is one of those TV anomalies that was arguably destined for failure.
The best way to explain it is that Gerry Anderson(Thunderbirds) was desperate to get away from puppets and unfortunately fell flat on his face.
North by northwest is a great film.
Martin Freeman also did an excellent US accent!
"I may not ever watch a Mojo video ever again." Well, I'm good with that. :)
Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Tom Wilkinson, Peter Sellers.
Michael C. Hall's English accent was pretty convincing in Safe.
That was a great series, though I did spend the whole show going "I've been there". Same with Fresh Meat
@@georgerv That's why I can't watch Morse. I've lived so long near Oxford, I keep thinking, "You can't drive down that street and come out on that side of the city!"
His accent was weird. It was off but you couldn't quite put your finger on why.
I wasn't sure.
Gary oldman is another who got real deep in accents. I heard he had to hire a vocal coach to bring his native accent bsck
Kevin McKidd who plays Dr Owen Hunt. A Scottish Actor from Elgin who appeared in Trainspotting and Made of Honour
Aidan Gillian, an Irish actor, was also played a major role
in THE WIRE.
I knew this actress, Emma Myers is an American, but her English accent in 'Good gilrls guide to Murder' had me fooled. So much so, that I had to go onto IMDB to make sure it was the same girl who was in the show 'Wednesday'.
The films by Cary Grant are, in my opinion very worth watching. North by North West. He also did loads of others including 4 Hitchcock films. Also, I used to play with Christian (Bale), when he lived in Bournemouth. Anyway, I would recommend Cary Grant films but you might disagree.✌
James Marster's English accent in Buffy the vampire slayer as Spike was excellent. I had no idea he was American until I saw him in an episode of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. Had me totally convinced
I have heard quite a few commentators suggest that there’s a subtle difference in how US and UK actors are taught that plays a part, because it’s so much more competitive in the US over how collaborative acting is treated leads to US actors almost having to have their personality shine through the role, meaning when a british actor plays a famous American they naturally allow the character’s own personality to shine as part of the portrayal, hence why sometimes it’s good to have a UK play a famous American, as long as they can pull of the accent, don’t know how much truth to this there is but it’s an interesting thought!
I think peter dinklages Westerosi accents is spot on lol and Batman is from Gotham, I guess that’s effectively based on New York or Chicago and when I think of Batman I don’t think of an American accent at all, I just think of bale’s gravelly “I’m Batman “ or classic adam west and that is from a different albeit parallel dimension 😂
Hi to king b from uk, long time watcher, first time commenting 🇬🇧❤️
When Spud on Trainspotting said he’d been really surprised that Johnny Lee Miller wasn’t Scottish!
Cary Grant was brilliant, and "North by Northwest" is one of the greatest films of all time. I'd also recommend "The Philadelphia Story", where he starred with Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn. A couple of other UK actors who do good US accents: Tom Wilkinson, David Harewood, Sir Antony Hopkins (another one who's played a president - Nixon), and Adrian Lester. PS - there's no "cockney twang" in Christian Bale's voice. Mojo stuffs up again! PS - you should watch Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in "Jeeves and Wooster"!
North by Northwest is a classic. Brilliant Hitchcock. A must watch and the climax on Mount Rushmore is great no matter how many times you watch it.
Idris Elba does a lot of TV advertising here in the UK. He also starred in TV show Luther.
"North By Northwest" Cary Grant (Hitchcock). Is classic. Brilliant film. 👍
Roger Thornhill: And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?
Phillip Vandamm: Games? Must we?
Almost forgotten now, Americans as Cockneys, Christopher Guest & Michael McKean in "This is Spinal Tap." Also deserving a mention is Chris Pratt on Graham Norton when he did a perfect TOWIE imitation.
Spike from Buffy Vampire Slayer did a brilliant English accent. James Marsters.
It got significantly better as the series went on - probably hanging out with Giles/Dad/Anthony Head.
It was certainly a lot better than Juliet Landau's Drusilla! 😆
And don't get me started on that potential Slayer in Season 7 who was straight out of the Dick Van Dyke school of accents!
@jjc5407 Totally agree 😜😂
@@jjc5407 Drusilla gets forgiven, she was a damaged girl and had a lot of issues 🤣
Damn, I forgot about that potential girl, she was terrible.
Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind. She played Scarlet O'Hara.
Alan Tudyk in Death at a Funeral (the 2007 original mostly British cast one) had me fooled with his english accent.