Definitely Aaron Johnson ' ...the feel and ambience of Nowhere Boy was 100% ...the continuity of Aaron's performance was believable, edgy and fresh. Great video.
In an interview from the Nineties Ian was the first and only person to explain that his Liverpool accent wasn't quite like the Beatles' WW2-generation Liverpool Scouse. Since he was a fellow Liverpudlian, Ian did the best job inhabiting Lennon (featuring Lennon's Liverpool accent and inflection from a previous generation).
I think you miss the point of Robert Carlisle’s performance where this John Lennon’s life is set in an alternative universe where the main character wakes up in an alternative universe where the Beatles never existed. The main character found John Lennon who was still alive in the present day but had led a completely different life with a different set of experiences and therefore had become a different person in this reality. Robert Carlisle was mindful of this so he portrayed John Lennon in what was essentially a Romantic/fantasy film
Yes, they did have different life conditions, but I always interpreted that this John had the same tough upbringing that made him tough; he just didn’t become famous. But I can see your point.
I've met both Mark McCann and Ian Hart...the best lennon voice ( but still not 100% was McCann ) the best capture of johns personality was Ian Hart in backbeat ...best overall would be Arron even though he doesn't sound like john...he looks a little like john. Accents are tough. I'm from South Liverpool were all the beatles are from.and even I have trouble!!!
Ian Hart is a very good actor, he was great in Backbeat, Mark Mcgann he is without a doubt the most similar to John who has played him, but for me the best John's performance is that of Jared Harris... It is absolutely moving.
You need to remember that Robert was not necessarily playing John Lennon, but was playing an older John Lennon who was never famous. You said he played it "too sweet", but who's to say John wouldn't have turned out like that given the vastly different circumstances? (And Paul Rudd's was literally a comedy lol and was not supposed to be taken seriously)
Yeah, Mark McGann by a mile for sure. Curiously enough, Mark Lindsay Chapman was the original casting choice for “John and Yoko: A Love Story.” He was going by “Mark Lindsay” when he was cast, but revealing his full name lost him the job.
I didn't see him acting as John, but I saw the ironically named Mark Chapman do a live show playing with a band for every part of his career. Or, at least, The Beatles and a bunch of his solo stuff, with costume changes. He was fantastic!!!
Are you sure that you are not mixing Mark Chapman up with fellow actor Mark McGann, as McGann actually acted, sang and performed in a stage play about John Lennon in 2008 with a Beatles tribute band called 'Pepperland'? As far as I know, after Chapman lost the role of John to McGann in the 1985 US TV Movie 'John And Yoko: A Love Story' (due to his full name being so similar to that of Lennon's killer), the only time he ever got to play John after that misfortune was in the film 'Chapter 27' playing opposite a bloated Jared Leto as his infamous near namesake. Therefore, I think that you may well have just confused the two actors with each other, simply because they both have the same first name and also due to the fact that they've each played John Lennon in different productions.
I've always thought that with his early 60s era moptop wig, suits and horn rimmed glasses that actor Ian Hart looked far more like Peter Asher of Peter And Gordon fame (and brother of actress Jane Asher) than he did as John Lennon when he played him in 'The Hours And The Times'
Don't forget Howard Kaylan's "My Dinner With Jimi" which showed a brief moment of The Turtles seeing The Beatles in 1967. Brian Groh acted as John. The ending credits he asks "I hope I don't look like such an A-hole". You were right about the John and Yoko - A Love Story. Could be a cheesy mid-80s TV movie, but you sometimes forget about it when watching the film. Even some songs sounded like the actual recordings from John.
Carlyle was perfect b/c we have no idea what kind of person he would have been in that universe. Firey people tend to soften by the time they are in their 70s and I’d think that would be the case in our world if he was still around.
I can't help but dig Ian Hart. I will admit that if I was going to be loyal to an actor portraying John for the silver screen, it would be John Clive Yellow Submarine was my gateway into just tolerating when my parents played the music of The Beatles to getting fully absorbed in it for myself. John Clive voicing John Lennon in this case was a cornerstone of that experience.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is my favourite. He just absolutely nails it. I put him ever so slightly above Mark McGann, but that's only because I think Mark got the voice slightly unnatural, but he's a very close 2nd in my opinion (almost no question). The only reason I wouldn't have Aaron in the new biopics is because he's too buff now...
Criminal to leave Bernard Hill out. He is brilliant in 1985's often surreal British TV drama: John Lennon- A Journey In The Life. Still have it on Betamax!
The late Bernard Hill also played John Lennon in a 1975 Willy Russell stage play which premiered at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre and was called 'John, Paul, George, Ringo....And Bert'. It also starred Trevor Eve as McCartney, Philip Joseph as Harrison, the late Anthony Scher as Starr and George Costigan as the entirely fictional.character of Bert. The play's music score of iconic Beatles songs was actually sung and performed by Scottish actress and folk singer Barbra Dickson, of all people. A very strange choice.
I think your evaluation of Robert Carlyle's performance is a mistake. You forgot the context of the movie where it is an alternate reality where none of them had the same life conditions so why expecting to have the same John Lennon?
Yes, they did have different life conditions, but I always interpreted that this John had the same tough upbringing that made him tough; he just didn’t become famous.
Jared Harris despite being one of the best actors of all time was more like Liam Gallagher looks and personality. Aaron Johnson was good but Nowhere Boy was not at all accurate
I have to agree eith you that actor Christopher Eccleston was entirely miscast, not only because at forty seven, he was way too old for the part, but also that he looked more like The Who' guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend than John Lennon to me. I feel.a much better choice for it would've been former 'Inspector George Gently' star Lee Ingleby (who played the hotheaded DS John Bachus), not only because he was only thirty six at the time (and so he was in the right age range), but also because with his sharp features and in a Sixties wig with false sideburns on, he actually looked a lot like Lennon in his Beatlemania days. Ingleby is also a very versatile actor, who can change his looks, accent and personality to portray whatever the role requires whenever it is needed However, for some bizarre reason, the casting director for the 2010 BBC4 TV drama 'Lennon Naked' went and chose Eccleston for it instead. So that was definitely a missed opportunity there, as far as I'm concerned.
@BeatlesBible1 ...well you have to remember this was 1979 and it came on the heels of the Elvis movie with Kurt Russell. I look at BOTB now and it looks rushed and there are a lot of inaccuracies in it but given the circumstances I thought he did a good job.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 um no! Hes not even Lennon's real Kid. Looks nothing like him. Joko banged some other guy. And If he does look more like him now, is cuz hes had plastic surgery to Look more like Lennon.
Sean Lennon is a songwriter and musician like his late father was, but he is definitely not an actor. Besides, Sean turns forty nine on October 9th, so he is way too old for it, anyway.
I can't pick one. Neil Innes is great at copying the funny sarcastic interviewed John. And Ian hart is mean John and birth of the beatle-john is good at emotional John.
If Yellow Submarine John is here, where is cartoon John (Paul Frees)? Birth of The Beatles John looks like Lennon, but sounds like an old man. But to me, he looks like Lennon. I don't like John and Yoko a Love story John. Too many silly faces. I don't see Lennon in Carlyle or Harris. But I can see McCartney in Aidan Quinn.
Definitely Aaron Johnson ' ...the feel and ambience of Nowhere Boy was 100% ...the continuity of Aaron's performance was believable, edgy and fresh. Great video.
Ian was the absolute best- he captured John in such an authentic way that didn’t feel cheesy or like an impression
The guy that played him in that Peter Jackson film. A little CGI helped for sure, pretty amazing how they did it.
He really did sell the part! Just like the real John Lennon.
@@IsaacWale2004the actor they got for George was really good too
"In his life" may have a lot of let-downs, but I think it had the best depiction of Brian.
True. Another good one was in “The Hours and Times.”
I'm happy with the score you gave Neil Innes.
He’s great
Ian looks like Julian.
I dig thar, @OWNWRIGHT.
And the guy from "Two of us" looks like Noel Gallagher. 😅
Ian Hart perfectly portrayed John Lennon.
In an interview from the Nineties Ian was the first and only person to explain that his Liverpool accent wasn't quite like the Beatles' WW2-generation Liverpool Scouse. Since he was a fellow Liverpudlian, Ian did the best job inhabiting Lennon (featuring Lennon's Liverpool accent and inflection from a previous generation).
Great video man! ✌️❤️👍
Thanks 👍
I think you miss the point of Robert Carlisle’s performance where this John Lennon’s life is set in an alternative universe where the main character wakes up in an alternative universe where the Beatles never existed. The main character found John Lennon who was still alive in the present day but had led a completely different life with a different set of experiences and therefore had become a different person in this reality. Robert Carlisle was mindful of this so he portrayed John Lennon in what was essentially a Romantic/fantasy film
Yes, they did have different life conditions, but I always interpreted that this John had the same tough upbringing that made him tough; he just didn’t become famous. But I can see your point.
I've met both Mark McCann and Ian Hart...the best lennon voice ( but still not 100% was McCann ) the best capture of johns personality was Ian Hart in backbeat ...best overall would be Arron even though he doesn't sound like john...he looks a little like john. Accents are tough. I'm from South Liverpool were all the beatles are from.and even I have trouble!!!
Nice, you’re lucky!
Ian Hart is a very good actor, he was great in Backbeat, Mark Mcgann he is without a doubt the most similar to John who has played him, but for me the best John's performance is that of Jared Harris... It is absolutely moving.
He’s good.
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Happy birthday!
Back Beat
You need to remember that Robert was not necessarily playing John Lennon, but was playing an older John Lennon who was never famous. You said he played it "too sweet", but who's to say John wouldn't have turned out like that given the vastly different circumstances?
(And Paul Rudd's was literally a comedy lol and was not supposed to be taken seriously)
Yeah, Mark McGann by a mile for sure. Curiously enough, Mark Lindsay Chapman was the original casting choice for “John and Yoko: A Love Story.” He was going by “Mark Lindsay” when he was cast, but revealing his full name lost him the job.
I didn't see him acting as John, but I saw the ironically named Mark Chapman do a live show playing with a band for every part of his career. Or, at least, The Beatles and a bunch of his solo stuff, with costume changes. He was fantastic!!!
Are you sure that you are not mixing Mark Chapman up with fellow actor Mark McGann, as McGann actually acted, sang and performed in a stage play about John Lennon in 2008 with a Beatles tribute band called 'Pepperland'?
As far as I know, after Chapman lost the role of John to McGann in the 1985 US TV Movie 'John And Yoko: A Love Story' (due to his full name being so similar to that of Lennon's killer), the only time he ever got to play John after that misfortune was in the film 'Chapter 27' playing opposite a bloated Jared Leto as his infamous near namesake.
Therefore, I think that you may well have just confused the two actors with each other, simply because they both have the same first name and also due to the fact that they've each played John Lennon in different productions.
@@stephenalanmoore7278 No. I still have the ticket stub.
@@obbor4 Fair enough.
I've always thought that with his early 60s era moptop wig, suits and horn rimmed glasses that actor Ian Hart looked far more like Peter Asher of Peter And Gordon fame (and brother of actress Jane Asher) than he did as John Lennon when he played him in 'The Hours And The Times'
Can you do a video on Paul next?
Sure!
Don't forget Howard Kaylan's "My Dinner With Jimi" which showed a brief moment of The Turtles seeing The Beatles in 1967. Brian Groh acted as John. The ending credits he asks "I hope I don't look like such an A-hole". You were right about the John and Yoko - A Love Story. Could be a cheesy mid-80s TV movie, but you sometimes forget about it when watching the film. Even some songs sounded like the actual recordings from John.
Carlyle was perfect b/c we have no idea what kind of person he would have been in that universe. Firey people tend to soften by the time they are in their 70s and I’d think that would be the case in our world if he was still around.
I can see your point.
Honestly, Robert Carlyle should be higher ranking. John could be soft and sweet sometimes.
He’s fine.
@@BeatlesBible1that Mark Staycer guy (however it's spelled) was pretty good. Mark McGann is pretty good. You're right.
I can't help but dig Ian Hart.
I will admit that if I was going to be loyal to an actor portraying John for the silver screen, it would be John Clive Yellow Submarine was my gateway into just tolerating when my parents played the music of The Beatles to getting fully absorbed in it for myself. John Clive voicing John Lennon in this case was a cornerstone of that experience.
The guy who voiced Paul in Yellow Submarine played the character "Onslow" in Keeping Up Appearances, the popular British Sitcom.
@@paulnejtek6588 The was thelate Geoffrey Hughes who also appeared in 'Coronation Street' as Eddie Yeats and as Vernon Scripps in 'Heartbeat'.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is my favourite. He just absolutely nails it.
I put him ever so slightly above Mark McGann, but that's only because I think Mark got the voice slightly unnatural, but he's a very close 2nd in my opinion (almost no question).
The only reason I wouldn't have Aaron in the new biopics is because he's too buff now...
Neil Innes was so good
Ian Hart by far
Criminal to leave Bernard Hill out. He is brilliant in 1985's often surreal British TV drama: John Lennon- A Journey In The Life. Still have it on Betamax!
The late Bernard Hill also played John Lennon in a 1975 Willy Russell stage play which premiered at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre and was called 'John, Paul, George, Ringo....And Bert'.
It also starred Trevor Eve as McCartney, Philip Joseph as Harrison, the late Anthony Scher as Starr and George Costigan as the entirely fictional.character of Bert.
The play's music score of iconic Beatles songs was actually sung and performed by Scottish actress and folk singer Barbra Dickson, of all people. A very strange choice.
Could you do the same with George or Paul maybe i like this video style !
Best actors were Mark Staycer, Robert Carlyle, Mark Mcgann and the one in the tv movie In his life
That would be Irish actor Philip McQuillan.
I see John Clive, but not Paul Frees. Also, does Neil Innes count? He didn't really portray John.
I forgot about Paul Frees, my bad. In a way, Neil Innes portrayed a very memorable John to me.
I think your evaluation of Robert Carlyle's performance is a mistake. You forgot the context of the movie where it is an alternate reality where none of them had the same life conditions so why expecting to have the same John Lennon?
Yes, they did have different life conditions, but I always interpreted that this John had the same tough upbringing that made him tough; he just didn’t become famous.
Mark McGunn just wow
My favourite was Neil innes
Voice actor Paul Frees does the worst impression of John Lennon on the Beatles cartoon tv series. He's ranked "0" in my books!
Yeah, that one was apparently so forgettable it got forgotten!
😂 I forgot about him, sorry.
Ron Nasty. Crazy.
Jared Harris despite being one of the best actors of all time was more like Liam Gallagher looks and personality. Aaron Johnson was good but Nowhere Boy was not at all accurate
Plz make about John Kennedy,Hitler and Elvis
Too many of them get the voice wrong...
Ian (Backbeat) Looks more like Julian than John
If someone says " this one blows that other one out of the water," ask why they had their gear in the water. 🙃
Nasty is still the best!!!
Also mark mcgann
Christopher Eccleston was good but too old and whoever wrote it made John look like a really horrible person
Yes
I have to agree eith you that actor Christopher Eccleston was entirely miscast, not only because at forty seven, he was way too old for the part, but also that he looked more like The Who' guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend than John Lennon to me.
I feel.a much better choice for it would've been former 'Inspector George Gently' star Lee Ingleby (who played the hotheaded DS John Bachus), not only because he was only thirty six at the time (and so he was in the right age range), but also because with his sharp features and in a Sixties wig with false sideburns on, he actually looked a lot like Lennon in his Beatlemania days.
Ingleby is also a very versatile actor, who can change his looks, accent and personality to portray whatever the role requires whenever it is needed
However, for some bizarre reason, the casting director for the 2010 BBC4 TV drama 'Lennon Naked' went and chose Eccleston for it instead. So that was definitely a missed opportunity there, as far as I'm concerned.
No love for Stephen Mackenna!!?? I thought he did a good job as John in the TV Movie Birth of the Beatles!! Jared Harris was great too!!
He’s good, just too old, and he doesn’t look a lot like Lennon to me.
@BeatlesBible1 ...well you have to remember this was 1979 and it came on the heels of the Elvis movie with Kurt Russell. I look at BOTB now and it looks rushed and there are a lot of inaccuracies in it but given the circumstances I thought he did a good job.
@@kelvendyson1508 Yes, I agree.
What about John Lennon?
Actually, if his skin was slightly lighter a perfect fit to play John Lennon would be Sean Lennon
🤣🤣🤣🤣 um no! Hes not even Lennon's real Kid. Looks nothing like him. Joko banged some other guy. And If he does look more like him now, is cuz hes had plastic surgery to Look more like Lennon.
Sean Lennon is a songwriter and musician like his late father was, but he is definitely not an actor.
Besides, Sean turns forty nine on October 9th, so he is way too old for it, anyway.
Is it just me or does Paul Rudd kinda sound like George more
I agree
Anyone without a Real Scouse accent, 3/10
I can't pick one. Neil Innes is great at copying the funny sarcastic interviewed John. And Ian hart is mean John and birth of the beatle-john is good at emotional John.
You missed John Lennon.
If Yellow Submarine John is here, where is cartoon John (Paul Frees)?
Birth of The Beatles John looks like Lennon, but sounds like an old man. But to me, he looks like Lennon.
I don't like John and Yoko a Love story John. Too many silly faces.
I don't see Lennon in Carlyle or Harris. But I can see McCartney in Aidan Quinn.
I forgot about him, my bad. He’s okay.
Paul Rudd was the worst
His performance is intentionably bad; that’s the joke.
Lennon is my least favorite Beatle. His f***n attitude, his sarcasm. My very favorite is George.
7.5 for Ian Hart? Way overrated and almost made me stop watching your video.
I disagree.