What deceased (or just plain old) movie star would you choose to revive to their "prime" acting years, in order to star in new films made by current day directors?

I would love to see John Cazale play Steve Buscemi's dad in something. It would be interesting to see young Paul Newman act in modern movies as well.

I could see Cary Grant in some stylish modern thriller/spy movies, with a dose of his humor.

Clark Gable - Iron Man

Charles Nelson Reilly - Iron Man

Gene Hackman and Christopher Reeves. I miss those guys.

Lee Marvin
Humphrey Bogart
Robert Mitchum
Toshiro Mifune
Peter Sellers

Lucille Ball

There are many but the first that came to mind is Steve McQueen.

Charles Bronson
John Wayne
Clint Eastwood
Chuck Norris

Wouldn't mind seeing an in-his-prime Roy Scheider starring in movies again.

Lee Van Cleef, directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Bruce Lee, kicking ass left and right.

John Wayne in a Michael Bay movie
Yul Brynner in a Ridley Scott movie
Lee Marvin in a Michael Mann movie
Montgomery Clift in a David Cronenberg movie
Barbara Stanwyck in a Coen Bros movie
ZaSu Pitts in a Wes Anderson movie
Peter Lorre in a Guillermo Del Toro movie
Gloria Swanson in a John Waters movie
Paulette Goddard in a Judd Apatow movie
Spencer Tracy in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie
Elisha Cook Jr. in a Todd Solondz movie
Rondo Hatton in a Tim Burton movie (That would be a no-brainer)
Jayne Mansfield in a Robert Rodriguez movie
Peter Sellers in a Edgar Wright movie
Steve McQueen in a Joe Carnahan movie
Dwight Frye in a Rob Zombie movie
Laurence Olivier in a Kenneth Branagh-Shakespearean movie (Seeing this "Making-Of" would be very interesting)
Greta Garbo in a Wim Wenders movie
Timothy Carey in a Nicolas Winding Refn movie
Bruce Lee in a Zhang Yimou movie
Robert Mitchum in a Tarantino movie
James Dean in a Scorsese movie

Steve McQueen. Because movies need more badass.

Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum

Charlie Chaplin in a Wes Anderson movie.

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John Belushi
John Candy
Chris Farley
Dick Shawn

Timothy Carey
Warren Oates
Steve James
Orson Welles

I'd say Peter Sellers and Wes Anderson would work together great.

Natalie Wood in any movie that required full-frontal nudity.

My top would be Peter O'Toole. As good as he was in the old days he would be in a class with Daniel Day Lewis in terms of current actors. Of course if we need him in something now we've got Michael Fassbinder.

I'd love to see Vivien Leigh take a shot at the rare but better than her time great female roles that occasionally come along.

I also think Richard Burton could thrive now. He seemed to have the worst agent in Hollywood but still captured a hatful of Academy Award nominations.

I agree with others that Peter Sellers would have had a field day now.

Warren Oates in a film by Jeff Nichols
Marlon Brando in a film by Paul Thomas Anderson
Klaus Kinski in a film by Paul Thomas Anderson
Timothy Carey in a film by Harmony Korine
John Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara in a film by Mike Leigh.
Ida Lupino in a film by Kelly Reichardt.
Max Schreck in a film by David Lynch.
Peter Sellers, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Leslie Howard in films by Wes Anderson and Whit Stillman.
John Candy in films by Judd Apatow, Adam Mckay
John Cazale in a film by Steve Mcqueen
Robert Mitchum, Laurence Tierney in a film by Nicolas Winding Refn
Buster Keaton in a Jackass movie.
Joan Crawford in Evil Dead 4

Klaus Kinski in a film by Roman Polanski or Victor Salva
Sir Laurence Olivier in a film by Sir Kevin Smith.
Steve Mcqueen in a film by Steve Mcqueen.

Audrey Hepburn
Steve McQueen
Paul Newman
Sir Alec Guiness, just NOT in a Star Wars movie.

Fats Waller in a hiphop musical.