Carrying on... worst film accents

[jeanette1976]

Leonardo di Caprio's accent in Gangs of New York was pretty god damn awful, so was Cameron Diaz'a for that matter...

Anrie's strong Austrian accent is always really funny, didn't he play a russian in one of his films?

The worst I can think of though is got to be Dick van Dyke's in Mary Poppins.... hilarious!

[NJOK]

Tommy Lee Jones's Irish accent in Blown Away is appalling.

In Mrs Doubtfire, Robin Williams claims to be from England!

And Val Kilmer attempts an accent in The Ghost And The Darkness that is so bad I'm not even sure what it is.

[NJOK]

And WHERE is Pete Poselthwaite supposed to be from in The Usual Suspects??

Keanu Reeves' posh boy accent in Dracula is very ropey. As is Gary Oldman's 'wigga' accent in True Romance.

[sp1814]

Sean Connery's Russian submariane captain in 'The Hunt For Red October'.

...Russia seemingly to be just west of Glasgow.

[froggequene]

Hilary Swank in The Black Dahlia, I think it was supposed to be an upper class American/Californian accent but I don't know to be honest

In The Proposition, the 3 brothers all had different Irish accents

[Mr Tall]

Don Cheadle - The black fella who does the cockney accent in Oceans 11.

Good in Hotel Rwanda though.

[mushroom25]

Sean Bean always seems to play "Man From Sheffield".

[robbo82]

Sean Connery doing 'Irish' in the Untouchables. Odd, it sounds just like his Russian, English and Scottish accents.

[B00]

Sean Connery again- doing his Spanish act in Highlander, totally bizarre!

Oh suppose you should also put Christopher Lambert in as well from same film.

[shammydodger]

Heather Graham's Oirish and, to an infinitessimally lesser extent, Johnny Depp's c0ckney accents in "From Hell."

Go on then, I'll be the first to mention the classic:

D1ck Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins."

Whoever voiced the Indian mancub Mowgli in "Jungle Book"

[dr john]

No doubt, Don Cheadle's ludicrous Cockney Basher in Ocean's Eleven. "Unless we intend to do this job in Reno we're in Barney".

[sp1814]

Hang on...I've just clocked something here.

Sean Connery is the undisputed king of bad accents? Has anyone even come close to him in the breadth and scale of his dodgy brogues???

[almcd007]

Natasha McElhones atrocious irish accent in Ronin and come to think of it - Jonathan Pryce's too.

Daniel Day Lewis in Kings of New York - Go on I dare you to watch him and then Vic Reeves in Catterick do Inspector Fowler or Kinky John from The Club (He was first - so Daniel Day Lewis must have copied Vic Reeves !!!)

[andy-hughes]

Sean Connery by a mile. Surely the most one-dimensional actor ever to make a movie. The whole thing reached laughable proportions in his 'Irish' cop in The Untouchables - except he got an Oscar for it, and suddenly it wsn't funny any more!

[suffragette]

James Coburn's Aussie accent in The Great Escape is pretty dire. Have to agree with Boo about Lambert and Connery in Highlander.

[Blinky]

I always though Tom Cruises Irish accent in Far and Away is always worth a watch just for the accent alone! It's awful!

[Ed Strong]

Dick van Dyke's cockney accent gets my vote with Sean Connery a close runner-up.

[willa]

Right up there on the awards podium has got to be both Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in "Bram Stoker's Dracula." **cringe**

Crossing the pond in the other direction: Emma Thompson in "Primary Colors". That harsh "r" sounded like she was born without a soft palate.

And from the TV vaults: Phoebe Cates in "Lace". Her accent's origin has yet to be identified.

[sp1814]

Re: Don Cheadle in Ocean's 11...the reason he adopted that bizarre accent is that the producers didn't want anyone thinking that he was simply the 'Sammy Davis Jnr' character from the first film...so he adopted that weird 'Cockney' accent.

Kinda backfired, because when I saw it, I just assumed he was playing Dick Van D y k e's character from 'Meary Puppings' .