Peter O'Toole - He won an honorary Oscar and was nominated for eight Academy Awards but to a legion of eight-year-olds the Lawrence Of Arabia star will always be Anton Ego, the food critic who's won over by the title dish in Pixar's enchanting Ratatouille. Not that the great man objected to being adored by the Toys R Us set - "It's great to be down with the kids," he guffawed at the film's premiere.
James Stewart - The cinema legend was 83 when producer Steven Spielberg asked him to voice folksy frontier hound Wylie in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. Tragically it would be Sir James's final movie role - he passed away six years later in 1997. Still it's fair to say that the great man's turn was every bit as charming as his performances in classic offerings like Harvey and It's A Wonderful Life.
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