10 Actors Who Did Not Take Credit For Big Movie Roles

10. David Hyde Pierce - Hellboy

As far as director Guillermo Del Toro and comic creator Mike Mignola were concerned, no living actor was more suited to play the hulking, red demon-cum superhero than Ron Perlman. There are few roles suited to Perlman's grizzled masculine features that lend themselves to a lead (for this writer's money, cast him as Tom Waits now).

The strange, faithful Hellboy adaptation may not be the best, but given its 2004 release date, it's among the first serious comic films before Marvel Studios ruled Hollywood. David Hyde Pierce's gentle, polite tone perfectly encapsulates the role of Hellboy's psychic fish-man sidekick Abe Sapien, granting him a humanity that otherwise could have been lost. The physical role was played by motion capture legend Doug Jones.

Pierce, reportedly every bit the gentleman of Niles Crane, demanded he be unbilled - claiming that the brilliance of the role belonged entirely to Jones. In the film's sequel, his voice was gone and Jones was allowed to use his own - turning in an acceptable substitute.