1. Hugh Laurie, Mark Williams & Tim McInnerny - 101 Dalmatians
Walt Disney PicturesNow best known all over the world for their starring roles in the most popular TV and Film series of the 21st Century, House and Harry Potter respectively, it is easy for foreign viewers to overlook Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams' humble, yet outrageously humorous, sketch show beginnings: A Bit Of Fry & Laurie and The Fast Show. In fact they are two actors who have had remarkably similar rises to international fame, even though both films in which they both appeared haven't been better remembered. Released in in successive years, and both American adaptations of British children's stories, although The Borrowers was the most recent it was in the 1996 live-action retelling of 101 Dalmatians which they appeared side by side. Although many Hollywood films have been filmed partly and wholly in Britain, at the time Laurie and Williams seemed unlikely stars of such an ambitious Disney film. Indeed the fact the studio went with so many British stars is nothing but admirable. Despite the fact that it could have been easier to cast faces more familiar to an American audience, as henchmen double act Jasper and Horace they also star alongside Blackadder's Tim McInnerny. In fact they make up three of the films four main villains, the other of course being Glenn Close's Cruella de Vil.