9. Clint Eastwood - Roland Deschain
Okay, so it doesn't hurt that Stephen King actually based the stoic, chiselled gunslinger protagonist of his Dark Tower novels, Roland Deschain, on the real-life Clint Eastwood, but had somebody got around to making these brilliant books into movies 30 years ago, the man himself might have been able to fulfill the role that he was not only born to play, but had already in movies like spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter and Hang 'Em High. "Why would Eastwood want to play a character like that again, then?" you're wondering, and it's a good point. But consider that a) Eastwood's characters in the movies mentioned above were fairly simplistic and b) that The Dark Tower would have given him an opportunity to reprise said character type, but with actual depth. The man is well into his 80s now, of course, so although this isn't something that can be considered seriously, Eastwood is the true gunslinger.