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As far as TV, I am constantly surprised at discovering actors I thought were American actually being British. Jamie Bamber for one.
However, back in the day, the worst American accent I had heard, which still annoys me, was Nicola Bryant's accent on Doctor Who. Bad enough they gave an American character the name Perpugilliam (come on. Really?) , but she way overcompensated with the R's. Instead of the usual "Dawktah" she croaked out a really awful "Docterrrrrrr."
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What bugs me the most is inconsistency in accent performances. In some scenes, the accent might be spot on, and in other scenes it's almost non-existent, so it draws your attention to it. Seems like SOMEBODY would call this out when shooting so they could do another take. Nope.
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Ben Kingsley's American accent in MAURICE irritated me, but what little I've heard of his American in BUGSY seemed to work.
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In his memoir, Dick Van Dyke 'fessed up to having a limp Cockney, in MARY POPPINS.
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What the heck was Pacino muttering in REVOLUTION?
Yes!!
"Ima, scout for da Army, Ima SCOUT, for da ARMY.
When I think of accents in movies depicting Revolutionary War characters, I think of British accents. Barry Bostwick or David Morse (as much as I like him) do not convince me that they are George Washington, but Nicholas Rowe as Washington in the A&E documentary was great. It fit the period.
Pacino's accent sounded more like 125th Street in the Bronx or an Italian bakery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Very
Max
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