Ed Bradley? no
Warwick Davis? no
Everybody knows who Pinhead is.....the character is an icon.....few people outside of us horror genre fan boys even knows the name of the actor who portrays Pinhead. The character is a horror icon, not the actor. I would say the same about Leprechaun....except everybody in the mainstream doesn't know who he is. A good number of people have never heard of the Leprechaun movies......much less the midget who plays him.
Robert Englund on the other hand is synonomis with Freddy Krueger. Everybody knows Robert......everybody knows Freddy. Non-horror geeks even recognize him on the street without any make up on.
If you are an icon......you are at the pinnacle. You are sitting at the very top of the heap. Very few actors in the horror genre reach this status of recognition. Characters do (Voorhies, Myers, Pinhead, etc.)...but not the actors who have portrayed those characters.
if your talking about robert being a horror icon your as corect as a fox is smart and a blond dumb (hahahaha jokes jokes to people) but it is the character people like im sure of it now freddy is my horror icon and im amazed that people i ask say freddy who. wouldnt it be great if there really was a freddy?
Kane Hodder does have a following........a large enough following to consider him to be an icon of the horror genre though? A following to put his name up there with Robert Enlgund, George Romero, Dario Argento,? I don't think so.
no leather........nobody recognizes Warwick Davis. Go up to most people and say "do you like Warwick Davis?"......they will reply with "who?"...............
While Warwick has been a working actor for many, many years and has played in several good movies (Willow being his most popular role)......he simply doesn't have name recognition or even respect in the horror genre. Alot of people like the Leprachaun movies, myself included. I like 3 of them. Have the movie garnered enough a following to even reach cult status?......no...much less icon status. Nobody will ever be including Leprechaun on a list of the greatest horror movies of all time.
As an actor, it;s really not fair to compare him and someone like Wes Craven or Dario. Actor wise, I'd say yes. All around, maybe not so much.
As for Warwick, I think people know him even better as "Wicket the Ewok" than "Willow". 1 major motion picture, with 2 T.V specials where he reprised the role.
yes, when I tell or ask my friends about Freddy, they go "Freddy who?" and i role my eyes, and when i tell them about Freddy vs Jason, they think freddy is jason and jason is freddy so i yell "DON'T YOU KNOW ANYTHING?!" and i don't think kane is a horror icon, he has only done 4 jason movies, and there have been 8 ppl to play jason, i think Ken is the best jason becuase he is so tall which makes him scary