Dalip Singh
Dalip Singh Rana wrestled as the Great Khali, and the career is inseparable from the body: acromegaly took him past seven feet, and WWE built storylines around the sheer scale of him from the middle of the 2000s into the early 2010s. He became the first Indian-born world champion, which mattered enormously to the promotion's reach and to the audience it was reaching for.
Hollywood used him the way wrestling did. In The Longest Yard he is Turley, an inmate whose menace is entirely physical. In Get Smart he is a henchman named after himself, in the one film that bothered to write him a scene with a person in it. MacGruber wants ten seconds of sight gag, and the French adventure comedy HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami bills him under the ring name and treats him as scenery. Nobody asked him to carry dialogue, and he was rarely given the chance to try.
That is a short filmography, and an honest one. The pay-per-views listed here, the 2009 and 2013 Royal Rumbles and WrestleMania XXVIII, are where the performing actually happened, in a form that never needed him to speak.
Movies (7)
TV (1)
Where to start with Dalip Singh
No film uses him better than The Longest Yard. It is a prison comedy that needs an unanswerable physical threat on the field, and he supplies it without a word wasted. Get Smart comes next, because somebody there wrote him a scene, and it is genuinely funny.
After that the returns drop fast. MacGruber uses him as a punchline, and HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami is a French family picture that just needed something very large in frame.
The wrestling is the real archive. WWE Royal Rumble 2009 shows why a crowd reacts to him before he has done anything, and WWE WrestleMania XXVIII catches the late-career version: slower, beloved, and still the largest thing in the building.