Nobody has mentioned Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari?
If playing a different age doesn’t count, playing a different sex probably doesn’t either.
Reiner used several of his toupees as props in one particularly hilarious episode, the name of which and season escape me now.
Oh, and my wife can’t look at Nicolas Cage without mentioning his (usually poor, in her opinion) selection of toupees.
That would be “Coast to Coast Big Mouth,” the opening episode of the final season.
And who can forget when Muhammed Ali let viewers know Howard Casell wore a toupee.
You can even see it fly off his head here, although, at a distance.
BIlly Crystal wore a rug when he was on SNL to look like he had a full head of hair.
For one of his characters, he used to slide it back on his head to the character had a receding hairline. And I remember once someone was supposed to pretend to slap him but accidentally hit his hair piece, shiffting it on his head which caused them all to have to fight off laughter as he adjusted it.
I’m very surprised no one has mentioned Steven Van Zant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Van_Zandt) as Silvio Dante (Silvio Dante - Wikipedia ) in the Sopranos.
That hairpiece is infamous
And why is the “Insert Link” function not letting me imbed the link in the name?
Actually, performers wearing wigs is pretty routine. As mentioned above (in the posts re: Beverly Crusher) it’s not at all about vanity, it’s about having to do reshoots and restaging scenes. When a movie/TV scene is shot, something is deemed wrong with it and it has to be reshot, it must be made to match as close as possilble to scenes shot around it - sometimes shot several days earlier. If you have / ever had long hair, you’d know it is impossible to make it look the same way day after day without change.
That said, I shared an apartment with a drag queen about 10 years ago, and we watched “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” faithfully (no pun intended). My room-mate would often guffaw and groan at the wigs used to disguise the stunt-doubles who did the fight scenes.
On the flip side of the coin, in the movie Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro wore a skullcap to simulate his mohawk. (De Niro said he’d be willing to actually cut his hair into a mohawk, but Scorsese insisted he wear a ‘piece’, for exactly the reason above - if they had to reshoot anything, his star’s 'do would look exactly right.)
As “Ugly Betty,” America Ferrera wears a wig. Fake bushy eyebrows, too.
Tricia Helfer, as Number 6 in the new BSG, has worn a platinum blonde wig for every season except the first. The bleaching required to get her natural hair colour that light completely destroyed her hair, so they switched over to the wigs.
Mr. Carlin in the Bob Newhart show?
Thanks! Unfortunately, Hulu only has the first two seasons…
Joe Pantoliano wore a wig as “Ralph” on The Sopranos. He is bald in real life. It was a rather odd hairstyle, parted in the center, the kind you usually see on 16 year old boys and guys in New Wave bands, not on middle aged mobsters. But then again, everything about Ralph’s character is fairly quirky. Here’s a picture of it.
He is eventually killed and when they move his body, the wig falls off. But it is not known to the audience that the character, as opposed to just the actor, is wearing one until this point, so it’s a humorous surprise.
New board software works differently–type the text you want to have as the link, highlight it, then hit the link button and paste the URL into the popup box.
She actually dyed her own hair in the early episodes, but switched to wigs because all the dye was damaging her hair.
Lisa Kudro, from Friends, wore a wig for the last couple of years. They talked about this in some of the extras on the DVDs.
Over here, Terry Wogan’s syrup is legendary.
I saw Pata Sajack take off his wig to reveal he was completely bald underneath. But this was done on April 1st, so maybe it was a joke. It was a really good bald cap if it was fake. It is just enough to make you wonder, and I’m sure that is what they were trying to do.