# Actors Forever Associated With 1 Role **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946 "2001-02-03T00:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/61 "2001-02-07T23:12:26Z")
**caircair** beat me to it. If I met Sir Anthony Hopkins on the street I would instantly think he’s preparing to eat my liver (with a nice chianti & fava beans). Alicia Silverstone = Cher from Clueless Julie Andrews = (tie) _Sound of Music_ and _Mary Poppins_ roles. Cuba Gooding, Jr. = Rod Tidwell (“Show me the money” character from _Jerry Maguire_). ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/62 "2001-02-11T09:02:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > **However, absolutely everyone else that every starred in ST-TOS and TNG is screwed.** With the exception of Jonathan Frakes, who I never thought fit the Trek profile: he was too much of a bull elephant. And anyone who played a Klingon, Ferengi, or any other character that required a lot of prosthetics. Speaking of which, Armin Shimerman was in one scene in **Blind Date**. It’s the big restaurant scene: Kim Basinger says, “Can you really speak French or are you just bullshitting?” He says, “I trained in Paris.” One line, but he perfectly conveyed the Snotty Francais Wait-ah attitude. ---
**Author:** ![little\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@little\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_me)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/63 "2001-02-18T09:11:37Z")
Jerry Mathers as The Beaver. He was just on Leno AGAIN doing the same dumb gee-whiz lines. That is so sad, but fame is never fair, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/64 "2001-02-18T14:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > > **However, absolutely everyone else that every starred in ST-TOS and TNG is screwed.** > > With the exception of Jonathan Frakes, who I never thought fit the Trek profile: he was too much of a bull elephant.\*\* Actually, I can’t help but see J.F. as anything but J.F. playing … himself. Some kind of determined, alpha-male nice-guy type. You know. The next door neighbour with the wife and kid who you can always rely on borrowing tools from. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/65 "2001-02-18T14:48:14Z")
Sylvester Stallone: A mumbling tough guy. the real shame of it is, he did some pretty decent roles early on (And even later, like in Cop Land). > [@](#): > > And Mad Max recently starred in What Women Want & The Patriot- a couple of yawn-fests I could have done without I’d have to disagree. Ithink mel has done a fine job of divoricing himself from that role (And The Patriot rocked!) ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/66 "2001-02-19T10:33:25Z")
How about George Clooney? I think he also suffers from the same problem as John Frakes… Good to see in films, but it always seems to be the role fitting George rather than George fitting the role… Look! It’s George as a hunky Bruce Wayne… if Bruce Wayne was George… Look! It’s George as a hunky Swordfish Boat Captain… if he knew how to captain a Swordboat… Look! It’s George as a hunky Gulf War soldier… and as a hunky nuclear weapons specialist soldier… …because he looks good in a uniform. Look! It’s George as a hunky doctor… wait… didn’t we start here? ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/67 "2001-02-19T16:30:12Z")
Larry Hagman - JR Ewing Same as the others from that show: Patrick Duffy Victoria Principal Jami Gertz - Boots from “The Facts of Life” Dianne Wietz (sp?) - Footloose ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946/68 "2001-02-20T15:16:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Bredin \* > \*\*To echo Persephone, Christopher Lloyd IS Doctor Emmett Brown from the “Back to the Future” movies to me but IS Jim Ignatowski from “Taxi” to my father. > \*\* And in a similar vein, Bob Denver will always be \*\* Gilligan \*\* to my younger brothers and \*\*Maynard G. Krebs \*\* to me and my late father. Oh, and Dwayne Hickman will always be Dobie Gillis Trivia fans: Shiela James Kuehl (Zelda Gilroy in the Dobie series) went on to Harvard law school and was one of the first women (and the only openly lesbian one) elected to the California State Assembly in 1992. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-forever-associated-with-1-role/52946.md?page=3)