Actors or actresses you only like in one role only and dislike everything else they've done.

Title is pretty much self explanatory.

Ted Danson. I liked him as Sam Malone on Cheers and watched him for years. Anything else he’s done over the years I dislike. I don’t care for him acting at all.

John Travolta. I was never into his Vinnie Barbarino character or his Saturday Night Fever phase. The only thing I liked him in was Pulp Fiction. Everything after that was abysmal.

Nick Cage is only good in Raising Arizona. Ok, and Leaving Las Vegas. Hate his guts in everything else.

I usually don’t like Stallone but I like the first Rocky and Rambo movies

I don’t like Stallone either, but I thought he was a hoot in Demolition Man.

I like Sacha Baron Cohen when he’s playing French characters in period pieces (Hugo, Les Miserables) and hate him in everything else.

Jim Carrey is pretty good when he does drama.

He’s terrible when he does comedy.

It’s not a matter of my hating him in everything else, but I don’t think that Timothy Bottoms was very interesting except The Last Picture Show, a great film. This was the second movie that he was in. He was O.K. in the first movie he was in, Johnny Got His Gun, and the fifth movie he was in, The Paper Chase. The rest of his career has been in obscure films and T.V. shows which I mostly haven’t seen. Later in his career someone noticed that he looked like George W. Bush, so he played him a couple of times. Most of my favorite films have little to do with a favorite actor being in them. It’s just that the lead (and sometimes the other actors) are exactly right for that role. For instance, I can’t imagine that Roddy Piper was particularly good in his other films, but he was so well cast in They Live that it’s a great film.

I thought Seth Rogan was brilliant in Knocked Up; don’t much care for him in anything else.

Emilia Clarke

Marky Mark in Boogie Nights.

Peter Facinelli was excellent in Fastlane. I haven’t liked him in anything else.

The Fantastic Beasts movies are the only role I’ve ever seen Eddie Redmayne play that didn’t make me roll my eyes over his smugness.

In 1986, Jerry O’Connell played Vern in Stand By Me. He should have quit the business, one and done, on a high note.

Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds. Everything else has left me cold.

Will Ferrel in Elf.

Which role? :wink:

Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, and I suppose, in a similar vein, Everything Must Go. Any of his other movies you would have to pay me to get me to see them again.

I’ve seen Ted Danson in relatively few things, actually (Cheers, the 3 Men and a Baby franchise, Made in America), but I haven’t really cared for his persona in anything in except The Good Place.

Chris Tucker in Silver Linings Playbook.

Kevin Kline in Dave. Everything else, meh.

Yep. Watching him do comedy feels like watching someone have a manic breakdown. But I loved him in the Truman Show and he was pretty good in Eternal Sunshine. And now he’s an anti-Vaxxer with some other very odd beliefs, which also puts me off him.