# Actors who keep getting work who should never work again.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 30, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314 "2016-09-30T21:33:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tingbudong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tingbudong/32/520_2.png) [@tingbudong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tingbudong)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/102 "2016-10-15T05:27:43Z")

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Adam Beach.

Terrible. A wooden plank has more range and expression.

I’ve never understood how he keeps getting big picture work.

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**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/103 "2016-10-15T13:14:16Z")

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OK, he hasn’t had a credit since 2009, but Duncan Regehr could give wooden lessons to an oak tree.

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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-keep-getting-work-who-should-never-work-again/767314/104 "2016-10-15T14:20:55Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> I have a theory that TV and film work is such a miserable slog that those qualities are all you really need to work regularly.

There’s that notorious line about Ronald Reagan that allegedly gave as one of his biggest strengths that he’d be on set “on time and sober”. Having known some people in the business, work ethic IS highly valued. Especially for cast players if there’s the likelihood your lead is already him/herself a PITA.

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