And I would pay to see that.
He even insisted on being buried in his “Dracula” costume, and he was.
As for Gary Burghoff (Radar O’Reilly), although he’s not doing much in the area of television or movies, he can still be seen in Dinner Theatre. 
The Kansas City Star has an interview with him everytime he comes to town, it seems.
IT’S PEOPLE!!! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEEEE–PULLL!!!
Rob Lowe could win 19 Emmys, 17 Oscars and 5 Tonys and would still be remembered for that porn film.
I swear, I didn’t see it come up yet! I’m eight years into Stargate, and Richard Dean Anderson is still “MacGyver in Space.” Not that he cares.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner is helped in Jeremiah by looking nothing like his Cosby character, but Luke Perry will always be “The guy from the first five minutes of ‘The Fifth Element’” to me.
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nahhhh, 90210.
One of my favorite commercials! 
I don’t know if this is a whoosh, but he probably is getting a ton of money… by playing Crab Man on My Name is Earl. In fact, they did a nod to his commercial during an episode where the crew was temporarily working in an office.
To me she will always be that little girl…clinging to the front of a Harrier 40 stories above the streets of Miami while Arnold yells “JUMP!!! DADDY WILL CATCH YOU!!!”
I dare say Jeremy Pivens will forever be remembered as Ari Gold. Of course, that’s a lot better than being remembered as John Cussacks sidekick.
Note that Rick’s post was made nearly three years ago.
This is a good example for why zombie threads are closed.
I couldn’t even see him as Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue. I watched the whole series and he was still Norman Buntz to me. Similarly, even though it’s been many years, whenever Bruce Weitz shows up as a guest star on a series (including NYPD Blue) I think “Hey, it’s Belker!” (Both characters are from Hill Street Blues).
My nominees are Ron Palillo (Horshack) and Jimmie “JJ” Walker.
Zombie thread reported.
He did some billboards advertising the Lotto. All I could think was, “Dude, YOU won the Lotto when you got hired for Friends.”
I admire people who manage to make a career doing voice work because that has to be the cushiest acting job around. May not pay all that great but a pro can be in and out of the studio in no time and not even change out of his street clothes.
Brent Spiner?
He lived less than twenty years after Return of the Jedi was produced, so that’s really not shocking. One movie every other year is a pretty reasonable work schedule for an octogenarian, don’t you think? (And really, the rate was higher than that, since he didn’t appear in anything at all the last five years or so of his life; not because nobody would hire him, but because he was too ill to work.)
I guess you could say that death killed his career. Not much to do about that one, I think.
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What about Leslie Nielsen? Poor guy got stuck as the funnyman after Airplane :(.
Actually, it is very understandable. There was what was called the ‘studio system’ where an actor was contracted for [typically] 7 years to a studio, at a particular pay scale with the understanding their job was in essence “whatever you say, mr Meyer” They would act, if they needed to have dance, singing, speaking or fencing lessons, they would do that. Their job was to show up at the studio at 8 in the morning, work at whatever they were told to do until 5, and when told to go to parties or events to get gussied up, get a date or spouse and go to the event and look like a star. If you were a lesser star, it was more or less the same, though you tended to get lots of little roles instead of one big one. The star might work as Tarzan for 2 months, but the secondary player would in that same time be natives number 3, 7 and 14, the corpse in the river, the fat lazy english trader and the skinny russian missionary, as required. THe wages were not all that great when you think about it. IIRC Clark Gable made something on the order of $2500 a week - great money, but not that great. They got paid the occasional bonus, but in general they were salaried just like us.
I am sure that Eve will be along shortly to correct me=)
Ted Levine.
Even after Monk, I just can’t get “It puts the lotion on its skin…” out of my head every time I see him.
Joe
I’d vote for Kathy Bates from “Misery”. .
I’m afraid it’s true. Hopkins is back on the table. When ever I see Anthony Hopkins in a non-Hannibal role, a always muse out loud, “I wonder who he’s going to eat?” My SO always not so amusedly replies, “He’s not going to eat anybody, sheesh!”