Peter Horton has had a very successful career. Just about the best of any one mentioned. But he concentrates more on producing and directing shows. Two of his current shows that he executive produces are Deception and Grey’s Anatomy. He also did a few recent ones that didn’t catch on like *Lone Star *and The Philanthropist. In between he still acts.
Don’t forget After MASH!!!
Alda has inexplicably has a decent career. Harry Morgan had enough success in his life.. He didn’t need another, but probably could have had one… Ala Betty White. I think Stiers went into stage acting, which was where he started.
Of all of them, I don’t think I ever saw Swit do anything, but she didn’t have to.
I saw Jamie Farr starring in “Don’t Dress For Dinner” at a dinner theater 2-3 years ago. He was really good.
As an aside, I got to see Don Knotts play the lead in “On Golden Pond” somewhere around 1998 or 99. Not only was he good, there wasn’t even a hint of Barney or Mr. Furley in his performance.
Swit and Farr were on MASH for 11 years. That is a career.
Stiers was on the USA show The Dead Zone for a number of years, but it was hardly a huge hit.
Maggie Grace is sort-of an example.
She was one of the more talked about stars of Lost the first season because she gave depth and built sympathy for Shannon, a character that would have been very easy to dislike, but she decide to leave at the start of the second season to start a film career which consisted of a few horror flops and her playing Liam Neeson’s kidnapped daughter in Taken.
Now, it should be noted, the producers had led her to think the show was only going to be 2-3 seasons.
Stink Fish Pot stated that the annoying Charlie Sheen’s career toast. Unfortunately, no. He’s starring in a boring sitcom called “Anger Management” which got picked up for 90 episodes. He’ll make a lot more additional money for himself.
And Mr Eko (too lazy to look up the spelling of his real name from my phone) asked to be killed off because he didn’t like living in Hawaii.
I remember her in some cheesy Hallmark-style Christmas TV movie and want to say I’ve seen her in some other like project. Nothing noteworthy though.
Not exactly. He asked to be written off the show because both of his parents died and he wanted to be with his family in England.
He was also dealing with some heavy-duty drug problems, IIRC. He later had a recurring but relatively small role in Babylon 5: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4zRwO4eroZ0/TeAhzWVFy7I/AAAAAAAALm4/5XXT36UoF3Y/s1600/jeff-conaway.jpg
Well, it was 25, but that’s bad enough: The Chevy Chase Show - Wikipedia. Be sure to read the “In popular culture” section.
He had a memorable guest appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation: Timicin | Memory Alpha | Fandom. Ignore the goofy alien makeup; he really was quite good.
You do the smart thing. You make movies - but you hang on to your TV series.
The thing with people like Alan Alda or Chevy Chase isn’t whether their careers died. It’s whether their careers moved on. And in both their cases the answer is no. They’ve done other roles but when they die, Alda will be remembered for MASH and Chase will be remembered for SNL. As I posted earlier, those were their peaks.
Disagree. I think Chase’s best-remembered work is the Vacation series. (As evidenced by last year’s Old Navy parody ads.)
Or possibly the Fletch movies, which were more or less contemporary with the Vacation movies.
I disagree about Chase, for reasons other mentioned. Alda will certainly be remembered primarily for MASH, but that’s more a statement about the popularity of MASH then about Alda’s later career.
Gareth Thomas left after the second season, and, IIRC, he became a movie director.
Lacey Chabert left Family Guy after the first season (although she was never credited, and there still hasn’t been a real explanation as to why this was the case), and, once Party of Five ended, pretty much fell into B-movie oblivion.
She was in Mean Girls, is a secondary characters bunch of Rom-Coms and does a lot of voice work. She’s not super-prominant or anything, but I don’t think she’d be any more prominent if she was still voicing Meg on Family Guy.
Agreed. It was on for 11 seasons, arguably the most successful comedy series of all time and famous for its groundbreaking and creativity and the series finale was watched by around 120 million people.
It would be almost impossible for anyone involved with it to not primarily be remembered for it.
For that matter, wasn’t Harry Morgan on Dragnet, which was also really popular, but primarily remembered for MASH.
Harry Morgan is probably remembered by how old you are. For the 1970-80s it’s “MASH”
For the late 1960s it’s “Dragnet 19xx”. For the late 1950s/early 1960s it’s “December bride/Pete and Gladys”. For the 1940s some films, most notably 1943’s “The Ox-bow Incident”.
He had a run in animation voice acting, especially for Disney, not only as main characters in Beauty and the Beast, Lilo and Stitch, and Pocohontas, but small roles in Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis.