# Actors you've personally typecast

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-youve-personally-typecast/384108>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 14, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-youve-personally-typecast/384108 "2006-12-14T09:58:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-youve-personally-typecast/384108/21 "2006-12-15T03:31:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac]  
B.D. Wong. I’ve only seen him as Dr. Wu in _Jurassic Park_ and the psychologist on _Law & Order: SVU_; to me he’s “that one character actor who plays button-down scientist-types.” But an Asian friend once told me he’s quite a well-known figure in the Chinese-American community for his extensive work in live theatre.  
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Heh. He also played the marriage counselor in **The Ref**. I totally see him as a “doctor.”

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-youve-personally-typecast/384108/22 "2006-12-15T03:40:03Z")

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[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD]  
You forgot Alex Keaton dies from cancer and has his head cut off to display in a haunted house… 😉  
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😕

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**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-youve-personally-typecast/384108/23 "2006-12-15T03:55:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Winston Bongo]  
Paul Reiser. No matter what I see him in, no matter what kind of role he plays, he will always be that rat bastard who was going to let Ripley and Newt get attacked by the facehugger in _Aliens_. I don’t care if he ends up playing the kindest, most gentle character in the history of film, I will still be yelling at the screen, “Don’t trust him! He’s going to betray you! Kill him now!”  
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_Mad About You_ played with this perfectly. I think it was Ira who brought up the movies and asked Paul if he had ever seen them. He replies as the perfect straight man, “Only the first one.”

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