# Almost typecast

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-typecast/947230>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-typecast/947230 "2021-07-25T00:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-typecast/947230/1 "2021-07-25T00:30:25Z")

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It seemed to me that 3 actors from the 70s were almost typecast: Robby Benson played a mentally challenged youth several times, Hal Holbrook played a gay guy several times back when it raised eyebrows, and Martin Sheen was in a couple made for tv movies wherein he was a misunderstood drifter met with hostility by the locals. Who else was almost typecast?  
eta; I may be misremembering, of course.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-typecast/947230/2 "2021-07-25T20:24:51Z")

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Bruce Willis as a cop. He’s played other types of characters successfully, but I always think of him as a cop.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-typecast/947230/3 "2021-07-25T20:29:29Z")

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William Devane was almost-typecast as the President of the United States; he played John F. Kennedy in _The Missiles of October_ (1974), and played fictional presidents in _Stargate SG-1_, _The Dark Knight Rises_, and _24: Live Another Day_.

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-typecast/947230/4 "2021-07-31T13:43:10Z")

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This guy

> **[Patrick Fischler - IMDb](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0279209/?ref_=m_nmfm_nm)**
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> Patrick Fischler. Actor: Mad Men. Patrick Fischler was born on 29 December 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), Happy! (2017) and Mulholland Drive (2001). He has been married to Lauren Bowles...

played an obsessed conspiracy theorist with a JFK assassination museum in _Angel_ in 2003, and a few years later played an obsessed conspiracy theorist with a museum devoted to a Bruce Lee type actor in 2005 on _Monk_.