And the Small Faces/Faces bass player Ronnie Lane had multiple sclerosis.
No, please don’t. I don’t want a list of every disabled person in entertainment. I was just curious about actors.
John Bloom a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, famous for his King of the Drive-in review column and currently hosting The Last Drive-in on Shudder, walks with a limp on the show. I assumed it was a hip replacement or somesuch at his age, but read up on him and turns out he had polio as a kid, and one leg is shorter than the other.
I think, in a sense, “disability” does apply to Cassandra’s burns. According to this article, she’s had to endure multiple skin grafting surgeries and no doubt scar revisions over the years. And, according to her, the trauma and scarring resulted in very low self-esteem, which she obviously overcame, in a big way (kudos to her for that). It affected her emotionally and career-wise, but she turned it into a positive.
The British Indian actor Parminder Nagra also suffered bad burns as a child, on her leg. It was written into the script for Bend it Like Beckham when she was cast.
Mitchell is interesting in that “Continued” is the key point; he was a successful entertainer before his motorcycle accident and just kept right at it after. If you looked his list of credits you would have trouble figuring out what year it was he had an incredibly bad accident. The guy must be been booking auditions the day they released him from the hospital.
Well, Ian Dury did do some acting: 33 credits including Judge Dredd.
An obscure one: Zeffie Tilbury was practically blind. She is most recognizable as Grandma Joad in “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940) and in the “Our Gang” short “Second Childhood.” But you’d never know it the way they shot and edited her scenes.
Actress Savannah Welch was hit by a car in 2016, sustaining injuries that led to the amputation of her right leg in the thigh area. She uses a prosthetic, but uses a wheelchair for her portrayal of wheelchair-bound Barbara Gordon in the show Titans.
Howard McNear, better known as Floyd Lawson, the barber on The Andy Griffith Show, suffered a stroke that left him unable to stand. After his return to the show, he was seen only sitting down or standing, propped up by some unseen-on-camera support, as he cut someone’s hair.
Dana Elcar, who starred as MacGyver’s boss, started developing glaucoma late in the series and gradually went blind from it. The condition was written into the series. He also played a glaucoma patient on Law & Order a few years later, and performed onstage as well once it had progressed.
Richard Kiel (Jaws from Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) was blind in one eye. And he was in a car accident in 1992 that left him with difficulty moving; in Happy Gilmore he’s leaning on something in every scene.
In Trek at least it could have easily been worked into his backstory. “Oh, that? An unfortunate encounter between a plasma conduit and a probe during me Academy training. Helpful tip: ALWAYS check the polarities on your equipment before introducing them to each other.”
FYI: Grafts,not graphs.
Haven’t closely read the thread. Has anyone mentioned Sammi Haney, who has a starring role in Raising Dion? She has osteogenisis imperfecta.
And, she is 102 years old!
Actually, Atticus Shaffer, who played the younger son on The Middle had the same thing.
From the Wiki page on acromegaly
- André the Giant (born André Roussimoff, 1946–1993), French professional wrestler and actor[29][30]
- Salvatore Baccaro (1932–1984), Italian character actor. Active in B-movies, comedies, and horrors because of his peculiar features and spontaneous sympathy.
- Paul Benedict (1938–2008), American actor. Best known for portraying Harry Bentley, The Jeffersons English next door neighbour[31]
- Big Show (born Paul Wight; 1972), American professional wrestler and actor, had his pituitary tumor removed in 1991.[32]
Ted Cassidy (1932–1979), American actor. Best known for portraying Lurch in the TV sitcom The Addams Family.[33]
Rondo Hatton (1894–1946), American journalist and actor. A Hollywood favorite in B-movie horror films of the 1930s and 1940s. Hatton’s disfigurement, due to acromegaly, developed over time, beginning during his service in World War I.[34] - Richard Kiel (1939-2014), actor, “Jaws” from two James Bond movies and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore .[37]
- Tony Robbins, motivational speaker.[40] {He cameoed in Shallow Hal–mbh}
- Carel Struycken, Dutch actor, 2.13 m (7.0 ft), is best known for playing Lurch in The Addams Family film trilogy, The Giant in Twin Peaks , and Lwaxana Troi’s silent Servant Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation , and The Moonlight Man in Gerald’s Game , based on the Stephen King book.[41]
- Irwin Keyes, American actor. Best known for portraying Hugo Mojoloweski, George’s occasional bodyguard on The Jeffersons [42]
- Neil McCarthy, British actor. Known for roles in Zulu , Time Bandits , and many British television series.[44]
- Matthew McGrory, (1973 – 2005) American actor, known for roles in Tiny Firefly, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and Big Fish [48]
B-movie actor Robert Z’Dar’s distinctive jaw line was caused by cherubism.
Walter Emanuel Jones, the original Black Ranger from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, lost the middle finger on his left hand when he was four years old. If you pause the show at just the right time, you can even see it. (His morphed form had all fingers attached.)
They can’t regenerate lost appendages in the 23rd century? 
Ted Cassidy, “Ruk” on Star Trek and “Lurch” in The Addams Family, suffered from acromegaly and eventually died from complications of it.