# Great actors who've whored themselves out in bad movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690 "2009-12-10T03:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/121 "2009-12-21T21:16:24Z")
Dame Judi Densch. Chronicles of Riddick. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/122 "2009-12-22T03:47:56Z")
It’s “Dench.” And don’t you badmouth my dad’s former girlfriend! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/123 "2009-12-22T04:31:44Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The Impossible Years (1968) - teenage daughter has sex before marriage, much to the shock of Mr. Niven! Hey, back off man! I love that movie. It was my first exposure to David Niven, and he’s hilarious in it. Yes, it’s silly and sexist and hopelessly square, but I still watched it every time it came on TV, much like another silly and sexist and hopelessly square movie I love: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Oh lord, I just found out that the [entire movie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcwz8PrQtr4) is on YouTube! I don’t know if I can handle 10-min. increments, but I haven’t seen it for decades. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/124 "2009-12-22T04:54:03Z")
I think The Impossible Years and the others with David Niven are considered ‘bad’ compared to his earlier efforts in the 30’s and 40’s, which is why I mentioned them. But I am not knocking them! There’s nothing wrong with a nice dated sex farce, if only from a sociological standpoint - and the clothes! ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/125 "2009-12-22T16:16:52Z")
OK…now that I’ve seen a trailer for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the Tooth Fairy, I think he wins the prize for whoring himself out. Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy but does he ever turn down a script? (Apparently not! Have you seen Doom?) How many times can he recite his “Ahh…come on!” line when something happens he doesn’t expect? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/126 "2009-12-23T01:44:52Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I don’t think “whoring” is the appropriate term here. “Working” would be a better one. They have chosen acting as their profession, and they are doing it. How many of us fully endorse the long range plans of our employers every day of our working lives? Yet we show up, day after day, and do what they pay us to do in order to bring home our bacon. That’s life, folks. Don’t be an enabler. That only contributes to the problem. hh ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/127 "2009-12-23T01:51:21Z")
Hold on! I think I just hit the jackpot: How about James Earl Jones in “Best of the Best?” The movie is karate glurge barfiness, and I love it, but JEJ really did himself dirt being in this one. hh ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/128 "2009-12-23T01:54:38Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Please re-read the first two words of the thread title. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/129 "2009-12-23T02:05:46Z")
Klaus Kinski and most of his movies. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/130 "2009-12-23T03:08:25Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Has no one yet mentioned Robert DeNiro, one of the finest actors of his generation (seriously, watch _Raging Bull_) who has proceeded to appear in an almost unbroken string of craptastic movies in the last decade for no reason other than to pad his retirement fund and finance his TriBeCa productions and film festival? > > Stranger Came for DeNiro, left satisfied. God, that man will do any shit film for a paycheck. It’s sad. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/131 "2009-12-23T22:25:25Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > What about Louise Flethcher? After Cuckoo’s Nest her career seemed to sink. Wasn’t she offered any decent parts afterward? Nurse Ratchet right? As I’ve always heard it, she was so great in that role and so vicious and evil that she got typed cast and couldn’t get offered roles that weren’t Nurse Ratchet… and there weren’t that many of those roles. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/132 "2009-12-23T22:41:18Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Eugene Levy. I think it’s clear from the “American Pie” straight-to-DVD sequels and horrible movies like “The Man,” that this guy will happily throw his legs behind his head if you cut him a big enough check. > Either that, or someone in Hollywood has video of him fucking a pie. Do you seriously think Eugene Levy’s getting a lot of calls to audition for the same roles as Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, or Kevin Spacey? I’d say Levy’s taking what he can get because when you look like that and don’t have a lot of range as an actor your job is to get the work that pays. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690/133 "2010-01-11T05:06:26Z")
Louise Fletcher also played the evil grandmother in the film version of “Flowers In The Attic”. Don’t remember if it was a cinematic film or a tv movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-actors-whove-whored-themselves-out-in-bad-movies/520690.md?page=6)