My main problem with giving a decent reply here is that if I’ve seen an actor (or actress) doing a really poor performance in one film, I tend not to watch (deliberately) anything else he or she has done. So the “never” aspect of the question is automatically out of my awareness.
But if I do hear of a decent performance by somebody who had yet to impress me, then I’m not just going to avoid the possibility that he or she might have just had a bad part.
However, I do tend to avoid further efforts by someone who really stunk!
Any German comedian. Every. Single. One. Case in point: Til Schweiger. Or the complete cast from Der Schuh des Manitou. All of them, without exception. They are not known aboad, you claim? You lucky bastards!
How small a part in a good movie does it take to disqualify a nominee? Elizabeth Berkley was in a couple of decent-to-good movies, but she had small parts.
Wow, he did drop off the pop culture map. I vaguely remember him being pretty popular as a comedian and the surprise I felt when he did a really good job in the underrated film Mr. Brooks. His performance in that one was second only to Kevin Costner and many levels above Demi Moore’s.
I didn’t think God Guys Wear Black was all that bad, but…I was young. I was not wise in the ways of hammy acting.
I don’t think, outside of Tommy Wiseau, that any actor has only appeared in bad films. There’s always at least one good film, somewhere, in their resume.
I hate Til Schweiger with a passion, he’s the unfunniest guy I can imagine and the biggest hack who ever dabbled in acting and directing, but he played in two good films: “Der bewegte Mann” (yes, a German comedy, but a good one), and “Inglorious Basterds” (in which he was the weakest part, but the role matched his intellect).
I have to admit that “Nonstop Nonsens” was the height of comedy for me when I was 8, but I do hope you didn’t base your view of Germany on Didi Hallervorden…
ETA: Hah, and to close the circle, I just remembered that Til Schweiger as a director had his biggest flop with the Hollywood remake of “Honig im Kopf”, “Head Full Of Honey”, with Nick Nolte taking the lead from Didi Hallervorden in the American production.
Kristen Stewart has been in a few good movies like Clouds of Sils Maria and Still Alice, and some entertaining ones like Adventureland and American Ultra. Despite being a big Cronenberg fan, I was left cold by Crimes of the Future, but to each their own.
Jennifer Lopez became a star largely off of Selina (quote good) and Out of Sight (fantastic). Granted, almost everything else she’s done has been abysmal.
Will Farrell and Adam Sandler. They each may have made a good movie, but the stuff they were in that I’ve seen was excrement and I won’t take a chance on another one. I can think of a lot of actors that I don’t like, but they’ve just appeared in a film. I’m assuming that the OP means actors who have starred in a good film?