Have you ever seen an actor who never made a good film?

He’s made a grand total of three films (and I found Young Einstein to be exceptionally silly, but fun anyway). So, I suppose he technically qualifies, but he has a very small body of work, compared to most of the others being discussed.

FWIW, in all three of the films in which he starred, he was also the writer, director, and producer. So, if they were bad, he certainly only had himself to blame. :wink:

Also, Roxanne, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Pennies From Heaven, The Three Amigos, The Man With Two Brains, Bowfinger, Grand Canyon, All Of Me and Little Shop Of Horrors.

And Leap of Faith. Which also had Liam Neeson in it.

Don’t forget The Jerk. Thoroughly enjoyable.

I quite liked The Spanish Prisoner (which I see has a pretty danged high score on Rotten Tomatoes).

She was quite good in Out of Sight, and it was a very good movie. Elmore Leonard, just sayin’.

Seriously! Yahoo! Somebody beat me to it!

In Defense of Elvis, yes, the movies sucked, but they were King Shit back in the Day. Doesn’t qualify.

Otherwise, I’d nominate Charles Chaplin. Utter shite! (But see above, about Elvis)

Or you could end up watching Judge Dredd, which is utter shit.

He was fine in Nine Months, which was a perfectly fine rom-com regardless of what the critics or Hugh Grant think.

SlipperyPete
BrickBat
Mar 23

Tommy Lee Jones? From The Fugitive and No Country for Old Men? That Tommy Lee Jones??

Not to mention Coal Miner’s Daughter.

I actually think Tommy Lee Jones is an excellent actor and has been in a lot of good films. Cobb was one of the first that came to my mind, but it is only a 65%/58%.

He was outstanding in Captain America: The First Avenger with a 805/75% rating.

Charlie Chaplin? Charlie Chaplin? Charlie Chaplin of The Gold Rush, Modern Times, City Lights, and The Great Dictator? Recipient of not one, but two honorary Academy Awards for " versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing, and producing The Circus" and “the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century”.

OK- this thread has officially transitioned into what in the NBA is called “garbage time”.

John Cazale

ducks and runs

With the Deer Hunter as his lowest rated movie, I suspect he has the highest average of all actors with more than 1 movie.

Unbelievable.

We’re what - 131 posts in?

Udo Kier?

(ok maybe I’ll grant “The End of Violence” and the Danish “The Kingdom”. Other than that, though)

I know he was around forever and not a good actor, but wasn’t he in Suspiriaoriginal?

My guess is he has a dozen or more good movies where he was probably a weak part of the movie.

The Hitcher. Granted, Rutger Hauer did most of the heavy lifting, but Howell was good as the young driver tormented by Hauer’s psychopathic killer.

Disagree. She was very good in Shakespeare In Love and Sliding Doors. Furthermore, she’s one of the few American actors whose English accent is good enough to fool Brits. I mean yeah, all her Goop stuff is ridiculous woo, but she’s a competent-to-good actor.

ETA: Ninja’d by @DrDeth. I’d forgotten she won an Oscar for Shakespeare In Love.

My nominee: Katharine Heigl. She’s made some “okay” movies, like Knocked Up, but has she ever made a really good one?

I’m blown away I’d ever hear a reference to that again.
Has Stacey Keach been mentioned yet?

He was very good starring in Swan Song (2021)

Critics said: “Udo Kier’s layered performance lends Swan Song a nuance and poignancy that offset its potentially outlandish story.”

But accordiong to the OP, it’s films, and I myself FWIW am not the hugest fan of sentimentally warm clone films.