I wouldn’t turn up my nose at directing. Several stars of Star Trek went from in front of the camera to behind it, and quite successfully.
A musical version of The Emigrants? Cool! I’d watch that.
There’s a 3CD complete recording and a single CD highlights of the show in Swedish. They are expensive but very worth it. Excellent work!
They’ve been “translating it into English” for about 10 years now. I could have done a translation in that amount of time.
I so want this show to hit Broadway.
I doubt that, had he lived, he would have cared. He had a very successful movie career and starred in two of the greatest westerns ever made: The Searchers and Sergeant Rutledge. Before Star Trek, Shatner was not well known. Since then, he’s worked alot but how many of his films have made any AFI lists? Outside of Star Trek, Jeffrey Hunter is very well remembered, particularly by western afficianados.
I’m obviously insane. I wasn’t thinking of any of those girls.
I think you may be thinking of Jami Gertz. She was the antagonist of the show and has done quite well.
She is the star of the terrible CBS Show, Still Standing.
I seem to recall a 15 second ad awhile back for Nash Bridges, the cop show that starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin, where the two of them are walking down the street and pass Philip Michael Thomas and Tommy Chong. All four of them give each other a bit of a cockeyed glance, and continue on. Pretty funny.
Second link possibly NSFW No bad images, but some of the wording might set off some firewall flags.
Yeah, but Richard Mulligan was able to snag a bonafide porn queen. Quite a resumé, huh!
The original cast of Laugh-In had their careers eclipsed by Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan (Lily Tomlin and Richard Dawson joined later). Most of the rest of the group went nowhere.
It’s even worse for the Laugh-in revival in 1977. The new names went nowhere, except for a Scottish comedian (at least, at the time he said he was from Scotland) named Robin Williams.
Clooney vs. the rest of ER
Peirce Brosnan vs. Stephanie Zimbalast
Cher vs. Sonny
Lucy vs. Desi (as a TV star)
SNL has delivered uneven stardom from a cast show: Mike Meyers, Eddie Murphy, Chase, Belushi, Ferrel … Maybe one or 2 others have been major motion picture stars for a while (more than a single movie based on a SNL that bombs).
Leaving scores who have not had that level of sucsess for any amount of time.
Is Hammill’s motorcycle wreck part of the reason? IIRC, it happened between SW and ESB. Didn’t they change part of ESB to account for the scars? I’ve always wondered if it contributed to his career fade.
Yes. Luke being mauled by the snow creature was added to explain Hamil’s injuries.
Years ago I watched Gallipoli and I told friends that the star of the movie would become a huge international star. Of course I was referring to Mark Lee not Mel Gibson.
As I understand it, Hamil actually didn’t want to go the star route, perhaps wanting to avoid typecasting. So he went into theater and later got into voice acting (and you have to admit, he’s very good at it). And he’s quite well-off.
What about Carrie Fisher? She pretty much fell off the world thanks to her drug problems after Star Wars.
However, Fisher’s had a successful career writing, and earned an Oscar nomination for Postcards from the Edge.
If I can throw in people who have starred in other tv series, you’re forgetting Dan Ackroyd, Billy Crystal, Jane Curtin, Joan Cusak, Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Farley, Dennis Miller, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, Chris Rock, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon is just starting out, so we’ll have to see what he does. I’ve left off a number of people who did ok in comedy careers afterwards, but aren’t really household names if you’re not an SNL fan.
There’s an old story from the infamous “1980/81” season (the first season post-Lorne Michaels season w/o any of the original cast members) that one of the new players - I think Gail Matthias was her name - was convinced she was going to become the next Gilda Radner. She supposedly strutted around the studio with a star attitude from the word go, and ordered Eddie Murphy around like he was a gopher, making him run errands for her. I wonder where she is now? (Or any of the “stars” of that season, aside for ‘featured player’ Murphy?)
Hmmmmm…you must be from an alternate universe. There was no 1980-81 season.
THERE WAS NO 1980-81 SEASON!!
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Now, there WAS a Gail Matthius. After not doing anything from 1980-81, she did a lot of cartoon voiceover work, including “The Tick” and “Spider-Man”.
“later”?
Check out his entry at IMDB – he was doing cartoon voices before he played Luke Skywalker. I was amazed to see that he’d already done Scooby Doo! His more recent turn on Scooby Doo must’ve been like Old Home Week.