What about River Phoenix? Won awards before he was 20 and now you never see him.
Oh, sorry… scratch that.
Rutger Hauer. After Bladerunner, he went downhill FAST.
Darryl Hannah… paging Darryl Hannah…
Oh sorry, the OP says once-great actors.
Disregard that page, Ms. Hannah.
Tom Hanks. Starred in great films like ‘Bachelor Party’ and ‘Mazes and Monsters’, but has done nothing but crap since.
Demi Moore and Sean Young, once huge stars, now gone.
Thank you so much…I had forgoten about Mazes and Monsters…aaarrrrgggghhhhh
It’s worse than that. I’ve read more than one account of a strung out Jan Michael wandering the streets of Hollywood panhandling for change.
Timothy Hutton. Good lord. What happened?
Sofa King, I didn’t go to the High Heel Race because drag is just not my thing. Now if there were a jockstrap race… 
Will you be at Dope-A-Ween at Jonathan Chance’s place this Saturday?
Quasimodem, my OP was meant to address once-successful actors reduced to doing dinner theater and the like, but the E! True Hollywood Story poster kids like Jan Michael Vincent and Corey Haim are included, too.
I was a little disturbed to see Ben Kingsley in ‘Species’.
Vincent also has a home in Orange County, out in one of our lovely canyons, where he wanders around strung out and miserable. We see him from time to time getting arrested, and it’s pretty sad even if you never liked the guy.
Hey, Rutger Hauer was still pretty good in Blood of Heroes, and wasn’t that after Bladerunner? But yes, I see his face on video boxes in the supermarket checkout line and I’m disappointed. Did anyone catch him in Turkish Delight? It’s soft-to-medium-core porn from his younger days.
He still owns a home??? I wonder how he’s managed to hold on to that? He must have someone looking after him.
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hell I thought Ben Kingsley and F. Murray Abrahams were the same guy. who is who? are they brothers?
BTW, why did Connery do Never Say Never Again? any cites on explaining this.
What about old whats his face from Midnight Cowboy? not Hoffman, the other one. Can’t even remember his name. was in that dueling banjoes movie. Did they leave him on location in GA?
That would be Jon Voigt, and he has made a ton of films since Deliverance, the “dueling banjos” movie. His last appearance was in a cameo role with his real-life daughter, Angelina Jolie, in Tomb Raider/. He is nowhere near the skids.
Whoopi Goldberg’s career, however, is seriously in the toilet. She won an Oscar for Ghost eleven years ago, and she has been on a downward trajectory since then which her latest work, Rat Race, did nothing to stop.
It’s been awhile, and I’m not sure he’s even still alive, but Jose Ferrer went from being Cryano de Bergerac and an evil turkish officer in Lawrence of Arabia to doing a really shitty role in Jackie Chan’s The Big Brawl
And what about Burt Reynolds? Is he completely made of plastic now, or what?
Yep, and fully disposable.
How about Rod Steiger? He was vile in Oklahoma, nailing the embodiment of hideousness.
Now he just seems like a wierded out old fart. Anybody got the skinny on him?
They appear onscreen simultaneously in Slipstream, so they aren’t the same person.
With all respect, folks, making a few bad films isn’t the same as being “on the Skids”. Look at Donald Pleasance, Donald Sutherland, and Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier, fer cryin’ out loud. “Why do you take those roles?” someone is supposed to have asked Pleasance. “I hear voices,” he replied. “My banker, my loan officer,…”
Sometimes you just gotta pay the bills.
Jose Ferrer died in '92
True enough, but not skidding yet. Last year he was really good in Sexy Beast. It’s a very scary role. After seeing him in this I’ll never think of Ghandi whenever I see him.
I can tell you. From his autobiography (yes, it’s called “What’s It All About?”), he wrote something along the lines of “You get paid the same for a bad movie as for a good one.” That shows you where his priorities lay.