It wouldn’t surprise me if Bronson Pinchot ended up getting typecast as “the guy who does the funny accent” after playing Serge and Balki. Although I do remember him in The Langoliers miniseries in the mid-1990s, I couldn’t name anything else he did after that.
He was well known in Dutch cinema; think of A Soldier of Orange.
A lot of people know Malcolm McDowell as the guy who 'killed" Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations.
Sarah Holcomb, the young actress who played the mayor’s daughter in Animal House. She later appeared in Caddyshack. But drugs on both sets did her in in a big way, as in severe schizophrenia at age 20 brought about by cocaine addiction. She lives in Connecticut under a different name.
Not possible. That was all a fantasy of Picard’s imagination after he ended up in the Nexus. By extension, all the Star Trek “canon” featuring Picard since then must necessarily be considered a work of fiction within a work of fiction. We should consider it a mercy that Picard only showed up in DS9 before the movie. It’s a bummer that we lost First Contact in the exchange, but otherwise I’d say the canon comes out much stronger overall.
Now if we could just get him to make an appearance in Discovery…
ETA: But, back OT, I don’t think anyone thought he was gonna be a big star when they saw him in that movie, so I think he still fits in this thread. Nevertheless, point taken: some might plausibly know him as “that guy who ‘killed’ Kirk” rather than merely “A British Person.”
Ah, people of a certain age might also remember him as the title character in Caligula. Granted, a porn film is not usually considered a notable cinematic production, but a porn film that included three future Oscar winners, two of whom would subsequently be knighted for their contributions to the theater (and one who turned his knighthood down), drew a little more attention than the usual low-budget bow-chicka-wow-wow smut flick.
Sorry; are we talking about H. G. Wells?
George Lazenby is the perfect nomination for this, but only because it was his own damn fault.
Was an Australian TV actor who never actually acted before (mainly being an extra or doing commercials), got signed for a SEVEN picture deal to be in the James Bond franchise, then in a combination of listening to his idiotic agent who claimed that the James Bond franchise “wouldn’t last the 70’s” and his own huge ego on set making him a nightmare to work with, he proceeded to quit the Bond franchise and then star in a bunch of box office duds. Then only got work past that by playing an unofficial “James Bond” in every single thing afterwards.
I remember him from this movie, which I think is greatly underappreciated:
(He was the bellboy.)
Don Knotts? The entire cast of Seinfeld?
The proviso that everyone thought he/she would be a “big star” sort of adds an extra element to this that takes away from every example.
Mark Hamill is probably the best example but were people in 1977 saying that he would be the next Clark Gable?
I came here to mention Balki and Larry in perfect strangers.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the Primetime Emmy 7 times after Seinfeld. I think she might have done ok for herself.
I think he’s spent a lot of the last few years filming Avatar 2 and 3.
I think people sometimes forget Blade Runner was hardly a blockbuster success or a critical darling.
And Hauer was not the star, so him moving on to more “not the star roles” in other films isn’t unexpected. I wouldn’t call Batman Begins or Sin City “B list action” films.
Not that she needed to, she’s from money. Like, big money.
Craig Charles was on Corrie for the better part of a decade, which I’m pretty sure qualifies as fiction. I’d also recommend his excellent turn on Lynda La Plante’s drama series The Governor.
She’s also now feeding from the MCU trough, so I don’t think she’ll be hurting for spare change any time soon.
Sometimes it feels bad to all, but the truth is if they denied acting then how to make a movie or continue the movie show. Maybe sometimes the story may not be continued.
I’m going to say that I doubt the cocaine caused her schizophrenia. 20 years old is around the age that people do develop schizophrenia. While I am sure that drugs didn’t help, they were likely not the cause.
More a one-decade wonder, than one-hit, Debra Winger appeared headed for sustained A-list status in the early ‘80’s – early ‘90’s, starring in hits like Urban Cowboy, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands. She certainly demonstrated excellent acting chops. But, by the mid 90’s she seems to have been demoted to mainly TV roles. However, this was self imposed in 1995, when she took a hiatus from acting. "I wanted out for years.”
Most actresses face this issue as they age.