# Star of both TV and movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944 "2002-04-11T00:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/1 "2002-04-11T00:41:20Z")
I got to thinking about this the other day and decided to throw it out to the SDMB. Not many big screeners have made it on the small screen (Anthony Quinn, Shirley McClain and Henry Fonda come to mind), and few small screeners have made it on the big screen (although hundreds, if not thousands, have tried). This is sort of like the game we had last year (where we were trying to find actors who had three or more successful series). Name an actor (male or female) who has been successful on both movies and television. Some ground rules: 1. They have to have appeared in a TV series that lasted at least two full seasons (although these days what is a full season? Two shows?). This would eliminate people who hosted things like _Hollywood Ralace_ or were in mini series like _Roots_. You get extra points (like we are really giving out points) for two series. 2. They have to have at least three _successful_ big-screen movies. In other words Tom Green doesn’t pass on either (number or success) count. However, **Bruce Willis** would. 3. Hi Opal! 4. They should be the (a) star of both the movies and the TV show(s). I suppose we could extend this to featured player for television, but not for the movies. I think they should be able to carry the movie to be considered. 5. List the actor, what movies and what TV Show(s). **Burt Reynolds** -_Deliverance, Smokey and The Bandit_ and _The Man Who Love Cat Dancing_- TV _Evening Shade, Dan August_ 1. Limit yourself to no more than three names at any single post-this gives everybody a shot at taking part. and wait at least one person posting before you post again (unless you screwed up and need to apologize for something - most of us have done that). ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/2 "2002-04-11T00:45:09Z")
George Clooney (ER, lots of movies) Robin Williams (Mork and Mindy, lots of movies) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/3 "2002-04-11T00:56:20Z")
[Steve McQueen\*\* TV - _Wanted Dead or Alive_ Movies - \*The Great Escape, Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, etc.[/I **James Garner:** TV - _Maverick, Rockford Files, etc._ Movies - _The Great Escape, Americanization of Emily, Murphy’s Romance, etc._ (albeit probably not a movie star on the scale of McQueen or Willis) ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/4 "2002-04-11T01:05:39Z")
Sally Field – _The Flying Nun_ on TV; _Norma Rae_ Academy Award (“You really like me!!!”) winner. _Steel Magnolias_, _Not My Child_, and many, many others. Actually, though, does she even count? I am thinking she played in a _Gidget_ movie first. Hmmm…let me know what the judges decide. I can come up with others, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![KinSaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KinSaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinSaba)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/5 "2002-04-11T01:31:14Z")
Clint Eastwood Rawhide Too many movies to mention. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/6 "2002-04-11T04:19:09Z")
Bruce Willis - \* Moonlighting \* and tons of movies the _Die Hard_ series for three. Mike Meyers - SNL and wait you said 3 SUCCESSFUL movies. Well his 3rd is in the can. Wait, my SO just suggested the first _Wayne’s World_ and _Shreck_. dead0man ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/7 "2002-04-11T04:47:00Z")
Michael J. Fox TV Shows: _Family Ties, Spin City_ Movies: _Back to the Future I, II, III, Doc Hollywood_, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/8 "2002-04-11T06:12:19Z")
Tom Sellack (sp?) TV- Magnum P.I., Several guest spots on Friends Movies- Three Men and a Baby comes readily to mind, but I forget the others. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/9 "2002-04-11T07:45:56Z")
Ryan O’Neal TV: Peyton Place Movies: Paper Moon, Barry Lyndon, Love Story John Travolta TV: Welcome Back, Kotter Movies: Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/10 "2002-04-11T10:28:11Z")
William Shatner TV: Star Trek, some cop show I never watched Movies: Star Trek, Star Trek, and, let’s see, Star Trek Tom Hanks TV: Bosom Buddies Movies: Yeah, right. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/11 "2002-04-11T12:16:40Z")
Billy Crystal _Soap_ I think was the popular sitcom in which he played “the gay son”, and he was on SNL when it was still funny. Craig T. Nelson _Coach_ has been in a slew of movies from _Poltergiest_ to the _Devil’s Advocate_ Woody Harrelson Has done a whole heck of a lot since his days on _CHeers_ on both the big and small screen. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/12 "2002-04-11T12:25:03Z")
Danny Devito - went from Taxi on TV to become a movie actor and director. Eddie Murphy - from SNL to Beverly Hills Cop, Golden Child and tons of movies…a few of them were bound to have made some money. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/13 "2002-04-11T13:53:46Z")
**Dick Van Dyke** has done a _hell_ of a lot of stuff on screens big and small. I’d imagine **Bill Cosby** is in a similar situation too. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/14 "2002-04-11T15:05:13Z")
Loretta Young (movies: too many to list. TV show: The Loretta Young Show, 1953–62) Alfred Hitchcock (movies: too many to list. TV show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1955–62) Robert Montgomery (movies: too many to list. TV show: Robert Montgomery Presents, 1950–57) Ann Sothern (movies: too many to list. TV shows: The Ann Sothern Show, 1958–61, Private Secretary, 1953, My Mother the Car, 1965) Burns and Allen (movies: Six of a Kind, The Big Broadcast, International House, others. TV Show: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, 1950–58) Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels (movies: too many to list separately and co-starring. TV Show: Life with the Lyons, 1955–60, UK) ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/15 "2002-04-11T18:31:36Z")
We could all cheat and go back to the “[three successful TV shows](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=57992)” thread to get ideas. One that won’t show there will be **Patrick Stewart** , who didn’t have three successful TV series (just ST:TNG), but who was in three _Star Trek_ movies, plus _Dune_ (he plays Gurney Halleck) and _Conspiracy Theory_ amongst others. There’s also **Will “The Fresh Prince” Smith** , whom we all know from TV’s _The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air_. He was in _Independence Day_, _Men in Black_, and most recently, _Ali_. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/16 "2002-04-11T18:45:29Z")
How about Kyle MacLachlan? Twin Peaks the TV series. Movies include - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Dune, and Blue Velvet. Some sort of David Lynch fest going on here. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/17 "2002-04-11T18:56:59Z")
**Helen Hunt.** Star of “Mad About You” and won an Oscar for “As Good As It Gets,” plus has been in some other commercially successful films. **Ron Howard.** Star of two beloved TV shows, “Andy Griffith Show” and “Happy Days,” many TV movies, and the producer of TV programs like “24” and “Felicity.” and later the star, producer and/or director of innumerable successful, high-qualiy motion pictures, including (an an actor) “American Graffiti,” “The Shootist” and as a director, “Splash,” “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind” and “Backdraft.” **Carroll O’Connor.** Starred in a huge number of motion pictures in the 1960s. Later became the Emmy-winning star of the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” and then later starred in another hit series, “In The Heat of the Night.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/18 "2002-04-11T19:48:34Z")
**Red Skelton** TV: “The Red Skelton Show”; Movies: “Merton of the Movies,” “DuBarry Was a Lady”; “The Yellow Cab Man” among others. **Danny Kaye** TV: “The Danny Kaye Show”; Movies: “The Inspector General,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and “The Court Jester,” among others **Jack Benny** TV: “The Jack Benny Show”: Movies: “The Horn Blows at Midnight,” “To Be or Not to Be,” and “Charley’s Aunt,” plus others. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/19 "2002-04-12T12:20:17Z")
**Lee Marvin** TV: _M Squad_; Film: _Cat Ballou, The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals_, etc. **Pierce Brosnan** TV: _Remington Steele_; Film: _Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough_. **Roger Moore** : TV: _The Saint, Maverick_ (was he on that one for two seasons?); Film: _The Wild Geese_, and all his Bond films. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944/20 "2002-04-12T19:47:46Z")
**Johnny Depp** TV: 21 Jump Street (1987-1990) Film: Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, Benny & Joon, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Dead Man, Before Night Falls, etc. Granted, some of those films aren’t necessarily _successful_ big screen movies, but he’s at least one tv actor who’s worked consistently with some of the better people in Hollywood. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-of-both-tv-and-movies/102944.md?page=2)