# Terribly obscure actresses/actors you love who haven't worked in ages **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809 "2003-11-01T07:47:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/21 "2003-11-02T23:46:33Z")
I loved [Alice Krige](http://www.krige-page.com/photos2.html) in “Ghost Story” and “Tale of Two Cities,” but haven’t seen her much since the 80s. I guess I don’t get out much either - according to her website she’s done a gruntload of stuff. [Graham Greene](http://www.milams.com/greene.htm) is a lot of fun to watch, too. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/22 "2003-11-03T11:46:46Z")
Barbara Harris **Barbara Harris** Barbara Harris _Barbara Harris_ Barbara Harris Barbara Harris Barbara Harris I’m 34 years old; right now I could do a great 22… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/23 "2003-11-03T12:05:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by koeeoaddi \* > \*\*I loved [Alice Krige](http://www.krige-page.com/photos2.html) in “Ghost Story” and “Tale of Two Cities,” but haven’t seen her much since the 80s. I guess I don’t get out much either - according to her website she’s done a gruntload of stuff. > \*\* Well, she played the Borg Queen in a couple of high-profile Star Trek projects, including the Voyager series finale… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/24 "2003-11-03T12:31:46Z")
How embarassing. Plus she’s really more of an “actress” but because of her gorgeous[long blond hair](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0928382/) I want more! This all started because of these Playboy pics where she’s putting lemon juice in her hair. It makes me stutter just to think about them. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/25 "2003-11-03T12:46:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bugnorton \* > \*\ ***Rutger Hauer**. I have watched several fairly rank movies just for his performances but oh **Ladyhawke** , be still my heart. \*\* I thought he was very good in _Confessions of a Dangerous Mind_. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/26 "2003-11-03T12:55:38Z")
…I haven’t seen him in years…is he still working? ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/27 "2003-11-03T13:51:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ralph124c \* > \*\*…I haven’t seen him in years…is he still working? \*\* Do you mean the dead actor or the Tiny Toon character? ---
**Author:** ![gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gentle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/28 "2003-11-05T05:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bugnorton \* > \*\ ***Rutger Hauer**. I have watched several fairly rank movies just for his performances but oh **Ladyhawke** , be still my heart. \*\* It’s true that Hauer’s career has taken a dive the last decade or so; you would think that straight-to-video stinkers such as [Omega Doom](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0117238/) would be reserved for the likes of James Belushi and Steven Seagal, but there ain’t no justice. Some recent highlights, however: He had a nicely sadistic role as Sloane’s replacement in a couple of episodes of last year’s season of Alias. He was good in [Confessions of a Dangerous Mind](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0290538/). He played a villain in the miniseries [The 10th Kingdom](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0207275/). He played King Vortigern in the [Merlin](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0130414/) miniseries, admittedly dying after only about 5 minutes of screen time, but still a memorable performance. [Fatherland](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109779/) was a decent adaptation of a good book. And though it’s in the middle of his glory days (which seems to have lasted until about 1992, culminating in [Buffy the Vampire Slayer](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103893/)), I must mention my favourite, [The Legend of the Holy Drinker](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095513/), a magical-realistic Italian film by the great Ermanno Olmi, and based on a novel by Joseph Roth, featuring fine performances by Dominique Pinon and Anthony Quayle (one of his last). Hauer’s vulnerable, understated performance is probably the crowning achievement of his career. Beautifully shot. Full of anachronisms, it certainly _feels_ like it’s set in 1930-1940s Paris, and yet it clearly can’t be. Here’s hoping for a Rutger revival. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/29 "2003-11-05T07:59:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blasphmer \* > \*\*Marnette Patterson! She has just the best voice and the most absolute killer body. I had SUCH a crush on her when we were both kids and somethign so right was on TV. \*\* Seconded. And now there’s a puddle of drool under the tongues of myself and **blasphmer**. And I’ll raise you a [Maureen Flannigan](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0281234/). Little Evie herself from _Out of This World_. [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com) says she’s still working, but I haven’t seen anything she’s done since _Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde_. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/30 "2003-11-05T08:42:31Z")
I’ll have to add [Max Casella](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143295/). I’d say [Craig Bierko](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0081572/) too, but it seems he’s got some work coming up. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/31 "2003-11-05T09:26:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*The [gorgeous](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hj7h-tkhs/eng_actress_html/eng_actress_prentiss.html) and talented [Paula Prentiss](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0696038/). I don’t know why she didn’t have a bigger career, or why she’s not playing the mother on some top-rated TV show. \*\* Well blame Katherine Ross, she’s the one who stabbed her just when Paula was going to give her coffee. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/32 "2003-11-05T16:42:25Z")
Felicity Kendal. I mean…WOW! I’d watch her read a phone book. Or just breathing… Yummy. I miss “Good Neighbors,” but she was best as Viola in the BBC version of “Twelfth Night.” ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/33 "2003-11-05T18:14:26Z")
[Rhonda Shear](http://www.rhondashear.com/) used to keep me “Up All Night” watching USA Network. Too bad her website is technically NSFW. I could use a picture of her in a macrame bikini. (Just don’t ask how I’d use it.) ---
**Author:** ![Maci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Maci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maci)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/34 "2003-11-05T18:16:46Z")
Eszter Balint - I’ve only seen her in two movies (The Linguini Incident and Stranger Than Paradise) but loved her in both. [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0050264/](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0050264/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809.md?page=1)