# The worst role an actor/actress has on their resume? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259 "2015-06-11T15:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/21 "2015-06-11T17:56:38Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Robert DeNiro - Focker F-I-L. DeNiro is a great choice, but I think his WTF choices started a lot earlier than that one. I thought his role in “The Fan” was an odd choice. He already played a convincing psychopath a number of times, (Cape Fear was already made by then). It was just a weird choice for a guy that has such a great history. But it got worse after that. I think his decision to be in “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” was the beginning of a bad trend. Maybe it started before “The Fan”. I’ll have to check his iMDB page. ---
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I have to figure Donald Pleasence’s worst was as [Kobras in The Pumaman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081693/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73), of MST3k infamy. ---
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Johnny Depp as Tonto. He’s way too good for that part. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/24 "2015-06-11T18:18:28Z")
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe both for [_Virtuosity_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114857/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31) Seriously, I hope they were paid Michael Caine _Jaws 4_ money. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/25 "2015-06-11T18:20:12Z")
Hell, I just cant figure out what Nick Cage’s worst role is because he’s had so many. So I’ll go with his role as the cop in **Wicker Man**. I just read s thing in another thread that Christopher Lee’s favorite movie role was as the villain in the orginal version of this. In the original, Edward Woodward played Cage’s role. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/26 "2015-06-11T18:25:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Hell, I just cant figure out what Nick Cage’s worst role is because he’s had so many. So I’ll go with his role as the cop in **Wicker Man**. I just read s thing in another thread that Christopher Lee’s favorite movie role was as the villain in the orginal version of this. In the original, Edward Woodward played Cage’s role. Night and day difference in those two movies. The Woodward/Lee version was superior to most “horror” movies – especially of that era. The Cage version just barely sucked. Remember [Willow’s Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4)? ---
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> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe both for [_Virtuosity_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114857/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31) > > Seriously, I hope they were paid Michael Caine _Jaws 4_ money. Yes, [they](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9926680/Michael-Caine-Extraordinarily-good-and-spectacularly-awful.html) did: > [@](#): > > “I have never seen it,” he once said of Jaws: The Revenge (1987), in which he took a supporting role, “but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/28 "2015-06-11T18:35:58Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I thought his role in “The Fan” was an odd choice. He already played a convincing psychopath a number of times, (Cape Fear was already made by then). It was just a weird choice for a guy that has such a great history. True, that. Burt (part Cherokee) Reynolds - Navajo Joe. Now while he had a number of less than stellar roles, this one sucked the shine right off the wampum. In his defense he does claim that he signed thinking he’d be working with director Sergio Leone. Under contract he then learned it was Sergio Corbucci. Don’t know how he felt about Sergio Sollima. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/29 "2015-06-11T18:38:46Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Night and day difference in those two movies. The Woodward/Lee version was superior to most “horror” movies – especially of that era. The Cage version just barely sucked. > > Remember [Willow’s Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4)? At times I think the Cage version in on my Top 10 Worst Movies Since Talkies, and other times I think it’s circled back to be (unintentionally) hysterically funny. ---
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> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Henh? That’s a fun film. > > I’d think the best answers would be like Welles in “Transformers”, Raul Julia in “Overdrawn at the Memory bank” (though admittedly that was one of the films where I wanted the Bots to shut up so I could hear) > > Denzel Washington in “Carbon Copy”, stuff like that… I would think Raul Julia in _Street Fighter_ would also apply. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/31 "2015-06-11T18:40:27Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > **The Missouri Breaks** and **Zardoz** were both towering achievements in cinema damn you all! > > Though I suppose one could argue that Brando and Connery might feel a tad bit ashamed ;). “_The only things not on my diet would be the green top of the beet and okra._” There’s no way Brando would feel ashamed of Missouri Breaks…he got to run amuck and do any damn thing he pleased. I don’t think ‘shame’ is in his vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259/32 "2015-06-11T18:43:11Z")
A rare double play of signature bad roles … Both Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in _Paint Your Wagon_. ---
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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > A rare double play of signature bad roles … > > Both Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in _Paint Your Wagon_. [“Here comes Lee Marvin - thank God, he’s always drunk and violent.”](https://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/312301123962/related/312301123962)😃 ---
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Dick van Dyke in “Mary Poppins” Gene Hackman as Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski in “A Bridge Too Far” Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty in “Ishtar” ---
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Ben Kingsley in _Bloodrayne_. ---
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Halle Berry - do I even have to name the role. Catwoman ---
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This has got to be the winner: Gary Busey as a doctor in in the Turkish film “Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak”. Why is it so offensive? Busey’s character removes organs from Iraqi Muslim POWs for transplantation into rich Americans. And, oh yeah, apparently the script says the doctor is Jewish. ---
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John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren were in Bob Guccione’s “Caligula” ---
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What about the more recent masterpiece from auteur Adam Sandler _Jack and Jill_ which starred Al Pacino. His bio on IMDB begins\* > [@](#): > > One of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself during one of film’s greatest decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies. - And then this: [Worst Supporting Actor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810913/awards) ---
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I was going to mention Roth’s Blatter role, but too late. Instead I’ll add Mickey Rooney in _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ which is perhaps characteristic of its time but holy cow, the Japanese blackface is offensive as hell. > [@Superdude](#): > > I would think Raul Julia in _Street Fighter_ would also apply. Oh come on - that’s _awesome_. Plus I believe he did it for his kids. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-role-an-actor-actress-has-on-their-resume/722259.md?page=3)