# What actor or actress has had the most amazing comeback?

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**Created:** [October 7, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-or-actress-has-had-the-most-amazing-comeback/512969 "2009-10-07T19:34:12Z")\
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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> How about George Burns? After Gracie died, he disappeared from view, then came back to win an Oscar for “The Sunshine Boys”.

He had a short lived series in the mid-60s, and worked steadily in clubs and such. He was on the Tonight Show frequently. He was already at retirement age then! The Oscar was amazing not as a comeback but because he had never acted so well before. If you’ve seen any of the movies from the '30s and '40s, he was pretty much in character all the time.

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