Nuh-uh! She’ll always be the perfect bluejean-clad bum bouncing on the back of a trotting horse, in, uh, what was that movie again?
Bumpa bumpa bumpa bumpa bouncy bounce bounce.
Great moment in cinema history, right there, and it completely overshadows everthing else she ever did.
(Or maybe that’s just me…)
I have to admit, I’ll always think of him as the jerk in King Ralph. Though I did just watch the version of King Lear where he plays The Fool and I was blown away by his performance, so I figure I better purge King Ralph from my brain.
Funny how few movie buffs remember Raymond Burr’s role as Lars Thorwald in the Hitchcock thriller ‘Rear Window’.
Carrol O’Connor should have stayed away from that awful series ‘In the Heat of the Night’, IMHO. He wasn’t Rod Steiger, and the show was barful.
Patrick McGoohan as Secret Agent Man
Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt (great to see him do some comedy later in life)
Martin Milner & George Maharis as Todd & Buzz in Route 66
James Arness as Marshal Dillon in Gunsmoke, for that matter Kitty, Doc and Festus
Was Andy Griffith anything other than Sheriff of Mayberry?
I’m thinking in black & white, now. 
Guess I have to disagree that Hurt was “overshadowed” by the Alien role. He’s a truly splendid actor that has done all kinds of roles. He was nominated for Best Actor for the role of John Merrick in The Elephant Man, and you couldn’t even see his face! He was the Dr. Ward in Scandal, Mr. Ollivander in the first Harry Potter movie, one of the parents in Night Crossing, that nasty marquis in Rob Roy, the Storyteller for Jim Henson’s story hour… I could go on and on, but look him up on IMDB
Pant, pant. Sorry, I pushed one of my buttons. Can you tell John Hurt is one of my favorite actors?
For what its worth he had a couple of roles on US television. He played a corrupt INTERPOL investigator on Remington Steel, IIRC. There were a couple of others, I think.
I’m amazed no one has mentioned Henry Winkler.
“The Fonz” made Winkler rich and famous, but also ate his entire life for a while, there… and that’s the role that will be in every obit when he finally dies, regardless of everything else he’s ever done.
I’ve often wondered if women still call him up and offer him their bodies…
Sorry. To me, Burgess Meredith will always be Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last”. Yes, he was the definitive Penguin in the Batman TV series; he was Rocky’s trainer, etc. So this goes to show how versatile and great an actor he was, one who never had one role that overshadowed his whole career.
I’m inclined to agree; until I was an adult, I never knew that Henry Bemis, the Penguin, and George (from Of Mice And Men) were all played by the same actor at different stages in his career. Burgess Meredith was just too versatile to get plugged in like that. We ALL remember different stages in his career, depending on how old we are, I think.
But the cast of *Gilligan’s Island * is stuck. In particular, I find myself thinking of Tina Louise and Russell Johnson… two people who’d done plenty before GI and (you’d think) would have had viable careers afterwards… who didn’t. They went on to play some bit parts here and there, but I think the only actor on the show who really had much of a career afterwards was Jim Backus…
Matlock??? Granted I have never actually seen the Andy Griffith show, but still…