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typecasted actors

#22
powderfinger said:
I only say that bc Sean Penn still kinda *looks* like Spicoli... just an older version I guess. To me, the young Shatner and the old Shatner look hardly anything alike.
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I guess, but Shatner's mannerisms and speech are always the same. Penn, on the other hand, is great at changing things up.
 
#26
Morgan Freeman- for the past 35 years he has always played a really old man in every movie he's been in. That or he plays God. Was Morgan Freeman ever young, btw, because I cannot recall a movie he was ever young in.
 
#32
powderfinger said:
You know, oddly enough, I can actually get past Shatner as Capt Kirk. You would think he would be firmly typecast in that role, but not to me. I guess its because Trek was so long ago when he was young and handsome then. Yet in Boston Legal he's kinda old and fat and looks nothing like young Shat.

I will say that Patrick Stewart however is always going to be Jean Luc Picard. He never ages. Stewart has looked like a fit 60 year old man for the past 30 years. Leonard Nimoy too... he will always, ALWAYS be Spock.
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Pretty much the entire cast of the original Star Trek has been typecast forever.

I had the pleasure of seeing Patrick Steward doing his one man "Christmas Carol" just after The Next Generation ended it's run. I thought all I was going to see on stage was Capt. Picard. That lasted about 2 minutes - the length of the ovation he got when he walked on stage. The man is a consummate actor.
 
#34
thumpbass1 said:
I'll be accused of heresy and blasphemy, even though I loved a lot of his movies growing up, but the late and great John Wayne I must nominate for being the king of type casting.
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No, he was indeed typecast. He broke out of that every now and then, probably the best example being The Quiet Man, which was a magnificent film. But he will be justifiably remembered for his westerns. I still love his movies and watch them a lot...and I just bought DVDs of John Ford's cavalry trilogy starring Wayne.

Frankly, anything directed by John Ford was a better movie than 90% of everything coming out in cinema today...and more fun to watch.

Ben Stiller
Adam Sandler
Will Ferrell
(all of whom play idiots, and none of whose movies I seek out...other than Happy Gilmore, the only movie Sandler has made that's worth watching.)

Munjibunga said:
Clint Eastwood (one of my favorite actors) is always Dirty Harry.

Others for you old timers (pretty much all B actors):

Bruce Dern
Claude Akins
Jack Elam
John Anderson
Neville Brand
Strother Martin
Brian Dennehy
Ned Beatty
Sally Kellerman
Sheree North
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Most of those are pretty spot on, although to me Eastwood has broken free of Dirty Harry...but you missed Ben Johnson, the perpetual El Segundo in westerns. When asked to make the western "Breakheart Pass', he asked two questions:

1) Do I get to ride a horse? (Yes)
2) Do I have to talk much? (No)

He took the part.
 
#37
Gaius46 said:
Pretty much the entire cast of the original Star Trek has been typecast forever.

I had the pleasure of seeing Patrick Steward doing his one man "Christmas Carol" just after The Next Generation ended it's run. I thought all I was going to see on stage was Capt. Picard. That lasted about 2 minutes - the length of the ovation he got when he walked on stage. The man is a consummate actor.
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Yes, I think you are correct. I'd say pretty much everyone from all the Trek series were typecasted, from the original series on down (except for maybe Scott Bakula's character on Enterprise. oh, and Whoopi Goldberg's character on TNG).

I saw DeForrest Kelley (Dr McCoy) on a western once, and I was just waiting for him to say, "dammit, Im a doctor not a gunslinger".

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I'd also like to mention Wilford Brimley as well. He always plays a really old, fat grumpy guy with a walrus mustache.
 
#38
I disagree with the Connery statement above. He did step out of the Bond mold in The Molly Maguires. Rising Sun was outside Bond. So was Entrapment. Untouchables, Highlander II, Outland, The Name of the Rose, A Bridge Too Far....

None of these roles reprised Bond IMO. I recall him saying he moved on from Band on purpose as he did not want to be pigeonholed as only one character. He did other movie roles even during the years the Bond movies were produced.

I never really liked Sean Penn when he first emerged. I think he has evolved significantly as an actor and director as he has matured, and I don't see him as one character. I think he did an excellent job in Mystic River, I liked the Thin Red Line too.
 

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