Regina King - she always has a scene where her eyes bug out, she starts her helicopter head, and someone holds her back, because she always plays a bitch

Sam Elliott

Michelle Rodriguez

[QUOTE=The Bus]Who is the most typecast actor/actress ever?

(I searched for typecast but did not find anything that asked this question broadly).

Here's an experiment: go up to someone who knows movies but isn't a walking lexicon. Ask them to name a movie in 15 seconds or less where Jeff Goldblum did not play a mathematician or scientist. I got stumped


As soon as i read this the first movie of his that popped into my mind was Mr Frost where he played the devil.

I second that. She plays the same boring character in every role. Please hollywood...stop employing this nobody.

That gave me a good laugh. Nicely played.

Ever? The late Anthony Perkins would be way waaay at the top of the list. Prior to Psycho he was an up and coming New York stage actor who had done a lot of serious TV work and had appeared as the lead or co-lead in several smaller but well thought of films, like On The Beach, Fear Strikes Out and The Tin Star. After Psycho, and you can see it in his IMDB listing, his career shifted dramatically, to a lot of foreign work, for years after Psycho that was it, and then afterward, roles in eccentric "artistic" films, like Catch-22 and Orson Welles The Trial. And of course, a lot of crazy guy roles, in low budget films toward the end of his life. Psycho, and his astonishing performance in it, in a lot of ways ended his career as a lead. He was also bisexual at a time when anything besides straight arrow hetero was completely a no-no. I think that informed the neurotic nature of a lot of his performances.

Definitely. Always plays some kind of military guy or at the very least a tough guy that shoots guns.

Terminator
Aliens
Abyss
Navy Seals
Terminator 2 (if you count his cut flashback scene)
Tombstone
The Rock
From the sounds of it his character in Grindhouse will be shooting a lot

What's that? You want me to play a jerky authority figure? Sounds like a stretch.

My son loves The Gunny. We don't even know what his name is.

My pick is Leslie Nielsen. It seems that he's been playing Lt. Frank Drebin, or a slight variation, since 1988.

Tommy Chong - I can't recall him playing anything that wasn't a variation on his Cheech & Chong stoner persona (or just himself probably).

Chris Rock - Pretty much only plays himself. Whether he's a cop, a criminal, a rapper, the President of the USA, an apostle, or a zebra, he's always the same character.

Agreed.

What about The Calcium Kid? Didn't he just play a milk-drinking boxer?

Beat me to it!
Actually, most of the cast of The Fast & the Furious is typecast: Michelle Rodriguez, Noel Gugliemi, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel,

Always plays an extremely ugly person. Oh, wait.....

Perkins was so good in Psycho that he essentially never again got a different role the rest of his career. The original question needs to be amended to say other than Anthony Perkins otherwise there cannot even be a discussion on it.

Tom Cruise. He has played Tom Cruise in every role I have seen him. He is kind of the new Cary Grant without all the pesky talent.

Has Marilyn Manson even been in that many movies?


Great pick.

The cool thing is he's actually really good at it, too.

I'd say Adam West. He went from only playing Batman to now only playing warped fictionalized versions of himself.

I think if given the opportunity, he would eat Ron Howard's brain.

Danny Trejo - Bad ass Mexican dude in just about every movie he's ever made.

michael rappaport...isn't he always the lovable, bumbling idiot in every role he plays?

for a while there he was typecast as the lovable, bumbling wigger in every role he played.