Actors that should have made it big

[Wacky Racer]

Laurence Olivier

Orson Welles

Richard Harris

Richard Burton

[Digger]

DickyC said:

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Clive Owen.

He would have made a good Bond.

Have you seen him run?

No but, "Have you seen him run?" is enough to put me off investigating.

The actor who played Peter Guillam in the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor nearly ruined the whole thing or me because he couldn't run. Shades of Phoebe Buffay.

If memory serves me right i saw a scene when running and one of his legs (below the knee) splayed out at a very jaunty angle.

[DickyC]

Kim Novak.

[DickyC]

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Clive Owen.

He would have made a good Bond.

Have you seen him run?

No but, "Have you seen him run?" is enough to put me off investigating.

The actor who played Peter Guillam in the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor nearly ruined the whole thing or me because he couldn't run. Shades of Phoebe Buffay.

If memory serves me right i saw a scene when running and one of his legs (below the knee) splayed out at a very jaunty angle.

The jaundiced, world weary hard man image went straight out the window.

[Digger]

DickyC said:

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Clive Owen.

He would have made a good Bond.

Have you seen him run?

No but, "Have you seen him run?" is enough to put me off investigating.

The actor who played Peter Guillam in the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor nearly ruined the whole thing or me because he couldn't run. Shades of Phoebe Buffay.

If memory serves me right i saw a scene when running and one of his legs (below the knee) splayed out at a very jaunty angle.

The jaundiced, world weary hard man image went straight out the window.

I really am like that!

[DickyC]

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Digger said:

DickyC said:

Clive Owen.

He would have made a good Bond.

Have you seen him run?

No but, "Have you seen him run?" is enough to put me off investigating.

The actor who played Peter Guillam in the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor nearly ruined the whole thing or me because he couldn't run. Shades of Phoebe Buffay.

If memory serves me right i saw a scene when running and one of his legs (below the knee) splayed out at a very jaunty angle.

The jaundiced, world weary hard man image went straight out the window.

I really am like that!

You as well!

[highway]

Ben Chaplin. Who was awesome in one glorious season of Game On.
Lewis Collins. Who was Bodie in the Professionals and in Who Dares Wins.
Bruce Campbell. From Evil Dead, Burn Notice and a hundred cameos.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

InitialDave said:

Skeptisk said:

Any others actors that you think should have gone onto leading roles and a big career but didn’t?

Walton Goggins.

Definitely, a very versatile actor, He has been ace in everyone have sen him in.

[usn90]

Brendan Fraser

[Doofus]

highway said:

Lewis Collins. Who was Bodie in the Professionals and in Who Dares Wins.

Also, famously, lost out on playing Bond due to being 'too aggressive' in his audition.

[remedy]

Any thoughts on Ray Liotta? I really rate him. Not many lead roles but plenty of supporting ones. I loved No Escape, one of my favourite films in my teens.

[Doofus]

My wife and I reckon being a decent supporting actor is the way to a long and lucrative career. 'Stars' come and go, and they risk over-exposure.

Lots of supporting actors never seem to be out of work.

[cuprabob]

Doofus said:

My wife and I reckon being a decent supporting actor is the way to a long and lucrative career. 'Stars' come and go, and they risk over-exposure.

Lots of supporting actors never seem to be out of work.

Sam Kydd, sadly no longer with us, is the epitome of this.

[SpudLink]

Doofus said:

My wife and I reckon being a decent supporting actor is the way to a long and lucrative career. 'Stars' come and go, and they risk over-exposure.

Lots of supporting actors never seem to be out of work.

That’s also my opinion. Keep a high enough profile to get regular work, without becoming a celebrity. People will remember you as ‘that really good actor’, rather than ‘that bloke who used to be famous’.

[BeastieBoy73]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

InitialDave said:

Skeptisk said:

Any others actors that you think should have gone onto leading roles and a big career but didn’t?

Walton Goggins.

Definitely, a very versatile actor, He has been ace in everyone have sen him in.

Yep, pretty much anything Walton Goggins is in I’ll watch, especially if he’s working with Danny McBride.

He’s a pretty good photographer, too.

My shout for actor who should be bigger is Christian Slater. True Romance is my second favourite movie. He’s class in that.

[Macneil]

remedy said:

Any thoughts on Ray Liotta? I really rate him. Not many lead roles but plenty of supporting ones. I loved No Escape, one of my favourite films in my teens.

Have you seen The Many Saints of Newark? He plays two brothers, one is a rotten to the core mafia guy, the other an intensely moral prisoner.

[Milkyway]

Norman Wisdom & Leslie Phillips were primed to make it big in America.

NW: He was much in demand in America... but returned to England to look after his children after the breakup of his marriage.

LP: Got fed up being typecast as the ‘English Gent’ & didn’t like the lifestyle much either... could have been the next David Niven.

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 16th May 12:03

[Puppisadeer]

Bruce Campbell.

[Doofus]

May I posit that if they should have, they did?

[ClaphamGT3]

Tim McInnerny