Talk:Typecasting (acting)

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Contents 1 Elijah Wood 2 List 3 A Bad Thing? 4 R. Lee Ermey 5 Interesting subject 6 I don't remember his name 7 The lists have been deleted

[edit] Elijah Wood

Does this article seem unusually obsessed with Elijah Wood? 168.215.121.16 20:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

yes, it does, I took out the first reference but put it back when I saw that it was repeated throughout. It should all be gone as far as I'm concerned, if a movie came out a few years ago, and the actor has gone on to do THREE movies that go against the type cast... well doesn't that defeat the definition? Oreo man 17:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

'Elijah Wood attempted to escape typecasting after his portrayal of Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings' Sound pretty POV to me. - Evilio 0943 25/09/06

It also states in Elijah Wood's wikipedia entry that he has escaped typecasting, so I do think he could be used as an example as someone who has escaped it, if necessary, but not an example of someone who suffers typecasting. 81.103.35.130 16:21, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List

Here's one of my pet peeves: lists in the middle of articles. Sometimes they work, but in general lists should be lists and articles should have examples, not lists stuck in the middle! In this case, the stub was ignored but the list expanded, with a mish-mosh of actors of differing stature that didn't add to the article. Here's the info I cut; if someone wants to start a list somewhere, fine:

A list of some actors who have been typecast:

• Jason Alexander as George Costanza
• Julie Andrews in sweet roles, such as the ones she played in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music
• Tom Baker as Doctor Who
• Chris Barrie as the irritating Rimmer in Red Dwarf and Brittas in The Brittas Empire
• Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver
• Bob Denver as Gilligan
• David Duchovny as Agent Mulder
• Annette Funicello
• James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
• Judy Garland playing Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie)
• Mark Hamill - villain roles in animation
• Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator series
• Jonathan Harris in likeable villain roles, after Lost in Space
• Katie Holmes as a bookish girl-next-door, originally in Dawson's Creek
• Russell Johnson as The Professor on Gilligan's Island
• Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger
• Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
• Christopher Reeve as Superman
• George Reeves as Superman
• Paul Reubens as Pee-Wee Herman
• William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
• Adam West as The Batman
• Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Hart from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
• Henry Winkler as Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli
• Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell

Quill 21:59, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I started List of typecast actors from this list. --Amoore 01:41, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I guess Quill started it after I failed to. Thanks! --Amoore 18:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Quill did, and at some point I may cut-and-paste from the above mishmash into the new list. Someday...when I have time...thanks for responding Amoore! Quill 22:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

How do you guys could forget Jim carrey :P!!!! -- sspecter

[edit] A Bad Thing?

"An actor may become typecast either because of a strong identification with a particular role or because he or she doesn't have the versatility or talent to move on to other roles." - being typecast doesn't necessarilly mean a lack of acting tallent; a lot has to do with natural human tendancies, and the fact that people really can't significantly change the way they look. Being thought of as a certain "type" is not necessarilly a bad thing, and many in the acting business even consider it a good thing, something which one should play to, rather than against. - Matthew238 02:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] R. Lee Ermey

I'm surpirsed that this article fails to mention R. Lee Ermey, one of the most typecast men in the history of filmography. He's virtually never in his over 100 appearance history played anything other than a militaristic/drill sergeant type character.

[edit] Interesting subject

Of course, this subject could never be "encyclopedic", and would always have a NPOV problem. On the other hand, it really belongs, and I would be the last to stick a tag on it. I've been there, and I'm not going to sign it for that reason.

What fans and the public fail to see is that because they have coopted the actors' life, they view it as their's to dictate under the control of flacks and the media, (and you may say the lucky ones who owe you). The poor old actor figures he or she will either go with the flow and get rich, or fight it to no avail and stop working, or keep going and not make any money and "fail" in their own eyes. One thinks of Lorne Greene, a Canadian whom I knew a bit. He got fabulously rich from Bonanza and did not follow through on his original intention, which was to be a fine character actor in the best sense of the word, and certainly the public would have laughed him off the stage were he later to have tried his hand at MacBeth. Was he happy at the end? No comment. One thinks of Ted Lange, the bartender on Love Boat, always wanted to do Shakespeare. The saddest ones are those who played a certain supporting role brilliantly at minimum scale, and may never work again. They tend to go into production or real estate. The answer some have is to stay out of it for awhile, like many years, and hope that the fans have forgotten them in their old success, and make a comeback as somebody else. But then the ever inquiring press will haunt them out. A very few succeed. Thousands don't. See, none of this belongs in an article, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it get hit with a delete tag by a roving Wiki enforcer (Any military style outfits yet? Or at least a Wiki tee shirt?). But nice to talk about it, even on a talk page.

[edit] I don't remember his name

Hello, I can't remember or find the name of a black actor, quite fat, with white hairs and round deep glaces, who portraits always generals or high rank officers in the american army.

I've found it: is James Earl Jones.

[edit] The lists have been deleted

I deleted all the lists. A great deal of them, maybe even most of them, were somebody's (in my opinion incorrect) opinions. Mangoe 19:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)