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Post by petrolino on Mar 18, 2018 2:33:19 GMT
Who are some tv actors you feel could have made it in the movies with a bit more luck?
Thanks!
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2018 2:40:21 GMT
Tom Selleck – handsome, winning smile, good-natured, powerful build, able to make his presence known and attract empathy with audiences.
Jack Klugman – wonderful performances in Goodbye Columbus and The Detective. Not a handsome guy though.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 18, 2018 2:47:00 GMT
Tom Selleck – handsome, winning smile, good-natured, powerful build, able to make his presence known and attract empathy with audiences. Jack Klugman – wonderful performances in Goodbye Columbus and The Detective. Not a handsome guy though. Tom Selleck inspired this thread. Major tv star but it never quite happened for him at the pictures. |
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2018 2:51:58 GMT
Most of what I said about Selleck could also be said about Don Johnson.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 18, 2018 3:01:01 GMT
Most of what I said about Selleck could also be said about Don Johnson. Or Philip Michael Thomas. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 18, 2018 4:16:44 GMT
Lucy Lawless.
I think she would have been great in roles like Cutthroat Island or Wonder Woman (which she wanted to do in the 90s).
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Post by petrolino on Mar 18, 2018 4:33:46 GMT
Lucy Lawless. I think she would have been great in roles like Cutthroat Island or Wonder Woman (which she wanted to do in the 90s). I hear she's back working in New Zealand now. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 18, 2018 5:07:06 GMT
I hear she's back working in New Zealand now. Yeah tv. Only movie I saw her in was Spider-man 2002 for about 2 seconds. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 18, 2018 5:14:29 GMT
petrolino Selleck missed out on playing Indy because he couldn't get away from BEING Magnum. Worked out ok though since we got Ford instead. There was a what-if thread about the roles being reversed. Decision was "different but both good/great". Selleck is INCREDIBLY good in the Jesse Stone movies. He's another of those actors who BECOME the person they are portraying. BIG name on the small screen and what he did on the big screen was pretty darn good, just not in BIG pictures.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 18, 2018 6:19:42 GMT
Michael Warren WAS 'Hill Street Blues'' version of 'St. Elsewhere's' Denzel Washington. BUT unlike DW went NOWHERE.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 18, 2018 6:30:14 GMT
Michael Warren WAS 'Hill Street Blues'' version of 'St. Elsewhere's' Denzel Washington. BUT unlike DW went NOWHERE. Good call on Michael Warren "Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28." "Mike hit the TV jackpot with the award-winning, critically-acclaimed Hill Street Blues (1981). Possessing the same kind of street savvy and cerebral handsomeness as Denzel, Mike seemed a shoo-in for film stardom. Instead, his career moved rather slow and erratically after the end of his hit series in 1987. He did co-star with Cicely Tyson in the holiday season greeter The Kid Who Loved Christmas (1990), and with D.B. Sweeney portraying a basketball coach in Heaven Is a Playground (1991), but, outside of this, nothing of great significance followed. Other series work came and went, the best of the bunch being a recurring role on the series Soul Food (2000). " |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 18, 2018 15:51:13 GMT
...speaking of Hill Street Blues, Daniel Travanti had the props to be a good cinematic actor.
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Post by delon on Mar 18, 2018 16:44:48 GMT
My pick is Peter Krause. He was astounding in Six Feet Under, but for some reason never achieved success in pictures .
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 19, 2018 0:14:26 GMT
Although each made his share of appearances in quality pictures (coming with or without box-office popularity), both James Garner and Dick Van Dyke found their most enduring fame and success on the tube.
As it happened, their paths crossed just once on the big screen, in 1965's little-seen-or-remembered The Art Of Love, which stands out among its frivolous but pleasingly good-natured comedy counterparts of the era for some subversive and sharp-edged dark humor arising from its premise: buddy Garner helps struggling artist Van Dyke fake his own death to increase the value of his work and, having reaped the profits and moved in on the "dead" artist's girlfriend, becomes suspected of his murder...with a little help from the now-embittered Van Dyke (perhaps borrowing a little something from plot elements of Fritz Lang's 1936 Fury).
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