Actors Who Have Real Talent But Got Overlooked in Hollywood

[Kelly]

Yep, I remember him from Last of the Mohicans......and I just watched him this past week in "Comanche Moon" with my other overlooked actor Steven Zahn.

 

[kronos251]

Bill Pullman - His career faded just as it was really taking off. Not sure what happened. He could do the action hero thing (Independence Day), the romantic lead (While You Were Sleeping) and be the funny man (Spaceballs). Not sure what happened. Did Lake Flaccid kill his career?

Yes


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Dan Hedaya

Pete Postlethwaite

Gabriel Byrne

 

[That-Guy]

Hey, come to think of it... Christian Bale. Despite playing one of the most iconic superheroes of all time (in what has been one of the most critically acclaimed and financially successful films of the genre) and receiving praise for practically every role he's been in, the general public's reaction when you mention Christian Bale is "Who? Oh, right... the Batman guy."

I mean, his career is still in full swing, but it baffles me to some degree why he's not a household name the way inferior actors like Will Smith and Keanu Reeves are.

 

[Mrh7448]

Jim Caveziel- should have been huge after POTC.

I read this and was thinking Pirates of the Carribean, not Passion of the Christ.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Dan Hedaya

Pete Postlethwaite

Gabriel Byrne

Fine actors.

You must like The Usual Suspects.

 

[Kelly]

My favorite Cheadle role is from Traffic, but a close second is Buck in Boogie Nights.

He's a phenomenal actor, one of my top 5.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Hey, come to think of it... Christian Bale. Despite playing one of the most iconic superheroes of all time (in what has been one of the most critically acclaimed and financially successful films of the genre) and receiving praise for practically every role he's been in, the general public's reaction when you mention Christian Bale is "Who? Oh, right... the Batman guy."

I mean, his career is still in full swing, but it baffles me to some degree why he's not a household name the way inferior actors like Will Smith and Keanu Reeves are.

I think in time he will become a household name.
Will Smith and Reeves are because they've been around for so so long.
These dudes go back as far as Bill & Ted and Fresh Prince.
Bale needs time to his name.

 

[Frosty81]

He should have been huge, but I don't know what happened.

My friend and I were saying the exact same thing the other night. Terminator, Aliens and the Abyss...then nothing.

 

[Kelly]

Christian Bale has systematically kept his career as low key as possible....he does very little advertising and public appearances and that is his choice. He wants to stay understated and low key.....that's how he likes it.

 

[That-Guy]

I think in time he will become a household name.
Will Smith and Reeves are because they've been around for so so long.
These dudes go back as far as Bill & Ted and Fresh Prince.
Bale needs time to his name.

True, Bale is younger than those guys, but he's actually been in the business nearly as long as they have.

I guess it just irritates me when more people out there know who hacks like Dane Cook and Jessica Alba are than one of the greatest actors of this generation. It makes me fear for the future of movies in general.

 

[Frosty81]

I'm voting for Liev Schreiber as well.

 

[Ring Deacon]

Gary Cole
Bruce Cambell
Liev Schreiber
Vinnie Jones

 

[Warhammer]

I'd like to put these down:

- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- James Remar
- Billy Zane
- Treat Williams
- Michael Ironside
- William Sadler
- Michael Ironside
- Sam Elliott

They are some of my favorite actors.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Overlooked by Hollywood or by the public? Because if it's by Hollywood, there's no way in hell Bale is overlooked at all. He gets not only steady work, but quality offers.

 

[Warhammer]

Bale is not overlooked. He may not be as known as Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he is not overlooked. He is Batman. He is not overlooked.

 

[Decypher]

this may be more of a case of actors who i think deserve more respect, than it is that they are over looked, but Thomas Jane is so good in Boogie Nights he gets my vote

Also Jeff Daniels. Dumb and Dumber AND The Squid and the Whale. That is versatile lol

 

[Frosty81]

Two words...

Sam Shepard

 

[Kelly]

I think alot of these actors that we are saying are overlooked.....have carried their careers in a manner that does that, and its on purpose. I think you could ask them, and almost 100% would say........I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[kronos251]

Fine actors.

You must like The Usual Suspects.

Absolutely.

Humble little film by a then-unknown Bryan Singer (a far departure indeed from X-Men, SR) and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. One of the greatest movie endings ever, and gets better after subsequent viewings.

this may be more of a case of actors who i think deserve more respect, than it is that they are over looked,

Exactly - Actors who shoulda gotten more recognition for the quality of their work, or otherwise they'll be overlooked. And thats a real terrible shame, because there's so many fine actors out there..

Also Jeff Daniels. Dumb and Dumber AND The Squid and the Whale. That is versatile lol

and he played George Washington too!

 

[kronos251]

I think alot of these actors that we are saying are overlooked.....have carried their careers in a manner that does that, and its on purpose. I think you could ask them, and almost 100% would say........I wouldn't have it any other way.

^ I agree.

Some of them might even say they're grateful that they're not under the intense spotlight, and thus makes them more believable in every role they take.

Of course other actors who no longer receive any (dramatic) acting jobs say otherwise.......

Overlooked by Hollywood or by the public? Because if it's by Hollywood, there's no way in hell Bale is overlooked at all. He gets not only steady work, but quality offers.

Yes and no friggin Oscar Nomination. Which he deserved waaay back when he was 12 - Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987).


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Sam Sheppard
Sam Elliot
Sam Neil
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside

 

[Poeman]

jim caviezel

 

[kronos251]

jim caviezel

Ditto.

 

[Lobo]

Liev Shrieber
James Marsden
Michael Biehn
Jeff Daniels
Jim Caviezel
Brendan Fraser (I wouldn't say he's overlooked exactly but I thought he'd be much more a household name than he is right now)
Neve Campbell

 

[Dr J Reko]

Sad that he'll always be Zack Morris, but he was actually good in NYPD Blue and other stuff.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Gaius 'FRAKIN' Baltar aka James Callis