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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: AliUK Date: 11 Aug 01 - 11:12 PM Kim Darby was absolutely fabulous in True Grit, and even better in Dont be Afraid of the Dark . and Bill Owen was the soul of Last of the Summer Wine. My al time worst actor ever is David Bowie, especially in that abortion The Man who Fell To Earth. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: DonMeixner Date: 11 Aug 01 - 10:05 PM Vera Hruba Ralston films Jubilee Trail The Fighting Kentuckian Hoodlum Empire Dakota |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Aug 01 - 09:49 PM Please name some Herbert J Yates movies, would you? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: ard mhacha Date: 11 Aug 01 - 12:25 PM One more not mentioned Vera Ralston, the wife of Herbert J Yates, she took part in almost all of Herberts movies, wooden wasn`t the word, she would have made a great partner for Pinocchio. Slan Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Aug 01 - 02:40 AM Jeff Goldblum has one of the single most unique and genuine delivery's of any actor today... He's great! |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: GUEST,Pelrad Date: 11 Aug 01 - 12:54 AM Jeff Goldblum. Deliberate stuttering is not an acceptable acting style. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Sandy Paton Date: 11 Aug 01 - 12:24 AM Ms. Streep can't be all bad. She lives in the town just north or ours, shops at the local grocery store where we shop, and sends her kids to the public school just like ordinary folks (clearly a matter of choice, as we are surrounded by expensive private schools up here in northwest Connecticut). I like that, being a confirmed egalitarian. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:25 PM Shatner is damned amusing! You should have seen him doing Loblaws commercials in Canada back in the 70's ("But, by gosh, the price is right!"). I think he earned himself a worthy place in entertainment history as Captain Kirk, as much because of his overdone acting as for any other reason. To give Bill credit, I've seen him make fun of himself for bad acting. RangerSteve - I am entirely willing to read "Seven Years in Tibet", but I can't promise when I'll get around to it. I want to thank everyone for their enthusiastic participation in this most auspicious thread! Much obliged. I also agree that Charlton Heston has done some really notably bad acting. Carry on acting... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Celtic Soul Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:08 PM I have the same 6 words I used in another thread; Tori Spelling Tori Spelling Tori Spelling. And I think that Julia Roberts brother, Erik would be my vote for worst actor. At least Shatner is amusing to watch! :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Aug 01 - 07:15 PM RickF - Delores and Tom were married at the time. Just in case you care, Tom was last seen running for President of the US. Someone told me he's not playing with a full deck anymore. Little Hawk - if you read Seven Yrs. in Tibet, I'll listen to Stuck Inside of Mobile etc. again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: GUEST Date: 10 Aug 01 - 06:52 PM everyone in the history of the world ever that about covers it the end |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 10 Aug 01 - 06:46 PM Milton Berle. Ugh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 06:33 PM What you have missed, Doug, is some of the counterculture's most embarrassing moments ever, plus some really seriously bad acting, plus a theme song that deserves -3 on a scale of 1 to 10. Only rent these movies if you are prepared for the very worst. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: DougR Date: 10 Aug 01 - 06:23 PM Hmmm. Somehow I let the Billy Jack movies excape me. Never saw even one of 'em. Appears I missed nothing.
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 06:14 PM I'd have to agree with that, Rick. Billy Jack was terrible. The Trial of Billy Jack was even worse. I have sat in the Billy Jack truck, donated by Tom Laughlin to Rolling Thunder's camp in Nevada. I know you must be green with envy to hear that. I have not met Delores Taylor nor Tom Laughlin face to face, however. Or Winona Ryder either for that matter... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Rick Fielding Date: 10 Aug 01 - 05:47 PM Ranger Steve, you win MY oscar for mentioning Delores Taylor. (Tom Laughlin's wife) Almost everyone named here seems to just be irritating to SOME in SOME roles, but Delores Taylor gave the truly worst performance I have ever seen. It was so embarrassing I have to believe that Laughlin needed her money or something to finance Billy Jack. I have to admit though that I loved it when Billy Jack used his "pacifist boots and karate chops" to dismember the bad guy who was hassling the native kids! The Movie was awful, the theme song nauseating, but DELORES will live forever. Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Hollowfox Date: 10 Aug 01 - 04:22 PM I think some of the names on our list are there because the movie industry didn't want a separate list of employees labeled "eye candy" in the credits. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Shields Folk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 03:56 PM Dare I ask? |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: kendall Date: 10 Aug 01 - 03:53 PM Ah, yes, Doug, and, Buster Crabbe? Johnnie Wiesmuller? Broderick Crawford? I like Steven Sagal and Clint Eastwood, but, not for their acting! |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Shields Folk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 03:46 PM See kat's post earlier. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Aug 01 - 03:45 PM See what happens when you don't read the whole thread CH? Here's a hint----Check kat's posts. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Aug 01 - 03:11 PM "comes from kind parents"??? I don't get it... ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Shields Folk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 02:55 PM It's just a gut feeling but Meryl Streep never seems to play anybody but Meryl Streep. All of these dissenting voices surely can't be wrong, mind she does 'comes from kind parents'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: DougR Date: 10 Aug 01 - 02:48 PM Yep, Murray, I think Sandy is thinking about Jeff Chandler, a truly wooden actor. I never could understand why Hollywood didn't use Indians to play Indians. John Ford used real Indians in his movies, of course but only as extras. "Scar" in one of his best movies (The Searchers) was certainly no Native American. I agree with chantyranger and Peg, I think you folks are going a bit hard on Meryl Streep. Kendall, you sure named a couple or three. How about Sonny Tufts? DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Justa Picker Date: 10 Aug 01 - 01:45 PM ...Chuck Norris for that matter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Amergin Date: 10 Aug 01 - 01:40 PM Jean Claude Van Damme is also hardly deserving of the title "actor"..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Aug 01 - 01:17 PM Hey Murray......I too have that same problem with really lousy movies!!!! Something about them just draws me in........Really pathetic isn't it? And worse.........Steven Segal......Completely without talent and a spectrum of emotion running from A to .........well, A-.......I don't think he has the range to make B. HOWEVER.........I can't resist the occasional Segal movie, for the 20th time. They're completely awful.....really hideous things. Didja' ever notice that with only the exception in one movie, he always manages to kick the shit out of 17 guys at a time, 49 times per movie and emerges with hardly a scratch? Wow......Whatta' guy! Spaw |
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Subject: We should call this "The Costner Award" From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Aug 01 - 01:15 PM Mike Myers! With the exception of Shrek, (which I'd recast with Craig Ferguson from Saving Grace) nothing he's ever done has ever struck me as even remotely funny... And lay off Angelina Jolie... her and Billy Bob'd kick yer collective asses!! LOL!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: GUEST,Nick Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:55 PM Ernest Borgnine, there now it has been said. I loved how bad he was in my favorite of favorite bad movies "Escape from New York" "You want to see the Duke, Nobody sees the Duke!" Arnold Shwartzenager as Conan the Barbarian, a movie that has one of my favorite stupid lines, "Two or three years ago they were just another snake cult, now their temples are everywhere!" And the delightfull closing scene where after having killed all those who opposed him Conan sits and the marble stairs and assumes the "Thinker" pose. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Aug 01 - 11:48 AM Ah! I did not read the book "Seven Years in Tibet". Now I understand.... The book usually leaves the movie in the dust. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Hollowfox Date: 10 Aug 01 - 10:20 AM Awww, Sandy, for an art thief, Vincent Price was an excellent actor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Aug 01 - 09:14 AM Speaking of Victor Mature, Groucho once remarked about "Samson and Delilah" that it was the only movie where the leading man had bigger breasts than the leading lady. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: guinnesschik Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:49 AM Branagh may have been awful in Frakenstein, but so was DeNiro. The Creature with a New York accent? I love DeNiro, but man...I just couldn't get past that. Quentin Tarantino....Val Kilmer..... Does anyone remember Tony Curtis in (I think) The Black Shield Of Falmoth (sp?)? "Yondah lies da castle of my faddah." Richard Gere as Lancelot. Horrid. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: kendall Date: 10 Aug 01 - 08:24 AM Victor Mature wanted to join some posh club, and, when he was told that they didn't accept actors, he said "I'm not an actor, and, I have 50 movies to prove it."
How about Robert Newton? terrible actor, but, he IS Long John Silver!
Wayne Morris? Chester Morris? (Boston Blackie) |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: ard mhacha Date: 10 Aug 01 - 07:15 AM Did anyone forget to mention the No1, known in our wee town in Ireland as Victor Manure, yes the hammiest plank of all time "Gee Mum you`re the best cook in Gaza" famous words spoken by Victor in, Samson and Delilah. Slan Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 10 Aug 01 - 04:26 AM Michael Caine in 'Kidnapped' with the cringe making Scottish accent. He was pretty terrible in Zulu as well but at least his first line was a a cracker ' Don't point that bloody Assagi at me !' |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Peter Kasin Date: 10 Aug 01 - 01:02 AM I just have to mention my disagreement (as well as Peg's) over having Meryl Streep in this list. She's an actor's actor - one of the greats in my book. -chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Peter Kasin Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:50 AM PIA ZADORA! She's got to be the poster girl for bad acting. As for the poster boy....there was some guy named Richard Carlson who popped up in many a 50's "B" science fiction movie. As wooden an actor as they come, but the attractive and resistant woman scientist always fell for him by the end of the movie. -chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: DonMeixner Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:32 AM Well, many of the people we have considered as bad actors, I consider actor to be genderless, are good actors who have had some bad roles. Kevin Costner was good in Silverado,Tin Cup and The Untouchables. Other stuff, not so hot. He didn't ruin Waterworld all by himself, he had Dennis Hopper there to help him. Chuck Heston was never all that hot to me but Will Penny was a great movie, the rest were not so great, even The Ten Suggestions were a little stiff and over acted. Meryl Streep has never been a favorite of mine but she was perfect in Hollocaust and Sophie's Choice. Marilyn Monroe was funny. Even when she wasn't spose to be. Luckily for us for every 10 Chuck Hestons there is at least one Paul Muni. For every 10 Kevin Costner there is one Ed White. For all those Meryls and Marilyns there is at least one Jessica Lange and Judy Holliday. I think John Wayne was a good actor, I think Ward Bond was much better. And Ben Johnson was the best of the three. Of course thats my opinion and thats why we have horse races. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Murray MacLeod Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:32 AM Jeff Chandler, Sandy ? Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Amergin Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:31 AM Bo Derek, Christopher Lambert |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: GUEST,Geordie Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:29 AM Whoopie Goldberg and Haley Mills |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Sandy Paton Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:26 AM Don't remember that one, DougR. But what was the name of the handsome non-actor who played Cochise in that Jimmy Stewart epic? Add him to my list, along with Charlton Heston (who really ought to head the list!). World's worst! Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: DougR Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:11 AM RANDOLPH SCOTT! Sandy, you must not have seen him and Joel McCray in "Ride the High Country!" Or perhaps you did! DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Sandy Paton Date: 10 Aug 01 - 12:07 AM I haven't seen more than half a dozen films in the last thirty years, so I'm surprised only by the omission of Randolph Scott, Victor Mature (was that really the name?), and Vincent Price. Does that take you back, Kendall? Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: kendall Date: 09 Aug 01 - 09:03 PM Treet Williams in Lost World, or anything he appears in. He has one expression, NUMB. Holly Hunter didn't have to act with an ass like that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Shields Folk Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:41 PM Walking Eagle, did Peter Lawford play Lord Lovat in The Longest Day. If he did he wasn't the worst in that pile of shite. Sean Connery was the worst bar that bloke who was asking Richard Burton "Where Johnny was with his boots". All in all some classic over acting and serious under performing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: DougR Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:13 PM I'd certainly go along with Kevin Costner as ONE of the worst. There are so many. Stewart Grainger from the old days, John Wayne in almost everything except: Rio Bravo, The Shootist, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, Ft. Apache, Red River and Rio Grande. He made lots of 'em. John Agar and Shirley Temple in Ft. Apache were pretty bad though. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: RangerSteve Date: 09 Aug 01 - 08:05 PM I could argue with a lot of the above all night, but I'm tired from a miserable day of working in 100 degree weather and I just don't have the strength. Anyway: Harrison Ford. Someone should tell him that it's okay to smile, frown, raise your voice, SHOW SOME EMOTION, DAMN IT!! Katlaughing - I'm glad you caught your omission. I was wondering how you could have seen True Grit and missed Glen Campbell. Now, there's a man who can't do anything right. Little Hawk - As for Seven Yrs. in Tibet, read the book. Then you'll understand why no one liked the movie. (the book was great). I liked KC's Robin Hood. There, I've said it, and I don't care who knows. Whoever that woman was who narrated "Billy Jack". I believe she was actually dead at the time. She made Tom Laughlin look like Olivier. I also understand that Mae West was playing a character in all her movies, but I never did understand her appeal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: WORST actor or actress ever!!! From: Murray MacLeod Date: 09 Aug 01 - 07:44 PM Oh please, Tom Cruise isn't a bad actor. And he did come out with my favosite movie line of all time in Cocktail. Girl: "Hey, do I have "FUCK ME" tattoed on my forehead ?" Tom Cruise (leaning closer)" I don't know, I can't see a damn thing without my contacts" Murray |