For Example:
Lindsey & Sidney Greenbush -- Little House on the Prarie (Carrie
Ingalls) she was so bad they had to bring in that Cassandra kid to take
her storylines since she couldn't handle more that one line at a time.
Her biggest storyline involved her being trapped in a hole for an hour.
Marc Singer -- Dallas
Carmen Electra -- Baywatch -- when you are on Baywatch and it's
noticable how bad you are, that is saying something.
Ok Guys.... who's next?
>For Example:
>Marc Singer -- Dallas
Robert Leeshock, Earth: Final Conflict. The adjective "wooden" has been
used so often to describe his acting that it has been reported that
President Clinton was about to name a national memorial forest in its
honor when his term expired.
Gabriel Macht, The Others. Clearly a case of talent skipping a generation.
Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
Marina Sirtis, ST:NG. She actually improved in the part *after* the series
ended.
HWL
well one good example is George Foreman on his cute but useless show "George"
on ABC. George has gone onto do a lot since he's been off TV but putting him
there in the first place was a bad idea
>I guess
>the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
boy using Tori as a border? LOL
>Lindsey & Sidney Greenbush -- Little House on the Prairie
cute little girls hardly any involvement
>Marc Singer -- Dallas
>
>Carmen Electra -- Baywatch --
while I think Carmen is a much more down to earth person than most do, I'd like
to nominate Brande Roderick in the "DUMB BLONDE" catergory since her
preformance on Baywatch Hawaii was respectable but when she's doing To Tell The
Truth she's a ditz!! Plus she also won that Playmate of the year thing (which
says absolutely nothing about how talented you are) now that she's got a
somewhat promising career ahead of her can somebody tell me she's going to be
doing something that doesn't make her out to be a dumb blonde??
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> Gabriel Macht, The Others. Clearly a case of talent skipping a generation.
> Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
> Marina Sirtis, ST:NG. She actually improved in the part *after* the series
> ended.
Disagree on these three. I can think of *tons* worse than these three...
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He's got talent outside that performance. See "The Adventures of Sebastian
Cole" sometime and look for the creepy biker character.
> Who was the worst actor(s) to ever be regulars on a major TV show. I
> mean people with absolutely NO TALENT who belonged nowhere near a
> network show and have gone on to only do crap or nothing since. I guess
> the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
On "90210", I always thought that Gabrielle Cartaris was worse than Tori.
(OK, Tori *was* bad early on, but she got progressively better as the show
progressed...)
Others:
Michael Michelle (and her co-star), "Dangerous Curves". To say this was
the worst *acted* show on TV *ever* is no understatement. And I saw
Lorenzo Lamas' "Air America"... (And, yet, she keeps on working!...)
Angie Everhart (and her costars), that rinky-dink syndicated action drama
that lasted 6 episodes a season or two ago. I think Angie Everhart is a
total babe. But without direction, she and her costars made "Acapulco
HEAT" look like "Once & Again"...
Billy Shue, "Melrose Place". Look, I like Grant Show, but I acknowlege
that he was lackluster on "Melrose". But, compared to *Shue*, Grant Show
came off like friggin' Sean Connery!
I could go on, but you get the picture...
I guess
the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
boy using Tori as a border? LOLLindsey & Sidney Greenbush -- Little House on the Prairie
cute little girls hardly any involvement
Marc Singer -- Dallas
Carmen Electra -- Baywatch --
while I think Carmen is a much more down to earth person than most do, I'd like
to nominate Brande Roderick in the "DUMB BLONDE" catergory since her
preformance on Baywatch Hawaii was respectable but when she's doing To Tell The
Truth she's a ditz!! Plus she also won that Playmate of the year thing (which
says absolutely nothing about how talented you are) now that she's got a
somewhat promising career ahead of her can somebody tell me she's going to be
doing something that doesn't make her out to be a dumb blonde??
I'd go with Michael Michelle, except she keeps getting one role after
another on quality tv shows.
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In article <3B2A5479...@home.com>, Russell Cress <rcr...@home.com> wrote:Who was the worst actor(s) to ever be regulars on a major TV show. I
mean people with absolutely NO TALENT who belonged nowhere near a
network show and have gone on to only do crap or nothing since. I guess
the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
On "90210", I always thought that Gabrielle Cartaris was worse than Tori.
(OK, Tori *was* bad early on, but she got progressively better as the show
progressed...)
Others:
Michael Michelle (and her co-star), "Dangerous Curves". To say this was
the worst *acted* show on TV *ever* is no understatement. And I saw
Lorenzo Lamas' "Air America"... (And, yet, she keeps on working!...)
Was that the show where the girls from Texas had NO accent, and the one from
Arizona had this horrible mutant southern twang?
well that's a decent nomination but Hulk actually was pretty good in that show
>Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
Jan Smithers? Ah. Proof Positive that that I love bad actresses
since Bailey Quarters was my favourite character on that series.
> In article <hlabadiejr-15...@a010-0158.ocla.splitrock.net>,
> hlaba...@prodigy.net (Horace LaBadie) wrote:
>
> > Gabriel Macht, The Others. Clearly a case of talent skipping a generation.
> > Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
> > Marina Sirtis, ST:NG. She actually improved in the part *after* the series
> > ended.
>
> Disagree on these three. I can think of *tons* worse than these three...
>
...
>Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
Them's fightin' words...
Brian
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AMEN!!!
Gee, I was wondering how long it would take someone to bring up the name
of THE WORST actor EVER on a TV series.
Patrick Stewart?
Robert Beltran - Voyager. So wooden he makes Al Gore look lifelike.
She probably gets all that work based on her looks. Otherwise, how is
she working?
> Who was the worst actor(s) to ever be regulars on a major TV
> show. I mean people with absolutely NO TALENT who belonged
> nowhere near a network show and have gone on to only do crap or
> nothing since. I guess the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
Some truly horrendous actors have been mentioned, and I'm adding the
astoundingly pathetic Lydia Cornell ("Too Close For Comfort") to the
list. She made every other busty, bleached-blonde sitcom actress of
the era seem almost talented by comparison.
Her delivery was less convincing than that of a typical child
appearing in an elementary school stage play. I had an easier time
believing that Jim J. Bullock was sexually attracted to women.
David Levy
Didn't know she was in HOTEL, but she did sleep with show star James Brolin.
He sure went up since then.
You mean the acting equivalent of baseball's Mendoza line (.200 batting
average)?
V
"There is no such thing as accident. It is Fate--misnamed."
--title card, Erich Von Stroheim's "The Wedding March," 1928
It must take truly horrendous talent to make Teri Copley ("We Got It Made")
seem like Carole Lombard.
>Them's fightin' words...
>Brian
Well, I liked her, but not for her acting.
HWL
Creepy I can believe.
He played William Holden creepy.
HWL
>In article <hlabadiejr-15...@a010-0158.ocla.splitrock.net>,
>hlaba...@prodigy.net (Horace LaBadie) wrote:
>> Gabriel Macht, The Others. Clearly a case of talent skipping a generation.
>> Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
>> Marina Sirtis, ST:NG. She actually improved in the part *after* the series
>> ended.
>Disagree on these three. I can think of *tons* worse than these three...
>Ian J. Ball
I shiver whenever I recall Macht in that Jack the Ripper "Don't Dream..."
episode of The Others. In most of the episodes, I just wished that
somebody would kill Mark. Sirtis always makes me feel embarrassed for her,
except when she's doing the comic bits, when she's entertaining. I liked
Troi when she appeared in Voyager, but that's by contrast with the
regulars and with nostalgia coloring the view.
HWL
~~~~she not only slept with him, she married him.
LunaSeas
Better to have loved and lost than to live with the PSYCHO for the rest of your
life......
You know, that reminds me of a time when I saw him on Rosie's show (it's been
about 3 years), and she pulled the footstool from under his chair, and he
pretended to fall out twice. It was so patheically fake.
The acting on "Three's Company" seemed to be pretty over the top
too...especially John Ritter's overacting at times.
The ONE and ONLY, Brandon Foster-Gray
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HOMER: And you're like the father I never visit.
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iball***Spam-No***@socal.rr.com (Ian J. Ball) got on the squawk-box
and yelped:
>-Angie Everhart (and her costars), that rinky-dink syndicated action drama
>-that lasted 6 episodes a season or two ago. I think Angie Everhart is a
>-total babe. But without direction, she and her costars made "Acapulco
>-HEAT" look like "Once & Again"...
Acting...she's an actress? I never noticed such inanities, I just
noticed Angie :-)
Dick Van Dyke's grandkids weren't regulars on Diagnosis Murder, but
one or several of four appeared in almost every last season episode.
Not a whole lot of talent there, with the situation made worse because
they tended to play different one-shot characters in the various
episodes.
cyber...@aol.compostheap (John) wrote:
> Didn't know she was in HOTEL, but she did sleep with show star James Brolin.
> He sure went up since then.
Yep, he's about to become Minnie Driver's father-in-law.
Bette Midler. But that's almost too easy....
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I'll have a go, Randall. Tis an interesting category! I think I'd
like to
nominate. .
Vanna White who's great . ..as long as she doesn't attempt to do more
than
point to letters and smile but when she SPEAKS- forget it! Oh, you
think
I'm just talking about her 'Wheel of Fortune' turning so that doesn't
qualify, eh? No, I'm talking about
when she had a several-episode recurring role on 'LA Law' in which she
was playing 'herself' inexplicably attracted to and dating the bald
law
partner in one of their more pointless throwaway 'soapy' plotlines!
Since, when she attempts to utter syllables (to say nothing-and I mean
NOTHING of trying to emote), she has ZERO TV presence, it came as no
surprise that once inherent publicity of her guesting was
milked for the few molecules it was worth, no other show has attempted
to try make use of any talents beyond 'Wheel's' requirements!
Jan Smithers wasn't in "Hotel", that was Connie Selleca (another bad
actress, much worse than Smithers, imho). Smithers was married to Brolin --
twice, since the first marriage wasn't actually legal and got her brother
(who presided) into some hot water.
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"If we cease to judge this world, we may find ourselves, very quickly, in
one which is infinitely worse."
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How long was Brolin married to her? Did he leave her for Streisand? I know
Babs is a zillionaire but in my book he would have "traded down", so to speak.
I've seen him and his current wife in interviews and he comes across as the
most whipped man in America.
Smithers did make one guest appearance on "Hotel," which is where she met
Brolin.
I never saw Smithers as particularly bad, mainly because I never saw her on a
show where she *did* anything. You need more opportunities to embarrass
yourself before you can qualify for a "worst" list.
>> Smithers was married to Brolin --
>>twice, since the first marriage wasn't actually legal and got her brother
>>(who presided) into some hot water.
>>
>
>How long was Brolin married to her? Did he leave her for Streisand?
He was married to her from 1986 to 1995. He met Streisand only after the
divorce.
>Russell Cress <rcr...@home.com> wrote in message news:<3B2A5479...@home.com>...
>> Who was the worst actor(s) to ever be regulars on a major TV show. I
>> mean people with absolutely NO TALENT who belonged nowhere near a
>> network show and have gone on to only do crap or nothing since. I guess
>> the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
>>
>> For Example:
>>
>> Lindsey & Sidney Greenbush -- Little House on the Prarie (Carrie
>> Ingalls) she was so bad they had to bring in that Cassandra kid to take
>> her storylines since she couldn't handle more that one line at a time.
>> Her biggest storyline involved her being trapped in a hole for an hour.
>>
>> Marc Singer -- Dallas
>>
>> Carmen Electra -- Baywatch -- when you are on Baywatch and it's
>> noticable how bad you are, that is saying something.
>>
>>
>> OK guys, who's next?
>
Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish on the X-Files. Not only are they
horrible actors, they're downright annoying.
ANYONE from Baywatch.
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And if you remember her appearance on Married With Children was godawful as
well
Jeremey London on Party of Five. Man, was he awful!!
They make you wish the show had just been canceled, instead of living on as
some sort of horrid zombie reanimator version of itself, don't they?
>>
I would say, them's fightin' words, but she falls into the Jan Smithers "hot
bod, cold actress" role...she had a heavy Scottish accent at the beginning of
the series which she's gotten "under control" now...(under control meaning you
can understand her...)
Some might say Vincent Young, who was "Noah" on "90210." In fact, I
went through the whole thread, surprised nobody had.
I can say Kieran Culkin, since his dumb looking new show starts on
NBC, so... Kieran Culkin. I have been subjected to the tortures of
"The Mighty" and "She's All That" and he's the SAME character in both
films, and sounds like the SAME character in his new series. His other
role is as someone's son. That's all he can play.
And the Olson twins can be added, too. You can play their type of
character for so long. Plus, "Full House" reruns where they are babies
prove that they were about the DUMBEST baby "actors" ever, and no baby
"actor" comes off as a brain. Why are they paid?
Tom Cavanaugh from "Ed" can join the list, as can Thomas Gibson from
"Dharma and Greg." I wonder if a Blue Fairy comes to their window at
night and they wish upon a star to become "real" men, since they're so
wooden.
Anyway, those are a few.
She must be a victim of that alien ray that transforms Englishmen into
Scots, for she was born in London of Greek parents.
HWL
Thankfully, I missed that one but, then again, I avoided that show
like toxic waste!
>>
OK...so it was a heavy British-Greek accent...so sue me!
>>
Of course, his whole life he's had the stigma of being known only as "Macaulay
Culkin's brother," so you know bad acting is in the family genes...
No, thanks, I'll be too busy watching the Blanc Manges from the spiral
galaxy in Andromeda trying to win the Lawn Tennis Association's
Championship at Wimbledon, now that all the English are Scots.
Engulfing the competiton helps, too. There hasn't been a good Blanc Mange
tennis player since the one that ate Pancho Gonzales.
HWL
He plays the same character in every show
he is in. At least now in Family Law he has a
name that isn't Tony
Big Bad Fletch
In article <hlabadiejr-15...@a010-0158.ocla.splitrock.net>,
hlaba...@prodigy.net says...
>
>In article <3B2A5479...@home.com>, Russell Cress <rcr...@home.com> wrote:
>
>>Who was the worst actor(s) to ever be regulars on a major TV show. I
>>mean people with absolutely NO TALENT who belonged nowhere near a
>>network show and have gone on to only do crap or nothing since. I guess
>>the criteria is anyone worse than Tori Spelling.
>
>>For Example:
>
>>Lindsey & Sidney Greenbush -- Little House on the Prarie (Carrie
>>Ingalls) she was so bad they had to bring in that Cassandra kid to take
>>her storylines since she couldn't handle more that one line at a time.
>>Her biggest storyline involved her being trapped in a hole for an hour.
>
>>Marc Singer -- Dallas
>
>>Carmen Electra -- Baywatch -- when you are on Baywatch and it's
>>noticable how bad you are, that is saying something.
>
>
>
>>Ok Guys.... who's next?
>
>
>
>Robert Leeshock, Earth: Final Conflict. The adjective "wooden" has been
>used so often to describe his acting that it has been reported that
>President Clinton was about to name a national memorial forest in its
>honor when his term expired.
>
>
>Gabriel Macht, The Others. Clearly a case of talent skipping a generation.
>
>
>Jan Smithers, WKRP. Anybody seen her since that Hotel thing?
>
>
>Marina Sirtis, ST:NG. She actually improved in the part *after* the series
>ended.
>
>
>HWL
Her accent on TNG was fake, and intentionally so: she created it for
the show to make her sound more exotic, or some such.
/
:@-) Scott
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