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...actor enjoys being typecast. But how to avoid it when you're a shark? Pity poor Bruce, the mechanical monster who cut his teeth on his first starring role-and various fellow players-four years ago in Jaws. Since then it's been mostly downstream for the studio fish: Jaws II, a bummer; a swim-on in a TV series; contract work in a pool on Universal's back lot eating an ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb...
Linda runs the danger of being typecast forever as a tough runt, which is exactly what she plays in her latest film, The Wanderers, a campy teen-age gang movie in which her boyfriend is a shaven-headed, 6-ft. 6-in., 425-lb. tough named Terror. One scene required her to climb a high fence, and she notes, with satisfaction, that she rejected the director's offer of a double. She has a daredevil's face, marked by a scar that runs from the bridge of her once broken nose, across her right eyelid and down nearly...
...joined the DuMont network serial Captain Video and his Video Rangers in 1950 and for the next six years, rocketed around the 23rd century universe, battling a galaxy of such villains as Mook the Moon Man and Spartak of the Black Planet. His re-entry was rough, however. Indelibly typecast as the galactic commander-he was even addressed as "Captain" while testifying in Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency in the mid-'50s-Hodge was never able to get other roles. After Video's demise in 1956, he worked as a real estate agent, a glove salesman...
...takes considerable artistic and economic courage for an established film actor to return to the stage--even in a "safe," commercial play like Strangers. But Dern has worried enough about being typecast to take that risk. Perhaps his publicly expressed feeling that there are similarities in background, education and personality between himself and Sinclair Lewis led him to overestimate Strangers, to judge it a far more significant play than it is. But Strangers does not serve the "daring" that we associate with even his most typical film performances, and perhaps no play in the commercial theater can. Film stars have...
...movie has not come any too soon for most of the Enterprise's crew, which was virtually typecast out of existence. Residuals were not commonly given to actors a decade ago. DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), an actor for nearly 30 years, simply went home. "I sort of pulled in my horns," he grimaces, "and let it roll by. We've gone through all the aches and pains of being in a hit series without being compensated for it." Where is all the TV syndication money going? Don't ask Roddenberry, who nearly went broke...