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Non-Actor Vehicle
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- 69 feature instances
- 60 referencing feature instances
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Hiring a big celebrity to play a starring role (not a supporting or minor one), even if it's not the sole major role, in a movie, play, or TV show. Only, this celebrity isn't known for acting. In fact, this may be the celebrity's first acting job. A close cousin of Stunt Casting, only with a bit more risk, since the stunt castee doesn't have much experience (if any), and is practically carrying the project despite that inexperience. So why is it done, despite those risks? Well, the fact is that it sometimes works (it tends to work better for stand-up comedians, singers, and pro wrestlers, being close to what they normally do for a living anyway). Also, even if the vehicle is a failure, the new actor may still have a career afterwards. You are most likely to see I Am Not Leonard Nimoy play throughout the movie. If the work is about the celebrity in Real Life, it overlaps with Autobiographical Role. If the celebrity's role is doing what they're famous for, it overlaps with Cast the Expert. |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | fetched |
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Dropped link to AmateurCast: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to AsHimself: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to Bjork: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to BritneySpears: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to CarrieUnderwood: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to CountryMusic: Not an Item - CAT | |
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Dropped link to DavidBowie: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to DirectToVideo: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to DoggedNiceGuy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to Eminem: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to FiftyCent: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to GeorgeStrait: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to GirlsGeneration: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to GreenDay: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to Haim: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to HermansHermits: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to KatherineJenkins: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to KellyClarkson: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to LadyGaga: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to LonelyRichKid: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to Macekre: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to Madonna: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to MariahCarey: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to PaulMcCartney: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to RebaMcEntire: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to StageMagician: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TeenIdol: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TheAndrewsSisters: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TheBeatles: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TheEraserheads: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TheMovie: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TheVillagePeople: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to TomWaits: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to TransparentCloset: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to TropeMaker: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to VanillaIce: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to VideoGame: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to WeirdAlYankovic: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to WhitneyHouston: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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TropeMaker | |
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VideoGame | |
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TheVillagePeople | |
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DBTropes | |
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Tina Turner as the Big Bad Auntie Entity in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. | |
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Tina Turner (Music) | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle / int_1377df | type |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day almost did this for Billy Idol. He was originally picked to play the T-1000 but had to turn down the role because of a motorcycle accident. WASP frontman Blackie Lawless was also considered for the role at one point but got turned down for being too tall. | |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle / int_1946c00a | type |
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Antonio Sabato Jr. (a former underwear model) in The Big Hit. | |
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The Big Hit | hasFeature |
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Baseball player Joe Garagiola hosted The Today Show from 1967 to 1973. This led to a surprisingly fruitful career as a television host, which also included the game shows He Said, She Said, Sale of the Century, and To Tell the Truth. | |
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Today | hasFeature |
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Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, and King Creole (plus many other movies throughout the 60s). | |
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Elvis Presley (Music) | hasFeature |
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John Denver in Oh, God!. | |
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John Denver (Music) | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Two-Lane Blacktop, starring a young James Taylor and The Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. | |
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Two-Lane Blacktop | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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The Condemned (2007), starring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. | |
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The Condemned (2007) | hasFeature |
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Batista in The Man with the Iron Fists, and after he retired from wrestling he became an actor full time. | |
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Batista (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Kurt Thomas in Gymkata, a film widely considered to be a pretty awful consolation prize for Thomas losing his chance to bring home the Gold at the 1980 Olympics, but something of a Cult Classic for its ridiculous premise. | |
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Gymkata | hasFeature |
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The Marine, then 12 Rounds, and Legendary, starring John Cena. Cena has gone on to appear in multiple non-WWE productions. | |
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The Marine | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Arian Foster in Draft Day. | |
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Draft Day | hasFeature |
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And direct-to-DVD films starring Big Show, Triple H, Mr. Kennedy, Randy Orton, The Miz, Summer Rae and Ted DiBiase Jr. | |
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Big Show (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Haywire, starring Mixed Martial Arts fighter Gina Carano. | |
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Haywire | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Almost every lead character in Dream High has a Real Life career in a singing group. This is not surprising, though, as the premise of the Korean Drama is a bunch of kids at a high school that specializes in the entertainment business (sort of like Fame). | |
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Dream High | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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I Believe in Santa Claus: French pop singer Karen Cheryl plays the Christmas Fairy and sings several songs during the movie. | |
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I Believe in Santa Claus | hasFeature |
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Oh! My Lady stars Si Won, one of the singers in the Boy Band Super Junior. His character is lampshaded as having the worst acting skills ever. | |
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Oh My Lady | hasFeature |
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Alex Cox (of Repo Man) made Straight to Hell when a musical tour of Nicaragua was canceled. A bunch of 1980s musicians and other oddballs were stuck with nothing else to do, so Cox decided to take them to Spain to make a weird and wacky Spaghetti Western parody starring, among others, Elvis Costello, The Circle Jerks, The Pogues, Amazulu, Jim Jarmusch, Grace Jones and a very young Courtney Love. Also featured in Straight to Hell was Joe Strummer, frontman for The Clash (and, for a time, the Pogues). Strummer actually appeared in several films, including a cameo (alongside Clash bandmate Mick Jones) in Martin Scorcese's The King of Comedy. | |
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Repo Man | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
Non-Actor Vehicle / int_4de42d5a | comment |
Gisele Bündchen in Taxi. | |
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Taxi (2004) | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Roddy Piper in They Live!. He ad-libbed one of the most memorable lines in the film and helped choreograph its famous fistfight. | |
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Roddy Piper (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Olivia Newton-John in Grease, though she started out her career this way as well, in the obscure film Toomorrow, a sci-fi musical starring the band she fronted at the time, also called Toomorrow, a prefab group assembled by impresario Don Kirshner after he was ousted as the music supervisor for The Monkees. | |
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Olivia Newton-John (Music) | hasFeature |
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Alexander Godunov (ballet dancer) as Daniel Hochleitner (Amish farmer and romantic rival of Harrison Ford's character, John Book) in Witness. | |
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Witness | hasFeature |
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Film critic Rex Reed was mystifyingly cast as the male version of the title character in Myra Breckinridge. | |
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Myra Breckinridge | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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See No Evil and See No Evil 2, starring Kane. | |
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See No Evil | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle / int_6cad8a0f | comment |
Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos as themselves in The 15:17 to Paris. | |
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The 15:17 to Paris | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
Non-Actor Vehicle / int_70619755 | comment |
You Are Beautiful has several, including Lee Hong Ki (a former child actor) from the group FT Island and Jung Yong Hwa from CN Blue. In a non-musical reversal, Jang G'suen Suk started as a model before the show, and just released his first music album in April 2011. | |
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You Are Beautiful | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Hamilton did play bit and cameo roles in a number of films as well, notably in the Cars franchise and in Zoolander 2. And as a mechanic in Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare of all things. | |
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Cars (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Grace Vanderwaal, the teenage singer-songwriter who won America's Got Talent, playing the title character in the Disney+ adaptation of Stargirl. | |
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America's Got Talent | hasFeature |
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Gerry and the Pacemakers in Ferry Cross the Mersey. | |
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Ferry Cross the Mersey | hasFeature |
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Two big vehicles for Shaquille O'Neal: Kazaam and Steel. His first film, Blue Chips, had him in a supporting role (along with Penny Hardaway). | |
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Kazaam | hasFeature |
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Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby took a turn playing the title character in the Peter Pan stage musical in 1974 — and did so well that she's played the role in various productions well into The New '10s! | |
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Peter Pan (1954) (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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Ray Allen in He Got Game. | |
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He Got Game | hasFeature |
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Blood Harvest stars Tiny Tim as a mentally unstable clown. | |
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Blood Harvest | hasFeature |
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Soderbergh did this for himself in his surreal 1996 comedy Schizopolis, which stars the man himself in not one but two roles. Underneath all its weird and surreal humor, it's really about Soderbergh examining the crumbling of his marriage (his real-life ex-wife appears as his character's wife) as well as his anxieties about the future of his directing career in the wake of a series of flops following his debut sex, lies, and videotape | |
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sex, lies, and videotape | hasFeature |
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Purple Rain, created as a showcase for the singer Prince and based on his album of the same name. It won an award for Best Original Song Score. | |
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Purple Rain | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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The 2010 The A-Team film cast former UFC champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as B.A. Baracus, filling the shoes of Mr. T, who was also known for his tough-guy exploits before getting into acting. Jackson had done a few films before, such as a memorable cameo in The Midnight Meat Train. | |
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The A-Team | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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The Oscar gave singer Tony Bennett a significant "introducing/as" credit. He never appeared in another feature film. | |
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The Oscar | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Anime example: woman pro-wrestler Cutey Suzuki as the voice of Iczer-3. | |
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Iczer | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
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Pictured: Carol Heiss in Snow White and the Three Stooges was an attempt to make her the next Sonja Henie. It, unfortunately, didn't work out that well; The Three Stooges weren't even brought in until the studio realized Heiss couldn't carry the movie. | |
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Snow White and the Three Stooges | hasFeature |
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Non-Actor Vehicle | |
Non-Actor Vehicle / int_a73e9043 | comment |
Brazilian soccer star Breno Mello and track & field athlete Adhemar da Silvain in Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). | |
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Black Orpheus | hasFeature |
Non-Actor Vehicle / int_a73e9043 | |
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Outside of Moonwalker, that was all about him anyway, Michael Jackson only ever played the Scarecrow in The Wiz. Well, and the eponymous Captain EO, who was basically Michael Jackson IN SPACE!. | |
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Swimmer Esther Williams started a similar screen career with a supporting part in Andy Hardy's Double Life. A series of star vehicles followed, starting with Bathing Beauty. | |
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Not really "acting", but in 1989, Rolf Benirschke of the San Diego Chargers was picked to host the daytime network version of Wheel of Fortune while Pat Sajak continued to host the nighttime syndicated version (which he does to this day). It remains, to date, Rolf's only TV role. | |
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The Dave Clark Five in Catch Us If You Can. | |
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Saturday Night Live has had many famous sports stars come on and host the show, dating back to football player Fran Tarkenton in the second season. The record is mixed. Some have been forgettable but some did really well, like Peyton Manning with an iconic fake United Way commercial in 2007, or Joe Montana with the "Sincere Guy Stu" sketch, one of the most famous SNL sketches of all time. | |
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Lime Street is largely remembered for starring Samantha Smith, a young girl from Maine whose letter to Yuri Andropov made international headlines and caused her to detour into youth activism. Smith also appeared on an episode of Charles in Charge. | |
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Pioneering Reggae star Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come. | |
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The other was Merlin in 1983, based around the character from Arthurian Legend, but young and inexperienced. It also featured Chita Rivera as an evil sorceress and was the Broadway debut of Nathan Lane. It was a critical and commercial flop, notorious for having an exceptionally long preview period without officially opening, and while still charging full ticket prices (much like Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark did, years later). | |
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Howie Long in Firestorm (1998). | |
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Slight variant with Venezuelan rock singer Paul Gillman, who had a prolific Latin Spanish dubbing career for some time (notably being the original Latin Spanish voice of Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants) | |
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Suzy of miss A in The Gu Family Book. | |
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Several members of AKB48 took part in the anime AKB0048. Quite a few of them had no acting experience up until then. | |
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Hulk Hogan in No Holds Barred, leading to other films: Suburban Commando, Mr Nanny, and Santa with Muscles. | |
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Lily Cole as the monster in the Doctor Who episode "The Curse of the Black Spot", in which she has little to do but waft around and glare at people. | |
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Dee Snider in the horror movie Strangeland, which he wrote himself. | |
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While she was was co-hosting The Talk, CBS drafted Amanda Kloots to star in their Hallmark Channel-like 2022 Romantic Comedy Made-for-TV Movie Fit for Christmas. Her only other screen acting role before that was a small part in The Irishman. | |
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Sting starred in the 1982 adaptation of Brimstone And Treacle (The Police recorded three songs for its soundtrack, and Sting contributed two solos) and 1985's The Bride, and had supporting roles or cameos in Quadrophenia, Dune, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. | |
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Triple H also played one of the lead vampires in Blade: Trinity, while Steve Austin was part of the giant ensemble of action heroes in The Expendables, more because of their physically intimidating presence than any particular acting chops and experience. | |
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Icona Pop in Trolls. | |
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A downplayed example with Smallfoot, as the film already has an All-Star Cast, but among the top-billed cast is the previously mentioned LeBron James. | |
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Ring of Fear gives starring roles to circus owner/lion tamer Clyde Beatty and mystery writer Mickey Spillane. Spillane later starred as his own literary creation Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters. | |
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The late Brazilian football legend Pelé co-starred in the World War II sports drama Escape to Victory alongside Sylvester Stallone, obviously showing what he and his fellow football star actors do best. Though prior to that, he also actually starred in a telenovela in his home country called Os Estranhos about first contact with aliens of all things. | |
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Dwayne Johnson just had a small part in The Mummy Returns, but was then given the main role in The Scorpion King. He's had a successful acting career since then, to the point that he's not even credited as "The Rock" anymore.note Though this is more due to WWE trademarking their talents' ring names, which perhaps accounts for why some wrestlers use their real name as their in-ring name instead. | |
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The action movie Bet Your Life was made to showcase the 'talents' of Sean Carrigan and Corinne Van Ryck de Groot: the male and female winners of the Reality Show Next Action Star. | |
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Mick Jagger in Performance and Ned Kelly | |
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A large number of the characters in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were played by professional musicians, most notably having Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees as the lead characters. Notably, the film originally had spoken dialogue alongside its songs, but due to the lack of acting experience had by most of the cast it was taken out; in the final product, the only character that actually speaks is George Burns' Mr. Kite (who narrates the film). | |
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Galaxina had Dorothy R. Stratten, Playboy Playmate of the Year 1980, prominently cast as the title character. | |
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Dennis Rodman in Double Team (second-billed to Jean-Claude Van Damme) and later Simon Sez. | |
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Dani Filth, lead singer of Cradle of Filth, plays a central role in Cradle of Fear: albeit a role that mostly requires him to look scary and has minimal dialogue. The rest of the band has come roles in the movie. | |
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