Can You Name Some Actors Who Are Typecast?

seadoug said:
Not sure about that.

Marilyn Monroe was intelligent and intellectually curious, despite her "dumb blonde" public image. While some sources claim she had an IQ of 168, there is no documentation of her ever taking an IQ test. However, she was a voracious reader, possessed a large library, was married to playwright Arthur Miller, and demonstrated her keen intellect in other ways, such as her ability to navigate complex legal contracts for her career.
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I thought I had read that she was quite intelligent a while back too Doug but I didn't want to comment on @Nathan reply because I wasn't sure. Apparently she was a good enough actress that she "sold" that dumb blonde act very well, may she R.I.P.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
@ChiroDoc, @Pepper and @JBR I don't think I ever saw Giant and if I did, it was so long ago that I've forgotten. I did see Rebel Without A Cause though.
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My take on the persistent identification of James Dean's with the character he played in Rebel Without a Cause is that the film hugely appealed to movie goers in their teens or early twenties when the movie was released. Dean was 23 when he played the starring role, but could pass for the teenage student he portrayed.

I think Dean did a good job in the role of Joe Stark, but I believe Dean's next movie, East of Eden, and his final one, Giant, spun out better stories and Dean's acting was very impressive in both. Giant in particular presented a story with more depth, richer cultural undercurrents, and (to me) less stereotyped characters. So it effectively involves a more mature audience.

It's lengthy but gripping. I think you'd like it, Diva.
 

seadoug said:
Not sure about that.

Marilyn Monroe was intelligent and intellectually curious, despite her "dumb blonde" public image. While some sources claim she had an IQ of 168, there is no documentation of her ever taking an IQ test. However, she was a voracious reader, possessed a large library, was married to playwright Arthur Miller, and demonstrated her keen intellect in other ways, such as her ability to navigate complex legal contracts for her career.
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MM did not have the brain power of Mansfield's. She was, however, possessed of the idea of intellectual development. That's one reason she married Arthur Miller. He outlined a reading list for her, but she soon tired of it. They lasted only a few years. I was a huge MM fan, but she was of no more than average intelligence.
 
I wanted to cry when I saw Liam Neeson and Clint Eastwood when they hit the later years and still
tried to go shirtless and powerful looking in action movies. Finally Liam began doing Old Guy
roles that was keyed down.
 
MarciKS said:
Johnny Depp is always typecast for these super odd roles in movies. Movies that I don't think any other actor but him could pull off frankly.
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I used Depp as an example to my grand daughter how to tell a good actor by watching a marathon of his movies from the
1st to the last at the time. How he owns the character. Like how different his personality is in Secret Window from Jack Sparrow for
instance. In his 1st movies when he was young you could see how he held back in love scenes (seemed very uncomfortable) it was funny.
I dearly love Graham Greene and see how he was always type cast but he used that fact to bring recognition to Native Actors.
 
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I'm not sure whether Webb's film roles can be considered type casting, But after his movie debut in Laura (1944), he played every subsequent film role in the exact same manner. If you've seen him in one movie, you've seen the extent of his portrayals.
 

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