OT TV actors WELL-known for multiple roles

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  1. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I can't decide if "Step by Step" was a culturally-relevant enough show for Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers' characters thereon to earn them mention in this thread.
     
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    Ed Asner
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    What other significant TV character has he been other than Lou Grant?
     
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    James Spader from Alan Shore iin Boston Legal and the Practice to Raymond Reddington in the Blacklist. I consider him one of the finest TV actors of a generation. Anything he takes on becomes pure gold. I haven't watched TV in ages but I watched Spaders TV work on Netflix when it came out. Brilliant actor.
     
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    He was every bit as good playing Ray Manzarek as Val Kilmer was playing Jim Morrison.
     
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    Wiseguy was an average 80s police show. Good, not great. But by they brought in this actor I had never of to be the bad guy of the week and he just jumped off the screen. So much so that they wrote a large story arc around his character that lasted for almost 2 seasons.
     
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    Also, Jonathan Banks is a main character in this show if you're a Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul fan.

     
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    Really? I thought he was awful. Then again most of the characters near the end of Micheal and after Micheal were awful. My opinion.
     
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    Suzanne yes. Patrick kind of.
     
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    I loved it. Most office fans probably aren't happy with it because you can't really replace Michael Scott.
     
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    His character didn't fit in my opinion.

    The absolute worst character on that show is Zack though. My god what were they thinking?
     
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    Kind of missing the point of the thread.
     
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    Then I will delete my post..........geez, legalistic are ya...
     
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    He doesn't get much respect these days but Bill Cosby had a hell of a TV career from I Spy to the Cosby show to his own cartoon series ..little did we know at the time that he was a monster for many of those years
     
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    Ted Danson (Cheers/Becker/Curb), Betty White (Golden Girls/Mary Tyler Moore/Hot in Cleveland), Donald Glover (Community/Atlanta), Bob Einstein (Super Dave/Curb)
     
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    I'd throw his role as Michael in "The Good Place" in there as well.
     
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    I'm disappointed with myself that I didn't start this thread with Tom Selleck.
     
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    Are you referring to the character Gabe played by Zach Woods?
     
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    Lmao yes. Worst fucking character.
     
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    Im dissapointed you didnt start it off with David Hasselhoff
     
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