millennium February 24, 2017 Share February 24, 2017 On 5/25/2015 at 2:31 AM, Snowprince said: Peter Firth shall forever be MI-5's Sir Harry Pearce. And yet, he was Pontius Pilate in some Jesus movie I just saw -- Risen. He dispatches an operative to go out and track down Jesus's body, and I'm thinking, You should really give this one to Tom and Zoe ... 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3019429
Misslindsey February 24, 2017 Share February 24, 2017 Mine overlaps with music, but I can never take Drake very seriously because he will always be Jimmy Brooks from Degrassi to me. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3020002
navelgazer February 24, 2017 Share February 24, 2017 Famke Janssen is Jean Grey for me, even though I really liked her as Kamala in ST:TNG. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3020042
ratgirlagogo February 24, 2017 Share February 24, 2017 (edited) 16 hours ago, navelgazer said: Kamala in ST:TNG. I always think of her as Kamala since that episode resonated so strongly with me when I first saw it. I know it's usually seen as a sexist episode but my takeaway was that we ALL adjust ourselves to the people we spend our time with - so you should carefully choose who that is. "I like myself when I'm with him." You should choose friends and companions who allow you to be the best version of yourself. Edited February 24, 2017 by ratgirlagogo 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3022082
ohjoy February 25, 2017 Share February 25, 2017 Barbara Bacock was in many different things during her career, but weirdly, I only ever recognize her as Joe and Brian Hackett's mother on Wings. I think she was only on one episode, but it must have been during my formative TV years, because that's the role that stuck with me. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3023923
tribeca March 7, 2017 Share March 7, 2017 The actor who stabbed Lucy and Carter on ER. He has been in many shows and movies but I can never forget his face when he stabbed Carter 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3055520
ari333 March 7, 2017 Share March 7, 2017 Kelsey will always be, "Frasier." Shelley Long will always be "Diane." 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3055705
paulvdb June 27, 2017 Share June 27, 2017 Watching iZombie reminded me that Jason Dohring will alway be Logan Echolls. It doesn't help that both shows were created by Rob Thomas and have a blonde female main character who solves crimes and does voice-overs, but I felt the same way when I saw him on The Originals. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3408677
Winter Rose June 27, 2017 Share June 27, 2017 I know Jared Padalecki is better known for Supernatural but since I've never seen it, he's Dean Forester to me. Which is funny because Supernatural has a Dean too so I refer to him as Dean from Gilmore Girls and not!Dean from Supernatural. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3409157
slf June 27, 2017 Share June 27, 2017 James Marsters will always be Spike. He neither looks nor sounds right in other roles. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3409673
festivus June 28, 2017 Share June 28, 2017 I haven't seen James Marsters in much besides Buffy but I thought he was really good in Torchwood, he didn't remind me of Spike at all. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3410898
SmithW6079 July 9, 2017 Share July 9, 2017 Susan Lucci will never be anything but Erica Kane. I've heard she's a lovely woman, but she's not a great actress. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3440667
Raja July 10, 2017 Share July 10, 2017 Dana Delany is Captain Colleen McMurphy R.N. assigned to the 510th Evacuation Hospital at "China Beach" 9 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3442730
Hellohappylife December 28, 2017 Share December 28, 2017 On 2/17/2017 at 5:18 PM, QTBlueMoon said: Jason Bateman will play the same character no matter what he's in, only the name is changed. I know this is old but the same could go for Kevin James 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3921695
bmasters9 December 28, 2017 Share December 28, 2017 (edited) I got that CBS/Paramount all-in-one DVD of Vega$ (1978-81 ABC detective/adventure series w/the late Robert Urich), and after seeing the first several second-season episodes of that series, I'm beginning to think that I cannot see Robert Urich as anything beyond Dan Tanna. Edited December 28, 2017 by bmasters9 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3921771
theredhead77 December 28, 2017 Share December 28, 2017 Amanda Tapping will always be Samantha Carter. I watched Sanctuary and despite changing her hair and adding an accent I had a hell of a time separating the two of them. Michael Shanks will always be Daniel Jackson. I see Saving Hope is on ION now and I keep trying to get caught up but I can't do it. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3922040
kathyk24 December 28, 2017 Share December 28, 2017 27 minutes ago, theredhead77 said: Amanda Tapping will always be Samantha Carter. I watched Sanctuary and despite changing her hair and adding an accent I had a hell of a time separating the two of them. Michael Shanks will always be Daniel Jackson. I see Saving Hope is on ION now and I keep trying to get caught up but I can't do it. Amanda Tapping is the awesome Helen Magnus from Sanctuary. If you are looking for a new science fiction series I recommend it highly. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3922092
theredhead77 December 28, 2017 Share December 28, 2017 2 minutes ago, kathyk24 said: Amanda Tapping is the awesome Helen Magnus from Sanctuary. If you are looking for a new science fiction series I recommend it highly. I agree, I loved Sanctuary. I just had a hard time seeing Tapping as someone other than Carter with different hair and accent. It didn't help that I had spent the prior better part of a year marathoning literally all of Stargate for the first time when Sanctuary came into my life. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3922103
topanga January 7, 2018 Share January 7, 2018 I liked Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell, and I loved him as Mike Lawson on Pitch. I know it’s the same actor, but I must have some kind of cognitive dissonance going on—my mind can’t accept that it’s the same actor. I know MPG looks different now than he did in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but it’s not just that. He actually feels like a different person to me. I guess that’s called acting. LOL. The only things I find the same are his voice (somewhat similar)and the way his eyes get all crinkly and adorable when he smiles. 9 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3944905
bmasters9 January 7, 2018 Share January 7, 2018 After finishing all of that 1974-76 NBC legal series Petrocelli on DVD, I am ever the more convinced that Barry Newman will always and forever be defense lawyer Anthony J. Petrocelli to me; I'm not that sure that I would care for anything else that Newman did. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3945030
blueray January 7, 2018 Share January 7, 2018 Amanda Tapping, I was just watching travelers which she guest starred in. Every time she came on screen I just saw her and it took me out of the show. I didn't have this problem in Sanctuary or Sg-1. But I suppose she was a regular then. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3945055
bmasters9 January 7, 2018 Share January 7, 2018 On 7/19/2014 at 7:00 AM, Snowprince said: He had a longer tenure as DS9's Captain Sisko, but for me Avery Brooks will always and forever be Spencer For Hire's Hawk. Same for me w/Susan Howard: she was on O-R Dallas on CBS from 1979-87 as Donna Culver Krebbs, but to me, she was better as Maggie Petrocelli in Petrocelli on NBC. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3945161
raezen January 8, 2018 Share January 8, 2018 On 16/02/2017 at 3:20 PM, abstractstuff said: Ed O'Neill is Ed Bundy Actually he was Al Bundy, there wasn't an Ed Bundy but there was a Ted Bundy in real life..... 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3945661
Snowprince January 13, 2018 Share January 13, 2018 (edited) On 2/25/2017 at 7:38 AM, garnetarden said: Barbara Bacock was in many different things during her career, but weirdly, I only ever recognize her as Joe and Brian Hackett's mother on Wings. I think she was only on one episode, but it must have been during my formative TV years, because that's the role that stuck with me. For me, she'll always be Grace Gardner of Hill Street Blues. Edited January 13, 2018 by Snowprince 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3962339
meep.meep January 16, 2018 Share January 16, 2018 "Mouse kisses, Grace" best line of TV dialog ever! Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3967280
xaxat January 17, 2018 Share January 17, 2018 Have Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles been mentioned? Because, at this point, I'm beginning to think that show will never end. 10 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3973033
kassygreene January 18, 2018 Share January 18, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, xaxat said: Have Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles been mentioned? Because, at this point, I'm beginning to think that show will never end. You do know that that show will never end, right? Edited January 18, 2018 by kassygreene 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-3973921
bmasters9 February 1, 2018 Share February 1, 2018 Also, after completing all of Wanted: Dead or Alive (from Mill Creek's special-edition all-in-one DVD of that 1958-61 CBS Western), I think I can only see the late, great Steve McQueen as Josh Randall, bounty hunter. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4017616
Snowprince July 8, 2018 Share July 8, 2018 Despite Breaking Bad or Malcom in the Middle whenever I see Bryan Cranston on screen, I see Buzz Aldrin in From the Earth to the Moon. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4471954
kassygreene July 8, 2018 Share July 8, 2018 8 minutes ago, Snowprince said: Despite Breaking Bad or Malcom in the Middle whenever I see Bryan Cranston on screen, I see Buzz Aldrin in From the Earth to the Moon. I always see Ericcson in Babylon 5. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4471961
Macbeth July 8, 2018 Share July 8, 2018 On January 17, 2018 at 4:16 PM, xaxat said: Have Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles been mentioned? Because, at this point, I'm beginning to think that show will never end. Supernatural will definitely outlive all of us. 12 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4472143
blueray July 8, 2018 Share July 8, 2018 On 1/17/2018 at 4:16 PM, xaxat said: Have Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles been mentioned? Because, at this point, I'm beginning to think that show will never end. It's funny because both of them I know better for other roles. Jarad: is still Dean from Gilmore girls. Jensen: as Jason in Smallville. I've remember watching the pilot of Supernatural when it first aired and not getting into it. Wow that was forever ago. I was a kid then. I can't believe it is still on. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4473522
Snowprince July 9, 2018 Share July 9, 2018 Hanging not seen her in anything else, Jaime Presley is My Name is Earl's Joy Turner by default. Quote 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4475290
Chaos Theory August 21, 2018 Share August 21, 2018 I always thought it wasn’t fair to typecast actors especially ones you like. I tend to do the opposite. I follow the ones I really like to new projects and give tv shows I wouldn’t otherwise have tried a chance if an actor or more likely an actress I like is playing a large roll in it. 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4607402
Ceindreadh August 22, 2018 Share August 22, 2018 13 hours ago, Chaos Theory said: I always thought it wasn’t fair to typecast actors especially ones you like. I tend to do the opposite. I follow the ones I really like to new projects and give tv shows I wouldn’t otherwise have tried a chance if an actor or more likely an actress I like is playing a large roll in it. I’ve happened across a number of good shows and movies that way. Some crap as well! 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4609348
MissAlmond August 23, 2018 Share August 23, 2018 Back in the heyday of the TV miniseries, when discussing a show afterward, my family always called an actor's character by their more well known TV ones. This got weird and funny at times. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4612731
QueerGirrl August 23, 2018 Share August 23, 2018 I still do that! 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4613476
Browncoat August 23, 2018 Share August 23, 2018 I saw Dale Dickey in a really good movie the other night (called Leave No Trace), and all I could think of when I saw her was Patty the Daytime Hooker from My Name Is Earl. Her character in the movie was absolutely nothing like Patty. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4614356
WarnerCL45 August 28, 2018 Share August 28, 2018 I see that Jim Halpert is starring as Jack Ryan. No. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4625402
enoughcats November 18, 2018 Share November 18, 2018 On 8/23/2018 at 3:38 PM, Browncoat said: I saw Dale Dickey in a really good movie the other night (called Leave No Trace), and all I could think of when I saw her was Patty the Daytime Hooker from My Name Is Earl. Her character in the movie was absolutely nothing like Patty. If you are torn by that Dale Dickey disjunct, you need to see Winter's Bone. (In agreement about Leave No Trace). 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4853629
millennium November 18, 2018 Share November 18, 2018 On 12/28/2017 at 10:17 AM, bmasters9 said: I got that CBS/Paramount all-in-one DVD of Vega$ (1978-81 ABC detective/adventure series w/the late Robert Urich), and after seeing the first several second-season episodes of that series, I'm beginning to think that I cannot see Robert Urich as anything beyond Dan Tanna. I would have agreed up to Spenser For Hire. Poor Robert Urich. He was a nice guy who died too young. 9 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4853935
Browncoat November 18, 2018 Share November 18, 2018 13 hours ago, enoughcats said: you need to see Winter's Bone. That was an excellent film. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4854306
ByTor November 18, 2018 Share November 18, 2018 On 8/22/2018 at 11:01 PM, MissAlmond said: Back in the heyday of the TV miniseries, when discussing a show afterward, my family always called an actor's character by their more well known TV ones. When I saw Eric Braeden in Titanic, I said "Hey, there's Victor Newman!" 12 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4854749
Raja November 19, 2018 Share November 19, 2018 6 hours ago, ByTor said: When I saw Eric Braeden in Titanic, I said "Hey, there's Victor Newman!" You're wrong he is Hauptmann Deitrich. A German but not a Nazi officer fighting the Rat Patrol in North Africa 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4856401
opus November 19, 2018 Share November 19, 2018 Valerie Bertinelli will always and forever be Barbara Cooper. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4856447
ByTor November 19, 2018 Share November 19, 2018 10 hours ago, Raja said: You're wrong he is Hauptmann Deitrich. A German but not a Nazi officer fighting the Rat Patrol in North Africa LOL even knowing that he did Rat Patrol 1st, if I ever saw Pat Patrol I'd probably say "Hey, there's Victor Newman!" :) 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4857014
meep.meep November 20, 2018 Share November 20, 2018 Even to those of us who also think of him as Robin Scherbatsky's father, he's still Victor Newman. Not surprising, he's been playing the role for almost 30 years. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4858383
Bastet November 20, 2018 Share November 20, 2018 It's kind of the nature of soaps; even if they don't play a character that long, you see them multiple days a week for at least a year, usually. Anyone I knew from Guiding Light is forever their GL character to me, no matter what they've gone on to do. In that same repeated exposure vein, and anyone who guest starred on a show I re-watch repeatedly is permanently that character to me (in terms of immediate and primary association, not that I actually can't watch them in another role without thinking of them as that one role) no matter how many things I'd seen them in before that role. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4858417
Bort November 20, 2018 Share November 20, 2018 In the soap vein, Sarah Michelle Gellar has never truly been Buffy to me. She’s Kendall Hart. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4858644
Annber03 November 20, 2018 Share November 20, 2018 3 hours ago, kariyaki said: In the soap vein, Sarah Michelle Gellar has never truly been Buffy to me. She’s Kendall Hart. Same. Either that or Helen from I Know What You Did Last Summer, one of the two. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/11228-tunnel-vision-actors-who-you-could-never-see-outside-of-that-one-role/page/6/#findComment-4859532
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