Weekend March 25, 2018
Our previous post featured an interview with Pat Morita. He described how he nearly missed being cast as Mr. Miyagi. It is impossible to imagine anyone else playing the role after you see the movie. The producer admitted he nearly made the mistake of his life. But his point of view POV was that Morita was a comedian form Happy Days. He wanted an actor. As it turns out, Morita was a better actor than the producer imagined.
As accountants we are all subject to prejudice. Oh he or she is just a bean counter with no imagination or appreciation for the finer aspects of well life. What is the old saying,
the know only the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
Here are a few examples of individuals who managed to over come this sort of bias.
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan had a career spanning six decades.
He appeared in over 100 films and several TV series. But it was the break out role as Col. Sherman T Potter, regular Army, on MASH that made his move from journeyman actor to star.
Richard Crenna
Crenna had more roles than I remember when one reads this article.
But my memory is that he was stuck as Luck McCoy 1957-63 in a tv comedy series. He just never could quite get off that Ford 9N tractor.
But he would have to wait until being cast as Col Sam Trautman in 1982'x Rambo to gain real fame on the big screen. So it took another 20 years or a another generation who had no knowledge of the McCoys for Crenna to find a new audience.
Louis Gossett Jr.
This actor had many films under his belt but again it was the break through 1982 movie, An Officer and a Gentleman, that launched him to stardom.
Bingo, see what I mean? Louis finally captured that role of a lifetime that made him known to all.
George C . Scott
Scott had memorable roles in Dr Strangelove and Anatomy of a Murder.
But it was the break out role as Patton that made him a star.
For some reason the clips I pulled up on you tube had no audio, go to youtube.com and put in patton speech.
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood played Rowdy Yates on Rawhide 1959 - 1965
Note the socionomic angle here, 1965was one year from the top of the social mood which took the DJIA to 1,000.
Eastwood navigated the move from positive mood 19481966 to negative mood with the Man with No Name better than anyone.
He then wisely returned to the US doing a series of westerns, Hang Em High, Two Mules for Sister Sarah, and then gained control of his career by directing and starring in
Not so lucky
Bob Denver
Robert Osbourne Denver (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005) was an American comedic actor. He is known for having portrayed Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island and the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denver
Success in television causes actors to believe they can make the move to the big screen. In my memory, only James Garner or John Goodman was able to move from the small to the large screen and then back again with success.
Sally Struthers as the daughter on All in the Family thought fame awaited on the Silver Screen , only to come back to the series two years later.
McLean Stevenson left MASH which gave Harry Morgan his chance, only to find absolutely nothing.
My Message
Do not let your self get type cast.Develop other interest and hobbies. Do no let yourself be identified as
an
Accountant
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