Television actors and actresses who also had careers in film.

[terrya]

Most people, if they remember, remember Agnes Moorhead only as Endora on "Bewitched". But she also had a pretty decent film career...she was in two of Orson Welles' films, "Citizen Kane" and "The Magnificent Ambersons". She was also in Douglas Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows" as Jane Wyman's best friend.

Ok, I'm bored here at work. Not the most scintillating Lounge post ever.

[Phillycat]

1. A more recent one: Edward Hermann...

I only knew him as the grandfather on Gilmore Girls. I had no idea he had such a varied and extensive film career! He's a great actor. :)

[madinmaryland]

2. Kirstie Alley.

Not to stir up the Fat Actress!

[Orrex]

3. Peter Boyle

[Beausoleil]

4. There are quite a few

Robin Williams
Sally Field
Tom Hanks
are three of the biggest that come to mind

[DS1]

5. George Clooney, Mimi Rogers

mmmm



Mimi Rogers :drool:

[JohnCheg]

6. Is George Clooney Mimi Rogers?

?

[Sock Puppet]

7. why yes

didn't you know that?

[trof]

8. Lucy and Desi.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. James Garner moved between TV and Film for decades.

[underpants]

10. James Spader, Sally Field, Natasha Henstridge, Keifer, just to name a few

[Richardo]

11. Clint Eastwood

Started on 'Rawhide', then became something of a film star I'm told. :)

[Bennyboy]

12. Ted Danson!

I see he is a new movie out right now. he was in 3 men and a baby too...

[ILovePizza]

13. Anglea Lansbury, Babara Stanwick

[CBHagman]

14. Barbara Stanwyck.

One of the great film actresses of the first half of the 20th century, Stanwyck also had a memorable television career, playing matriarchs on the series The Big Valley and the miniseries The Thorn Birds.

And speaking of matriarchs, there's Jane Wyman, an Academy Award winner for Johnny Belinda, who also starred in the '80s evening soap Falcon Crest.

Many, many actors have started on stage and possibly in TV and then gone to film, and some have started on stage and in film and then gone to TV.

[mitchum]

23. Absolutely...my first prolonged exposure to her was as a somewhat campy...

older lady from television.
However, several years ago, I started watching her great film work from the 30s, 40s, 50s.
Phenomenal.

[av8rdave]

15. How bout Tom Hanks

He's had a modestly successful movie career. He started out in some sitcom about guys dressing as girls - to get into a sorority house, I think.

[CreekDog]

24. Women's only apartment building in NYC

did he play Buffy or Hildegard?

:rofl:

[av8rdave]

33. I can't remember...I only remember the basic premise

[av8rdave]

16. Almost forgot....Bill Shatner

[meegbear]

17. Tuesday Weld and Warren Beatty ...

Tuesday Weld as Thalia Menniger and Warren Beatty as Milton Armitage in the first season of Dobie Gillis.

[China_cat]

18. Chris Reeves did a soap opera

as did Tommy Lee Jones (Love of Life and One Life to Live respectively).

[hickman]

19. Hugh Laurie

He's kind of back and forth.

[Bake]

20. Going back a few ... Dick Van Dyke

Bake

[LynneSin]

21. George Clooney (with pics from some of his past TV shows)

Facts of Life

[CreekDog]

25. Mckenzie Astin too (since you posted that picture)

minor TV career, minor movie career

[mitchum]

22. Walter Brennan who received 3 Oscars for his film work...

also, Oscar winners Ernest Borgnine and Shirley Booth

[Seeking Serenity]

26. Alan Alda

Wasn't he in some teevee show of note?

[steelemagnolia]

27. Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin and Joan Crawford come to mind eom

[steelemagnolia]

28. Oh, and Wilford Brimley eom

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. Tom Hanks. nt

[sakabatou]

30. Will Smith

[KansDem]

31. Fred MacMurray

Did some wonderful film work. "Double Indemnity" comes to mind.

Then he got on that awful "My Three Sons" TeeVee show...:puke:

[Seeking Serenity]

32. And "The Caine Mutiny" (n/t)

[Mike03]

34. David Duchovney keeps trying...

There's also George Clooney, who is probably the most successful example I can think of off the top of my head. Bruce Willis, too.

Keifer Sutherland did exactly the reverse: began on the big screen but migrated to television, where he did far better.

[Mike03]

35. Jaqueline Bissett?

Didn't she start on out TV?

It took the director John Huston to bring out her skills, but when he did, she turned out to be incredible.