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Trapped Actors Quiz

These actors may have done other stuff, but they will never escape the roles that made them famous. We give you the role, you tell us who did it.
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First submittedAugust 21, 2012
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Role
Actor
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Patrick Stewart
Joey Tribbiani
Matt LeBlanc
Jack Bauer
Kiefer Sutherland
Harry Potter
Daniel Radcliffe
Kramer in "Seinfeld"
Michael Richards
Spock
Leonard Nimoy
Ivan Drago
Dolph Lundgren
Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill
Urkel in "Family Matters"
Jaleel White
McDreamy
Patrick Dempsey
Dwight in "The Office"
Rainn Wilson
Tony Soprano
James Gandolfini
Crocodile Dundee
Paul Hogan
Stifler
Seann William Scott
MacGyver
Richard Dean Anderson
Edward from "Twilight"
Robert Pattinson
Frodo
Elijah Wood
Kevin in "The Wonder Years"
Fred Savage
Jack McCoy in "Law & Order"
Sam Waterston
Samantha in "Sex and the City"
Kim Cattrall
Buffy from
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (TV)
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Screech
Dustin Diamond
Sam in "Quantum Leap"
Scott Bakula
The Fonz
Henry Winkler
jmellor13
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Level 67
Oct 1, 2012
More people know Richard Dean Anderson than Sam Waterston?! Come on, man!!!!
fuanacdc
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Level 84
Sep 18, 2014
I'm not sure why you think that is surprising.
sillie
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Level 77
Oct 20, 2014
Sam who? I know Law and Order, I think, but wouldn't be able to name a single cast member. Whereas McGyver ... It's not just Stargate you know!
PoetsCorner
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Level 85
Apr 21, 2022
Sam Waterston was a legendary Shakespearean actor on the American stage for decades before Law and Order.
latesleeper
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Level 36
Oct 1, 2012
MacGyver is more iconic.
HighFidelity
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Level 57
Oct 2, 2012
There will be inevitable arguments that a number of these actors did manage to break away from their most famous role which may or may not have merit, but I think suggesting that Kiefer Sutherland wasn't famour until "24" might be going a bit far!
texasforever
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Level 60
Dec 1, 2015
Agreed, to me he's always Ace from Stand by Me! His first big role, after all.
Chickendragon
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Level 43
Feb 4, 2016
and David from The Lost Boys as well.
Flindosy
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Level 20
Jan 30, 2013
I don't know about Mark Hamill. I'd say he's pretty well known as the voice of the joker.
buck1017
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Level 77
Feb 12, 2013
I didn't know he was the voice of the joker until about 3 months ago.
travelfan
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Level 67
May 4, 2014
I didn't know Hamil was the voice of the Joker until I read this comment. I had actually never heard of a single othr thing h'd done besides Star Wars.
ferdy86
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Level 76
Feb 3, 2016
Come on. Everybody remembers "Corvette Summer"...hahahaha
Walacama
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Level 81
Aug 22, 2017
Even after reading this comment I still don't know that he is the voice of the joker.
NikkiiStar88
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Level 25
Aug 24, 2018
what about as Cocknocker? lol
jmaddog
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Level 33
Feb 12, 2013
in what movie/show did Mark Hamill play Joker? i had no idea, but he is way better known for Luke Skywalker. Speaking of Joker, why not include Heath Ledger?
plattitude
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Level 92
Oct 9, 2013
For the same reaon Sutherland shouldn't be on this list--although the role is iconic, it did not make him famous.
CorkSpork
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Level 72
Apr 26, 2013
So I looked up Mark Hamill because I couldn't think of anything he's in besides Star Wars. Shocked to see IMDB has him listed for 246 titles as an actor (including the Nickelodeon series Avatar. Fire Lord Ozai FTW!)
JWatson24
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Level 71
Aug 3, 2021
It might surprise you how many famous people were in Avatar. George Takei, J.K. Simmons, and even Serena Williams had voice roles!
TheWombat
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Level 74
Nov 18, 2013
Surely Leonard Nimoy is better known for the Hobbit song?
LadyScroop
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Level 65
Sep 27, 2014
That is the best worst thing that ever existed
TheGreyAvenger
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Level 32
Feb 20, 2014
Really Patrick Stewart, i thought he'd be more known as Professor Xavier
travelfan
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Level 67
May 4, 2014
Stewart and Bakula are the two who presence on the list I'm unsure about as both have two highly iconic roles: Stewart also had Professor X, as you said, and Bakula had Captain Archer in Star Trek Enterprise (That's actually how I remembered him, I went "oh, I think it was Enterprise's captain who was in that Quantum Leap series, what was his name already?"
Jacko77
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Level 32
Apr 8, 2014
No Zac Efron (High School Musical) or Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter).
joeythelemur
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Level 84
Sep 5, 2014
Radcliffe is on there, look again.
burntfrost
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Level 48
Jun 1, 2014
I have no idea who Ivan Drago is.
fuanacdc
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Level 84
Sep 18, 2014
"I must break you"
NikkiiStar88
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Level 25
Aug 24, 2018
not alone
sillie
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Level 77
Oct 20, 2014
Cool. I was typing "Scott Bacula" and I got a bonus answer :)
SkyLord
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Level 22
Mar 5, 2015
Live Long and Prosper (Leonard Nimoy, in honour of his death)
Elan
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Level 65
May 3, 2017
I actually associate Henry Winkler with his other works...
JohnOfili
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Level 41
Aug 23, 2017
Accept R-Patz for Pattinson? I've always referred to him as that.
Sealantmajor
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Level 54
Oct 21, 2017
To contradict this quiz I also know Elijah Wood in the Sin City movie and I know Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, as well as Dolph Lundgren in the Expendables and as Russian soldier Nikolai Radchenko. I think it's fair to add Mark Hamill as he hasn't really done much in live acting other than Star Wars.
NikkiiStar88
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Level 25
Aug 24, 2018
Mark Hamill was in jay and silent bob strike back as Cocknocker ... that is all i can see when i see him now ... I knew Elijah Wood as Sandy from Flipper, Kevin from Sin City, Casey from the Faculty and most recently Todd from Dirk Gently lol ... Sarah Michelle Geller yes i knew her from Scooby Doo but to me she is Buffy as she was a big part of my childhood ...
ScottDozenNo
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Level 56
Dec 16, 2017
Gotta disagree with Patrick Stewart. He's "trapped" as Professor Xavier for a whole new generation of folk.
NikkiiStar88
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Level 25
Aug 24, 2018
To the Elders like me (at 30 lol) He is Jean-Luc Picard - to the younger generation he is Professor X ... however he is bringing Picard back so you never know lol
samiamco
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Level 69
Dec 23, 2017
I think it's kind of unfair to peg young actors to lifelong movie roles, claiming that's all they'll ever be known for, when they'd barely reached drinking age at the time, and still very active acting careers. For example, Daniel Radcliffe has had a boatload of staring roles since he wrapped up Harry Potter (at the ripe old age of 21), and shows no sign of slowing down. Elijah Wood, on the other hand, was quite a noted child actor *before* he played Frodo, which again, he finished around age 22; he's also continued to act vigorously since then. (I'd also argue that Robert Pattinson is likely to outgrow Edward, should he continue to act, which he shows all signs of doing.) || In general, I think this quiz is way too subjective. Aside from the young-actor problem noted above, many of the listed actors' role notability is quite variable depending on age, region of the world, and viewing preferences (TV vs. film vs. stage) of the audience.
NikkiiStar88
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Level 25
Aug 24, 2018
See Robert i knew more as Cedric Diggery than Edward ... but yeah i am sure they will all grow out of their casting ...
Djilas
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Level 82
Oct 25, 2018
Well the quiz may be reviewed in 10 years or something but currently Wood and Radcliffe are known for fantasy roles.
sumguy
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Level 84
Jul 20, 2018
I think, at this point, more people remember Enterprise than Quantum Leap. Bakula would get more responses if the clue was for Captain Archer.
FolgoreCZ
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Level 60
Jan 19, 2019
Some of those I don't even know, so I can't really tell. I highly agree with LeBlanc, Nimoy, Hamill, Hogan and Scott. Some are disputable, I agree with Lundgren, since it is really his only "named" role. He is known from other movies, but more as an actor, not as a character. However, I strongly disagree with Stewart, saying he is trapped as JLP and ignoring Prof.X is like saying Harrison Ford is trapped as Han Solo and ignoring Indiana Jones. I also disagree with R.D. Anderson. MacGyver made him famous, but he is much widely known for Stargate.

I would suggest to add or replace someone with Peter Weller as Robocop, Christopher Reeve as Superman, Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia or Sam Neil as Alan Grant.

PoetsCorner
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Level 85
Apr 21, 2022
The notion that Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia belongs on this list is bizarre. While it may be his most famous role, he isn't remotely trapped into it and is certainly well known for his other work, as his EIGHT Oscar nominations should attest.

Most notable are his two completely different interpretations of King Henry II in Becket (1964) and Lion in Winter (1968).

Tatoyokai
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Level 16
Apr 14, 2022
Robert Pattinson is also Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter 4 who was released before Twilight movies
PynchonsOverbite
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Level 91
Jan 31, 2023
Never watched "Sex and the City" so Samantha, in my book, will always be Gracie Law in "Big Trouble in Little China." And that "Twilight" fella may yet escape his oubliette in the Batmobile.
Andrew169
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Level 73
Mar 17, 2023
Well, I struggled a bit with this list, and I missed a couple of easy ones. But I ended up with 17/24. Thanks for the quiz!
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