Actors and Actresses who simply disappeared from the screens

[Guest]

I've just caught an episode of The Chase 'Celebrity Specials' and it featured Todd Carty. That's a name I haven't seen for years. An actor who was on screen as a kid on Grange Hill as Tucker Jenkins, Tucker's Luck and then on to EastEnders as Mark Fowler and then as far as I can recall he was on The Bill for a while. 

 

Then nothing until seeing him tonight on The Chase. 

 

What other actors/actresses can you think of who seemed to be everywhere and then just simply disappear?

[TheHowieLama]

Molly Ringwald

[manwiththestick]

Iona Skye

Phoebe Cates

Kirsty Swanson

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Martin Short

Steve Guttenberg

[Chip Butty]

Claude Rains

[KMD7]

Claude Rains

 

Ha Ha

[Strontium]

Kevin Spacey

[Guest]

Kirsty Swanson

In 2018, she was cast in the lead role in Hallmark Channel original movie Winter's Dream along with other TV projects.

 

What on Earth is the Hallmark Channel?

[Guest]

Martin Short

Steve Guttenberg

Good calls here, very funny actors and just seemed to disappear suddenly. Especially Guttenberg after Police Academy.

[manwiththestick]

Rick Moranis.

[Strontium]

Rick Moranis.

He retired because his wife died, I think.

[Aventus]

He retired because his wife died, I think.

I think it was so he could raise his kids, didn't want to be their only parent who was also travelling around working. Good on him.

 

Maybe now they're adults he might make some small comebacks.

[Captain Turdseye]

Les Battersby.

[Guest]

He retired because his wife died, I think.

Really funny guy, made some very funny films. Standout character in Ghostbusters. Sounds like a stand-up man too. 

[Guest]

Les Battersby.

Who did he play?

[cloggypop]

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle

[Mook]

Mick Jagger after Freejack.

[manwiththestick]

Kevin Spacey.

[KMD7]

Geena Davis

 

Sean Young

[Stickman]

Bridget Fonda

 

Paul Usher

 

Adam Sandler....or is that just wishful thinking

[Captain Turdseye]

Who did he play?

He was a stripper in The Full Monty. Don’t even pretend that isn’t one of your favourite films.

[Guest]

Geena Davis

 

Sean Young

Geena Davis was recently in the TV adaptation of The Exorcist. Sean Young of Blade Runner fame? Good call, she apparently was desperate for the Catwoman role at the time she appeared in the Batman movies but that was offered to Michelle Pfeiffer so she made her own suit and appeared on TV chat show in it hoping to impressed Tim Burton. She seemed to disappear after that.

[Guest]

He was a stripper in The Full Monty. Don’t even pretend that isn’t one of your favourite films.

Definitely one of my favourites. Here's a scene without Les Battersby.

 

[easytoslip]

Derek Nimmo

[magicrat]

Rock Hudson