what tv shows/films etc created the most stars

ArnoldJRimmer

the_pen_turner wrote: »

the 70s show made a few stars

True, you have Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis who really made it big after this. And to a lesser extent, the ginger one is in Orange is the New Black. Eric Foreman's career fell of a cliff after he left it though, the dumbass

Rothko

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

True, you have Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis who really made it big after this. And to a lesser extent, the ginger one is in Orange is the New Black. Eric Foreman's career fell of a cliff after he left it though, the dumbass

He was in BlacKkKlansman though so he might make a comeback.

Mad_maxx

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Freaks & Geeks
Jason Segal
Seth Rogan
Linda Cardinelli
James Franco
Busy Phillips
Dave Allen


Friday Night Lights
Kyle Chandler
Taylor Kitsh
Jesse Plemmons
Michael B. Jordan


The Wire
Idris Elba
Aidan Gillen
Wendall Pierce
Michael B. Jordan
Method Man

Gillen had a profile before the wire

Birneybau

Effects wrote: »

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I was torn on that....West is more a star of the stage now.

Nah, Les Miserables and the Affair.

Yeah, that's a silly thing to say

Birneybau

Rothko wrote: »

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

True, you have Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis who really made it big after this. And to a lesser extent, the ginger one is in Orange is the New Black. Eric Foreman's career fell of a cliff after he left it though, the dumbass

He was in BlacKkKlansman though so he might make a comeback.

And the original Venom in Sam Raimi's 'Spiderman 3'

the whole year inn

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Taxi gave us

Danny DeVito

Tony Danza

Christopher Lloyd

Andy Kaufman


Also, Cheers

Woody Harrelson

Kelsey Grammer

Ted Danson

Kirstie Alley

Shelly Long

George Wendt

George Ratzenburger in every Pixar movie .

Andy Kaufman pretty sure everyone knew him as lacca and not much else after.

Yamanoto

The Larry Sanders Show

Jeffrey Tambor

Jeremy Piven

Bob Odenkirk

Jon Stewart

Sarah Silverman

Janeane Garofolo

Effects

AllForIt wrote: »

I think Idris Elba is a hugely overrated actor. Successful yes, but top actor? Not really. I hope he doesn't get the James Bond role not because I don't think a black person should play the role but I'd hate to see him get it because he's black but not actually worthy.

Yeah. We need more top class actors to play bond, not just some black bloke just cause he's black. Like Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore.

Ursus Horribilis

American Graffiti (George Lucas' miniscule budget film that came out 4 years before Star Wars) had some youthful actors who went on to do rather well for themselves afterwards. The best known ones would be Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford and Ron Howard. Some others - Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Cindy Williams, Kathleen Quinlan and Suzanne Somers - went on to work in sitcoms and as character actors.

Vita nova

The series below didn't create the most stars but are worth mentioning nonetheless.

Scrubs
Zach Braff

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Dr. John 'J.D.' Dorian
Sarah Chalke

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Dr. Elliot Reid
Neil Flynn

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Janitor


How I Met Your Mother
Josh Radnor

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Ted Mosby
Jason Segel

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Marshall Eriksen

the_pen_turner

Vita nova wrote: »

The series below didn't create the most stars but are worth mentioning nonetheless.

Scrubs
Zach Braff

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Dr. John 'J.D.' Dorian
Sarah Chalke

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Dr. Elliot Reid
Neil Flynn

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Janitor

How I Met Your Mother
Josh Radnor

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Ted Mosby
Jason Segel

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Marshall Eriksen

alyson hannigan
yer man that plays barney


robin is the big loser out of that show.

Vita nova

the_pen_turner wrote: »

alyson hannigan
yer man that plays barney


robin is the big loser out of that show.

True, I should have included them because even though they were once stars they had fallen out of the limelight and HIMYM gave them a new lease of life.

Snotty

Roseanne

All of them went on to appear in many more shows and films

rossie1977

the_pen_turner wrote: »

alyson hannigan
yer man that plays barney


robin is the big loser out of that show.

Cobie Smulders who played Robin has a recurring role in the Marvel cinematic universe movies..

Gimme A Pound

I love film and TV but many being mentioned are not stars (which implies well known).

odyssey06 wrote: »

I loved AD but I think this is a stretch.

Portia de Rossi breakthrough was on Ally Mc Beal.
Jessica Walter was in big roles in late 70s including being up for emmy and golden globe awards.
Jeffrey Tambor was regularly up for awards in 90s.
Jason Bateman was teen wolf two! Rake of roles in 80s but certainly AD resurrected his career and took it to another level.

Yeah Jessica Walter was best known in the early 70s for playing the psycho in Play Misty For Me. Her name was not a household one when she was in Arrested Development 30 years later - even though she was brilliant.

I agree A.D made Jason Bateman a bigger name though. And Cera definitely. To a lesser extent, Will Arnett.

the_pen_turner

rossie1977 wrote: »

Cobie Smulders who played Robin has a recurring role in the Marvel cinematic universe movies..

thats good. i didnt know that

Gimme A Pound

Effects wrote: »

Nah, Les Miserables and the Affair.

And the upcoming Colette.

AskMeBollix

the_pen_turner wrote: »

what to shows / films ect created the most stars

The big bang theory

Heckler

alyson hannigan

Was huge in Buffy the Vampire Slayer over 20 years ago. And is still a fan favourite to this day.

ceegee

the whole year inn wrote: »

George Ratzenburger in every Pixar movie .

Andy Kaufman pretty sure everyone knew him as lacca and not much else after.

Well he died within a year of Taxi finishing so not much scope for other notable roles

pleas advice

x Factor

RobbingBandit

the_pen_turner wrote: »

alyson hannigan
yer man that plays barney


robin is the big loser out of that show.

I'd say Cobie Smulders has done well enough out of Marvel and Jack Reacher

odyssey06

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I'd say Cobie Smulders has done well enough out of Marvel and Jack Reacher

She's doing alright, but is she's really a 'star'?

She was regular cast, supporting role, of one primetime TV series that averaged top 50 ratings.
She has a minor recurring role in a major movie franchise.
No oscar, emmy or golden globe nominations for her individually

ps I don't mean to single her out specifically, just there are a lot of names listed here that I would not class as a 'star', they have good careers in the industry which is different.

odyssey06

Diner (1982)
- Steve Guttenberg
- Mickey Rourke
- Paul Reiser
- Kevin Bacon
- Ellen Barkin

I won't include Daniel Stern was already in Breaking Away.

conorhal

I don't know if it gave any of their actors their big break, but The Big Chill (1983) starred

Tom Berenger
Glenn Close
Jeff Goldblum
William Hurt
Kevin Kline
Mary Kay Place
Meg Tilly
JoBeth Williams
and famously, Kevin Costner in a scene that was cut.

odyssey06

conorhal wrote: »

I don't know if it gave any of their actors their big break, but The Big Chill (1983) starred

Tom Berenger
Glenn Close
Jeff Goldblum
William Hurt
Kevin Kline
Mary Kay Place
Meg Tilly
JoBeth Williams
and famously, Kevin Costner in a scene that was cut.

Great cast, but William Hurt was the lead in Body Heat prior to this, and Kevin Kline's breakthrough was in Sophie's Choice. Glenn Close had already been nominated for an Oscar for The World According to Garp.

And you're right this was the one Costner was cut from not Diner.
I always mix those two movies up!

Ray Palmer

It would really be an American soap like Days of our Lives if you look into it. Some of the people being mentioned started there way before they were in prime time TV.
Courtney Cox was pretty famous before Friends but younger people wouldn't know that. Ted Danson was in soaps before Cheers.

Ray Palmer

It would really be an American soap like Days of our Lives if you look into it. Some of the people being mentioned started there way before they were in prime time TV.
Courtney Cox was pretty famous before Friends but younger people wouldn't know that. Ted Danson was in soaps before Cheers.

the_pen_turner

has correnation st , emerdale, or eastenders created any stars. i cant think of any

compare that to home and away or neighbours who must have 20 between them

Ray Palmer

the_pen_turner wrote: »

has correnation st , emerdale, or eastenders created any stars. i cant think of any

compare that to home and away or neighbours who must have 20 between them

Davey Jones of the Monkees was in Coronation Street first. The fact Australian soaps focus on younger actors at their core is a big part of why so many can go on afterwards. Where UK soaps have much older cast.
The Hollywood studios pick them as they are unknowns so have no baggage from roles to American audiences. It isn't really about better talent.

odyssey06

the_pen_turner wrote: »

has correnation st , emerdale, or eastenders created any stars. i cant think of any
compare that to home and away or neighbours who must have 20 between them

No superstars that's for sure.

At a stretch...
Nick Berry from Eastenders was the main actor in Heartbeat which was big in the UK and sold around the world.
Sarah Lancashire got her big break in Coronation Street and Happy Valley is now picking up awards internationally.

odyssey06

You'll see a lot of "Before they were Famous" clips from the Mickey Mouse Club of people like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling... but I don't think you could claim that it was the show that created them as stars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mickey_Mouse_Club#1989%E2%80%931994_revival,_The_All-New_Mickey_Mouse_Club

odyssey06

the_pen_turner wrote: »

has correnation st , emerdale, or eastenders created any stars. i cant think of any

compare that to home and away or neighbours who must have 20 between them

But to play devil's advocate, with the Australian soaps, I don't think they 'created' or made the stars, except maybe Kylie.
As in, if you look at the list of people like Guy Pearce, Chris Hemsworth, their breakthrough roles were in Hollywood movies and that's how they came to wide attention and it wasn't like they 'built up' their profile on the back of the soap.

I'm not so familiar with the US soaps, but I think same with those you'd need to distinguish between someone famous for the soap versus someone who became famous later. If someone got a lead role in a show on the back of their profile in the soap, then that's different again.

Bigbagofcans

Dawson's Creek made stars out of Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams and on a slightly smaller scale Joshua Jackson.

elefant

Good Will Hunting springs to mind.

Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
Minnie Driver

Ray Palmer

elefant wrote: »

Good Will Hunting springs to mind.

Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
Minnie Driver

All had been in movies beforehand and were already famous

Ray Palmer

elefant wrote: »

Good Will Hunting springs to mind.

Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
Minnie Driver

All had been in movies beforehand and were already famous

the whole year inn

ceegee wrote: »

Well he died within a year of Taxi finishing so not much scope for other notable roles

How long was taxi on for , he's had one role and that s pretty much it , he slapped a wrestler.
I doubt the general public have seen his stand up or what ever you want to call it.