Worst Television Actors Ever

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OK, there aren't going to be a lot of boundaries here...classic TV, current TV, daytime, prime time, comedy, drama, adults, children...if they've ever had any kind of recurring/regular television role and they've made me cringe, they are going to be on this list...this is my list of the worst television actors ever:

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100.

Taran Noah Smith

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He played the youngest son of Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) on Home Improvement...he grew up and mercifully retired from acting, not that I would call anything he did on that show acting.

[NedStark09]

I agree too this about all the taylor cast but Al, Tim and The Neighbor Wilson.

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99.

Lynda Goodfriend

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Goodfriend was most famous for playing Richie Cunningham's girlfriend and eventual wife on Happy Days...this show was a breeding ground for bad actors...Goodfriend is just the beginnning.

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98.

Peter Breck

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Breck got his fifteen minutes playing Nick Barkley on The Big Valley

[Topsy]

gawd i have so many.will wait and see if we agree on them ;)

[gbgoodies]

I agree 100% about Taran Noah Smith. He was the worst part of the show "Home Improvement".

I don't think Lynda Goodfriend was great on "Happy Days", but I didn't think she was so bad that she belongs on this list.

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97.

Antonio Sabato Jr.

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Daytime drama is one of the few places where an actor can kick start a career if he/she looks good without their clothes on and this was a prime example. Sabato was an underwear model who got a major career boost when he was hired to play a character named Jagger Cates on ABC's General Hospital. He became very popular, got very cocky, left the show, and his career began a slow and agonizing death, primarily because the guy can't act.

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96.

Vanessa Williams

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The other Vanessa Williams was part of the original cast of Melrose Place but was fired after the first season. She resurfaced briefly a few laters later on The Cosby Show as an obnoxious theater major at NYU who had a brief fling with Theo (Malcolm Jamal Warner) and I haven't seen her since.

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95.

Eddie Applegate

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Applegate played Patty Lane's boyfriend Richard on The Patty Duke Show...this guy was the worst.

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94.

PR Paul

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PR Paul played Montgomery McNeill on the NBC series Fame...the hook with this character in the 1980 film was that he was gay, but NBC was not having any of that, and the show really had no clue what to do with the character and, coupled with the fact this guy can't act, led to the actor being fired after the first season.

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93.

Kim Lankford

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Lankford played Ginger on the CBS series Knots Landing...this show was rich with brilliant actors so the bad ones stuck out like sore thumbs.

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92.

Maxwell Caulfield

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He actually burst onto the scene as the star of one of the worst musicals ever made, Grease 2, but made his biggest impression (if you can call it that) playing Miles Colby on the Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys. He was pretty, but could not act.

[Topsy]

^^

VERY PRETTY.

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91.

Lori Saunders

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Saunders played Bobbie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction and was never seen again.

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90.

Moosie Drier

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Moosie first appeared as the only child featured player on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and later played Howard Borden's son on The Bob Newhart Show and was also a regular on something called Kids, Incorporated.

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89.

Roz Kelly

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Despite the fact that she had NO chemistry with Henry Winkler, Kelly wasted a lot of screen time on Happy Days as Pinky Tuscadero, a motorcycle stuntwoman who got serious with the Fonz.

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88.

Theresa Graves

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Graves first hit TV screens as a regular on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and graduated to a silly and short-lived detective show called Get Christie Love.

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87.

Beverly Archer

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Don't let the fact that this woman has been working steadily in TV since the 1970's fool you into thinking she's a competent actress. Archer has had regular roles on The Nancy Walker Show, We've Got Each Other, Mama's Family, and Major Dad. I still think the woman is a terrible actress.

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86.

Lorenzo Lamas

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Lamas flexed his way to stardom as Lance Cumson on the CBS prime time drama Falcon Crest, but his muscles couldn't hide the fact that he couldn't act.

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85.

Cathy Silvers

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Supporting the theory that acting talent might skip a generation, the daughter of Phil Silvers joined Happy Days late into its run as Joanie's boy crazy friend Jenny Piccolo, a character who was never seen for years and should have stayed that way.

[honeykid]

I don't remember Lorenzo Lamas in Falcon Crest (it was something I only watched now and again) but I've repped that post just for his film work.

[Camo]

Haven't seen any of them yet.

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84.

Kristina Wagner

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Wagner first hit the daytime drama General Hospital in 1983 and had a smoking hot onscreen and offscreen romance with Jack Wagner...both romances ended, Kristina returned to the show a couple of years ago and she still can't act.

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83.

John Davidson

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One of the most recognizable faces from the 1960's and 70's. He was a staple on game shows like Match Game and Hollywood Squares and hosted a show called That's Incredible with Fran Tarkenton and Cathy Lee Crosby. He also played Sally Field's husband on a short-lived NBC sitcom called The Girl with Something Extra. He could sing, but nobody seemed to care and he definitely couldn't act.

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82.

Karen Valentine

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Maybe the worst actress in television history to actually win an Emmy. She won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for playing student teacher Alice Johnson on ABC's Room 222. She also actually appeared in a TV movie called The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped...enough said.

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81.

Don Stark

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/540/That990.jpg

Stark is best known for playing Bob Pinciotti, father of Donna (Laura Prepon) on That 70's Show...I'm sorry, this guy was the worst.

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80.

Catherine Oxenberg

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The actress, and I use the term loosely, played Amanda Carrington, another long lost child of Blake (John Forsythe) and Alexis (Joan Collins) on Dynasty. The woman was breathtaking but she really should never have actually been given any lines...the character should have damaged her vocal chords in a terrible accident, rendering her mute.

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79.

Phil Foster

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Foster played Frank De Fazio, father of Laverne (Penny Marshall) on Laverne and Shirley. Not only could this guy not act, he didn't act LOUDER than just about any actor in television history.

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78.

Shelley Hack

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She went from spokesmodel for Charlie perfume to playing Tiffany Wells on Charlie's Angels...she was fired after a single season on the show.

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77.

Noel Harrison

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The son of Oscar winner Rex Harrison co-starred with Stefanie Powers on The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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76.

Richard Kline

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Kline spent seven seasons playing BFF to Jack Tripper (the late John Ritter) on Three's Company...God, I just wanted to punch this guy in the face.

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75.

Andrew Shue

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The brother of Oscar nominated actress Elisabeth Shue looked great in various states of undress on Melrose Place, but he was one bad actor.

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87.

Beverly Archer

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Don't let the fact that this woman has been working steadily in TV since the 1970's fool you into thinking she's a competent actress. Archer has had regular roles on The Nancy Walker Show, We've Got Each Other, Mama's Family, and Major Dad. I still think the woman is a terrible actress.
Don't assume Gideon58 knows what he's talking about. This woman is one of the best things about Mama's Family and I liked her in other things she did. Yes, she is an oddball actress typecast in nerd woman roles, and Iola Boylan can get on your nerves, but nobody else could have played her. I strongly proclaim Beverly Archer was terrific - at least on Mama's Family. She also did guest roles on ALF.

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92.

Maxwell Caulfield

http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/2748635/1107full-maxwell-caulfield.jpg

He actually burst onto the scene as the star of one of the worst musicals ever made, Grease 2, but made his biggest impression (if you can call it that) playing Miles Colby on the Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys. He was pretty, but could not act.


I think the only thing that I've seen Maxwell Caulfield in is Grease 2, and he was terrible in that, so I'm not surprised to see him on this list.

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90.

Moosie Drier

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/707/md3.JPG

Moosie first appeared as the only child featured player on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and later played Howard Borden's son on The Bob Newhart Show and was also a regular on something called Kids, Incorporated.


When Moosie Drier was on "The Bob Newhart Show", he always sounded like his nose was stuffed up.

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74.

Lyle Waggoner

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Tall, dark, and handsome, he first caught attention as a regular on The Carol Burnett Show...he then spent a couple of seasons playing Lynda Carter's boss on Wonder Woman...after that...

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73.

Haywood Nelson

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Nelson played Dwayne on What's Happening, another show where pretty much the entire cast could be included here.

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72.

Stephen Shortridge

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After getting an Oscar nomination for Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta had no intention of returning to Welcome Back Kotter, so the producers felt the show needed another pretty face to fill his shoes...enter the somewhat pretty but talentless Shortridge, who did nothing to help this show stay on the air.

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71.

Tanya Roberts

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Tanya_Roberts_1982.jpg

She replaced Shelley Hack for the final season of Charlie's Angels and was no improvement...she resurfaced a few years ago on That 70's Show where she didn't exactly set the world on fire either.

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70.

Peggy Lipton

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"One white, one black, one blonde..." Lipton played the blonde on the ABC series The Mod Squad. She may not have been much of an actress, but she's no dummy...she realized she couldn't act and married money in the form of music legend Quincy Jones, but even that didn't stop her from resurfacing on ABC's Twin Peaks, where it was clear she still hadn't learned how to act.

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69.

Dirk Benedict

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He played "Face" on The A Team...the camera loved him, but he was no actor.

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68.

Kent McCord

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He spent a couple of seasons riding around in a black and white with Martin Milner on Adam-12...he resurfaced several years later with a tiny role in Airplane II: The Sequel...don't know what happened to him after that.

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67.

Erica Gimpel

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Gimpel burst onto television screens playing CoCo Hernandez on the TV series fame, the role that Irene Cara played in the 1980 movie. She's done a lot of guest starring on episodic television since then, but I still think she's a terrible actress.

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66.

Rico Rodriguez

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I love Modern Family but this kid makes me crazy.

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65.

Dianne Kay

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/713/1Eight009.jpg

She played one of Dick Van Patten's many daughters on Eight is Enough and after it was cancelled was apparently kidnapped by aliens because I have never seen her in anything ever again.

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64.

Sarah Drew

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She plays Dr. April Kepner on Grey's Anatomy...every time she opens her mouth I want to stuff a sock in it.

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63.

Ron Kuhlman

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Kuhlman played Phillip Covington III, the uptight husband of Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) on The Brady Brides, who was first introduced to us in the TV movie A Very Brady Christmas.

[Camo]

Still haven't seen any of these. I'm sure there will be a few in the top 50.

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62.

Gavin O'Herlihy

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O'Herlihy was so bad as Richie's older brother Chuck on Happy Days that the character was written off the show and when the character was briefly resurrected for some reason, he was played by a different actor (Randolph Roberts).

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61.

Heshimu

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After playing a troublesome student on Room 222, this actor was never seen again.

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60.

Maurice Benard

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Maurice_Bernard_as_Sonny_Corinthos.jpg

Even though he's been playing teflon don Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital since 1993, every time this guy opens his mouth onscreen, he always sounds like he doesn't have his lines totally memorized.

[Camo]

Actually i think i posted that when i was on the previous page because i've seen Modern Family. I though the kid who played Manny was alright, nothing special but he didn't bother me. He was better than the kid who played Drew anyway, not sure if he'll show up later.

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81.

Don Stark

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/540/That990.jpg

Stark is best known for playing Bob Pinciotti, father of Donna (Laura Prepon) on That 70's Show...I'm sorry, this gut was the worst.

Bob was half of the reason to watch this show, with Red being the other half.

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Tanya Roberts

She replaced Shelley Hack for the final season of Charlie's Angels and was no improvement...she resurfaced a few years ago on That 70's Show where she didn't exactly set the world on fire either.

Well, maybe never in acting terms…;)

[SeeingisBelieving]

Catherine Oxenberg

A little better in The Lair of the White Worm I think.

[Gideon58]

Well, maybe never in acting terms…;)

That's all this thread is about...whether or not the person could act IMO.

[SeeingisBelieving]

That's all this thread is about...whether or not the person could act IMO.

I'll get my coat.

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59.

Kathy Kinney

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Kinney played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show...sometimes I don't know which was more annoying, the actress or the character, but she had to go on this list.

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58.

Kris Kamm

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Kamm was definitely the weakest element of this show playing the eventual son-in-law of Hayden Fox (Craig T. Nelson) on Coach.

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57.

Heather Morris

http://itsybitsysteps.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/heather-morris-pregnant.jpg

Morris played Brittany on Glee...she was one of the show's best dancers, she wore the hell out of that cheerleader uniform, but the girl was a lousy actress.

[Topsy]

I cant with Glee in general tbh..


70.

Peggy Lipton



"One white, one black, one blonde..." Lipton played the blonde on the ABC series The Mod Squad. She may not have been much of an actress, but she's no dummy...she realized she couldn't act and married money in the form of music legend Quincy Jones, but even that didn't stop her from resurfacing on ABC's Twin Peaks, where it was clear she still hadn't learned how to act.

i dont know who she is but your review of her made me laugh out loud :lol: :lol: :lol:

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56.

Steve Whitting

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Whitting played Burt, the goofy best friend of David Hogan (Jason Bateman) on The Hogan Family...this guy was a total waste of screentime.

[Camo]

The last picture isn't working btw Gideon.

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55.

Pat Morita

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He may have received an Oscar nomination for The Karate Kid, but he was terrible on this show and his other sitcom Mr. T & Tina wasn't much better.

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54.

Debralee Scott

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Movie audiences might remember her brief role in American Graffiti but I first noticed her as Louise Lasser's little sister on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

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53.

Donny Most

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/941/HappyD7002.jpg

This might be an unpopular choice but that has never stopped me before...Donny Most played Ralph Malph on Happy Days and, in my opinion, was a terrible actor.

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52.

Mel Stewart

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/all-in-the-family-tv-show/images/c/c7/Mel_Stewart.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121118150853

He first hit television screens playing Lisa Hartman's boss on the short-lived Tabitha, but is probably best known for playing George Jefferson's brother, Henry on All in the Family.

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51.

Emma Samms

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She first invaded daytime as the first post-Laura woman that Luke (Anthony Geary) got involved with on General Hospital and later replaced Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon on Dynasty and The Colbys...I have to admit I wasn't too upset when Fallon disappeared in that spaceship on the final episode of The Colbys.

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50.

Jaimee Foxworth

http://ronewzakcleveland.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/judy-winslow.jpg

Foxworth's lack of acting skills in her role as Judy Winslow on Family Matters got her fired and the character disappeared from the show with no explanation whatsoever, like she never existed.

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49.

Barbara Parkins

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She may have had a role in my # 1 guilty pleasure Valley of the Dolls but she first caught my attention when she played Betty Anderson on the ABC series Peyton Place. Another truly beautiful woman who could not act.

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48.

Damon Evans

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/rec/evans-damon-rect.jpg

Shortly after All in the Family spun off the Jeffersons into their own show, Mike Evans, who played Lionel Jefferson, decided to leave the show and Damon Evans (no relation) was brought in to replace him. I don't think it was any coincidence that Lionel's role on the show was significantly reduced until they could convince Mike Evans to return to the role near the end of the 11-season run.

[Topsy]

G.o.r.g.e.o.u.s

i love valley of the dolls aswell.i watched it first for sharon though.

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47.

Karen Malina White

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ididntdoit/images/5/59/BettyLeBow.png/revision/latest?cb=20150216114907

This really bad actress whose voice is something akin to fingernails on a chalkboard has had regular roles on The Cosby Show, A Different World, Getting By, Hangin with Mr. Cooper, and Malcolm and Eddie.

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46.

Erika Alexander

http://img.poptower.com/pic-107963/erika-alexander.jpg?d=1024

Alexander first hit TV as Cousin Pam on The Cosby Show and was also a regular on Living Single...she currently has a recurring role on Tim Allen's show Last Man Standing.

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45.

Bill Fagerbakke

https://demonsresume.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-stand.jpg?w=614

Fagerbakke got his fifteen minutes playing Dauber, Hayden Fox's assistant on Coach...this guy always sounded like he had a mouthful of cotton.

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44.

Jodie Sweetin

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2016/news/160404/jodie-sweetin-b-435.jpg

This little girl made me nuts.

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43.

Christopher Connelly

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Christopher_Connelly_1967_Peyton_Place.jpg

Connelly had a brief and unmemorable acting career primarily due to his strong physical resemblance to Ryan O'Neal...when O'Neal was cast as Rodney in Peyton Place, Connelly was cast as his brother Norman. When O'Neal's hit movie Paper Moon was turned into a TV series, Connelly was cast in O'Neal's role of Moses Prey opposite Jodie Foster as Addie Prey.

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42.

Dennis Haskins

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1992109/images/o-MR-BELDING-facebook.jpg

Haskins played the principal Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell...moving on...quickly...

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41.

Danny Pintauro, Who's the Boss?

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/images_4/danny-pinutauro-9-28-15.jpg

Pintauro played Judith Light's whiny son Jonathan on Who's the Boss? and every moment he had onscreen made me cringe.

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40.

Anna Maria Horsford

http://static.jetmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Anna-Marie-at-5-67.jpg

This dreadful actress had featured roles on NBC's Amen and on Fox's The Wayan Brothers...movie fans might remember her as the hooker who flirts with Andrew McCarthy in St. Elmo's Fire.

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39.

Johnny Brown

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41L%2BTryR9PL.jpg

Brown started out as a regular on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and later played building handyman Bookman on Good Times.

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38.

Mary Jane Croft

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ilovelucyandricky/images/b/b8/Betty_Ramsey.png/revision/latest?cb=20130712012936

When Vivian Vance got tired of being Lucille Ball's second banana on The Lucy Show, Croft took over the role...this woman was a total snooze.

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37.

Jim J. Bullock

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Bullock played Monroe on ABC's Too Close for Comfort...Bullock made co-star Ted Knight look like Laurence Olivier.

[Sexy Celebrity]

What makes you such an expert on acting? Are you an actor? Do you teach acting?

[Sexy Celebrity]

Dennis Haskins

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1992109/images/o-MR-BELDING-facebook.jpg

Haskins played the principal Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell...moving on...quickly...

What are you afraid of? It's just Mr. Belding.

Alright, RUN from the Dennis Haskins of today:

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=25594&stc=1&d=1464360902

I don't know WHAT he did to cause John Candy's ghost to take over his body, but I don't like it. Run, do not walk, to the nearest exit from this thing.

But on Saved by the Bell, I thought he was a good looking guy.

[Camo]

Haskins was awful as Belding obviously, you should've just included the whole Saved By The Bell cast as the one entry they were all terrible. That is actually only the second i've seen.

[Gideon58]

What makes you such an expert on acting? Are you an actor? Do you teach acting?

I have never claimed to be an expert on acting...this is my opinion...why are other people allowed to express their opinions but I'm the only one you seem to get confrontational with? I was a theater major in college and possess a BA in theater but that doesn't make me an expert either...this is just my opinion, that's all.

[Gideon58]

36.

Glenn Quinn

http://showbizgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-18-at-01.31.50.png

The late actor played Mark Healy on Roseanne...I think this was a case where lack of acting skills might have helped since we were initially supposed to hate Mark.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I'm not trying to seem confrontational. I really just wanted to know if you had acting training or something. It's always been kinda weird to me how people can see people as "bad actors" or say, "That's bad acting."

I don't look at people and think, he or she is a bad actor. If I like someone in a movie, I like something ELSE about them, I feel. Their energy, their charisma, their attractiveness, how they make me feel. I'm sure it's all very personal - for everybody, in fact.

[honeykid]

I, for one, was very pleased when Glenn left Angel. :up: No one else seemed to feel the same way, though.

[gbgoodies]

44.

Jodie Sweetin

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2016/news/160404/jodie-sweetin-b-435.jpg

This little girl made me nuts.


I wasn't impressed with any of the kids on "Full House", but I agree that Jodie Sweetin was the worst. (Although the Olsen twins were very annoying too.)

[gbgoodies]

43.

Christopher Connelly

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Christopher_Connelly_1967_Peyton_Place.jpg

Connelly had a brief and unmemorable acting career primarily due to his strong physical resemblance to Ryan O'Neal...when O'Neal was cast as Rodney in Peyton Place, Connelly was cast as his brother Norman. When O'Neal's hit movie Paper Moon was turned into a TV series, Connelly was cast in O'Neal's role of Moses Prey opposite Jodie Foster as Addie Prey.


I think the only thing that I ever saw Christopher Connelly in was a TV movie called Incredible Rocky Mountain Race (1977). He played Mark Twain, and I thought he did a good job, but I was probably around 11 or 12 years old when I saw it. I've been searching for that movie for years, but I still haven't been able to find it. :(

[Gideon58]

II don't look at people and think, he or she is a bad actor. If I like someone in a movie, I like something ELSE about them, I feel. Their energy, their charisma, their attractiveness, how they make me feel. I'm sure it's all very personal - for everybody, in fact.

That's how I judge actors as well...a good actor will arouse emotions in me...sometimes it's anger, sometimes it's empathy, sometimes they arouse a feeling that makes me recall something in my own life, and sometimes it's just the ability to make me smile, or cry, or even more important, fight the urge to cry...great acting will make me fight the urge to cry. Bad acting arouses no genuine emotion in me...sometimes the role spells out what kind of emotion I'm supposed to be feeling and if I don't feel that, that's bad acting...a comedy should make me laugh, a tearjerker should make me cry and if the actors don't make me feel that, that's bad acting.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I, for one, was very pleased when Glenn left Angel. :up: No one else seemed to feel the same way, though.
Glenn Quinn unfortunately died, as you probably know. He was a hunk on Roseanne, especially in its final years. A tragic waste of a hot body - he died of a drug overdose.

[Sexy Celebrity]

That's how I judge actors as well...a good actor will arouse emotions in me...sometimes it's anger, sometimes it's empathy, sometimes they arouse a feeling that makes me recall something in my own life, and sometimes it's just the ability to make me smile, or cry, or even more important, fight the urge to cry...great acting will make me fight the urge to cry. Bad acting arouses no genuine emotion in me...sometimes the role spells out what kind of emotion I'm supposed to be feeling and if I don't feel that, that's bad acting...a comedy should make me laugh, a tearjerker should make me cry and if the actors don't make me feel that, that's bad acting.
Why would great acting help you FIGHT the urge to cry? Yet you say bad acting arouses no emotion. Wouldn't great acting MAKE you cry if you needed to?

[honeykid]

Glenn Quinn unfortunately died, as you probably know. He was a hunk on Roseanne, especially in its final years. A tragic waste of a hot body - he died of a drug overdose.
That wasn't why he left Angel though.

[Gideon58]

Why would great acting help you FIGHT the urge to cry? Yet you say bad acting arouses no emotion. Wouldn't great acting MAKE you cry if you needed to?
Because fighting the urge to cry implies lack of control of what the performance is doing to me...if I'm watching a performance takes takes control of me, that's great acting...when Rose jumps off the lifeboat in Titanic and runs back to Jack, who smothers her and kisses and keeps repeating "You're so stupid, Rose, you're so stupid!", I don't want to cry but I find myself fighting it...great acting takes control of my emotions and makes me feel things I don't necessarily want to feel. In The Sound of Music, when the Baroness follows Maria up to her room and manipulates Maria into leaving, I want to punch the baroness in the face...I don't know if that was the intent of the scene. but the way Eleanor Parker played it, that's what I felt...Parker's performance in that movie sparked pure hate in me and I consider the Baroness one of cinema's greatest villains because of the emotion she brings out in me...hate. That's great acting. All bad acting does is take me out of the scene or make me want to watch something else.

[Gideon58]

35.

Mackenzie Phillips

http://file2.answcdn.com/answ-cld/image/upload/f_jpg,w_672,c_fill,g_faces:center,q_70/v1428706379/qexsznur8biblbmufadi.jpg

Mackenzie Phillips played Julie Cooper on One Day at a Time...another case of the character's lack of appeal possibly blurring with the actor's skills, but I'm putting her on the list anyway.

[Gideon58]

34.

Ray Buktenica

http://magnum-mania.com/images/8_11_d_full.jpg

Buktenica played Benny Goodwin, boyfriend of Brenda Morgansten (Julie Kavner) on Rhoda. Sidebar: Buktenica was married to Joyce De Witt (Three's Company).

[Gideon58]

33.

Katie Holmes

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5600000/Dawson-s-Creek-Season-1-103-Kiss-katie-holmes-5609769-904-678.jpg

Holmes played Joey on Dawson's Creek...have never really gotten the appeal of this girl.

[gbgoodies]

34.

Ray Buktenica

http://magnum-mania.com/images/8_11_d_full.jpg

Buktenica played Benny Goodwin, boyfriend of Brenda Morgansten (Julie Kavner) on Rhoda. Sidebar: Buktenica was married to Joyce De Witt (Three's Company).


I never knew the actor's name, but I kind of liked Brenda's boyfriend.

[Camo]

I thought everybody in Dawson's were pretty bad. I think that less with the guy that played Pacey (always forget his name) because i actually liked his character.

[gbgoodies]

33.

Katie Holmes

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5600000/Dawson-s-Creek-Season-1-103-Kiss-katie-holmes-5609769-904-678.jpg

Holmes played Joey on Dawson's Creek...have never really gotten the appeal of this girl.


I loved "Dawson's Creek", but I never understood her appeal either. I found her more annoying than anything else. (I didn't get the big deal about her marrying Tom Cruise either. :shrug: )

[Gideon58]

32.

Max Casella

http://starcrush.com/files/2013/06/Max-Casella-Doogie-Howser.jpg

Casella created one of TV's most annoying characters in the best friend of the teenage doctor played by Neil Patrick Harris on Doogie Howser, MD.

[Gideon58]

31.

Bobby Sherman

http://celebrarty.com/PHOTOS/TV-H/Here_Come_The_Brides/images/Brides-286.jpg

The first genuine teen idol who was given two opportunities at television stardom by ABC...there was a Partride Family spinoff called Getting Together and an hour long comedy drama called Here Comes the Brides...Brides had middling success but Sherman was really a singer, not an actor.

[gbgoodies]

31.

Bobby Sherman

http://celebrarty.com/PHOTOS/TV-H/Here_Come_The_Brides/images/Brides-286.jpg

The first genuine teen idol who was given two opportunities at television stardom by ABC...there was a Partride Family spinoff called Getting Together and an hour long comedy drama called Here Comes the Brides...Brides had middling success but Sherman was really a singer, not an actor.


I didn't know that Bobby Sherman did any acting. I thought he was only a singer.

[honeykid]

I'm not going to tell you that Katie Holmes is a great actress, but she was probably the best actor on that show. I certainly don't think she's bad enough to be on a list like this. Let alone so high. But that's why it's your list. :)

As for her appeal? She's attractive. Was then, is more so now.

[NedStark09]

Katie Holmes wasnt that bad she was pretty good in Batman Begins

[Topsy]

I agree on Katie Holmes.


@honeykid you think shes better than michelle williams and joshua jackson?

also i thought jodie sweetin was the only half descent kid on full house.

[Captain Steel]

65.

Dianne Kay

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/713/1Eight009.jpg

She played one of Dick Van Patten's many daughters on Eight is Enough and after it was cancelled was apparently kidnapped by aliens because I have never seen her in anything ever again.

She was one of my teenage crushes and one of the reasons I watched Eight is Enough - and she was a rare treat because, out of all the sisters on the show, "Nancy" got the least screen time & very few of her own sub-plots (maybe due to her acting skills?) Still, she was the prettiest with that all-American, Girl-Next-Door look!

Dianne Kay co-starred in the comedy film 1941 (1979) - other than that, she only guest starred on a few TV shows and a couple made-for-TV movies.

[Captain Steel]

41.

Danny Pintauro, Who's the Boss?

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/images_4/danny-pinutauro-9-28-15.jpg

Pintauro played Judith Light's whiny son Jonathan on Who's the Boss? and every moment he had onscreen made me cringe.

Claim to fame time: I knew Danny Pintauro... when he was about 6 years old, shortly before he went off to film Cujo (1983).
His house was about a block away from mine in Milltown, NJ. I had to pass his house on the way home from my high school bus stop and he'd often be outside and want me to talk to him. I always remember he'd pick up rocks from a rock garden in front of his house and try to sell them to me! I'd joke with him and ask why I should pay for them when I could just take them any day when I was passing by. At age 6 he was about the cutest little tyke you ever did see.

I also went to grammar school with his uncle. We both played saxophone in the school band & he was the kid that took over my oldest brother's paper route (who cares, right?). ;)

[Sexy Celebrity]

Why would great acting help you FIGHT the urge to cry? Yet you say bad acting arouses no emotion. Wouldn't great acting MAKE you cry if you needed to?
Because fighting the urge to cry implies lack of control of what the performance is doing to me...if I'm watching a performance takes takes control of me, that's great acting...when Rose jumps off the lifeboat in Titanic and runs back to Jack, who smothers her and kisses and keeps repeating "You're so stupid, Rose, you're so stupid!", I don't want to cry but I find myself fighting it...great acting takes control of my emotions and makes me feel things I don't necessarily want to feel. In The Sound of Music, when the Baroness follows Maria up to her room and manipulates Maria into leaving, I want to punch the baroness in the face...I don't know if that was the intent of the scene. but the way Eleanor Parker played it, that's what I felt...Parker's performance in that movie sparked pure hate in me and I consider the Baroness one of cinema's greatest villains because of the emotion she brings out in me...hate. That's great acting. All bad acting does is take me out of the scene or make me want to watch something else.
........ Hmmmmmmmmm.

So great acting makes you want to cry, but you stop yourself from doing it - because why cry?

Interesting. Most people seem to brag about crying. "I cried so much during this scene....."

You don't want to cry. You hold back the tears.

Very honest. I don't wanna cry, either. But I see what you mean. Great acting does make you emotional, can make you want to cry (or punch someone).... but you resist the urge to do those things.

I like that description. Most people brag about crying during movies. They may act embarrassed about crying, but they're bragging. You flat out admit you don't wanna cry. Which can be like bragging, too... but in an opposite fashion.

[honeykid]

@honeykid you think shes better than michelle williams and joshua jackson?
I was saying to Camo, I only saw the first season, so this could've changed a lot. However, for that first season, I don' think there's much to argue about. Though I'm sure most/all of you saw this a lot more recently than I did. :D

[Gideon58]

His house was about a block away from mine in Milltown, NJ.

You lived in Milltown? I lived in Paterson for 11 years.

[Gideon58]

"Nancy" got the least screen time & very few of her own sub-plots (maybe due to her acting skills?)

Thus her placement on this list.

[Gideon58]

I'm not going to tell you that Katie Holmes is a great actress,

We will have to agree to disagree on this one Honeykid...Holmes is a dreadful actress and was the worst thing about the show. She also almost ruined a couple of great movies...she was the worst thing about Teaching Mrs. Tingle and her performance is Thank You For Smoking kept that film from being perfection.

[Gideon58]

30.

Tori Spelling

http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2015_40/802136/tori-spelling-90210-today-151001-02_8b4d9fda3e814ba05ffbf35511c622b5.today-inline-large.jpg

Tori Spelling played Donna Martin on her father's show Beverly Hills 90210. Now Tori was the first to let everyone know that she had to audition for her role just like the rest of the cast but if you think the fact that she was the producer's daughter had NOTHING to do with her being cast in this show, then I have a bridge I want to sell you, because this girl was a terrible actress.

[Gideon58]

29.

Jenna Van Oy

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0a/28/6d/0a286d054ab8aebbe7a2b2d43463616d.jpg

Van Oy had supporting roles on Blossom and The Parkers...another one of those actresses whose every word motivated a sock in her mouth.

[Gideon58]

28.

Greg Evigan

http://www.isnanchordesk.com/autos/pix/gevigan.jpg

The camera loved him, but Evigan's starring roles on BJ and the Bear and My Two Dads documented a definite lack of acting skills.

[Gideon58]

27.

Josh Taylor

http://www.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/files/files/styles/nbc_bio_image/public/images/2013/11/08/Days_Bio_RomanBrady_JoshTaylor_500x500.jpg?itok=kdf-7AFi

I first encountered Taylor on the NBC soap Days of our Lives playing a character named Chris Kostichek. He got a chance at prime time fame when he was cast as Michael Hogan on NBC's Valerie which morphed into The Hogan Family after Valerie Harper's stormy exit. He also had a recurring role playing Luke Perry's wayward father on Beverly Hills 90210 and then disappeared for awhile. A few years ago, he returned to Days of our Lives but playing a different character, Roman Brady. I don't know how this guy keeps getting work...his face is made of stone...no matter what the character is saying or going through, his facial expression never seems to change.

[Topsy]

I was saying to Camo, I only saw the first season, so this could've changed a lot. However, for that first season, I don' think there's much to argue about. Though I'm sure most/all of you saw this a lot more recently than I did. :D


no i was geniunly asking :) ive never seen much of it,but ive seen both williams and jackson in later work and thought they were good,and seen holmes in later work and thought meh..

[Gideon58]

26.

Samaire Armstrong

http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/samaire_armstrong_2007_10_16.jpg

This actress had recurring roles on Entourage and The O.C. but my first and only exposure to her was when she played Juliet Darling on Dirty Sexy Money, a show I loved but a lot of people missed. The show ran about 2 1/2 seasons but Armstrong was written of the show after season one...talk about tender mercies.

[Gideon58]

25.

Anson Williams

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Anson_Williams_Potsie_Weber_1973.jpg

One of the few cast members of Happy Days who stayed on the show for its entire run...I'm sure because he couldn't find work anywhere else. Williams played Potsie Webber, best friend to Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard), but when the character of Fonzie (Henry Winkler) went front burner, Potsie got shoved to the back one and the show really didn't know what to do with him after that but Williams didn't seem to notice or care. TPTB attempted to pacify Williams by giving opportunities to sing on the show, but his singing really wasn't much better than his acting.

[Gideon58]

24.

John Banner

http://www.metvnetwork.com/assets/facebook/436/thumbnail/banner.jpg

The late actor played Sargent Schultz on Hogan's Heroes...the worst actor on a really terrible show that I never missed as a child.

[Captain Steel]

You lived in Milltown? I lived in Paterson for 11 years.

Yes, my parents still live there & my mom's family goes back about 5 generations in the town. I'm in town several times a week to take care of my parents.
When I first left home I lived in South Brunswick for about 18 years. Now I live in Monroe.

So, Paterson, eh?
Did you see any Muslims celebrating on 9/11?

[gbgoodies]

28.

Greg Evigan

The camera loved him, but Evigan's starring roles on BJ and the Bear and My Two Dads documented a definite lack of acting skills.


I'm surprrised to see Greg Evigan on this list. I loved both BJ and the Bear and My Two Dads, and I didn't think he was bad in either show.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I could totally see them bringing back My Two Dads on TV for today, except now the two dads are a married gay couple.

[Gideon58]

So, Paterson, eh?
Did you see any Muslims celebrating on 9/11?

Left in 2004 haven't been back since, but nothing while I was there, no.

[Gideon58]

23.

Peter Lupus

http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/5246587/540full-peter-lupus.jpg

Lupus played Willy, the muscle man on Mission: Impossible...he was never given a lot of dialogue, his talent appeared to be in his biceps.

[Gideon58]

22.

John Schuck

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/71/7146/1UWM100Z/posters/john-schuck-mcmillan-and-wife-1971.jpg

Schuck was best known for playing Sargent Enright on McMillan and Wife...this is a popular and well-loved actor but every time he appeared onscreen he made me cringe.

[Gideon58]

21.

Kevin Connolly

http://static.srcdn.com/slir/w700-h350-q90-c700:350/wp-content/uploads/Eric-Murphy-in-Entourage.jpg

Connolly played Eric Murphy on the HBO series Entourage...easy on the eyes, but not much of an actor.

[Gideon58]

20.

Kristin Rohde

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/oz/character/staff/officer-claire-howell-1024.jpg

Rohde appeared on the HBO series Oz as Claire Howell, a prison guard who liked to blackmail certain inmates into having sex with her...this actress gave new meaning to the term "overacting."

[Gideon58]

19.

Elizabeth Berkley

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03188/elizabethberkely_3188835k.jpg

Berkley played Jessie Spano on Saved by the Bell...the only other thing I have to say on this subject is "I'm so excited, I'm so excited..."

[Gideon58]

18.

Raven-Symone

http://img.wennermedia.com/920-width/1438180497_raven-symone-zoom.jpg

She was cute as a button when she joined The Cosby Show during season six as the daughter of Denise's new husband (Joseph C. Phillips), but the cute wore off, the pounds came on, and what was considered cute as a toddler morphed into bad acting, documented by her own Disney series That's My Raven...possibly the worst actress to have a TV show with her name in the title.

[Camo]

Berkeley and Rohde are good choices. First i've seen in a while. Hope Dustin Diamond makes the top ten.

[Gideon58]

Hope Dustin Diamond makes the top ten.

As always, one step ahead of me, Camo.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I hate Raven-Symone just as a person. Found out how annoying she is thanks to The View.

[TONGO]

Hope Dustin Diamond makes the top ten.

I couldnt hit the Rep button hard enough to convey the strength of my agreement. Hes going back to jail again. Before the jail stints he was on Celebrity Fit Club, and was just the most dickish troll to all the celebrities. He needs to-go.

[Gideon58]

17.

Soleil Moon Frye

http://www.tvtimemachine.com/sys/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/PunkyBrewster.jpg

The star of Punky Brewster eventually grew into her looks but never grew into anything resembling acting talent.

[TONGO]

18.

Raven-Symone

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU5MzM4NTA0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzMyOTgyNQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

She was cute as a button when she joined The Cosby Show during season six as the daughter of Denise's new husband (Joseph C. Phillips), but the cute wore off, the pounds came on, and what was considered cute as a toddler morphed into bad acting, documented by her own Disney series That's My Raven...possibly the worst actress to have a TV show with her name in the title.

Yeah she really should have retired at age 8 or 9.

[Gideon58]

16.

Linda Evans

http://www.wtae.com/image/view/-/25783004/highRes/2/-/maxh/630/maxw/1200/-/7aaa2h/-/Dynasty-WATN---Linda-Evans-then-jpg.jpg

It hurts my heart a little to include this submission because I was a HUGE fan of Dynasty, but to be honest...the actress who first appeared during the 60's playing Audra Barkley on The Big Valley disappeared for at least a couple of decades before resurfacing to play Krystle Carrington on Dynasty. She was a lovely woman and nobody wore shoulder pads like she did, but the woman is no actress...like Josh Taylor, her facial expression never seemed to change, though I did love her knock-down drag outs with Joan Collins, the rest of her screen time was a big snooze.

[Gideon58]

15.

Mario Cantone

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/sex-and-the-city/character/anthony-marentino-1024.jpg

Cantone was the host of a children's TV show called Steampipe Alley before he played Kristin Davis' wedding planner Anthony on Sex and the City. This guy really needs to dial it back, one of the most cringe-worthy actors I have ever seen, how he has maintained a career at all is a mystery to me.

[honeykid]

The last two are cracking choices. :up:

[Sexy Celebrity]

I like Mario Cantone. He was a really bitchy, queeny gay on Sex and the City, but he was good at it.

[Captain Steel]

18.

Raven-Symone

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU5MzM4NTA0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzMyOTgyNQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

She was cute as a button when she joined The Cosby Show during season six as the daughter of Denise's new husband (Joseph C. Phillips), but the cute wore off, the pounds came on, and what was considered cute as a toddler morphed into bad acting, documented by her own Disney series That's My Raven...possibly the worst actress to have a TV show with her name in the title.

Sorry to correct, Gideon, but for the record the TV show was called "That's SO Raven".
(Even the title is annoying!) ;)

[TONGO]

24.

John Banner

http://www.metvnetwork.com/assets/facebook/436/thumbnail/banner.jpg

The late actor played Sargent Schultz on Hogan's Heroes...the worst actor on a really terrible show that I never missed as a child.

Awwwww, poor Schultz


I wonder if Lucy from Dallas will make an appearance. She was rough :yup: :sick:

http://theredlist.com/media/database/films/tv-series/sitcom-and-soap/1970/dallas/011-dallas-theredlist.jpg

[Captain Steel]

Schultz admitted his inadequacy... "I know nuh-zink! Nuh-Zink!"

[Camo]

I liked Mario Cantone in Sex and the City too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[TONGO]

I know hes better than Raven Symone on The View. They need to punt her big horribly clothed butt outta there and make him the regular.

[Captain Steel]

Speaking of Raven Symone and her TV show...
(go to 1:08 in the video for the joke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0udC_D76ds

[Gideon58]

14.

David Charvet

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/cdd82e479009bd565eec03ec4b21eb74?width=650

Like Maxwell Caufield, pretty, but can't act.

[honeykid]

That pic's not working for me, Gideon.

[Gideon58]

13.

Ted McGinley

https://karenisthedityaddict.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/screen-shot-2015-12-20-at-11-23-31-pm.png?w=748

When Ron Howard decided to leave Happy Days, McGinley was brought onto the show to take Richie Cunningham's place on the canvas. McGinley has also had regular or recurring roles on The Love Boat, Dynasty, Married...with Children, and Hope and Faith, but it doesn't change the fact that he's a terrible actor. The original Jump the Shark website had an entire wing devoted exclusively to McGInley, stating that any show that added McGinley to their cast had jumped the shark.

[Gideon58]

12.

Pat Harrington

http://media.comicbook.com/2016/01/pat-harrington-jr-165108.jpg

This character was very popular and I have no idea why...Harrington played Dwayne Schneider, the super in the building where Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) lived on One Day at a Time, who made no secret of his lust for Romano...God, I hated this guy, you could just see the grease sliding off of him.

[Gideon58]

11.

Lisa Bonet

http://blacktimetravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bonet.png

Bonet played Denise Huxtable, Cliff's second eldest child on The Cosby Show for two seasons before being spun off onto her own series A Different World partially because of a strained working relationship with Cosby and his displeasure at her appearing in Angel Heart with Robert De Niro. She was no less difficult on the set of A Different World and I think became the first actress to ever be fired from her own spinoff, which ran for five more seasons after her departure.

[Gideon58]

10.

Charlene Tilton

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3310796/images/o-LUCY-EWING-DALLAS-facebook.jpg

Tilton played Lucy Ewing on Dallas...Lucy was the daughter of Gary and Valene Ewing (Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark) who stayed at Southfork while her parents were spun off onto Knots Landing. The girl wore the hell out a bikini, but she was no Meryl Streep.

[Gideon58]

9.

Adrien Grenier

http://static.srcdn.com/slir/w700-h350-q90-c700:350/wp-content/uploads/Vincent-Chase-in-Entourage.jpg

This pretty-eyed thing played Vincent Chase on the HBO series Entourage, a show that wasn't exactly steeped in realism, so great actors weren't really a requirement.

[Gideon58]

8.

Burt Ward

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/8/8c/Robinbw.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120815162018&path-prefix=de

"Holy Bad Acting, Batman!"

[Gideon58]

7.

Nicole Eggert

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8d/c2/b8/8dc2b805d787c3440eed8e248cd88f8f.jpg

Eggert had featured roles on Charles in Charge and Baywatch.

[Gideon58]

6.

Lauren Tewes

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/32/82/a3/3282a365b6075e4c5f6d49720c3a4c51.jpg

Tewes played the sickening sweet Julie McCoy on The Love Boat until her love for cocaine became stronger than her love for her job.

[Gideon58]

5.

Dustin Diamond

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/936full-saved-by-the-bell-screenshot-665x385.png

You had to know this guy was going to show up.

[Citizen Rules]

6.Lauren Tewes

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/32/82/a3/3282a365b6075e4c5f6d49720c3a4c51.jpg

I had a crush on Julie when I was a teen. I just watched the first 2 Seasons of Love Boat and she's very personable.

[gbgoodies]

12.

Pat Harrington

http://media.comicbook.com/2016/01/pat-harrington-jr-165108.jpg

This character was very popular and I have no idea why...Harrington played Dwayne Schneider, the super in the building where Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) lived on One Day at a Time, who made no secret of his lust for Romano...God, I hated this guy, you could just see the grease sliding off of him.


I thought Pat Harrington was great as Schneider. He was my favorite character on the show.

[gbgoodies]

7.

Nicole Eggert

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8d/c2/b8/8dc2b805d787c3440eed8e248cd88f8f.jpg

Eggert had featured roles on Charles in Charge and Baywatch.


I liked the first season of "Charles in Charge", when he worked for a different family. I thought the two boys were much more fun.

[gbgoodies]

5.

Dustin Diamond

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/936full-saved-by-the-bell-screenshot-665x385.png

You had to know this guy was going to show up.


I expected Dustin Diamond to be higher than this, maybe even at the top of the list.

[Topsy]

I cant stand Adrian Grenier....

and ia on the baywatch people,but i guess they never went for talent on that show ;) atleast on screen talent...

Lisa Bonet is so pretty though..never seen her in anything

[honeykid]

Lisa Bonet is just wrong. Also, wasn't Burt Ward supposed to act like that?

[Gideon58]

Also, wasn't Burt Ward supposed to act like that?

If he was, why didn't he ever get another job acting ever?

[honeykid]

Because he was perfect for that one?

[Gideon58]

OK, Honeykid

[Camo]

HK is right that was the way Ward was supposed to act. Glad to see Diamond in the top five, such a terrible and annoying actor.

[TONGO]

11.

Lisa Bonet

http://blacktimetravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bonet.png

Bonet played Denise Huxtable, Cliff's second eldest child on The Cosby Show for two seasons before being spun off onto her own series A Different World partially because of a strained working relationship with Cosby and his displeasure at her appearing in Angel Heart with Robert De Niro. She was no less difficult on the set of A Different World and I think became the first actress to ever be fired from her own spinoff, which ran for five more seasons after her departure.

Completely agree. This girl couldnt act her way out of a wet paper bag, and proved it in every project she was allowed to attempt.

[TONGO]

If he was, why didn't he ever get another job acting ever?

Because Burt Ward became a multi millionaire in real estate. I actually enjoyed his intentionally campy performance, and if he wasnt good at it, we still wouldnt be saying his catch phrase today. :yup:

[Gideon58]

4.

Pamela Anderson

http://s3.amazonaws.com/digitaltrends-uploads-prod/2016/04/pamela-anderson-baywatch.jpg

She was great at running on the beach, and nobody wore that bright red one-piece the way she did, but acting ability was not part of the Baywatch babe's skillset.

[Camo]

Obviously i know who she is but i don't think i've ever seen Pamela Anderson in a tv show. Yeah, never seen Baywatch. Couldn't imagine her being any good.

[Topsy]

i just want to get an eraser and remove those horrid eyebrows.

[Gideon58]

3.

J B Smoove

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjI1NjI3NDQzOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzYzMDQ1NA@@._V1_.jpg

This really annoying actor has had regular roles on Cedric the Entertainer Presents, Everybody Hates Chris, Til Death, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Millers...one of the most cringe-worthy actors working today I don't know how this actor keeps getting work.

[Sexy Celebrity]

There better be a Best Television Actors Ever thread coming because this thread is mean.

[Camo]

Leon (his character) was pretty funny on Curb. That's not a comment on his acting skill though as Curb is done a very weird way were bad acting feels almost intentional at times even if it isn't.

[Gideon58]

There better be a Best Television Actors Ever thread coming because this thread is mean.

Well, what would be the point of that Sexy? You wouldn't like my choices and you'd hate that as much as you'd hate this one.

[Camo]

Haven't you already done one?

[TONGO]

I think I know who #1 is gonna be....my guess is..... Jaleel White "Urkel" from Family Matters. A very deserved #1 he'd be. :yup:

[Sexy Celebrity]

Gideon hates black stereotypes... as annoying as Urkel may be... Urkel was smart. Urkel was a black Einstein. He invented so many outrageous things. He was like a very early, African-American Big Bang Theory.

So different from the stereotype that black people are stupid.

[Gideon58]

2.

Robert Clohessy

https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/robert-clohessy/pictures/large/robert-clohessy-2016.jpg

This really terrible actor first caught my attention playing corrections officer Sean Murphy on the HBO drama Oz. He also had roles on Kidnapped and New Amsterdam. He is currently co-starring with Tom Selleck on the CBS series Blue Bloods.

Well, down # 2...I was going to include some honorable mentions but Sexy thinks this thread is mean, so I'm going to wrap it up...and now my worst television actor ever:

[Camo]

He didn't bother me much on Oz.

[Gideon58]

1.

Katherine McPhee

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/McPhee+is+a+smash+lprOIIhfiWIl.jpg

OK, since I'm just a big meanie, I might as well go ahead and embrace it...I don't know who this former America Idol contestant slept with in order to get an hour long musical drama built completely around her but the woman was just not up to this gargantuan task of carrying a series of such size and expense. On Smash, McPhee played Karen, a singer fresh off the bus from the country, who arrives in Manhattan to compete with the more experienced Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) for the starring role in a Broadway muscal about Marilyn Monroe. McPhee definitely has pipes, but she couldn't act her way out of the high school play and was blown off the screen by Megan Hilty on a weekly basis...I don't think a major television network has ever thrown away so much money on someone with so little talent.




Hope you enjoyed the list.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Boring ending.

[Gideon58]

Boring ending.

Sorry to disappoint you Sexy, I'll get my coat...

[TONGO]

Really?!

Yeah I was expecting someone undeniably awful to cap it off, but I never heard of her.

Good list G :)

[Gideon58]

Yeah I was expecrting someone undeniably awful to cap it off

Well, if you go back and watch Smash, you will see how undeniably awful she was, I didn't just pull her name out of a hat.

[Gideon58]

I actually enjoyed his intentionally campy performance,

I'm not convinced it was intentional, but that's just me.

[honeykid]

I don't know who she'd have slept with, but I'm guessing it'd have been worth it. She's hot.

Congrats on finishing your list. :)

I only saw the first season of Baywatch, so I didn't see the Pam Anderson episodes, but is she really worse than Hasselhoff or many of the other bodies that show had?

[honeykid]

I'm not convinced it was intentional, but that's just me.

You don't think Batman was intentionally campy? :eek:

[Camo]

Never seen or heard of your #1. Congrats on finishing your list :up:

[Gideon58]

You don't think Batman was intentionally campy? :eek:

There's no denying that the show had a camp quality, but I don't think that was its intention way back in 1966.

[Topsy]

ACTUALLY
She slept with the director.it was all over the magazines cos they were both married to other people lol

[Gideon58]

ACTUALLY
She slept with the director.it was all over the magazines cos they were both married to other people lol


Thank you for confirming what I was always suspected because there was no way McPhee had the acting chops or the juice to get a TV series of that magnitude based on her talent.

[Topsy]

:lol: I saw her in a horror movie once aswell,just horrible to the point where it isnt even funny.

Only one i missed on your list that i can think of is Amber Benson (Tara "buffy-the vampire slayer)
shes prob the worst actress ive ever seen on television.

oh and hayden christensen was pretty awful in Higher Ground aswell.

[Camo]

There's no denying that the show had a camp quality, but I don't think that was its intention way back in 1966.

It was 100% intentional. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek.

[Gatsby]

It was 100% intentional. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek.
Really? Wait, I think I need to up my rating a notch or two.

[Captain Steel]

Really?!

Yeah I was expecrting someone undeniably awful to cap it off, but I never heard of her.


Good list G :)

I never heard of her either.

I know Gideon mentioned the entire cast of What's Happening, but Danielle Spencer (who played Roger's little sister, Dee) was one of the worst line deliverers ever. She couldn't deliver a line that didn't sound like it was read off a cue card (and poorly read at that - she's often pause & stumble like a kindergartner who is just learning to read.)

And yet, as bad as her delivery was, and as bad as her "acting" was (if you can call it that), she was still kind of funny - and that quality seemed enhanced by the sheer ineptness of her acting ability.

[mojofilter]

I'm glad none of the cast members of The King Of Queens made your list.

http://images.enstarz.com/data/images/full/36314/king-of-queens-cast.jpg?w=580

I love that show! Every actor on that show is perfectly cast

[Inglis]

CSI Miami

David Caruso

Lieutenant Horatio Caine

Even though my Mother loves that show. It's dead now.

[gbgoodies]

1.

Katherine McPhee, Smash

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/McPhee+is+a+smash+lprOIIhfiWIl.jpg

OK, since I'm just a big meanie, I might as well go ahead and embrace it...I don't know who this former America Idol contestant slept with in order to get an hour long musical drama built completely around her but the woman was just not up to this gargantuan task of carrying a series of such size and expense. McPhee played Karen, a singer fresh off the bus from the country, who arrives in Manhattan to compete with the more experienced Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) for the starring role in a Broadway muscal about Marilyn Monroe. McPhee definitely has pipes, but she couldn't act her way out of the high school play and was blown off the screen by Megan Hilty on a weekly basis...I don't think a major television network has ever thrown away so much money on someone with so little talent.



I agree that Katharine McPhee isn't a great actress, but I didn't think she was that bad in "SMASH" that she belongs at the top of this list. Have you seen her as Paige in "Scorpion"?

[gandalf26]

What number was Emilia Clarke?

[Gideon58]

Only one i missed on your list that i can think of is Amber Benson (Tara "buffy-the vampire slayer)
shes prob the worst actress ive ever seen on television.

oh and hayden christensen was pretty awful in Higher Ground as well.

Never seen either of these shows, that's why these people weren't on my list. There's no one on this list where I didn't actually watch the show.

[Gideon58]

but Danielle Spencer (who played Roger's little sister, Dee) was one of the worst line deliverers ever. She couldn't deliver a line that didn't sound like it was read off a cue card


I agree, Spencer was terrible, but no worse than Haywood Nelson or Fred Berry...if I had done honorable mentions, Berry and Spencer probably both would have been listed.

[Marlon Brando]

There's no denying that the show had a camp quality, but I don't think that was its intention way back in 1966.
I think it was. The whole point was that it was comedy that was really over the top. I mean, when you punch a guy and the word BANG appears, it kinda gives away it was never meant to be serious in the first place. :D

[Gideon58]

I mean, when you punch a guy and the word BANG appears, it kinda gives away it was never meant to be serious in the first place. :D


No argument here, but it doesn't change the fact that Burt Ward was a bad actor. Even Adam West is working today, even if it is voice work, but what is Burt Ward doing? Still trying to milk what he can out the alleged legacy he created with one role.

[Captain Steel]

Interesting argument. Was Burt Ward ever given a chance to act in anything else or was he typecast?
The Batman TV show was a showplace for lots of big actors who wanted to appear on it, and did. But could we tell from their performances on this show who was a "great" actor and who was not (considering that everyone was camping it up?)

Could anyone really tell that Burgess Meredith was a great actor by his performance as the Penguin? (And don't get me wrong, he was great as the Penguin!) If anyone watches or compares his three different roles on the Twilight Zone they can come away and say "this man was a great actor" - the same by looking at his movie roles. But can they say that just by watching Batman?

So, if it's difficult to tell the greats from the amateurs due to the nature of a series like Batman, is Burt Ward being given an unfair shake since we have nothing else to judge him by?

[Citizen Rules]

Good post Captain, to me a bad actor is someone who reads their lines flat, when they're not suppose to. I mean Burt Ward read his lines with camp gusto and made a memorable character. I tend to agree that he didn't act again, do to type casting.

Same thing happened to the cast of Gilligan's Island. There were a lot of talented comic actors on that island but damn if they didn't have their careers killed by type casting.

OK sure Mary Ann - Dawn Wells wasn't the greatest actress but Ginger - Tina Louise was very good at light comedy. She had the makings of another Ann Margret. And if she had not done Gilligan's Island but stuck to movies, she might have been big in the 1960s.

[Captain Steel]

Too true, Rules. And Jim Backus was a fairly recognized actor with a pretty prodigious movie resume (of course, being the voice of Mr. MaGoo didn't hurt), but it seemed that Gilligan's Island sealed the lid on his acting career, relegating him to TV sit-com guest appearances.

[Citizen Rules]

True enough...A bit of personal trivia...Jim Backus, aka Mr. Howell, was my favorite Gilligan's Island character when I was a kid.

[georg]

There was a child actor in the Batman TV series that ran in the 1960s. In it the kid says plaintifly, "Shame! Come back, Shame!" Check out the kid's acting.

[NextScorsese]

Anyone one of the hacks on Big Bang Theory.

[Holden Pike]

I haven't read through this thread, but if number one is anybody other than that girl from "Small Wonder", you can all go fu*k yourselves. Granted, the show was beyond stupid, HORRIBLY written and directed, the rest of the actors are downright lousy, and after all Tiffany Brissette was only a child....but she was so bad that I hope she got cancer and died, in real life.

https://media1.giphy.com/media/jWhsFABAanwsg/200.gif#8


Not that I have any strong feelings on the subject.

[mattiasflgrtll6]

Interesting list... But major disagreements on Phil Foster, Anson Williams and especially Donny Most. To me, Most is one of the best parts of the show, with his likeable character and very natural comic talent. With Foster I can see your point, but something about the guy just gets to me. Probably the least of the main actors is Eddie Mekka, but I like him as well.

Burt Ward is definitely goofy, but that's what makes him so funny to me.


I would include Madeleine Martin, who to me at first almost ruined Californication because of her monotone and empty screen presence, like she killed the room in every scene she appeared in. In season 6 she got slightly better, but is still not a very good actor.
And this is not a popular opinion, but Louis Lombardi annoyed the hell out of me in 24, and I don't understand why his character is so liked by fans. I thought he was a whiny crybaby.

I liked her in 24, but if her acting in Californication is any indicator, Sarah Wynter should NEVER do comedy again.

[Citizen Rules]

...major disagreements on Phil Foster, Anson Williams and especially Donny Most. To me, Donny Most is one of the best parts of the show, with his likeable character and very natural comic talent... I just got through watching all 11 seasons of Happy Days and I have to agree with you Mattia, Donny Most was funny! He was one of my favorite characters too. I missed Ralph Malph with he left the show at the end of season 7. And of course I loved Laverne's dad! How cool is it that he owned the Pizza Bowl:yup:

[mattiasflgrtll6]

HEY! HEY! YOU WANT SOME PIZZA? AH! FORGET IT!