Worst Television Actors Ever

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:

100.

Taran Noah Smith



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.

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

99.

Lynda Goodfriend



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.

98.

Peter Breck



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

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

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.

97.

Antonio Sabato Jr.



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.

96.

Vanessa Williams



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.

95.

Eddie Applegate



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

94.

PR Paul



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.

93.

Kim Lankford



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.

92.

Maxwell Caulfield



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.

^^

VERY PRETTY.

91.

Lori Saunders



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

90.

Moosie Drier



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.

89.

Roz Kelly



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.

88.

Theresa Graves



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.

87.

Beverly Archer



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.

86.

Lorenzo Lamas



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.