I think there might have been other reasons
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harry-hamlin-playing-gay-1982s-making-love-ended-my-career-1271446
I agree he was only ever an average pretty boy actor in a town full of average pretty boy actors.
I wouldn't call ending up on LA Law to be a bad thing either.
I liked him on LA Law.
shareI'm sure there are plenty of actors whose film careers ended - for various reasons. And plenty of film actors transitioned to TV roles when film roles dried up for whatever reasons. Getting LA Law less than five years later?? He shouldn't complain.
shareHe had a decent TV career but most actors still want the big movie career.
sharewell may career never took off because i'm poor and have no connection to hook me up through nepotism and mental health and laziness played a factor as well
He had a career, LOL?
share53 television credits and 20 films
sharehe was the lead actor on a very popular tv drama that ran for 8 seasons in an era when people actually watched tv shows en masse.
i have no opinion on why he didn't have a movie career, and don't really care about such matters at all, but by the standards of his profession he was a pretty big success.
I'm well aware of who he is.
It's just that I find it laughable that he's talking as if he had breakout potential as a movie star. He never did. I remember when Clash of the Titans came out, and not only was it one of the cheesiest movies ever made, there was nothing remotely remarkable about him or his performance in that film. He was just a generic, bland cheesecake actor.
In fact, come to think of it, it just seems to me that his lament that Making Love ended his career is revisionist history. Like I said, Clash of the Titans was a bad, cheesy film. It was bad enough to end anyone's career. (Laurence Olivier, who was in the movie, immediately started slumming it on TV after this movie.) Seems to me he's in denial about having made the film and is trying to play himself up as a martyr of homophobia.
I liked Clash of the Titans, but the only actor who stood out in it for me was Burgess Meredith. I didn't even recall that Hamlin was in it.
shareJim Morrison as Perseus.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2e/da/98/2eda98d1dee251fa14c4f0dd7195b8c7.jpg
I was never that impressed with his talent. As others have pointed out, he was a pretty wooden actor who delivered every line nearly the same. He had a pretty solid career, considering.
His film career wasn't exactly blowing up at the time either. He peaked with Clash of the Titans.
LA Law was a pretty good gig for him.