Talk about being typecast
"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."
I am sure he does. I have never heard of an actor or actress who loves to be typecast. But I bet he is just happy to have a job and in someway be an in demand actor. There was a time when he really struggled to find acting jobs. So I am sure he would take a typecast acting career over no acting career.
shareI can remember him on an episode of murder she wrote many years ago and he even played a sly character on it as well.
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He may do but i do feel he probably gets enough working oppurtunites to chose his roles now, therefore its his choice to be type cast because he likes playing these characters.
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I don't know about that. Actors with a lot more power and name recognition than him still have trouble getting diverse roles.
"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."
He didn't play a scumbag in Carnivale...
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The first time I saw him he played a really good guy--a young doctor who had been genetically bonded with Deanna Troi when they were children on Star Trek: the Next Generation. Of course he did leave her for another woman (he may have been bonded to her but they hadn't seen each other in 15+ years!), but that was okay because we all knew that Deanna was in love with Will Riker and was only accepting the idea of marrying him. And the other woman was of an alien race that really needed his medical skills! And Deanna and Will were eventually married (in one of the latest ST movies!).
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
Yeah, I suppose it gets old, but he can always do broadway and be King Lear on someone else's dime. My favorite is Harold Parrineau playing a wheelchair bound criminal on OZ and on SVU.
shareYeah, I suppose it gets old, but he can always do Broadway and be King Lear on someone else's dime during the hiatus. I heard Ron Glass runs theatre workshops now and only did Firefly for the money. My favorite is Harold Parrineau playing a wheelchair bound criminal on OZ and on SVU.
shareActually I see him more as Macbeth or Iago or even Claudius or Cassius than King Lear!
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
He would be the perfect Iago!
shareI don't think so. Personally I find him perfect for these kinds of roles because the psycho nature suits him really well.
shareI think Iago is a little on the psychotic side! At the very least he's obsessive! He'd be the perfect Iago.
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
What's funny is on this show it seems like he was cast to play TWO scumbags. His character on the show comes off as a condescending jerk, and his character on the show-within-a-show is a psychopathic leader of a cult that buries people alive and kidnaps kids....
shareI suspect the guy is a one trick pony. T-Bag on Prison Break was the the best performance of this one trick but even he became unbearably annoying about the time his hand got chopped off. By season 4 I took to keeping stacks of bricks in my living room for the express purpose of flinging them at the screen every time this guy licked his lips. It was an ill-advised course of action on my part because I broke a lot of TVs and was constantly shelling out more $$$ to replace them.
shareyou hated him enough to throw bricks at your own tv set? I never watched more then a few episodes of pb and that was only because of Shannon Lucio
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Yes, and I don't recommend it. I had to keep turning on a new TV though in case Fichtner turned up in the next scene.
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I suppose he might be a "one-trick-pony" but he has sex appeal, well at least he does to me. I don't know what it is about him, and this guy is old enough to be my dad, but every time I see him he just does something for me on every level...few people I can say that about. T-Bag did become annoying as Prison Break wore on, but that wasn't so much Rob's fault as it was the fault of the crappy writing that first started rearing its ugly head in the season 1 finale. They did write a few good sub-plots for him in season 2 with the Susan character, for me that was the most emotional part of Prison Break, but after that the character became irrelevant and should have been offed. He was okay in the Sona season with Lechero because they showed how manipulative and clever the character was, and how he quickly knew what to do in order to survive in such a brutal environment, but by that time, T-Bag was completely irrelevant to the story and had nothing to do with the overall plot. There was no reason for the character to be alive anymore. As for Robert being typecast, I'm pretty sure he probably hates it, but he puts up with it because it gives him steady work and pay. Though stuff he's in keeps getting cancelled.