What ever became of....? Actor and Actress who you don't see anymore.

As noted above, Gibson still works, but not a lot. Unclear how much of this is his choice or Hollywood's choice.

He did just direct the well-received "Hacksaw Ridge"...

 

I thought he stepped away from show-biz to earn a Ph.D. and become a university lecturer on ancient Roman and Italian Renaissance art.

 

I thought she took some time away from her acting career to concentrate on raising her four children (but I see that she has worked quite a bit in the past 10 or 15 years, but in low profile tv projects or direct to video movies).

I was also under the impression that her career took a bit of a hit when a false rumour spread about her being awarded the Oscar by mistake. (Didn't the Academy announce several years later that an audit had taken place and it verified she indeed had won the Oscar.)

 

oh, he is around, but he is in just about every piece of crap low-budget movie that is released.

considering the climate of the USA right now, what old mel did doesn't seem so horrible as it once did

 

It is true that he got his doctorate and does some sessional lecturing on those topics. However, I understand that directing for TV is still his main source of income.

A bit like Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground who got his Ph.D. in medieval literature and did do some contract lecturing but earned his living as a tugboat captain.

 

As stated above: Gibson barely acts in movies these days.

Mel Gibson has acted in six movies since 2004!

That's an average of one movie every two years - not exactly overexposed...

 

Sean Young. Really gorgeous Old Hollywood looks; seemed to be headed for stardom in the '80s before she got a reputation for being a little too odd.

 

There were some pretty horrific phone calls towards his ex girlfriend or wife I seem to recall too which were even worse than the rant. I probably couldn't quote them without being banned.

 

Good example -- she was a rising star and then was shunned seemingly overnight. Loved her in Bladerunner.

 

Also Emilio Estevez. Very high profile for about 10 years, then shifted to lower profile personal projects, some of which got good critical response but no wide release.

 

Was it that she was "odd" or that it was difficult to work with her? I'm under the impression it's more the latter...

 

There was a movie with James Woods that started it, IIRC. After, Woods got an injunction against her, to keep her away from him.
Her dressing up as Catwoman to try and get cast in Batman was the last thing I heard about her.

 

A shame, cause The Way is a great little movie.

 

If he was drunk out of his mind, I'll give him a pass. I've had best friends take swings at me, point guns at me, smash my car, and curse a blue streak at me and laughed it off with them the next day because they were two sheets to the wind. If you hang with heavy drinkers, insane blackouts go with the territory. There maybe an unwritten pact among drunks that forgiveness is built into the madness because people DONT ACT LIKE THEMSELVES when they're drunk or the worst of them can get magnified. If you cant handle a bit of insanity, don't hang with drunks. But I love a little insanity in my friends! It's great theater!

 

I don't want to derail the thread but I will add that the 'pact' you speak of often spreads to the entire extended family. My wife has a sister in law who arrives at parties smashed and gets worse as the night progresses, usually manifesting itself in violating everyone's personal space and coming close to kissing men on the mouth. Everyone just says, 'oh that's Mary, she's having a good time.' She says things and makes promises that no one makes any effort to follow up, because she was 'having a good time.'

 

Yeah, that sucks. I'm talking about boys nights out only. You know, where the whole point of the evening is soley to get smashed.

 

heh, yea, remember those days

 

His face still looks like a teenagers but his body in that film was definitely looking or made to look very middle aged. An odd and weirdly sobering sight. And an utterly brilliant movie.

 

Ken Marshall- Thought he did well in giving the role of the real Marco Polo some life in the NBC 80s tv mini series. Also was a presence in the fantasy film Krull from the same decade.

 

Yes, my girlfriend frequently saw him at the UCLA campus. He's very busy as a director now

 

My favourite MIA actors have to be Michael Sacks and Jenny Wright. Sacks was poised to be big with Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) and The Sugarland Express (1974), but in the mid-80's he abandoned acting completely to get an MBA.

Wright was "that face" in scores of films from the 80's, including The World According to Garp, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Near Dark and The Chocolate War, but she basically flamed out by the early 90's

 

Sadly, that label of being "difficult to work with" is usually used an excuse to blacklist female actors (see also: Faye Dunaway). I very seldom hear about men who are shunned supposedly due to being unprofessional, save for Jan-Michael Vincent

 

Yes, I remember Wright only from 'Near Dark' and 'The Lawnmower Man'.

 

You confused Mira Sorvino with Marissa Tomei

 

I thought she was great in The Abyss.