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{{quote|''It was Captain Kirk playing TJ Hooker, not [[William Shatner]] the actor. You're just thinking he's taken a month off... and come down to Earth and said 'I want to be a cop for a bit'.''|'''[[Eddie Izzard]]''', ''Unrepeatable''}}
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==Examples in fiction
* ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'' parodied the dilemma of the cast of ''[[Star Trek]]'', where the entire cast of the [[Show Within a Show|in-universe sci-fi series]] is known for nothing
** Despite his hatred for the role, Rickman's character is never seen without his [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|make up on]]. He even wears it at home by himself.
* A tragic in-universe example of this trope is actress Mary Dahl aka Baby Doll from ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. She went insane because nobody would accept her as anything but lovable, troublesome tot Baby Doll. It didn't help that she suffered a genetic disorder which kept her from growing, leaving her trapped in a child's body. She starred in a stage production of ''Macbeth'', but it was largely panned and ignored.
* A variant happens in the first Thanksgiving episode of ''[[Friends]]''. Joey does modeling for a stock photo company and ends up on a poster for STDs. His family then thinks he actually has one.
* A plotline on the second season of ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' had a whole plotline in Season 2 where he
* A major arc in ''[[Skip Beat]]'' revolves around the fact that Kyoko's portrayal of the character [[Love to Hate|Mio]] in her major television debut defined the roles she was offered after the fact - to the point that the directors would tell her to "just act like Mio."
* When [[Richard Wilson]] guest starred in ''[[Father Ted]]'' as himself, he beat Ted up for using [[One Foot in the Grave|Victor Meldrew]]'s catchphrase on him.
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** Of course, the way Harrison Ford handled this and thus allowed him to largely escape from it could probably serve as a bit of a lesson to some others. He understood just how visible and popular the movie had made him, and rather than stewing over it simply took the roles of playing a roguish bad boy as they were offered, gradually parlaying his growing stardom, popularity, and audience draw into more diverse roles.
* The reported reason for Tiffany Brissette's early retirement from acting was her fear of being remembered only as Vicki from ''[[Small Wonder]]'' and being cast accordingly.
* [[Adam West]], try as he might, will always be "the campy [[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]". [[Adam Westing|He seems to be taking it well]]. Judging from a lot of his [[Old Superhero|recent roles]], he now appears to be typecast as the guy who was typecast. He follows William Shatner's route of [[I Am Not Leonard Nimoy|"hey, it's William Shatner!" roles]] to the point of [[Adam Westing|playing himself]] in ''[[Family Guy]]'', in one of the most surreal characters this side of [[Homestar Runner|Homsar]]. His role as the [[Batman: The Animated Series|The Gray
* Classic example: In the end, [[Bela Lugosi]] ''was'' [[Dracula]], no matter what he did. However, it was his son and his fifth wife, not Lugosi himself, who decided to have him buried in a Dracula cloak.
** Even Lugosi's friends and coworkers couldn't help but typecast him. Vincent Price wrote in his autobiography that at Lugosi's funeral, Peter Lorre, observing the cape, turned to Price and asked, "Should we stick a stake in his heart just to be sure?"
* In a similar way, the 60s and 70s [[Christopher Lee]] ''was'' [[Dracula]]. In the mid-70s he decided that this was an undesirable thing and [[Creator Backlash|dissociated himself from the character]]. He has been fairly successful in this as time has passed - younger film watchers are more likely to think of him as [[Lord of the Rings|Saruman]] or [[Star Wars|Count Dooku]].
** He seems to have traded in
* [[Kelsey Grammer]] will probably always be identified with his eponymous in ''[[Frasier]]''. After all, he not only played it for 11 years in that show, but portrayed the same character for 9 years before that in ''[[Cheers]]''.
** To be sure, Grammer did play the Beast in [[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]... And [[The Simpsons|Sideshow Bob]]. You know. Two refined men with [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] and a liking for class and the fine life. [[Typecasting|Just like Frasier]].
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** Margaret Hamilton had severe trouble getting another job after her role as the Witch in the same movie; everyone hated her.
** [[Judy Garland]] is kind of a retroactive example. She starred in many films during her lifetime, but most of them have since faded into obscurity. ''Oz'' has endured and now most people remember her only for Dorothy. If she's remembered for something other than ''Oz'', it's ''[[Meet Me in St Louis]]''.
* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Treehouse of Horror segment "Desperately Xeeking Xena", in which everyone who encountered ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' star Lucy Lawless addressed her as "Xena", much to her exasperation. Eventually, at the end of the segment when Bart and Lisa have rescued her from The Collector, she offers to take them
** Ironically, Lucy Lawless hasn't been typecast as Xena types - her most recent role is on "Spartacus".
* Michael Richards will forever be known as Kramer from ''[[Seinfeld]]'', [[N-Word Privileges|if he's lucky]].
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* Christopher Reeve was just starting to escape his role as [[Superman]]. A new generation of moviegoers was just coming up and most of them hadn't seen [[Superman (film)|that movie]]. Then he gets crippled and the newspapers can't say anything but "best known for his role as Superman..." Ouch.
** Reeve wasn't typecast in the strict sense of the word, as he was given several very un-Superman-like roles. For one example, watch [[Death Trap]] where he plays a sort of naive hayseed mystery writer fanboy. {{spoiler|Who turns out to be a murderous sociopath.}}
** Christopher Reeve's
** Speaking of [[Superman]], [[Superman Returns|Brandon Routh]] is rarely seen in any new movie because of this.
*** For fans of [[Chuck]], Routh has become Daniel Shaw. (Especially since many people have been doing their best to scour ''[[Superman Returns]]'' from their minds...)
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* Ricardo Montalban will always be remembered for [[Fantasy Island|wearing a white suit and waiting for "ze plane"]] or as [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|KHAAAAAAAAAN]].
** Or for his Chrysler's reeeeech Corinthian leather.
* Rowan Atkinson will always be [[Mr. Bean]] in the US, despite an amazing career as the title character in ''[[Blackadder]]'' and a variety of other film and stage roles.
It's the same in Germany. Everyone knows [[Mr. Bean]], but almost nobody knows Rowan Atkinson. It's only the select few that knew ''[[Blackadder]]'' before ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' came out who know he did other work.
** Not so much in the UK- he's also known as Blackadder, Johnny English or the guy from the Thin Blue Line.
* ''[[Blackadder]]'' - Poor Tony Robinson tends to get [[Bumbling Sidekick]] roles reprising his celebrated role as Baldrick.
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** For some, Katey Sagal will be remembered for a [[Futurama|rather different role.]]
*** [[Sons of Anarchy|Or a still different role.]] In fact, it's possible that when you've won a Golden Globe for playing a biker chick who threatens to kill a baby, you've completely shed the shackles of Peggy Bundy.
* William Atherton will always be [[Ghostbusters|Walter "Dickless" Peck]]. [[Word of God]] says this plagued him for a long time, as he'd have people yell "Hey, Dickless!" wherever he went. Unless you remember him as [[Real Genius|Jerry Hathaway]] or [[Die Hard|Dick Thornburg]], who are both also [[Jerkass
* Michael Ironside recounts one time he was on a plane and a guy came up to him, immaculately dressed in a suit, and said, "Hey, you're [[Splinter Cell|Sam Fisher]]." Lost for a second his reply is, "No, I'm...wait a minute, yes I am."
* Clayton Moore (the Lone Ranger), although he was apparently comfortable enough with the role to maintain kayfabe that Moore was the Ranger in his personal life. He had a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] with it which is recounted annually on Letterman where he was being giving a ride to his hotel by two young men in the 60s after a personal appearance when they were hit by another car. The driver of the other car insisted that he was not at fault and asked who the cops would believe, him or a couple of hippies. Moore reportedly then got out of the car, in full Ranger get-up and announced "They'll believe me, citizen!"
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** Since then he's essentially become [[Typecasting|typecast]] in roles as "[[Adorkable|quirky, adorable indie guy]]" in movies like ''[[Superbad]]'', ''[[Juno]]'', ''[[Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist]]'' and ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]''.
* The name [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000388/ R. Lee Ermey] will forever be synonymous with [[Full Metal Jacket|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]].
* Reese Witherspoon briefly had this problem after ''[[Election]]''
* James Rolfe is almost always refered to as ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'', even though he has stated that the AVGN is not ''him'', but a ''character''.
* A lot of fans of [[The Nostalgia Critic]] have a hard time accepting that he is a completely different character than Doug Walker.
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* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' itself has this-though Betty White and Bea Arthur have gotten around it somewhat.
* Leslie Nielsen as either the doctor from ''[[Airplane!]]'' or Frank Drebin. Most people don't know he ever had a dramatic career.
* One television critic described a version of this phenomenon as "The Curse of [[The House of Windsor]]"
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