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Typecasting may have been more common in the early days of television as a holdover from motion pictures. It was common in the 30s and 40s for a movie actor who was not a leading man or lady to make a career out of playing the same type of character.
Named for the 1975 autobiography by... who else? [[Leonard Nimoy]]. An autobiography that, incidentally, didn't actually say what everyone thought it said because of the title. Nimoy wrote a second autobiography thirty years later named ''[[I Am Spock]]'' to clear up misconceptions about his character. Not to be confused with [[I Am Not Shazam]].
See also [[But I Play One on TV]]. Compare [[Adam Westing]] and [[Never Live It Down]]. Contrast [[I Am Not Leonard Nimoy]]. And see [[Contractual Purity]] for those trapped in kids' show wholesomeness. Finally, see [[Role Association]] for the [[Just for Fun]] version.
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== Examples from Real Life ==
* The entire cast of the original ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' suffered from this:
** Most have come to accept it with some degree of dignity; witness [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s later book, ''[[I Am Spock]]'' (though it should be noted that was written partly to counter the [[Common Knowledge|mis]][[Fan Dumb|conception]] that he hated the character, rather than just being annoyed by the association). When Nimoy attempted a recording career, his albums tended to feature at least a few songs essentially sung (or spoken) as Spock, such as "Highly Illogical."
** [[William Shatner]] has managed to escape this by now, if only by being typecast instead [[Adam Westing|as a caricature of himself]], of which Kirk is just one example among many.
** Even diehard ''[[Babylon 5]]'' fans had a hard time not thinking of Walter Koenig's [[Magnificent Bastard]], Alfred Bester, as "Evil Chekov".
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