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* [[Douglas Fairbanks]], of all people, starred in a lot of cheesy (and bad) films before he became famous, and one he was especially not proud of was ''Mystery of the Leaping Fish''. Released in 1916, this comedic lampoon of [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories had Fairbanks portray a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Holmes named "Coke Ennyday" who was hooked on opium and cocaine. That's right, Fairbanks had done the [[Stoners Are Funny]] routine more than 50 years before Sean Penn made it popular in ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]''.

* [[David Hasselhoff]] has one of these, and he was far from the only one involved in making the low-budget, hastily-made ''[[Starcrash]]'' who regrets doing so. A space opera made in 1978 as a cash-grab hoping to profit from the success of ''[[Star Wars]]''. The film was originally made for American International Pictures, who deemed it too terrible to even release; [[New World Pictures]] did so after buying the rights to it, and it has since been regarded as "a masterpiece in unintentionally bad filmmaking" and compared to ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''.

* Several actors who became famous for staring in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' often wish they had a TARDIS to undo their work in movies they aren't proud of:

** [[Christopher Eccleston]] - famous for playing the 9th Doctor - would love it if fans forgot he was the one playing Destro in ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'', given how the movie was critically panned and regarded as a big mess.

** [[David Tennant]] - the Tenth Doctor - starred in an unremarkable (meaning ''boring'' movie called ''[[St. Trinian's (franchise)|St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold]]''. The second film adaptation of the ''[[St. Trinian's (franchise)|St. Trinian]]'' novels, it's a likely reason why there isn't a third, that and the fact that Tennant wants nothing to do with it.

** [[Catherine Tate]]'' starred in a flick called ''[[Nativity 2: Dude, Where's My Donkey]]''. Tate appeared on the [[The Graham Norton Show]] to promote it in an interview that can best be described as [[Self-Deprecation]] humor, although to be fair, the ''third'' movie in that series was even worse.

** [[Tom Baker]] - Fourth Doctor, one of the most popular heroes in science fiction history - had a small role in the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' movie, which pretty much everyone remembers as a colossal bomb, Baker included, although to be fair, that saving grace was likely the only saving grace of the movie.

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