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** The remake of ''[[Psycho 1998]]'' is an exception.
* Speaking of ''[[Psycho]]'', the original Norman Bates - Anthony Perkins - faced typecasting twice. Prior to ''Psycho,'' Perkins seemed to be making a career playing the tall-and-gangly, boyishly charming male ingenue-like characters. After ''Psycho,'' he ended up playing creepy weirdos/psychopaths a majority of the time.
* German actor Thomas Kretschmann seems to be hopelessly typecast in [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi roles]],
** On the Jimmy Kimmel Show, he stated he's been typecast more as a Captain than a Nazi (though this is probably due to him playing quite a number of Nazi Captains).
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* [[Shia LaBeouf]] is the young every-dude in sci-fi/action films produced by Steven Spielberg.
* Subverted by [[Heath Ledger]]. After ''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]'' came out, Ledger dropped off the Hollywood radar for a year, because he didn't want to be cast as the
* [[Bruce Lee]] as the Asian version of [[John Wayne]].
* [[Christopher Lee]]'s sepulchral tones have made him a career out of playing villains. Though to be fair, he's well-suited for it, with his razor-thin build, dark eyes, towering height, and [[Evil Sounds Deep|powerful deep voice]].
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