The 9 Most Typecast Actors of All Time  For an actor, getting
typecast is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can be fairly
sure you'll always get work. On the other hand, if your
breakthrough role was "guy with frantic diarrhea," you can look
forward to a long career of feigned intestinal distress and
people on the street yelling "Hey, diarrhea guy!" No one will
care that you played Shylock in the Royal Shakespeare Co. or
trained at Yale, only that you were hilarious in the straight-
to-DVD movie Diarrhea Guy Saves Christmas. Below are nine actors
who, for better or worse, are probably going to play the same
part until they either die rich or get relegated to The Surreal
Life, where they'll get sloppy drunk and bitch to their
housemates about being typecast.   Reginald
VelJohnson[/subtitle]  Role: Family-man cop with a bit of a
weight problem, who often has to deal with idiots and is
therefore exasperated  The Movies/The Shows: Ghostbusters,
Kojak: The Belarus File, Plain Clothes, Die Hard, Perfect
Strange