what tv shows/films etc created the most stars

the_pen_turner

a look back at the tv shows of the 80/90s and where the stars are now got me thinking

what shows or films act were the making of the most stars.

like will smith in fresh prince

TheValeyard

Taxi gave us

Danny DeVito

Tony Danza

Christopher Lloyd

Andy Kaufman


Also, Cheers

Woody Harrelson

Kelsey Grammer

Ted Danson

Kirstie Alley

Shelly Long

George Wendt

DrumSteve

Friends?

major bill

Not only did it give us hours of enjoyment in the 90s but Byker Grove also gave us Ant & Dec

*Drops mic*

w/s/p/c/

Neighbours springs to mind, a lot of the cast went onto successful US TV/Film and music careers

Boom_Bap

major bill wrote: »

Not only did it give us hours of enjoyment in the 90s but Byker Grove also gave us Ant & Dec

*Drops mic*

It gave us Charlie Hunnam and Donna Air as well

DEFTLEFTHAND

DrumSteve wrote: »

Friends?

Only Aniston had lasting success.

TerrorFirmer

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Only Aniston had lasting success.

They're still household names though. They still get something like $20m each every year from syndication agreement.

Even though most of them do limited mainstream acting these days (apart from Aniston and LeBlanc), they're still among the most well known actors on TV.

Deebles McBeebles

One of my old favourites, gave us more than its fair share of stars

https://www.google.ie/search?safe=active&ei=BPY1XIe9GKOE1fAP_KmkyAs&q=dazed+and+confused+cast&oq=dazed+and+confused+cast&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i67j0l9.1407.2184..2693...0.0..0.177.563.3j2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.Cnq0Kq0kr5A

orourkeda1977

Fair city

Birneybau

The Bill

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/15-surprising-celebrities-who-started-out-on-the-bill

Boom_Bap

Freaks & Geeks
Jason Segal
Seth Rogan
Linda Cardinelli
James Franco
Busy Phillips
Dave Allen


Friday Night Lights
Kyle Chandler
Taylor Kitsh
Jesse Plemmons
Michael B. Jordan


The Wire
Idris Elba
Aidan Gillen
Wendall Pierce
Michael B. Jordan
Method Man

Bigbagofcans

There's a difference between which TV shows were the making of stars and which produced lots of stars.

Home & Away has produced many stars such as Guy Pearce, Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts but it was their subsequent projects that propelled them to stardom.

Grayson

Saturday night life?

The list is too long to copy/paste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_cast_members

Effects

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The Wire
Idris Elba
Aidan Gillen
Wendall Pierce
Michael B. Jordan
Method Man

How the hell did you forget McNulty!

Bob Harris

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Freaks & Geeks
Jason Segal
Seth Rogan
Linda Cardinelli
James Franco
Busy Phillips
Dave Allen


Friday Night Lights
Kyle Chandler
Taylor Kitsh
Jesse Plemmons
Michael B. Jordan


The Wire
Idris Elba
Aidan Gillen
Wendall Pierce
Michael B. Jordan
Method Man

Never heard of any of those.

Boom_Bap

Effects wrote: »

How the hell did you forget McNulty!

I was torn on that....West is more a star of the stage now.

chalkitdown1

Early 80's flick 'The Outsiders' had a pretty amazing cast of then-unknown actors, all of whom went on to be huge stars, some SUPER Stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(film)

C. Thomas Howell
Matt Dillon
Ralph Macchio
Patrick Swayze
Rob Lowe
Emilio Estevez
Tom Cruise
Diane Lane

Tom Cruise 7th billed. lol

TerrorFirmer

Bob Harris wrote: »

Never heard of any of those.

Really? Not even one?

You've never once heard of Seth Rogen or Idris Elba?

Boom_Bap

Bob Harris wrote: »

Never heard of any of those.

I bet if you seen an image of any them you'd probably recognise. The one outsider may be Dave Allen as he is generally not a star or main star of anything, but he is in the background of loads of TV shows.

ZeroThreat

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

There's a difference between which TV shows were the making of stars and which produced lots of stars.

Home & Away has produced many stars such as Guy Pearce, Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts but it was their subsequent projects that propelled them to stardom.

I'm pretty sure Guy Pearce was in Neighbours, not Home & Away, not to mention Neighbours spawned the Kiwi pugilist and his 'fightin' around the world' antics

odyssey06

Star Wars: A New Hope
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Mark Hamill

I think they were all pretty much unknowns, Ford and Fisher went on to have long careers outside of SW and Mark Hamill is famous for being Luke

Paddy Cow

Jeremy Renner
Sarah Michelle Geller
David Boreanaz
Alyson Hannigan
Michelle Trachtenberg
Seth Green
Rachel Bilson
Nathan Fillion

heebusjeebus

Arrested Development

Jason Bateman
Portia de Rossi
Will Arnett
Michael Cera
Tony Hale
David Cross
Jeffrey Tambor
Jessica Walter

Bob Harris

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Really? Not even one?

You've never once heard of Seth Rogen or Idris Elba?

Honestly not one, those two names are completely unknown to me, it appears that Idris Elba is a man!

Bob Harris

Bob Harris wrote: »

Honestly not one, those two names are completely unknown to me.

Idris is British and has an OBE. He's played the title role in a detective series called Luther which is hugely popular. Was also mentioned possibly being the next James Bond.

BattleCorp

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Freaks & Geeks
Jason Segal
Seth Rogan
Linda Cardinelli
James Franco
Busy Phillips
Dave Allen


Friday Night Lights
Kyle Chandler
Taylor Kitsh
Jesse Plemmons
Michael B. Jordan


The Wire
Idris Elba
Aidan Gillen
Wendall Pierce
Michael B. Jordan
Method Man

Bob Harris wrote: »

Never heard of any of those.

Bob Harris wrote: »

Honestly not one, those two names are completely unknown to me, it appears that Idris Elba is a man!

You are either acting the bollix or don't own nor have ever seen a television.

Bigbagofcans

ZeroThreat wrote: »

I'm pretty sure Guy Pearce was in Neighbours, not Home & Away, not to mention Neighbours spawned the Kiwi pugilist and his 'fightin' around the world' antics

He was in both shows actually

Boom_Bap

Michael B. Jordan has been on posters everywhere and on the side of most buses lately

Skylinehead

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Arrested Development

Jason Bateman
Portia de Rossi
Will Arnett
Michael Cera
Tony Hale
David Cross
Jeffrey Tambor
Jessica Walter

Ah Jeffrey Tambors more than just AD. He's been around for yonks.

Bigbagofcans

BattleCorp wrote: »

You are either acting the bollix or don't own nor have ever seen a television.

A lot of people haven't watched Luther or The Wire so they wouldn't be too familiar with the name Idris Elba.

Bob Harris

BattleCorp wrote: »

You are either acting the bollix or don't own nor have ever seen a television.

Of the 3 series (assuming they are all series) I've only heard of The Wire.
Of the actors involved, not one. I will admit to not owning a television (though I could watch them by other means). It just so happens I haven't seen any of them. You'll be really shocked when I tell you I've never seen

Game of Thrones.

Paddy Cow

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

A lot of people haven't watched Luther or The Wire so they wouldn't be too familiar with the name Idris Elba.

I only know his name from the hullabaloo in the media about whether or not it's ok to have a black James Bond.

padraig.od

SNL by far

murpho999

Glenroe

Harry Palmr

The Outsiders 1983 has a claim here, sure plenty had acted once or twice before but this seemed to act as a launch pad for

Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Diana Lane, Emilio Estevez, Sofia Coppola

Six of the Magnificent Seven were unknown or obscure in 1960 mind you a couple stayed that way which is why it's still a tricky quiz question!

BattleCorp

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

A lot of people haven't watched Luther or The Wire so they wouldn't be too familiar with the name Idris Elba.

I was more responding to the posters comment below in that they said that they had never heard of 'any' of those.

Bob Harris wrote: »

Never heard of any of those.

jmayo

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

Neighbours springs to mind, a lot of the cast went onto successful US TV/Film and music careers

I was going to say The Expendables until you mentioned this.

Neighbours had at one time or another...

Kylie Minogue, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Margot Robbie, Natalie Imbruglia, Craig McLachlan, Jason Donovan, Holly Valance, Liam Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, and a whole host of ones in American TV series.

Bigbagofcans

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Jeremy Renner
Sarah Michelle Geller
David Boreanaz
Alyson Hannigan
Michelle Trachtenberg
Seth Green
Rachel Bilson
Nathan Fillion

I'd agree with all of them apart from Rachel Bilson. She was still relatively unknown after Buffy and it was The OC which made her a star.

Ipso

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

I'd agree with all of them apart from Rachel Bilson. She was still relatively unknown after Buffy and it was The OC which made her a star.

And look where she is now.

conorhal

I'll go with Dazed and confused (1993).

Well, it didn't perhaps 'make them stars' but it certiantly gave many 90's stars their break. Some have since faded into obscurity but others are still household names.

Joey Lauren Adams
Milla Jovovich
Ben Affleck
Parker Posey
Matthew McConaughey
Nicky Katt
Renée Zellweger

valoren

I'd go for the original Twilight Zone. It had self contained episodes so allowed more scope for talent exposure.

William Shatner, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Peter Falk, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Martin Landau, Robert Redford, Leonard Nimoy, Burt Reynolds, Dick York all had roles in the series.

Effects

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I was torn on that....West is more a star of the stage now.

Nah, Les Miserables and the Affair.

AllForIt

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

A lot of people haven't watched Luther or The Wire so they wouldn't be too familiar with the name Idris Elba.

I think Idris Elba is a hugely overrated actor. Successful yes, but top actor? Not really. I hope he doesn't get the James Bond role not because I don't think a black person should play the role but I'd hate to see him get it because he's black but not actually worthy.

the_pen_turner

AllForIt wrote: »

I think Idris Elba is a hugely overrated actor. Successful yes, but top actor? Not really. I hope he doesn't get the James Bond role not because I don't think a black person should play the role but I'd hate to see him get it because he's black but not actually worthy.

i dont know anything about him. i never heard of him until the bond role was mentioned.

i hope he doesnt get it just for his skin colour. surely there must be very worthy actors and acresses out there of all nationalities and colours

pleas advice

Birneybau wrote: »

The Bill

A lot went on to star in Eastenders,

and vice versa

Lirange

The Mickey Mouse Club :pac:

Can you spot them in the opening?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaIe2FUlrlU

This line-up alone features Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling. They're all about 12 or 13 y/o. :eek: Except Russell who was about 16.

AllForIt

the_pen_turner wrote: »

i dont know anything about him. i never heard of him until the bond role was mentioned.

i hope he doesnt get it just for his skin colour. surely there must be very worthy actors and acresses out there of all nationalities and colours

I didn't watch The Wire which brought him to prominence. He transitioned to film, I've seen him in a few, never had a lead role. The Brits talk him up all the time because he's one of theirs. He's good on the SKY TV adverts though.

stampydmonkey

ER had its fair share. Loads still doing the rounds...get it!!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+stars+from+er&oq=list+of+stars+from+er&aqs=chrome..69i57j33l3.6796j0j7&client=ms-alps-full_k11as_a-ie&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#wgvs=e

odyssey06

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Arrested Development

Jason Bateman
Portia de Rossi
Will Arnett
Michael Cera
Tony Hale
David Cross
Jeffrey Tambor
Jessica Walter

I loved AD but I think this is a stretch.

Portia de Rossi breakthrough was on Ally Mc Beal.
Jessica Walter was in big roles in late 70s including being up for emmy and golden globe awards.
Jeffrey Tambor was regularly up for awards in 90s.
Jason Bateman was teen wolf two! Rake of roles in 80s but certainly AD resurrected his career and took it to another level.

the_pen_turner

the 70s show made a few stars