"This Actor Made a Career of Shamelessly Acting in Just About Anything" Award

[Chadzilla]

Acting's a job and working is better than not working, although sometimes you get stuck in a turkey.

John Carradine, Bela Lugosi (who never turned down a roll after he passed on Frankenstein), and Michael Caine get tops on my list.

[Steven Millan]

                        Let's add Gary Busey,Treat Williams,Jeff Fahey,Eric Roberts,and Nastassja Kinski to that list,since they have no self-respect for themselves these days,and will prostitute their acting talents for the almight dollar.
                       And,let's not forget Richard Burton,Patrick Bergen,Matt McCoy, and Sybil Danning,who all went from big budgeted films,to low budgeted rubbish.

[Funk, E.]

Christopher Walken w/ currently 82 films to his credit 4 this year alone!
Michael Caine at 105 w/ 3 this year so far
Dennis Hopper at 137 w/ 5 this year

It would seem Hopper is the winner

[BryceDavid]

Gene Hackman has 94 films to his credit! In 2001, he made five films!

Aside from John Carradine, Christopher Lee is probably the all-time champ. I think he appeared in over 200 films. And countless TV shows too.

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[BryceDavid]

He appeared in 257 films!!!!!

And 60 TV shows.

[Funk, E.]

Well... that pretty much takes the cake. Go Lee!

[JohnL]

Don't forget Rutger Hauer.

[Vermin Boy]

I'm pretty sure Lee is in the Guiness Book of World Records for most leading roles, with John Wayne runner up.

[Chadzilla]

Made a few nifty comments about Newsweek...

On his work ethic -

"I hardly turn down anything, that's true.  I don't have hobbies.  I don't have kids.  I really like to go to work.  And when you're working, you want to stay a little bit fit and thin - so you look nice and your diet's better."

On his hair in 'A View to A Kill'

"That was my secret in every scene.  No matter what I was talking about, I was thinking, 'Do you like my hair?'  It gave me a little bit of an edge."

There were also some choice comments made about pay scale for character actors instead of stars between John Reilly, Katy Bates, and Dennis Quaid -

Reilly - "You get tired of fighting for the job every time, and fighting for, like, basic pay.  After a while, you're like, 'F*ck, I just want this to be a little bit easier.'  I've got kids now."
Quaid - "It's really difficult if you're not the star of the film.  Basically, you don't get paid like you used to.  They put all their money into the star, and then there's a take-it-or-leave-it attitude with the supporting characters."
Bates - "It's sort of like dogs around a bowl of food."

[Evan3]

I know these two have been said, but Martin Sheen (Spawn, Visa commercial, Catch Me If You Can) as well as Charlie Sheen tend to do anything they get their hands on.

Also, you can't stop counting Christopher Lee, he is in two huge blockbusters (LOTR and Star Wars), it seems he is by no means done yet.

How about Jerry O'Connell, he had a recent straight to video premiere at a Blockbuster in Berverley Hills, opening to a whopping 3 fans.

[Fearless Freep]

Lance Henrisken certainly is has been in movies with a wide range of quality.  Usually does a good job

Rutger Hauer seems willing to take anything but sometimes you can tell he's just doing it to pay the bills

I still think Joe Estevez is just Emilio's b-movie alter-ego.

Dennis Hopper ranges from the truly good to the truly bad. ("Space Truckers" anyone?)

Peter O'Toole did "Lawrence Of Arabia" and "Beckett" and "Lion in Winter"...and "High Spirits"

[kriegerg69]

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[Flangepart]

Martin Balsam. What is it with the name Martin?....anyway, he was in "Psycho" and "The takeing of Pelam 1.2.3." And, also some cheese along the way. But, he did have an active carrer.

[BryceDavid]

After SPACE 1999, Martin Landau appeared some of the lowest budgeted films ever made (there's one reviewed here at Badmovies, THE BEING). He got better roles in the late 80s and throughout the 90s but after winning his Oscar® for playing Bela in ED WOOD, he's been appearing in loads of forgettable films. He's got something like 100 films to his credits. And several big TV shows (like S1999 and Mission Impossible) but has appeared in 60 something episodes from various TV shows.

And how about actresses. Louise Fletcher would probably win this one easily. After CUCKOO'S NEST she basically starred in terrible movies.

[Deej]

Two words..Brad Frikkin' Dourif! Started off fine in ...Cuckoos Nest, then went on to appear in every s**tty movie ever made. Just because you don't see him, doesn't mean he isn't there. Both the "Chucky" and CRITTERS franchises, SENSELESS, for god's sake. He even appeared alongside fellow "call me anytimer" Christopher Walken in one of the Prophecy  flicks. It seems that if a movie needs a creepy guy, and Walken, Hopper, or Railsback, are busy...ole' Brad will step in. He's like on the b-list of the b-list! He's friggin' everywhere.