10 Actors Who Have Never Made A Sequel

Richard Gere has been acting in movies since the mid-1970s, so it's genuinely quite hard to believe that he's never reprised one of his roles across his long career.

From the 1980s to the early 2000s, he was a big box-office draw, starring in hits like An Officer And A Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and Chicago, but none of his studio tentpoles ever led to a long-running franchise, or even a single sequel.

This hasn't been helped by the fact that, over the last 18 years or so, Gere has largely stepped away from mainstream Hollywood, appearing in much smaller films overall.

According to the actor himself, this is because of Hollywood's relationship with China, one of the most important box-office markets in the world - especially for big movies. This is a problem for Gere, who has long protested China's occupation of Tibet, leading to him being banned - for life - in China.

In his own words:

"There are definitely movies that I can't be in because the Chinese will say, 'Not with him'... I recently had an episode where someone said they could not finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese."

Gere hasn't completely avoided sequels though: he did appear in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but he wasn't in the first film, so he qualifies for our list.