10. Jerry Haleva As Saddam Hussein In Six Separate Films!
Type casting is a problem faced by every great actor over the years, they become just too good at a particular role to be conceived as anything else. Well, it's not only a problem faced by good actors, the terrible actors sometimes have a hard time breaking free of the stigma. Jerry Haleva is a fairly well known name around Hollywood, especially rampant during the height of his career in the 1990's and 2000's. Unfortunately for Jerry, he's only ever called upon to perform one part, and boy can he perform that part well! It's surprising that he hasn't been called upon by the American Government to perform some sort of propaganda film at some juncture, but Jerry Haleva is only ever hired to play the one and only former dictator Saddam Hussein! Yes, as weird as it may seem, Jerry Haleva is credited as played Saddam Hussein in no less than six feature films. From 1991's comedy classic Hot Shots! Jerry started playing Hussein. He continued in Hot Shots! Part Deux, and then again (famously) in The Big Lebowski. If that wasn't enough reprisals of the role, in Jane Austen's Mafia he played Hussein again, and then again in The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest as Hologram Hussein. Finally in 2002 Haleva picked up the fake moustache one more time for the TV movie Live From Baghdad to play Hussein one final time. That's certainly one way to build a Hollywood career.
