11 Great Actors With Terrible Last Roles

6. James Stewart

The Great Actor: Jimmy Stewart is one of the greatest actors who's ever lived. From the mid-thirties to mid-sixties (with a break so he could become a Brigadier General in World War II) Stewart starred in a ridiculous number of movies which contains some of the greatest of all time; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Rear Window, Vertigo, Harvey, Anatomy Of A Murder and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. His best role, however, has to be that of George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life, with him brilliantly portraying the compromise it takes to be a good man. He took fewer roles in his later years, but the legacy still stands strong. The Terrible Final Role: Wylie Burp - An American Tail: Fievel Goes West He'd not starred in a film for over a decade, but for some reason Stewart decided, at the age of eighty-three, to come out of unofficial retirement and lend his voice to the sequel to animated kid's flick An American Tail. The film, which came from Steven Spielberg's Amblimation (a prelude to Dreamworks), is all but forgotten. Still, it's a final role totally undeserving of such a great actor; was it really worth that paycheck?
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.