10 Best Actor Replacements On TV Shows

Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher is a unique case on this list because it's the only one where the replacement happened before the show even premiered.

Frank Langella was originally cast to portray protagonist Roderick Usher - the ageing patriarch of the Usher family and corrupt CEO of a massive pharmaceutical company.

Yet mid-way through shooting, Langella was fired due to allegations of inappropriate conduct on set, at which point he was replaced with terrific character actor Bruce Greenwood.

And watching Mike Flanagan's dramatic horror series, it's extremely difficult to picture Langella bringing quite the same loquacious charm to the table that Greenwood does, his gravelly vocal tenor bringing enormous pathos to so many of Roderick Usher's poetic monologues.

Given that Roderick Usher is depicted as a charming man and plausible father to six young-to-middle-aged children, in pure number terms the 67-year-old Greenwood also simply fit the bill better than the 85-year-old Langella.

While it's often easy to lament a mid-production actor switch, in this case it's almost impossible to feel anything bad about it at all, because Greenwood simply should've been the actor cast in the first place.