Used to be actors and celebrities hated doing commercials for fear of the negative hit their TV or film careers might take. Ironic though they could find a way to go overseas and do them. (Check out Japander.com.) However, can’t remember when actors and celebs were in American commericals to this degree.Threw together a very quick list off the top of my head. (Left off athletes or pop stars just because it seems like they’ve always been used to endorse stuff.)
Richard Dreyfuss: Honda • Jeffrey Tambor: Progressive Insurance • Burt Reynolds: FedEx SB spot • Burt Reynolds*, Eddie Griffin: Miller Lite Man Laws • Catherine Zeta-Jones: T-Mobile • Robert Vaughn*: Any slip and fall lawyer spot during daytime TV • Anna Nicole Smith: TrimSpa • Jay Mohr: Diet Pepsi • Dabney Coleman: Rent-a-center • Chuck Norris: info-ab-cruncha-lizer thing • Jessica Simpson: Pizza Hut • Robert Dinero/Kate Winslet/M. Night Shamalan: American Express • William Shatner*: Priceline
Feel free to add on – or pile on.
*Not sure if there’s some weird Murphy’s Axiomatic Ad-Law Principle where the older a star gets, the less films they do, which results in them having to do more than one commerical. If there is, then these peeps are guilty as charged.
UPDATE: As of today:
Tags: Jessica Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Shatner, Jay Mohr, Burt Reynolds (Image courtesy of Japander.com)
6 comments:
The biggest celebrity voiceover whore in advertising is Gene Hackman.
And check out Keifer Suthrerland's 24 styled commercial for some Japanese drink.
before his death, Chris Penn was doing a lot of V/O work.
What about washed up celebrities? Like the VW engineer reprising his nihilist role from The Big Lebowski? Or Mr. T on Comcast? I was always partial to any voiceover work Angie Harmon did
Eh, not sure I'd go that far with The Nilhist Peter Stormare. Think I'd give Shatner the nod as washed-up in film before him.
Definitely Mr. T. Surprised he wasn’t available for the Man Laws spots.
mr. t has gone spiritual. he probably would refuse to hawk booze. but will have no problem with booze advertisers backing his upcoming reality tv show.
Catherine Zeta-Jones just got dropped from the T-Mobile gig. They've decided to go for a more "man on the street" thing.
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