Top 20 Famous People Who Were Blacklisted by Hollywood

just remember you're there to entertain people welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 famous people who were blacklisted from hollywood the worst thing to be the object of someone's obsession if you're not interested it became unbearable for this list we're looking at people who because of their actions and or opinions have been blacklisted from hollywood will also include people who have been unofficially blacklisted that is to say they can barely find work in the entertainment industry anymore as well as those that have found their way back into hollywood's good books which celeb were you most surprised to see on this list let us know in the comments number 20. shia labeouf shia labeouf had a promising career for many years wise man once said a well-fed volunteer is a happy volunteer he was constantly reinventing himself exploring new creative paths and always surprising people we've done some hard training to get to you it's a big deal seeing you here you mind waving to him but from 2014 onwards many of his actions were surprising for all the wrong reasons substance abuse issues were at the root of several arrests of the actor including one in savannah georgia in 2017 in which la buff was racist and abusive towards police officers then in 2020 the even steven starr faced a lawsuit over battery and assault from former girlfriend english recording artist fka twigs while the case is ongoing labeouf has faced severe backlash over this and has already been let go from the upcoming olivia wilde project don't worry darling due to his poor behavior and treatment of others on set number 19. josh trank josh trank emerged as one of hollywood's hottest up-and-coming directors following the critical and commercial success of 2012's chronicle this led to him directing the fantastic four reboot but things didn't exactly go as planned after that on set trank was reportedly difficult to work with continuously distancing himself from the cast and crew things unraveled further when it was revealed that tranq had caused 100 thousand dollars worth of damage to a house he was renting during filming this sort of behavior would eventually cost him the chance to helm a stand-alone star wars picture and seemingly shoved him off hollywood's radar save for the 2020 gangster flop capone i'm going to fix this you can't fix this nobody can number 18 lloyd bridges looks like i picked the wrong week with smoke imagine history had gone differently imagine lloyd bridges had been permanently blacklisted from hollywood would airplane have been as funny what about hotshots would his sons jeff and beau bridges even be actors but i think the thing that i learned most about acting from him was just the joy in which he approached the thing thankfully lloyd bridges wasn't blacklisted forever but what did he do to be barred in the first place simple he was affiliated with the actors laboratory theater which was alleged to have ties to communism bridges testified truthfully before the house on american activities committee the congressional communist hunt committee and was then blacklisted from hollywood but later returned after the fbi cleared his name you risked the lives of some damn fine pirates well that's my job number 17 thora birch full moon outside the weirdos with hocus pocus and american beauty thora birch did an excellent job establishing herself as one of the industry's brightest young stars but since the 2000s birch has been relegated to indie films and small television roles so what gives how does an actress with so much talent disappear overnight the answer her father and manager jack burch a former 70s adult star who demanded to be present during his daughter's love scenes and threatened crew members when things didn't go his way his antics have gotten thora fired on more than one occasion resulting in hollywood turning its back on her and birch going on to take a break from acting number 16 isaiah washington don't sweat the shepherd i'll only be your boss for a few days at one time this grey's anatomy star was an up-and-coming hollywood favorite however he struggled to get quality work ever since he was evidently blacklisted from the game in the mid-2000s washington's difficulties resulted from an apparent onset dispute with a grey's anatomy co-star according to reports washington hurled homophobic slurs and after being chastised he went on to do so again he was fired from grey's anatomy on june 7 2007 and while he went on larry king live less than a month later to defend himself washington only seemed to dig a deeper hole ever since the controversy we haven't seen washington and much i can't change that narrative but what i can do is upset the absolutes about who i am as a human being number 15. ceelo greene you did a great job you know it too you did a great job yes sir ceelo greene is a man of many talents and trouble is just one of them being a successful singer record producer and tv personality didn't matter much when green was accused of sexual battery and drugging a woman in 2012. he was eventually sentenced to three years probation ordered to attend alcoholics or narcotics anonymous meetings and perform a round of community service the atlanta native continues to make music and shows up on reality tv from time to time but his run-in with the law still cost him as his show celo greens the good life was cancelled after he posted controversial tweets about the case on his twitter account hi my name is ceelo green and i'm coming to tbs number 14 lena horne i never bother with people i hate that's why the lady is a [ __ ] at her prime jazz artist pop singer dancer actor and civil rights activist lena horne was one of the most active entertainers in hollywood she came up in the 1930s as a vocalist and by the 1940s had worked her way onto the silver screen signed to metro goldwyn mayer however it's reported that by the 1950s horn had lost her lust for hollywood and was looking to step away of course that didn't matter much since she was blacklisted that decade for her ties to communism in the 40s and was forced out anyway i just told them i i belong to the same organizations and clubs mrs roosevelt belongs to she couldn't get hollywood roles but fortunately nightclubs welcomed her with open arms [Music] number 13. michael richards you called no one could have predicted how far michael richards star would fall in the years following his successes with seinfeld in the now infamous laugh factory incident of 2006 richards berated a number of audience members with a string of racist remarks all of which was caught on video while he was quick to apologize following the incident the damage was done i'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the hispanics whites everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger suffice it to say richards had a hard time finding work after the incident and in an appearance on jerry seinfeld's web series comedians and cars getting coffee he professed that he's never truly gotten over it and really neither has hollywood have you been back to the factory since no no i haven't are you going to try to go back i don't think so number 12 jim caviezel was one of the most promising names in hollywood he had the requisite movie star looks the camera clearly loved him and his acting chops were solid but cavizel's entire career trajectory changed when he starred in one little movie the passion of the christ portraying religious figure jesus christ cavisel actually received a claim for his performance but the film angered many in hollywood for its graphic violence and apparent anti-semitic undertones mel gibson warned kviesel about what the role could do to his career but the actor firmly believed in the movie saying quote we all have a cross to carry number 11 megan fox wow nice headers you've got a high-rise double pump carburetor that's pretty impressive while megan fox has appeared in a number of big-budget hollywood films over the years her outspokenness towards directors other actors and the media led to some degree of blacklisting before the third movie started filming fox notoriously compared her transformers director michael bay to hitler whether or not that was the reason she didn't appear in the film has been subject to debate while that statement was insensitive bey's treatment of the young actress is certainly worthy of criticism as well his solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall getting soaking wet and that perfectly whole 15. thanks in part to the growth of the metoo movement fox has since regained some of her footing in the industry number 10 catherine heigl just remember that while you're sitting on 200 grand of student loans i'm out of debt with her work as dr izzy stevens on grey's anatomy serving as a launching pad catherine heigl was sought after by many studios however reports then emerged that heigl was difficult to work with no while that certainly didn't do her any favors the biggest reason she hasn't found much work is most likely her bad-mouthing of judd apatow seth rogen in their movie knocked up wait what do you mean what are you don't look at me i mean we could talk about it yeah the film helped launch heigl to stardom but she publicly criticized the movie even calling it sexist we're not thrilled about it because if anything the movie is about what idiots guys are and how it drives women crazy those comments took the wind out of her sails in hollywood but she has fought her way back to the screen since then starring in a main role in the 2021 netflix series firefly lane live from seattle this is tully hart number nine kathy griffin um i'm not afraid of donald trump often outspoken this comedian has seen herself banned from a number of talk shows including the view and the ellen degeneres show for her no holds barred brand of humor something that was on full display during a 2007 creative arts emmy speech in which she told jesus to quote suck it that comment got her scheduled appearance on hannah montana cancelled but of course the granddaddy of griffin misfires was her 2017 social media post that featured her holding a mask that resembled the severed head of the president of the united states donald trump cnn fired her for the stunt while her comedy tour was promptly canceled did you think your career was over yeah i thought there was a really good chance my career was over she even doubled down on the photo posting it again on her 60th birthday in 2020 number eight tippy hedren you just can't discuss tippy hedren without bringing up alfred hitchcock it was hitchcock who first discovered hedron he was watching the today show and was captivated by her appearance in a diet drink commercial the two set up a meeting and hitchcock signed hedren to a seven-year deal and hedron's hitchcock debut wasn't minor it was the lead actress role in his acclaimed film the birds i keep telling you this isn't a few birds she even went on to be hitchcock's muse until they parted ways he told me he'd ruined my career i said do what you have to do i don't care according to hedren she repeatedly rejected hitchcock's sexual advances and he retaliated by ruining her career out of spite hitchcock wouldn't release hedren from her contract but he wouldn't give her work either it's so sad that this relationship had to go that way because i loved working with him he was not only my director he was my drama coach number seven james woods i'm sorry ted academy award-nominated actor james woods has appeared in dozens of films in his decades-long career still he fell out of hollywood's good graces in 2017 when he made a number of anti-obama comments on his twitter account woods a staunch donald trump supporter didn't seem to care that he was being blacklisted and at one point tweeted quote the only reason i express my views is that i have accepted the fact that i'm blacklisted hollywood which has long been a democratic stronghold didn't appreciate wood stance and because of it he's been pretty much out of work whether he's concerned about it or not number 6. mel gibson that they may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom [Applause] gibson's struggles in hollywood have been among the most public he was once one of the biggest names in film starring in movies like mad max braveheart and lethal weapon to name a few he knows is in the dirt [ __ ] his directorial work has been equally impressive but despite his talent hollywood turned on gibson in 2006. after being pulled over for a dui gibson reportedly spewed a shocking anti-semitic rant he's also been caught making homophobic and other racist slurs while he has worked on a few projects since like the 2016 film hacksaw ridge and is set to star in the john wick origin series the continental gibson has worn out his welcome in many hollywood front offices number five o.j simpson nobody does it better than her remember the time oj simpson was arrested and tried for murdering his ex-wife nicole brown simpson and her friend ron goldman well so does tinseltown trial of the century simpson was ultimately acquitted but with many still believing strongly in his guilt his life never truly went back to normal in the years following the controversial verdict the former athlete actor and convicted robber appeared in a grand total of zero films a testament to the fact that even if the jury finds you not guilty hollywood and the general public has a hard time forgiving suspected murderers we the jury in the above and title action find the defendant or john orenthal james simpson not guilty of the crime of murder number four dalton trumbo i've got allies and enemies there's no room for anything else while more modern examples of hollywood blacklisting tend to focus on individuals the 1950s mccarthy era hollywood blacklisting was far more wide-reaching and dalton trumbo's story is among the most outrageous after refusing to testify in front of the house on american activities committee in 1947 trumbo was not only ousted from hollywood he also served time in prison that however did not stop him from working trumbo launched a new subversive career writing screenplays under pseudonyms and the names of other writers two of trumbo's uncredited works roman holiday and the brave one even won academy awards is this where i can find the president what do you want with the president it's about something very important number three harvey weinstein this story was always in my eyes about the abuse of power following revelations that shocked few insiders harvey weinstein awoke to a world of trouble in 2017. the reports which included accusations of violence and harassment by dozens of women caused many others to speak up with the count rising to 80 women within weeks of the story breaking in addition to igniting the metoo movement and bringing to light other now blacklisted individuals like kevin spacey the allegations led to weinstein's firing from the weinstein company it also saw his ties to numerous big name organizations severed including the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in 2020 while trials were ongoing weinstein was also stripped of his honorary cbe a british order of chivalry he currently faces 23 years in prison with even more charges potentially on the way number 2 charlie chaplin we want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery chaplain was the silent movie star actually he's one of the biggest hollywood stars ever which makes it all the more surprising that he was blacklisted from the industry like others on this list chaplin refused to testify in front of the house on american activities committee but his punishment was far harsher than others since he was not a u.s citizen when chaplin left the country to premiere his film limelight in london the u.s attorney general revoked his re-entry permit banning chaplin from re-entering the united states not only was chaplin blacklisted from working in hollywood he was banned from the entire country altogether i love this country i owed everything that's precisely why i can criticize before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one bill cosby in 2014 legendary comedian bill cosby was publicly accused by dozens of different women of various heinous crimes dating all the way back to the mid-60s charges were filed against him in 2015. after a 2017 mistrial he was found guilty in 2018 fined 25 000 and given three to ten years in jail in the interim cosby was also dropped by sponsors saw honorary degrees and awards revoked and witnessed the entertainment industry turn its back on him even reruns of the show that made him a household name were pulled despite his conviction being overturned in 2021 cosby's relationship with hollywood is all but finished finally bill cosby has been unmasked and we have seen the real man as he's headed off to prison do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos you

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Length: 18min 31sec (1111 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 17 2022