It’s a long-held belief among those who think way too much about this stuff that movies and television are fundamentally different mediums, with fundamentally different ways of telling stories.
Whether they tried or not, none of these actors had the same success in movies that they did on the TV shows that made them famous.
For this list, we’ve chosen to highlight ten actors who were big on TV and always will be big on TV, regardless of how many feature films they act in.
This doesn’t mean that the actors who work in these two disparate mediums can’t make the transition from one to the other.