History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / Film

** Disney decided to not renew his ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' contract during the production of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' in Australia for his behavior while filming that lead to several on-set issues and a PR nightmare for Disney:

** Bennett, best known for starring in Creator/FritzLang's ''Film/ScarletStreet'', ''Film/ManHunt'', and ''Film/TheWomanInTheWindow'', had a thriving film career in the '30s and '40s. That came to a sudden halt in 1951 after Wanger shot and injured her then-agent Jennings Lang (no relation) because he suspected they were having an affair. This didn't end their marriage on the spot -- she and Wanger wouldn't separate until 1965 -- but it did cause Bennett to receive a lot fewer movie offers over the years to come, as she would only put seven more film roles under her belt after the shooting. Decades later, Bennett blamed the judgmental social climate of the era for starving her career, saying "If it happened today, I'd be a sensation. I'd be wanted by all studios for all pictures." She managed a small comeback on television in the late 1960s with ''Series/DarkShadows'', sustaining herself until then on the odd stage performance, and she returned to film in a supporting role in Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/Suspiria1977'', largely due to her association with Fritz Lang's work. The role earned her a Saturn Award nod for Best Supporting Actress, but Bennett never acted behind a camera after that; she married one final time before dying of heart failure in 1990.

* Both Creator/RobertMitchum and Lila Leeds were busted for marijuana possession in 1948, during a time when an arrest record would practically kill any celebrity's career. While the fiasco made the pages of ''Confidential'' magazine and boosted Mitchum's "bad boy" image, Leeds never worked in Hollywood again and went back home the year afterward, suffering a fatal heart attack in 1999.

** Zig-zagged with Creator/ShiaLaBeouf. He'd spent most of his twenties and early thirties in and out of legal trouble due to his alcoholism and had an accompanying series of bizarre public behavior. He'd also developed a reputation as difficult to work with and had rumors of being abusive following him around for years, not at all helped by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1cm3RT8f5s viral video]] that came out of his 2017 arrest, showing him struggling with police officers and hurling expletives and threats at them after getting kicked out of a bar in Savannah, Georgia for his drunkenness. He'd been turned down from a few franchises because of this but had managed to build a solid, acclaimed resume in smaller and mid-budget movies. However, this all changed in the fall of 2020, just as he seemed to be poised to break into more mainstream films again. In September, he exited Creator/OliviaWilde's sophomore directorial project, ''Film/DontWorryDarling'', before production started, citing a scheduling issue. Then in December, he was sued by his ex, Music/FKATwigs (real name Tahliah Barnett) for sexual battery and emotional distress. Twigs claims that he emotionally and physically abused her and intentionally gave her an STD. She also claims that she tried for about a year to try to get him to settle out of court to keep things private but only moved to litigation when he forced her hand. He put out a statement acknowledging that he's been abusive in the past. After the lawsuit was filed, [[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/shia-labeouf-career-abuse-allegations-1234874581/ Variety reported]] that Wilde had personally fired him from ''Don't Worry Darling'' when they didn't get along and he had other run-ins with the cast and crew since she has a strict "'no assholes' policy". Creator/{{Netflix}} cancelled their planned [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] campaign for him for ''Pieces of a Woman'' and he checked into a long term treatment facility on Christmas Eve. Creator/MarvelStudios also briefly considered him for a role in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, then changed their minds when the scandal broke out. He later announced he was taking an indefinite hiatus from work.

* Creator/MelGibson became ''persona non grata'' in Hollywood in the mid-late '00s following leaked audio of a DUI incident in 2006, in which he went on [[https://gawker.com/5582644/all-the-terrible-things-mel-gibson-has-said-on-the-record a drunken, anti-Semitic rant]] to his arresting officer while graphically hitting on her. While people had first started accusing him of anti-Semitism after the release of his film ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' two years prior (which was a box-office smash, but criticized by Jewish groups for its portrayal of the ancient Hebrews), this seemed to confirm those accusations in a way that the film couldn't. Some more leaked rants in 2010, this time [[DomesticAbuse towards his girlfriend]] (who filed for a restraining order) and including multiple racial slurs, only buried him further. In 2016, Gibson directed ''Film/HacksawRidge'', which was a critical and commercial success, and earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director, but chances of a CareerResurrection seemed to dim as most of his work since has been in independent/B-movies.

* Creator/MelGibson became ''persona non grata'' in Hollywood in the mid-late '00s following leaked audio of a DUI incident in 2006, in which he went on [[https://gawker.com/5582644/all-the-terrible-things-mel-gibson-has-said-on-the-record a drunken, anti-Semitic rant]] to his arresting officer while graphically hitting on her. While people had first started accusing him of anti-Semitism after the release of his film ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' two years prior (which was a box-office smash, but criticized by Jewish groups for its portrayal of the ancient Hebrews), this seemed to confirm those accusations in a way that the film couldn't. Some more leaked rants in 2010, this time [[DomesticAbuse towards his girlfriend]] (who filed for a restraining order) and including multiple racial slurs, only buried him further. It took a decade for him to clean up his act and enjoy a CareerResurrection by directing ''Film/HacksawRidge''.

* Lillo Brancato Jr., best known for playing teenaged Calogero in ''Film/ABronxTale'' and Matthew Bevilaqua in ''Series/TheSopranos'', was jailed for burglary in 2009. He's been trying to get his career back on track since getting out on Parole in 2013, he hasn't been able to star in anything from a major studio since.

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* The handling of the promotion of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and the Black Friday cut of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' both became this for Jeffrey Katzenberg's career at Creator/{{Disney}}. After fellow exec Frank Wells was killed in a helicopter crash before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', Michael Eisner passed him over for Wells's spot as president, which led to Katzenberg resigning as chairman in August 1994 and eventually establishing Creator/DreamWorksAnimation as a serious rival to Disney's dominance in the animation sector two months later. Many saw the slight as an example of Eisner's growing ego, but Eisner did have a point: Katzenberg's reckless actions in promoting ''Aladdin'' had permanently strained Disney's relationship with Creator/RobinWilliams, and though Williams would return to work with Disney a few more times following Katzenberg's resignation (including ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves''), the whole fiasco resulted in serious repercussions for decades to come[[note]]Namely, a stipulation in Williams's will declaring that no one was to use any more new materials from Williams for 25 years following his death[[/note]]. As for the Black Friday cut of ''Toy Story'', [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was exactly what Katzenberg had asked for]],[[note]]Both Katzenberg's and Eisner's visions demanded a more cynical outlook, which was depicted with the toys meaner than in the final draft, with Woody in particular deliberately throwing Buzz out the window rather than getting jealous, but only accidentally knocking him out of it in the final version[[/note]] and it nearly got the film totaled.

* Lillo Brancato Jr., best known for playing teenaged Calogero in ''Film/ABronxTale'' and Matthew Bevilaqua in ''Series/TheSopranos'', was jailed for burglary in 2009. Though since his release in 2013, he has attempted to get his career back on track.

* Lillo Brancato Jr., best known for playing teenaged Calogero in ''Film/ABronxTale'', was jailed for burglary in 2009. Though since his release in 2013, he has attempted to get his career back on track.

* Antonio Sabàto Jr. was never an A-lister, but he had a steady career in the 90s and 2000s as a model, MrFanservice and SoapOpera actor. He made the poorly thought out decision to speak at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, where he claimed Barack Obama was a Muslim, and was one of the few actors to publicly support Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Although Trump won the election, the actor was dropped by all his representation, fired from a reality show and one of his films was even refused distribution simply because he was in it.

* Creator/CharlesHawtrey was fired from the ''Film/CarryOn'' series when his drinking and prima donna behavior got out of control.

** Mary Miles Minter, a child star and ''protégée'' to Taylor, was deeply infatuated with the man and wrote a number of love letters to him—none of which were answered on account of Taylor being thirty years older than her. Some of those letters, however, were found in Taylor’s apartment and wound up in the press—and the media circus that followed left Minter’s career in tatters. The actress, who by then had acted in over fifty films, many of them lost, only acted in a grand total of four after that—all of which have since been lost as well. She would receive offers for more, but Minter declined them all, living the rest of her life in relative peace and quiet until her fatal stroke in 1984.
** Mabel Normand, who had frequently collaborated with Arbuckle and Creator/CharlieChaplin, was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive. It was this that caused her to be labeled another suspect in his murder—and although she was eventually ruled out, by that point her career was already in decline: Normand’s work with Arbuckle meant that the ban on his film roles stifled her exposure as well. Several relapses from a cocaine addiction she was nursing at the time—along with an incident where her chauffeur had used her gun to shoot and wound a wealthy oil broker—further damaged her reputation and eventually led to her retirement from film. She died of tuberculosis in 1930.

* Creator/FattyArbuckle may well be the UrExample of this trope in film. A major star in the medium's early days, he was widely held in high regard, and often compared to the likes of Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/CharlieChaplin. However, his career was abruptly halted on September 5, 1921, when a young, aspiring actress named Virginia Rappe was found with a ruptured bladder in one of the rooms he and his friends had rented for the night; she stayed conscious just long enough to say that Arbuckle was responsible. Four days later she was dead, and while Arbuckle protested that he had merely been attempting to help her when her health was falling apart (Rappe had chronic cystitis and was in poor health due to multiple back-alley abortions), fellow actress Bambina Maude Delmont accused Arbuckle of raping Rappe and inadvertently killing her in the process. The media jumped on Delmont's story, leading to a firestorm of coverage that painted Arbuckle as a sexual deviant and put him through three highly sensationalized trials. While Arbuckle was eventually acquitted, he was forced to pay $700,000 in legal fees, costing him both his home and all of his cars, and was blacklisted from Hollywood for a year. He would add only a few more roles under his belt after that while directing other films under a pseudonym, and Arbuckle languished in obscurity until his fatal heart attack in 1933—reportedly on the very day he was given the opportunity for a CareerResurrection.

* Actor Rory Calhoun's past as a juvenile delinquent making the pages of ''Confidential'' magazine was an inversion of this, as instead of ruining his career, it only boosted a "bad boy" image for him, despite Calhoun's persona not being that of a "bad boy" beforehand, although the fact that Calhoun's religious conversion had played a part in his rehabilitation smoothed the way.[[note]]Not only did the news not affect in any way Calhoun's role in the film he was shooting at the time the news was released, ''The Spoilers'', but he also got a surge of offers to appear in Westerns.[[/note]] Interestingly, years later it was discovered that Calhoun's "outing" as former juvie had been the work of his agent Henry Willson, who had given ''Confidential'' Calhoun's story in a deal he made to protect his biggest star -- Creator/RockHudson – from being outed as gay.

* Creator/DavidNiven, a QuintessentialBritishGentleman in the [=1930s=], was carrying on an affair with Merle Oberon. During this time, he accompanied Oberon on a rail trip from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, spending the entire trip having sex in Oberon's private carriage. The US had a law at the time called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act Mann Act]], which forbade the transport of women for "immoral purposes" across state lines. Although the law was intended to simplify the prosecution of pimps and pedophiles, in practice it was used against "undesirables" such as interracial couples, foreigners, or movie stars -- and Oberon and Niven fit into all three categories. Niven found himself having to go to ground for a while to avoid prosecution, and lost at least six roles. Note that this was a consensual relationship between two unmarried adults and that Oberon's career was also tarnished, although she was never targeted by the police (and, as Niven had asked, refused to speak to them).

* Production on Creator/AzizAnsari's intended directorial debut ''Being Mortal'' was suspended in 2022 after a complaint was filed against actor Creator/BillMurray accusing him of inappropriate behavior on-set. This led to an avalanche of previous misconduct allegations involving Murray coming back to light. The accusers included, among others, Creator/GeenaDavis, Creator/RobSchneider, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/LucyLiu, and numerous cast members from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. Filming hasn't resumed on ''Being Mortal'' as of 2024, with Ansari moving on to make ''Good Fortune'' instead. HollywoodHypeMachine

* Antonio Sabato Jr was never an A-lister, but he had a steady career in the 90s and 2000s as a model, MrFanservice and SoapOpera actor. He made the poorly thought out decision to speak at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, where he claimed Barack Obama was a Muslim, and was one of the few actors to publicly support Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Although Trump won the election, the actor was dropped by all his representation, fired from a reality show and one of his films was even refused distribution simply because he was in it.

* Actor Rory Calhoun's past as a juvenile delinquent making the pages of ''Confidential'' magazine was an inversion of this, as instead of ruining his career, it only boosted a "bad boy" image for him, despite Calhoun's persona not being that of a "bad boy" beforehand, although the fact that Calhoun's religious conversion had played a part in his rehabilitation smoothed the way.[[note]]Not only did the news not affect in any way Calhoun's role in the film he was shooting at the time the news was released, ''The Spoilers'', but he also got a surge of offers to appear in Westerns.[[/note]] Interestingly, years later it was discovered that Calhoun's "outing" as former juvie had been the work of his agent Henry Willson, who had given ''Confidential'' Calhoun's story in a deal he made to protect his biggest star -- Creator/RockHudson -- from being outed as gay.

* Music/MarianneFaithfull screen-tested for Creator/RomanPolanski's version of ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'', but once it was discovered that she had a heroin addiction, she was immediately rejected.

* Creator/EdwardFurlong, the child star of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', was not approached to reprise his role as John Connor in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' because of his history of chronic substance abuse, alcoholism, and domestic violence. Furlong reported that he is broke because his acting career is dead and that he wasn't able to support himself merely from the small roles he had after ''[=T2=]'' which was only exacerbated by the child and spousal payments he was required to make. In 2019, Furlong surprised fans by telling them [[{{Catchphrase}} he's back]] for ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''. When the actual film was released, it turned out his contribution to the film was minuscule ''at best'', because only his ''likeness'' returned.

* Tony Moran, who played the unmasked Michael Myers in ''Film/Halloween1978'', bragged to the fans that he had a RemakeCameo in ''Film/HalloweenKills''. However, after insulting Creator/JohnCarpenter and his deceased girlfriend Debra Hill, accusing Creator/JamieLeeCurtis of sleeping around, and making homophobic slurs against fellow Michael Myers actors Tyler Mane and James Jude Courtney, his part was cut and he does not appear except in archive footage from the original film.

* Production on Creator/AzizAnsari's directorial debut ''Being Mortal'' was suspended in early 2022, after a complaint was filed against actor Creator/BillMurray accusing him of inappropriate behavior. This led to an avalanche of past misconduct allegations involving Murray coming out of the woodwork. The accusers included, among others, Creator/GeenaDavis, Creator/RobSchneider, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/LucyLiu, and numerous cast members of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. As of 2023, filming hasn't resumed on ''Being Mortal''.

** In the months leading up to the release of ''Film/Deadpool2'', Creator/TJMiller was at the center of several pieces of terrible publicity, including being part of the sexual abuse allegations arisen during the Weinstein effect, accusations of transphobia by a former friend, and eventually concluding in calling in a fake bomb threat at Penn Station in revenge on a woman he'd argued with until he got kicked off the train, which ''very'' fortunately didn't end in mass death and injuries. Creator/RyanReynolds made a statement that he booted Miller out of ''Deadpool 3'' and Miller's lines in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'' were redubbed by Justin Rupple.

** Harvey Weinstein was a popular film producer and co-founder of Creator/{{Miramax}} and Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany who had several [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] to his credit. On October 5, 2017, however, his career came to an end when several investigative reports - first by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey in ''The New York Times'' and then in [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories a widely-read article]] by Ronan Farrow in ''The New Yorker'', reports that won the trio a Pulitzer Prize - led to the discovery of sexual harassment allegations against him going back decades. Three days later, Weinstein was dismissed from TWC. At the same time, [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-accusers-sexual-harassment-assault-rose-mcgowan-ashley-judd-gwyneth-paltrow several A-list Hollywood actresses]] - including Creator/RoseMcGowan, Creator/AnnabellaSciorra, Creator/GwynethPaltrow, Creator/AshleyJudd, and Creator/AngelinaJolie - accused Weinstein of sexual assault, rape, or misconduct. The ensuing firestorm evaporated Weinstein's considerable clout in Hollywood virtually overnight, and further cost him his membership in the Academy, along with his marriage. He was eventually arrested on May 25, 2018. [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot And that was just the beginning]]: It also encouraged other women (and a few men) to publicly charge [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_too_(hashtag)#Aftermath others in Hollywood]] of sexual abuse, which led to the accused being fired from their respective jobs as well. As of February 2023, he is serving a consecutive sentence of 39 years, where he'll be at least 105 years old when/if he's released from prison.

** After the sexual allegations involving Creator/KevinSpacey came out, Netflix canceled a Creator/GoreVidal biopic that was in the works. To make matters worse, the Creator/RidleyScott-directed thriller ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' had its [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] campaign for Spacey dumped and its premiere at [=AFI=] fest canceled at the behest of producers and Scott himself. Later, Spacey himself was dropped from the film only five weeks before its release [[TheOtherMarty and entirely recast by]] Creator/ChristopherPlummer -- who was then nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film just two months after he filmed it. His only other completed film at the time, ''Film/BillionaireBoysClub'', was quietly dumped on VOD and he has yet to work in Hollywood since.

** Creator/BryanSinger was fired from ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' after repeatedly disappearing from the set for hours at a time and then disappearing completely when the cast and crew took a break for Thanksgiving. When he ''was'' on set, his behavior was described as erratic and he often got into nearly-violent arguments with lead actors Creator/RamiMalek and Creator/TomHollander. His contract with the studio was already not renewed earlier in the year in the wake of child sex abuse allegations predating those leveled at Weinstein, but according to him, the camel's back broke when he, of all things, took care of a sick parent. Malek's complaints to the studio and the looming allegations (which broke very shortly after he was fired) led many to suspect the writing was already on the wall for Singer before the Thanksgiving disappearance. The same allegations would later convince him to resign as executive producer of Creator/{{FX|Networks}}'s ''Series/Legion2017''. Things got worse in 2019 when a day after ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' received 5 [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nominations, an explosive investigative article was released detailing the allegations of rape and child sex abuse at Singer, including new accusations. While producer Avi Lerner remained committed to keeping Singer on board for a ''ComicBook/RedSonja'' film, this more or less made it unlikely he will ever get another directing job at a major studio and cost ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' its [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestPicture Best Picture Oscar]] chances. In early February, Millennium Films confirmed ''Red Sonja'' was being pulled from the schedule, more or less confirming Singer's career had been set ablaze. Worse, many suspected that Lerner kept him on the film [[ScrewedByTheNetwork specifically to screw it and the many people working on it over]]; his own suspect behavior in the aftermath of Weinstein's downfall certainly hasn't helped his case. It certainly didn't help him, either, that he waited until the next month to just come out and say Singer was fired.

** Zig-zagged with Creator/ShiaLaBeouf. He'd spent most of his twenties and early thirties in and out of legal trouble due to his alcoholism and had an accompanying series of bizarre public behavior. He'd also developed a reputation as difficult to work with and had rumors of being abusive following him around for years, not at all helped by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1cm3RT8f5s viral video]] that came out of his 2017 arrest, showing him struggling with police officers and hurling expletives and threats at them after getting kicked out of a bar in Savannah, Georgia for his drunkenness. He'd been turned down from a few franchises because of this but had managed to build a solid, acclaimed resume in smaller and mid-budget movies. However, this all changed in the fall of 2020, just as he seemed to be poised to break into more mainstream films again. In September, he exited Creator/OliviaWilde's sophomore directorial project, ''Film/DontWorryDarling'', before production started, citing a scheduling issue. Then in December, he was sued by his ex, Music/FKATwigs (real name Tahliah Barnett) for sexual battery and emotional distress. Twigs claims that he emotionally and physically abused her and intentionally gave her an STD. She also claims that she tried for about a year to try to get him to settle out of court to keep things private but only moved to litigation when he forced her hand. He put out a statement acknowledging that he's been abusive in the past. After the lawsuit was filed, [[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/shia-labeouf-career-abuse-allegations-1234874581/ Variety reported]] that Wilde had personally fired him from ''Don't Worry Darling'' when they didn't get along and he had other run-ins with the cast and crew since she has a strict "'no assholes' policy". Creator/{{Netflix}} cancelled their planned [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] campaign for him for ''Pieces of a Woman'' and he checked into a long term treatment facility on Christmas Eve. Creator/MarvelStudios also briefly considered him for a role in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, then changed their minds when the scandal broke out. He later announced he was taking an indefinite hiatus from work.

* Creator/KimBasinger suffered a huge hit to her career for several years after she officially agreed to star in ''Film/BoxingHelena'', only to be horrified when she actually read the script and refused to do the film. Such a contract breach is a huge deal in Hollywood, and hardly anyone would touch her until she finally was able to get a CareerResurrection with her [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-winning role in ''Film/LAConfidential''. It's actually now generally agreed that she made the right decision, as ''Helena'' ended up such a disaster that her career would have taken an even bigger hit if she'd appeared in it, which is what [[StarDerailingRole ultimately happened]] to Creator/SherilynFenn, who took the part after Basinger dropped out.
* Creator/WarnerBros terminated its contract with Creator/BusbyBerkeley, known for musicals such as ''Flying High'', ''Film/FortySecondStreet'', ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''Film/{{Dames}}'', and ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1935'' after he was arrested for drunk driving. It didn't help that UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was just starting to be stringently enforced, and Warner suddenly had to become a lot more cautious to ensure its films didn't promote immorality.

* Carmine Caridi, a character actor best known for his roles in the last two ''[[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]]'' films and the ''Series/{{Fame}}'' TV show, became the first-ever person to be expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) when he was caught sharing his [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] screener [=DVDs=] with a known pirate in 2004. In addition to being removed from the Academy, he was ordered to pay $300,000 to the studios. Following the incident, Caridi only acted in two more films, both of which were obscure indie titles, before dying in 2019.

* Creator/RichardGere has [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/richard-geres-studio-exile-why-his-hollywood-career-took-an-indie-turn-992258/ stated]] that his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government, especially for its treatment of the people of Tibet, caused his star power to fizzle out, specifically pointing to two incidents in TheNineties that earned China's ire. The first was when he presented the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Art Direction in 1993 and took the opportunity to condemn what he called the "horrendous, horrendous human rights situation" in Tibet, which got him banned from all future Oscar broadcasts after producer Gil Cates called his and other political speeches at the Oscars that year[[note]]Creator/TimRobbins and Creator/SusanSarandon also went off-script to speak on behalf of Haitian refugees, and were banned for the same reason[[/note]] "distasteful and dishonest". After that, his 1997 thriller ''Red Corner'', about an American businessman working in China who is targeted by corrupt government officials, was not only BannedInChina due to its deeply critical portrayal of the nation's justice system, but caused the nation's MediaWatchdog to threaten a ban on future cooperation with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer over their role in producing the film. As partnerships between Hollywood studios and Chinese production companies deepened in the 2000s, Gere's career dried up as Chinese companies refused to work on any film that hired him, and his last starring roles in mainstream studio films before he moved to the indie circuit were in 2008's ''Film/NightsInRodanthe'' and 2009's ''Film/BrooklynsFinest''.

* German actor Emil Jannings was one of Hollywood's most prolific actors in the 1920s, becoming the first person to ever win an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor. [[note]]As of 2021, Jannings is the only German to receive the award.[[/note]] His career in Hollywood ended with the advent of talkies, with audiences being unable to understand him due to his thick accent. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Jannings starred in and produced several Nazi propaganda films, such as ''Ohm Krüger'' and ''Die Entlassung''; following the war, his association with the Nazi regime brought a permanent end to his acting career, and he retired to Austria where he died in 1950.

* During the late 1980s, Creator/RobLowe was celebrated as the new male sex symbol in films and television. This ended after he was caught in a sex tape scandal (before sex tapes became popular shortcuts to fame).[[note]]Adding to the controversy was that the other person in the sex tape was a 16-year-old girl, although no legal issues came from that as the age of consent in Georgia (where the tape was made) was 14 at the time.[[/note]] His performance of "Proud Mary" alongside Eileen Bowman as WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} at the start of the 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s ceremony shortly afterwards certainly didn't help matters. In TheNineties, Lowe made a comeback on the small screen with ''Series/TheWestWing'' and ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', but his career has never been as popular as it was before the scandal.

* Nate Parker appeared to have a promising directing career ahead of him, with his 2016 film ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|2016}}'' being widely seen as having a decent chance for an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], along with remaking the original infamous racist film into a powerful story of African-American resilience. This went down the drain after the media discovered Parker and his friend and screenwriter Jean Celestin were charged with rape back in 1999, during which Parker was alleged to have sexually assaulted his girlfriend at a time when she was drunk and later invited Celestin to join in. Parker was later acquitted at trial of rape, and Celestin, though initially guilty, would later find his conviction overturned on appeal, and he was never retried. Parker's decision to add a rape scene (involving real-life rape victim Creator/GabrielleUnion, no less) in the film only made the scandal worse. Although the film got decent reviews, the rape scandal ruined any chance of an Oscar nomination, and Parker wouldn't make another film in any capacity for three years; even then, though the end result won an award at the Venice Film Festival, it has yet to find a distributor.

* Producer Scott Rudin was long infamous in the industry for his temper and a HighTurnoverRate of assistants.[[note]]with one article calling him "[[https://pagesix.com/2014/12/14/the-man-known-as-hollywoods-biggest-a-hole/ Hollywood's biggest 'a-hole'"]][[/note]] In spite of this abusive reputation, as well as his implication in the same e-mails leaked in the Creator/SonyPictures cyber-attack that led to Amy Pascal's exit, Rudin still became of the most successful and awarded film producers in the industry, picking up the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestPicture for ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', receiving two more Best Picture nominations in two consecutive years each, and a fruitful collaboration with director Creator/WesAnderson. That changed in April 2021, when ''The Hollywood Reporter'' published [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior an explosive article]] detailing the full extent of his bullying, up to and including smashing a computer monitor on an assistant's hand[[note]] requiring said assistant to seek medical attention[[/note]], forcing producer Kevin Walsh out of his car and leaving him behind on a highway, forcing staffers to sign non-disparagement agreements, and removing his ex-employees' credits after they quit. In the ensuing fallout, Rudin's producing credits on several films with Creator/{{A24}} were removed, with the company later cutting ties completely with him, while he would later "step back" from his upcoming productions on Broadway, including a revival of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' starring Creator/HughJackman and Sutton Foster[[note]]Foster reportedly vowed to leave the production if Rudin continued to be involved[[/note]], and resigned from the Broadway League.

* Following him slapping Creator/ChrisRock at the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]] in 2022, Creator/WillSmith saw all of his roles put on hold until further notice, as well as a 10 year ban from attending any Academy events. This included the Creator/{{Netflix}} film ''Fast and Loose,'' as well as a fourth ''Bad Boys'' film and a proposed sequel to ''Film/IAmLegend''.

* In March 2023, Creator/JonathanMajors was [[HollywoodHypeMachine a star in the making]] coming off of critically acclaimed performances in ''The Last Black Man in San Francisco'', ''Film/CreedIII'', and ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''. That changed overnight after he was arrested in New York City after getting into a violent dispute with his girlfriend Grace Jabbari that ended with her being hospitalized. This set off a domino effect that saw several other women accuse Majors of assault, him being let go from his agencies and several upcoming projects (such as an Music/OtisRedding biopic and an adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel ''The Man in My Basement''), and his upcoming film ''Magazine Dreams'' being [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment shelved indefinitely]]. For a while, Creator/MarvelStudios held off on letting him go from his role as [[Characters/MCUKangTheConqueror Kang the Conqueror]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse due to the character’s importance to the franchise, but once he was convicted of assault and harassment that December, they fired him in a matter of hours.

One reason this trope is called ''Role''-Ending Misdemeanor is because the rise of cinema at the beginning of The20thCentury simultaneously gave rise to celebrity profiles higher than any seen before, "names" who became known across the industrialized world. When a performer and/or filmmaker was accused of a crime or took a fall for one, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the fallout was often quick and spectacular]]. Cautionary tales of careers ruined or at least hobbled by misbehavior persist to this day.

One reason this trope is called ''Role''-Ending Misdemeanor is because the rise of motion pictures at the beginning of The20thCentury gave concurrent rise to celebrity profiles higher than any seen before, "names" who became known across the industrialized world. When a performer and/or filmmaker took a fall for a crime, or was even just accused of one, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the fallout was often quick and spectacular]]. Cautionary tales of careers ruined or at least hobbled by bad behavior persist to this day.

One reason this trope is called ''Role'' Ending Misdemeanor is because early in the 20th century the rise of motion pictures gave concurrent rise to celebrity profiles higher than any seen before, "names" who became known across the industrialized world. When a performer and/or filmmaker took a fall for a crime, or was even just accused of one, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the fallout was often quick and spectacular]]. Cautionary tales of careers ruined or at least hobbled by bad behavior persist to this day.

One reason this trope is called ''Role'' Ending Misdemeanor is because early in the 20th century the rise of motion pictures gave concurrent rise to celebrity profiles higher than any seen before, "names" who became known across the industrialized world. When a performer and/or filmmaker took a fall for a crime, or was even just accused of one, the fallout was often quick and spectacular. Cautionary tales of careers ruined or at least hobbled by bad behavior persist to this day.

The cinema industry takes advantage of entertainment with feature-length movies to earn credibility. From popcorn to the box office, filming a movie takes a lot of effort to make a successful career. However, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor if any misbehavior happens,]] [[ProducePelting you really can't help yourself but throw produce at them]]. As such, for those who want to work for the filming industry, here are examples to keep in mind.