Actors you wish hadn't retired when they did

Who are the actors you wish hadn't retired when they did?

For me, obvs, Greta Garbo would be at the top of the list, followed closely by Norma Shearer, Doris Day and Grace Kelly.

But among the most recent actors who may have retired too soon, there's Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Rick Moranis, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Actors I don't miss after they retired: Daniel Day-Lewis.

Actors I wish would retire already: Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone

Alice Faye is one that comes to mind.

Still can't believe Doris Day walked away from Hollywood in 1968 and never looked back. Cameron Diaz kind of surprised me too.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple was very effective as a young adult actress. It's really too bad she didn't continue making films for awhile longer.

Bruce Willis

Just saying …….

Great choices. My main one is Rick Moranis. I know he had a lot of personal issues to deal with, so he had to go, but he's one of the all time great comedians of that era.

no answers. i'm fine with it if the alternative is that they keep turning out lesser work because they'd rather quit.

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Grace Kelly had only made 11 movies at the time she married the Prince. Can you imagine what kind of career she might have had, especially with Hitchcock probably guiding most of it?

Jack Nicholson was a great actor but it had definitely been a minute since he had made a good movie.

The more recent movies weren't always great but he made them worth watching!

James Cagney. Always played a dark character, but retired with The Hayes Code still in tact. Robert Mitchum was able to lead in a handful of movies from 69-76ish.


I thought Jack Nicholson, but I wouldn't want him to be in all these awful movies the other stars of the 70s do for the money without regard for the quality. I always hoped one would lend their name and services to help a great, but low-budget movie. Ben Gazzarra did this for multiple directors.

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Jack Nicholson ((( even tho he never officially announced his retirement, he did shut down rumours that he'd been forced away from the industry due to memory loss

The guy in my avatar.

The picture's a little small who is that?

Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, and Sean Connery.

Exiler's photo looks Daniel Day-Lewis when he was younger.

Right on the money. from In the Name of the Father.

I was hoping Daniel Day-Lewis would come back for another movie or two. Doesn't look promising at this point.

His wife, Rebecca Miller (Arthur Miller's daughter), is still in the biz as a director. So between their residuals, and probably some from Arthur's estate, they're probably well set with coin.

Grace Kelly

Alice Faye, when she quit acting in 1945. From Wiki but rewritten by me:

After a two year absences to raise her baby daughter, Alice Faye finally accepted the lead role in the film noir Fallen Angel (1945). Although the film wsa designed ostensibly as Faye's vehicle, Fox studio head Daryl F. Zanuck tried to build his new protégée Linda Darnell by ordering many of Faye's scenes cut and those of Darnell's emphasized. When Alice Faye saw a screening of the final cut with her role reduced by 12 scenes and a song number, she wrote a scathing note to Zanuck, went straight to her car, gave her dressing room keys to the studio gate guard, and drove home, vowing never to return to Fox.

Faye was still so popular that thousands of letters were sent to Faye's home and the Fox studios from around the world, begging her to return for another picture. She did not make another movie for 17 years.