McClure is a washed-up actor, usually shown doing low-level work, such as hosting infomercials and educational movies.

Mr. Shepard stars as Howard Spence, a washed-up actor who made his name in that most quintessential American genre, the western.

In the story, very loosely based on the creation of the movie we're watching, Mr. Arnold is Bill Williams, a washed-up, suicidal actor.

Dad is a dangerously stingy, washed-up actor.

A washed-up American actor, Bob is in Tokyo to film a Japanese whiskey commercial; the $2 million fee may just defray the high cost to his dignity.

And never forget that this is California, home of that washed-up old actor and television pitchman Ronald Reagan.

Tom Church's part as the washed-up actor.

He is simply a washed-up actor who decides to be a costumed criminal for a living.

Bogart stands off to the side, watching a couple of Hollywood hacks belittle a washed-up actor at a restaurant bar and he begins to seethe.

Dix has a second violent outburst when a young director bad-mouths Dix's friend Charlie (Robert Warwick), a washed-up actor.