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For about a decade, Steve Guttenberg ruled the box office – if not critically, then commercially, his films made profit time and again. However, in the last decade or two, Guttenberg’s name has become a mild punchline to Hollywood’s ability to make “anybody” a success. Whether you believe he’s a talented actor or not, Guttenberg’s career careened off the high-profile rails sometime in the late 80’s, and hasn’t returned.<\/p>\n
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Following 1990, Guttenberg has continued to act, appearing in films as forgettable as Casper: A Spirited Beginning<\/em> (1997), PS Your Cat Is Dead<\/em> (2002), a remake of The Poseidon Adventure<\/em> (2005 – not to be confused with Wolfgang Peterson’s big-budget version in 2006), Heidi 4 Paws<\/em> (2008), A Novel Romance<\/em> (2011), and a supporting role in 2014’s Affluenza<\/em>.<\/p>\n Aside from his screen work, Guttenberg has appeared on stage in a number of productions, including an English production of Cinderella<\/em>, in 2008.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For about a decade, Steve Guttenberg ruled the box office – if not critically, then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":38445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-are-they-now"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",768,1024,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024-225x300.png",225,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",640,853,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024-540x720.png",540,720,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",768,1024,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",768,1024,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",768,1024,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",255,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",18,24,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",36,48,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",72,96,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",113,150,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",225,300,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024.png",137,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Where Are They Now?<\/a>","tag_info":"Where Are They Now?","comment_count":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/steve-guttenberg_sc_768x1024-540x720.png\")
Guttenberg’s first major<\/em> film role was as part of the supporting cast of The Boys From Brazil<\/em>, in 1979. A year later, he’d play the… ahem, straight man role in the hugely camp Village People film, You Can’t Stop The Music<\/em>, alongside Superman<\/em> actress Valerie Perrine. The mid-80’s were prime Guttenberg territory, with no less than two film franchises ongoing to keep the cheque’s coming in. Police Academy<\/em>, which gradually declined in both quality and popularity towards 1990, was a money spinner for the actor, while the Three Men<\/em> series, two films starring both Guttenberg, Tom Selleck and Ted Danson, also made him a household name. He appeared in Ron Howard’s Cocoon<\/em> (and its sequel), as well as the cult classic Short Circuit<\/em>, and high profile bomb High Spirits<\/em>, the latter in 1988. High Spirits<\/em> proved to be a watershed moment for Guttenberg, for it marked the point at which his career choices were limited to B-movies and low budget television roles.<\/p>\n