From Luke Skywalker to the Skeleton King
Mark Hamill is perhaps best known for his performance as Luke Skywalker in the original three Star Wars films (Episodes IV - VI). Curious as to what other work he's done since Star Wars, I looked him up on IMDB and discovered a rather impressive body of work in terms of quantity, but the quality of the work he's done seems less than impressive.
Since Return of the Jedi the biggest movie he's appeared in was Disney's 1989 The Little Mermaid. Impressive enough, you might think, but don't you think that someone with Mark Hamill's fame would be able to land a better role than "Additional Voices?" I would think so, but I would be wrong. Most of his work has actually been vocal work in either animated films or video games. Some of his select video games include Wing Commander III , Wing Commander IV, Wing Commander Prophecy and Bouncers. All sound like real winners to me. Some of his animated film work includes such gems as Wing Commander Academy (tv, animated), The Legend of Calamity Jane (tv, animated, Additional Voices), The New Batman Super Adventures (tv, animated), Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (video, animated) and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (tv, animated). Finally, he has performed in such classic live action roles as Blake in Wolf Tracer's Dinosaur Island, Bananas in Baxter and Bananas and Murphy in the absolutely terrible horror film Watchers Reborn.
So my question remains, what happened to Mark Hamill? How can one of the leading actors from three of the most influential films of all time have such a depressing and embarrassing career?