Steve Guttenberg: What the hell happened?

Do you remember Steve Guttenberg? If you were born after 1980 then there's a good chance you don't but at one time in the mid 80s he was a star.

While flipping through the channels I stumbled upon the last few minutes of a movie on TBS that had him in it as well as the Olsen twins and it got me wondering what the hell happened to that guy.

Here is an IMDB user ratings chart of all his movies (starting with Police Academy because that was when he entered the public eye).

Police Academy (1984)5.8
Police Academy 2 (1985)4.4
Cocoon (1985)6.6
Bad Medicine (1985)4.0
Police Academy 3 (1986)3.9
Short Circuit (1986)5.9
The Bedroom Window (1987)6.3
Police Academy 4(1987)3.5
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)5.7
Surrender (1987)5.2
Three Men and a Baby (1987)5.7
High Spirits (1988)4.9
Cocoon: The Return (1988)4.9
Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)5.1
3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)4.6
The Big Green (1995)4.6
Home for the Holidays (1995)6.4
It Takes Two (1995)4.9
Overdrive (1997)3.3
Zeus and Roxanne (1997)5.1
Home Team (1998)3.4
Airborne (1998)3.1
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead (2002)5.1

That's a pretty weak resume. When the highest rated movie you were in is Cocoon (a story about old people feeling young again) you know you're acting career isn't in the greatest shape. One thing I have to give Guttenberg credit for is leaving the Police Academy train wreck after 4 movies out of 7 in the series so far ( I say so far because there are rumors of a new one in the works and judging by Guttenbergs career these days he'll probably be in it).

In the 1995 episode of the simpsons Homer the Great (the one about the secret society the stonecutters) there is a line the Stonecutters song "Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We do. This basically implies that it takes a secret society to make someone like Guttenberg famous, not an outrageous theory.

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