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Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell may not qualify as an A-list celebrity, but the square-jawed actor became a cult star due to his lead roles in the Sam Raimi-directed "Evil Dead" trilogy.

These films saw him play Ash, a bone-headed S-Mart employee who's reluctantly thrust into the role of shotgun-toting hero in a battle against supernatural evil.

Campbell's face, and especially his supersized chin, looks as though he jumped off the pages of a superhero cartoon, and his looks have driven his typecasting. Indeed, Campbell has even released an autobiography entitled "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor," which shows he's healthily aware of his status as typecast actor.

These days he can be seen playing ex-CIA agent "Sam" on USA Network's "Burn Notice," but Campbell still gets his kicks as a B-movie actor, appearing in seemingly every made-for-TV, low-budget movie SyFy creates. He also managed to poke fun of those roles -- in the process reinforcing them -- by playing a slightly-fictionalized version of himself in his directorial debut, "My Name Is Bruce."

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