Constantly given similar roles

• Pigeonholed, in filmdom
• Given the same sort of parts
• Always playing the same role
• Use often in similar roles
• Unable to show versatility
• Roled up in one?
• Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?

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Typecast is an alternative rock band from the Philippines . Originally an underground act, they have surfaced on the mainstream Philippine music scene, while managing to hold on to their underground roots.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also type-cast , with reference to actors, 1937 (implied in typecasting ), from type (n.) in the "general character" sense (perhaps a deliberate pun on the verbal phrase in the printing sense "to found types in molds," attested from 1847). See type (n.) ...

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vb. 1 To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly. 2 To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc. 3 (context computing programming English) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object). ...