david rappaport (who plays randall, the leader of the group in time bandits & my fave character) is one of my fave actors but he didnt get a lot of other notable roles and afaik a big factor was that he refused roles that he found demeaning (ie caricatures of ppl with dwarfism) and also roles that would require him to pilot animatronics or wear animal/alien suits (he was never in star wars, for example). he's not very well-known now and he died very young (suicide) and i'm sad about him a lot