I watch the biography channel a lot, and I am now watching Lloyd Bridge’s life.

Bridges went from a standard actor to a rich star as a scuba diver in the hit show “Sea Hunt.” Then comes the “poor baby” bit. He was “typecast.”

The entire cast of “Married With Children” worried themselves to death about being “typecast.” Every one of them left the show as multimillionaires, but they were very upset about the “limited range” of their titanic acting talent they had been able to show on “Married With Children.”

I got sick of hearing about it.

Poor Marilyn Monroe! She was typecast as a sex symbol.

If you just had a hit show and wind up a multimillionaire, I find it hard to feel sorry for you. Above all, I get sick of hearing you bitch about it.

Back in the 1930’s, when Fred Astaire and his sister were the star dancing team, their biggest competition was a man named Buddy Ebsen, another big-time dancer. But I never heard Ebsen crying about how he was stereotyped as a dancer.

Ebsen then had his wildly popular role as Jed Clampett in “The Beverley Hillbillies.” How stereotyped can you GET?

Then Ebsen did “Barnaby Jones.”

In other words, Ebsen didn’t spend his life crying about his “unused talent.” He found out what WE wanted to see and gave it to us.

The word for an actor or anybody else is this:

“If you can’t cut it, get the hell out of it.” You’re not there to show how talented you are. Your job is to entertain US.

Biography Channel, PLEASE cut the “poor baby” bit!