The term Cutting room floor is used in the movie business when footage shot is not used in the final release, often times edited out and ending up on the floor of the editing room.

Although this happens partially for every actor ever filmed, many famous actors' entire appearance in a particular project have ended up on the cutting room floor at one stage or another throughout their careers, including Charlie Chaplin (when he accidentally walked onto the set of a "Keystone Cops" upon first arriving to Hollywood), Eric Stoltz's entire performance as Marty McFly in Back to the Future (when director Robert Zemeckis decided to recast Michael J. Fox halfway through filming because Stoltz's performance was not light-hearted enough), and Johnny Depp's performance in Platoon (Oliver Stone felt Depp's storyline distracted from the core of the story). Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. ... The Keystone Kops was a series of silent film comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. ... ... Eric Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor widely considered one of the most prominent and diverse performers in independent film. ... Martin Seamus Marty McFly is a fictional character, the lead character in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy, played by actor Michael J. Fox in the three films and voiced by David Kaufman in the animated series. ... Back to the Future is an American science fiction/comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985. ... For other people named Michael Fox, see Michael Fox (disambiguation). ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II on June 9, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, known for his affinity for strange character roles. ... Platoon is a 1986 Vietnam war film, written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ...

The actors (nowadays) still get paid for the performance and since the advent of the DVD, their performances may often times be resurrected via extended director's cuts, or as extras on the "Deleted Scenes" portions included on many DVD releases. DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...