Spotting now-familiar actors in tiny bit-parts/early appearances

[Orang Utan]

Well.


Fuck.

Don't you mean shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit?

 

[The Groke]

It's an advert I'm afraid.



I wonder if this is why his missus slapped him.

Actors damn you, actors!

 

[The Groke]

Don't you mean shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit?

Yes.

That would have been much funnier.


Swarfail.

 

[Orang Utan]

Clydefail too - I did a typo and called him Clad Davis

 

[strung out]

Stringer Bell from The Wire (again) being in Family Affairs on channel 5 back in the day when it first launched

 

[The Boy]

Funny seeing Burrell from The Wire as Barney in Silence of the Lambs t'other week.

Burrel and Valchek are both (very briefly) in that Silence of the Lambs sequel thing. Umm...Red Dragon, is it?

 

[Cloo]

Spotted the guy who plays Matt in 'Heroes' in some daytime TV crock a few months back - something like 'Diagnosis Murder'

 

[The Boy]

Stringer Bell from The Wire (again) being in Family Affairs on channel 5 back in the day when it first launched

He's in 28 Weeks Later as well.

Oh, and Tyres from Spaced plays a mercenary in 'Outpost'.

 

[The Boy]

Spotted the guy who plays Matt in 'Heroes' in some daytime TV crock a few months back - something like 'Diagnosis Murder'

The blonde FBI agent who worked with Parkman in season one is in John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars.

edit: there was also an episode of DM where Doctor Quincy was euthanising patients. The shit afternoon telly cross over almost caused a rift in the space-time continuum

 

[strung out]

shall we just make this into a 'what else have you seen actors from the wire in?' thread?

 

[spanglechick]

Don't watch these two films the wrong way round.

or even:

 

[The Boy]

shall we just make this into a 'what else have you seen actors from the wire in?' thread?

Oi! I've given you two actors from Heroes and one from Spaced!


Oh, Marlo from the Wire is in the new series of Heroes...

 

[skyscraper101]

Look out for a teenage Chris Rock in Beverly Hills Cop II with a bit part as a porter at the Playboy Mansion.

 

[Termite Man]

Jim Carey was in Pink Cadillac starring clint eastwood as some idiot on stage doing something idiotic !

 

[The Groke]

Jim Carey was in Pink Cadillac starring clint eastwood as some idiot on stage doing something idiotic !

Doesn't do to get typecast eh...

 

[Termite Man]

The blonde FBI agent who worked with Parkman in season one is in John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars.

the cheerleader from heroes was in a few episodes of Malcolm in the Middle as well

 

[Termite Man]

Doesn't do to get typecast eh...

That's how I recognised him Normally I'm shit at spotting actors

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Jim Carey was in Pink Cadillac starring clint eastwood as some idiot on stage doing something idiotic !

He was also in The Dead Pool with Clint Eastwood as a drugged up rock star.

 

[Termite Man]

He was also in The Dead Pool with Clint Eastwood as a drugged up rock star.

Doing Welcome to the Jungle very badly

 

[pogofish]

There is some 60s British gangster flick where I will swear that a very young looking David Bowie is one of the musicians in the band playing in the background of the club scene.

 

[scifisam]

Juliette Lewis as 'friend of Alyson Hanigan' in My Stepmother is an Alien, looking exactly the same as she does in every single film no matter how old she is.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I seem to remember that Jennifer Aniston was in one episode of Quantum Leap as a nurse pre-Friends.

There have been others I've noticed - I'll have to have a think...

Edit: oh, David Duchovny as a transvestite FBI agent pre X-Files (2nd series Twin Peaks).

 

[zoltan]

Linda Hamilton - of Terminator fame - a non speaking appearence in the Trading Places company Xmas party Scene ( yes, really )

I saw death race 2000 the othr night - didnt realsie Sly Stallone was in it

Oh yes, Stallone was in Take the Money & Run ( Woody Allen ) IIRC- a non speaking burly mugger on the NYC subway

 

[Mogden]

Juliette Lewis as 'friend of Alyson Hanigan' in My Stepmother is an Alien, looking exactly the same as she does in every single film no matter how old she is.

She was Wayne's girlfriend in the Wonder Years too.

 

[ajk]

Rachel Weisz in an early Stephen Norrington toss jamboree called Death Machine. It's remarkably good fun.

 

[electrogirl]

i watched dirty dancing for the first time in ages and i noticed baby's mum was lorelai's mum from the Gilmore Girls.




i am in this post.

 

[Fedayn]

Courtney Cox is in the video for Springsteens 'Dancing in the Dark' he pulls her out for the crowd to dance on stage.

 

[electrogirl]

Courtney Cox is in the video for Springsteens 'Dancing in the Dark' he pulls her out for the crowd to dance on stage.

everyone knows that. and she was the first person to say 'period' on telly.

 

[rollinder]

The blonde FBI agent who worked with Parkman in season one is in John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars.

edit: there was also an episode of DM where Doctor Quincy was euthanising patients. The shit afternoon telly cross over almost caused a rift in the space-time continuum

he wasn't euthanising paitients (unless Quincy was in it twice)
but he was a dying crap detective who faked a clown serial killer murder, causedn them to start killing people again before finally shooting him.

 

[The Octagon]

That is almost a - disturbing - thread all of it's own:

"Inadvertently watching the early work of former child actor/actress over whom one has whacked one out as an adult"





There should be a word for that.

Eliza Dushku as Arnie's daughter in 'True Lies' definitely qualifies for this disturbing trend.

As does Natalie Portman in Leon (but obviously that one's well-known)