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

[corporate whore]

Lilly Allen's in Cate Blanchett frock-fest Elizabeth. Who said stage school?

 

[Mungy]

I remember seeing a young Mark Mcmanus on Crown Court.

 

[sumimasen]

1) Alyssa Milano is Arnie's young daughter in Commando.

2) Carrie from King Of Queens (who at one stage was the highest earning female sitcom start a few years ago) was in Series 1 of Friends, as a pregnant woman with no partner that Joey befriends.

Erm that's it.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Dr Cox (Scrubs) is an executive in the evil organisation in Highlander II.

 

[killer b]

quincey was in '12 angry men'

 

[Detroit City]

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

did you see that one episode of the original twilight zone where a very young robert redford plays death? I think capt. kirk was in a couple and also telly savalas

 

[The Groke]

Heh - was just watching Full Metal Jacket and suddenly realised that that "Animal Mother" is our Jayne from Firefly/Serenity.

 

[stavros]

Can't find a picture, but James Corden is a geeky Year 11 in the first series of Teachers.

 

[Balbi]

Adam Baldwin (no, not one of those Baldwins) is also in Independence Day as 'Shooty Military Type in Uniform #10288282)

 

[The Groke]

Adam Baldwin (no, not one of those Baldwins) is also in Independence Day as 'Shooty Military Type in Uniform #10288282)

Yeah - I discovered that on IMDB whilst verifying the Full Metal Jacket bit...

 

[Idris2002]

That doesn't count as he's been in every film made in the last forty years.

'The black Gene Hackman'.

 

[Idris2002]

Kurt Russell in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes:

 

[Lo Siento.]

back to The Wire but post-famous work ... Bunny Colvin is also Lechero in Prison Break

 

[Lo Siento.]

oh, and has nobody said the other 2 goodfellas ones? Chris Moltesanti in the Soprano´s is played by the guy who was Spider in GF (the waiter who Joe Pesci shoots in the foot), and the Psychiatrist Dr.Melfi in the former is Henry Hill´s wife in GF.

 

[boohoo]

George Clooney in Roseanne...

 

[boohoo]

Patrick Stewart in Dune and Excalibur - pre his Picard days - though not really bit parts.

 

[DotCommunist]

Patrick Stewart in Dune and Excalibur - pre his Picard days - though not really bit parts.

He also played wheelchair bound drug lord 'Lumez' in the really shit Van Peebles/Lambert action film Gunmen

 

[krtek a houby]

Eammon Walker from Oz used to be in The Bill.

 

[bluestreak]

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.

There really does need to be a word for it. I bet the germans have one... kinderwankenhorror or something.

 

[Orang Utan]

Eammon Walker from Oz used to be in The Bill.

and he played marigold in in sickness and in health

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Heh - was just watching Full Metal Jacket and suddenly realised that that "Animal Mother" is our Jayne from Firefly/Serenity.

Bloody well spotted!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Vampire Bill from True Blood was the alpha male main man-boy &...

Spoiler: spoiler, dammit

lead rapist

...in early 00s Channel 4 two-parter Men Only.

 

[The Boy]

Vampire Bill from True Blood was the alpha male main man-boy &...

Spoiler: spoiler, dammit

lead rapist

...in early 00s Channel 4 two-parter Men Only.

Wasn't Martin Freeman in that also?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yes he was, and Marc Warren, and the copper woman from the first season of Teachers, and (IIRC) the daughter from Secrets & Lies.

 

[The Octagon]

back to The Wire but post-famous work ... Bunny Colvin is also Lechero in Prison Break

Oh yeah, can't believe I didn't spot that (although the character is pretty far removed).

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yes he was, and Marc Warren...

Talking of whom, he was also Rex Hunt's son in Falklands War drama An Ungentlemanly Act and - I'm sure of it - a public school boy in an episode or two of Grange Hill (during some residential trip as part of some sort of 'junior UN' type affair, maybe?).

 

[hektik]

Just spotted a much younger, thinner Bunk (from the Wire) in Goodfellas.

spotted him last night in Hackers - playing the FBI agent who is tracking the hackers down. the film is also notable for a young angelina jolie.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Seeing Harrison Ford in the Conversation

Even seeing him in Apocalypse now is odd. You just expect hims to appear again.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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.

Who calls their daughter baby?

 

[DaveCinzano]

the Psychiatrist Dr.Melfi in the former is Henry Hill´s wife in GF.

She's also in The Dream Team, about a bunch of psych ward escapees on the run - possibly as Michael Keaton's love interest? Can't quite remember, was a long time ago.

Uma Thurman's debut was as Anthony Michael Hall's GF in the not-great-but-okay high school football hero comedy Johnny Be Good.

Virginia Madsen started out as a preppy schoolgirl (IIRC) in bawdy The Graduate rip-off Class.