Robertwoj

I was watching "The Other" (1972) and was shocked to see a young John Ritter in there. It took me a good five minutes past his first scene to even realize it was him!

slavetotherave

Well I must be the only one who never really realized it was Steve Buscemi playing the waiter in Pulp Fiction.

Also, I didn't know that was Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers as one of the Nihilists in The Big Lebowski.

Roselyn Sanchez was the island girl in Captain Ron.

Peter Stormare as the train hitman in Mercury Rising.

And finally, I didn't know that it was Kiera Knightley playing the Queen Amidala look-alike in the Star Wars prequel.

ReelMovieLover

Gary Oldman in True Romance. He played the Drexl the villan with the crazy dred locks.

LorenzoL

I bought Solarbabies on DVD this week and didn't realize that Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) was in the movie.

Giantrobo

He was also in "Man in the Iron Mask". He was one of the prince's advisors.

tygloalex

How about Joe Pantoliano (from the Matrix) as one of the crazy brothers in Goonies, almost 15 years earlier?

GoldenJCJ

I just watched Almost Famous again and noticed Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) played one of the Rolling Stone editors.

I hardly recognised him behind his 70's porno mustache.

BobSchlapowitz

I didn't realize untill it was on TNT about a month ago, that was Natalie Portman as The President's daughter in Mars Attacks!

Crizzar

With the Goonies being near religion for me and my friends, when we saw the Matrix we all said "Hey, it's Francis!"

I had a big double moment like this last week when I re-watched Crimson Tide and spotted Viggo Mortenson as the cheif weapons officer, or whatever, and James Gandolfini as one of the officers. There was a lot of talent in that movie, now that I sit back and think about it

GeorgeP

Tons. Ricky Schroeder became "Rick Schroeder" from that movie on, the guy who fixes the radio (Lillo Brancato) went on to a better role in "The Sopranos" as well--and of course there is an unbilled cameo at film's end from none other than the late, incomparable Jason Robards Jr.

Speaking of, try and pick out where Gregory Peck and Martin Balsam are in the remake of Cape Fear.

Or who James Cagney, Samuel L. Jackson, Debbie Allen, Mandy Patinkin, Jeff Daniels, Pat (Knute Rockne) O'Brien, Donald ("Make 'em Laugh!") O'Connor, Brad (Chucky/Wormtongue) Dourif, author Norman Mailer and the infamous mutant "sucker" in the trailer scene in The Hills Have Eyes remake (Robert Joy) all play in 1981's Ragtime.

(As a topper, both the one-armed man from The Fugitive and John "Cliff" Ratzenberger play policemen in the movie,. Oh yeah, Mandy's cheatin' wife in it is "The Nanny" too. )

In fact, there is virtually no speaking role in that movie that doesn't have a connection to a greater role for that actor in the past or future. Even the guy who played Houdini in the NEWSREEL FOOTAGE went on to convict Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption! Very entertaining work of Milos Forman's on that basis alone.

zoom1200

and Brad Pitt as the stoner roomate of Michael Rapaport (the war at home).

way to many stars in that movie

Snowmaker

Started watching season 3 of X-Files this week and was suprised to see both Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black in the third episode titled D.P.O.

GoldenJCJ

Just started watching Band of Brothers again, and noticed that Capt. Sobel's (David Schwimmer) assistant is played by Simon Pegg.

vasb

Jenna Fischer (Pam in The Office)- student who sleeps with Llyoyd in Undeclared

Judy Reyes (Carla in Scrubs)- the ICU nurse towards the end of Bringing Out the Dead

Aida Turturro (Janice in The Sopranos) - ER nurse throughout Bringing Out the Dead

Michael Williams (Omar in The Wire) - shot drug dealer in Bringing Out the Dead

Yavin

Just caught a few minutes of The Replacements on tv the other day and realized that the actor who plays the deaf "replacement" is the same guy who plays Roy on the US version of The Office.

tommyp007

Just watched First Blood the other night and saw a young David Caruso as a deputy chasing Rambo.

Tommy_Harn

One of the guys on the construction crew in the first Major League is played by Janitor from "Scrubs".

Morf

The "we ain't found shit!" guy from Spaceballs: Tim Russ, aka Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager. That blew my mind when I found out.

CharlieK

He's also the cop who corners the One-Armed Man and Kimble on the subway. Did anyone see how they incorporated this scene into a 'Scrubs' episode? Good stuff.

GrimTangent

In Magnolia, Jimmy Gator's (Philip Baker Hall) wife is Melinda Dillon, whom I have only seen in A Christmas Story, where she played Ralphie's mom.

BobSchlapowitz

Phil Hartman as a reporter interviewing Francis at the end of "Pee Wee's Big Adventure"

Rypro 525

I was watching the Halloween remake with the commentary on, and Zombie mentioned that the girl who was Judith Myers was also Young Jenny in Forrest Gump. Which was slightly weird to find out, sincee she was really young in Forrest Gump, and she's fully naked in the remake.
You can also add Ari Gold to that list. You can also see little bits of Ari in that movie too, or maybe thats just the way Piven is.

FinkPish

Want a bigger mind fuck? Check out the writing credits on that movie.

Giantrobo

Lee Pace...."Ned" on Pushing Daisies" was "Richard Hayes" in "The Good Shepherd"

I had seen TGS in the theater but I didn't know who he was until Pushing Daisies started airing. But I still didn't know it was Lee in TGS until I saw TGS again on cable and I went, 'That's Ned!'.

Giantrobo

This may have been mentioned in here already but Uber Hot Redhead Alicia Witt, was young "ALIA" (Paul's sister) in DUNE ('84)


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