There is also an episode “Glow against the sky” with baseball player Warren Spahn as a German soldier right before the opening credits. For a German-American, Spahn doesn’t look like a German.
In Time Bandits, Kevin travels back to the time of Agamemnon, and when we first see him, he’s in armor and a full helmet. I read somewhere that Terry Gilliam wrote a line in the script something like “and the king takes off his helmet to reveal that he is Sean Connery (or someone equally impressive)”. Of course, this was one of his first movies apart from Monty Python; a pretty small budget and no chance of attracting any really big stars. So when it came time to cast that role, they wound up with…
…Sean Connery.
Kathy Bates as the Squirrel Lady in Rat Race is one of my favourites. She has one scene, but it’s one of the highlights of the film.
I don’t think it was that odd. He wasn’t a big movie star, but Kareem had a decent acting career.
Robin Williams had a pretty big role in Gilliam’s THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, but he wasn’t credited under his own name.
Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie was the mouthless girl in Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Mike Myers was in Inglorious Basterds as a British officer
Christian Slater was in Star Trek 6 as a crew member
The odd quick cameo I remember from this movie was Sting as a soldier reporting from the front lines.
David Bowie had a cameo as the shark in Yellowbeard, an otherwise very forgettable movie.
How do you know which is which? Both Cherie Currie and Nancy Cartwright are listed as appearing in the third segment of the movie.
Actually, Nancy Cartwright had a much bigger role - she was Ethel, who got wished into the cartoon. Cherie Currie was in an earlier scene where she was just sitting there mouthless watching TV. “Oh, that’s my other sister. She doesn’t talk much.” The audience saw her with no mouth, but Helen did not.
I believe Nancy Cartwright was the sister that got wished into cartoonland. So the sister with no mouth was probably Cherie Currie. (No lines.)
Ach! Ninja’d by Morbo!
My favorite:
Cate Blanchett as an uncredited completely masked CSI type in Hot Fuzz would be good, but pointing out George Lucas’s appearance in Beverly Hills Cop 3 probably wins the thread! It was just so weird and pointless…
-Joe
“Holiday In Mexico” and “Easy To Wed”, both Hollywood movies from 1946, supposedly feature young Fidel Castro as an extra. I just saw “Easy To Wed” a few weeks ago on TCM and the host mentioned this, to watch the ‘pool scene’ to catch a glimpse. So I did, but it was so long ago, Fidel no doubt looked completely different from what we think of today.
I dunno about anyone else, but when I look at Fidel Castro, all I see is the beard, the hat, and the cigar. It would be easy to miss him in a movie.
OMG!
i thought I had seen “The Magic Christian”, apparently I was wrong!
:eek:
Marcel Marceau had a speaking line in Silent Movie.
The only speaking line in the entire flick.
A mere word, even.
John F. Kennedy is rumored to have had his back to the camera in a casino scene in the original Ocean’s 11.