# A "Hey it's that guy" moment **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635 "2022-02-16T23:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/21 "2022-02-17T14:06:13Z")
There’s no such thing as a young M. Emmet Walsh, he’s been 86 forever. Neat trick if you can pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/22 "2022-02-17T16:30:32Z")
I still can’t get over the fact that this guy… ![](https://c.tenor.com/obPNgYr97SoAAAAd/thats-the-spirit-kid-mayor-teale.gif) used to be this guy… [![](https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-11-2018/O-vaR9.gif) ](https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-11-2018/O-vaR9.gif) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/23 "2022-02-17T16:30:36Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I’ve heard that’s basically the definition of “character actor” Someone brought up this same subject in the tavern, and a friend of mine said "Oh, him.I’ve seen him in \_\_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_\_ too. He’s a _That Guy."_ "He’s a _That Guy?"_ "Y’know, he walks onto the screen and you say ‘Ohhh, it’s… ummm, That Guy…’ That’s a _That Guy!"_ ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/24 "2022-02-17T18:11:03Z")
> [@alovem](#): > > [**M. Emmet Walsh**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Emmet_Walsh) has a long career in TV and film and is apparently still working at 86 years of age (87 next month). Roger Ebert said, “No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/25 "2022-02-17T18:21:41Z")
I wonder if Frank Darabont – while filming **The Green Mile** – had any instances of hollering, “Dean Stanton!” and getting _two_ replies: one from Toot Toot (Harry DS) and one from Barry Pepper (playing DS). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/26 "2022-02-17T20:59:19Z")
_Newsview_, not _Newsweek_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/27 "2022-02-17T22:42:25Z")
I always thought “Pickles,” Buddy Sorrell’s wife on _ **Dick van Dyke** _, was like Niles’ wife Maris on _ **Frasier** _—often talked about but never seen. Well, Pickles showed up in the flesh in today’s episode of _ **DvD** _. I thought the actress who played her looked familiar, so I did an IMDb search. Turns out she was Joan Shawlee, who played (among other roles) “Bandleader Sweet Sue” in _ **Some Like It Hot** _. I saw every episode of the original _ **Poldark** _ series back in the '70s and fell in love with the actress who played Morwenna. It wasn’t until after I had seen numerous episodes of _ **Midsomer Murders** _ many years later that I realized Joyce Barnaby was played by the same actress, Jane Wymark. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/28 "2022-02-17T22:50:48Z")
Has anyone tried to spot Jack Benny in “Casablanca”? From Benny’s Wikipedia article: Benny may have had an uncredited cameo role in _[Casablanca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film))_ , claimed by a contemporary newspaper article[[20]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny#cite_note-20) and advertisement[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny#cite_note-21) and reportedly in the _Casablanca_ press book. When asked in his column “Movie Answer Man”, film critic [Roger Ebert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) first replied, “It looks something like him. That’s all I can say.”[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny#cite_note-Ebert-22) He wrote in a later column, “I think you’re right.”[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny#cite_note-23) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/29 "2022-02-17T23:23:54Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Has anyone tried to spot Jack Benny in “Casablanca”? Arggh! I’ve tried. Is he the waiter? The guy in a fez? The officer with a Sam Browne belt? Nobody seems to know for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/30 "2022-02-17T23:43:30Z")
The older blonde lady (Carol Kane) in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”. She looked familiar to me but I couldn’t place her. So I Googled and found out I’m more familiar with her voice work than I am her face. Which is probably why it was driving me crazy trying to remember where I “saw” her. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/31 "2022-02-18T01:00:36Z")
I know her from _ **Taxi** _, _ **Seinfeld** _, and _ **Gotham** _. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/32 "2022-02-18T01:34:33Z")
She was in _Princess Bride_ and _Scrooged_, too. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/33 "2022-02-18T02:50:11Z")
Carol Kane made me think of **this guy**. He played the Russian novelist who brained Carol with Elaine’s pocket secretary in the “Marine Biologist” episode of _ **Seinfeld** _. > **[George Murdock - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0613787/?ref_=tt_cl_t_8)** > > George Murdock. Actor: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. George Murdock was born on 25 June 1930 in Salina, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Orange County (2002) and Breaker! Breaker! (1977). He was... He’s been in a lot of things, including different iterations of _ **Star Trek** _, but I remember him best as one of Al Mundy’s handlers in the third season of _ **It Takes a Thief** _. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/34 "2022-02-18T16:49:00Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Arggh! I’ve tried. Is he the waiter? The guy in a fez? The officer with a Sam Browne belt? Nobody seems to know for sure. If you Google “Jack Benny in Casablanca” you get a bunch of stuff to look at. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/35 "2022-02-18T18:49:03Z")
I saw **this guy** last night in 1950’s _ **Appointment with Danger** _: > **[Paul Stewart - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829717/?ref_=tt_cl_t_3)** > > Paul Stewart. Actor: Citizen Kane. Esteemed character actor Paul Stewart had a pair of the coldest orbs in town and made his living for decades playing dark, callous, shiftless villains, including a vast number of mobsters. Not a well-known name per... He had a _long_ career as a character actor, but I remember him as a Syndicate boss in the _ **Mission: Impossible** _ episode “Mastermind” (1969). ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/36 "2022-02-19T01:28:57Z")
It never landed before, but while watching an episode of _ER_ the penny finally dropped and I realized the actress that plays Alex Kingston’s mother is also Sister Monica Joan. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/37 "2022-02-19T03:03:51Z")
In 1984 I was watching Karate Kid with a friend and I exclaimed, “Wow! It’s that girl from the Burger King ad!” And so it was, Elizabeth Shue. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/38 "2022-02-19T12:55:54Z")
I’ve been watching the early episodes of DVDyke; in the third and fourth episodes (and maybe more), the kid who delivers coffee to the office is Jamie Farr, and in the fourth episode, the guy who sits next to Rob on the airplane is the Maytag Repairman himself. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/39 "2022-02-19T13:29:57Z")
Yep, both Jesse and Jamie were all over the place in the '60s: > **[Jesse White - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924964/)** > > Jesse White. Actor: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Lovable, laid-back Jesse White made acting seem fun and easy. He was born Jesse Marc Weidenfeld in Buffalo, New York, and was raised in Akron, Ohio. He made his first amateur appearance on the local... > **[Jamie Farr - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268026/)** > > Jamie Farr. Actor: M\*A\*S\*H. One of the most prolific character actors of his time starting with his role of Santini in the Blackboard Jungle (1955). Since then has appeared in iconic shows as the Twilight Zone, the Red Skelton Hour, the Dick Van Dyke... **This guy** was in Thursday’s 1967 episode of _ **That Girl.** _ Recognize him? He’s Jerry Seinfeld’s “Uncle Leo.” > **[Len Lesser - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504335/?ref_=tt_cl_t_9)** > > Len Lesser. Actor: Kelly's Heroes. Len Lesser was an American character actor, from the Bronx, New York City. His most famous role was that of Uncle Leo, the maternal uncle of protagonist Jerry Seinfeld in the sitcom "Seinfield". Lesser played this... **These two** will be in Tuesday’s episode: > **[J. Pat O'Malley - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641729/?ref_=tt_cl_t_6)** > > J. Pat O'Malley. Actor: One Hundred and One Dalmatians. J. Pat had a warm smile, twinkling eyes, and an Irish name. He was born in Burnley, England, and began his acting career in British musical halls. J. Pat came to the USA at the outbreak of World... > **[Arlene Golonka - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326626/?ref_=tt_cl_t_5)** > > Arlene Golonka. Actress: Hang 'Em High. A native Chicagoan of Polish descent, veteran character actress Arlene Golonka seemed destined for acting from the start, having been named after silver screen actress Arline Judge, and her childhood was... ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/40 "2022-02-19T23:11:44Z")
I’m half-way through **Escape from The Planet Of The Apes** , and it’s a smorgasbord: M. Emmet Walsh, Eric Braeden, John Randolph, James B. Sikking, William Windom, Sal Mineo, Bradford Dillman, probably more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635.md?page=3)