# 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:** 4
**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 23, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/61 "2022-02-23T21:09:15Z")
Funny, I never pictured Pickles as a tall blonde. I always thought she’d look like Mrs Wollowitz on _ **Big Bang Theory** _. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/62 "2022-02-24T12:32:06Z")
Tuesday marked the 93rd birthday of one the most prolific ‘hey it’s that guy’ character actors, [James Hong](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393222/). We’ve all seen him (449 acting credits on IMDB) and hardly anyone knows his name. Happy Birthday, Mr. Ping. ---
**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 24, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/63 "2022-02-24T18:31:39Z")
I just saw him in the _ **Taxi** _ episode “Honor Thy Father.” Alex mistook him for his father, who was played by **this guy** , another prolific character actor: > **[Jack Gilford - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318527/?ref_=tt_cl_t_8)** > > Jack Gilford. Actor: Cocoon. Jack Gilford was born in Brooklyn, New York, as Yankel Gellman. He began his career in the Amateur Nights of the 1930s moving on to nightclubs as an innovative comedian doing satire and pantomime. He was a regular at the... ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/64 "2022-02-24T18:33:21Z")
I viewed an old fave movie, **What’s Up Doc?** (1972) and there was a semi-young MEW, as a deputy/bailiff in Liam Dunn’s courtroom… Dunn: What are these people charged with? MEW: That’s kinda hard to say, Your Honor. Dunn: Give it a shot. MEW: Well, we fished most of them out of San Francisco Bay… Dunn: They were entering the country illegally? MEW: No sir, they drove in. Dunn: Into the country? MEW: Into the bay! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/65 "2022-02-24T18:35:36Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Re: Russell Johnson…its a pity there arn’t actors like him anymore. He’d be on a shortlist for me to have play Reed Richards. I’m fairly certain Alex Ross used him as his model for Reed Richards in _Marvels._ ---
**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 24, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/66 "2022-02-24T20:04:12Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I saw an episode of That Girl a few months ago at random - Anne-Marie and her boyfriend crash and in a small airplane. **NB:** Her name was Ann Marie. Marie was her surname (SFAIK, she had no middle name). Her name sounding “incomplete” was a gag used in the unaired pilot “What’s in a Name?” and its reworked version (S1 E11). I remember that episode with Russell Johnson. Don tells Ann not to worry: “This is a small plane; we can glide quite a way.” I’ve always wondered how true that was. ---
**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 24, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/67 "2022-02-24T20:09:33Z")
He’ll always be Hysterium to me ---
**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 24, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/68 "2022-02-24T20:09:57Z")
Thanks. It’s been a while, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/69 "2022-02-24T21:50:27Z")
I first remember him as The Cracker Jack Guy. ---
**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 25, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/70 "2022-02-25T00:50:42Z")
That’s right. I remember him best from _ **Lou Grant** _, where he played an older guy whom Lou befriended. IIRC, he liked to wear hats. ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/71 "2022-02-25T02:47:29Z")
What did you learn in school today? Sharing! ---
**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 25, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/72 "2022-02-25T19:05:22Z")
**These two** were in today’s episode of _ **Bonanza** _, “Song in the Dark”: > **[Edward Andrews - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0028647/?ref_=tt_cl_t_5)** > > Edward Andrews. Actor: Sixteen Candles. The son of a Georgia minister, Edward Andrews debuted on stage in 1926 at age 12 and by 1935 had landed on Broadway. A solid character actor, his large physique and amiable demeanor made him a natural for the... > **[Virginia Christine - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160417/?ref_=tt_cl_t_7)** > > Virginia Christine. Actress: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Virginia has a long career as a character actress on the screen, but she will always be best remembered as the Swedish "Mrs. Olsen", who somehow knew everything about making coffee, and we... Edward I remember best as Captain Binghamton’s WAVE counterpart on _ **Broadside** _. In addition to being Folger coffee’s “Mrs Olsen,” Virginia was most memorable as “Immigrant Eva” in _ **Billy the Kid vs Dracula** _: **EVA:** Vat’s de matter, child? **BETTY:** Oh, it’s Billy. Lately he’s been asking me to do the _strangest things_… **EVA:** Vat does he vant you to do, child? **BETTY:** Well, just this morning, he asked me to get my uncle to stand in front of a mirror for him. **EVA:** (_Gasp!_) De vampire test! **BETTY:** What? **EVA:** Oh…nothing… ---
**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 25, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/73 "2022-02-25T22:34:04Z")
Before he was “Ernie” in _ **My Three Sons** _, **this guy** was in the _ **Dick van Dyke** _ episode “The Talented Neighborhood.” > **[Barry Livingston - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515225/?ref_=tt_cl_t_12)** > > Barry Livingston. Actor: War Dogs. Barry Livingston was born on December 17, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Barry Gordon Livingston. He is an American television and film actor, known for his role as "Ernie Douglas" on the television series... ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/74 "2022-02-26T14:51:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Don tells Ann not to worry: “This is a small plane; we can glide quite a way.” I’ve always wondered how true that was. The first time I flew in a four-seater, the pilot (a friend of my dad’s) chose to assure me of our safety (I wasn’t concerned) by killing the engine. It seemed to make no difference until you looked at the altimeter, which was slowly going down. He told me, “If anything goes wrong, we’ll have plenty of time to glide to a place we can land.” ---
**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 26, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/75 "2022-02-26T15:24:16Z")
I think I was surfing Tubi the other day and stumbled across “Death Race 2000.” > **[Death Race 2000 (1975) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/)** > > Death Race 2000: Directed by Paul Bartel. With David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov. In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are... Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov…remember “Eating Raoul?” But the one that jumped out was Joyce Jameson. Remember the “fun girls” on Andy Griffith? She played Skippy. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MSiFlcDZddk/maxresdefault.jpg "Who were the "FUN GIRLS" from THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW? The Real Daphne and Skippy!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSiFlcDZddk) ---
**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 26, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/76 "2022-02-26T15:42:59Z")
I’ve flown in four- and two-seaters. I wouldn’t be concerned about the engine cutting out, but I would be worried about staying airborne long enough to _find_ a place to land, and how we’d control our airspeed when we attempted it. IIRC, Ann and Don were flying over upstate New York. Good luck finding a flat open space in the Adirondacks. ---
**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 26, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/77 "2022-02-26T15:50:08Z")
Just saw good ol’ Bob in the Bowery Boys’ _ **Feudin’ Fools** _ (1952). See if you can guess what kind of role he plays. 😉 **This guy** is in the movie too, as a bank robber on the run: > **[Lyle Talbot - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847939/?ref_=tt_cl_t_4)** > > Lyle Talbot. Actor: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Lyle Talbot, who appeared in over 150 movies from leads in Warner Bros.' "pre-Code" pictures to countless supporting roles, and later enjoyed a steady TV career as a character actor, was born... I like to think of him as “Senator Lyle Talbot” on _ **Green Acres** _. 😆 ---
**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 26, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/78 "2022-02-26T15:56:08Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > IIRC, Ann and Don were flying over upstate New York. Good luck finding a flat open space in the Adirondacks. I believe they were flying over upstate New York at _night_ in _winter_. Not good. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635/79 "2022-02-26T15:57:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I like to think of him as “Senator Lyle Talbot” on _ **Green Acres** _. From that IMDB link, I like the reveal that Commissioner Gordon was Lex Luthor all along! ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > I’ve flown in four- and two-seaters. I wouldn’t be concerned about the engine cutting out, but I would be worried about staying airborne long enough to _find_ a place to land, and how we’d control our airspeed when we attempted it. Back when I was a corporate guy my first flight on the company jet was from Cincinnati to Brussels. I’d looked up the specs on the plane and I remember the range being a tad skimpy for the air miles between the two airports. When I expressed this to the pilot he assured me that we had enough fuel to get to the crash site. I had the feeling he’d used that line a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hey-its-that-guy-moment/959635.md?page=5)