# Actors you DON'T recognize **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629 "2010-06-02T12:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/21 "2010-06-04T16:27:50Z")
I was posting something else and thought of another actor who is a perfect candidate for this thread. Ian McDiarmid He had a pretty major role in the Star Wars saga (was anybody else in five of the movies?) and I don’t remember seeing him in anything else. IMDb lists quite a few roles for him. The only one I’m sure I’ve seen is _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_, but obviously he didn’t make much of an impression. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/22 "2010-06-04T16:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > He had a pretty major role in the Star Wars saga (was anybody else in five of the movies?) and I don’t remember seeing him in anything else. IMDb lists quite a few roles for him. The only one I’m sure I’ve seen is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but obviously he didn’t make much of an impression. I remember him being in that movie – i recognized the name on the credits, and wanted to see what he looked like without the makeup. But I only recognized him by the weird name. And, of course, he wasn’t originally in **Empire Strikes Back**. he got a back-door pass into the Special Edition. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/23 "2010-06-04T16:41:43Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Scott Grimes was already pretty famous for Party of Five. He wasn’t one of the titular five, but he was a regular. IMDb credits him with 71 episodes. > > I think you’re confusing him with Willie Aames. No, Scott Grimes was the nerdier of the two little kids that Charles was in charge of. ETA: No wait, was CinC? Scott Grimes palyed some little dweeb in something when he was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/24 "2010-06-04T16:49:42Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Are you meaning that you can’t stand Billy Bob Thornton but like Sling Blade and so wish that BBT wasn’t in it? Or are you meaning that you like BBT but hate Sling Blade and so hate the fact that he’s in it? Or is it just that it’s SO different from anything else BBT has done that it’s unbelievable? I like BBT as an actor. And I really like Sling Blade the movie (and the character). It’s just that regardless of how many times I see the movie, I can’t _see_ Billy Bob Thornton. If Sling Blade the character were to walk into my office right now, I wouldn’t recognize him as BBT. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/25 "2010-06-04T16:49:50Z")
OK, Billy Bob Thornton, I would recognize. But I have never even heard of any other name in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/26 "2010-06-04T16:52:25Z")
Oh, I had the wrong show. It was [this one](http://www.crazyabouttv.com/togetherwestand.html). I have no idea why, but I remember _him_ on the show, but not the show itself. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/27 "2010-06-04T16:56:59Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I was just rewatching _Band of Brothers_ yesterday and aside from Ron Livingston, David Schwimmer and Donnie Walhberg, the cast is entirely new faces. > … > Same with _the Wire_. I thought this was a huge, huge strength of those projects. ---
**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/28 "2010-06-04T17:48:06Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Oh, I had the wrong show. It was [this one](http://www.crazyabouttv.com/togetherwestand.html). I have no idea why, but I remember _him_ on the show, but not the show itself. That’s funny the name of that show being **Together We Stand** since that could easily be an episode title for **Band of Brothers**. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/29 "2010-06-05T03:52:00Z")
Heh…the funny thing is that I actually recognized Larry Bryggman…he played a villain on my mom’s soap opera _As The World Turns_ for DECADES! ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/30 "2010-06-05T05:17:33Z")
In regards to the “Band of Brothers” cast: Damian Lewis actually appeared in two seasons of “Life” on NBC. The first season was shortened by the writer’s strike. Neal McDonough shows up in movies, and had been cast in a series for ABC, but got fired for not being willing to do sex scenes. Colin Hanks has a show on Fox now called “The Good Guys.” ---
**Author:** ![Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bayesian\_Empirimancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayesian_Empirimancer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/31 "2010-06-10T17:07:05Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > It’s happened with me before – many times – that I’ll see a resemblance in an actor or actress to “somebody” and it will sidetrack me from being able to enjoy whatever I’m watching until I can identify the resembled person. > > Just within the past month, _Masterpiece Mystery_ on PBS ran some episodes of [“Foyle’s War” (2002)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310455/) in which [Honeysuckle Weeks](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917320/) ([pictured here](http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/honeysuckle_weeks.jpg)) plays a recurring role. > > It took a bit of mental juggling before I realized the resemblance is to [Lucas Black](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085407/) for whom the best photo I have found so far is [this one.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/photo/2006-06/23779289.jpg?title=Lucas+Black) > > I’ve seen Lucas in several roles since he passed into adulthood, as well as a few when he was still a kid. Being an Alabama boy who refuses to drop his Southern accent has endeared him to me, but he’s also a competent actor whose face is (obviously) in my mind’s eye. You’re one of **those** people! Welcome to the same group that both my parents fall in. Apparently, they live next door to the guy, and think that southern accent is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/32 "2010-06-10T17:24:55Z")
> [@oliversarmy](#): > > In regards to the “Band of Brothers” cast: Post 5. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629/33 "2010-06-10T17:38:33Z")
I think I may have mentioned this in a thread about a year ago, but after my wife and I watched the “John Adams” HBO miniseries on DVD, I went to IMDB to look up **Stephen Dillane** , who played Thomas Jefferson in the series, because I thought he did a fantastic job. It looks like he has a pretty extensive resume, but nothing I recognized or would have seen him in before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-recognize/541629.md?page=1)