He also played one of the station personnel. I guess the producers wanted to save a little money and recycled him. It’s funny the way he towers over all the others in one of the tunnel scenes and we’re not supposed to realize he plays the huge alien.
And Michael Landon was a Teen Age Werewolf long before Michael J. Fox
Just to be nitpicky, I’m going to point out that Isaac Hayes did the theme from Shaft, not Superfly. That was Curtis Mayfield.
That’s not picky- that’s just right. Crap!
Wow this is a durable thread!
Anyway, another Richard Dreyfuss sighting, at the end of “Valley of the Dolls”: he’s the stagehand who tells Patty Duke she’s due onstage in five minutes, only to find her roaring drunk and in the wrong costume.
In The Three Amigos, while movie mogul Joe Mantegna is chewing out and firing the boys, Phil Hartman is the aide-de-camp who keeps getting on the phone to the various departments to strip them of their perks.
Kenneth Mars, the Springtime for Hitler - writing Nazi in The Producers later became the well-beloved King Triton in the Little Mermaid movies and TV show.
I don’t think so. Learner gets wounded while on patrol but lives.
I am such a movie geek… how that tidbit got saved but I can’t remember a phone number is beyond me.
He’s also in the first movie, playing one of the soldiers attempting to track the hijacked missles. The original plan was to film the two movies simultaneously to save money on production costs, but that was scrapped halfway through to reduce short term expenses just in case the first Superman bombed. Most of the soldiers in Superman 2 were played by the same bit part actors and extras from the first movie, filmed during production of the first one.
A neat bit of trivia; Gene Hackman filmed all of his scenes for the second movie while the two were in simultaneous production.
Thinking of Phil Hartman, since he was mentioned earlier as running with the Pee-Wee Herman gang: Phil also appeared in the movie Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Talk about your small roles; he was one of the reporters at the very end, interviewing Francis. Poor Phil only had one line.
When I am at work, especially during the day, I get to watch some pretty funny, pretty crappy older movies with my client. This morning, to both of our amusement there was a drug movie on called Maryjane , starring the ever fabulous Fabian. The movie itself was quite a hoot. There is a scene in a gas station where the druggie kids harass a gas station attendant. I thought I recognized the actor playing the attendant, then I heard him speak and knew it was actor/producer/director Garry Marshall. I looked this movie up on IMDB and found out that Teri Garr was in it too, as a member of the pot smoking high schoolers. 
Do’h! Of course!
And a quick search on IMDB shows that before that, he was on Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Three’s Company, and Taxi. And he was a regular on The Ropers.
Before even that, Fell played a reporter in “Inherit the Wind”.
In the movie Roxanne, watch for a young Damon Wayans as one of the firemen, I don’t think he actually has any lines though.
Right now on Bravo I’m watching a Columbo episode. The one where he goes to the military academy. **Bruno Kirby ** is the cadet whom, in the washroom, asks the fine Lt. how he slept the night before.
And, of course, Bruno Kirby was also in Spinal Tap as the limo driver.
In Eastwood’s fourth or fifth outing as Dirty Harry - the Dead Pool - Jim Carrey plays the doped-up singer of the hair metal band. Credited as James Carrey.
And something else just occured to me.
On The Ropers, fell’s “archnemisis” was played by Jeffery Tambor, long before his stints on Larry Sanders and Arrested Development.
Oooh! I didn’t catch anyone mentioning that future Taxi stars Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito were mental patients in One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest. I think the kid who played Billy Bitman reversed the process (new thread idea!) by subsequently having a bit part as a “mentat” in Lynch’s Dune.
“I think the kid who played Billy Bitman reversed the process (new thread idea!) by subsequently having a bit part as a “mentat” in Lynch’s Dune.” And then cleverly reversed the process to become Brad Dourif.?
Don’t feel so sorry for Phil, as he had a larger part in the making of the movie. He co-wrote the screenplay.
Michael Keaton used to work on “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood”. He was responsible for working the Trolley and Picture Picture. And I believe he was one of the Zuccinni Brothers in the Land of Make Believe.
David Ogden Steirs played a TV Executive in the movie “Magic”. The movie came out about the same time as Steirs started playing on “MASH”, though.