Didn’t Brad Pitt have a small role on Saved by the Bell?
Speaking of Laurence Fishburn, Samuel L. Jackson, and Pee wee’s Playhouse – Morgan Freeman was a regular on the PBS kids’ show Electric Company back in the early '70s, with a recurring role as “Easy Reader” among other characters.
John Leguziamo is one of the bad guy’s soldiers in Die Hard II. The character has one line which is very obviously not Leguziamo’s voice.
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Black also played one of the teenage zealous fans of Bob Roberts in Bob Roberts.
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Reubens was also an arcade attendant in a cowboy uniform in Midnight Madness.
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Joe Pantoliano, whom most folks know from The Matrix and Memento (and sadly, Daredevil), had a large role in The Fugitive and was also featured in Goonies.
He had a fairly large role as Guido the Killer Pimp in Risky Business, which predate both of those by a lot.
Yeah, but he was Guido the Killer Pimp in Risky Business, and played a lot of shady characters before and after. So does that count for this thread? He had enough cred by the time The Fugitive came up to get a significant role.
Which is probably a good thing. He would have sounded like an Austrian Sylvester Stallone at the time.
I thought that was Elizabeth Shue.
I forgot to mention in my earlier post about Magnum Force - the young motorcycle cops that were the killers all became famous: David Soul, Tim Matheson and Robert Urich. (The fourth guy, Kip Niven, went on to become a kinda famous character actor himself, but not in the league of the others).
The crazy woman in Play Misty For Me is now the mother on Arrested Development.
Long before Empire Strikes Back, John Ratzenberger was a lieutenant in teh airborne in A Bridge Too Far. He takes a bullet between the eyes during the river crossing scene.
Also, a VERY young Jack Webb of Dragnet fame appears as Artie, the assistant director and SO of Bill Holden’s love interest in Sunset Boulevard.
Speaking of David Soul, he was in an episode of the original Star Trek (“The Apple”).
BTW–Nimoy was also an uncredited Telex Machine Operator in the sci-fi feature THEM .
I watched Rob Reiner’s The Sure Thing recently for the first time in at least a dozen years, and was surprised to realize that Tim Robbins was the annoying show-tune-singing driver of the car that Gib(John Cusack) and Alison(Daphne Zuniga) get a cross-country ride in, and that Anthony Edwards was Gib’s best friend from high school who gets him to come out to California in the first place.
Well, I didn’t see this one anywhere, so…
John Larroquette did the opening voice-over for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, back in 1974. He reprised the voice-over role for the 2003 remake.
Another familiar face in the movie version of “Buffy” is Nicholas Brendon - Xander on the tv series. He appears as a face in the crowd in the bleechers during the final gymnasium scene. Brendon can also be seen in at least one episode of “Married with Children” as a member of a street gang that beats up Al Bundy (he has no lines in either part.)
Another cameo with a looped voice is John Ratzenberger in “Gandhi.” He plays a US army soldier driving Candace Bergen’s character to meet the title character. His voice is obviously dubbed in by another actor.
Farrah Fawcett (pre-‘Majors’ and pre-‘Charlie’s Angels’) has a part as an attendant in a plastic surgery salon in “Logan’s Run.”
Kate Jackson, Marsha Mason & Conrad Bain (Mr. Drummond on “Diff’rent Strokes”) all appeared on the campy, lunatic 60s soap opera “Dark Shadows” in small roles. Not to mention, the major ‘good-girl’ heroine of this series, Alexandra Moltke-Isles, went on to infamy as a witness in Claus Von Bulow’s murder trial (she was his mistress, and it was speculated that Claus tried to kill Sunny in order to marry her.)
Taps features Tom Cruise and Sean Penn as Timothy Hutton’s friends at the academy. While neither is exactly a “bit” role, it was the screen debut for both of them.
Tom Cruise had a significantly smaller role in The Outsiders, as did Emilio Estevez and Patrick Swayze.
And has nobody mentioned Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?? Unknown actor, small role, but he definitely stole the scene…
I just thought of one that I haven’t seen mentioned yet: “the Big Chill” - all the angst-out yuppies are attending the funeral of Kevin Costner! Costner only appears for a split second as the body in the coffin. Supposedly, there were flashback scenes showing him alive, but those were cut out of the final edit.
Kevin Costner was also in the 1983 nuclear war movie Testament.