Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has got to be the all-time King of Cameo movies. True, most of them were famous (or at least well-known) TV and vaudeville comedians, but it’s still fun to watch for them all.
Samuel L Jackson have done a lot of these. He’s the guy walking around saying “Everyone who comes to Hollywood has a dream. What’s your dream? What’s your dream?” in Pretty Woman, and the guy robbing McDowell’s in Coming to America.
Clint Eastwood played a pilot in Tarantula. He helped napalm the eponymous tarantula to death.
A very young-looking Richard Dreyfus had a cameo in an episode of Bewitched.
A very young-looking Daniel Travanti (Captain Furillo) had a cameo in an episode of the Patty Duke Show.
Both of them played cameos in the series Gidget, per IMDB, though I don’t think the same episode.
Helen Hunt played Murray Slaughter’s daughter (hey, that rhymes :D) in the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Really? I thought he was well known at the time. And it was definitely a big role. (“Drugs”)
Remember the girl Simone in Ben Stein’s class? Know who played her?
Kristy, the original Buffy, Swanson. She was also a “duckette” in Pretty in Pink. Sheen hadn’t done much big when Ferris Bueller came out; his real breakthrough was Platoon, later the same year. He was in Red Dawn a couple of years earlier, but I doubt he was a household name.
Speaking of Ferris Bueller, didn’t Edie McClurg appear occasionally as Herb Tarlek’s wife on WKRP in Cincinnati? I seem to recall that but could be mistaken.
The woman did not age well. Remember the old lady she played in Dickie Roberts, Child Star? Remember the high school girl she played in Carrie?
Charlie Sheen had done The Boys Next Door and Lucas after Red Dawn. TBND wasn’t particularly popular, but Lucas definitely gained Sheen some notoriety.
Then again, Ferris Beuller only came out 2 1/2 months after Lucas – Sheen’s fame probably hadn’t really reached a head yet.
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Anyway, Patrick Swayze had an appearance on MAS*H as a G.I. diagnosed with diabetes.
Kevin Spacey is a punk burglar in the Nicholson/Streep flick Heartburn.
Kathy Bates was a Tourettes patient in an ep. of St Elsewhere.
Don’t know whether it pre-dates Psycho, but Ted Knight played a rocket-ship crewmember on one of the early Twilight Zone episodes. Minor part, (a few lines). It was the episode where a prisoner is sentenced to life on an asteroid, and his only contact is an annual re-supply visit from Earth. Anyone remember the title?
As a child, Kurt Russell played Gerard’s son on at least one episode of The Fugitive.
Brad Pitt played a pothead in True Romance. James Gandolfini appears later in the movie as a thug who beats up Patrica Arquette.
And Molly Ringwald was one of the original cast members of The Facts of Life.
Hey, detop, speaking of John Goodman, does anyone besides me remember his 7-Up commercial (I think it was 7-Up, anyway). He’s sitting at a dining room table, and his wife comes in. He says (so she can hear it), “My wife…I love her.”
She walks away, and he says to the camera, “I hate her. She can eat anything she wants and not gain a pound.”
Oh, and Jason Alexander did a McDonald’s commercial before hitting it big.
Brad Pitt played a high school basketball player on two episodes of the soap “Another World.”
Fran Dresher’s first book “Enter Whining” talks about the many, many, many movies she had bit parts in. While her agents says “It’s better to be shit in a hit than the other way around,” Fran admits she was usually “a hit in shit.”
And the boy she was dating (and who Murray thought was too old for her) was Bruce Boxleitner.
One of my favorites: in the 1950’s Gregory Peck film, “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” Peck’s character has traumatic memories of the war, when he shot and killed one of his men in a “friendly fire” accident. At one point, we get a flashback to this incident and, yes, it should be traumatic… except that the medic who tells Peck, “He’s dead,” is DeForest Kelley.
Can anybody watch this scene, and hear the future Dr. McCoy say that line without wanting to add a “Jim!” to the end of it?
There was also an episode of “Bonanza” where DeForrest Kelly played the doctor-turned-town-drunk. When he’s asked to operate on the dying Hoss, he says “I’m a drunk, not a doctor.”
I guess I’d get the usual blank “what the hell is Eve talking about” stare if I mentioned that one of the injured soldiers tended to by Mary Pickford in The Little American (1917) was Ramon Novarro?
Of course not, Eve. He’s the guy who was beaten to death by street hustlers, one of whom was Novarro’s ‘boyfriend’.
That would be The Lonely.
And the irrepressible Ms Dunst did the voice for the young Anastasia in the animated movie of the same name.
Clearly, she was destined for glory early.
Which reminds me that James Arness, of Gunsmoke fame, was the monster in The Thing.