Now that you mention it (and as I read further down), I may have the actor wrong. It could be a young Patrick Swayze, instead. I’m certain it’s one of the two.
OK then, but Elisabeth Shue also did commercials for Burger King before she was famous.
Look for Bruce Willis with a hilarious hairdo as one of the jurors in the Paul Newman movie The Verdict. No speaking lines.
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You’re way behind, TwoTrouts.
As per usual. :rolleyes: Sheesh! You guys are fast! 
Also, DiCaprio was a cast member of Growing Pains during the end of its run.
And Neeson was, of course, Darkman.
Cary Grant first appeared in a forgetable musical called **Singapore Sue ** in an uncredited role as a sailor in a bar.
Or has this one already been mentioned?
Brad Pitt was in an episode of Growing Pains, playing a guy who takes Carol to see a movie. He wanted to make out with her, but she wasn’t having it. Stupid girl. 
I’m ashamed of myself for knowing that. :o
Ooh-ooh! I have one. Tommy Lee Jones was in Love Story. He played a friend or neighbor of Ryan O’Neal.
I love this thread!
What shames me is the fact that I remember Brad Pitt from “Dallas.” He played Ray Krebb’s nephew, though I don’t remember his name. He got run over by a drunken Sue-Ellen.
One I just remembered is Meryl Streep in “Julia.” She appears in one single scene (well aside from appearing in the background of one large crowd scene) playing a ditzy socialite “acquaintance” of Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda). She says “Moscow! Of all places!” (Hellman travelled there and, en route, smuggled cash in to her old friend Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) and twirls out of the room.
Jim Carrey played a Vegas stand-up comedian in Pink Cadillac He did a really goofy Elvis impersonation.
Laurence Fishburne showed up in an episode of MAS*H as a soldier whose commander was trying to get rid of all the black soldiers in his outfit. Joan van Ark also appears in an episode as a “here today, gone tomorrow” nurse. She gets hurt by a patient and Hawkeye lavishes attention on her till he sees that she wears a wedding ring. He later discovers that the ring is only for show.
Kirsten Dunst makes an appearance in High Strung as the little girl in Steve Oedekirk’s dream sequence. I couldn’t see her clearly and would not have known it was her if I hadn’t read the credits. I absofrigginlutely LOVE that movie, BTW!! Jim Carrey was also in this movie (as Death).
IIRC, he was the Army PR Officer who was trying to get a downed North Korean pilot to go back to the States with him.
Oh yeah, Liam Neeson. Even before Darkman and The Bounty, he played one of the nigh-faceless barbarian warriors/escaped criminals in the sci-fi/fantasy movie Krull. It was really weird to see him in the background, supporting the up-front cast. Although now that I think about it, his death scene was oddly similar to the Qui-Gon death scene in The Phantom Menace: he gets struck down, gives a little “my quest ends here” speech while his buddy holds him…
Not quite a bit part, but did you ever notice in Revenge of the Nerds that mean, conniving coach was played by John Goodman? Ted McGinley was the alpha jock. But being a nerd wasn’t Timothy Busfield’s first role - he had a tiny bit in Stripes playing the artilleryman who shot down Warren Oates. P.J. Soles, Stripes MP, was the bitchy sorority girl in Breaking Away who called that mean frat boy, resulting in Daniel Stern getting into fisticuffs. Which of course he survived, going on to make Diner with Kevin Bacon.
Which game was this?
While we’re talking about Stripes, fessie, Sean young was one of the female MPs. Years before she went nuts and tried to become Catwoman.
Ed Harris and Isaac Hayes both guest starred on a couple of episodes of The Rockford Files. Harris, a virtual unknown, played a uniform cop gone bad, while Hayes played Gandalf Fitch: an ass-kickin’ former-con buddy of Jim’s. Of course, there’s no way to call the voice of Superfly “not so famous”. Great episodes for both of 'em.
That was his second role; he was in Excalibur before that. A young Robbie Coltrane was also in Krull, sporting a porn-star moustache.
I don’t know if I’d call him a buddy, he couldn’t even get Rockford’s name right.
[OT]The fuss McDonald’s made over Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Burger King commercial was significant because McDonald’s actually sued her, a 5 year old girl, as well as Burger King and the ad production company. The problem? In the commercial, Sarah’s character notes that McDonald’s burgers are smaller than Burger King’s. They used the McDonald’s name without permission. Apparently, the case led to a lot of the disclaimering and “major brand” talkaround on commercials today. [/OT]
Renee Zellweger has a brief spot in Reality Bites. She’s Tami, one of the “philosopher groupies” that Troy hooks up with. We see him kissing her goodbye and then walking down the stairs away from her, tossing aside the paper she wrote her phone number on. (Ouch!)
Hillary Swank was one of the Buffyettes in the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Matthew Perry played Carol Seaver’s boyfriend “Sandy” on three episodes of “Growing Pains.” He was killed off.
David Schwimmer was Olivia d’Abo’s boyfriend in early episodes of Wonder Years (for which Daniel Stern did the voice-over).
Has anyone mentioned Gabriel Byrne as Uthor Pendragon in Excaliber? His first big role I think.