Kevin Spacey also played henry Miller’s mad roommate in Henry & June.
Ben Affleck in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie) as a bit part basketball player is kind of funny. I believe the guy who played Oz in the series later was also in the movie.
Yesterday I heard Annette Benning interviewed on the radio and she mentioned her part as Grifters – I saw the movie but never realized she was in it, that is, I never connected that actress with the one I remembered from The American President and Bugsy.
James Earl Jones in Dr. Strangelove. He meant nothing when I saw it the first time (on its original release), but when I watched it again, years later, it really stood out.
Before he became a regular on St. Elsewhere as a hospital orderly, Eric Laneuville played the lead street tough in Being There. The scene where he’s telling Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellars), “you go tell that honky…” – immortalized in the blooper reel shown at the end of the movie, when Sellars can’t keep a straight face through repeated takes of that scene.
He’s most famous (in my circle of friends, at least) for his role in the movie that had a bunch of these, including Johnny Depp.
McGinley will always be referenced by us as “I got a baaad feelin’ on this one, alright?”
Anyone know the movie?
On topic, Kevin Spacey as the mugger in Heartburn, though it’s a bit part.
For the true effect of remembering the character clearly because it’s a major role, but not connecting it to the famous actor because it was early in their career, I would say Reese Witherspoon in Fear. Come to think of it, Alyssa Milano as her best friend in the movie works as well.
Also, Sharon Stone as Arnold’s wife in Total Recall, though it wasn’t a huge role.
A young Kevin Spacey in See No Evil Hear No Evil. He was terrible.
“The King” from Radio Flyer is Adam Baldwin, Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket.
The King from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KIng has a small part as an Amish guy in Witness.
Tony Shalhoub in Wings. I’d seen the show a few times but never paid much attention to it. Then I caught a rerun in 1999 or something and it was like “hey, that’s the gene broker from Gattaca! I didn’t know he had a show.”
I didn’t realize Katey Sagal was the voice of Leela on Futurama until I saw an episode of it back to back with Married with Children. I guess I’d always seen the name at the end, but I just never connected it with Peg Bundy. And I thought the MWC episode of Futurama was really funny too, even before I got the connection.
I am, of course, talking about Viggo Mortensen. Look for him in the ‘rasing the barn’ scene.
I just recently saw the late 1980s film Earth Girls Are Easy on TV, and realized that Jeff Goldblum’s two alien sidekicks were Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans.
When I rewatched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest a few years ago, I suddenly realized that one of the mental patients was played by Danny DeVito.
[Geeky Trek Fan]Actually Maltz says, “I do not deserve to live,” but it is not Larroquette’s only line. He has three or four, the second-most famous being, “Immmmmpressive. They can make planets.”[GTF]
I always remember Eastwood playing a nerdy scientist who misplaces his lab rat in his coat pocket in some early 50’s cheapie SF flick.
Sir Rhosis