I just watched Mrs Doubtfire for the first time in years and realized that the little girl is the girl from Matilda.
I just realized that Marge Simpson was played by the same person as Rhoda’s sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). That’s pretty bad since she pretty much uses her natural voice for Marge.
I take it you weren’t a “Wings” fan. 
Or Barton Fink.
Or The Man Who Wasn’t There.
(For real though, if you like Tony Shalhoub, check out both of those Coen Bros. movies. He steals his scenes.)
/hijack
Tony Shalhoub has definite scene-stealing tendencies.
Nitpick: niece, not daughter.
I don’t want to know these things. I just do.
Yep, Tony Shaloub is everywhere. I was completely shocked to recognize him in MIB.
I watched Little Big Man a month or two ago for the first time in a very long time and quickly recognized the historian in the opening and closing segments as Stony Stevenson from Between Time and Timbuktu. But to be sure I checked his IMDb page and only then realized that he was also the old guy in movies like Forget Paris and Prizzi’s Honor. Wow.
I just love saying “chronosynclastic infundibulum.”
While we’re there, Aunt Jackie is Sheldon’s Mom.
That was him.
Does that mean that Sheldon is the brother of Toy Story’s Andy and Mollie?
heh, I remember this one too. As I recall, his character was supposed to be Russian, like just about all 80s movie villains. What I remember most was his “doing the splits” bit on the corner ropes.
He also has a small role, with a handful of lines, as an orderly in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. In the credits, he’s “Larry Fishburne”. And on the subject of Death Wish, I’ve read (though I haven’t seen it) that one of the street gang members who terrorizes (actually, rapes and murders) Bronson’s family in the original movie was, of all people, Jeff Goldblum, in his first film role.
Just last weekend, I saw his name pop up in the closing credits for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as “Cemetery Warrior” or somesuchlike. I remember him best from his old TV show Sidekicks with Gil Gerard (now there’s a blast-from-the-past name) and the period he spent as a kickboxer when he got older. Seeing his name way down in the credits like that was a double-take moment for me.
Another from Law & Order: Courtney B. Vance played a very snooty perp on L&O prime before he was ADA Carver on L&O Criminal Intent.
The connection is The Tracey Ullman Show, where The Simpsons first appeared. Besides Ullman, Dan Castellaneta (Homer) and Julie Kavner were the main cast members.
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I guess I didn’t watch much TV in the 90s. That show was set in my home state and was apparently on for 7 years but I never even heard of it until it was in re-runs.
FTR, it’s “Laurence Fishburne.”
Like “Sir Laurence Olivier.”
We first noticed Shalhoub in a little-seen and way underrated black comedy called Quick Change, with Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid and Jason Robards. It was a very memorable role as a freaked-out cab driver who doesn’t speak English. His character in the credits is just named “Cab Driver” but he’s one of the highlights in a movie full of highlights. Stanley Tucci also had a minor role as a mafia guy in that movie.
Several years later, it was a joy to see Shalhoub and Tucci together in the fantastic Big Night.
Speaking of Stanley Tucci, his very first role was as a “Soldier” (it’s how he’s listed) in Prizzi’s Honor.
I always thought Laurence Fishburne’s first role was in Apocalypse Now. But I could be wrong.
Did you ever see one of the early episode of *Fraiser *where Tony Shaloub was a newspaper kiosk owner? Pretty funny.
Along with the aforementioned scene from “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice” scene from Fast Times, you can also see Nick Coppola, aka Nicholas Cage.
Wow. I’m getting old. I have so many more.
Yup, I remember that one too. Another strange Law & Order moment was seeing S. Epatha Merkenson playing a completely different character, either a defense attorney or a defendant, before she later came on as Lt. Van Buren.
Ah yes, just checked IMDB and she was on an episode in 1991 as “Denise Winters.” Wow, her stint as the lieutenant started in 1993 and she’s been in every episode since!! :eek:
Another early one for Fishburne…he was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
The Death Wish series is apparently a haven for actors who want to experiment with their evil side. In Death Wish III, the gang leader who terrorizes Charles Bronson’s neighborhood is Fraker, played by Gavan O’Herlihy.
You might know Gavan better as Chuck Cunningham, the disappearing older brother in Happy Days.