You’re wrong. Some months back I looked up the cast of Godspell, I found that Victor Garber (Jesus himself!) has been pretty busy and visible, although I wouldn’t have recognized him:
Lynne Thigpen was pretty busy , too. Hecjk, in Carmen Sandiego, she was The Chief! (She was also The President in Bicentennial Man)
She was great as the love interest in “Roxanne” which takes her off the OHW list. She was also the female lead in “The Last Days of Frankie the Fly” but it’s not really the sort of film that takes one off a OHW list.
Two of the cast members of “Chasing Amy” come to mind. Joey Lauren Adams and the guy who played ______X.
Yep.
I just saw a few minutes of Buffalo '66 the other day, and ever since I found out what a shit bag this guy is, I can’t even like this movie anymore. I try really hard to separate the man from his art, but I simply can’t with this schmuck.
He was the skeevy lawyer in this man-in-plane-crash-reevaluates-his-life film starring Jeff Bridges. Fearless?
In any case, I’m sure the residuals from Amadeus and Animal House allow him not to sweat the casting calls too much.
Oh! Other AH cast members: Stephen Furst (Flounder) was also in St. Elsewhere for quite a while…as well as in a shitty teen caper film, Midnight Madness, starring a full blown B-cast and a young Micheal J Fox.
Peter whosit (Boone) was in Crossing Delancey with Amy Madigan.
Here’s mine: the seminal bike flick, Breaking Away, centred on a foursome of boys: Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern have enjoyed varying success, but what the hell happened to the other two? The star performer was in an episode of Stingray once…
Speaking of bike flicks, American Flyers had Kevin Costner, Rae Dawn Chong, Robert Townshend, Alexandra whosit from Baywatch, and…the main guy. Who I’ve never seen since.
I’ll second the Lazenby nomination.
Whatever his name was, he was in Band of Brothers too. That was a few years ago too.
Robert Walker, who gave a brilliant performance in Strangers On A Train .
He died shortly after making that film and I can never watch Psycho without thinking, that had he lived, Robert Walker would have made a much better Norman than Anthony Perkins did.
I should have remembered that one, I saw it when it came out but not since.
The one kid was the Tough Kid/Great player from the original Bad News Bears and he had a role with Tom Cruise in the Outsiders I think.
Jim
I was wrong, I had to check. Ralph Macchio was the short kid in the Outsiders.
He was Jackie Earl Haley and was in all 3 Bad News Bears movie.
How about Alex Winter?
He made a nice splash with Keanu Reaves in the two Bill & Ted movies. Since then…?
Zev Steinhardt
Most recently, she had a pretty large role as Elle Driver in the two Kill Bill movies. I’m not sure that’s enough to overcome one-hit wonder status, but younger moviegoers might still recognize her.
Hey, now…she played Morticia in Addams Family Reunion! How can you not call that a hit?
Oh, god…it actually hurt to type that. I may need therapy if my emotional scarring from that movie can overtake my natural sarcasm…
IIRC, they shot the movie concurrent with the first season. The show might have made him famous in those few months but I don’t think he got huge until syndication.
I’ll go for Michael J. Pollard. He was the alien boy on the other side of mirror opposite Angela Cartwright in a classic B&W Lost in Space episode, then got nominated for an Oscar as C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde, then…nada.
He resurfaced in Roxanne as one of the firemen, and was the bum who freezes to death in Scrooged, both twenty years after his heyday, and that’s about it.
My understanding was that the show was extremely popular in its day, prompting the other two networks (yeah, there were only three back then) to create their own tongu-in-cheek superpower shows, that were called Captain Wonderful and Mr. Terrific. Neither did well.
I considered posting the same thing, and my fingers wouldn’t do it. They actually cramped and started bleeding. And all I’ve seen is the movie poster.
Has anybody yet mentioned Tallulah Bankhead, a star on Broadway and a diva (back when the term ‘diva’ actually meant something special), but her only memorable film role was in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat. After that epic showcase, her next most memorable ‘screen’ performance was playing a one-off villain on ‘Batman’ (she was the Black Widow.)
And what about Heather Matazzaro from Welcome to the Dollhouse? She never followed up that performance with anything nearly as memorable. I think she was on a WB teenybop soap, or something or other. But that’s not saying much after being ‘weiner dog.’
Did I miss anyone mention her role as Ferris Bueller’s sister Jeannie?