BBC showed Dog Day Afternoon over the weekend - the bus driver in the final scenes looked very much like a young Lance Henriksen… and, indeed, that’s who it was.
Hammer House of Horror was a thirteen part TV series, pretty much the last gasp of the venerable Hammer Films, made in about 1980, and filmed mostly where I grew up. In one episode, “The Carpathian Eagle”, a seductive temptress is going around picking up men and killing them … her last victim, picked up in the very park where I used to play as a child, and listed only as “Last Victim” in the credits, is played by one Pierce Brosnan.
Well, yeah, but the erstwhile Mr. Hartman was in a bit part and his voice is heard before he’s seen. Probably because up until that time and his joining with SNL he was mainly doing voice work.
Anyone ever see The Harrad Experiment? Among the unknowns who would become famous later are Don Johnson, Bruno Kirby, Gregory Harrison and Melanie Griffith. Kirby was once embarassed by David Letterman’s showing a clip of this flick on his talk show.
After Harrad, Johnson made the film version of Harlan Ellison’s A Boy and His Dog.
Speaking of Ellison, one of Bruce Willis’s early roles was in The Twilight Zone’s 1985 version of Ellison’s “Shatterday.” Before that, Willis played a bad guy on Miami Vice, proving what a small town Hollywood really is.
I was watching an episode of MAS*H recently when I noticed another familiar face. Halfway into the episode, I felt the need to check the IMDb to see if it was him. Yep, it was David “Tackleberry” Graf, pretty much only known for game show appearances at the time (1982).
Wrong. Anthony Edwards did not play a friend of Brad’s in Fast Times. He was in the movie, but he was a stoner pal of Spicoli’s. The other stoner pal was played by Eric Stoltz.
Billy Bob Thornton also was in the cast of the John Ritter sit-com “Hearts Afire.”
I caught Robert Redford in an episode of “The Untouchables” once and thought that must have been his earliest role. However, the IMDB lists several TV roles before that.
Was a part credited pretty far back and I didn’t even recognize him at first but Sam Jackson was Stacks Edwards in Goodfellas(1990).
Also, one of the two who play the kidnappers in Suicide Kings is Brad Garrett, most notably from the t.v. show Everybody Loves Raymond.
After watching Dead Man Walking again this evening, I was shocked to see Jack Black as Sean Penn’s little brother, Craig. When Susan Sarandon shows up at Penn’s mother’s door, Black is working on the car.
