# He/she was in THAT? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159 "2010-01-31T20:45:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/1 "2010-01-31T20:45:37Z")
Was just watching [Flesh Gordon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068595/fullcredits#cast) (Power pasties, heh) and reading the credits on IMDB. Noticed the voice of the “Monster” was done by Craig T. Nelson. A more famous example might be John Laroquette doing the voice over in [Texas Chain Saw Massacre](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/). What are more examples of famous actors/actresses being involved in… less than stellar productions? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/2 "2010-01-31T21:01:33Z")
My favorite was always Liam Neeson playing Briar, in _Next of Kin_. I don’t think a porn with Dan Rather would be 1/2 as funny. hh ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/3 "2010-01-31T21:10:52Z")
John Travolta in **The Devil’s Rain** ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/4 "2010-01-31T21:20:40Z")
Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun; I’ve never seen it, but it looks ridiculous! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/5 "2010-01-31T21:20:52Z")
Michael Caine in Jaws the Revenge. He said “the movie is bad, but the house it paid for is great” ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/6 "2010-01-31T21:42:07Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Michael Caine in Jaws the Revenge. He said “the movie is bad, but the house it paid for is great” “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/7 "2010-01-31T22:40:30Z")
Jeff Goldblum and Sigourney Weaver had tiny roles in Annie Hall (1977) Sigourney is a tall woman who gives Dianne Keaton a handshake near the end of the film. It’s a distant shot and she isn’t recognizable. According to IMDB it was her first movie role. Goldblum gets to speak a line, but he’d been in films for 3 years then. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/8 "2010-01-31T22:54:08Z")
Ed ‘Al Bundy’ O’Neill is supposedly the deputy at the hospital at the end of “Deliverance.” I’ve seen the scene, and I don’t find it very convincing, but maybe it is. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/9 "2010-01-31T23:03:40Z")
Jack Nicholson is in the original _Little Shop of Horrors_. He looks as young as when the world was new, but is still recognizable. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/10 "2010-01-31T23:08:08Z")
Kim Cattrall was the gym teacher who howled during sex in Porky’s. Sylvester Stallone has a non-speaking role in Bananas ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/11 "2010-01-31T23:13:34Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Jeff Goldblum and Sigourney Weaver had tiny roles in Annie Hall (1977) A lot of people forget that Christopher Walken was in that movie too. He was Annie’s freaky brother who fantasizes about driving along and then suddenly swerving into another car head on. Allen’s facial expression when the bro is driving them to the airport is priceless. Another small role is Shelley Duvall as the vapid, talkative Rolling Stone writer who beds Alvy after he breaks up with Annie and apologizes that it took her so long to come. She was a name then, it was after **Nashville** but before **The Shining** , so it may not fit this thread. JoBeth Williams had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in **Kramer vs. Kramer** as a woman who stayed overnight with Dustin Hoffman’s Kramer and meets the kid in the hallway the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/12 "2010-01-31T23:33:41Z")
> [@CircleofWillis](#): > > What are more examples of famous actors/actresses being involved in… less than stellar productions? Since people are mentioning _Annie Hall_ and _Kramer vs. Kramer_, are we abandoning the “less than stellar” requirement? I have a few more I’d mention if we are. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/13 "2010-01-31T23:34:53Z")
Richard Dreyfuss can be seen as a an extra in a “blink and you miss it” scene in “The Sentinel” (1977). And speaking of Jeff Goldblum, who also appears in that movie, all his lines are dubbed. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/14 "2010-01-31T23:47:23Z")
Jeff Goldblum’s best known unknown role (oxymoron alert) was probably _Death Wish_ in which he played one of the rapists. David Schwimmer played a gang leader in _The Warriors_. I once won a five dollar bet with somebody who didn’t believe John Goodman was in _The Big Easy_. I offered to go double or nothing on him being in _Revenge of the Nerds_ but my friend wouldn’t take me up on it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/15 "2010-01-31T23:49:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Ed ‘Al Bundy’ O’Neill is supposedly the deputy at the hospital at the end of “Deliverance.” I’ve seen the scene, and I don’t find it very convincing, but maybe it is. Ted Knight had an uncredited role as a police officer in _Psycho_. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/16 "2010-01-31T23:55:58Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Sylvester Stallone has a non-speaking role in Bananas …and a lead role in the porno ‘A Party at Kitty and Stud’s.’ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/17 "2010-02-01T00:12:25Z")
Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2. Sarah Silverman was in two (well, one two-part) episode of Star Trek: Voyager, which I only found out about while browsing the Star Trek Encyclopedia. My personal opinion is that Voyager fits the criteria for lousy show/movie quite well. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/18 "2010-02-01T00:15:39Z")
I have a hard time getting anyone to believe that the golden (long) haired body builder in the **Adventures of Babysitting** was Vincent D’Onofrio. The complete opposite from another of his roles that year… **Full Metal Jacket**. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/19 "2010-02-01T00:16:55Z")
[quote=“Little\_Nemo, post:14, topic:527159”] David Schwimmer played a gang leader in _The Warriors_. [quote=“Little\_Nemo, post:14, topic:527159”] Nope. That was [Paul Greco.](http://vaultofthebankrobber.blogspot.com/2009/09/warriors-wednesday-he-gets-no-respect.html) Kinda looks like him. sorry I messed up the quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/20 "2010-02-01T00:47:27Z")
Orson Welles was the voice of Unicron in The Transformers:The Movie 1986 His final role. oh and Leonard Nimoy was the voice of Galvatron. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159.md?page=2)