# He/she was in THAT?

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**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:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/201 "2013-03-17T23:48:44Z")

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Comedian and actor Robert Townsend had an uncredited “Kid in the Gym” role in _Cooley High_.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/202 "2013-03-18T13:46:28Z")

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> [@Morbo](#):
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> > I think Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was first.
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> **Red Dawn**.

Slight hijack, but: **Morbo** is correct, **Red Dawn** was the first PG-13 movie. **Dreamscape** was second, and **The Woman In Red** was third. They started serious discussions about creating a new rating when **Temple of Doom** came out, because clearly, when you can rip hearts out of chests and still get a PG rating, some updating needs to be done. So, Indiana Jones sort of _prompted_ the rating, but it didn’t actually receive it.

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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/203 "2013-03-18T13:56:27Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> Hard not to. A lot of nude scenes in her resumé. Not that I’m complaining.

Indeed. Dame Helen has done nude scenes in six different decades. I’d say that’s damned impressive.

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/204 "2013-03-18T14:01:56Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Joseph Gordon Levitt played a very boring friend of DJ Connor on Roseanne, pre-3rd Rock From The Son. Prior to that, he was one of the children in Angels in the Outfield, playing opposite Christopher Lloyd and Danny Glover.

Gordon-Leavitt also played David Collins in the early 90s prime time remake of “Dark Shadows.”

And speaking of “Dark Shadows”, in the original run Marsha Mason played a vampire (or witch or supernatural creature of some sort) in one episode of the series. Conrad Baines of “Diff’rent Strokes” fame had a recurring role as the Innkeeper at the town’s hotel. He appeared several times and eventually got mauled to death by a werewolf.

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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/205 "2013-03-18T15:07:30Z")

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Tom Baker played a bad guy in ‘Remington Steele’.

John Barrymore played a rather delirious mad scientist in [The Invisible Woman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Woman_(1940_film)).

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**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/206 "2013-03-18T18:59:12Z")

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> [@postcards](#):
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> Ben Affleck is in _Dazed and Confused_.

He’s also in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie) as one of the basketball players, and he did commercials [before that](http://youtu.be/njY94weLbJ8) and even [recently](http://youtu.be/sbBi7J_rslk). That second commercial ran here but with another actor. Ben did it overseas.

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