# 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:** 2
**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:** [February 1, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/21 "2010-02-01T00:48:53Z")
Katie Couric played a prison guard in Goldmember. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/22 "2010-02-01T00:49:10Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun; I’ve never seen it, but it looks ridiculous! Trust me on this one: it is ridiculous. And the sequels are even worse (Leprechaun in the Hood? Leprechuan in Space???) ---
**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, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/23 "2010-02-01T01:04:59Z")
Not quite a famous actor but here’s the future King Abdullah of Jordan in Star Trek: ## [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjJiz9tV-Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjJiz9tV-Q) ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/24 "2010-02-01T01:16:28Z")
Kevin Costner as the body at the beginning of\* The Big Chill.\* ---
**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:** [February 1, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/25 "2010-02-01T01:22:18Z")
John Tesh played a Klingon but did not speak in 1 episode of the Next Generation. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/26 "2010-02-01T01:49:28Z")
Dominic West (McNulty from “The Wire”) as a long haired '80s metal singer in “Rock Star.” ---
**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, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/27 "2010-02-01T02:00:41Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > John Tesh played a Klingon but did not speak in 1 episode of the Next Generation. And Mick Fleetwood played a fish-person alien in another episode of TNG. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/28 "2010-02-01T02:12:02Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Richard Dreyfuss can be seen as a an extra in a “blink and you miss it” scene in “The Sentinel” (1977). Watch “The Graduate” (1967) closely and you’ll see an even younger Dreyfuss in Benjamin’s boarding house. > [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > oh and Leonard Nimoy was the voice of Galvatron. And in the “less than stellar” department, Nimoy was the title character in “Kid Monk Baroni,” which also featured Jack Larson, who went on to play Jimmy Olsen in “The Adventures of Superman” before turning to writing. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/29 "2010-02-01T02:43:10Z")
Matt Damon is in \* Mystic Pizza\* Renee Zellweger in \* 8 Seconds\* -she played a “rodeo bunny” groupie ---
**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, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/30 "2010-02-01T02:47:48Z")
Gloria Swanson’s last film role was in Killer Bees (1974) ---
**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:** [February 1, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/31 "2010-02-01T03:06:16Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Renee Zellweger in \* 8 Seconds\* -she played a “rodeo bunny” groupie She shows up several times in the movie “Dazed and Confused.” Also, she’s seen very quickly toward the beginning of “Reality Bites.” She’s the girl who gives Ethan Hawke her phone number, which he then tosses in the trash. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/32 "2010-02-01T03:07:01Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Matt Damon is in \* Mystic Pizza\* Ben Affleck is in _Dazed and Confused_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/33 "2010-02-01T03:19:58Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Richard Dreyfuss can be seen as a an extra in a “blink and you miss it” scene in “The Sentinel” (1977). Really? The movie about the suicidally depressed fashion model who gets recruited to watch the gates of hell? If he did, it must’ve been as a favor he was doing for somebody because Dreyfuss already had **American Graffiti** and **Jaws** under his belt by then. He was well beyond having to appear as an extra. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/34 "2010-02-01T03:43:55Z")
According to Michael Winner’s autobiography Dreyfuss was visiting someone he knew on set and appeared in the scene as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![meanoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@meanoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanoldman)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/35 "2010-02-01T03:44:11Z")
The mention of Jeff Goldblum upthread caused me to remember “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension”. IMDB-ing the cast list, we find Goldblum, Lithgow, Weller, Barkin, Lloyd, and others. There are a lot of recognizable faces in that single ‘less than stellar’ production. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/36 "2010-02-01T03:51:02Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 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. I was looking for ‘less than stellar’ when I originally thought of the thread, but who am I to spoil the fun? Go for it ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/37 "2010-02-01T05:27:24Z")
> [@CircleofWillis](#): > > I was looking for ‘less than stellar’ when I originally thought of the thread, but who am I to spoil the fun? Go for it In that case, there’s a pre-adolescent Robert Blake as a Mexican boy in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” ---
**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:** [February 1, 2010, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/38 "2010-02-01T05:36:50Z")
> [@CircleofWillis](#): > > I was looking for ‘less than stellar’ when I originally thought of the thread, but who am I to spoil the fun? Go for it James Earl Jones is in _Dr. Strangelove_. I’m surprised I didn’t recognize him sooner in it. There was so much that was great about that movie, and Jones has had so many bigger and showier roles that his part as the bombardier doesn’t get discussed much. And I’ve been watching old reruns of _The Rockford Files_ and seen the first credited roles of Robert Hayes (_Airplane_) and James Cromwell (_Babe_, _Star Trek: First Contact_) and a very early role for James Woods. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/39 "2010-02-01T07:38:55Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > According to Michael Winner’s autobiography Dreyfuss was visiting someone he knew on set and appeared in the scene as a joke. That explains it. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/40 "2010-02-01T13:48:12Z")
Cindy Williams of _Laverne and Shirley_ in [The First Nudie Musical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074533/) (though herself clothed throughout). Mick Fleetwood, apparently as himself, leading the rebel underground, in [The Running Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159.md?page=3)