# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/101 "2010-02-03T18:17:53Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > There’s an episode of “I Love Lucy” where the Ricardo’s and Mertz’s are driving to California and they ask directions from a gas station attendant in Tennessee. The actor is Aaron Spelling. This reminds me: In the movie “Top Hat,” there’s a scene near the beginning where Fred Astaire buys out a hotel flower shop to send all the flowers up to Ginger Roger’s room. Look at the platinum blonde shop assistant–it’s a very young Lucy (who was an RKO bit player at the time). ---
**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 3, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/102 "2010-02-03T18:18:57Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > Patrick Swayze is in Toto’s **Roseanna** video. And _Dancing in the Dark_ goes without saying. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/103 "2010-02-03T20:40:52Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > This reminds me: In the movie “Top Hat,” there’s a scene near the beginning where Fred Astaire buys out a hotel flower shop to send all the flowers up to Ginger Roger’s room. Look at the platinum blonde shop assistant–it’s a very young Lucy (who was an RKO bit player at the time). She’s also in the Three Stooges short [Three Little Pigskins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRoapJgQTA) (she’s platinum blond in it as well.) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/104 "2013-03-09T02:02:39Z")
Bumping this because I’m watching _The Rocketeer_ for the first time in 20 years and saw something that fits this thread. A little over halfway through the movie In the South Seas nightclub there is a sultry singer in a white dress. She is shown a couple of times and she seemed very familiar. I thought for sure it was Connie Nielsen, but I looked at Nielsen’s IMDB page and it wasn’t her. Turns out the singer was played by Melora Hardin, best known now as the unstable executive Jan on _The Office_! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/105 "2013-03-09T02:31:34Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Jeff Goldblum’s best known unknown role (oxymoron alert) was probably _Death Wish_ in which he played one of the rapists. Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi on TNG) was the rape victim in _Death Wish 3_. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/106 "2013-03-09T05:09:57Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > My favorite was always Liam Neeson playing Briar, in _Next of Kin_. > hh He was also a Cyclops in Krull. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=15](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=15) I recently found out that “Vasquez” from Aliens AKA Jenette Goldstein was also the stepmom from Terminator 2 and an Irish mom in Titanic. I had assumed it was some other Mexican actress and that Maria Conchita Alonso and Rachel Ticotin were busy. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/107 "2013-03-09T05:20:50Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > Gloria Swanson’s last film role was in Killer Bees (1974) Not true. She was in _Airport 1975_. I also discovered another one recently. In a first season episode of _Red Dwarf_, Lister contracts a disease which causes his confidence and paranoia to manifest themselves as real people. Confidence is played by **Craig Ferguson**. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/108 "2013-03-09T06:08:28Z")
Going all the way back to the 1950s and 1960s: Festus from Gunsmoke was in The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. He played Dermot Fahy. “F-A-H-Y. No “E”, Squireen Danaher!” ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/109 "2013-03-09T06:46:45Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > One of my favorites- the young Jamie (M_A_S\*H’s Corporal Klinger) Farr was one of Jesus’ disciples in the Biblical epic “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” > > He was still using his real name, Jameel Farrah, in those days. And before that, he was a delivery boy on a few episodes of the Dick Van Dyke show. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/110 "2013-03-09T08:16:14Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > He was also a Cyclops in Krull. I do believe that Liam Neeson was a bandit in Krull, and the Cyclops was someone else. Checking the Wikipedia page, I see that Robbie Coltrane was also a bandit. I didn’t recognize him last time I saw the film. > **[Krull (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull_(film))** > > Krull is a 1983 British science fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It stars Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, and Alun Armstrong. Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane, still early in their film careers, appear in supporting roles. The story follows Prince Colwyn (Marshall) and a fellowship of companions who set out to rescue his bride, Princess Lyssa (Anthony), from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on the De... Speaking of Krull, frequent David Lynch collaborator Freddie Jones also appears in that movie. He was Thufir Hawat in “Dune”, and a strange man in a bar in “Wild at Heart”, and Wikipedia says he was in “The Elephant Man”, but I don’t remember what his role was. I first saw Freddie Jones in the old British TV series “The Ghosts of Motley Hall”. I never made the connection between the Motley Hall Freddie Jones and the eccentric man who kept appearing in David Lynch movies until several months ago when I was reading his Wikipedia entry. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/111 "2013-03-09T12:40:16Z")
> [@Suil\_Dubh](#): > > I do believe that Liam Neeson was a bandit in Krull, and the Cyclops was someone else. . . Right. I had never heard of Liam Neeson at the time, but I saw “Krull” and “The Bounty” within a relatively short time, and I remember thinking to myself, “That’s the same guy that was in ‘Krull.’” ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/112 "2013-03-09T12:48:38Z")
My favorite is a young Superman (George Reeves) as one of Scarlet’s suitors in _Gone With The Wind._ He has a few lines in one of the early scenes talking to Scarlet on her porch. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/113 "2013-03-09T13:49:07Z")
Laura Dern plays an embryo in [The Wild Angels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061189/trivia?ref_=tt_ft) (uncredited). ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/114 "2013-03-09T15:47:12Z")
zombie or no Leonard Nimoy Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952) as Narab, his 4th movie. Francis Goes to West Point (1952) his 5th movie. Queen for a Day (1951) his 1st movie. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/115 "2013-03-10T02:54:16Z")
I think Philip Seymour Hoffman is a really good actor, but I always cringe when I think about him being in **Twister**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/116 "2013-03-10T18:16:14Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ooh! Ooh! This reminds me! > > You know who was in “Godspell”, the hippie clown Jesus musical (film version)? > > Victor Garber, Mr. Badass Spydaddy himself, as hippie clown Jesus! I have a London programme from the original stage show, signed by the guy who played John the Baptist/Judas Iscariot, in a role that was his first professional gig–Jeremy Irons! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/117 "2013-03-10T19:29:37Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I have a London programme from the original stage show, signed by the guy who played John the Baptist/Judas Iscariot, in a role that was his first professional gig–Jeremy Irons! That was Jesus Christ Superstar, not Godspell. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/118 "2013-03-10T19:50:51Z")
Before David Duchovny and Patrica Heaton were on The X-Files and Everybody Loves Raymond, they were both in the 1991 film named Beethoven. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and them always!!! Holly ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/119 "2013-03-10T21:20:26Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > Gloria Swanson’s last film role was in Killer Bees (1974) Quite a comedown from starring in a 1966 episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies” where the Clampetts mistakenly think she is broke and Jed puts her, and the family, in a silent movie. > **["The Beverly Hillbillies" The Gloria Swanson Story (TV Episode 1966) ⭐ 8.3 |...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0522624/)** > > 30m | TV-G ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159/120 "2013-03-10T21:24:41Z")
Clint Eastwood appeared in a Francis the talking mule movie called “Francis in the Navy”. Three other 1960s television icons appeared in it: Jim Backus, Martin Milner, and David Janssen. > **[Francis in the Navy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_in_the_Navy)** > > Francis in the Navy is a 1955 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Stanley Rubin and directed by Arthur Lubin. The film stars Donald O'Connor and Martha Hyer, and marked the first credited film role of Clint Eastwood. The distinctive voice of Francis is a voice-over by actor Chill Wills. > This is the sixth film in Universal-International Francis the Talking Mule series. > U.S. Army officer Lt. Peter Sterling gets mistaken for his lookalike in the U.S. Navy... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-she-was-in-that/527159.md?page=7)