A number of Michael Caine movies from the '80s and '90s could probably fit in this thread.
For some fine scenery chewing check out “On Deadly Ground,” where he plays a corrupt oilman. The movie also stars Steven Seagal as a CIA agent turned eco-avenger.
Yes, it is one of the unintentionally funniest action flicks of the 1990s.
David Caruso in Rambo.
The first person to greet Benjamin and Elaine in the hotel is Mike Ferrell, later MAS*H’s B J Hunnicut.
I should also mention that as an added bonus, the film also features a pre-Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton as a mercenary and R. Lee Ermey waxing poetically about how tough Seagal is.
For best results, I suggest watching this while high.
Caruso was also in An Officer and a Gentleman
OK, here’s something that I don’t know for a fact, but believe:
Well, first a fact:
5-year-old Natasha Richardson appears early in “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1968), directed by her dad Tony Richardson, in the banquet scene. Her presence does nothing to advace the plot. I think it’s just proud daddy getting to show off his pride and joy.
I believe, but have not been able to corroborate, that Natasha also appears early in “The Loved One” (1965). There’s a scene with Robert Morse in an airplane and a crying little blonde girl, who would be about the right age. Also, similarly to her cameo in “Light Brigade,” she appeared early and did nothing to advance the plot.
Really? Like the “Can you dig it?” Warriors of 1978? That Warriors? Really? Wow! Learn something new every day, you do.
Which gang was it? Please let it have been the poofter band of overalled roller-skaters. Hee!
ETA: Oh. Never mind. Thanks, rolandgunslinger. And next time I’ll read the whole thread before posting.
Jimmy Fallon had a real small role in HBO’s Band of Brothers. He had 1 or 2 lines.
Oh my god. It’s been 30 years since I’ve seen that, but yeah, that was her!
And in The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue. And remember the taxi driver in that movie? Whose only line was “Where to, mac?” Nine years later he went on to become Best Actor F. Murray Abraham.
Jim Carrey was not only an unknown in Peggy Sue Got Married, but he got a full credit in the main title.
Granted Jack Nicholson had done a number of Roger Corman cheapies before he first got really noticed in Easy Rider, but the one that always stuns me is his appearing in the Barbra Strisand vehicle On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. While all the rest posted in this thread have been weird portrayals, in this movie, Nicholson was at his most normal ever. That’s what makes it so weird. No real weird traits at all. He just plays Barbra’s normal step brother…so weird.
Kim Cattral and Kirstie Alley both played Vulcans in Star Trek movies. Cattral was in 6 , Alley in 2.
That was Alley’s first role, but Cattral had done a ton of TV work before that.
Clint Eastwood was in several cheapo horror movies back in the Fifties. For instance, he plays a laboratory assistant in “Revenge of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.” He was also the Air Force pilot who drops napalm on a giant spider at the end of “Tarantula.”
Every now and then, Clint will make a joking reference to his B movie days. In “The Rookie,” which featured Clint and Charlie Sheen, there’s a brief scene where a security guard is watching “Tarantula” on a small black and white TV.
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Kevin Costner has a non-speaking role as a drunken frat boy who’s attending a wild party at a morgue that’s secrety a house of prostitution, in Henry Winkler’s comedy “Night Shift.”
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Johnny Depp gets hacked up by Freddy Krueger in the original “Nightmare o NElm Street.”
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Farrah Fawcett and Tom Selleck both got their earliest film credits in the horrible “Myra Breckinridge,” based on Gore Vidal’s novel.
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I was in college when this movie came out, and it was on EVERY critic’s “Ten Worst” list that year:
The young man making his movie debut in “Carbon Copy” was Denzel Washington. Who knew he actually had a future, after that?
Simon Pegg had a small part in it as well as an American First Sergeant.
Farrah was in an episode of The Partridge Family. So was Jodie Foster, Mark Hammill, Stuart Margolin, Richard Pryor, Louis Gossett Jr, Jack Riley, Nancy Walker, and Richard Mulligan.
Rob Reiner was in an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies.
If you look very closely at a scene in The Hot Rock, you can almost kinda sorta see Christopher Guest.
Jim Carrey was in The Dead Pool.
Tim Robbins was in Top Gun - he was Tom Cruise’s RIO after Goose dies.