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).
And Dancing in the Dark goes without saying.
She’s also in the Three Stooges short Three Little Pigskins (she’s platinum blond in it as well.)
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!
Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi on TNG) was the rape victim in Death Wish 3.
He was also a Cyclops in Krull.
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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.
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.
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!”
And before that, he was a delivery boy on a few episodes of the Dick Van Dyke show.
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.
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.
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.’”
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.
Laura Dern plays an embryo in The Wild Angels (uncredited).
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.
I think Philip Seymour Hoffman is a really good actor, but I always cringe when I think about him being in Twister. 
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.
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
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.
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.