Geeky nitpick: Gandalf didn’t fight the Balrog until well after The Hobbit. They’re talking about the Rank and Base TV version.
I almost corrected you there… 
The recruiting sergeant in Starship Trooper is the ME in CSI
Dolph Sweet, another actor who was often confused with Durning, was also a POW in WWII.
Psst! That’s Walter Brennan from “The Guns of Will Sonnet.”
I think you’re confusing Walter Huston and Walter Brennan. “No brag, just fact” was what Walter Brennan was always saying in “The Guns of Will Sonnet”.
eta damn my slow coding.
Actually it’s much worse, he’s one of the few men that escaped the Malmedy massacre after narrowly surviving the D-Day invasion!
CMC +fnord!
Who has been in Star Wars: A New Hope, the original Batman AND Raiders of the Lost Ark (as well as Death Machine, a personal favorite)? William Hootkins, better known as Porkins. I didn’t connect them all till recently.
There’s this one character actor who kept on catching my attaention these past few years. He played abour six different charcters on various *Law & Order * series(including an Irish gangster and his twin brother), a hotshot lawyer on the West Wing, a patient on *House * who loses the power of coherent speech, and more. Tall, balding and sardonic, he kept on popping up, and I started to keep an eye out for him. Eventually, I went to the IMDB to look him up, and I discovered that he was…
… Danny Noonan from Caddyshack.
“Danny Noonan” (i.e., Michael O’Keefe) was married to Bonnie Raitt through the nineties, too. He sang with her and wrote lyrics for her “Luck of the Draw” album.
Who was Porkins in the others?
-Joe
:smack: If there’s a record for how many mistakes a person can make in one post, I think I am in the running.
There is really nothing to do now except slink away…
In Raiders he was one of the guys that recruited Indiana to look for the Ark. “I’m beginning to see Hitler’s interest in this…”
And the one who delivered the famous line at the end:
Top…men.
Bahaha! I was looking at Billy Drago’s headshot and was thinking the exact same thing. Then I scrolled down and saw your post. That’s awesome.
Reading the Dr. Seuss thread just now reminded me of another one. The voice of Tony the Tiger also sang the song from the Chuck Jones How The Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon.
“You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an eel…”
And while I’m here, Ted Knight was the narrator from the old Superfriends cartoons. “Later…at…the Hall of Justice!”
Also was;
The guy who died when bit by the spider thing in Buckaroo Bonzai.
The stupid henchman in Cast a Deadly Spell
An uncredited appearance as a gas station attendant in Revenge of the Nerds III.
Ratso, Captain Black and Super Moose in Jackie Chan Adventures.
And good god, more voice work than pretty much anyone out there with very few exceptions. Check out his IMDB page! And that doesn’t list the Commercial work he’s done.
Why no, I’m not stalking him… 
The stunning Liz Vassey, who played Captain Liberty in the live-action version of The Tick also made one-shot appearances in several shows I watched regularly in the '90s, including Beverly Hills 90210, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Herman’s Head, Married with Children, and was Kristin in the Star Trek:TNG episode “Conundrum”. (She’s also appeared in a lot of other shows that I’ve never watched; I see she’s a regular on CSI now.)
Also, her husband, David Emmerichs, has been a steadicam operator on five movies I’ve seen.
Naaaaawh! :smack: Missed that one!
Wow! just… Wow! Captain Black is Mr. Krabs is the Kurgen!
I think that crosses some Karmaic lines someplace. Thanks for the info.
That would be Thurl Ravenscroft.