From “The Kid”
And Mercy Graves, Luthor’s chauffeur/bodyguard was played by Lisa Edelstein, who currently plays Dr. Lisa Cuddy on “House.”
And Conway’s co-star from “McHale’s Navy,” Ernest Borgnine, plays Mermaid Man.
Huh!
Shelley Winters was once married to him, you know.
I’m pretty sure it’s John Goodman doing the kindly neighbor on Clifford.
Squiggy is one of the voices on Osborne.
I don’t think Shelley Winters was ever married to Ernest Borgnine. Maybe you’re thinking of Ethel Merman?
Poop. Looks like you’re right, sorry. I could’ve sworn it was Shelley Winters.
Shelley Winters was in the Poseidon Adventure with him. Maybe you’re thinking of that?
True, I knew that. But actually what I was remembering was a story about him as a, well, kind of uncivilized husband. What he liked to do was have a lot of gas in bed (as in flatulant) and then stick his (then-)wife’s head under the sheet. And not let her out.
I could’ve sworn it was Shelley Winters telling that story.
But obviously I’m daft, so maybe I dreamt the whole thing.
Dutch oven! HAW-HAW!
By an amazing coincidence, I myself am 2/3 gay!
The actors in question btw are Ricky Schroeder, Neil Patrick Harris, and the older son from Dr Quinn (Chad Allen?).
Merman, I think.
Phil LaMarr, The Voice or Mild Mannered Cleveland in Family Guy, is Marv, the guy John Travolta shoots in the head in Pulp Fiction. Actually, I’ve known this for a while; he also voices Vamp in the Metal gear Solid series.
Also Hermes Conrad on Futurama. 
Great Turkey of Albuquerque!
Also, the Buddy Holly waiter is Steve Buscemi.
Cree Summer , who got her start as the voice of Penny in the Inspector Gadget cartoon, is apparently the hardest working female voice artist in the business, most recently appearing as the sexy-voiced robot tour guide in Mass Effect.
I keep recognizing her voice in snippets of cartoons and video games everywhere.
Toni Tenille of Captian & Tenille fame sings backup on Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
[Johnny Carson]I didn’t know that![/Johnny Carson]
When I was in-between wives, I had a mad crush on Bonnie and used to play her two albums incessantly. I knew she had married Michael, and at a concert in Charlotte, talked about how anxious she was to finish so she could meet him in D.C.
Here’s one I just learned today: In the “Josie and the Pussy Cats” TV show (which ran only 16 episodes; funny, it seem like much longer when I was mumble mumble years old, the woman who sang the drummer’s part was Cheryl Ladd.
Just learned tonight (when I was watching The Phantom Menace on TV for the first time since I saw it in the theater and in so doing remembered just how awful the acting was all around):
The original choice to play Annakin Skywalker was Justin Berfield, best known as thoroughly obnoxious Number 2 Son Reese on Malcolm in the Middle. Justin (or his agent) turned down the role in Star Wars because it was known that ‘boy Annakin’ would only be in the first film and had no points in the film’s gross, while Malcolm [which he was offered around the same time] could run for years, thus Malcolm would probably make him a lot more money; in retrospect he probably chose wisely. (As hard as it is to imagine Reese being a Jedi, he can’t possibly have been worse than Jake Lloyd.)
Not learned recently but since it’s another “original choice but took a sitcom instead” trivia: The original choice to play Kunta Kinte in ROOTS was Ernest Thomas, who had to bow out when he signed to star as Raj in What’s Happening!! just before shooting. He instead took a lesser part in ROOTS as one of Kunta’s friends/fellow tribe members in Africa while the role of Kunta went to Levar Burton.
I didn’t know until very recently that Jon Heder of Blades of Glory and Napoleon Dynamite fame is a devout Mormon.
Phyllis Diller is soooooooooooooooo old (and her parents were so old when she was born) that her uncles (not great-uncles, but her father’s older full-brothers) fought in the Civil War. (Source: her autobio Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse.)
I knew that Jerry Lee Lewis married his third wife (the one played by Winona Ryder) when she was disgustingly young (as did his cousin Jimmy Swaggart, who married Frances when she was 13 or 14 as well), but I was surprised to learn that Roy Orbison also liked them young; depending on the source his first wife, Claudette, was either 15 or 16 when they married; when she died the 30-something Orbison married 16 year old German born Barbara Jakobs. (More disturbing in the cradle-robbing romances but one that I already knew about is James “Scotty” Doohan, who was 54 when he married 17 year old Wende B., though the union was evidently happy- they were married 30 years and were apparently still having sex when Jimmy was 79 [when their last child was conceived].)
Who I recently learned was one of the richest stars in show business: among other holdings he owned a 30,000 (that’s thirty-thousand) acre ranch in Oregon and negotiated an ownership percentage of Guns of Will Sonnet that made him another fortune even though the show didn’t last long. (I loved his performance when he was an old man and played against type as a murdering daughter-pimping river pirate in How the West Was Won.)
Speaking of HTWWW, I did not know until a few days ago (when his 96th birthday was announced on the news) that Karl “Don’t Leave Home Without It” Malden is still alive. That’s somehow reassuring, what with so many big stars from my childhood having dropped like flies in recent years.
I did not know until recently that Rob Riggle of The Daily Show really is a major [not active obviously] in the Marine Corps and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. (I knew he’d mentioned his USMC service on TDS, but I thought it was like Stephen Colbert mentioning his time as a porn star and Bush advisor.)
I am the last person who should be correcting anyone, as this type of error is my stock in trade, but I’m pretty sure you mean John Huston. Other than that, I completely agree with your
choice. I had the record of this when I was a kid, and his voice is still the one I hear in my head for Gandalf.