# I did not know this person was in THAT... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657 "2011-10-05T03:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/21 "2011-10-05T23:29:50Z")
Andy Kaufman in a small role as an ill-starred cop in Larry Cohen’s excellent b-horror _God Told Me To_. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/22 "2011-10-05T23:40:08Z")
In the original **Deathwish** with Charles Bronson… One of the rapist\killers is Jeff Goldblum. At the end, there is a young uniformed officer played by Christopher Guest. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/23 "2011-10-05T23:43:46Z")
An early talkie, actually a very early musical, starring a singing and dancing Buddy Ebsen. And I saw Granny (that is, Irene Ryan) in an old 50’s-60’s pirate movie - Blackbeard? - on TCM not long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/24 "2011-10-06T02:20:23Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I realized many years ago that two of the guys from _Taxi_ were in _One Fllew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_. But I’m not sure who played Billy. Color me surprised when I found out it was Brad Dourif. Christopher Lloyd (Reverend Jim, Doc Brown) and Danny Devito are in that as well. Both play mental patients. John Astin was in _West Side Story_ as an idealistic teacher. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/25 "2011-10-06T11:12:04Z")
Viggo Mortensen in “Witness” (1985 film). ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/26 "2011-10-06T11:46:48Z")
On Babylon 5, one of the supporting characters is the Minbari ambassador’s attache, the very socially awkward and yet badass Lennier, was played by Bill Mumy, famous for spending his childhood being warned of danger by his spastic robot bodyguard. Of course, B5 also featured Bruce Boxleitner (who played Tron), Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov in Star Trek, and Andreas Katsulas (the one-armed man from The Fugitive, and Commander Tomalak, one of the more interesting recurring villains on Star Trek: TNG). 28 Days Later and Gone In 60 Seconds are both fun movies to watch once you’ve seen some of the new Doctor Who, as Christopher Eccleston (the Ninth Doctor) plays villains in both. I distinctly remember watching Catch-22 when I was in high school, just generally taking in the surreal-ness of the whole thing. It was a bit of a shock to me when Lt. Minderbinder, in what I think was the last shot he appears in, turns to deliver a parting line to the main character. When he does, the light hits the youthful actor in just the right way and makes him look older. In fact, it made him look like Jon Voight (who happens to be the actor who played him, of course). The “Holy crap!” reaction I had at that point was kind of the cap on the whole experience of the film for me, one last mind-torque after a whole film of it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/27 "2011-10-06T12:45:02Z")
> [@Panthan](#): > > Fess “Davy Crockett” and “Daniel Boone” Parker as the crazy pilot who saw \*Them! \*He wasn’t wearing the coonskin cap, which must be why I never noticed. I’ve read recently that it was precisely _because_ of that appearance that he ended up as Daniel Boone. Disney was screening the film because someone had recommended one of the other actors in it, and thy noticed Parker’s small part. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/28 "2011-10-06T13:10:35Z")
Walter Brennan in “Bride of Frankenstein”. > **[Bride of Frankenstein Trivia Quizzes | Movies](https://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/movies/movies_a-c/bride_of_frankenstein.html)** > > Bride of Frankenstein trivia quizzes in the movies category. Over 45 trivia questions to answer. Play our Bride of Frankenstein quiz games now! How much do you know? Can I throw in a musical one? I was looking up Frank Zappa’s “Montana” in wiki last week and it was omigod, Tina Turner and the Ikettes are in the chorus? Apparently Ike was not impressed with the Zappa humor. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/29 "2011-10-06T13:58:17Z")
Didn’t realize until recently that Paul Newman’s child-killing son in _Road to Perdition_ was Daniel Craig. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/30 "2011-10-06T14:08:27Z")
Reni Santoni (Poppi on Seinfeld) as Callahan’s partner in the original _Dirty Harry_, and as one of the overseers in the 1982 _Bad Boys_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/31 "2011-10-06T14:12:15Z")
[quote0Walter Brennan in “Bride of Frankenstein”. > **[Bride of Frankenstein Trivia Quizzes | Movies](https://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/movies/movies_a-c/bride_of_frankenstein.html)** > > Bride of Frankenstein trivia quizzes in the movies category. Over 45 trivia questions to answer. Play our Bride of Frankenstein quiz games now! How much do you know? [/quote] He’s in Universal’s _The Invisible Man_, too – he’s the one who gets his bike stolen. And, before anyone else mentions him, **Clint Eastwood** as the pilot in **Tarantula** and an aquarium worker in **Revenge of the Creature**. And **Leonard Nimoy** as an alien in the serial and feature film **Zombies of the Stratosphere**. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/32 "2011-10-06T15:37:11Z")
The rumor has persisted that George Reeves had a fairy sizable part in _From Here to Eternity_ as the noncom who tells Burt Lancaster that Deborah Kerr’s character had slept around. Reeves had already appeared in _The Adventures of Superman_, and supposedly audiences recognized him and his part was edited down to basically just his one crucial line. However, the movie’s director and screenwriter insist that all of Reeve’s scenes in the movie were as written. Two other bit players you might recognize in the film are Jack Warden and Claude Akins. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/33 "2011-10-06T15:48:46Z")
> [@Panthan](#): > > Fess “Davy Crockett” and “Daniel Boone” Parker as the crazy pilot who saw \*Them! \*He wasn’t wearing the coonskin cap, which must be why I never noticed. Leonard Nimoy also pops up as an Army Sergeant in _Them_. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/34 "2011-10-06T16:33:01Z")
I recently saw an early Barbara Stanwyck vehicle, _Baby Face_, which chronicled the sleeping-to-the-top shenanigans of a young office worker woman. One of her early conquests seemed strangely familiar, but his face was only 1/4 facing the camera and I couldn’t be sure. I almost called my husband in to confirm my tentative ID, but later the actor spoke more and showed his full face: a very young John Wayne. He played a meek “gee whiz, baby” kind of character, with about three lines. **Eve** ought to be along with the low-down on this movie pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/35 "2011-10-06T16:45:14Z")
Naturally, there’s a Trope for this (although it’s supposed to be in the Trivia section): “Hey, it’s that guy!” ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/36 "2011-10-06T17:12:30Z")
[Jack Webb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916131/) in [Sunset Boulevard](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/37 "2011-10-06T17:18:05Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I was surprised to see **Paul Reubens** as a waiter in _The Blues Brothers_ during a recent re-watch. Wow, I did not know that. Don’t like the movie much. Do you have a clip you can show us? Who is he in it? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/38 "2011-10-06T17:27:31Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I Her jaw dropped to the floor. To her credit, he was very young and he didn’t play a bad guy. Did she see him in Dune? **Sampiro** , Lloyd and DeVito are who I was thinking of. And there was another guy who seems to be in every Milos Forman movie, but always in small parts. He was also in a ST:TNG episode, I think in the 1st season. It’s the one where weapons “learned”, much like the Borg. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/39 "2011-10-06T17:29:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wow, I did not know that. Don’t like the movie much. Do you have a clip you can show us? Who is he in it? He’s the waiter who takes Jake and Elwood’s order when they show up at the fancy restaurant to convince their trumpet player to rejoin the band. The famous “How much for your women? Sell me your daughters!” scene. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/40 "2011-10-06T17:34:26Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > In the original **Deathwish** with Charles Bronson… > > One of the rapist\killers is Jeff Goldblum. At the end, there is a young uniformed officer played by Christopher Guest. Really? Guest also played a uniformed cop in _The Hot Rock_. I knew to look for him because I think he got a credit in the main title. Funny, since he had no more than about a second of screen time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657.md?page=3)