Blood, from A Boy and His Dog, was also Tiger on The Brady Bunch.
And Mr. Hutchinson on Fawlty Towers.
The Avengers is great for this. I saw an episode with Brian Blessed a few weeks ago, but I didn’t know it at the time. Now I have to be sure to see that episode when it comes back around again.
I know what you’re all thinking; how the hell did I not recognize Brian Blessed?
Until reading the Modern Family thread today, I didn’t know the guy who played Al Bundy in Married, With Family was in Modern Family.
Wash from Firefly was Wat in A Knight’s Tale? Well I’ll be fonged!
And she was one of Frasier’s girlfriends-of-the-week: the one who was a mismatch for him, as she was an earthy hippie girl who cut off all her hair on a whim.
The girl whose toothbrush Jerry dropped in the toilet on Seinfeld was Kristen Davis (aka, Charlotte from Sex and the City)–it was years b/w watching that episode and me getting into Sex and the City.
As well as Concentration Camp Earnhardt in To Be or Not To Be.
It took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure out that the actor who plays Richard Webber on Grey’s Anatomy is also Alvin Kersh from The X-Files.
He was also the deaf paratrooper in Saving Private Ryan.
As long as we have so many Seinfeld ones. Man Hands is the same person as Pam from True Blood.
Teri Hatcher, who played Lois Lane in Lois and Clark, among other roles, was also recurring love interest Penny Parker from MacGyver.
And also “They’re real and they’re spectacular” on Seinfeld.
While watching iCarly with my nephews…
“HEY! That principal is Tuvok!!!”
My nephews…
“Who the hell is Tuvok??”
And Roland, the other ‘squire’ from A Knight’s Tale, was played by Mark Addy, who was recently promoted to King (Robert) in Game of Thrones.
My username is mentioned in that movie. It’s one of the racing rats. That’s not where I got the name, but it always amuses me. “Give me Equipoise, 10 on the nose!”
I know him mainly from the hilariously warped Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
Who also stripped in the Oscar-winning The Full Monty. (It won for Anne Dudley’s score. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and best Original Screenplay. That still amazes me. A tiny British indie? Really??? And a comedy to boot!)
I noticed a lot of mentions of Trainspotting actors. Few of them surprised me, but many of them have been on several TV series or movies since then. Kevin McKidd has done 6 years of Greys Anatomy (wife watches), Percy Jackson (son reads/watches), Brave (daughter loves), Journeyman (I watched). Johnny Lee Miller did Eli Stone and a bunch of movies. Prior to that I knew his name for being married to Angelina Jolie but didn’t connect him as the guy from Trainspotting. Robert Carlyle stars on the show Once Upon a Time. I’ve heard that Ewan McGregor guy did a couple films. The actress who played the teenage girl from Trainspotting, Kelly MacDonald, voiced the main character in “Brave.” Apparently she has 48 episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” and was 5th billed in “No Country for Old Men”- I didn’t realize that one. Ewen Bremner has a lot of credits, but I don’t recall seeing him in anything. So I guess I didn’t realize that guy from Trainspotting was also a guy I don’t remember in Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Snatch, The Rundown, Match Point, and Death at a Funeral.
As others have said, Lisa Edelstein played Cuddy on House and played Sam’s prostitute girlfriend on The West Wing. It was Jorja Fox, who later played Sarah on CSI, who played a secret service agent on The West Wing.
In Zoolander, Derek’s brothers were played by Judah Friedlander (30 Rock) and Vince Vaughn.
AND he was King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph.
Lester Nigard in the new series Fargo was blowing me away and I was surprised I’d never seen him before. He is, of course, Martin Freeman, aka Bilbo Baggins and other roles.
It took me a few years to notice that Fred on Roseanne was Danny Noonan from Caddyshack.
And I’m probably not alone in that the first time I watched Coming To America, I didn’t notice that the old jewish guy in the barber shop was Eddie Murphy until the credits.