Movie Marathon (Part 1)

[Nonsuch]

Non-comedic movies that starred a comedic actor

1. The Color Purple (Whoopi Goldberg)
2. The King of Comedy (Jerry Lewis)
3. The World According to Garp (Robin Williams)
4. Foxcatcher (Steve Carell)
5. The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray)
6. Punch Drunk Love (Adam Sandler)

[atimnie]

Non-comedic movies that starred a comedic actor

1. The Color Purple (Whoopi Goldberg)
2. The King of Comedy (Jerry Lewis)
3. The World According to Garp (Robin Williams)
4. Foxcatcher (Steve Carell)
5. The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray)
6. Punch Drunk Love (Adam Sandler)
7. The Number 23 (Jim Carrey)

[DCnDC]

Non-comedic movies that starred a comedic actor

1. The Color Purple (Whoopi Goldberg)
2. The King of Comedy (Jerry Lewis)
3. The World According to Garp (Robin Williams)
4. Foxcatcher (Steve Carell)
5. The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray)
6. Punch Drunk Love (Adam Sandler)
7. The Number 23 (Jim Carrey)
8. Everything Must Go (Will Farrell)

[atimnie]

Non-comedic movies that starred a comedic actor

1. The Color Purple (Whoopi Goldberg)
2. The King of Comedy (Jerry Lewis)
3. The World According to Garp (Robin Williams)
4. Foxcatcher (Steve Carell)
5. The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray)
6. Punch Drunk Love (Adam Sandler)
7. The Number 23 (Jim Carrey)
8. Everything Must Go (Will Farrell)
9. Aliens (Paul Reiser)

[DCnDC]

Non-comedic movies that starred a comedic actor

1. The Color Purple (Whoopi Goldberg)
2. The King of Comedy (Jerry Lewis)
3. The World According to Garp (Robin Williams)
4. Foxcatcher (Steve Carell)
5. The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray)
6. Punch Drunk Love (Adam Sandler)
7. The Number 23 (Jim Carrey)
8. Everything Must Go (Will Farrell)
9. Aliens (Paul Reiser)
10. Philadelphia (Tom Hanks)

He’s a serious actor now as we all know of course, but Hanks was almost exclusively in comedies until this role, which successfully proved he had the acting chops to make the transition into serious parts.

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)

[kenobi_65]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)

[atimnie]

Damn it, you took all the good ones.

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)

[DCnDC]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)
5. Children of the Corn III (Charlize Theron)

[Personal]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)
5. Children of the Corn III (Charlize Theron)
6. Halloween (Jamie Lee Curtis)

[divemaster]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)
5. Children of the Corn III (Charlize Theron)
6. Halloween (Jamie Lee Curtis)
7. Revenge of the Creature (Clint Eastwood)

[DCnDC]

Good one!

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)
5. Children of the Corn III (Charlize Theron)
6. Halloween (Jamie Lee Curtis)
7. Revenge of the Creature (Clint Eastwood)
8. He Knows You’re Alone (Tom Hanks)

[Personal]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)
5. Children of the Corn III (Charlize Theron)
6. Halloween (Jamie Lee Curtis)
7. Revenge of the Creature (Clint Eastwood)
8. He Knows You’re Alone (Tom Hanks)
9. Poltergeist III (Lara Flynn Boyle)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Big name actor’s first film role was a horror movie

1. Leprechaun (Jennifer Aniston)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp)
3. Friday the 13th (Kevin Bacon)
4. Devil’s Rain (John Travolta in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role)
5. Children of the Corn III (Charlize Theron)
6. Halloween (Jamie Lee Curtis)
7. Revenge of the Creature (Clint Eastwood)
8. He Knows You’re Alone (Tom Hanks)
9. Poltergeist III (Lara Flynn Boyle)
10. The Blob (Steve McQueen)

In his screen debut!

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden

A great sf B-movie thriller about an alien criminal hopping from human body to body

[Little_Nemo]

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden
2. Dodgeball

Not a deep film but it always makes me laugh.

[Spoons]

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden
2. Dodgeball
3. Summer Rental

A John Candy film. It never fails to make me laugh.

[Personal]

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden
2. Dodgeball
3. Summer Rental
4. Night Patrol

The Unknown Comic, Linda Blair and Billy Barty. What’s not to like?

[atimnie]

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden
2. Dodgeball
3. Summer Rental
4. Night Patrol
5. Up Your Alley

Murray Langston and Linda Blair in a slightly more dramatic movie. Been looking for that online since online was a thing.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden
2. Dodgeball
3. Summer Rental
4. Night Patrol
5. Up Your Alley
6. Flash Gordon

To me, my hawkmen!

[panache45]

Guilty pleasures

1. The Hidden
2. Dodgeball
3. Summer Rental
4. Night Patrol
5. Up Your Alley
6. Flash Gordon
7. Cobra Woman

The original 1944, with Maria Montez, the “Queen of Technicolor.”