Jeremy Renner, Oscar-nominated actor for The Hurt Locker (and who is scheduled to play Hawkeye/Clint Barton in the Avengers movie), was a patient on an episode of House.
Renner’s had other roles before then, but nothing quite as high-profile as The Hurt Locker.
She had a bigger part in “The Cowboy Way,” (1994) starring Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland.
Fran Drescher said, “Are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?” to John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
Mel Gibson was already widely-known by 1984, having already starred in Mad Max,The Road Warrior (a.k.a. Mad Max 2), Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Mrs. Soffel, and The River. I would say he was a major star by then.
I once saw Burt Reynolds in an episode of Flipper.
Or was it Sea Hunt? It had water in it.
During a spate of insomnia a while back, I saw Julia Roberts in an ep of Miami Vice, which was showing on the Sleuth channel. I feel slightly dirty for admitting I watched it purposefully. The wardrobe on the show is hiLARious now, though.
Wayne Newton was one of the multitude of guest stars on Bonanza. He was in a couple of eps in 1966, which would have made him about 24 at the time, but he looked approximately 14. And yes, he sang in both eps.
A series of coffee adverts that ran in the UK in the 80’s
I saw De Forrest Kelly in an episode of Bonanza. He played, guess what, a doctor.
Before Robert Englund became Freddy Krueger, he played Whitey in the Jan Michael Vincent movie Buster and Billie in 1974. One of my favorite old tearjerkers, BTW.
Same here. A surprisingly powerful little movie. I haven’t seen it since it first came out. Is it even in print?
I’ll see your American Hot Wax, and raise you Good Times, 1976.
I’ve been seeing a lot of old Outer Limits episodes lately, and it’s surprising who pops up on there. Ted Knight and Robert Duvall to name just a few I’ve noticed recently.
Billy Crystal was pretty famous solely because of Soap, because his character was one of the first (if not the first) openly gay characters on TV.
While looking up something for another thread, does anybody remember Haley Joel Osmet playing Forrest Gump Jr.?
Adam Sandler played a friend of Theo’s on The Cosby Show for a few episodes.
Dule Hill, before being on The West Wing and Psyche, was on an episode of Cosby, and also had a part in Men of Honor.
The TV series Bracken’s World was about a TV networld headed by John Bracken, who was never seen in the first year of the series.
In the second year, the role was played by Leslie Neilsen. It didn’t help, as the series was cancelled mid-season.
Regarding Buster and Billie, I don’t believe it is in print. I rented the VHS and made a DVD a few years back. They never broadcast it and nobody rents VHS anymore. It’s on Amazon ranging from $75 for used VHS up up to $155 new(?). Agree that its a great flick.
Besides surviving the Aliens attack (he made Ripley turn him off even though he was functional), he also survived the police station raid in The Terminator. Cameron was going to bring him back in T2 all disfigured, but didn’t end up filming the scene.
Stay Hungry, 1976, directed by Bob Rafelson (5 Easy Pieces,) stars Jeff Bridges and Arnold Schwarzenegger long before either of them were famous. This is a great and very quirky film with a lot of local color from the city of Birmingham. (Sally Field is also naked in it - though, unfortunately, from the rear only.) It was based on a novel by Charles Gaines, an eccentric genius and adventurer (who I have corresponded with repeatedly) - he invented the game of paintball, competed in the first international fly-fishing tournament, and launched Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom with his documentary “Pumping Iron”, based on a photo-essay that he had co-authored. Great guy.
I do! (one of my favorite movies, BTW)
I can’t remember the kid at all, like everybody else, I was blown away by Forrest’s line, “Is he normal?”
“Damn it, Ben, I’m a doctor, not a cowboy!”
Who could forget Tom Hanks in Mazes and Monsters? And he was on episodes of Taxi and Happy Days. And The Love Boat. And he played Merideth Baxter Birney’s’ brother on 3 episodes of Family Ties. Some of those were after Bosom Buddies, but before he became extremely famous with films like Splash.
And Geena Davis was also on 3 episodes of Family Ties before she moved onto Beetlejuice.
And George McFly himself, Crispin Glover was on an episode of Family Ties the year before Back to the Future.