I just came across one today that surprised me. There was a TV movie back in the early 80s called John and Yoko a Love Story. It was kind of notorious because the guy cast as John Lennon was named Mark *Lyndsey *Chapman. Yoko apparently had a problem with this so he was recast. Anyway, George Harrison was played by Peter Capaldi, the soon-to-be-former Doctor Who.
(Mark L. Chapman did eventually play John Lennon in, ironically enough, Chapter 27, the film about Mark David Chapman).
He was also the passenger in Gomez’ model train in the first movie.
Probably being whooshed, but Percy Rodregues was part of the holy trinity of 70s trailer voices, along with Adolph Caesar and Ronald Gans. Percy did Jaws, Caesar did Blacula and Dawn of the Dead, and Ronald Gans did Lady Frankenstein (famously sampled by Rob Zombie) and the Roger Corman films.
^ I’ll be a monkey’s uncle, I never made the connection between those gentlemen’s voices and movie trailers until you pointed them out. No mistaking them. Much obliged.
I saw actor Dudley Moore (“10”, “Arthur”, “Bedazzled”) in the sporting good section of a big box department store (Lechmere Sales in Danvers, Mass., many years ago. Both now deceased.
It didn’t help that I would frequently get their names mixed up: “Blacula” would come on and I’d think, Hey, it’s Dr. Daystrom; you know–Percy Rodrigues! (beep, beep, beep Incorrect). Then, I couldn’t keep William (Dr. Daystrom) Marshall and Don (Boma) Marshall straight. And what of Dr. M’Benga?
Does Jose Feliciano count?* I once stood next to him in the international arrivals hall at JFK while he called all his friends on his mobile to let them know he was back in town.**
heh murder she wrote had so many guest stars that they have their own separate Wikipedia entry and a lot of them were famous back then and moreso now …
Lucy had a supporting role in ***Having Wonderful Time *** (1938) opposite Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks (jr), Red Skelton, et al.
Not only was she incredibly hot (most of the time she was wearing shorts, and her legs were gorgeous), her voice was positively mellifluous. She sounded nothing like she did twenty years later.
Even earlier appearances by Lucille Ball: in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies; she had lines in the 1936 Follow the Fleet and appeared also in 1935’s Top Hat and the same year’s Roberta (as a fashion model). All were in black and white so it’s impossible to be sure, but she looked platinum blonde in all.
Also earlier than 1938: her quite substantial (and comic) role in 1937’s Stage Door.
Along with some common familiar faces of the '60s (e.g., John Williams, John McGiver, Marge Redmond, Floyd the Barber), a very young Burt Reynolds was a two-bit actor in “The Bard” on Twilight Zone the other night.
“Talky Tina” was on last night with a relatively young Telly Savalas. I swear, that doll actually *looked *like June Foray! :eek:
Dennis Hopper had already been in *Giant *and Rebel Without a Cause but yesterday I saw him in The Rifleman and it was the pilot episode in which McCain and his son arrived in North Fork, bought a property and got in the usual trouble where he had to shoot a lot of bad guys. No really, it was a fairly non-lethal episode. Dennis Hopper played a drifter who competed against McCain in a sharp shooting contest. Drama ensues but at one point, before McCain goes up against the main bad guy, he turns to Dennis Hopper and says that if anything happens to him, would Hopper look after his boy, take care of him. A total stranger. Because one sharp shooter is the same as another, I guess. It was tough being a kid in those days.
The old 50s and 60s Westerns that MyTV shows on Saturday mornings always has lots of surprise stars. I saw a Wagon Train the other day with Charles Laughton on it.
Robert Conrad, of The Wild, Wild, West, playing a Honolulu detective on 77 Sunset Strip.
Rockford’s daddy, Noah Berry, as a Mexican bandit on Wanted Dead or Alive.
