Spotting a Familiar Actor in a Surprising Place - Part Deux

Donna Douglas was also the girl wrapped up in the mummy-like bandages in the Twilight Zone episode Eye of the Beholder (the one where everyone else is pig-ugly).
At any rate, she is after the bandages are removed. When she’s bandaged, she was played by actress Maxine Stewart. In the Twilight Zone Companion Ms. Stewart says she understands the director’s (Douglas Heyes) intent – they wanted the Girl in the Bandages to be extremely beautiful, so Donna Douglas got the part. But the knowledge still musta hurt.

Hollywood legend has it that Parker’s single brief scene in Them! is what got him the part of Davy Crockett in the first place. Supposedly Walt Disney saw it and basically said, “There’s our Davy!”

It had the already-famous post-Friends David Schwimmer. Perhaps the most surprising appearance is that of Jimmy Fallon.

Wow, you’re right!: http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsF/tve46579-5-1365.gif

Was there a scene where he actually flew a plane? The only scene with him that I remember is the one where he comes into the headquarters/tracking center to deliver a report and says something like “Boy, those things sure can move!” In that scene, he’s wearing a khaki dress uniform, not a flight suit or anything else that would identify him as a pilot. (Maybe an Air Force patch on his sleeve?)

Then again, the last time I saw the movie was probably in 1984, so my memory may be incomplete.

On the other hand, Clint Eastwood was the jet pilot who bombed the titular creature in Tarantula, though his face was covered by an oxygen mask. Maybe he was the aviator who was traumatized?

You must be thinking of someone else (or thinking of a different movie). Parker plays a civilian pilot who’s been committed to the psych ward at a hospital, because he made an emergency landing and claimed that his plane had been forced down by UFOs that looked like giant ants.

Here is the scene (Parker first appears at about 38 seconds in).

Leonard Nimoy also has a small, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role as a soldier, though not in that clip.

Okay, I’m convinced! I would like to see the part I remember again, though.

No, it was Willy Switkes, long time character actor.

http://variety.com/2013/film/obituaries-people-news/character-actor-willy-switkes-dies-at-83-1200325577/

What’s really interesting about this scene is that they weren’t co-stars on “Bewitched”, but rather Ghostley was Lorne’s future replacement on the show.

When Marion Lorne died in '68, Esmerelda (Ghostley’s character) had yet to appear on the show. After Lorne died, instead of recasting yet another role (which hadn’t worked out that well with either Mrs. Kravitz or Darrin), the producers created a new character to fill the same role that Aunt Clara (inept witch whose spells typically went wrong).

While modern day audiences look at this movie and think “Hey, there’s two cast members of “Bewitched” making cameos”, when the film was in general release, that wasn’t even a consideration.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, I happened to catch a VERY old “Law & Order” (we’re talking “Chris Noth as Det. Logan” era), I saw Laura Linney playing a perp. She’s the assistant to a Japanese businessman who gets murdered. The cops discover she did it, but while in court she pleads self-defense, claiming her boss was sexually abusive and menaced her. Funny thing is, I actually remember watching that episode back in the day, but never actually connected that role with the Linney later on.

Fun Fact: Ghostley, who replaced Kathleen Freeman as Frau Gertrude Linkmeyer on Hogan’s Heroes, was married IRL to Felice Orlandi, who played Lt Maurice duBois of the French Resistance on Hogan’s Heroes.

John Krasinski, Jim from The Office, played a college basketball player who was part of a game-fixing scheme in an episode of Law & Order.

I was blown away when I realized Christopher Guest was both Nigel Tufnel in This Is Spinal Tap and Count Drogan (the six fingered man) in Princess Bride. Same when I realized Gary Oldman was Drexl Spivey, the scary drug dealer in True Romance, and Commissioner Gordon in the Nolan-directed Batman movies.

George Reeves (Superman) as Sergeant Maylon Stark in “From Here To Eternity”.

The US military could have used him when the Japanese attacked Pearl. I guess he forgot his cape.

Also Lucille Ball in the Three Stooges short “Three Little Pigskins”. One of her first accredited roles.

He’s also the doctor from Guantanamo who testifies about Santiago’s cause of death in A Few Good Men. That can be a useful link in Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Timothy Busfield as the soldier ordered to fire the (unaimed) mortar by John Larroquette in Stripes.

Is he a radio operator? I thought that was Night of the Lepus.

I saw Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer) on an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Wow! I had no memory of him in that - quite a different i.e. square look: Ma Vie En Rows: Image

Here is Nimoy. His scene apparently came just before Parker’s:

Col. Klink was also in an episode of ***Perry Mason*** set in Switzerland, IIRC.

Nimoy has about five seconds as a radio operator in Lepus.
He is a green Martian in the Republic serial King of the Rocket Men.

He’s also one of “Scarlett’s beaux” in the opening scene of Gone with the Wind.

One of the Tarlton or Carlton twins, as I recall.