:smack: You mean exactly like he said in his original quote?
I’m going back to bed now.
That really was her peak acting performance.
And the Opus Dei bishop in DA VINCI CODE, which would have been much improved by a set of Doc Ock arms L
IIRC, I was blown away when I finally realised who the Judge in My Cousin Vinny was… Herman Munster.
You’re kidding? Man, the second Elrond came on the screen in LOTR1, the whole damn theater chorused, “Look - Agent Smith!”.
But how many of them said, “Look - Mitzi!”?
I chimed in, “Missssster Annnndersonnnnn.”
Wow. That was definitely another “Wait that’s the same guy!” moment.
I have had several over the years. One in particular involved Muriel from Muriel’s wedding and Haley Joel’s Mom in The Sixth Sense.
I had the opposite reaction. I’ve never yet seen an episode of House (I know, I know) but I’d seen ads for it and I kept getting glimpses of the guy and snippets of what he said. I kept thinking “Is that – that can’t be Bertie. But it LOOKS like Bertie. They got a dead ringer for Hugh Laurie!” 
I never realized that! But yes, that name is etched in my brain. As is Ian Holm. It gave me a great huge laugh to realize that the actor in the LotR movies for Bilbo was actually the voice of FRODO. Gives me a bit of a turn whenever I’m just listening to the movie.
And seeing him as his character in From Hell is just… unnerving. :eek:
Well if Gandalf can be Magneto, having been in Shakespeare, panto and UK Soap opera…
I saw him in a Homicide rerun last week (his character was a murderer named Alexander Rausch - it was one of the times Homicide and Law and Order did crossover episodes) and couldn’t figure out where I’d seen him before, but I knew I had. Two days later I saw a TV ad for Spider-Man and it clicked. Forgot he was also a regular on L&O.
But my aha moment: realizing that the scientist from the Short Circuit movies was the wacky sidekick from Early Edition: Fisher Stevens.
When I first started seeing Senator Fred Thompson on C-SPAN, I was like: "Isn’t that the dude from No Way Out and those Tom Clancy movies?
Another Deadwood one: on that recent 100 Funniest Films specials, W Earl Brown (Dan Dority) was on, and under his name he was credited with being in Something About Mary. After thinking a minute about what he did in the film, I finally figured out that he played Warren. Now whenever I see him on the show I’ll be wondering if he managed to find his baseball.
I dropped my popcorn when I found out that Danny, the drug dealer from Withnail & I, was played by the same actor as Jaye Davidson’s boyfriend in The Crying Game. Both parts are cameos, and both are fantastically memorable. Ralph Brown, a brilliantly quirky actor.
I saw him in Serenity and didn’t realize he was the elf from The Santa Clause until I IMDBed him when I got home. Granted, he’s grown up since then.
Malcolm McDowell
Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Antonelli in The Company (2003)
No fucking way.
Way.
Until I checked IMDB, I had no idea that Miguel Sandoval played both the drug lord Escobedo in Clear and Present Danger and Archie the punk in Repo Man. My mind still cannot process the image of a twenty-something Miguel in a mohawk.
Don’t forget he was Wednesday’s love interest in Addams Family Values. He was about 15 at the time.
Jennifer Connelly had a lead role in the 1986 film Labyrinth as well as Requiem for a Dream.
Cartoon voice actors always catch me by surprise. Mark Hamill does a lot of cartoon voices, including the Joker in the Batman animated series. E.G. Daily does the voice of Tommy Pickles from Rugrats and Buttercup from The Powerpuff Girls (how did I not notice that right off the bat?) Richard Steven Horvitz, who does the voice for Invader Zim, also did the robot Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. And Eli Vance from Half Life 2 is Robert Guillaume, the same guy who did Rafiki’s voice in The Lion King.
Speaking of A Clockwork Orange: the bodyguard = Darth Vader.