Charlie Korsmo was the waif in Dick Tracy, Robin Williams’ son in Hook AND the geek kid who gets drunk in Can’t Hardly Wait.
David Strathairn was ALSO the recruiter in A League of Their Own and “Whistler” in Sneakers. I swear, he’s been everywhere.
I knew J. Jameson sounded familiar. Thanks. (That would be an awesome cross-over, wouldn’t it, L&O:Marvel)
It isn’t really the same thing but it took me many years before I realized that for English-speaking people there is a connection between James Earl Jones and Darth Vader.
It’s always hilarious to me when I think about Lawrence Fishburne getting his start as Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse (aside from a very small role as a very young, skinny teenager in Apocalypse Now). Ditto for Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader on The Electric Company.
Also, Squiggy from *Laverne and Shirley * was the con-man/reluctant hero from Short Circuit 2, the lead singer of Spinal Tap, David St. Hubbins, AND a member of the Folksmen from A Mighty Wind. Hooray for Michael McKean!
And dammit, I meant Lenny, not Squiggy.
I’ve seen Fargo about a zillion times, as it is one of my favorite movies. I’ve also seen Armageddon about a zillion times, as [embarrassed whisper] it is also one of my favorite movies, but for entirely different reasons. I swear![/embarrassed whisper]
One day, as I was looking at the IMDB listing for Armageddon, marveling at the sheer talent Jerry Bruckheimer manages to collect for his nonsensical overblown ridiculous piece of crap movies (which is actually the reason I like them), I said to myself, “hmmm…Peter Stormare. I wonder who he is?” I clicked on his name and HOLY MOLY! The crazy Russian cosmonaut is also the crazy Nordic kidnapper! “I need unguent” indeed!
It also means that he and Steve Buscemi were in both movies together. It would have been cool if Bruckheimer had thrown in a sly Fargo reference, but I guess not.
Speaking of Batman Begins, it’s hard to believe that Batman (Christian Bale) is that annoying spoiled kid from Empire of the Sun.
OK. Not exactly what you are looking for, but I could swear, when Tony Soprano was talking to Meadow about Finn in the kitchen two weeks ago, I could swear it was the pointy haired boss from Dilbert.
I’m telling you, it’s the same guy. 
Oh, and James Gandolfini also popped up in Crimson Tide.
I’d been watching Nip/Tuck for weeks, idly trying to place the voice of the actor playing the surgeon, when it hit me: “Pizzas? You’re looking for the guy who delivers pizzas?”
I don’t get this one.
Reading the credits after seeing Brokeback Mountain for the first time, I thought “Waitaminnit! Where the hell was Anna Faris?” It’s not like there are very many women in that movie, but I could not figure out which one was the one from the “Scary Movie” franchise, and the Hollywood dimwit from Lost in Translation.
On second viewing, I realized she was the chatty wife of the mustachioed man who kinda-sorta flirts with Jake Gyllenhaal outside a bar.
I was stunned when I saw my childhood hero, Hannibal Smith, with Audrey Hepburn, of all people. :eek:
May they rest in peace.
Oh. sorry. “Loverboy”, the '80s sex comedy with Patrick Dempsey as the delivery boy turned male prostitute ultimately hired to service his own mother.
It took me a while after watching LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring that Gimli the Dwarf was played by John Rhys-Davies who also played Sallah, Indiana Jones’ Egyptian friend, Professor Arturo from the TV show Sliders and the Portuguese pilot in Shogun. :eek:
They cast a 6 foot and God knows how many hundred of pounds actor in the role of a 4 foot dwarf. Genius. 
Well, one of my favorite examples is…
Sysney Bristow’s gray-haired, distinguished, no-nonsense spy father on “Alias” was the bushy-haired, hippie, flower-child Jesus in “Godspell”!
Now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Garber
Then:
I’m amazing slow at times. It was years before I realized that Uncle Max in The Sound of Music and Herr Falkstein in Young Frankenstein (the first living human face you see – the guy with the box) were one and the same, Richard Haydn. Even with his distinct voice and mannerisms. And he was the poet Edwin Carp on “The Dick van Dyke Show”. Not to mention the voice of tha caterpillar in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. And a few other scattered roles I’ve seen over the years, but never connected. I found all this out quite a while ago when I was trying to find out who the hell Edwin Carp was, and if he might really be a poet who made up those weird poems. (“We need Feet to keep our Shoes on. We need feet to kick our friends…”)
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It worked the opposite way for me. I first listened to the radio play on CD during a road trip with friends after the LOTR movies had come out. Hearing Ian Holm’s voice, we kept referring to his character as Bilbo-- oops! Wrong Mr. Baggins! 
I only recently realized that Gert Frobe played both the title character in Goldfinger, and Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Whodathunkit?
And I didn’t realize she was the hot & horny gym teacher from Porky’s for a long time either.
Haven’t finished reading the thread yet, but there are a couple I must mention.
D’Onofrio played Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie, along with Jeanine Garofolo and Donel Logue. But I nearly spit when I realized who played Abbie’s son, America – it was AD’s own Michael “I love my cousin” Cera.
And who is this Hellboy dude, and why do people care? Well, come to find out he was the Marshal in Happy, Texas. And the conservative shock jock in The Last Supper.
But most surprisingly, he was Salvatore in The Name of the Rose. I’ve got to say, the guy has range.