# Watching an old movie / TV show: "Hey, there's that actor from the other, more recent thing!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473 "2021-07-14T15:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/41 "2021-07-16T14:34:42Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I know he did do at least one more non-comic role; he played a jealous husband who murdered his wife and her lover, and was then killed by their zombies, in Stephen King’s _Creepshow._ In the Barbra Streisand movie, **Nuts** , Nielsen plays a john who gets rough with Babs’s call girl character and she kills him and goes to trial to prove she’s not you-know-what. Leslie in black bikini undies took courage to play. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/42 "2021-07-16T17:05:25Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I’m watching 1969’s Battle of Britain: at 1:02 there’s a scene that cuts to three shots in three cockpits. Robert Shaw says “tallyho!” Edward Fox says “tallyho!”. Ian McShane doesn’t say anything, but I expect him to say “cocksucker!” Well, later in the movie after being rescued and returned to the airfield after bailing out being after being shot down, he snarls at Robert Shaw’s “did you get one?” query “_All I got was a bellyful of English Channel_” He should’ve stayed put back in the 1870s and been happy with a bellyful of rough whiskey. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/43 "2021-07-16T17:42:27Z")
Peter Falk was a gangster in _ **Robin and the Seven Hoods** _ alongside Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack. He was also “Max,” sidekick of Jack Lemmon’s evil “Professor Fate” in _ **The Great Race** _. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/44 "2021-07-16T18:03:40Z")
I saw The Great Race last weekend. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/45 "2021-07-16T18:29:55Z")
**Morgan Freeman** in Brubaker as a crazed prisoner who rants and raves while threatening to kill another. You know, they talk about William Hurt and his Oscar nomination for less than 10 minutes of screen time in A History of Violence, and there’s Morgan Freeman scaring the shit out of everyone during that brief scene! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/46 "2021-07-16T21:11:42Z")
The show “Monk” isn’t ‘old old’, but I didn’t really watch it when it was first on air and I’ve been watching reruns on the retro on-air H&I channel. It’s been fun seeing earlier appearances of a lot of other well known actors from other stuff. From the show The Office alone, Angela Kinsey (Angela) and Rainn Wilson (Dwight) both turned out to be the killers in separate episodes, and of course Jan from The Office played Monk’s dead wife in flashbacks. (Spoilered for anyone else who may be new to Monk reruns like me) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/47 "2021-07-16T22:13:18Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The show “Monk” isn’t ‘old old’ Well, the first season is 20 years old now. And rewatching it, it is starting to feel kind of dated, in particular when it comes to technology used in the crimes. In one episode Sharona looked in the victim’s car and remarks “Hey, it’s one of those global positioning systems.” Stottlemeyer: “Yeah, but it wasn’t working. There’s no CD in it.” The case hinged on the killer replacing the disk in the victim’s GPS with one containing fake map data, to lead him to where he was killed. In another episode Monk and Sharona find the killer’s digital camera, and say something like “It’s one of those digital cameras, but I’ve never seen one this small before” as they hold up what to me seems like a perfectly normal sized camera. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/48 "2021-07-16T22:20:14Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > The case hinged on the killer replacing the disk in the victim’s GPS with one containing fake map data, That rerun just reran today. And the other ep you mentioned they played a few days ago. You must be watching the H&I channel too! ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/49 "2021-07-16T22:25:52Z")
No, just streaming it on Prime Video. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/50 "2021-07-16T22:33:04Z")
Law and Order had Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the Penguin from Gotham (Robin Lord Taylor), and Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) in early roles ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/51 "2021-07-17T00:25:13Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The show “Monk” isn’t ‘old old’, Before being on _Monk_. Capt. Stottlemeyer was Buffalo Bill in _The Silence of the Lambs_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/52 "2021-07-17T01:16:12Z")
… And Tony Shalhoub was a regular in _ **Wings** _, in addition to appearing on _ **Frasier** _ and being one of the crew in _ **Galaxy Quest** _. He has many more credits, but those are the only ones I would have seen him in. According to IMDb, his first role was as a terrorist leader (!) in _ **The Equalizer** _ (1986). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/53 "2021-07-17T13:10:34Z")
Morgan Freeman was “Easy Reader” on _The Electric Company_ (a PBS show for kids who had outgrown _Sesame Street_). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/54 "2021-07-17T15:36:17Z")
I was watching the TV version of _The Horn Blows at Midnight_ and spotted Shearer on the cast list as a newspaper boy Jack Benny talks to. Interestingly, the movie version also had a future TV star in the same role: Robert Blake ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/55 "2021-07-17T16:04:02Z")
That didn’t scare nobody! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/56 "2021-07-17T16:59:49Z")
And Sharona was in A League of Their Own. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/57 "2021-07-17T17:05:51Z")
Just rewatched _Galaxy Quest_ and realized Rainn Wison was one of the Thermians. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/58 "2021-07-17T18:01:39Z")
Robert Blake was the little kid who sold Humphrey Bogart the winning lottery ticket in _ **The Treasure of the Sierra Madre** _. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/59 "2021-07-17T18:46:50Z")
Blake was also Red Ryder’s sidekick, and he appeared in some of the Our Gang series. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-an-old-movie-tv-show-hey-theres-that-actor-from-the-other-more-recent-thing/946473/60 "2021-07-19T22:05:36Z")
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