I remember he was on an episode of “The Love Boat”. He was playing half of a bickering older couple, along with that dark-haired actress, the one that did a lot of game shows in the early '70’s.
Can’t remmeber his name to save my life, but he was also in one of those CSI shows–I remember the episode very well. It was the one where the guy who was in “Manhunter” analyzed a lot of fibers found at the murder scene and went through a bunch of really artfully filmed crime scenarios until he came to the right one. Plus that woman who was a stripper and that guy who just got pulled over for drugs went off to investigate a different case. Great episode.
It may have been one of his final roles.
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No, no, no, sorry, you are all wrong, the OP is obviously thinking of Hans Conried, or some guy who looks a lot like him.
SSG Schwartz
Is his name John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?
Hey, that’s my name too!
I remember him on Law & Order. He was a judge, no, a defense attorney, no, a key witness, no, a defendent.
Never mind, he played all those parts. That should narrow it down.
I seem to recall that he appeared on some talk show once “in his cups”, so to speak. No, not the Tonight Show, one of the rivals to it. No, not Dick Cavett, either. Joey Bishop, or Les Crane, or someone like them. Anyway, he said this thing…no, I don’t know what he said, and I don’t remember how I reacted or why I was reacting, but you should have seen it.
I know the guy you are thinking of, but it wasn’t him. It was, you know, the other guy.
Rats. I was hoping to be the first to mention him.
ISTR that there’s at least one of the films he’s in, where his character is described as looking like Ralph Bellamy. (His Girl Friday?)
Are you sure? Because I was thinking it was the episode where, in spite of all the safeguards something went wrong with the holodeck.
In the end they fixed everything by doing something-or-other with the deflector array.
I also seem to remember that guy on Good Morning America or the Today show. He was hyping a new movie, or a TV series or a book or something.
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
James Hampton AND M. Emmett Walsh.
No, you are all wrong. He was a child star on some soap for a couple of years. Then he went away to school or went to live with relatives or something and came back a year older, having aged five years and being played by a different actor.
I still can’t remember that guy’s name.
Bea Arthur!
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It’s Steve Zahn. He actually said, in the atrocious Sahara, “You rescue the girl, I’ll defuse the bomb.”
Or something like that.
Or, it’s one of those standup comedians, who always seem to be pals with the stars in various movies, but can’t cut it as stars themselves.
Oh yeah, I remember that guy- they used to get him to play the killer on episodes of “Columbo,” when they couldn’t get somebody BIG, like Leslie Nielsen or Robert Culp.
And he played the killer on an episode of “Law and Order”- you know,that episode where he first appears as a minor witness, but you KNOW he has to be the killer, because he was too big a star to really be playing just an insignificant witness.
Oh, and remember how great he was in that movie where he was the hero cop’s partner, and he was going to retire and spend more time with the wife and kids, but then he got killed his last day on the job?
Oh, THAT guy! Yea, and he was gonna buy a fishing boat. And the bad guy didn’t HAVE to kill him, he just did it out of pure badness.
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I know who you mean, but I can’t remember his name. His son’s an actor too.
He was in all those 80’s movies, not quite an extra, maybe a line or two of dialog. You know: Platoon, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Back to the Future, Point Break, Total Recall, The Lost Boys, one of the NightMare on Elm Street movies… He was on 21 Jump Street as a bad guy a few times, also that really lame Star Trek episode… Not Johnny Depp! He used to be on the Arsenio Hall show in the early 90’s. He was involved in some kind of scandal with a starlet and a briefcase full of cocaine, went through rehab a few times, got some plastic surgery that didn’t turn out quite like anyone expected… or was that the cocaine starlet who got the plastic surgery?
Anyway, he was in that movie with the tall guy with the broad shoulders, you know, the one who’s always the hero? That movie where they blow shit up and speak only in one-liners.