Benny Hill. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
He was also in Platoon, which means that I just can’t understand his character in Scrubs at all.
He was also in Wagons East as a very bad gay joke
And as smarmy Bob #2 in Office space.
The guy is definately not stereotyped.
Johnny Depp in the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
I had a sort of backwards experience to this, when after becoming obsessed with his Doctor, someone mentioned to me he was in Shallow Grave, one of my favourite films from like 10 years ago.
I could not for the life of me remember who he might have been in that film, and had to look it up on IMDB, whereby I did a big one of these: :smack:
The man is a chameleon.
I am always surprised to recognize young Christian Bale in Henry V.
And Charlie from “Lost” was in the LOTR movies.
Which I watched this weekend (on TNT) for like eleventy hours and didn’t even notice. My wife comes in, glances at the TV, and says “I didn’t know he was in these films.”
“Who?”
“Him!”
“Who is that?”
“Charlie.”
“?”
“From Lost.” :rolleyes:
:smack:
I don’t watch Lost. What role did he have in LOTR?
What? Who?
Was he one of the brothers? The one that didn’t look like James Woods?
He was Merry. Actors name: Dominic Monaghan.
Jack Black does this to me a lot. For some reason, in my head, I keep thinking that High Fidelity was his first movie.
I had to re-watch Mars Attacks, The Jackal, and Enemy of the State about 10 times each to recall that Black was in them. (Jason Lee is another “oh yeah!” guy in Enemy of the State).
I saw Jingle All The Way over a decade ago and the only names I could give you for it were Arnold Shwarzeneger, Phil Hartman, and Sinbad.
It was on TV yesterday and I was suprised to see all these people pop up:
Rita Wilson
Martin Mull
Jake Lloyd (young Anakin Skywalker)
Jim Belushi
Laraine Newman
Harvey Korman
Richrd Moll
Chris Parnell (SNL)
Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa Simpson)
Curtis Armstrong (Booger from Revenge of the Nerds)
Robert Conrad
And speaking of “Lost” Harold Perrineau (probably mispelled) was the helicopter pilot in “28 Weeks Later”.
Not quite on topic, but I was flipping through channels last night and ran across some awful-looking old movie with Farrah Fawcett called Extremities with a very familiar looking actor who I couldn’t place for the life of me. So, up and out of bed, looked it up on IMDb, found the movie, went to the actor’s credits, scanned down them lots of stuff I may have seen him in but nothing that rings a bell until … Beverly Hills Cop. He played Mikey Tandino, Axel’s friend who gets his skull venitlated back in Motown.
Don’t forget he had a small part in Bob Roberts.
Maybe, but he played Bob #2 almost exactly like he would later play Dr. Cox, right down to that weird way of streaching out vowels when he’s talking.
I watched Hunt for Red October last week and was surprised to see Fred Thompson in a small role. In the credits he was Fred Dalton Thompson. I’ve seen that movie a hundred times but never much attention to him before.
He also had a bit part playing the best friend of some weirdo with super powers in an early X-files episode.
My favorite in this genre is Jim Carrey. He made it big with Ace Ventura and was 32 at the time. But six years earlier he played drug addict hair metal victim Johnny Squares, credited as james Carrey, in The Dead Pool. When I saw it a while ago, I remembered the part, the scenes, but I never connected it with the Jim Carrey who’s Jerry Lewis re-incarnated.
Carrey had already starred in a TV series well before that (!!) The Duck Factory (with Jack Gilford, no less). Apparently he didn’t resonate with a lot of viewers. I don’t think most people picked up on him until he was on In Living Color. I remember watching earth Girls Are Easy on The Comedy Channel before Ace Ventura came out, and they didn’t even mention that Carrey was in the film on the advertising, although they did mention Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum.
I remember seeing him (after his rise to fame) in the Kathleen Turner / Nicolas Cage flick Peggy Sue Got Married as some background character.