Well-known movies that famous people were in when they weren't famous

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Ben Stiller is one of the American POW's in "Empire Of The Sun".

This is good. Particularly cause Ben Stiller is pretty instantly recognizable

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I was gonna post this one.

There are a ton of good ones in "Empire of the Sun". Joe Pantoliano (Cypher from the Matrix, Ralp Cifaretto from the Sopranos) is also in it, and many don't know the main character, the child, is Christian Bale ("Batman Begins" Batman, and one of the kids from Newsies.)


Ethan Hawke is in "Quiz Show", uncredited, he is a student talking to Ralph Fiennes father about Don Quixote, has two lines, but the voice and face are clearly recognizable.