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

[macdaddy991]

Since there is a Star Trek Kirsten Dunst reference earlier, I would like to add that she was in Interview With a Vampire the same year.

[TheCroShow]

Viggo Mortenson in The Prophecy. Sure he was in Crimson Tide, Young Guns 2, and Carlito's Way before that, but he was always "that guy" basically until the release of LOTR.

Adrien Brody in The Thin Red Line.

michelle williams in species (played the young alien chick)

michael moore in Canadian Bacon "Let's put America back in North America!!"

seth green in Heathers

[xx44]

Chris rock-new jack city
Clancy Brown-Bad Boys(the good one, with sean penn)
James Earl Jones-DR Strangelove

[CarpeDiem]

David Caruso was in An Officer and a Gentleman (a failed cadet)

Bonnie Hunt was in Rain Man as the waitress that dropped 246 toothpicks onto the restaurant floor.

This doesn't technically count, but my personal favorite, and one you wouldn't expect, especially from the younger lurkers on the forum is Jerry Orbach aka Lenny Briscoe of Law and Order was the voice of Lumiere the candlesticks in Beauty and the Beast. He sang the catchy "Be our Guest." Older lurkers may note Orbach's impressive Broadway resume which preceded this and invalidates his anonymnity, but most younger sorts know him as a cop.

[Thundercat32]

We're running into a problem in this thread, First of all Samuel Jackson in GoodFellas has already been mentioned like 12 times. Maybe that's because this thread is getting to long to reference for duplication.


I don't think anyone has said this one yet. Check out Elizabeth Hurley the sassy evil terroist Flight Attendant in Passenger 57. She looks kinda spare and not hot at all so I didn't believe it at first, but that's definitely her accent.

[Yawning Chain]

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the woman who played van buren in law and order was the mail lady on pee wee's playhouse

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Larry Fishburne also had a brief stint as the cowboy on that show. However he was replaced by Tito LaRivva of the Plugz, The Cruzados, and Tito and Tarantula.

[BigPoppa]

Kevin Costner in "The Big Chill"

(he's the corpse)

[woodguy]

Was flipping channels on the weekend, and saw that Pat Sajak was the news anchorman from Buffalo in Airplane II (1982), filmed before Wheel of Fortune, started shooting (same year I belive)

A little lame, but at least actually on topic, a rarity for me.... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Regards,
Woodguy

[dinopoker]

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Pierce Brosnan in The Long Goodbye. He plays an IRA assassin. I don't think he has any lines.

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I think it was called The Long Good Friday.

[The DaveR]

Mother from Family Ties has a brief role in All The President's Men.