The title is awkward but there were 2 older movies I saw on cable where I recognized the bit actors who have 'made' it.

I was wondering what other 'gems' are out there?

My contributions from the movies this past week are:


Crimson Tide (1995) - James Gandolfini, supply officer who hazes the seaman on the bus.
Predator 2 (1990) - Bill Paxton, the wise-cracking, "lone ranger" detective.


Update: Also saw a familiar face today

Dances with Wolves (1990) - Mary McDonnell, Costner's white-indian love interest or better known as BSG's President Roslin "I'm coming for all of you".

Paxton was already huge the second he played Chet in Weird Science in 1985.

Billy Crystal plays the mime waiter in this is Spinal Tap

Vince Vaughn is in Rudy

Keanu Reeves is the french speaking goalie in Youngblood.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS IN CRITTERS 3

Billy Crystal plays the mime waiter in this is Spinal Tap


Dana Carvey was still 2 years away from SNL when he played the junior mime that Crystal was with.

Princess Bride was released one year before Fred Savage was cast in The Wonder Years.

Jean Claude Van Damme was nothing when he cut loose in <i>Breakin'</i>.

Noah Wylie was in A Few Good Men.

I still remember Mary McDonell from E/R, the Elliot Gould 1980s sitcom about doctors working in an emergency room co-starring George Clooney. Loved that show. Bill Crystal had also been on Soap for about 3-4 years before Spinal Tap and was a pretty well-known comedian. Oh, you young kids!

Mystic Pizza is a good movie for that kind of thing. Julia Roberts was a nobody in her first significant role and then all of a sudden Matt Damon shows up.

My all-time champ might be Red Dawn. Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey, almost all of them in their first major roles. I know Howell was in ET but it was a small role and he was a few years younger.

the Outsiders was also a good one for alot of the guys who were popular in the future

Alfred Molinda in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Red Dawn, a great b-grade movie. Have it in my collection.

This made me think of


Taps (1981) - Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton and Tom Cruise!

Bill Crystal had also been on Soap for about 3-4 years before Spinal Tap and was a pretty well-known comedian. Oh, you young kids!

Don't blame me, I was being kind & not mentioning that part when I brought up Dana Carvey.

Don't blame me, I was being kind & not mentioning that part when I brought up Dana Carvey.

even so he went on to a pretty monster career and that was not a monster role.

but hey, it's FOFC and people will argue about anything!

Don't blame me, I was being kind & not mentioning that part when I brought up Dana Carvey.
No, you're an old bastard like me. We may not be Bucc old, but we're north of the median.

Jean Claude Van Damme was nothing when he cut loose in Breakin'.


Just a note: JC Van Damme is still nothing.

Hatcher Flaschen in the Punisher

Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th

Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street

The movie version of The Outsiders (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001494/) is one of the best movies for this sort of thing. It has virtual unknowns Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, and Emilio Estevez, as well as Patrick Swayze and Diane Lane before anyone had really heard of them. And it even stars Ralph Macchio, pre-Karate Kid.

Robin Williams in "Can I Do It Until I Need Glasses?".

Note: I am the only person in the world that remembers seeing that opening weekend. His first movie, right after his amazing entrance on Happy Days.

Taps (1981) - Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton and Tom Cruise!


That was the one movie I thought of when I first read the thread.

The movie version of The Outsiders (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001494/) is one of the best movies for this sort of thing. It has virtual unknowns Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, and Emilio Estevez, as well as Patrick Swayze and Diane Lane before anyone had really heard of them. And it even stars Ralph Macchio, pre-Karate Kid.

were you just agreeing with me because I pointed that on out, like, HOURS AGO!;)

Nicholas "Cage" Coppolla as HS student in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

He wasn't the only one, either, I think. Might have been Anthony Edwards, pre-Top Gun and ER in that one, too.

Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th

Also, in Animal House, pre-Footloose.

The title is awkward but there were 2 older movies I saw on cable where I recognized the bit actors who have 'made' it.

I was wondering what other 'gems' are out there?

My contributions from the movies this past week are:

Crimson Tide (1995) - James Gandolfini, supply officer who hazes the seaman on the bus.
Predator 2 (1990) - Bill Paxton, the wise-cracking, "lone ranger" detective.
Update: Also saw a familiar face today

Dances with Wolves (1990) - Mary McDonnell, Costner's white-indian love interest or better known as BSG's President Roslin "I'm coming for all of you".

Paxton was already huge the second he played Chet in Weird Science in 1985.

Yeah, Paxton had small roles as one of the punks at the beginning of "Terminator" and as a radar operator in "Commando."

Crimson Tide (1995) - James Gandolfini, supply officer who hazes the seaman on the bus.

Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn from LOTR) was in that too.

Yeah, Paxton had small roles as one of the punks at the beginning of "Terminator" and as a radar operator in "Commando."

You can go back further and find him in Stripes.

Jean Claude Van Damme was nothing when he cut loose in <i>Breakin'</i>.

This will never...ever...ever get old.

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Jim Carey in Peggy Sue Got Married

Beverly Hills Cop was also pivotal for giving us Damon Wayans and Bronson Pinchot.

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Just saw "Catch Me If You Can" on cable last night and one of Leo's one night stands is the title character in Grey's Anatomy.

Jessica Marie Alba in Camp Nowhere.

Fran Drescher was in Saturday Night Fever before she adopted the nasaly whine.

Jeff Goldblum was in the original "Death Wish". He was one of the thugs that broke into Charles Bronson's house murdering his wife and raping his daughter.

Robert Blake was the mexican kid in Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Just saw "Catch Me If You Can" on cable last night and one of Leo's one night stands is the title character in Grey's Anatomy.

Speaking of "Catch Me if You Can", Amy Adams has a fairly decent sized role about 3 years before "Junebug"

Billy Bob Thornton in Tombstone?

If you're really old school, let's go with Boo Radley himself, Robert Duval in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Add Elizabeth Banks in with the rest of the ladies from Catch Me If You Can.

Seth Rogen is one of the bullies in Donnie Darko.

Speaking of "Catch Me if You Can", Amy Adams has a fairly decent sized role about 3 years before "Junebug"

Go back even further and you can see her playing a very un-Amy Adams roles in Cruel Intentions 2 and en episode of Buffy.

Elijah Wood was one of the kids at the video game in Back to the Future II.

Kurt Russell was the jungle boy in an episode of Gilligan's Island.

I noticed Ricky Shroeder is apparently also in Crimson Tide, but can't for the life of me remember what his role is (and I saw about half the movie on TV this weekend while tending to The Baby).

I noticed Ricky Shroeder is apparently also in Crimson Tide, but can't for the life of me remember what his role is (and I saw about half the movie on TV this weekend while tending to The Baby).

He is the officer that is ordered to close the hatch on the other sailors.

Diane Lane and Anthony Michael Hall in Six Pack w/ Kenny Rogers. This was a few years before Hall was big in breakfast club, sixteen candles and wierd science.

I know George Clooney got a mention with E/R, but he was also in Return of the Killer Tomatoes, mullet and all.

I know George Clooney got a mention with E/R, but he was also in Return of the Killer Tomatoes, mullet and all.


Before that Clooney was a regular cast member in "Facts of Life" which was on around the same time as E/R if I recall correctly (early to mid 80s).

Keanu Reeves is the french speaking goalie in Youngblood.

"That man is fuck-eeng animal."

I noticed Ricky Shroeder is apparently also in Crimson Tide, but can't for the life of me remember what his role is (and I saw about half the movie on TV this weekend while tending to The Baby).

Wait a minute...Ricky Schroder was on TV about 15 years or so before Crimson Tide came out. I think he started as a kid actor in the late 70s/early 80s, even before Silver Spoons. He probably got a bit role in that movie because he was trying to re-establish himself as Rick Schroder, No Longer a Child Actor.

Wait a minute...Ricky Schroder was on TV about 15 years or so before Crimson Tide came out. I think he started as a kid actor in the late 70s/early 80s, even before Silver Spoons. He probably got a bit role in that movie because he was trying to re-establish himself as Rick Schroder, No Longer a Child Actor.

Yeah so that's like the reverse of this thread. Kinda like Anthony Michael Hall in Edward Scissorhands.

There's an early 90s movie called Across the Tracks that works both ways. Rick(y) Schroeder is in it and Brad Pitt plays his brother.

Yeah, I knew that about Rick Shroeder, but I think the thing that makes it interesting is that I think this was after he had taken a number of years off, so he's in a bit part here and there, but you don't really notice it (well, until he went on NYPD Blue).

Sam Jackson as a 2 bit crackhead in Goodfellas.

Sam Jackson as a 2 bit crackhead in Goodfellas.

Wasn't he also the robber in Coming to America?

Wasn't he also the robber in Coming to America?

So even back then he was in every movie that came out ;)

SI

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Good grief we could list the entire cast. Linda Cardellini did have some guest shots before F&G -- saw her not too long ago on TV Land in Third Rock From the Sun. James Franco, Jason Segel and John Francis Daley hadn't done much before the show and F&G was the first job for Seth Rogen. We're still waiting for Martin Starr an Samm Levine to this the big one. It's amazing how talented that cast was.

Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun.
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Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun.
Epic response. My favorite thing about that movie is that everybody wore the same clothes for the whole movie. I haven't seen it in years, but I guess it all took place over the course of one day. That was a truly incredible day. Best movie in the world.

Fran Drescher was in Saturday Night Fever before she adopted the nasaly whine.

Hollywood Knights as well. She was an ironbox twin.

Vince Vaughn is in Rudy



I know John Favreau is in it, but who did Vince Vaughn play?

EDIT: he sure as heck was...Vince Vaughn ... Jamie O'Hara (as Vincent Vaughn)

I know John Favreau is in it, but who did Vince Vaughn play?

A once promising recruit that spazzes out at Rudy for going all out in practice.

Yeah, Paxton had small roles as one of the punks at the beginning of "Terminator" and as a radar operator in "Commando."

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Seth Green in Can't Buy Me Love.

I just like bringing up that movie so I can bring up Amanda Peterson...

Seth Green also the young Woody Allen in Radio Days.

Jeff Goldblum was in the original "Death Wish". He was one of the thugs that broke into Charles Bronson's house murdering his wife and raping his daughter."God Damn Rich Cunt!"

Michael Madsen was a missle silo officer in "War Games", pulling a gun on John Spencer.

"Turn your key, sir!"

Seth Green also the young Woody Allen in Radio Days.

Young? He was already into semi-retirement from starring roles. He'd already made Bananas, Take the Money and Run and Sleeper.

Drew Barrymore in ET.

Also if you are a MSR2K fan, you might remember a black and white horror movie that starred Nicolas Cage using another name. Wish I could remember the flics title.

Young? He was already into semi-retirement from starring roles. He'd already made Bananas, Take the Money and Run and Sleeper.

I meant Seth Green played the young Woody Allen in Radio Days.

Sam Jackson as a 2 bit crackhead in Goodfellas.

stacks edwards

I remember Jack Black and Giovanie Ribisi were in an episode of The X Files before they were big.

I remember Jack Black and Giovanie Ribisi were in an episode of The X Files before they were big.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Ribisi was a punk kid who could control lightning and hung out with Black, iirc

SI

I remember Jack Black and Giovanie Ribisi were in an episode of The X Files before they were big.

Jack Black and Seth Green were both in that horrible rollerblading movie Airborne where the kid brings his surfboard to Cincinnati

Jack Black and Seth Green were both in that horrible rollerblading movie Airborne where the kid brings his surfboard to Cincinnati

Shaaaahhh...

Ribisi also played Nicole's boyfriend on My Two Dads. At the time, he was "Vonni Ribisi".

The "Shoooosh" antagonist from "Encino Man" had a bit part in Lost in season 1.. I haven't seen the rest of the seasons of the show yet, but I laughed my ass off after seeing him on there.

Not sure that qualifies at all though. I'm just wasting time.

Julia Stiles' Applejacks commerical

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Shaaaahhh...

Chill bra!

Did you just call me a piece of underwear?

That movie was hilarious at times.

stacks edwards

Wasn't he a homeless dude in Do the Right Thing as well? Maybe I am thinking of someone else.

Wasn't he a homeless dude in Do the Right Thing as well? Maybe I am thinking of someone else.

He was the deejay.

Wasn't he a homeless dude in Do the Right Thing as well? Maybe I am thinking of someone else.

He was also one of the control room guys in Jurassic Park. Samuel Jackson is one of those guys that definitely paid his dues.

I remember Jack Black and Giovanie Ribisi were in an episode of The X Files before they were big.

Then Ribisi must have been in The Wonder Years before that. David Schwimmer was also in that before he got big. And John Corbett.

We can't forget Jason Alexander in Brighton Beach Memoirs as the Pool Shark who hustles Stanley out of his pay check. (Somebody can insert his now famous McDLT commericial in here)

Bill Laimbeer played a Sleestack in Land of the Lost while in high school

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Wasn't he in Even Stevens before that?

Yep. He was already big with Disney.
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Speaking of the Facts of Life...

Donald Gibb... A.K.A 'Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski', was in that show 3 years after "Revenge of the Nerds", but a year before "Bloodsport" with JCVD.

Guys, the Outsiders was billed as an all-star cast of young talent. It had huge hype and they listed the actors names during the commercials.

Jack Black was a weapons dealer in the Jackal remake. Bruce Willis uses him as target practice.

I pointed out one to my wife. The woman that plays Calli on Grey's Anatomy is a check out girl in You've Got Mail.

Seth Green in Can't Buy Me Love.

I just like bringing up that movie so I can bring up Amanda Peterson...

Seth Green was also in an episode of 90210. He went on a double date with Brenda and Kelly.

Earth Girls Are Easy gave us the first pairing of two of the stars of In Living Color, Daymon Wayans and Jim Carrey.

And speaking of In Living Color, Toys, starring Robin Williams, gave us the first movie look at Jamie Foxx.

Harrison Ford was an Army executive officer in Apocalypse Now.

Dazed and Confused had a bunch of familiar faces (Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck come to mind immediately) during the early phases of their careers.

Jack Black was a weapons dealer in the Jackal remake. Bruce Willis uses him as target practice.

He was also in Airborne which was filmed here in Cincinnati.

He was also in Airborne which was filmed here in Cincinnati.

Black also plays a neo-Nazi in Bob Roberts. Not sure which of those movies was first (and too lazy to look)

Watching Deep Impact now. Frodo is the kid star!

Watching Deep Impact now. Frodo is the kid star!

Yeah, but Elijah Wood was already pretty well known at that point.

Antonio Banderas in Philadelphia (1993) and Interview With The Vampire (1994)
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Epic response. My favorite thing about that movie is that everybody wore the same clothes for the whole movie. I haven't seen it in years, but I guess it all took place over the course of one day. That was a truly incredible day. Best movie in the world.
Aniston in the daisy dukes, right?

Before that Clooney was a regular cast member in "Facts of Life" which was on around the same time as E/R if I recall correctly (early to mid 80s).
I remember him from Roseanne. For a guy who wasn't a big name back then, he was in a ton of shit.

If anyone has seen the movie Gacy, Chubby from Teen Wolf is the guy who played him.

not as far back as some of the others, but hayden panitierre (heroes) from remember the titans