Actors early blink-and-you'll-miss-'em roles

Ted C · 08/04/14 - 10:25

Inspired by the Waterworld thread, I had remembered that Jack Black had an early role in that movie...but he is unrecognisable under goggles and helmet as the pilot of a plane attacks Costner's boat.

Trying to remember any other examples...found this one with Harrison Ford...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoACS74WSIk

JurassicMark · 08/04/14 - 12:08

This scene from the Terminator (WARNING - GRAPHIC VIOLENCE)

I'll let someone else name him, it's not Arnie.
If you don't recognize his face, I think his voice will give him away.

SXTony · 08/04/14 - 13:20

JurassicMark wrote: »

This scene from the Terminator (WARNING - GRAPHIC VIOLENCE)

I'll let someone else name him, it's not Arnie.
If you don't recognize his face, I think his voice will give him away.

Paxton?

He also had a small part in Commando as a naval radio operator.

EVILSPEAK · 08/04/14 - 15:04

Meh Paul Newman movie The Verdict from 1982 is a double whammy for blink and you'll miss them stars to be. Lurking in the background as extras in the courtroom are John McClane and Jigsaw (both on the right of the screen near the top, Bruce has hair so that might blindside you initially).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hetHGGlUgBE

Takae · 08/04/14 - 15:22

JurassicMark wrote: »

This scene from the Terminator (WARNING - GRAPHIC VIOLENCE)

I'll let someone else name him, it's not Arnie.
If you don't recognize his face, I think his voice will give him away.

The one with blue spikes is Bill Paxton.

The blond is Brian ????, who went on to become a villain or antagonist in many action films during the 1980s and 1990s. The last time I saw him was in The X-Files (TV series) when he was an alien hunter. He was in Buffy the Slayer as well. A friend used to joke that he was "Richard Chamberlain on steroids". Perfect description.

No idea on the first one. Looks a bit like Ewen Bremner, though.

RebelScum · 08/04/14 - 15:40

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D_Mcd4 · 08/04/14 - 16:37

George Clooney's "lip syncing transvestite"

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/photos/george-clooney-s-most-embarrassing-roles-slideshow/george-clooney-photo-1327682235.html

That always pops up on before they were famous.

mialicious · 08/04/14 - 16:37

Jean claude van damme in breakdance dancing badly in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkf3ImdgWo0
Samuel L jackson as a concerned family member in public enemy's 911 is a joke video. (0:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M

Arcana · 08/04/14 - 16:43

Not really blink-and-you'll-miss her but Audrey Hepburn's first screen appearance as a stewardess in a 1948 Dutch travelogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4AMtBRI74&hd=1

D_Mcd4 · 08/04/14 - 17:20

Poor Anne Sellors never got famous after her blink and you miss it role. She was the unforgettable "Woman Who Urinates Herself " in Threads.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/

JCR · 08/04/14 - 17:48

mialicious wrote: »

Jean claude van damme in breakdance dancing badly in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkf3ImdgWo0
Samuel L jackson as a concerned family member in public enemy's 911 is a joke video. (0:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M

Samuel L Jackson also turns up playing as Eddie Murphy's uncle at the beginning of Murphy's stand up show Raw. That one is a bit odd.

dodrade · 08/04/14 - 18:14

Kevin Costner is the corpse being dressed for burial in the opening credits of The Big Chill. He did feature in flashback scenes but they didn't make the final cut.

k0213818 · 08/04/14 - 18:16

A young Sylvester Stallone as a subway thug in the Woody Allen comedy 'Bananas'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsrakdT-skg

soran · 08/04/14 - 18:21

Jim Carrey in the background of the 1989 Clint Eastwood film Pink Cadillac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FFpdCOiOk

Kurt Russell kicking Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhD5IhVYSxQ

Alexei Sayle in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Sorry, can't find a vdeo of this.

Alrightmate · 08/04/14 - 18:43

Jim Carrey again from Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPUcNggb2xM

woot_whoo · 08/04/14 - 19:12

There is a long-standing rumour that Sean Connery had a minor (non-speaking) role in "A Night to Remember" (the 1958 picture about the Titanic). Many people still believe he's in it, but I believe it to be a bit of Hollywood fiction.

gamersxchange · 08/04/14 - 21:18

Or Jeff Goldblum in Death Wish as Freak 2!

JurassicMark · 08/04/14 - 21:23

SXTony wrote: »

Paxton?

Takae wrote: »

The one with blue spikes is Bill Paxton.

Yeah, Bill Paxton is the one I was referring to.

treefr0g · 08/04/14 - 21:52

dodrade wrote: »

Kevin Costner is the corpse being dressed for burial in the opening credits of The Big Chill. He did feature in flashback scenes but they didn't make the final cut.

He's also at the frat party in the morgue in 'Night Shift'.

I was also going to say Jeff Goldblum as one of the rapists in Death Wish but somebody has beaten me to it so I'll say Jeff Goldblum making a phone call in 'Annie Hall'.

treefr0g · 08/04/14 - 22:09

Billy Zane is in all of the 'Back to the Future' movies and Elijah Wood is in 'Back to the Future II'

dodrade · 08/04/14 - 23:31

James McAvoy is the silhouetted soldier about to be executed on the DVD cover of Regeneration, although it's his only scene in the film.

A younger and thinner Seth Rogen has a small part in Donnie Darko.

rfonzo · 09/04/14 - 01:25

Illy Allen was in William Shakespeare's Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh. I suspect her Dad got her that little role so she had the chance to dress up.

pearlsandplums · 09/04/14 - 10:04

Its a TV one, but i recently found out the twins from grace under fire are Zach and Cody from the suite life of zach and cody

treefr0g · 09/04/14 - 13:42

Kiera Knightley was Queen Amidala's decoy in Phantom Menace.

Gary Halliday · 09/04/14 - 15:05

woot_whoo wrote: »

There is a long-standing rumour that Sean Connery had a minor (non-speaking) role in "A Night to Remember" (the 1958 picture about the Titanic). Many people still believe he's in it, but I believe it to be a bit of Hollywood fiction.

No, he wasn't in it, but that should be a bit of Pinewood fiction.

BlueEyedMrsP · 09/04/14 - 15:32

Not so much an early role, but Mel Gibson makes a brief appearance in Fairy Tale: A True Story as the little girl's dad who comes home at the end of the film.

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