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

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 53,142
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    In an episode of Columbo i spotted Jamie Lee Curtis as the young barmaid, telling Columbo off for eating a doughnut in her cafe..she told him off and gave it to her and she asked what can i get you..he (Columbo) replied a doughnut please :D
  • Bob_AjobBob_Ajob Posts: 1,742
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    Benicio Del Toro appears in Madonna's La Isla Bonita video.
  • Brummie Girl Brummie Girl Posts: 22,631
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    Jennifer Lopez appears in Janet Jackson's That's The Way Love Goes video
    Keanu Reeves appears in Paula Abdul's Rush Rush video as her love interest
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    Jennifer Lopez appears in Janet Jackson's That's The Way Love Goes video
    Keanu Reeves appears in Paula Abdul's Rush Rush video as her love interest

    Courtney Cox is in a Bruce Springfield video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Uo24iNA4k
  • treefr0gtreefr0g Posts: 23,644
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    A very young Mellanie Griffiths was in 'The Drowning Pool'
  • Fairyprincess0Fairyprincess0 Posts: 30,061
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    Danny John Jules, from red dwarf plays one of the singers at the bus stop in 'little shop of horrors.'

    He's also the voice of one of the firey demons in labyrinth....
  • Brummie Girl Brummie Girl Posts: 22,631
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    Danny John Jules, from red dwarf plays one of the singers at the bus stop in 'little shop of horrors.'

    He's also the voice of one of the firey demons in labyrinth....

    He is another person who has appeared in a pop video. He appeared in Wham's Edge Of Heaven
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    Dexter Fletcher actor now film director appeared as a child in Bugsy Malone playing an American (he would later play an American in the kids TV show Press Gang)
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 376
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    James Frain got his big break in Shadowlands, in 1993. Quite soon afterwards he was in An Awfully Big Adventure, but wasn't in it very much at all.
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    He is another person who has appeared in a pop video. He appeared in Wham's Edge Of Heaven

    Another one is Alexis Denisof who appeared in George Harrison's Got My Mind Set on You.
  • GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,389
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    Dexter Fletcher actor now film director appeared as a child in Bugsy Malone playing an American (he would later play an American in the kids TV show Press Gang)

    And Band Of Brothers.
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Gulftastic wrote: »
    And Band Of Brothers.
    He was a well established actor when he appeared in that.
  • mialiciousmialicious Posts: 4,686
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    elijah wood is one of the kids playing the arcade game in back to the future 2
    jake gyllenhaal as billy crystals son in city slickers
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    degsyhufc wrote: »
    He was a well established actor when he appeared in that.

    Didn't he present Gamesmaster for a while too?
  • degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    dodrade wrote: »
    Didn't he present Gamesmaster for a while too?
    Not sure without looking it up but he's been in plently of films and is now a director.
    As was posted previously he got his break as a child actor.
  • FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    Lance Henriksen (Bishop, the android in Aliens) can be seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind near the end when the aliens arrive.
  • treefr0gtreefr0g Posts: 23,644
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    John Ratzenberger ( Cliff from Cheers ) was in 'The Empire Strikes Back'.
  • FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    George Wendt (Norm from Cheers) was in Airplane II: The Sequel
  • November_RainNovember_Rain Posts: 9,145
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    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.

    According to IMDB and his official website he was.

    http://www.seanconnery.com/filmography/
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000125/#actor

    Never spotted him in there myself though.
  • FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    Clint Eastwood is the lab assistant in Revenge of the Creature (1955).

    Peter Cushing is a student in A Chump at Oxford (1940), the Laurel & Hardy film.

    Jack Nicholson is in the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
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    Comedian Omid Djalili is the master of blink and you miss them roles.

    Serving a coffee in Notting Hill

    Having a bug problem in The Mummy (actually quite a big role)

    A Foreman in The World is Not Enough

    Slave trader in Gladiator

    Takes a bullet in Pirates of the Caribbean 3

    Oh, and remember this dog in the beginning of Gladiator?
    http://youtu.be/hVKjzUhyufY?t=2m24s
    It was the same dog that played Wellard in Eastenders! :o
  • FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    Speaking of Eastenders dogs then:

    Ethel Skinner's 'Little Willie' was in Dune (1984) before moving to Albert Square.
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    Ethan Hawke as a college student in Quiz Show.

    Lasts roughly five seconds, and his face is not clearly shown. I didn't realise it was him until I heard his voice and caught a brief glimpse of his profile. He isn't listed in the film credits (his name was apparently added to Quiz Show's imdb page a couple of years later). Quite odd, seeing that he's already well known by then.
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    William H Macy in WarGames and The last dragon
  • Ted CTed C Posts: 11,730
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    On TV right now, an old Kojak episode with a very young Richard Gere, with a very heavy Noo Yoik accent...
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