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Posted: 1/11/2018 3:24:29 PM EDT

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Harrison Ford in The Great Escape.

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Harrison Ford in American Graffiti

Harrison Ford in The Great Escape.

Apparently that is a rumor and it's been proven untrue.

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:28:50 PM EDT

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Next of Kin also had Ben Stiller and Adam Baldwin.

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liam neesom as briar gates in next of kin

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was also in excalibur

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with helen mirren

https://robbinsrealm.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/excalibur-pic-4.jpg

Next of Kin also had Ben Stiller and Adam Baldwin.

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Stiller was also in Empire of the Sun.

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:30:19 PM EDT

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John Ratzenberger in Fire Fox and Empire Strikes Back. (same character in both)

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Cliff Clavin was also in A Bridge to Far, got shot in the eye crossing the river.

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:31:19 PM EDT

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Peter Dinklage in Elf.

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:31:38 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/11/2018 3:33:21 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/11/2018 3:34:43 PM EDT

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Robert Redford on twilight zone, as Death masquerading as a young police officer

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:36:08 PM EDT

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Jimmy Stewart as the bad guy in a Thin Man movie with William Powell.

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:42:30 PM EDT

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Cuba Gooding Jr. in Coming to America

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Samuel L. Jackson in Coming to America

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:44:40 PM EDT

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Terri Hatcher in Tango&Cash

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:55:15 PM EDT

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Old Murder, She Wrote episodes as well. Last one I saw a year or so ago had someone named Bruce Jenner in it.

Posted: 1/11/2018 3:56:46 PM EDT

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Daniel Craig in Munich.

You guys are slipping.

Posted: 1/11/2018 4:00:04 PM EDT

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Don Cheadle as Rocket in Colors.

Posted: 1/11/2018 4:06:50 PM EDT

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Kevin Costner in "Night Shift" and "The Big Chill."

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I read that his scenes from The Big Chill were deleted. No?

Posted: 1/11/2018 5:05:07 PM EDT

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Morgan freeman in Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow.

He started his career on the kids show Electric Company

Electric Company - Morgan Freeman DJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K00rz73s_zU

Posted: 1/11/2018 5:16:33 PM EDT

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Jack Gleeson in Batman Begins (2005). The movie's not obscure but his part is easy to miss (he's the kid on the fire escape Batman gives a gadget to.)

Posted: 1/11/2018 5:56:40 PM EDT

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John Ritter in Jaws. Uncredited, bit when the kids have the fake fin and cause a stampede, a guy rushing out of the water flips a rubber raft with 2 kids on it. Sure looks like John Ritter to me.

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:01:00 PM EDT

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Fuck, I thought he was Big already when he was in that film. I guess I didn't realize that Cheech and Chong could be a older movie than Pee Wee's Big adventure or whatever. lol

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He was in Cheech&Chong's Next Movie too.

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:01:39 PM EDT

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And in The Bounty.

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Liam Neeson in The Mission.
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And in The Bounty.

The bounty was the first movie I thought of.

Don't forget Daniel Day-Lewis. I made it halfway through the movie before I realized it was him.

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:08:50 PM EDT

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I believe the All State guy was the getaway driver in Heat.

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Wouldn't surprise me, he was Serrano in Major League too.

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:13:01 PM EDT

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Don't know if it's been said yet, but I always thought Mel Gibson's cameo in Father's Day was surprising.

I mean... that was around his big Braveheart, Patriot, etc days.

Edit: beat

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:15:37 PM EDT

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Both Chloe Grace Moretz and Jennifer Lawrence in The Poker House were ascending stars

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Posted: 1/11/2018 6:26:41 PM EDT

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Steve Carrel in Curly Sue

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Wasn't Steve Carrel in the FedEx fast talker commercials?

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:30:00 PM EDT

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They show reruns of the Alfred Hitchcock mysteries here. I saw Burt Reynolds and Harry Dean Stanton when they
were VERY young the other night. Two episodes are shown after the news and I see someone that falls into
this category in one or the other very night. Robert Duval played an actor who murdered his competition in one
while in his very early twenties. He was good even then.

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:31:54 PM EDT

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They show reruns of the Alfred Hitchcock mysteries here. I saw Burt Reynolds and Harry Dean Stanton when they
were VERY young the other night. Two episodes are shown after the news and I see someone that falls into
this category in one or the other very night. Robert Duval played an actor who murdered his competition in one
while in his very early twenties. He was good even then.

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Harry Dean Stanton was also in Kelly's Heroes

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:51:45 PM EDT

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How about all the women who played Jerry Seinfeld's girlfriends on his show...

Lori Loughlin
Courteney Cox
Anna Gunn
Debra Messing
Kristin Davis
Jane Leeves
Amanda Peet

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That's one hell of a casting couch.

Posted: 1/11/2018 6:55:51 PM EDT

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Jeff Goldblum as a street thug in Death Wish. He was in about 10 minutes of the movie, so I guess it wasn't too obscure, but it's funny to see him in a bad-guy role.

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He's also in "Charles Bronson: Killing Hipsters"

Posted: 1/11/2018 7:05:09 PM EDT

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A lot of eventual stars were on the Twilight Zone. We've all seen William Shatner with the monster on the wing. Burt Reynolds was on the "Shakespeare" episode.

Posted: 1/11/2018 7:07:12 PM EDT

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Monaco Forever.

Now that’s obscure - role and movie.

Posted: 1/11/2018 7:08:51 PM EDT

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Clint eastwood Revenge of the Creature 1955

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Wasn't he also the pilot in "Them" that dropped the bombs on the mutant ants?

Posted: 1/11/2018 7:24:19 PM EDT

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The Outsiders

Take your pick!

Posted: 1/11/2018 8:18:19 PM EDT

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I read that his scenes from The Big Chill were deleted. No?

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Kevin Costner in "Night Shift" and "The Big Chill."

I read that his scenes from The Big Chill were deleted. No?

Cosnter was given his role in Silverado because Kasdan felt guilty about him getting cut out of The Big Chill.
Originally, Costners had a significant role in the Big Chill. His screen time was cut until the character was only shown during the opening credits, and his face was never on screen. Costner had filmed scenes where his character's life was shown in flashbacks, but none of those made the final cut.

Posted: 1/11/2018 8:31:58 PM EDT

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Toby McGuire as the hitchhiking kid in fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.

Posted: 1/11/2018 8:45:52 PM EDT

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Not sure it counts but I saw Jamie Lee Curtis in an early 70's TV Detective show as waitress. Less than a minute with two lines.

Found it,it was her firs TV appearance on Columbo

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Yeah the one with the movie director I think.

gwyneth paltrow Was in columbo etude in black.

Only she just wasn’t born yet.

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:00:39 PM EDT

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Monaco Forever.

Now that's obscure - role and movie.

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Posted: 1/11/2018 9:04:14 PM EDT

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I laugh every time I see this.

Brad Pitt as a Background Extra in No Way Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUnksojkTf8

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:14:21 PM EDT

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The Outsiders is on BBC America right now. Coincidentally.

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:28:52 PM EDT

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Clint Eastwood in Away All Boats

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:43:02 PM EDT

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Siverado

Kevin Kline
Scott Glenn
Kevin Costner
Danny Glover
Rosanna Arquette
Linda Hunt
Brian Dennehy
John Cleese

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And Jeff goldblum

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:50:18 PM EDT

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Since no one is reading the thread or paying attention to the parameters I will give one of my favorite bits of actor trivia

Henry Fonda played Chester Nimitz twice

In Harms Way

and in Midway

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:51:08 PM EDT

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Not a big actor but a big musician, Dave Matthews played a small role in Just Go With It.
"go for the iMan"

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:54:12 PM EDT

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James Earl Jones in Dr. Strangelove

Posted: 1/11/2018 9:58:13 PM EDT

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Robert Duval in Bullit

As the cabdriver.

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How about Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Posted: 1/11/2018 10:01:49 PM EDT

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The cast of Excalibur.

Helen Mirren
Gabriel Byrne
Patrick Stewart
Liam Neeson

BOOM

Posted: 1/11/2018 10:02:47 PM EDT

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Some great calls here, but as usual, some people don't understand what the thread is about. "Eventual big time actors", not big time actors in cameos. For example, Steve Buscemi in Pulp Fiction, as the Buddy Holly-esque waiter. He played a starring role two years earlier in Resevoir Dogs. He was a big-time actor taking on a cameo role.

Anyway, what always comes to my mind is Robert "Boo Radley" Duvall, and Clint "Lab Tech" Eastwood.