Actors spotted in smaller/uncredited roles

[Thorin Oakenshield]

Billy Zane in back to the future

 

[BLUEYESTU]

The actors who played Cuddy and Taub in House appear in As Good As It Gets in a restaurant scene where Melvin makes a joke about their appetites not being as big as their Jew noses.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Pierce Brosman plays an IRA hitman in The Long Good Friday

Heard Bob Hoskins talk about that scene on a talk show several years later, saying up to that point he’d never met Brosnan. Due to the latter‘s other filming commitments in LA at that time, his half of the scene had to be shot over there and Hoskins’ in the back of a car whilst being driven through the streets of London, which when you think of the intensity of the scene, is quite remarkable.

 

[urban genie]

Clint eastwood forst movoe role umcredited at the time





Scarlett Johanson

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Roy the cafe owner in Coronation Street was in Bergerac or similar.
He played a tough gangster thug and was not convincing at all. Not sure whether this was miscasting or subsequent typecasting because of his 'Roy' role.
It must be difficult for a Leicester fan to appear as a hard case. I always think of them with their noise making things and holding their mobiles' lights aloft singing along with a talent show winner.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Ted Danson in Saving Private Ryan

I didn't realise Vin Diesel was in that film. I mean I did, but I had no idea who he was at the time, and then went back to watch it and realised who he was.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Not sure if anyone's posted this classic yet...



No idea what accent he's going for there.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Not sure if anyone's posted this classic yet...



No idea what accent he's going for there.

Born Mirfield, spent some of his youth in Jarrow, and I got both those accents in that clip but he does seem to throw Welsh and Scottish in there and perhaps some others. Extremely odd, he may have thought "I've got 20 seconds, I'll show them the range of my talents".

 

[bada bing]

Omar, Bodie and Wallace from The Wire all had minor roles in The Sopranos along with Lady Ga Ga.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Damon Wayans in Beverly Hills Cop and Chris Rock in Beverly Hills Cop 2

 

[Blue Maverick]

Harrison Ford, in a very minor role, appears in Apocalypse Now for just a few minutes. Don't think he achieved much after that.

Also starred in American Grafitti which led to the gig on a little film called Star Wars

 

[Ghandi's Flip Flops]

Also starred in American Grafitti which led to the gig on a little film called Star Wars

wasn't he making more money as a carpenter making film sets than he was as an actor prior to getting the Star Wars gig?

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

"Junior" Soprano meets the Godfather: Part II (1974)

 

[kippaxwarrior]

wasn't he making more money as a carpenter making film sets than he was as an actor prior to getting the Star Wars gig?

He was. The story is the actor who was supposed to audition with Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill didn't turn up and as luck would have it Ford was on the building doing a bit of carpentry work.

Lucas knew him because he had a bit part in American Graffiti so he asked Ford if if could fill in which he agreed and the rest is history

 

[Blue Maverick]

wasn't he making more money as a carpenter making film sets than he was as an actor prior to getting the Star Wars gig?

Yes he got the part in Grafitti and was still a jobbing joiner, that’s his he got the scar on his chin. Got the job on Star Wars after Lucas invited him to do read throughs with other actors.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Steve Buscemi as Buddy Holly in Pulp Fiction.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Good spot.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Elijah Wood in Back to the Future part 2. Sorry if already mentioned.

 

[CALCIO POTATO]

I've never managed to spot George Harrison in Life of Brian - i was told that he appears in it - but maybe someone told me pork chops

 

[laserblue]

John Travolta played the uncredited role of 'Thug #1' in a brief subway scene in Woody Allen's film Bananas.