Films actors were in before they were famous.

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  1. Darkhorse's Avatar

    Darkhorse said: July 19, 2010 03:16 PM

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    So I find myself sitting inside on this hot July evening. I'm bored, and I don't like being bored, if I'm bored I smoke more and as I am trying to cut down this isn't a good thing.

    I flick through the channels, and I see Kingdom of Heaven is just about to start. Great, I like that film, Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom, the bad guy from the first Dragonheart. Awesome.

    So who do I see in the first 5 mins. None over than Michael Sheen, before his roles as Lucien and Tony Blair propelled him into Hollywood. My god, who is that, Philip Glennister? Before he was Gene Hunt? Surely not? Awesome.

    What famous, big, popular monies have you seen where you have noticed actors who you notice now, but at the time of its creation you wouldn't have?

    I'll short list a few I've noticed.

    - Platoon features a very young Johnny Depp.
    - Apocalypse Now features R Lee Ermy as a helicopter pilot.
    - Island at War features a pre Life on Mars Philip Glennister
     

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    René Artois said: July 19, 2010 03:42 PM

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    Watch out for Glennister in Hornblower, and that was like 4 years before Kingdom of Heaven. Also Sharpe 1997.
    Bitter is the wind tonight,
    it stirs up the white-waved sea.
    I do not fear the coursing of the Irish sea
    by the fierce warriors of Lothlind.
     

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    Captain Jin said: July 19, 2010 03:45 PM

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    Elize Dushku was Arnold's daughter in True Lies.
    Natalie Portman was Pacino's daughter in Heat.

    Wasn't their first roles, but didn't even notice them till I re-watched the movies later on.

    Speaking of Hornblower. Jamie Bamber from Galactica fame was Horatio's good buddy.
     

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    saxdude said: July 19, 2010 04:00 PM

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    Im not sure this counts but damn it was i surprised when i figured out that Bilbo Baggins is an android that wants to capture an Alien (xenomorph).
    The utter shock.
     

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    Katsumoto said: July 19, 2010 04:23 PM

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    Elijah Wood was some kid in the arcade in Back to the Future II.
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    Gaidin said: July 19, 2010 04:38 PM

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    Harrison Ford was in American Graffiti.
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    -Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
     

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    Darkhorse said: July 19, 2010 04:47 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    Harrison Ford was in American Graffiti.
    Speaking of him, we was a nothing before Star Wars.
     

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    Gaidin said: July 19, 2010 04:52 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkhorse View Post
    Speaking of him, we was a nothing before Star Wars.
    Did you know he still does carpentry work on the movie sets for the films he's in? In Firewall he'd get thrown through the door, get right up, help the set carpenters put a new door on, and then get thrown through it again for another take. The bad guy in that movie who's 20 years younger than Ford said to bet on Ford in a straight fight.
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    Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
     

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    Darkhorse said: July 19, 2010 04:54 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    Did you know he still does carpentry work on the movie sets for the films he's in? In Firewall he'd get thrown through the door, get right up, help the set carpenters put a new door on, and then get thrown through it again for another take. The bad guy in that movie who's 20 years younger than Ford said to bet on Ford in a straight fight.
    Did you know that sometimes, between movies, when he was short of cash, he'd work for his brother in his grounds maintenance business. People would wake up to find Han Solo cutting their lawn.
     

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    René Artois said: July 19, 2010 04:42 PM

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    Frodo joined the ICF in Green Street.
    Bitter is the wind tonight,
    it stirs up the white-waved sea.
    I do not fear the coursing of the Irish sea
    by the fierce warriors of Lothlind.
     

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    Ketzerfreund said: July 19, 2010 04:57 PM

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    In the Sherlock Holmes series by Granada studios (the one with with the grandiose Jeremy Brett) I've seen a young Jude Law as a stable boy. Boy, did he look weird with his singular eyebrow...
    In that same series I've also seen Marina Sirtis as the daughter of some Italian family, with an extremely bitter look on her face... So beautiful and at the same time somewhat disturbing.

    Only recently I've noticed that the guy that plays Dr. Kelso in Scrubs also appeared in an episode of Star Trek - TNG. He looked just as old then, already.
     

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    Godfrey I of Leuven said: July 19, 2010 04:58 PM

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    Sean connery in The Longest Day, a pretty funny sight if you ask me

    Behold, pvt. Flanagan:

    Last edited by Godfrey I of Leuven; July 19, 2010 at 05:06 PM.
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: July 31, 2010 09:56 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Godfrey I of Leuven View Post
    Sean connery in The Longest Day, a pretty funny sight if you ask me

    Behold, pvt. Flanagan:

    He looks like Mr. Bean.
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    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
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    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
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    Then I'm God.
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    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


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    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

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    Darkhorse said: July 19, 2010 05:03 PM

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    OO Good one Godfrey. I remember it now. "It takes an Irishman to play the pipes" Amuses me he plays an Irishman.
     

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    Captain Jin said: July 19, 2010 05:12 PM

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    What about Elizabeth Hurley in Sharpe's Enemy?


    Or Hurley in the Young Indiana Jones?
     

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    Lord Rahl said: July 19, 2010 05:17 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Jin View Post
    What about Elizabeth Hurley in Sharpe's Enemy?


    Or Hurley in the Young Indiana Jones?

    Wait, her or her boobs?

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    René Artois said: July 19, 2010 05:44 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Jin View Post
    What about Elizabeth Hurley in Sharpe's Enemy?


    Or Hurley in the Young Indiana Jones?
    We all remember that.
    Bitter is the wind tonight,
    it stirs up the white-waved sea.
    I do not fear the coursing of the Irish sea
    by the fierce warriors of Lothlind.
     

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    nightwar said: July 24, 2010 12:46 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Jin View Post
    What about Elizabeth Hurley in Sharpe's Enemy?


    Or Hurley in the Young Indiana Jones?
    Loved Her breast's in that episode lol.
     

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    MrMofo said: July 19, 2010 05:09 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkhorse View Post
    So I find myself sitting inside on this hot July evening. I'm bored, and I don't like being bored, if I'm bored I smoke more and as I am trying to cut down this isn't a good thing.

    I flick through the channels, and I see Kingdom of Heaven is just about to start. Great, I like that film, Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom, the bad guy from the first Dragonheart. Awesome.

    So who do I see in the first 5 mins. None over than Michael Sheen, before his roles as Lucien and Tony Blair propelled him into Hollywood. My god, who is that, Philip Glennister? Before he was Gene Hunt? Surely not? Awesome.

    What famous, big, popular monies have you seen where you have noticed actors who you notice now, but at the time of its creation you wouldn't have?

    I'll short list a few I've noticed.

    - Platoon features a very young Johnny Depp.
    - Apocalypse Now features R Lee Ermy as a helicopter pilot.
    - Island at War features a pre Life on Mars Philip Glennister
    I'm surprised you didn't mention Lawrence Fishburne in Apocalypse Now



     

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    Darkhorse said: July 19, 2010 05:11 PM

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    I feel stupid for forgetting now. That's probably my favourite all time movie. The late Dennis Hopper as well.