Movie stuff you only just realised...

[Dan Whitehead]

1. The guy who wrote Heathers also wrote Batman Returns. Which explains a lot.

[Charlie Brigden]

2. Dave Starsky is in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

[Brad Millette]

3. Jeff Goldblum's first on-screen role was "Freak #1" in Death Wish. He wore a Jughead beanie.

[Ken Savage]

Jan De Bont was the director of Photography on Leathal Weapon 3

[Andrew Clarke]

5. The Beatles is a pun.

[MadmanNixon]

6. Jan De Bont was also the DP for Die Hard & Basic Instinct.

[Justin Clark]

10. Tony Shalhoub plays a Spanish sailor named Jorge in Addams Family Values

[MattCG]

The DP on "The Matrix" also did "Army of Darkness" and "Spider-Man 2".

[Bailey]

Porkins is the fat government guy in Raiders and Eckhardt in Batman.

[Joe LeFors]

Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the worst actresses of her generation. Seriously, she single-handedly ruins "Sky Captain." She's unwatchable.

[rollin2001uk]

ian Mcdiarmid who plays the emperor in return was only in his mid twenties to thirties when he played him

[Brad Millette]

Darth Vader's real name is the same as Luke's dead father's name!

Wait a minute...

Holy shit! What a scoop!

[Werbal_Kint]

I'm the only person who still remembers KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE.

[Brad Millette]

Up until this moment, I thought I was the only person that still remembers KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE.

[rollin2001uk]

liam neeson and robbie coltrane are in KRULL a terrible film that is close to my heart.

[Ken Savage]

Liam Nesson is also in Return of the Jedi

[MattCG]

liam neeson and robbie coltrane are in KRULL a terrible film that is close to my heart.


That I seem to be the only one who loves "Krull" and thinks it is in fact a good movie.

[Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film]

Apparently there's a picture in existence called Krippendorf's Tribe (it's name was changed from the original title due to actor Stephen Dorff not recognisable as that hot of a property at the time of the film's release)

[zombie flanders]

liam neeson and robbie coltrane are in KRULL a terrible film that is close to my heart.

Tucker Jenkins from Grange Hill was in KRULL

[B.G. JackONeill]

I'm the only person who still remembers KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE.

Unfortunately, no. Not the best of days for Richard Dreyfuss.

EDIT:

Liam Nesson is also in Return of the Jedi

Explain!

[Brad Millette]

We should form a CHILDREN OF KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE support group.

[rollin2001uk]

kevin smith script doctored COYOTE UGLY kept all his scenes and then they changed all the dialogue, which is why its sh*t

[santi-freak]

Michael and Virginia Madsen are brothers.

[Rob Rocco]

Michael and Virginia Madsen are brothers.
Them is some fucked up chromosomes in the Madsen family.

[Ken Savage]

Bill Bailey autioned for a part in Lord of the Rings as a dwarf, but because he had a west country accent (which they were using for the hobbits) they didnt cast him. (well thats what he said anyway)

[Suttytx]

John Malkovich used a combination of Jane Seymour and Chris Burke as his inspiration to play Lennie in Of Mice and Men.

[Mosespeach]

Keira Knightly was in The Phantom Menace.

Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom was released in 1984, but was in fact a prequel to Raiders Of The Lost Ark, set approximately a year earlier.

[Dan Whitehead]

Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the worst actresses of her generation. Seriously, she single-handedly ruins "Sky Captain." She's unwatchable.

Thanks for playing.

[Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film]

Keira Knightly was in The Phantom Menace.

Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom was released in 1984, but was in fact a prequel to Raiders Of The Lost Ark, set approximately a year earlier.

Temple Of Doom was set in 1983 ?

[Dan Whitehead]

Originally, instead of the Sankara Stones, Indy was supposed to be rescuing The Thomson Twins from Mola Ram.

[Ockham]

East is east.

[Werbal_Kint]

East is east.

And west is west, but the twain DO fucking meet! I mean, the world is spherical! East and west are only human constructs, so if keep heading east you will eventually end up west of where you started.

[Andrew Clarke]

Originally, instead of the Sankara Stones, Indy was supposed to be rescuing The Thomson Twins from Mola Ram.

Oh come on. Are you disseminating again Whitehead?

[Greg Clark]

The man who wrote Batman & Robin and Lost in Space has an Academy Award and Charlie Kaufman does not.

[Mosespeach]

Temple Of Doom was set in 1983 ?

You amuse me.

[MadmanNixon]

A man by the name of George Lucas was one of the cameramen for the concert video 'Gimmie Shelter.'

Being as this was shot in California at the same time that THE George Lucas would have been in college, I've always wondered if it was him, or just some other guy...

[prala is just for jk]

kevin smith script doctored COYOTE UGLY kept all his scenes and then they changed all the dialogue, which is why its sh*t

Someone not only WATCHED Coyotoe Ugly, but also did some research on it.

[Randolph Carter]

Soylent Green is people!

Originally, instead of the Sankara Stones, Indy was supposed to be rescuing The Thomson Twins from Mola Ram.

Do you mean the 80s popgroup or those fellas from the Tintin comic?

[Rath/Brendan]

Moira "Mandy Hampton" Kelly was the voice of the adult Nala in The Lion King.

[Masked Muppet]

Despite all she's done, the best way to get people to recognize Sela Ward is to say "Harrison Ford's wife from The Fugitive."

Of course, since she's only in it for 10 mins, and people still remember her, that says something.

[cognizant]

The DP on "The Matrix" also did "Army of Darkness" and "Spider-Man 2".

And Team America funnily enough. Bill Pope also has a cameo as a security guard in Matrix Reloaded.

[Boney]

Known this for a while, but a lot of people don't.

David Hayter is the voice of Solid Snake in the English releases of Metal Gear Solid. He is also the voice that says "EA Sports. It's in the game" at the beginning of each game from them.

Movie connection? He wrote both X-Men movies too.

[Gorille Verte]

Bob Balaban (of A Mighty Wind, Ghost World, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc.) is the nerdy kid in glasses who picks up Jon Voight outside a movie theater in Midnight Cowboy. Voight shaking him down for loose change in the men's room is one of the film's many shining moments. "No, no...not my books!"

[Vader]

^ Owns Ghosts of Mars.

*weeps*

[Matt Goldberg]

Where's Matchstick when you need him?

[Tony Bag o' donuts]

Jan De Bont was cinematographer on LEONARD PART 6.

[Carl Cthulhu]

ian Mcdiarmid who plays the emperor in return was only in his mid twenties to thirties when he played him

He was also the priest who became charcoal in Dragonslayer.

[Subotai]

Keanu Reeves was originally slated to play Val Kilmer's role in Heat. Thank you, God. Thank you.

[Brendan]

William Petersen was in Thief.

[Diva]

Jean-Claude Van Damme has an uncredited cameo in Breakin'. He plays a passerby in first dance sequence and wears a sexy, neon blue, spandex one-piece.

[Subotai]

William Petersen was in Thief.

So was Dennis Farina. Watch him throw James Caan a big 'fuck you, pal' look in his movie premiere.

[Anderson]

Known this for a while, but a lot of people don't.

David Hayter is the voice of Solid Snake in the English releases of Metal Gear Solid. He is also the voice that says "EA Sports. It's in the game" at the beginning of each game from them.

Movie connection? He wrote both X-Men movies too.

He didn't write the final script for X2. And, he got the X-Men 1 script credit by default.

[Ratty]

I just recently realized that David Wenham is the pseudo-drag queen songwriter with the black pageboy haircut at the beginning of "Moulin Rouge". No wonder Denethor was upset!

[Chris Myers]

Debi Mazar was in Collateral?

[alobek]

William Petersen was in Thief.Petersen was offered a role in Platoon but he turned it down. Scorsese wanted him for GoodFellas, but Petersen wasn't interested.

Gary Sinise (who now stars in a crap CSI spin-off) was up for Petersen's role in To Live and Die in L.A.

[Andrew Joe]

I just recently realized that David Wenham is the pseudo-drag queen songwriter with the black pageboy haircut at the beginning of "Moulin Rouge". No wonder Denethor was upset!

Didn't realise that, right after reading that I thought back to that part where he goes "Goodbye!" and duhhh...that's Wenhams voice...silly me.

The Porkins one I just realised a while back also..........

the dumbest one for me was two weeks ago when my dad was watching CSI and it had that theme music which I realised they used for Charlies Angels 2 when they have that crime scene............scene.........so they even used the music unbeknowest to me.............which just goes to show I don't watch C.S.I at all.

also......Life Aquatics end titles is an homage to Buckaroo Banzais end titles........

[Skrugs Mahoy]

That really is Fairuza Balk in Return To Oz. Okay movie, a bit on the acid side but..still okay.

[B.G. JackONeill]

The man who wrote Batman & Robin and Lost in Space has an Academy Award and Charlie Kaufman does not.

That's friggin' sad.

EDIT:

Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith in The Matrix Trilogy and Elrond in LOTR), Terence Stamp (General Zod in Superman 2) and Guy Pierce (The Time Machine, The Count of Monte Cristo) in drag singing ABBA= Priscilla Queen of the Desert.....

[alobek]

Guy Pierce (The Time Machine, The Count of Monte Cristo)Some might even know him from Memento and L.A. Confidential.

EDIT: Speaking of Memento, Alec Baldwin was Christopher Nolan's first choice to play the lead.

[Rath/Brendan]

JK Simmons is the voice of the yellow M&M.

[Charlie Brigden]

Debi Mazar was in Collateral?

Yeah, Foxx's first passenger.

Debi Mazar and Drew Barrymore were both in BATMAN FOREVER.

[Andrew O.]

JK Simmons is the voice of the yellow M&M.

Used to be. I'm pretty sure Billy West has been doing both voices in the more recent commercials. But yes, I was shocked to learn that too.

[Chris Myers]

I just noticed Temple of Doom shortened forms TOD, which is the german word for death. Uh.


Denise Richards is in Fat Albert.


Sean Penn was in an episode of Viva la Bam. Just seen it. Had to look twice to believe it.


Michael Winslow, Ken Foree, Andy Dick, Wil Wheaton and AXL ROSE can be heard in GTA San Andreas. I know from Sam Jackson and the others, but those were new to me.

[Disciple_72]

Rutger Hauer's character in the movie Wanted: Dead or Alive was offspring (or grand-offspring, not sure it's ever clarified) of Steve McQueen's character in the old TV series with same name.

[Werbal_Kint]

George Lowe (Space Ghost) did the voice over for that old McDonalds Mighty Wings commercial.

[Sharpel007]

Eight peole have done the entertainment grand slam

Oscar, Grammy, Tony, Emmy

Mel Brooks
John Gielgud
Mike Nichols
Richard Rodgers
Audrey Hepburn
Marvin Hamlisch
Helen Hayes
Rita Moreno

[HypnoToad]

One of the most important things I've discovered in my time here on the Chud forums:

Viincent D'Onofrio played Thor in Adventures in Babysitting.

[Sharpel007]

Wolfgang Peterson director of Das Boot and Troy, directed The Neverending Story

[Anderson]

Here's a list for the thread.

LIST OF DIRECTOR CAMEOS

Sam Raimi : Miller's Crossing

Orson Welles: The Muppet Movie

George Lucas: Beverly Hills Cop III

Dario Argento: Innocent Blood

George A. Romero: The Silence of the Lambs

Terry Gilliam: Spies Like Us

Curtis Hanson: Adaptation

Michael Apted: Spies Like Us

John Landis: Spider-Man 2

Joe Dante: Beverly Hills Cop III

Martha Coolidge: Beverly Hills Cop III

Joel Coen: Spies Likes Us

Frank Oz: An American Werewolf in London
The Blues Brothers

Steven Spielberg: Gremlins
The Blues Brothers

[Andrew Joe]

Steven Spielberg: The Blues Brothers

YEAH he's the guy they pay before getting arrested.......

speaking of "The 'Berg" from IMDB.com's trivia section of JP

Spielberg was so confident with this film that he started making his next film (Schindler's List), placing post-production in the hands of George Lucas.

:)

[Ken Savage]

Unfortunately, no. Not the best of days for Richard Dreyfuss.

EDIT:

Liam Nesson is also in Return of the Jedi

Explain!


He is one of the guys sat around in the meeting chamber when they anounce the plan to attack the death star.

[SPEEDRAZOR]

who is george a romero in silence of the lambs? and also i dont remember dario argento in innocent blood, sam raimi cameo's in it as the guy in the meat truck though.

[Kreeper]

A man by the name of George Lucas was one of the cameramen for the concert video 'Gimmie Shelter.'

Being as this was shot in California at the same time that THE George Lucas would have been in college, I've always wondered if it was him, or just some other guy...

Yes, it's him. They talk about it in his biography "Skywalking"..

[Disciple_72]

Tucker Jenkins from Grange Hill was in KRULL

Mr Bronson was in a Star Wars movie and 2 Indiana Joneses.

[Randolph Carter]

who is george a romero in silence of the lambs? and also i dont remember dario argento in innocent blood, sam raimi cameo's in it as the guy in the meat truck though.

Dario Argento plays an ambulance worker.Other famed horror people who cameo in Innocent Blood are: screamqueen Linnea Quigley, who plays a nurse.And Tom Savini plays a news photographer.

[Sproing]

Robbie Coltrane tried to jump Beverly D'Angelo in "European Vacation."

[fabfunk]

Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham was the voice of the leaf in the Fruit Of The Loom commercials.

[Poprob]

He was the guy in the suit, too.

[SAIRUS]

Wow reading some of these posts, kinda surprising. Okay here goes

They guy who plays the captain in the Fast and the Furious was also the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs.

Muscles don't make you hide that you're a geek at heart (see Vin Diesel).

and in the next few minutes after this post I will be done with it, so there will be no saving it:
the soundtrack to Return of the Jedi is really dissapponting.

[Y3k-Bug]

While watching Win a Date with Tad Hamil-whatever, thats Kate Bosworth's eyes are two different colors; left one is blue, the other brown.

Which for some reason I find very sexy.

[Ben Croll]

Terry Gilliam directed those "Little Less Conversation" Nike football (i.e. soccer) commercials from a few years back.

[Eric Brooks]

That cute red-headed girl i had a crush on from the Fred Savage Nintendo jerk-off fest "The Wizard" is Jenny Lewis, lead singer of popular california group Rilo Kiley. Oh and Christian Slater was in that movie too.

[Diva]

While watching Win a Date with Tad Hamil-whatever, thats Kate Bosworth's eyes are two different colors; left one is blue, the other brown.

Which for some reason I find very sexy.

That is her natural eye color, and not contacts, by the way.

[Vader]

Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis + Nintendo = Best Damn Combination Since Orange Chicken and Noodles

[SPEEDRAZOR]

They guy who plays the captain in the Fast and the Furious was also the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs.

Believe it or not, Ted Levine is an accomplished actor who has starred in many more movies than Silence of the Lambs. ;)

[Werewolf Girl]

Today, I watched Shaun of the Dead. I just found out what the fuss was all about.

[maxpower]

My first on-screen crush (I was 11) was the girl in Honey I Blew up the Kid.

Turns out it was Keri Russell.

Also: Busy Phillips and Bijou Phillips don't look anything like each other.

[SPEEDRAZOR]

Sam Jackson used to be Bill Cosby's stand-in on The Cosby Show.

[DaveB]

Also: Busy Phillips and Bijou Phillips don't look anything like each other.

Probably because they're not related.

Bijou Phillips and Chynna Phillips, on the other hand... still don't look all that much alike.

[Anderson]

who is george a romero in silence of the lambs? and also i dont remember dario argento in innocent blood, sam raimi cameo's in it as the guy in the meat truck though.

George A. Romero
Roger Corman and
Chris Issak were all in The Silence of the Lambs.


Romero and Issak were in the Memphis sequence.

[tcjsavannah]

MacGyver fires a gun in the pilot. No wonder the director of said pilot was Alan Smithee.

I also didn't know "Throw me the whip" guy in Indy was Alfred Molina until the "Pointless Throwaway Action Character" thread.

Niles the Butler on The Nanny was the captain of the aircraft carrier in Hunt for Red October.

Joe Pantoliano was Guido the Killer Pimp - and - Snake.

[Graham]

Sam Jackson used to be Bill Cosby's stand-in on The Cosby Show.

Circa when? ...there have been numerous shows with the 'Cosby' name in them.

...and is it OUR Sam Jackson? The name ain't exactly rare.

"'Huxtable', motherfucker....DO YOU SPEAK IT??"

[SPEEDRAZOR]

There's only one show with the exact title 'The Cosby Show', and there's only one bad motherfucker i'm talking about.

[Rath/Brendan]

Today, I watched Shaun of the Dead. I just found out what the fuss was all about.

I watched this again today. I had no idea Martin Freeman was in it for like five seconds.

[Rath/Brendan]

Also, the following people made cameo or unbilled appearances in the TV miniseries of Stephen King's "The Stand":

John "Joe Bob Briggs" Bloom (also in Casino)
Kathy Bates
Ed Harris
Sam Raimi
John Landis

[CryOpenupthesky]

That cute red-headed girl i had a crush on from the Fred Savage Nintendo jerk-off fest "The Wizard" is Jenny Lewis, lead singer of popular california group Rilo Kiley. Oh and Christian Slater was in that movie too.


sidenote = the kid who played pinsky on salute your shorts and Joey the Rat on Boy Meets world is the guitarist for Rilo Kiley

[Rath/Brendan]

Wasn't Danny "Bobby Budnick/Edward Furlong's Friend in T2" Cooksey also in a hair-metal band or something?

[Waffles of Mass Deliciousness]

salute your shorts was fucking awesome.

[Anderson]

Wasn't Danny "Bobby Budnick/Edward Furlong's Friend in T2" Cooksey also in a hair-metal band or something?

The band was called Tuff Enuff. They were on 120 Minutes once.

[Rath/Brendan]

salute your shorts was fucking awesome.

Bet your ass it was.

[Milkyway]

Sam Raimi was the "laughing detective" in Miller's Crossing, the guy who shoots the white flag waving bartender in front of the "Sons of Erin" bar. Raimi dual wields revolvers and gets littered with Tommy Gun spray, it's a pretty funny scene.

[enrico rizzo]

Known this for a while, but a lot of people don't.

David Hayter is the voice of Solid Snake in the English releases of Metal Gear Solid. He is also the voice that says "EA Sports. It's in the game" at the beginning of each game from them.

Movie connection? He wrote both X-Men movies too.


wow.
i just realised that david hayter has a really annoying voice.

[enrico rizzo]

Terry Gilliam directed those "Little Less Conversation" Nike football (i.e. soccer) commercials from a few years back.

the cantona ones? i had no idea.

on wonder they're so brilliant.

[Cigam Retah]

An old favorite of mine:

In The Rock, Stanley Goodspeed admits to being a coward and a square by revealing to Connery's John Patrick Mason that he 'Drives a beige Volvo.'

In Con Air, Cameron Poe writes Vince Larkin a secret memo on the doomed junkie 'Pinball,' and drops him from the plane, only to crash on Stargate SG-1's Don Davis' beige Volvo.

In Face/Off (Not a Bruckheimer film), Sean Archer (Wearing a Castor Troy flesh-mask) raids a valet's key box, and steals...a beige Volvo.

In Snake Eyes, Nick Cage acts in a horrible film. (No connection, I just consider it my civic duty to inform everyone I meet, and insist they never watch it).

[S-Mart]

the tv show "in living color" has produced two fine actors(Carrey and Foxx), and the wayan brothers, come on tommy davidson!!!!!

[Rath/Brendan]

Sam Raimi was the "laughing detective" in Miller's Crossing, the guy who shoots the white flag waving bartender in front of the "Sons of Erin" bar. Raimi dual wields revolvers and gets littered with Tommy Gun spray, it's a pretty funny scene.

Rami is also one of the guys brainstorming names for the Hula Hoop in the Hudsucker Proxy.

[Vader]

I, Robot's title in Spanish speaking countries is Yo, Robot.

Which sounds more like a Will Smith movie.

[Boney]

wow.
i just realised that david hayter has a really annoying voice.

He always sounds like he's trying to get rid of a particularly troublesome bowel movement.

As for the person who mentioned X2 script... I did not know that. As for the first one, I know there were a fair few uncredited "polishers", including Joss Whedon. I think the only segment of Whedon's that made it into the final movie is the Cyclops/Wolverine exchange where Wolverine says "You're a dick".

Another bit of trivia that may or may not be known: If you look closely outside The Winchester in Shaun of the Dead, you'll see a zombie "Tyres", the bike courier from Spaced. It the scene where they all walk toward the pub pretending to be zombies.

[Andrew]

Up until this moment, I thought I was the only person that still remembers KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE.

Up unti lnow, I had successfully purged KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE from my memory.

Thanks for nothing, guys....

[fabfunk]

As for the person who mentioned X2 script... I did not know that. As for the first one, I know there were a fair few uncredited "polishers", including Joss Whedon. I think the only segment of Whedon's that made it into the final movie is the Cyclops/Wolverine exchange where Wolverine says "You're a dick".



Also the "toad hit by lightning" line. Whedon has defended it, saying Berry's delivery was all off.

Whatever, Joss.

[beamish13]

Jason Patric's brother is Robin Lively's annoying sibling in TEEN WITCH

[Randolph Carter]

Adam Baldwin is NOT related to Alec, Daniel and William Baldwin!

[Vader]

You forgot Stephen.

[UberNeuman]

I just got it! Bruce Wayne is.......

BATMAN!

[Blofeld]

Drew Barrymore's screen debut was not E.T..

[Andrew Joe]

I, Robot's title in Spanish speaking countries is Yo, Robot.

Darth Vader's real name is the same as Luke's dead father's name!

Wait a minute...........http://img220.exs.cx/img220/564/16x16_smiley-indifferent1.gif...............http://img220.exs.cx/img220/1378/16x16_smiley-surprised1.gif........Holy shit! What a scoop!



Those made me laugh out loud far more than they actually should have http://img220.exs.cx/img220/8243/16x16_smiley-very-happy1.gif

- Adam Baldwin of Serenity/Firefly is no relation to Alec, Stephen, William, or Daniel Baldwin.

Didn't know that.

[Randolph Carter]

Harvey Stephens, the little kid who played Damien in Omen hasn´t had much of an actors career, although in 1993 he appeared in I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166222/) .
Which was directed by Ben Affleck(!).

[beamish13]

Drew Barrymore's screen debut was not E.T..



ALTERED STATES was also William Hurt's film debut

[Randolph Carter]

The website www.fear.com has got absolutely nothing to do with the film Fear Dot Com.

[Brad Millette]

There never was a Leonard Part 1 through 5.

[Capt. Eucalyptus]

X2 is a gay, gay, gay film.

[inok]

One of the most important things I've discovered in my time here on the Chud forums:

Viincent D'Onofrio played Thor in Adventures in Babysitting.
Holy cow, you're right. That's a new one.

I just found out that the actor Jonathan Brandis who played the main character in "Neverending Story 2" and who was in the tv movie version of "IT" and the tv series "Sea Quest" committed suicide a couple of years ago. That is very sad news.

[Hanzo Steel]

That cute red-headed girl i had a crush on from the Fred Savage Nintendo jerk-off fest "The Wizard" is Jenny Lewis, lead singer of popular california group Rilo Kiley. Oh and Christian Slater was in that movie too.


Rilo Kiley also has Pinsky from Salute your Shorts in it as well.

[Brad Millette]

Holy cow, you're right. That's a new one.

I just found out that the actor Jonathan Brandis who played the main character in "Neverending Story 2" and who was in the tv movie version of "IT" and the tv series "Sea Quest" committed suicide a couple of years ago. That is very sad news.

You know what's weird? I was just talking about this today at lunch.

[Werbal_Kint]

John Turturro's first feature-film appearance was as an extra in RAGING BULL.

[Milkyway]

the chic that gets naked at the end of Devil's Advocate, and looks outstanding doing it, is the same chic who doesn't get naked in Gladitor.

[NathanW]

Bodhi Elfman (Jenna's husband) was also in Collateral.

A number of sopranos actors had roles in Goodfellas namely, Pussy Bomponsiero, Paulie Walnuts, Chris Moltisanti and Larry Boy Barese.

The actor who played Walter Donovan in 'The Last Crusade' also played Gen. Veers in Empire.

Stuntman Pat Roach had roles in all three Indiana Jones movies.

In The Matrix during the scene where Morpheus is introducing Neo to everyone there's a shot of a plaque on the wall which has the year the ship was christened on it.

Robert Duvall was in 'Bullitt' as a cab driver.

Connie Nielsen was in 'Rushmore' as a really hot mom.

[Del Griffith]

Charlie Sheen shows up in a cameo in Loaded Weapon 1, wearing a shirt with the name 'Gern' on it. He wears the same shirt, with the same name in The Arrival while he is hacking into his neigbor's satellite dishes.

[Andrew O.]

Janek, The Mathematician from Sneakers? Donal Logue.

[Geoff Foster]

Jerry Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame) turned down Stanley Kubrick’s beggings for him to do the model work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, thrice.

Doug Trumbull must send him a Christmas card every year.

Okay, so I learned this a while ago. But it’s a neat story nonetheless.

[Xion]

In The Matrix: Revolutions, the bench the Oracle sits at has a plaque that says "In Memory of Thomas A. Anderson".

In each LotR movie, Peter Jackson makes a cameo.

[Randolph Carter]

Vincent Price appears in the Michael Jackson song Thriller.
He´s the spooky voice that starts talking towards the end of the song.

[Preacher Powell]

The actor who plays R.K. Maroon in Who Framed Roger Rabbit also plays a bum during the Skid Row song in Little Shop Of Horrors.

Jessica Rabbit's singing was performed by Amy Irving, actress ex-wife of Steven Spielberg.

Simon Pegg was in Band Of Brothers.

[NathanW]

Bill Pope DP for matrix and spider-man had a cameo in Spidey 2

[Del Griffith]

JK Simmons (Spider-man - J. Jonah Jameson) plays Buffalo Bill Cody in Hildago.

[Blothar Wiken]

Mischa Barton played Kyra (*vomits* "I'm feeling much better now.") in The Sixth Sense.

Ron Rifkin (Sloane on "Alias) was in the movie JFK.

[Waffles of Mass Deliciousness]

Switchback wasn't a terrible movie.......it really wasn't.

[Randolph Carter]

Ellen Degeneres is a thespian.

[Dross]

Dana Carvey is in Halloween 2.

[AA85]

The Shadow is in fact Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.

Oh, and David Spade makes his film debut in Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.

[Shane]

Jake LaMotta, the real guy, was in "The Hustler". He played the bartender. Maybe that's why Scorsese made "The Color of Money"

[Cruikshank]

Willem Dafoe must suffer the indignity of having his ass kicked by Michael Pare in Streets of Fire.

[Del Griffith]

Switchback wasn't a terrible movie.......it really wasn't.

I'm glad you finally realized that. I think Switchback is pretty good.

[Hogan]

I just watched Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind again last night and noticed that George Michael Bluth from Arrested Development is the young Chuck Barris.

Oh, and Jack Black is the villian in Neverending Story III.

[Casey72]

Believe it or not, Ted Levine is an accomplished actor who has starred in many more movies than Silence of the Lambs. ;)


And Monk on USA Network. One of the only reasons I watch TV anymore. Tony Shaloub is facking awesome

[OhioJones]

And Monk on USA Network. One of the only reasons I watch TV anymore. Tony Shaloub is facking awesome

He's also the voice on the CB in Joy Ride, but not the dude who we see at the end.

[Greg Clark]

John Ratzenberger was in Empire Strikes Back, as Maj. Bren Derlin. I haven't the foggiest clue who this character is, nor have I ever noticed anyone looking like Cliff from Cheers (he's probably sans mustache, which would add to the confusion).

[Charlie Brigden]

'There's nothing more we can do tonight. The shield doors must be closed.'

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/majorbrenderlin/img/movie_bg.jpg

[Rath/Brendan]

Paul Feig, creator of "Freaks and Geeks," co-starred alongside Ben Stiller in the Disney film "Heavyweights."

[Crash-Man]

Marvin, the guy who got his head blown off the car in Pulp Fiction, is the voice of Static (from Static Shock), Green Lantern from Justice League Unlimited, and Samurai Jack, from Samurai Jack.

[Ben Grimm]

John Ratzenberger was in Empire Strikes Back, as Maj. Bren Derlin. I haven't the foggiest clue who this character is, nor have I ever noticed anyone looking like Cliff from Cheers (he's probably sans mustache, which would add to the confusion).

He was also in the first two Superman movies, in small (but noticable) roles.

[Del Griffith]

John Ratzenberger was in Empire Strikes Back, as Maj. Bren Derlin. I haven't the foggiest clue who this character is, nor have I ever noticed anyone looking like Cliff from Cheers (he's probably sans mustache, which would add to the confusion).

Well, he's not wearing his postal uniform and he doesn't have a Boston accent.

The odd thing is that Maj. Bren Derlin does live with his mother.

Weird.

[Timo]

The geeky tech guy in The Pretender and the badass with the two whips in Rundown are both played by Jon Gries.

[Stew]

Virtually every cool line or scene from "Heat" was on TV 10 years earlier, verbatim, in Michael Mann's "Crime Story" TV show.

John Glover voices the Riddler in "Batman:TAS", plays Jason Woodrue the Bane-maker in "Batman and Robin", Lionel Luthor in "Smallville" and the creepy "Maybe he's fucking the dog too" hitman in "Payback".

Ron Perlman is the voice of Clayface. And he's really really good.

[Stew]

Bob the Goon from "Batman" does the autopsy with the moth in "Silence of the Lambs" and is the creepy whistle blower in "Erin Brockovich".

[Matt Ocallaghan]

that Man on Fire is pants stiffening

[xbutterx]

Bob the Goon from "Batman" does the autopsy with the moth in "Silence of the Lambs" and is the creepy whistle blower in "Erin Brockovich".

Not to mention he is the bar owner in Young Guns 2 and
his crowning achievement as Malick in Conan the Destroyer

[Feral Akodon]

Erika baywatchbabe Eliniak(sp) was on ET as the tall girl at the frogs liberation scene.

The Arquettes might be retarded.

[alobek]

Simon Gruber's knife-wielding girlfriend Katya in Die Hard: With a Vengeance is played by the same woman (Sam Phillips) who does the music for Gilmore Girls, namely all the cutesy "la la la" parts.

[Peter Strauss:Actor/Gardener?]

Marvin, the guy who got his head blown off the car in Pulp Fiction, is the voice of Static (from Static Shock), Green Lantern from Justice League Unlimited, and Samurai Jack, from Samurai Jack.

And is in MadTV and Spiderman 2.

Surprised to see Rilo Kiley mentions in CHUD.

[Mutant X]

The band was called Tuff Enuff. They were on 120 Minutes once.

Actually, the name of the band was BAD 4 GOOD. Steve Vai was the band's mentor, as he produced and co-wrote much of the debut album. After the album failed to become a hit, the band had a slight change in their line up and renamed themselves Lucy's Milk. They too eventually broke up and following the break up, Brooks Wackerman(their drummer) joined Bad Religion and Suicidal Tendencies.

I was a big fan as a kid. A guilty pleasure if you will.

[Timo]

William Peter Blatty co-wrote A Shot in the Dark with Blake Edwards.

[Masked Muppet]

Simon Gruber's knife-wielding girlfriend Katya in Die Hard: With a Vengeance is played by the same woman (Sam Phillips) who does the music for Gilmore Girls, namely all the cutesy "la la la" parts.

She also is (was?) a christian singer.

John Glover was also Satan in Brimstone, was the Ted Turner spoof in Gremlins 2, the maniacal genius in Virtuosity, the head psych in Into The Mouth of Madness, and does the help files voice on the new Wallace & Grommit game.
The man is a god.

Learned:
Robin Atkin Downes, the man who played the wussy waste of space that was Byron in the final season of B5, is a phenomenal voice actor whith some very masculine parts under his belt, including Sagacious Zu in Jade Empire and some of the characters in KOTOR:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235960/

Just...wow. I was convinced that actor couldn't act, from B5, but I guess it was purely the character that sucked, and not the man.

[Timo]

I listened to the Christine commentary and realised that John Stockwell, who plays Keith Gordon's best friend has directed Crazy/Beautiful, Blue Crush and the upcoming Jessica Alba in bikinis flick Into the Blue.

[Andrew Joe]

The asian scientist that is there for the birth of the raptor in JP was on a epiosde of Law and Order yesterda dunno if it was new or repeat but I found that funny I instantly recognised him.....

[Jonathan Banks is my hero]

The ubiquitous Bill Pope was also one of the DPs on TV's FREAKS AND GEEKS.

[xbutterx]

The asian scientist that is there for the birth of the raptor in JP was on a epiosde of Law and Order yesterda dunno if it was new or repeat but I found that funny I instantly recognised him.....

Isn't he also Martin Short's "partner" in Father of the Bride?

[Andrew O.]

Yes, B.D. Wong is an accomlished stage and screen actor and has a regular role on Law & Order: SVU.

[DaveB]

She also is (was?) a christian singer.

It's "was" at least in terms of musical output and how it's marketed, if not in terms of personal philosophy. She swore off the Christian music scene in the late 80s. Also, her stuff isn't all quite as touchy-feely as the interlude music on Gilmore Girls might suggest. Martinis and Bikinis is a great pop album a la Aimee Mann type with some even pricklier edges.

[Timo]

Don Edmonds, the director of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS has a co-producer credit on True Romance.

[StabmasterArson]

the tv show "in living color" has produced two fine actors(Carrey and Foxx), and the wayan brothers, come on tommy davidson!!!!!

Tommy Davidson is awesome in Bamboozled.

[Milkyway]

Apparrently Jim "Jesus" Caviezel was in The Rock.

Also the movie Highwaymen that he was in, which I love, only made 398, something thousand at the box office and only showed in 111 theaters.

And in the Spartan thread, Moltisanti informed me that David Mamet helped right Ronin under a different name, that is cool as the fuck!

[Timo]

Apparently Connie Booth, the star of Fawlty Towers and ex-wife of John Cleese is currently working as a psychotherapist.

[TheCynic]

Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the worst actresses of her generation. Seriously, she single-handedly ruins "Sky Captain." She's unwatchable.

shes an actor, not a miracle worker. the script wholly ruined that movie.

[Frylock]

I listened to the Christine commentary and realised that John Stockwell, who plays Keith Gordon's best friend has directed Crazy/Beautiful, Blue Crush and the upcoming Jessica Alba in bikinis flick Into the Blue.

Holy Jesus with a hard-on!!! How do I get that guys job???

[Randolph Carter]

Harry Dean Stanton is 79 years old!

[JimBeam]

Jim Carrey had a small role in The Dead Pool. The last dirty harry film.

[Sproing]

Anthony Edwards (with hair!) is one of John Cusack's drunk best friends in "The Sure Thing."

[Atticus]

Rico's wife in Six Feet Under is the corn-rowed cop in Torque, the best one-liner western movie ever made.

[Momotaro]

As ashamed as I am to admit this, I always thought "The Road Warrior" was Mad Max 1 and "Beyond Thunderdome" was part 2. Thanks to the Chud people for setting me straight.

[wadew1]

For a millisecond, John Leguizamo appears in Seagal's OUT FOR JUSTICE.

[billz]

As ashamed as I am to admit this, I always thought "The Road Warrior" was Mad Max 1 and "Beyond Thunderdome" was part 2. Thanks to the Chud people for setting me straight.

Didn't the existence of a movie called Mad Max, also starring Mel Gibson, give you a clue?

I'm not entirely ashamed to admit that Mad Max is the only movie of the three that I remember seeing from beginning to end.

[Momotaro]

Never saw Mad Max... and had not remembered when watching 2 and 3 that they were numbered thusly.

[NathanW]

Nicholas Roeg was a second unit photographer on 'Lawrence of Arabia'

[Matt Ocallaghan]

I know quite a few non Australian folk who dont realise that there is a film in the Mad Max series before The Road Warrior.

[poopoodle]

That Bub is the dude who paints triangles.

[DerekT]

Marvin, the guy who got his head blown off the car in Pulp Fiction, is the voice of Static (from Static Shock), Green Lantern from Justice League Unlimited, and Samurai Jack, from Samurai Jack.

You forgot about Phil Lamar is also from Mad TV and when they did the sketch Pulp Fiction/Forrest Gump sketch he had the same role he did in Pulp Fiction.

[James Woods' Career]

shes an actor, not a miracle worker. the script wholly ruined that movie.


We're not on tv so let's cut the PC bullshit cake. She's an ACTRESS.

[Andrew Joe]

That Timothy Dalton was the nazi in The Rocketeer.......James Bond as a Nazi who dies in a big ball of flame. That and Joe Johnston is the director, guy fucking loves jetpacks [He designed Boba Fett]

- David Warner [Voices Ra's Al Ghul on B:TAS] is the guy who created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles inadvertantly.

[Momotaro]

- David Warner [Voices Ra's Al Ghul on B:TAS] is the guy who created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles inadvertantly.
Then why do Eastman and Laird have the rights to it? Not being snarky, just curious to this new fact.

[Kevin Matchstick]

Then why do Eastman and Laird have the rights to it? Not being snarky, just curious to this new fact.

Poor Momotaro.

[Andrew Joe]

Then why do Eastman and Laird have the rights to it? Not being snarky, just curious to this new fact.

He plays the guy who creates the ooze in TMNT II.....and thus creates the turtles inadvertantly.........in the movie.

[Andrew O.]

Warner is also Jack the Ripper in Time After Time...With Malcolm Macdowell, who voiced Metallo in the Superman Animated series. How lame is it that I know THAT!

[Del Griffith]

You don't have to rewind DVD's.

[Vinz Klortho]

The rotund, middle-aged asian guy who plays "Charlie Brown" in Kill Bill 1 was the screenwriter for Ichi the Killer and Gozu.

[Andrew Joe]

The guy who played Spanish in Old School was in War of the Worlds alongside Tom Cruise as the Tripods emerged. He seemed familiar when he popped up in WotW and made the connection watching Old School earlier.

[ZombieJebus]

Orson Welles also did the voice of Unicron in the Transformers movie (the original one from 1986).

Raul Julia's last role before his death was M. Bison in the Streetfighter movie.

[ZombieJebus]

The geeky tech guy in The Pretender and the badass with the two whips in Rundown are both played by Jon Gries.


Holy holy shit! He was also Lazlo in Real Genius.

[D.T.]

Jack Black is in Demolition Man as one of the underground dwellers. I don't think he has any lines, and the only time he's even only partially visible in the scene were Spartan, Huxley and that other guy come across the classic muscle car, and are confronted by Denis Leary.

[Timo]

Chris Roberts, the creator of the Wing Commander games and the director of the awful movie based on those games now has a career as a producer. He has produced The Punisher and The Jacket and he has a bunch of films coming up including Nic Cage's Lord of War.

[Dave Davis]

The guy who played Spanish in Old School was in War of the Worlds alongside Tom Cruise as the Tripods emerged. He seemed familiar when he popped up in WotW and made the connection watching Old School earlier.

That guy has the most annoying hair in the universe.

[Hewlett]

That the old lady from Dallas - the recently deceased Barbara Bel Geddes - played Jimmy Stewart's friend in Vertigo.

[Geoff Foster]

The title Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is an in-joke

Leonard Nimoy hosted a 70s TV show, In Search of …, in which he searched for the Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie etc., and never found any of them.

[Tim N.]

I noticed today that Donatello was voiced by Corey Feldman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[RathBandu]

Orson Welles also did the voice of Unicron in the Transformers movie (the original one from 1986).

Raul Julia's last role before his death was M. Bison in the Streetfighter movie.

And Jimmy Stewart's last role was as the legendary gunfightin' dog in "An American Tail II: Fievel Goes West."

By the way, please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks the original was WAY too disturbing for a kid's movie.

[Werbal_Kint]

Totally agree RathBandu. That giant robot mouse at the end FREAKED ME THE FUCK OUT as a child.

Christopher Lee is the direct descendent of Charlemange.

[Milkyway]

Mickey Rouke played a soldier in The Thin Red Line, and was named in the thanks in the credits.

We really need a special edition directors cut of this film.

[Moltisanti]

For a millisecond, John Leguizamo appears in Seagal's OUT FOR JUSTICE.

I didn't know that, Leguizamo is also one of Bill Saddler's henchmen in DIE HARD 2.

A few others that I either was recently suprised by or have been at one time in my life:

-Lee Tergensen, who played Beecher on "Oz," is one of the buddies always hanging around Wayne and Garth in both WAYNE'S WORLD films.

-Thomas Jane is one of the guys in prison with Nicolas Cage in FACE/OFF

-Somebody mentioned all the "Sopranos" actors that appear in GOODFELLAS, one that I just realized is that the woman who plays Lorraine Bracco's mom in GOODFELLAS also plays Edie Falco's mom on "The Sopranos."

-The same man who wrote the great movie THE HIDDEN also wrote SNOW DOGS.

-Viggo Mortensen is the main guy helping William Petersen hunt Estevez, Sutherland, and the rest in YOUNG GUNS 2.

-Michael Madsen is the jerky ballplayer that dies while crashing through the wall in THE NATURAL.

-Michael Douglas was a producer for STONE COLD.

[Andrew Joe]

Bruce Willis voices the bad guy in Beavis & Butt-Head Do America, didn't know that. I'm just watching it now and checked IMDB.

Also, I didn't know Cronenberg was Canadian....

[Greg Clark]

Ron Jeremy is in Ghostbusters as an extra. You can see him outside the firehouse after it's exploded, in the shot where Dan Aykroyd & Ernie Hudson pull up in the Ecto-1.

[OhioJones]

-Viggo Mortensen is the main guy helping William Petersen hunt Estevez, Sutherland, and the rest in YOUNG GUNS 2.

I recently noticed that Viggo had a small part in Harrison Ford's Witness as one of the Amish. He's seen a few times but as far as I can remember doesn't say much (I was flipping channels and missed most of it). He's there when Ford's character punches the local in the face.

[Arch Stanton]

Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey are in 'Dirty Harry in the Dead Pool'. Carrey is actually credited as James Carrey. hehe

[Doug]

I recently noticed that Viggo had a small part in Harrison Ford's Witness as one of the Amish. He's seen a few times but as far as I can remember doesn't say much (I was flipping channels and missed most of it). He's there when Ford's character punches the local in the face.
Is he the guy who drops all the milk bottles before gettting clocked by Danny Glover? That guy was cool.
"BOOOOOOOOK!"

[Keith F]

Viggo is also a baddie in Pale Rider. Along with Billy Drago.

[Moltisanti]

I listed this somewhere before but it will probably fascinate more people here:

The action star that George Clooney is advising at the very end of THREE KINGS is Brian Bosworth.

[Keith F]

David S. Ward, the autuer behing Major League and King Ralph, wrote The Sting.

[crazyman]

Soliant Green Is People!

[Andrew Joe]

Sam Raimi is in the Flinstones movie. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9U2FtIF JhaW1pfGZ0PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5t PTE_;fc=1;ft=23)

Fiona Shaw: From Super Mario Bros. to Harry Potter films (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789716/)

[Andrew C]

Ian McDiarmid was also the priest who became charcoal in Dragonslayer.


Let us not forget that he was also a butler in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.



Some of these have been pretty obvious. Maybe someone should go deeper.

Lord Morley from The Private Eyes was also an evil apparition in The Sentinel.
Mrs. Deagal from Gremlins was in The Parent Trap remake, hooray!

[NiveK]

Anthony Edwards and Eric Stoltz are Sean Penn's Stoner buddys in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

[Schwartz]

I could be wrong about this, but I think the guy who made the turtles and voices Ras on Batman: TAS also does the voice of the main villain in Baldur's Gate II.

[dickybird]

You forgot about Phil Lamar is also from Mad TV and when they did the sketch Pulp Fiction/Forrest Gump sketch he had the same role he did in Pulp Fiction.

he's also the vampire villian in a video game calles metal gear solid 2:sons of libirty,had/has done voice over work on cartoons:baby blues,family guy,futurama,buzz lightyear,recess,weekenders,just to name a few, basically every u.s. made cartoon since 1995(but oddly enough not the simpsons)

mark hamill voice a bully on an episode of daria
the dad on the fresh prince of bel-air also is the voice of optimus prime in the cartoon "transformers"

oh,(whispers)ian mckellen is gay

[James]

Also, the father on 'Fresh Prince...' is the voice of Shredder in the Turtles cartoon.

[dickybird]

the planet in "planet of the apes" is earth...i get it."you maniacs,you blew it up,damn you,god damn you all to hell' makes sense now

[dickybird]

I could be wrong about this, but I think the guy who made the turtles and voices Ras on Batman: TAS also does the voice of the main villain in Baldur's Gate II.
yeah i think he is,he also voiced the half man-half mutant replacement of smythe on the 1990's spiderman cartoon also on the topic of the spiderman cartoon,madam web is stan lee's wife and martin landou was the original voice of the scorpion but quit in 1994,and was replaced by richard moll(bull on "night court")

[Andrew Joe]

Michael Gough voiced the old skeleton in Corpse Bride, thus destroying my belief that he was dead...

[Wwarez]

Both Bill Paxton and Lance Hendriksen have been killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator.

[Del Griffith]

Both Bill Paxton and Lance Hendriksen have been killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator.


That's the best one yet!

[Justin Clark]

There are three Sith Lords in Sleepy Hollow: Ray Park's the Headless Horseman, Christopher Lee's a judge, and Ian McDarmid's the town doctor.

[Hanzo Steel]

Chris Roberts, the creator of the Wing Commander games and the director of the awful movie based on those games now has a career as a producer. He has produced The Punisher and The Jacket and he has a bunch of films coming up including Nic Cage's Lord of War.


I was wondering what he was up to. I loved the games, but thankfully never saw the movie.

[RathBandu]

Jeremy Piven is in HEAT. He's the doctor that fixes Val Kilmer up.

[Mattimus]

The geeky tech guy in The Pretender and the badass with the two whips in Rundown are both played by Jon Gries.

Gries also plays everyone's favorite Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. Dude, if some long-haired hippy fuck came out of my closet, I'd have to open fire on Lazlo's ass.

[Moltisanti]

Gries was also the "goofball" white guy at the radio station on the first couple years of "Martin." The show really went to hell when Garret Morris and him got the shaft.

[Shane]

The lead characters in TROLL are named Harry Potter Jr. and Harry Potter Sr.

[becky]

I just realized that Jim Carrey was the star in the movie, Once Bitten.

[Greg Clark]

Sergio Leone was the first one offered to direct The Godfather, but turned it down because he was under the impression he would be getting financing for Once Upon a Time in America soon. He later regretted it, as America would not be able to get funding for another decade. As much as Coppola's films are masterpieces, my mind boggles to think what Leone's vision would've provided.

[Vader]

Sergio Leone was the first one offered to direct The Godfather, but turned it down because he was under the impression he would be getting financing for Once Upon a Time in America soon. He later regretted it, as America would not be able to get funding for another decade. As much as Coppola's films are masterpieces, my mind boggles to think what Leone's vision would've provided.

I was living a nice quiet life. Then you posted this. Fuck you G Dude. Fuck you.

Now I'll spend the next 3 days wondering what Godfather: Leone Style would've been like.

:(

[ObiJuan]

the dad on the fresh prince of bel-air also is the voice of optimus prime in the cartoon "transformers"
James Avery was not Optimus on the original cartoon. That was Peter Cullen who also voiced Ironhide (which meant he talked to himself) as well as Venjur on Dungeons & Dragons and a shload of other cartoon characters.

While we're on cartoon voices, Grandpa Huxtable was Panthro on Thundercats!

And finally, Jeff Bridges and Richard Dreyfus were once set to star in Total Recall. I nearly died when I heard Verhoeven say that on the commentary. Would have been a very different film, either choice.

[Hammerhead]

Not to mention he is the bar owner in Young Guns 2 and
his crowning achievement as Malick in Conan the Destroyer

Sorry, that would be his performance as Miller in Repo Man .

"Find one in every car. You'll see."

"There's this lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything... Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody'll say like, 'plate,' or 'shrimp,' or 'plate of shrimp'--out of the blue. No explanation. No point in looking for one neither."

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

[Andrew Joe]

- Ron Livingston voices the video clerk in the Family Guy DTDVD film.....I had to rewind and rewatch that after listening to the commentary and it still dosn't sound like him.

[Anderson]

Actually, the name of the band was BAD 4 GOOD. Steve Vai was the band's mentor, as he produced and co-wrote much of the debut album. After the album failed to become a hit, the band had a slight change in their line up and renamed themselves Lucy's Milk. They too eventually broke up and following the break up, Brooks Wackerman(their drummer) joined Bad Religion and Suicidal Tendencies.

I was a big fan as a kid. A guilty pleasure if you will.

My mistake. I was looking at one of those Musician Trading Cards things that came out in 1991/1992. It said Tuff Enuff on that, but his IMDB page says Bad 4 Good.

[Anderson]

Another few things that I realized:

1) The Weinstein Brothers were responsible for bringing "David the Gnome" to America.
2) Howard Hughes was a big fan of "Diamonds are Forever".
3) Jim Steranko, Michael Bay and Frank Welker all worked on "Raiders of the Lost Ark"


Also, I've had people telling me that Steve Martin is in "The Chinese Connection".

[James Woods' Career]

The spitting fucking image of Warren Oates, down to the voice, stars in Heat. He's in the scene where Pacino and company are staking out Deniro's crew at night, and Mikelti says "Not until my boss says so." The guy he's talking to...I could've sworn it was him if he hadn't already passed away.

[Barkatthemoon]

The scene of Obi-Wan shutting off his lightsaber, as Jango escapes Kamino in AOC, echos the scene in TPM where Darth Maul stands, saber drawn as the Queen's ship escapes Tatooine.

Took me years to catch this.

[Andrew Joe]

The scene of Obi-Wan shutting off his lightsaber, as Jango escapes Kamino in AOC, echos the scene in TPM where Darth Maul stands, saber drawn as the Queen's ship escapes Tatooine.

Took me years to catch this.

Speaking of echoes, the whole thing about Anakin at the end of the duel echoes the end of the Obi-Wan vs. Maul Duel......so not only is immortality beyond the Siths grasp...so is jumping clean over people.

But this was probably well known to SW fans....

The real thing I came into this thread to share was that Alun Armstrong is a gavel thumping man of the law in Sleepy Hollow [which i'm watching right now] and Oliver Twist [which I watched yesterday]. Guess if you're good at it, why stop....

[RathBandu]

Last night, while cruising YouTube, I found out that Michael Bay directed the video for "I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)." And watching it, it makes total sense--Michael Bay is just the man you want directing a Meat Loaf video.

[cashflag]

Jeremy Piven plays the partying Frat leader in PCU...

...and the crusty Dean in OLD SCHOOL.

[monsieurxander]

Also, the following people made cameo or unbilled appearances in the TV miniseries of Stephen King's "The Stand":

John "Joe Bob Briggs" Bloom (also in Casino)
Kathy Bates
Ed Harris
Sam Raimi
John Landis


Molly Ringwald's pregnancy in that movie lasted a whopping four months, and the baby survives.

[Patrick Ripoll]

Joss Whedon was one of the writers of Toy Story.

Eric Clapton did the music for Lethal Weapn.

[DARKMITE8]

Gries was also the "goofball" white guy at the radio station on the first couple years of "Martin." The show really went to hell when Garret Morris and him got the shaft.
Lazlo from Real Genius & Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite is also the Wolfman from Monster Squad...