Before they were famous

[Fane]

Alfa numeric said:

Liz Hurley also plays an Aristo's wife (who is also an ex-prostitute) in an early 90's episode of Sharpe.

And got her threps out too, iirc.

[Twincam16]

onyx39 said:

Charlie Fairhead from Casualty played.a part in The Long Good Friday

Another Long Good Friday debutante was Dexter Fletcher (later to star in Lock, Stock... and Snatch) - he's the kid who says 'fiver for mindin' yer car mistah' after Howard and Razors (who played Hatchet Harry in Lock Stock) have finished attacking Denzil from Only Fools & Horses with a machete. And then of course there's the most notable Long Good Friday debutante, 'First Irishman':



No words but a very famous scene.

Also, if anyone's seen the long-forgotten (unfairly so IMO) 'Full Circle' (creepy late '70s horror film with Mia Farrow and Tom Conti, set in Kensington and featuring a Bristol 407 and a Citroen DS21 among other things), you'll maybe notice that the estate agent, who you only see from behind unlocking the front door to Mia Farrow's new house before having it slammed in his face and is on screen for all of ten seconds, is in fact Nigel Havers.

Also, if anyone's seen an obscure WWI film from the late '90s called The Trench, the big leading-man star of which was Paul Nichols:

[FourWheelDrift]

Twincam16 said:

And then of course there's the most notable Long Good Friday debutante, 'First Irishman':

And in the same year he appeared on the other side of the law as a CI5 man in the TV series the Professionals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail...

[Halb]

Stuart from TBBT was a flunkie broker who got beat up by two underlings of Chris in the opening ep of series two of The Sopranos.
Watched it last night.

[markcurtains]

Halb said:

Stuart from TBBT was a flunkie broker who got beat up by two underlings of Chris in the opening ep of series two of The Sopranos.
Watched it last night.

Speaking of The Sopranos, the guy who ends up playing Vito pops up in the first series as a bystander/walk on part whne Christopher shoots the guy in the bakery

[Ilikebeaver]

Scarlet Johansson in Home Alone 3 playing Kevin's sister

[Blatter]

FourWheelDrift said:

Ray Winstone currently playing Regan in the new Sweeney film, had an part early on in the original Sweeney TV series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9h3Po8hP5Q


And currently on ITV4 is Boycie from Only Fools and Horses playing a thug opposite Peter "Grouty" Vaughan.

That also looks like a young Angus Deayton hanging up the public phone as the scene opens.............

[Halb]

Just caught Cocoon 2 on the box. Courtney Cox is so young she looks like a different woman to how she was in Friends.

[FourWheelDrift]

She is, she's had half her bum transplanted onto her face since Cocoon.

[FourWheelDrift]

Just watching the The Dambusters on C5 and noticed Robert Shaw sitting in the front row of the debriefing room as Richard Todd gives them the mission details.




Edited to add, here he is again later alongside Gibson/Todd on the raid itself

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Saturday 5th January 19:16

[Dr Jekyll]

Patrick Mcgoohan was in Dambusters as well.

Has anyone mentioned Hell Drivers yet?

[Horten229]

Dr Jekyll said:

Patrick Mcgoohan was in Dambusters as well.

Has anyone mentioned Hell Drivers yet?

Great shout - what a cast list! Some very famous faces looking very young including Jill Ireland, Sean Connery, David McCallum and Gordon Jackson.
Absolutely love Hell Drivers; yes, the speeded-up footage now looks funny but the air of menace from Patrick McGoohan's "Red" is real enough. Would really like a movie poster, yet to find one.

[Stinkfoot]

Daniel Craig was in the pilot episode of a short lived series called Covington Cross in 1992 which was part filmed at Allington Castle near Maidstone. I should remember as I was also in it (abeit as an extra !).

[Halb]

Well spotted on Shaw!!

[FourWheelDrift]

1960, the League of Gentlemen. the Jack Hawkins led bank job caper. During which a very camp sounding Oliver Reed crashes one of their meetings in a theatre asking if it was the Babes in the Wood rehearsals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M10GShuSZg

[Tango13]

Horten229 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Patrick Mcgoohan was in Dambusters as well.

Has anyone mentioned Hell Drivers yet?

Great shout - what a cast list! Some very famous faces looking very young including Jill Ireland, Sean Connery, David McCallum and Gordon Jackson.
Absolutely love Hell Drivers; yes, the speeded-up footage now looks funny but the air of menace from Patrick McGoohan's "Red" is real enough. Would really like a movie poster, yet to find one.

Herbert Lom and Sid James too.

[Halb]

Star of SIlicon Valley as a knob in The Wolf of Wall Street.

[mrtwisty]

Just spotted a face in a very short appearance in Gattaca, while watching it for the first time in nearly 20 years - jogged something in my memory. Couldn't place it....

A quick Google shows I'm correct - an actor from a very good show a few years ago.

(Quick check on Pistonheads - of course Halb has started a 'before they were famous' thread )

Anyone know this one? (WITHOUT Googling you sneaky sods!)

[Halb]

I can barely remember the main star of Gattaca!

[mrtwisty]

Oh ok then Halb, one free Google just for you