Before they were famous

[SWoll]

Eric Mc said:

Nope - just not interested in newer films, probably.

Maybe my life is just too packed to bother with watching rather than doing.

Says the bloke with 62,000 posts...

[Eric Mc]

Over almost 11 years - and I work from home, so PH is my office chat.

[Halb]

Just seen an old Flash advert.
I think MacWitch was in it!

[AshVX220]

Simon Pegg was in Band of Brothers.

[Halb]

Caught the old Blackadder II 'Money' episode. The woman who says, 'so you crap out of the window?' is the cook from Downton Abbey.

[chris watton]

We noticed a very young Brad Pitt in a couple of episodes of Dallas, plying Charly's (Jenna's daughter) boyfriend!

[CarCluster]

Shaw Tarse said:

What's her name off Friends in a pop video?
And the blonde girl spotted on an American football screen?

Courtney Cox

[Halb]

Just spotted Billy Zane in a tiny role in Back To The Future II as a stupid henchman.

[Pints]

Let's not forget Charlie Sheen and his appearance in Ferris Beuller's Day Off.

[Fishtigua]

Craig Ferguson, the Scotish/American chatshow host, originally wrote Martin Clune's grumpy Doc Martin character.

[Bill Carr]

AshVX220 said:

Simon Pegg was in Band of Brothers.

He was also in the Buttercup cough syrup advert years before that (and before Spaced, Hippies, et al)

Great ad

[DoubleSix]

chris watton said:

We noticed a very young Brad Pitt in a couple of episodes of Dallas, plying Charly's (Jenna's daughter) boyfriend!

He popped up in 21 Jump Street around the same time.

[Pothole]

Shaw Tarse said:

What's her name off Friends in a pop video?

Courtney Cox in Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark?

[Pothole]

TheHeretic said:

Eric Mc said:

Halb said:

It always interests me when I watch old things and a face pops up, sort of recognisable, younger and leaner, then it disappears because it's a walk on three or a bit part.

Recent ones I have spotted.

1. A very young Jonny Lee Miller as a leather clad love interest of Onslo's wife in Keeping Up Appearances
2. Viggo Mortenson in Witness
3. Jake Gyllenhaal as the kid in City Slickers
4. Tom Hardy as 'Hi I'm character A' who promptly gets blown up seconds later in Band of Brothers.

I don't know who any of these people are. Are they REALLY famous?

Well, Tom Hardy was the baddy in the latest batman, played Charles bronson, and is very much a Hollywood hit.
Viggo Mortenson played Aragorn in lord of the Rings
jake (*()&^*^ was the guy from Donnie Darko and Brokebum Mountain
johnny Lee Miller was in trainspotting, and Dexter if memory serves me.

JLM now stars in Elemantary with Lucy Liu.

Edited by Pothole on Friday 21st December 15:09

[P-Jay]

Jeff Goldblum & Jim Carrey as furry aliens in 'Earth Girls are Easy' with Geena Davies, admittetly Goldblum had made 'The Fly' the year before, but Carrey made this a few months after playing a corpse in Deadpool and before playing 'Lounge Entertainer' in Pink Cadillac the year after.

[Famous Graham]

Opara said:

Breaking Bad's Hank in Total Recall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw#

He was in Starship Troopers as well

[Tiggsy]

Pothole said:

Shaw Tarse said:

What's her name off Friends in a pop video?

Courtney Cox in Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark?

Do people do the "its whats his face, thingy bloke" because they dont want to look geeky at knowings something??? Because not knowing a) courtney cox, b) springsteen and c) dancing in the dark......but knowing enough to post makes you look very odd.

[FourWheelDrift]

Perhaps he thought it was the more effeminate one from Friends but couldn't remember Matthew Perry's name.

[BlueMR2]

There is a clip, probably from a film, with Jackie Chan fighting as characters from street fighter, first e-honda then chun li.

[didelydoo]

Jim Carrey was in the Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool. Not many people know that.