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Ag Since 83 said:

Tobey Maguire was one of the bullies in the feature length Nintendo commercial The Wizard

What!?!? I loved that movie as a kid.
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GrapevineAg said:

Wes97 said:

Kevin Costner in the Big Chill.


Kevin Costner in Night Shift.


Nice one!

I had to look this one up, he was Frat Boy #1. This doesn't even look like him.


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DargelSkout said:

Ag Since 83 said:

Tobey Maguire was one of the bullies in the feature length Nintendo commercial The Wizard

What!?!? I loved that movie as a kid.

I don't know if he even has any lines, but one day when rewatching it after 20 years, there he was

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Not known for acting but the country singer Tanya Tucker was one of the small children in Jeremiah Johnson opposite Robert Redford.
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bonfarr said:

Bruce Almighty said:

Jon Favreau had a small role in Batman Forever


Before that he was Gutter in PCU.


He was in Rudy a full year before that.
So was Vince Vaughn.
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The Goonies was randomly on the tv last weekend. I pointed out Josh Brolin to my oldest son. He says "oh the dude in the Sicario movies?".

I had completely forgot Brolin was in The Goonies.
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Rene Zellweger
Matthew McConaughey

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
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Glenn Close in Hook
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If you say you hate the state of politics in this nation and you don't get involved in it, you obviously don't hate the state of politics in this nation.
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bonfarr said:

Bruce Almighty said:

Jon Favreau had a small role in Batman Forever


Before that he was Gutter in PCU.


I love that movie more than I probably should
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George Clooney in Roseanne for 1-2 seasons

Bryan Cranston in Saving Private Ryan
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LandArchSA said:

bonfarr said:

Bruce Almighty said:

Jon Favreau had a small role in Batman Forever


Before that he was Gutter in PCU.


I love that movie more than I probably should


The scene where a wasted Jeremy Piven busts into his dorm and dive bombs on nerd roommate David Spade always made me bust out in hysterical laughter because I lived in a CS duplex with two other guys and that happened almost every weekend.
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John Hamm - We Were Soldiers
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Lin Manuel Miranda in How I Met Your Mother
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Edward Norton- Kingdom of Heaven
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Not an actress, but Alicia Keys on the Cosby Show. I think most people probably know about Adam Sandler being on the show.

Quentin Tarantino was an Elvis impersonator on the Golden Girls four years before Reservoir Dogs.
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Pedro Pascal had a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Don't know the actor's name, but I saw "Baby Billy" in the Bourne Identity the other day.
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GrapevineAg said:

Don't know the actor's name, but I saw "Baby Billy" in the Bourne Identity the other day.


You don't know Walton Goggins name?

Been a part of like 7 big name and mostly awesome series and some memorable characters.

Justified - played the main protagonist Boyd Crowder
The Shield - main character police detective
Sons of Anarchy - smaller recurring part played Venus Van Dam a transgender prostitute
Vice Principals - one of two main characters with Danny McBride
Righteous Gemstones - Baby Billy
Fallout - the main antagonist The Ghoul
The White Lotus - season 3 plays Rick a major character (no spoilers)
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Tom Hanks in "Bosom Buddies". I remember the first time (perhaps only time) seeing that show (late night random tv) and being like why tf was there a show called Bosom Buddies, and why tf was Tom Hanks in it.
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sorry, I have a hard time remembering actors' names. The point is I didn't remember him being in The Bourne Identity
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Demi Moore in One Crazy Summer.
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Juan Lee Pettimore said:

Demi Moore in One Crazy Summer.


How is she unknown in that? She was one of the two leads and that movie was after both St. Elmo's Fire and About Last Night.

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Samuel L Jackson in Eddie Murphy Raw.
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AgfromHOU said:

Lin Manuel Miranda in How I Met Your Mother


He was also in House.
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I don't know if this fits in the theme of the thread, but has anyone mentioned The Outsiders?

That movie is choc full of (then) mostly unknown actors who became major stars.

Tom Cruise
Patrick Swayze
Rob Lowe
Emilio Estevez
Nicolas Cage
Ralph Macchio
Diane Lane

Matt Dillon was probably the most well known actor in that movie at the time. Tom Cruise ended up as a Hollywood icon on the level of Humphrey Bogart and Marylin Monroe.
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Belton Ag said:

I don't know if this fits in the theme of the thread, but has anyone mentioned The Outsiders?

That movie is choc full of (then) mostly unknown actors who became major stars.

Tom Cruise
Patrick Swayze
Rob Lowe
Emilio Estevez
Nicolas Cage
Ralph Macchio
Diane Lane

Matt Dillon was probably the most well known actor in that movie at the time. Tom Cruise ended up as a Hollywood icon on the level of Humphrey Bogart and Marylin Monroe.


And he was a smaller role in that than most of them. He was the 8th name on the movie poster and barely ahead of Leif Garrett who was not even in the promo photo.

He had done Taps prior to that and small roles in Endless Love and Losin' It.

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This thread has turned from "unknown roles" into "very well-known roles in famous movies made before 1990"
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et98 said:

This thread has turned from "unknown roles" into "very well-known roles in famous movies made before 1990"


That happened by the 5th post.
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I'd like to add Uma Thurman in "Johnny Be Good"
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gigemags-99 said:

I'd like to add Uma Thurman in "Johnny Be Good"


She was a major character in the movie. I'm pretty sure everyone that has seen it know she was in it.
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Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York
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Samuel L Jackson as the robber in Coming to America
Tea Leoni as a player for Racine in A League of Their Own
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Mega Lops said:

Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York


This has to be a Troll. He was already a major star and Academy Award winner.
 
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