Anyone else surprised by a big name actor in a pre-fame role?

I watched the excellent Blu-ray of COOL HAND LUKE, and among the prisoners with no lines was Dennis Hopper. My buddy thought it was similar-looking character actor of the time, but the credits confirmed the familiar, young-looking face was indeed Hopper.

Fast forward to last night and watching the credits roll at the conclusion of GANDHI, my friends and I were surprised to see Daniel Day Lewis and Colin Farrell listed. None of us recognized them during the film.

I remember watching PLATOON on video and recognizing Johnny Depp briefly during a crowd scene of soldiers. I don't know if he even had a screen credit.

Anyone else surprised at the appearance of a future name actor while viewing an older movie?

 

Jennifer Aniston's old nose in Leprechaun comes to mind...

 

Kevin Bacon in Animal House

 

Nicholas Cage in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High"", I don't think he has any lines. He may have in the TV edit.

Cynthia Nixon in "Little Darlings".

Gwyneth Paltrow in "Hook"

Ed Harris in "Coma"

 

Dennis Hopper had quite an extensive TV/film career before "Cool Hand Luke"...

A lot of people show up in old TV shows...James Woods was in an old Hawaii Five-0 I watched a couple weeks back

 

Clint Eastwood in Tarantula (1955).

 

i'm not surprised at all. ya gotta start somewhere and most don't start at the top.

 

I was surprised to see Christopher Walken on Five-0 once. I remember being surprised by Robert Redford in an episode of Perry Mason.

 

He's given credit. More surprising (for people who already didn't know) was his small role in A Nightmare On Elm Street.


I remember Tom Cruise's early role in Taps before he was famous, but I had no idea about Tom Cruise being in Endless Love until years later. The same goes with Jami Gertz. Also, it didn't hit me that James Spader was in it either until years later after he had become famous in some of the Brat Pack movies.

Speaking of Brat Packers, the movie The Outsiders was full of them before many of them became famous. Matt Dillon and Leif Garrett were the only well-known people in the movie and C. Thomas Howell and Ralph Macchio were the main characters. But look at all the other actors that went on to bigger things. Some of them I never saw before until that movie:

Rob Lowe
Patrick Swayze
Emilio Estevez
Tom Cruise
Diane Lane

 

Lawrence Fishburne was the Cowboy on Pee Wee's Playhouse...it doesn't get too much funnier or surprising than that.

 

Harpo Marx in Too Many Kisses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4d2vBhn2Ws&feature=fvst

 

Before that he was in Apocalypse Now as a teenager.

 

http://www.basilrathbone.net/films/shfacesdeath/

 

Dennis Hopper had a part in the pilot episode of THE TIME TUNNEL as an opportunist character named "Bill Tabor". For reasons we can only guess today, his part was all but eliminated from the final aired film.

But his pre-introductory moment remains on film in the episode. Watch as James Darren's character walks toward Dennis Hopper after he first lands on the deck of the TITANIC. That's Dennis Hooper on the right side in the blue/grey suit and hat. But he received no credit for his role.

 

Sean Connery in a Disney flick whose name escapes me now

 

Bruce Willis in The Verdict

 

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

 

these people had to start somewhere....

 

Being a big horror-movie fan, many A List actors, got his/her start in a horror film....

 

Darby O'Gill and the Little People?

 

Richard Dreyfuss in The Graduate.

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Jim Carrey in Peggy Sue Got Married
Sly Stallone in Woody Allen's Bananas

 

Actually Stallone got his start in the softcore porn film The Party at Kitty and Stud's