TV & Media Avatar Contest: Before They Were Famous

[Evil Twin]

The theme for this week is actors in early roles from before they became well known actors. Please include the name of the actor and what they are in. SF/F IS allowed.

I'll start us off with Harrison Ford in American Graffiti.

 

[Saga]

Bill Mumy The Twilight Zone

 

[Orac]

Anthony Hopkins in Magic

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Patrick Stewart in I Claudius

 

[Avro Arrow]

- Sandra Bullock as Kate Mason, Bionic Showdown (1989)

 

[auntiehill]

William Shatner on The Twilight Zone

 

[od0_ital]

Elijah Wood, Back to the Future, Part II

 

[Gov Kodos]

Lucy Liu as Coutney on Beverly Hills 90210

 

[scotpens]

I'm trying to decide between Jessica Lange in King Kong (1976) . . .

. . . or Jack Nicholson in the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960).

 

[tharpdevenport]

Christopher Judge. Before he became the fmous "Indeed" uttering member of SG-1 on "Stargate: SG1", he actually met Richard Dean Anderson many years earlier on one episode of "MacGyver". According to IMDb, this was his second acting credit.

 

[the G-man]

I'm trying to decide between Jessica Lange in King Kong (1976) . . .

. . . or Jack Nicholson in the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960).

Go for Jessica Lange...and let me use Nicholson. Because I was going to, dang it.

 

[Starkers]

Doctor Who and James Bond (IE Christopher Eccleston and Daniel Craig in Our Friends in the North)

 

[auntiehill]

^Wow. Long hair does not suit either one.

It's Craig--with a G, btw.

 

[Starkers]

Oops typo!

 

[scotpens]

Go for Jessica Lange...and let me use Nicholson. Because I was going to, dang it.

OK . . . Jessica it is, then!

 

[Mojochi]

Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting

 

[Showdown]

Samuel L. Jackson from Coming to America

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZQFJ6hZNJc[/yt]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

14-year old Winona Ryder giving her screen-debut in Lucas (1986):

 

[scotpens]

Can a mod pin this thread so it doesn't get buried?

 

[the G-man]

Thanks to the generosity of scotpens my entry: