Big Stars in Their Earlier Efforts

[edisraf]

They are big stars now, but everybody has to start some place.

Know of any? Extra credit for the earlier efforts of Trek stars!

The show is "The Guns of Will Sonnet" staring Walter Brennan. A bad guy rides into town with his partner. The partner goes someplace and does something while the bad guy just sits on his horse outside of the saloon (I think). Shots are fired and said bad guy spurs his horse and rides quickly away. He never says a word and you only see his face briefly. His name is Jack Nicholson!

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[LitmusDragon]

The first that comes to mind is Patrick Stewart in I, Claudius. Excellent series.

 

[B.J.]

Morgan Freeman - The Electric Company

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Josh Holloway of Lost was a petty thug in the first episode of Angel. He is also the thief who gets knocked down in Aerosmith's Cryin' video.

Harrison Ford's first "role" was a blink and you'll miss him German in The Great Escape.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Jeff Goldblum's first role was as "Freak #1" in Death Wish.

Jackie Chan had an early role as one the nameless guys killed by Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. He gets his neck snapped.

 

[Captain Ice]

The show was an Episode of Star Trek The Next Generation. This popular leading lady played the girlfriend of a visiting former cast member while the Enterprise was overtaken by an alien race using technology to overcome the crew through the power of suggestion. The actress is Ashley Judd.

 

[T'Girl]

Jeff Goldblum's first role was as "Freak #1" in Death Wish.

Is that the one with Marina Sirtis in it too?

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Jackie Chan had an early role as one the nameless guys killed by Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. He gets his neck snapped.

He's also on the Mitsubishi team in Cannonball Run II.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Jeff Goldblum's first role was as "Freak #1" in Death Wish.

Is that the one with Marina Sirtis in it too?

That was Death Wish III. I feel like such a nerd for knowing that.

 

[sojourner]

Jackie Chan had an early role as one the nameless guys killed by Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. He gets his neck snapped.

He's also on the Mitsubishi team in Cannonball Run II.

Subaru team, Cannonball Run 1.

And to be honest, he was already a pretty big star, just not in the U.S.

Mark Hamill played Lori's boyfriend on The Partridge Family. And he still sounded whiney. "Hey! that's my radio!"

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Jackie Chan had an early role as one the nameless guys killed by Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. He gets his neck snapped.

He's also on the Mitsubishi team in Cannonball Run II.

Subaru team, Cannonball Run 1.

And to be honest, he was already a pretty big star, just not in the U.S.

Mark Hamill played Lori's boyfriend on The Partridge Family. And he still sounded whiney. "Hey! that's my radio!"

Sorry. IMDB listed it as Mitsubishi. ('Course, IMDB is often wrong about a great many things, so I don't know why I go to them for reference.) Gonna have to watch that one again.

 

[B.J.]

Jackie Chan had an early role as one the nameless guys killed by Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. He gets his neck snapped.

He's also on the Mitsubishi team in Cannonball Run II.

Why would you remember him in II but not the original?

*Edit* - To all above, he was in both movies.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

 

[B.J.]

Just to clarify some more (there goes the OCD again! ), it was a 1980 Subaru DL in the original, and a 1983 Mitsubishi Starion in II. (Verified with pics, thanks to IMCDb.org!)

 

[captcalhoun]

george clooney was in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie.

nicole kidman was in BMX Bandits, a kid movie about ... kids on BMXs...

jennifer aniston was in one of the shitty Leprechaun movies.

johnny depp was in Nightmare on Elm Street and died.

jeremy irons did a kids tv show in britain...

a big-name star of Lois and Clark and Desperate Housewives appeared in a small role as a transporter operator in TNG season 2. Teri Hatcher WAS Lt. BG Robinson!

a TNG 7th season episode features a young girl who reminds Lwaxana of the daughter she tragically lost and has suppresssed all memories of. the girl was played by KIRSTEN DUNST!

 

[scotpens]

Anyone see Paul Newman's debut in The Silver Chalice (1954)? Most of us would have told that kid not to give up his day job.

And, of course, there's young Jack Nicholson's turn as a masochistic dental patient in the original Little Shop of Horrors.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

george clooney was in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes, yes.

johnny depp was in Nightmare on Elm Street and died.

That reminds me of Kevin Bacon. Though he had already been in Animal House, Kevin Bacon was one of the victims in Friday the 13th.

 

[edisraf]

Love 'em! So I went poking around and found this gem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2jCs5ZJu8w

He shows up in the middle and at the end.

A 23 year old Leonard Nimoy as Julius Carver in a 1954 episode of Dragnet.

Can't you just hear Jimmy Buffet singing "Pencil Thin Mustache!"

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[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

george clooney was in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes, yes.

johnny depp was in Nightmare on Elm Street and died.

That reminds me of Kevin Bacon. Though he had already been in Animal House, Kevin Bacon was one of the victims in Friday the 13th.

Tom Hanks also got his start in the slasher epic He Knows You're Alone

 

[Jax]

The first that comes to mind is Patrick Stewart in I, Claudius. Excellent series.

If I remember right his first ever TV role was cameo as a fireman in Corronation Street (UK primetime soap for those unfamilar with it).