BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)

Subject: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 12:17 PM

Hey, isn't that....

Newsman Ted Baxter, at the end of PSYCHO????!?!?!?!

At the end of Psycho, after the shrink explains all the stuff we Hitchcok-raised smarties have neatly figured out for ourselves, a cop takes a blanket to Norman Bates' cell. Another cop holds the door open for him as he goes in, and smirks in classic "Ted" style.

(googlegooglegoogle)

And the answer is, "Why, YES! That IS indeed Ted!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 12:24 PM

And I was flying over the Atlantic, the airline was showing "War of the Roses" (the dinner) scene, and I said, "Wow! That's ROY!!" and sure enough, it was my old friend and Director, Roy Brocksmith, playing a drama critic (I thought he'd used his whole stock of that up when he directed me!).

Another night -- I'm home in Indiana and the phone rings. It's Sue, from out SF way. "Okay, what did you do?" "Huh?" "What did you do to get thanked in Spider Robinson's new book [Lady Slings The Booze]?" "Oh, it's out?" "Damn right it is, and do you know how embarassing it is to be reading it while riding BART and yell out at the top of your voice 'Holy Sh*t, I know him!'?" "Well, I helped with the research." "Yes, but the book is set in a whorehouse! "Well, yes...."

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 12:36 PM

Patrick Stewart, buck-ass nekkid in "I, Claudius".

Loni Anderson, before she died her hair blonde, in a bit part in a 1976 Kristofferson flick called "Vigilante Force"... she played a dark-haired gang slut named Peaches.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Bert
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 12:41 PM

It was a long time ago but...

The very first episode of Dr Who. Dad calls us into the room and says Guess who that is.

It took a while to realise that it was William Hartnell who had played the RSM in The Army Game.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 01:50 PM

Jack Nicholson in an early episode of The Andy Griffith Show

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Backstage Manager(inactive)
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 02:24 PM

My old pal Colin Linden was the minister who married George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Intolerable Cruelty."

Another old pal, the late Tex König, was the rare animals dealer in "The Freshman" with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick.

And I was one of the crowd singing "The Internationale" in "Bethune" with Donald Sutherland.

I was also in a scene that was filmed for "Renaldo & Clara" with Bob Dylan. But, I've never seen the film, so I have no idea if the scene made it into the cut.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 02:29 PM

I don't tend to recognize many actors/actresses - but have recognized a number of ANIMALS in various films as ones I have personally met- (the tiger in Dr. Doolittle II among others)

and I get a kick out of seeing Mathew Lillard in anything - as I first knew him as Jeep-Jeep the village idiot at Sterling Renaissance Festival.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 06:57 PM

a friend from work got a bit role in Matrix II as a thug...

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 07:40 PM

Stan Lee in both Spider-man films, as well as Hulk, Daredevil and the first X-Men movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 10:38 PM

Steve Franken as Levinson, the drunk waiter in Peter Sellers' movie, "The Party" used to play Chatsworth Osborne Junior, Dobie Gillis's millionaire friend (described by his mother as 'a nasty boy') in "The Life and Loves of Dobie Gillis".

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Mudlark
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 02:25 AM

And what about Junior (from The Sopranos series...old mean mafia guy), in an inane 6 Flags over Texas ad, doing a soft shoe, prancing about...so much for type casting!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 12:33 PM

There are frequent repeats on local tv and cable of the 1950s and 60s television program Perry Mason that often feature very early performances of people who became big stars in later years. A brunette Angie Dickenson, Burt Reynolds (with hair!), Robert Redford, and one that is always a little sad, Paul Winfield with no lines. What a great voice.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST,Strick
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 02:35 PM

"And what about Junior (from The Sopranos series...old mean mafia guy), in an inane 6 Flags over Texas ad, doing a soft shoe, prancing about...so much for type casting!"

I don't think that's Junior. I think it's a much younger person in a prosthetic mask. It's OK, I thought it was Paul Shaffer at first, myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Nerd
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 02:43 PM

The Twilight Zone is another place for early appearances of later stars, including Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Shatner AND Nimoy (but not together), Jack Klugman, James Best (who played Sheriff Roscoe on The Dukes of Hazard), etc., etc.

George Takei of Star Trek had a minuscule bit part on an episode of I Spy only a little before Trek.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 06:29 PM

And never forget Theodore Bikel in one of those early Twilight Zone epics---and also the wonderful one about the man who is the last one on earth---loves books and mistakenly steps on his glasses at the end and is doomed to not being able to spend eternity reading. None other than Burgess Meredith. And was he ever funny in the outakes of Grumpy Old Men (at the credit roll at the end)

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 10:57 PM

I've seen Meredith in three different Twilight Zone episodes. Only the one you mention is really a classic, but he's a joy to watch. We spent hours in front of the Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci Fi channel this weekend.

The episode I got to see that was the most interesting from a cast point of view was one of my favorites: Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, and a favorite character actor, Strother Martin in a western ghost story.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Nerd
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 02:06 AM

GUEST, that episode with Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef is a great one. James Best (The aforementioned Dukes of Hazard sherrif) is the fourth guy in that one. Best also has his own episode, where he plays a guy who dies and comes back.

Burgess Meredith was one of the Zone's favorites, appearing in four episodes. I believe Jack Klugman also did four.

Theodore Bikel is a great one because of his dual roles as actor and folksinger. He also turns up in Star Trek (as the Jewish Earthman who raised Worf) and in Babylon 5 (as the Russian Rabbi who is a friend and religious counselor to Susan Ivanova; and also as a Minbari religious leader.)

That reminds me: there is a rarely-shown episode of the Twilight Zone featuring Robert Duvall. It's rarely shown because it's one of about fifteen episodes that were an hour long, and the show was syndicated as a half-hour show in reruns, so those episodes are frequently skipped. If I recall, Duvall is obsessed with a dollhouse in a museum.

It just occurred to me that the old Batman is a great place to look for this phenomenon, too. Not only is there the show's penchant for big stars of the time as villains (David Wayne, Burgess Meredith, Vincent Price, Eartha Kitt, John Astin, Victor Buono, etc), but there were the people who would stick their heads out the window while the dynamic duo were climbing buildings (from Milton Berle to the Monkees).

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Splott Man
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 07:49 AM

Lee van Cleef turns up as a sharp-shooter at the end of an old monster flick called The Claw, and wasn't Stallone a subway thug in an old Woody Allen film?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 03:39 PM

Jeff Golblum was cast as "Freak #1" in the first Death Wish movie with Charles Bronson. But don't blink or you'll miss him.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 05:29 PM

Christian Slater gets an uncredited appearance in one of the Star Trek movies ('The Undiscovered Country' I believe) and a line... apparently he's such a fan he did it for nothing, just to be in a Star Trek movie....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 05:41 PM

Always look behind the door in To Kill A Mockingbird----Robert Duvall.


Then, of course, Hitchcock was in all his own films---or part of his anatomy was.


Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 05:54 PM

Bill - Do you remember how he made his cameo appearance in "Lifeboat" ?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 06:02 PM

"Always look behind the door in To Kill A Mockingbird----Robert Duvall."

His first movie role. He's also the lead in one of my favorite Outer Limits episodes.

How about Fess Parker as the Texan in the insane asylum in the movie Them or Leonard Nimoy as the soldier who reports that Parker thought he saw fly ants just before that? Nimoy also has a one liner in the Twilight Zone episode where Dean Stockwell plays the 90 day wonder 2nd Lieutenant at the end of Woirld War II who wants to kill Japanese only to find himself turned into a Japanese Lieutenant at the beginning of the war.

Or Earl Holliman as the incredibly young cook in Forbidden Planet?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: mcgrathof altcar
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 07:32 PM

Martin Carthy playing a lift boy in an episode of (I think) "The Mysteries of Edgar Wallace" He was included in the closing credits.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 08:05 PM

LIfeboat. NO, I do not---could it be a hand clutching the boat?


Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 12:54 AM

Not a person, but a place...two of them, in fact. Much of the Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy classic "Trading Places" was filmed in and around the area in downtown Philadelphia where I lived when I was a pediatric resident. When Eddie Murphy is nabbed by the cops while pretending to be a double amputee, he is in Rittenhouse Square, one of five parks that were designed by William Penn in 1682 when he planned Philadelphia as a Greene Countrie Towne. And, to make this a musical thread, the facade of the stockbroker's office where Ackroyd and then Murphy are employed is actually the Curtiss Institute of Music!

In "A Beautiful Mind," remember the big stone steps leading up to a large gothic tower and arch, that figures in a few key scenes? If Russell Crowe had turned around while ascending those steps, he would have been looking at Lockhart Hall, my freshman-year dorm at Princeton.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Nerd
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 02:57 AM

Leslie Nielsen playing the incredibly young captain in Forbidden Planet.

LTS, if you look in the credits to Undiscovered Country you will see that the casting director is Mary Jo Slater--Christian's Mom. It helps to have connections!

As for Folkies, A.L. Lloyd is the Shantyman in Moby Dick, and Barry Dransfield played a blind fiddler/singer in The Bounty (w/ Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins). Damien Barber turned up on something I was watching--could it be Lovejoy? Tom Clancy played a jet plane mechanic in an awful TV movie about a haunted airplane, starring Ernest Borgnine. In Cold Mountain Renee Zellweger's baby is played by Tim Eriksen's baby--Tim was a musical consultant to the film. (Not that you'll go "hey, isn't that Tim Eriksen's Baby?")

By the way, in that first Death Wish movie (which was filmed in MY old neighborhood), another of the muggers is the guy who played Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington on Welcome Back Kotter. (Speaking of which, a pre-stardom John Travolta was on that show.) The first mugging takes place at the 79th street Boat Basin, where I hung out as a kid, and the wife and daughter are followed home from a D'Agostino's where we used to shop. If you come from New York City, you get used to that. I went to Columbia, and saw not only the buildings where I took classes but also the little nook that housed the tutoring office where I worked, in Spider-Man 2. And Ghostbusters. And several other flicks.

Now I live in Philadelphia, and I can see why people remember Rocky, Philadelphia and Trading Places so much; not that many movies get made here!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 07:50 AM

More Folkies:

In Far From the Madding Crowd....

Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and the Yetties

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Backstage Manager(inactive)
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 08:29 AM

When Eddie Murphy is nabbed by the cops while pretending to be a double amputee, he is in Rittenhouse Square, one of five parks that were designed by William Penn in 1682 when he planned Philadelphia as a Greene Countrie Towne.

The real-life episode that inspired Arlo Guthrie's song, "Ring Around Rosy Rag," took place in Rittenhouse Square.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 09:03 AM

"Now I live in Philadelphia, and I can see why people remember Rocky, Philadelphia and Trading Places so much; not that many movies get made here!"

You mustn't forget The Sixth Sense, another Philly based movie.

I had a corporate apartment for at time just off Rittenhouse Square and visited some of the sites in the movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: el ted
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 09:07 AM

If you watch "rocky" very closely, you will notice that all the close ups are of MY body not sylvesters, because i was in better shape at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jul 04 - 09:18 AM

The writer, Stephen King has taken up Hitchcock's habit of appearing in the films of his books. With his looks he fits in well with the horror stories!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Jul 04 - 07:59 PM

Was Brian Keith EVER young?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Nerd
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 12:52 AM

Yes, GUEST, there have been other memorable movie scenes in Philly (Witness, etc).

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 11:18 PM

Don't forget singer/songwriter from Indiana, Tim Grimm in a supporting role in Clear and Present Danger.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST,Larry K
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 02:08 PM

In the movie "its a wonderful life" the cop and policeman were named Bert and Ernie- which Jim Henson later used for the muppets.

My favorite line in "Guess who's coming to dinner" is when Sidney Potier says "My wife hopes our baby will grow up to be president, but I would settle for Secretary of State" Quite a prediction

Also, in Blazing Saddles, in the bar screen they talk about the Anthrax scare. (for cattle)

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 12:00 PM

Jim Henson said that he was unaware of the Bert and Ernie characters in It's a Wonderful Life, and that it was just a coincedence.

And back to the original subject, that's Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson) playing Poitiers mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She just passed away a few days ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 01:27 PM

Another music reference:

Hugh McGraw (publisher of The Original Sacred Harp and noted shape note sing leader) cast as the singing minister at the funeral in movie "The Long Riders."

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: GUEST,Augie
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 01:38 PM

Carol-besides Nicholson, I recall the aforementioned James Best turning up as a hot shot rockabilly guitar player and the Dillards as the bluegrass picking Darling boys, all on the old Andy Griffith show.
This is a terrible thread. Now I'm never going to get any real work done.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 02:52 PM

Ranger Steve, Sanford didn't play his mother, she played Kate and Spencer's family maid Tillie. Here is the IMDB link. Beah Richards (who later won an Emmy for her performance on an episode of Frank's Place) played his mother.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 07:38 PM

I stand corrected.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Nerd
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 08:09 PM

Yes, the Dillards were semi-regulars on Andy Griffith. And of course Waylon Jennings was the balladeer on James Best's later show, The Dukes of Hazard.

Funnily enough, my dad went to college with the guy who played Boss Hogg, whose name was Sorrel Booke. He once played a visitng general on MASH, so if you see that you might say "hey, isn't that Boss Hogg?" Sitcoms remind me of another great early role: Janet Jackson as Penny on Good Times.

I was just watching Red Dragon with the director's commentary, and it turns out that Dolarhyde's mother's voice was provided by Ellen Burstyn in an uncredited voiceover. And, in another music connection, there is a janitor that you only see in one scene, cleaning Hannibal Lecter's toilet. You only see him from the top. He is a balding black man about 40. It turns out he is "Run" from the pioneer hip-hop group Run DmC. He originally had a larger role, but it was cut from the film.

In the meantime, they got an actor called Frankie Faison to play Lecter's guard, Barney. He is, interestingly, the only actor to have been in every Hannibal Lecter film. He played a cop in "Manhunter," the original version of "Red Dragon" (in which Brian Cox played Lecter). He then played Barney in all three Anthony Hopkins flicks.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 02:07 AM

Actually, Bert and Ernie were named after Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway

--the authors of the only two books Henson read for class before dropping out of his first year university English major to pursue an apprenticeship in puppetry.





Now you know.... the rest... of the story



Okay, I just made that up, but SOMEbody has to create these urban myths...

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 07:50 AM

Ever wondered why Star Trek Next Generation had such great dance scenes?

The choreographer on 'Labyrinth' (Jim Henson, Brian Froud, David Bowie), changed her name and became a doctor. She went from Cheryl McFadden to Gates McFadden.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Grab
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 08:11 AM

Seriously, Liz? Who the hell would pick "Gates" as a first name?!

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 12:59 PM

C'mon! It's open and shut.

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Nerd
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 01:05 PM

And when did they have such great dance scenes?

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 05:13 PM

On The Waterfront---just happened to see it the other night on the TCM channel. You have to look closely but there in a shot of Lee J. Cobb's henchmen is, among others (non speaking part) Fred Gwynne. Martin Balsam is also seen in the film---small speaking part. And some others who's names I cannot recall but became familiar in years to come.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 05:26 PM

I know I posted this once already, but it seems to have vanished. Here is a link to McFadden at IMDB. It is she, both coreographer and actress, among other things. They even list which Star Trek episode with dancing.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Hey, Isn't That.... (Movie surprises)
From: Blackcatter
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 05:30 PM

It was never answered above - How Hitchcock appeared in Lifeboat, his movie that took place completely in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean.

At one point, a magazine is discovered and a weight-loss ad is shown. Hitch was the "before" picture.


My favorites.

Timothy Dalton, Shakesperean actor and 007 was in Flash Gordon along with Max Von Sydow and Brian Blessed (I forget who Flash was).

Richard Biers from the 70s Brit com Good Neighbors was in Kenneth Brannagh's Henry V (as was Brian Blessed!)

So how many of you play Six Degrese of Keven Bacon, or whatever the game's called wher you name two actors who you believe never were in a movie together and you try to link them together through other movies with other actors.