The "That Actor Was In What?!?" Thread

Nolan North. It blew my mind when I read through his IMDB page. He's been Deadpool, Nathan Drake (Uncharted), Desmond Miles (Assassin's Creed), the Penguin (Batman: Arkham City), and Raphael (TMNT) among others.

And David Hayter, best known as Soild Snake in Metal Gear Solid, was also Captain America in a 90's Spiderman cartoon. And he was a writer on X-Men, X2, The Scorpion King, and Watchmen.

I've been watching all the episodes of Poirot (David Suchet) lately, and I just caught an episode with a younger Christopher Eccleston playing an angry young man who was a murder suspect. It made me do a double take.

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Originally Posted by Lightning_Rod There was a great inside joke on ST:TNG in the two-parter where they go back in time and meet Mark Twain. They decided that their cover story was that they (the bridge crew) were travelling actors who were going to put on "A Midsummer Night's Dream". When someone comes to the hotel room where they are, they quickly pass out scripts and pretend to be rehearsing a scene. Data, who played Puck in Gargoyles, starts reading lines for Puck in the scene. He does it in his "Puck voice" that he used in Gargoyles. I laughed like a madman at that, and so many friends didn't know why. :-) -LR

Wow, I've seen every episode of TNG (most of them several times) and I never caught on to that. Hilarious.

Alfred Molina has shown up in some interesting roles:


Doc Ock in Spiderman 2, was also



Indiana Jones's companion in the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and



Cezar, the wolf hunter in 1985's Ladyhawke

It occurred to me today that the first actor that ever gave me a WTF moment was Doctor Who related.

When I was a kid I got hooked on Doctor Who on PBS (which led to me also enjoying Monty Python, Benny Hill, Danger Mouse, and various other BBC shows). I was an avid watcher as I saw the fourth Doctor's run for the first time. Right before Doctor Who there was another BBC show called All Creatures Great and Small - a boring show about country veterinarians chock full of largely bland characters. And as I was new to Doctor Who, well, I was doubly shocked at the end of Logopolis. The character I had come to really like was replaced by a milquetoast country veterinarian. I gave Peter Davison a chance, but he was possibly even more bland as the Doctor than he was as a veterinarian.

I was watching the Movie Krull and playing The character kegan was Liam Neeson

The Mist was on SyFy yesterday and it was like a who's who of comic adaptation actors.

There were three people from The Walking Dead: Melissa McBride [also in Fantastic Four], Laurie Holden and Jefferey DeMunn

There were two people from Marvel movies: Thomas Jane (Punisher) and Toby Jones (Captain America)



There were some other notables there as well.

I've just been assuming everybody already knows this one. But since Thomas Jane keeps coming up. He was also one of the Vegan Police in Scott Pilgrim.

I was watching an episode of Angel a few days ago and had to rewind the TiVo when I saw T.J. Thyne (Hodgins on Bones) playing a Wolfram and Hart employee at a Halloween party.

Jeremy Renner is also in an early episode of Angel as a serial killer vampire.

I just caught David (Darth Vader) Prowse playing a heavy in an old episode of The Saint with Roger Moore.

I just realized Joe Morton, who plays Henry Deacon in Eureka, was also in Terminator 2.

I had one of those "Wait... what?" moments when I found out that Tim Matheson (Animal House, The West Wing, Burn Notice and a billion other things) was the original voice for Jonny Quest.

Jenny Agutter, the female lead of 1976's Logan's Run, was also one of the World Council people in The Avengers.

Peter Billingsley, who played Ralphie (the lead kid) in A Christmas Story was a producer for Iron Man.

Oh yeah, here's one: when I re-watched Mars Attacks after seeing High Fidelity, I realized the soldier was Jack Black.



When I saw Tron: legacy and Country Strong (almost) back-to-back, I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when at some point I realized those parts were being played by the same guy. Garrett Hedlund really deserves to work more, because he's like the modern Brian Cox -- he simply becomes the character. (The fact that Hedlund played Brad Pitt's cousin in Troy alongside Brian Cox just underscores that.)

Reign of Fire is on TV right now, and I just realized that Gerard Butler is in it. And wow, he played Dracula in Dracula 2000. He's one of those actors who impinged on my consciousness when 300 came out, so noticing him in movies I've already seen is kind of cool.

...and I just discovered that young Simon Tam in Firefly was played by Zac Efron in his first professional role.