Early films with unexpected actor combos.

jiltloop

Just watching a Dirty Harry film from 1988 (The Dead Pool) and I've just seen a scene with Liam Neeson and Jim Carey! Thought I was seeing things!

Can you name other films with unexpected actors that you never knew acted together or even actors appearing in films that you never knew about before? Can't think of any others off hand myself.

Lamper.sffc

Bill Paxton in the opening scene of Terminator.

Samuel L jackson and Hale Berry in Jungle Fever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTA3qGQouaU

oh and Jim Carey in Earth Girls are Easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSbiL725hVQ&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL5D4D5D76559EA7F2

Mister Jingles

Was quite surprised to see Ben Stiller in Next Of Kin. Didn't think his career started that early.

Also just watched Dead Poets Society and it took me a few minutes to see that Ethan Hawke from Trianing Day was in it.

Suppose you have to start somewhere.

grohlisagod

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Was quite surprised to see Ben Stiller in Next Of Kin. Didn't think his career started that early.

Also just watched Dead Poets Society and it took me a few minutes to see that Ethan Hawke from Trianing Day was in it.

Suppose you have to start somewhere.

Josh Charles from the Good Wife and In Treatment is another of the pupils.

Lionel Messy

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48hrs. Deadly.

Tipsy McSwagger

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Was quite surprised to see Ben Stiller in Next Of Kin. Didn't think his career started that early.

Also just watched Dead Poets Society and it took me a few minutes to see that Ethan Hawke from Trianing Day was in it.

Suppose you have to start somewhere.

Ethan Hawke was in Explorers a few years before Dead Poets Society.

Mister Jingles

grohlisagod wrote: »

Josh Charles from the Good Wife and In Treatment is another of the pupils.

Noticed that as well, recognised him from SWAT though.

budgemook

Fast Times and Ridgemont High - Nicholas Cage pops up frying up some chips, doesn't say a word. Anthony Edwards and Eric Stoltz also have very small parts.

p to the e

Sticking with Jim Carrey he was in "Peggy Sue gets Married" with Nic Cage and Kathleen Turner. A very young Ben Stiller starred in the Hill billy thriller "Next of Kin" with Liam Neeson, Patrick Swayze and Adam Baldwin.

FortuneChip

The Outsiders (1983) was just filled with young stars
A very young Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane to name a few

quickbeam

Tim Robbins in Top Gun

FishBowel

Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee in Enter the dragon.
Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris in Way of the dragon.

Vokes

Ben Stiller appearing alongside John Malkovich in Empire of the Sun was a strange one in retrospect.

KenSwee

Cristian Slater in Star Trek, the undiscovered country.
Ensign who wakes up Captain Sulu.

Mister Jingles

John C Reilly in Casualties of War, far from comedy but one of his first.

Platoon also started it off a few people as well, John C McGinley being one of them.

mikhail

KenSwee wrote: »

Cristian Slater in Star Trek, the undiscovered country.
Ensign who wakes up Captain Sulu.

Slater is a massive Star Trek fan. He begged for that cameo. He was already at least somewhat famous.

bambam

DeNiro in Terry Gilliam's Brazil

ziedth

Memphis Bell is like a who's who of random actors:

Billy Zane
John Lithgow
Sean Astin
Matthew Modine

bnt

quickbeam wrote: »

Tim Robbins in Top Gun

Meg Ryan too, as Goose's wife - one of her first movie roles. (Goose was played by Anthony Edwards, who later hit the big time with E.R.)

Edwards was also in Fast Times at Ridgemont High with a few future stars: Nicholas Cage, Forest Whitaker, and Sean Penn.

Mister Jingles

bnt wrote: »

Meg Ryan too, as Goose's wife - one of her first movie roles. (Goose was played by Anthony Edwards, who later hit the big time with E.R.)

Edwards was also in Fast Times at Ridgemont High with a few future stars: Nicholas Cage, Forest Whitaker, and Sean Penn.

One of the biggest paid actors on american television I once read. Well deserved though tbh.

I always think of Empire Records

A very young Liv Tyler, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney.

GarH

Gwyeth Paltrow was in the movie hook for a couple of seconds.
She played a young Wendy.

FishBowel

bambam wrote: »

DeNiro in Terry Gilliam's Brazil

That's not an early De Niro film.

jefreywithonef

^ What has that got to do with anything?

Kurz

"Twins" with DeVito and Schwarzeneggar. I'd loved to have been in the room when that was pitched, I bet it sounded like such a laugh-out-loud romp!

FishBowel

jefreywithonef wrote: »

^ What has that got to do with anything?

The thread is called EARLY films with unexpected actor combos. De Niro had done everything by the time that movie came out.

The King of Moo

Sylvester Stallone had a small, uncredited role as a thug on the subway in Woody Allen's Bananas (1971).

The two would then go on to "star" together again in 1998's Antz.

charles_92688

Lucille Ball and the Three Stooges

Bobby Baccala

Johnny Depp in platoon, that has an absolutely excellent cast.

LittleBook

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Johnny Depp in platoon, that has an absolutely excellent cast.

Even before that, Depp starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Pretty sure Matt Damon was in Mystic Pizza which was also one of Julia Roberts first films.

My favourite "when they were young" is Robert Duvall's now famous performance as Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird which was his first important role.

OldeCinemaSoz

One of my favourites was spotting Nancy Allen alongside Jack Nicholson
in the excellent THE LAST DETAIL.

larchielads

how are these unexpected???? surely they're all just early movie roles for said actors

unexpected(as thread title suggests) to me is taking actors out of their comfort zones one from say comedy and one from say action and put them in a diff role say like romance or somethin

jiltloop

That's what I originally meant but it's all good! Lots of interesting ones all the same.