BTW, if you want to check out one of the biggest "before they were famous" movies, you should check out "The Outsiders". The movie starred C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, and Matt Dillon as the main characters, but it also featured Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Diane Lane, and it also featured Nicholas Cage, Melanie Griffith, and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers as extras.
Some more (In no particular order): 1. Angela Bassett as Flight Attendant in Kindergarten Cop 2. Steve Carell as waiter in Curly Sue 3. Louie Anderson as delivery guy with the "nurse" in Ferris Bueller Day's Off. 4. Samuel Jackson a Taxi Dispatcher in Betsy's Wedding. 5. Eric Stonestreet as Front Desk Worker in Almost Famous. 6. Jane Krakowski as the babysitter in Fatal Attraction.
Very happy to see Leverage recognized for Aldis. I saw his name and was sure only Black Adam would be mentioned. Samuel L Jackson in turn wasn't all that well known when Eddie Murphy was forced to thrash him in Coming To America.
Before Chris Rock was in Beverly Hills Cop II, Damon Wayans got his very first credited screen role as an attendant at the hotel buffet in the first Beverly Hills Cop movie where he gives Axel Foley some bananas from the buffet. He is credited only as "Banana Man".
I love how many of the "13 Going on 30" cast would end up in Superhero movies. We have Elektra, The Hulk, Captain Marvel and Ant Man's ex wife, to name but a few.
It's not a movie, but Jeremy Renner was on an episode of 'Angel' in the first season, playing a vampire character named 'Penn' who was formerly Angel's 'squire' back in the 1800's.
Is it weird that I know where Elijah is *BUT* even as a fan who watches the trilogy all at once when I do, I forget which one was Billy Zane and which was Flea?!🤔
@@patrickdoyle6201 Flea was Needles, the guy Marty was supposed to drag race when he gets in the wreck, talks him into that deal that gets him fired in the future. Zane was one of Biff's cronies, Match.
@@quaxo1 So Flea was on the picture phone & the drag race in III Zane was a random cronie?! I just can't always tell them apart. I knew Elijah, Im more of a movie guy than a music guy
Octavia Spencer was also in SWAT, she had a brief exchange with LL Cool J after he and Colin Farrell nicked the lad that was doing a runner whilst wearing ‘lakers purple’
This is the hero comment you want, but never leave. This been Able Magawitch with "less culture" than a cup of yogurt 10 0:33 Rami Malek in "Battleship" 9 1:35 Michael Shannon in "Groundhog Day" 8 2:27 Nick Offerman in "Sin City" 7 3:24 Octavia Spencer in "Spider-Man" 6 4:19 Nicholas Cage in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" 5 5:20 Jermy Allen White in "Movie 43" 4 6:24 Chris Rock in "Beverly Hills Cop II " II = 2 3 7:22 Melissa MCCarthy" in Go" 2 8:14 Brie Larson in "13 Going On 30" 1 9:07 Aldis Hodge in " Die Hard With A Vegence" Thank you for making another great list, and being the biggest and better geek maker of lists from series and films.
Tim Robbins played 'Merlin' in Top Gun (original). He's ridding the back seat with Maverick so he has a helmet on but at the end, during the celebration on the deck of the ship, you catch a glimpse of him a couple of time.
Bill Paxton as one of the thugs in Terminator Michael Rooker as a random guy in a bar fight scene in Above the Law (starring Steven Seagal) Ben Affleck as a basketball player in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon) in Batman Begins Scarlett Johansson in Home Alone 3
amusingly found out just a few days ago, which sort of prompted me to watch this - just recently found out henry cavill was in the count of monte cristo, a movie i really liked from way before his more famous roles. it was basically his second movie or something.
Elijah Wood and Jack Gyllenhaal in back to the future 2. Marlon Waynes with hair in Beverly hills cop. Henry cavill in Stardust. Peter Dinklage in elf. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in field of dreams. Ben Affleck in Buffy. Neil Flynn in the fugitive Samuel l Jackson in coming to America
Who did Jake G play?! IDK what I found him in first BUT now Dinklage is like Dench, *NOBODY* can take a part from them! I love Stewart & McKellan BUT you could replace them on stage with Dench & Dinklage and even if you have to market it as a comedy, I still see Shakespeare 😹
@@dhenderson1810 Very early in the film, after they've just escaped from the nightclub, Akroyd introduces his character as "Webber" and escorts them onto Lau's aeroplane, apologising that the only seats he could get was on a cargo plane.
Aykroyd was already well known by then from SNL, Doctor Detroit, and The Blue Brothers. Not sure how you could miss him in Temple of Doom, that terrible accent he put on made him stick out like a sore thumb.
Matthew McConaughey is also basically an extra in a movie theatre in My Boyfriend's Back, the silly horror comedy about a guy coming back as a zombie to go to prom. It was well before he became popular.
I recently rewatched World Trade Center and was surprised to see Viola Davis as a grieving mother in the hospital waiting room. I don't remember her there when I first watched it years ago!
Some more good ones are Emma Roberts - Blow Alexander skarsgard- Zoolander Jim Caviezel- my own private Idaho Misha Collins- girl interrupted Helen McCrory- interview with the vampire
Tom Cruise was briefly in Young Guns. When Billy gets thrown out of the window in the clothes chest Tom Cruise is one of the cowboys surrounding the house and gets shot as the other Regulators are coming out the side.
I'm sure many wouldn't be familiar with the Troma classic Return of the killer tomatoes but after a recent watch for the first time in 30 years I had know idea George Clooney was in it.
I always watch the credits of older films. I want to see if any actor that was not famous when the film was released is now. Norman Reddus from The Walking Dead was in Mimic from 1997.
I liked it and watch it at least once a year. Yeah it's no award winning flick, but it does what it's meant to do, entertain. Sit down with some snacks and gel for 2 hours.
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOW WHAT that’s him, dude I watch Die Hard 3 all the time and never knew that was the cop from Invisible Man 2019, the Original Derwin Davis, & Leverage.
Sam Rockwell was in 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as "Head Thug" for the Foot Clan. Who's to say that wasn't Iron Man 2's Justin Hammer before he got his act together?
So many to add to this Tim Robbins in Top Gun Damon Wayans in Beverley Hills Cop Tom Cruise in Young Guns JC Van Damme in Breakin Jack Nicholson in Head
There are a ton of others that could be added, two of my favourites are Cuba Gooding Junior in Coming to America and the literally blink and you'll miss it appearance of Leonard Nimoy in Them!.
That wasn't actually Brie Larson's first film. The first movie she ever came out on was a Disney movie called right on track it came out the year before 13 going on 30
Rebel Wilson turning up briefly in Ghost Rider was one of her very earliest roles.
Bernie mac played a bouncer in
Think booty call at the door.
BTW, if you want to check out one of the biggest "before they were famous" movies, you should check out "The Outsiders". The movie starred C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, and Matt Dillon as the main characters, but it also featured Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Diane Lane, and it also featured Nicholas Cage, Melanie Griffith, and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers as extras.
Some more (In no particular order):
1. Angela Bassett as Flight Attendant in Kindergarten Cop
2. Steve Carell as waiter in Curly Sue
3. Louie Anderson as delivery guy with the "nurse" in Ferris Bueller Day's Off.
4. Samuel Jackson a Taxi Dispatcher in Betsy's Wedding.
5. Eric Stonestreet as Front Desk Worker in Almost Famous.
6. Jane Krakowski as the babysitter in Fatal Attraction.
Jane Krakowski was the young hick niece of Clark Griswold in National Lampoon's Vacation.
I might actually have to rewatch BUELLER now!
Cuba Gooding Jr. was in the barber's chair during the first My-T-Sharp scene in Coming to America.
yep he was just sitting there smiling and nodding his head.
Damn😂 that was him
Samuel L. Jackson had a small part in that movie too.
@@B1_66ER yep as the robber of McDowell's
Samuel L Jackson was the one holding up McDowells
Also Keira Knightly was in Star Wars episode one
Uh, what?!
Very happy to see Leverage recognized for Aldis. I saw his name and was sure only Black Adam would be mentioned. Samuel L Jackson in turn wasn't all that well known when Eddie Murphy was forced to thrash him in Coming To America.
Leverage is/was a criminally underrated show.
Alfred Molina of Doc Ock fame in SpiderMan 2 got his film debut as Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Jean-Claude Van Damme making his uncredited film debut as a random dancing guy at the beach in Breakin'.
Matt Damon in Mystic Pizza is worth a shoutout.
Jeff Goldblum in Death Wish is another.
Before Chris Rock was in Beverly Hills Cop II, Damon Wayans got his very first credited screen role as an attendant at the hotel buffet in the first Beverly Hills Cop movie where he gives Axel Foley some bananas from the buffet. He is credited only as "Banana Man".
Go ahead, take those bananas
Richard Dreyfuss had a blink and you miss it line in The Graduate (The scene with Norman Fell)
I love how many of the "13 Going on 30" cast would end up in Superhero movies. We have Elektra, The Hulk, Captain Marvel and Ant Man's ex wife, to name but a few.
Andy Serkis (Ulysses Klaue in Avengers Age of Ultron and Black Panther) was in 13 Going on 30 as well.
@@neffyboy thinks that what the commenter meant by "to only name but a few"
Judy Greer is her name. She was the frenemy.
It's not a movie, but Jeremy Renner was on an episode of 'Angel' in the first season, playing a vampire character named 'Penn' who was formerly Angel's 'squire' back in the 1800's.
Billy Zane was in Back to Future movies
So was Elijah Wood, who I am surprised to not see on this list either for that very appearance.
@@quaxo1 same here!!
Is it weird that I know where Elijah is *BUT* even as a fan who watches the trilogy all at once when I do, I forget which one was Billy Zane and which was Flea?!🤔
@@patrickdoyle6201 Flea was Needles, the guy Marty was supposed to drag race when he gets in the wreck, talks him into that deal that gets him fired in the future. Zane was one of Biff's cronies, Match.
@@quaxo1 So Flea was on the picture phone & the drag race in III Zane was a random cronie?! I just can't always tell them apart. I knew Elijah, Im more of a movie guy than a music guy
Octavia Spencer was also in SWAT, she had a brief exchange with LL Cool J after he and Colin Farrell nicked the lad that was doing a runner whilst wearing ‘lakers purple’
This is the hero comment you want, but never leave. This been Able Magawitch with "less culture" than a cup of yogurt
10 0:33 Rami Malek in "Battleship"
9 1:35 Michael Shannon in "Groundhog Day"
8 2:27 Nick Offerman in "Sin City"
7 3:24 Octavia Spencer in "Spider-Man"
6 4:19 Nicholas Cage in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
5 5:20 Jermy Allen White in "Movie 43"
4 6:24 Chris Rock in "Beverly Hills Cop II " II = 2
3 7:22 Melissa MCCarthy" in Go"
2 8:14 Brie Larson in "13 Going On 30"
1 9:07 Aldis Hodge in " Die Hard With A Vegence"
Thank you for making another great list, and being the biggest and better geek maker of lists from series and films.
Why did you capitalize Brie Larsen’s (misspelled) name? Just curious.
Tim Robbins played 'Merlin' in Top Gun (original). He's ridding the back seat with Maverick so he has a helmet on but at the end, during the celebration on the deck of the ship, you catch a glimpse of him a couple of time.
He was also Cougar’s RIO in the beginning of the film.
@@midnightfury4584 Thank you! I was not aware of that. Now I have an excuse to watch the movie again!
Viola Davis played a cop in Kate and Leopold. But my favorite is seeing Laurence Fishburne playing Cowboy Curtis on Peewee's Playhouse.
Yeah, but he had already been in Apocalypse Now by that point.
He was also in an episode of M*A*S*H where he was going by Larry Fishburne.
What about Clint Eastwood in the Jack Arnold movies "Revenge of the Creature" and "Tarantula"?!?!
Chris tucker at the beginning of Jackie brown still shocks me every time.
Bill Paxton as one of the thugs in Terminator
Michael Rooker as a random guy in a bar fight scene in Above the Law (starring Steven Seagal)
Ben Affleck as a basketball player in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon) in Batman Begins
Scarlett Johansson in Home Alone 3
Tobey Maguire was in The Wizard.
And fear and loathing in Las Vegas
And Back To The Future Part II
And Back To The Future Part II
@@jaykayzed5213 No, he wasn't
@@jaykayzed5213 That was Elijah Wood, Billy Zane also was in BTTF 2
Octavia Spensor in Being John Malkovich!
amusingly found out just a few days ago, which sort of prompted me to watch this - just recently found out henry cavill was in the count of monte cristo, a movie i really liked from way before his more famous roles. it was basically his second movie or something.
Tyler Hoechlin was the kid in Road to Perdition
Elijah Wood and Jack Gyllenhaal in back to the future 2.
Marlon Waynes with hair in Beverly hills cop.
Henry cavill in Stardust.
Peter Dinklage in elf.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in field of dreams.
Ben Affleck in Buffy.
Neil Flynn in the fugitive
Samuel l Jackson in coming to America
It was actually Damon Wayans in Beverly Hills Cop as the hotel employee who Axel buys the bananas from.
Who did Jake G play?!
IDK what I found him in first BUT now Dinklage is like Dench, *NOBODY* can take a part from them! I love Stewart & McKellan BUT you could replace them on stage with Dench & Dinklage and even if you have to market it as a comedy, I still see Shakespeare 😹
henry cavill was also in the count of monte cristo.
Rebel Wilson was in Ghost Rider as the goth chick who gets mugged!
Honourable mentions:
Rami Malek - Need For Speed (2014)
Glen Powell - Misconduct (2015)
I would add Dan Akroyd in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
What scene is he in?
@@dhenderson1810 Very early in the film, after they've just escaped from the nightclub, Akroyd introduces his character as "Webber" and escorts them onto Lau's aeroplane, apologising that the only seats he could get was on a cargo plane.
Aykroyd was already well known by then from SNL, Doctor Detroit, and The Blue Brothers. Not sure how you could miss him in Temple of Doom, that terrible accent he put on made him stick out like a sore thumb.
Battleship was the first place I saw Jesse Plemmons
I'm sorry, Nick Cage is related to Francis Ford Copila?!
He is the nephew. What isn't mentioned in the video is an additional motivation to change his name is that his middle name was Kim.
Kim Coppola
Nick Cage is an extra during the party in Risky Business
Matthew McConaughey is also basically an extra in a movie theatre in My Boyfriend's Back, the silly horror comedy about a guy coming back as a zombie to go to prom. It was well before he became popular.
Luis Guzman appears as an extra in in Batteries Not Included.
I recently rewatched World Trade Center and was surprised to see Viola Davis as a grieving mother in the hospital waiting room. I don't remember her there when I first watched it years ago!
David Schwimmer played a Zoo Cop in the movie “Wolf” and even had a scene with Jack Nicholson.
Melissa McCarthy already had her own sitcom before Bridesmaids. Odd thing to leave out of the bio.
Melissa McCarthy also has a small role in Charlie’s Angels (2000)
Some more good ones are
Emma Roberts - Blow
Alexander skarsgard- Zoolander
Jim Caviezel- my own private Idaho
Misha Collins- girl interrupted
Helen McCrory- interview with the vampire
2:35: I recognized him as Benny’s boyfriend in George Lopez before he got famous.
Tom Cruise was briefly in Young Guns. When Billy gets thrown out of the window in the clothes chest Tom Cruise is one of the cowboys surrounding the house and gets shot as the other Regulators are coming out the side.
Phil Lamar was in spiderman 2 as a
Random guy.😂
Adam The Sandman Sandler was in
Roadhouse
Roadhouse
Damon Wayans in Beverly Hills Cop.
I'm sure many wouldn't be familiar with the Troma classic Return of the killer tomatoes but after a recent watch for the first time in 30 years I had know idea George Clooney was in it.
That's probably it's greatest claim to fame and marketing strategy now (*SEE THE MOVIE CLOONEY MADE THAT WAS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN BATMAN & ROBIN!*😹)
And I'm going to blatantly steal the line "the bar is in Hell" for my regular conversation, just FYI, lol.
Christian Bale was the kid in empire of the sun
Luis Guzman is an extra at the end of one of my favorite choldhood movies Batteries not Included
Matt Damon in Eurotrip. Nobody knew, at least from all the promotional material I saw anyway, that he was gonna be in the movie.
Didn't Melissa McCarthy do sitcom "Mike & Molly" before she did "Bridesmaids"?
Yeah but no one watched that bullshit
Ashley Benson was also in 13 Going on 30 as Six Chick #2.
George Wendt who played Norm on Cheers! appears briefly in “Airplane! 2” as an airline check-in counter worker.
And in an episode of MASH as a guy with a pool ball stuck in his mouth.
I always watch the credits of older films. I want to see if any actor that was not famous when the film was released is now. Norman Reddus from The Walking Dead was in Mimic from 1997.
there's too much hate for Battleship, was a fun movie.
I liked it and watch it at least once a year. Yeah it's no award winning flick, but it does what it's meant to do, entertain. Sit down with some snacks and gel for 2 hours.
Octavia Spencer played one of Drew Barrymore's co-workers, alongside Molly Shannon in Never Been Kissed
One person I was surprised to see in a movie, watching it again years later, was Steve Carell in Curly Sue.
Octavia Spencer in pretty everything before The Help. She was a random background character in damn near every movie.
That makes sense Michael Shannon is a Chicagoan and the movie was filmed in Woodstock Ill a tiny little town the size of two city blocks.
@3:26, I knew it was her!!! I saw this movie on TV recently, and I knew it. Hot dang!
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOW WHAT that’s him, dude I watch Die Hard 3 all the time and never knew that was the cop from Invisible Man 2019, the Original Derwin Davis, & Leverage.
At this point, I think most people have forgotten the antagonist in “8 Mile” was Anthony Mackie.
His real name is Clarence
Sam Rockwell was in 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as "Head Thug" for the Foot Clan. Who's to say that wasn't Iron Man 2's Justin Hammer before he got his act together?
Samuel L. Jackson probably could have filled an entire video of these.
Wasn’t he a robber in Coming to America? Lol
Thanks!
Chris rock in I'm gonna get you sucka is brilliant. Also Go I a great movie. Timothy Olyphant is underrated
Octavia Spencer has a single line role in the Millennium episode of The X-Files. Lance Henriksen even calls her Octavia.
Pee-Wee Herman was a maitre'd in the Blues Brothers. Chris Pine was one of the Tremor Brothers in Smokin' Aces.
Boy did he play that part real well.
So many to add to this
Tim Robbins in Top Gun
Damon Wayans in Beverley Hills Cop
Tom Cruise in Young Guns
JC Van Damme in Breakin
Jack Nicholson in Head
Billy Bob Thornton was in Tombstone.
There are a ton of others that could be added, two of my favourites are Cuba Gooding Junior in Coming to America and the literally blink and you'll miss it appearance of Leonard Nimoy in Them!.
Jack Black in 1 of my favourite films. Waterworld.
Tenacious D in Bio-Dome
@@om3g4888 I've not seen Bio-Dome .
I've seen that movie so many times. I had no clue that was little Voodoo Tatum!!!
1:40 - I see what you did there 🫵😂
You can also see Nicolas Cage in the crowd scene during the football game
Realising we saw Amy Adams in the unintentionally hilarious Cruel Intention 2 - Manchester Prep…
I think a lot of people know that Octavia Spencer made an appearance in the _OG "Spider-Man"_ in 2002
No Henry Cavill in Hellraiser: Hellworld?
he was also in the count of monte cristo.
I recently watched Wanted and realized Chris Pratt was the best friend who cheating with girlfriend
Keanu Reeves was in the movie Youngblood. The hockey movie with Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze. He was the goalie. 😅😅
Rami Malek had a brief role in a Gilmore Girls episode
To be fair, Jeremy Allen White had been in Shameless before Movie 43.
I would've added Melissa Mccarthy and Will Ferrell in Drowning Mona. It's a niche movie, but a studded cast
Ted Knight as a jail guard at the end of "Psycho."
Dana Carvey as part of a news crew in "Halloween II"
dude I couldn't pick brie larson out in a lineup of one
That's kinda how I feel about Michael Shannon.
Bruce Willis in The Verdict and First Deadly Sin and Tom Selleck in Coma
Little bitty baby Michael B. Jordan in "Hardball."
That wasn't actually Brie Larson's first film. The first movie she ever came out on was a Disney movie called right on track it came out the year before 13 going on 30
No joke I was watching Scream the other day and I spotted a young nick Offerman.
Malek was great and purposefully understated in his role in The Master which predates Battleship.
Come on how is Eleija Wood in Back To The Future II not on this list
I know Rami Malek first from The War at Home.
One of the other Six Chicks was Ashley Benson from "Pretty Little Liars".
Damon Wayans in BHC1 was even more unknown
Took me a few watches to recognize Johnny Depp in the first Nightmare on Elm Street
I was surprised when i saw Spencer in spider-man
Evangeline Lilly before famous no-line role...Freddy vs. Jason in the school crowd close to start of movie
Tobin Bell (Jigsaw) in a and you miss it scene in Casino
And if course Michael Jai White in TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze.
One more: Miley Cyrus was in Big Fish as one of the kids afraid of the Helena Bonham Carter
Cuba Gooding Junior in Coming to America
Melissa Mcarthey came out in Charlie’s angles also the first one