One Hit Wonders: Acting Division

My boy Peter Billingsly. Was a few movies as a child then ... poof

Loved A Christmas Story.

 

Dennis Christopher in Breaking Away

 

He's become a producer. He works a lot with Jon Favreau.

 

Forget Paris was a hell of an entertaining movie, though admittedly I may be the only one who thinks so.

 

Think he's a vet in upstate New York, if I remember right. There's a decent book about the making of "Willy Wonka" that spells all that stuff out. Slight threadjack: Joel Grey was the first choice to play Willy Wonka and the talked to Jean Stapleton about playing one of the parents, then she told the producers "I'm up for a part in this TV series called 'All in the Family'. So I think I'll drop out."

 

Right you are. Anyhoo:

--Brad Davis, Midnight Express.
--Bud Cort, Harold and Maude.
--The guy who played Flounder on Animal House.

 

The Flounder guy -- Steven Furst -- lost quite a bit of weight years after the movie.

 

I have a feeling Jennifer Hudson will be on this list in a few years... I hope I'm wrong...

Nice call on Fugit. I've seen him in a few bit parts and I think he had a brief appearance on House this season, but he's done nothing even close to Almost Famous since...

If we're on the subject of Fast Times, Brian Backer (Mark Ratner) should be on that list as well as Romanus...

 

Gretchen Mol was tremendous in The Notorious Bettie Page. Obviously she never lived up to the hype when she was on the cover of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair when Rounders came out...

 

Kim Walker in Heathers...

 

No way. I have it as well. She and Billy Crystal were pretty good in that film.

 

She's dead.

How about Lisa Eilbacher? She played Seegar in Officer and a Gentleman and the lead female role in Beverly Hills Cop. She now directs movies with her husband.