Holy crap! That was...

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark and noticed Doc Oc. (Alfred Molina) was Dr. Jones guide in the opening sequence.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Young guys
13-year-old Joaquin Phoenix in Parenthood, 10-year-old Jake Gyllenhall in City Slickers, 15-year-old Jeremy Sisto in Grand Canyon,

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Damn, now I'm going to have to find John Ratzenberger in The Empire Strikes Back. Anybody know what part of the movie he was in?

Wow....he was in Superman I and II as well.

He was one of the Rebel guards on Hoth.

There ... I've renewed my nerd card for another year.

Hey! Don't sell him short!

He was more than a guard. He was Major Derlin, the dude who yelled "All right, everybody to your stations, let's GO!" after Leia finished her pep talk to the X-Wing pilots who had to escort the transports past the Star Destroyers.

In Superman, he was a military radar dude.

I feel so old. When I saw Sarah Chalke on Scrubs, I said, "Oh, the cuter Becky from Roseanne has a job."

 

[HC]

John Ratzenberger was in both Empire Strikes Back and Gandhi.

Wasn't George Clooney in Facts Of Life?

Clooney followed this up playing Booker on "Roseanne".

Yup. He was a series regular as "George" when they left the school and had a store as the main set for the show.

 

[Sneed]

Elizabeth Banks plays the secretary in the Spider-Man movies.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Just saw Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights on The West Wing.

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie in the University Challenge episode of The Young Ones
Richard Dreyfus as one of Elaine's neighbors in The Graduate
Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Don Baker, and Wayne Rogers as inmates in Cool Hand Luke

 

[outofplace]

Elizabeth Banks plays the secretary in the Spider-Man movies.

Yup. Amazing how tough that is to spot with the brown wig. Nice fit for the underrated hottie Betty Brant. Funny that the actress playing her is hotter than the ones playing Mary Jane or Gwen in the movies.

 

[DanOregon]

No mentions for Nic Cage and Eric Stoltz as "stoner buds 1 and 2" in Fast Times.
Judge Reinhold as "the guy with a lot of screen time but no dialogue" in Stripes?
Haysbert was also in a White Shadow episode.

 

[outofplace]

Damn, now I'm going to have to find John Ratzenberger in The Empire Strikes Back. Anybody know what part of the movie he was in?

Wow....he was in Superman I and II as well.

He was one of the Rebel guards on Hoth.

There ... I've renewed my nerd card for another year.

Hey! Don't sell him short!

He was more than a guard. He was Major Derlin, the dude who yelled "All right, everybody to your stations, let's GO!" after Leia finished her pep talk to the X-Wing pilots who had to escort the transports past the Star Destroyers.

In Superman, he was a military radar dude.

I feel so old. When I saw Sarah Chalke on Scrubs, I said, "Oh, the cuter Becky from Roseanne has a job."

Piotr, once again you are the guru of SportsJournalists.com geekdom. Thank you. I was going to have to watch the whole thing looking for him. Now I can go find that scene.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

No mentions for Nic Cage and Eric Stoltz as "stoner buds 1 and 2" in Fast Times.
Judge Reinhold as "the guy with a lot of screen time but no dialogue" in Stripes?
Haysbert was also in a White Shadow episode.

I believe Anthony Edwards was "Stoner Bud #2."

Nic Cage is the guy who says "nice car." Billed as Nicolas Coppola.

 

[DanOregon]

Right - Nic was Brad's Bud.

Another great one is Stephen Colbert's guest stint on Criminal Intent as a bad guy. Quite effective.

Paul Giamatti and Phillp Seymour Hoffman were in a ton of stuff before they hit it big. Hoffman was the hippie dude in Twister and Giamatti was Pigface in Private Parts and had a bit part in Truman.

 

[Starman]

Sofia Coppola has parts in all 3 Godfathers, but people only remember III. :

Her role in GF I was actually pretty significant, though.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

Tim Burton's cameo in Singles always made me smile. "He's just the next Martin Scorseeeeeeese."

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Tim Burton's cameo in Singles always made me smile. "He's just the next Martin Scorseeeeeeese."

Singles ruled.

I loved the guys from Pearl Jam as Matt Dillon's bandmates.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

Tim Burton's cameo in Singles always made me smile. "He's just the next Martin Scorseeeeeeese."

Singles ruled.

I loved the guys from Pearl Jam as Matt Dillon's bandmates.

I wish I still had my Citizen **** shirt.

 

[Double J]

Elizabeth Banks plays the secretary in the Spider-Man movies.

Yup. Amazing how tough that is to spot with the brown wig. Nice fit for the underrated hottie Betty Brant. Funny that the actress playing her is hotter than the ones playing Mary Jane or Gwen in the movies.

SO TRUE!!

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Tim Burton's cameo in Singles always made me smile. "He's just the next Martin Scorseeeeeeese."

Singles ruled.

I loved the guys from Pearl Jam as Matt Dillon's bandmates.

I wish I still had my Citizen **** shirt.

I remember driving around Seattle one day and looking for the building in the film.

 

[SoCalDude]

One of John Cusack's early films, "The Sure Thing," where he is coming from the frozen East to California with Daphne Zuniga to hook up with Nicollette Sheridan (awesome, by the way), he catches a cross-country ride with Tim Robbins and some dorky woman who wants to sing show songs the whole way.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The 1983 TV movie "Quarterback Princess" starred Helen Hunt as the QB, and in much smaller roles Daphne Zuniga as her sister and Tim Robbins as one of the linemen. (I believe he's the one who gets to utter the inspiration line at the big moment of the film: "Hey Tammy? Just keep on... keepin' on."