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Favorite "Before They Were Famous" Appearance

Corky Marlowe said:
Also Jamie Farr in the Andy Griffith movie No Time for Sergeants as a pilot, and later on the Andy Griffith Show as a Gypsy
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He was on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" a few times as the guy who brought coffee and donuts to the writers' office.

Ed Sullivan was the WML mystery guest who Dick Cavett asked, "I wonder if (he) knows who I am."

I think Ron Howard appeared on Red Skelton's show when he was only about 4 years old.

Here's one that's been forgotten...Jerry Seinfeld on "Benson", playing the comedian hired to write jokes for the governor.

Just thought of a couple others...Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were castmembers on the Taco Bell/Mug Root Beer/Etc. Dana Carvey Show. (Boy, these flow from one to the other, don't they...Dana Carvey played the Daniel Stern "JAFO" character on the TV version of the movie "Blue Thunder".)
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Glenn Ford's 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle" also featured Jamie Farr and Vic Morrow (also Sidney Poitier). Alvy Moore (aka Hank Kimball) and Jerry Paris were in Marlon Brando's 1953 "The Wild One" (the reason I can't take that movie seriously), and
David Canary was in "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" in 1967 (don't know if he was on "Bonanza" then but it was certainly before he played Adam and Stuart Chandler on "All My Children"--or before there was an "All My Children").
 
PirateJohnny said:
In a 1964 episode of Bewitched, Racquel Welch plays an airline stewardess, but her face is not seen. She is listed in the credits. In the Leave It To Beaver episode "Beaver's First Kiss" the mother of the lucky girl is played by Majel Barrett (Mrs. Gene Roddenberry/Enterprise computer voice). This aired on TVLand a few times without being mentioned, when they did things like that. I even emailed them about her appearance.
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In the first year or so of "The Hollywood Palace" Raquel Welch was the "Billboard Girl," who came out in skimpy attire to announce upcoming acts.
 
bpatrick said:
Corky Marlowe said:
Also Jamie Farr in the Andy Griffith movie No Time for Sergeants as a pilot, and later on the Andy Griffith Show as a Gypsy
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He was on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" a few times as the guy who brought coffee and donuts to the writers' office.

Ed Sullivan was the WML mystery guest who Dick Cavett asked, "I wonder if (he) knows who I am."

I think Ron Howard appeared on Red Skelton's show when he was only about 4 years old.

Here's one that's been forgotten...Jerry Seinfeld on "Benson", playing the comedian hired to write jokes for the governor.

Just thought of a couple others...Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were castmembers on the Taco Bell/Mug Root Beer/Etc. Dana Carvey Show. (Boy, these flow from one to the other, don't they...Dana Carvey played the Daniel Stern "JAFO" character on the TV version of the movie "Blue Thunder".)
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Glenn Ford's 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle" also featured Jamie Farr and Vic Morrow (also Sidney Poitier). Alvy Moore (aka Hank Kimball) and Jerry Paris were in Marlon Brando's 1953 "The Wild One" (the reason I can't take that movie seriously), and
David Canary was in "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" in 1967 (don't know if he was on "Bonanza" then but it was certainly before he played Adam and Stuart Chandler on "All My Children"--or before there was an "All My Children").
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Also notable in Blackboard Jungle ws a young Paul Mazursky, who played one of the delinquents. Mazurksy has continued to act - he recently had a recurring role in Curb Your Enthusiasm. But he's primarily known as a film director on many critically acclaimed films in the 70s and 80s, such as An Unmarried Woman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson, and others.
 
bpatrick said:
Glenn Ford's 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle" also featured Jamie Farr
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...I'll have to check, but I think I also spotted Farr on a 1955 broadcast of The Johnny Carson Show...
 
My Top Ten List:

For TV:
1.)The late John Ritter on a 1974 episode of The Bob Newhart Show as a ice cream man.
2.)Various celebs on The Dating Game (Ritter, Tom Selleck, Steve Martin, Farrah Fawcett, etc.)
3.)Denzel and Howie Mandel on St. Elsewhere.
4.)Abe Vigoda, Kate Jackson, Conrad Bain, Mitchell Ryan, the late greats Dolph Sweet, Dana Elcar, Jane Rose, and even uncredited appearances from Harvey Keitel, Susan Sullivan, and the late greats Florence Stanley and David Groh on Dark Shadows.
5.)Howard Hessman, Peter Bonerz, and the late Mel Stewart (were in the improv group The Committee) in a July 15, 1969 Dick Cavett appearance with the late Janis Joplin.
6.)Anthony Geary on 1971 episodes of All in The Family and Marcus Welby, M.D..
7.)The late Larry Linville's 2 Marcus Welby appearances as a doctor.
8.)Robert Guilliame in a 1970 Marcus Welby episode.
9.)Clifton Davis and Susan Sarandon on the short lived early 1970s ABC soap A World Apart.
10.)Jane Krakowski on the final years of Search for Tomorrow (NBC run of course).

FILM (also Made for TV films too):
1.)Pre-Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck in a small role as a hospital patient in the 1978 Genevive Bujold, Michael Douglas, and the late Richard Widmark triller Coma which also featured a small part from then-unknown Ed Harris as a doctor.
2.)Brad Pitt in the NBC made-for-TV movie from 1990 Too Young to Die? with Juillette Lewis. I've got the original broadcast from February 26, 1990 taped from our local NBC station WYFF 4 in Greenville, SC.
3.)The late Susanne Pleshette in the 1970 ABC Movie of the Week Along Came a Spider.
4.)Chris Rock in Beverly Hills Cop II.
5.)David Spade in Police Academy 4.
6.)Garrett Morris in Cooley High with Glynn Turman (A Different World) and Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (of Welcome Back Kotter fame and played Joe Jackson in the 1992 ABC mini-series The Jacksons: An American Dream.)
7.)Wayne Knight in Dirty Dancing.
8.)Hulk Hogan in Rocky III.
9.)Cybil Shepard in the original 1972 The Heartbreak Kid with Charles Grodin, and the late greats Eddie Albert (Green Acres) and Audra Lindley (aka Mrs. Roper from Three's Company and spin-off The Ropers).
10.)Ron Glass on two Sanford and Son episodes. One as Hucklebuck, Lamont's poker buddy in 1972, and an ex-Con in 1974 which the latter epsiode where the late Redd Foxx didn't appear in due to his dispute.

MUSIC VIDEOS/TV COMMERCIALS:
1.)Courtney Cox in a Bruce Springsteen's music video from 1984 Dancing in the Dark.
2.)DWTS judge Bruno Tonioli in a 1983 Elton John music video I'm Still Standing.
3.)Maggie Smith in a Simply Red music video from 1986 Holding Back The Years.
4.)Jenna Elfman (before she was married to her husband Mr. Elfman) in a 1990 Depeche Mode music video Halo as a dancer.
5.)Drew Barrymore in a 1979 Pillsbury Doughboy commercial. Classic.
 
Tom Selleck also guest-started in a couple of episodes of The Rockford Files as Lance White, a handsome and conceited, but not very bright private detective who always made the wrong choices and got into trouble, ultimately having to be rescued by the long-suffering Jim Rockford.
 
Lkeller said:
Tom Selleck also guest-started in a couple of episodes of The Rockford Files as Lance White, a handsome and conceited, but not very bright private detective who always made the wrong choices and got into trouble, ultimately having to be rescued by the long-suffering Jim Rockford.
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He also appeared in an ep (without his mustache! :eek:) of the original Charlie's Angels.
 
MUSIC VIDEOS/TV COMMERCIALS:
1.)Courtney Cox in a Bruce Springsteen's music video from 1984 Dancing in the Dark.
2.)DWTS judge Bruno Tonioli in a 1983 Elton John music video I'm Still Standing.
3.)Maggie Smith in a Simply Red music video from 1986 Holding Back The Years.
4.)Jenna Elfman (before she was married to her husband Mr. Elfman) in a 1990 Depeche Mode music video Halo as a dancer.
5.)Drew Barrymore in a 1979 Pillsbury Doughboy commercial. Classic.
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Bruce Hornsby in Sheena Easton's "Strut" video (1984); he was keyboard player in her band.
Paula Abdul in Janet Jackson's "Nasty" video (1986); I'm guessing that she directed or at least choreographed it.
 
One delightful BTWF that I just recently caught for the first time: Joe DeRita (with a full head of hair) guesting on an early episode of Bachelor Father, just a year or two before he would take clippers to his coif and join The Three Stooges as "Curly Joe."

(Interestingly, I was in another room when the episode started, and it was hearing DeRita's distinctive voice that caused me to perk up and rush to the TV!) :D
 
George Clooney appearing as a plain-clothes cop in a 1987 episode of The Golden Girls with guest star Joseph Campanelia. And, Max "Wojo" Gail as a bad guy in a 1971 episode of Cannon.
 
Suzanne Somers - One Day at a Time
John Ritter - Mary Tyler Moore
Rob Reiner - Partridge Family
Joe Pantoliano - MASH
Vic Tayback - All in the Family
Bill Maher - Alice
Marcia Wallace - Brady Bunch
Rita Wilson - Brady Bunch
Whitney Houston - Silver Spoons
Jason Bateman - Mr. Belvedere
Bea Arthur - All in the Family
Doris Roberts - All in the Family
Wilford Brimley - The Waltons
John Larroquette - Three's Company
 
David Letterman on Mork and Mindy - I vaguely remember seeing a clip of this. He also was a panelist on the syndicated game show Liars Club early in his career.

I just recently saw a clip on You Tube of Jay Leno as a panelist on The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour.
 
firepoint525 said:
Cheryl Stoppelmoor appearing on an episode of The Partridge Family, years before she was Cheryl Ladd on Charlie's Angels. Couldn't really blame her for using her married name, now could we?
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Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith also appeared on episodes of The Partridge Family as well.
 
Just saw a Get Smart episode with Victor French (Little House On The Prairie, Highway To Heaven) as Agent 44.
 
anotherguy said:
David Letterman on Mork and Mindy - I vaguely remember seeing a clip of this. He also was a panelist on the syndicated game show Liars Club early in his career.
I just recently saw a clip on You Tube of Jay Leno as a panelist on The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour.
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Letterman was also a judge on The Gong Show.
 
Not TV-related, but Jimmy Hart (the wrestler) was a member of the Memphis-based group The Gentrys, of "Keep On Dancin'" fame, but I'm sure that they made some TV appearances somewhere!
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In that vein, Ronn Moss (Ridge on "The Bold And The Beautiful") was a member of the group Player ("Baby Come Back"). They had to have appeared on TV at some point, too.
 
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