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Old 22-01-2005, 06:27 PM
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Couple of threads today have mentioned actors who later became well known, glimpsed fleetingly in the background.

I thought a topic on this might be interesting and give our grey matter a bit of a workout...

So come on Ladies and Gents, who do YOU recall in a very early (nay, maybe young, gauche and embarrassing !) appearance.

I'll start the ball rolling with a very gauche Peter Wyngarde turning up in Hammer's last (?) Dick Barton adaptation - DICK BARTON STRIKES BACK - as a young soldier with about three lines.

Any more we may not all have seen ?

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Old 22-01-2005, 06:38 PM
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Audrey Hepburn as a cigarette girl (I think) in LAUGHTER IN PARADISE springs to mind.

Sid James has a walk on in THE OCTOBER MAN (blink and you'll literally miss him)
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Oliver Reed in League of Gentlemen
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Arthur Lowe in Kind Hearts & Coronets.
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Oliver Reed in League of Gentlemen [/b]
Oliver Reed as "Mincing queer" in Value for Money (1955)
Oliver Reed as "Plaid shirt" in Beat Girl (1960)
Oliver Reed as "Nightclub bouncer" in The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Oliver Reed as "Teddy boy in cinema fight" in The Bulldog Breed (1960)
Oliver Reed as "Artist in cafe" in The Rebel (1961)

And they're just some of the ones where he's named/described that are listed on the IMDb. He did a LOT of small roles before he got his big breaks in the latter half of the 60s.

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Michal Caine in The Day The Earth Caught Fire.
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Oliver Reed in League of Gentlemen
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Oliver Reed as "Mincing queer" in Value for Money (1955)
Oliver Reed as "Plaid shirt" in Beat Girl (1960)
Oliver Reed as "Nightclub bouncer" in The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Oliver Reed as "Teddy boy in cinema fight" in The Bulldog Breed (1960)
Oliver Reed as "Artist in cafe" in The Rebel (1961)

And they're just some of the ones where he's named/described that are listed on the IMDb. He did a LOT of small roles before he got his big breaks in the latter half of the 60s.

So what, I haven't looked at IMDb I've tried to recall some performances as challenged by Smudge by exercising the old grey matter.(and mine needs it.)
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Good on yer, Hell Driver-

My objective was to inform, so all entries are valid. Knowing where to research such things also engages the old Medulla (etc.)too....

And let's not forget that Michael Caine (see above) is also one of the sailors who rescues Norman Wisdom in that foyer fight in BULLDOG BREED.

Makes note to watch OCTOBER MAN again, as he DID blink and miss Sid James... doh

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Reed plays an effeminate dancer who's hired the room the 'League' are in. His performance sent shock waves of 'cringe' up my spine.
Alan Ladd is a reporter with one line and appears at the end of Citizen Kane
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Two for the price of one...

Just reviewing LADY GODIVA RIDES AGAIN :

A 'blink' appearance of young Joan Collins as the beauty pageant contestants arrive at the hotel and ;

In the actual contest scenes a more substantial walk on for Anne Heywood - yet still uncredited.

Same film, stalwart character actor the late, great, Harold Goodwin can be glimpsed munching an apple in the deportment class scene. Don't think he was credited either !

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Not a glimpse, but a very young prunella scales in the fantastic "Hobsons choice",also watching the other day an incredibly young richard o sullivan in "its great to be young" with john mills.

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There's a scene where John Mills asks a passer-by for a light....and it's Sid!
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[quote]Originally posted by The_Late_Peter_Cook:
[QB] Audrey Hepburn as a cigarette girl (I think) in LAUGHTER IN PARADISE.

Peter you havn't got a copy of LIP in any form by any chance have you? i'm a bit of a nicol fan.

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Wasn't it Patrick McGoohan who closed the conference doors after Guy Gibson and who then sent Nigger away in Dambusters to meet his sad demise?
Susan Stranks as one of the school girls on the train in Kenneth More's 39 steps.

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