A new 'surprized by the appearance of' thread.

[Glebe]

Lou Beale in "Xtro"

As previously mentioned, Howard from Last of the Summer Wine (Robert Fyfe) plays a doctor in that, but if we're talking Enders folk, Laila Morse who played Mo Harris (thanks, Google) pops up in the 2019 Hellboy reboot. She's Gary Oldman's sister actually.

[SteveDave]

As previously mentioned, Howard from Last of the Summer Wine (Robert Fyfe) plays a doctor in that, but if we're talking Enders folk, Laila Morse who played Mo Harris (thanks, Google) pops up in the 2019 Hellboy reboot. She's Gary Oldman's sister actually.

Also, Mehmet ("Ali pliss") as the doctor in "Halloween" from 2018

[George White]

And one whose similarity to The Prize of Peril is totally coincidental!

Talking of the Prize of peril, that has an appearance by AUbergine off A View to A Kill.


RE:Enders, MUrder by Decree has June Brown as Annie Chapman (also played by Barbara Windsor less convincingly in the other Holmes vs Ripper film A Study in Terror), plus Peter "Ello, Treacle" Dean and Lord Michael Cashman as coppers.
And forum fave Ron Pember as an analogue of  George Lusk.

[George White]

Reece Shearsmith as a priest in Venom: Let There Be Carnage

And Christopher Godwin, Beale from the Porridge film and Garden and Oddie's Astronauts too.

Talking of soaps, Uncle Umed off Coronation Street c.2009 is in Eternals as the Bollywood agent character.

[George White]

Think everything that I've seen Stanley Lebor in, he was very good - one performance that sticks in my mind is from The Naked Civil Servant (and as Roger Lloyd-Pack has been mentioned, need to namecheck him in that as well).

Can't remember the name, but there's a 1970s thriller that had Lebor and Peter Egan in (and Patrick Stewart).

Hennessy - Lebor is one of Eric Porter's Provos.
While Patrick Stewart is a dissident Republican with a shite accent.
Egan is a Scotland Yard man.

[BeardFaceMan]

It was surprising seeing Martin Starr in Dead Snow 2, mainly because I thought it was going to be a Norwegian film like the first one. He's not quite A List but it was still surprising seeing such a big American name in a European genre flick.

[Glebe]

Not really surprising maybe but I was watching the original Six Dates with Barker version of 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town' on YT the other day and John Sharp, who plays the Maître D' in Top Secret! plays the Butler among several other roles.

[George White]

He was also in quite a few Italian films, he's the villain in a Spencer and Hill pic.
Also played Betty Turpin's brother in law Les.

[Glebe]

He was also in quite a few Italian films, he's the villain in a Spencer and Hill pic.
Also played Betty Turpin's brother in law Les.

Also recall spotting him in The Avengers.

[jamiefairlie]

Not really surprising maybe but I was watching the original Six Dates with Barker version of 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town' on YT the other day and John Sharp, who plays the Maître D' in Top Secret! plays the Butler among several other roles.

Never knew that existed, thanks for that. the face of the blower is pretty scary for a comedy (this used to scare the shit out of me watching the Ronnies)

[Glebe]

Never knew that existed, thanks for that. the face of the blower is pretty scary for a comedy (this used to scare the shit out of me watching the Ronnies)

Yeah weird lookin' face! Written by Spike Milligan of course, it's wonderfully surreal. I think The Two Rons version may be a little more polished.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

watching Survivors on britbox at the minute and it's a non stop parade of "oh it's ____!"

young Roger Lloyd Pack, old Sydney Tafler. all the stars!

[ElTwopo]

Anyone ever mentioned Mark Heap in Octopussy? Seen very briefly as a fire juggler:

https://youtu.be/PBYFFyFOpxw?t=175

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Bloody hell!

[Mr Banlon]

Trigger as assassin 'Mank Urquhart' in The Professionals

[SteveDave]

"The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain" is pretty much all "Oh look it's Richard Ayoade!" "Oh look it's Stath!" "Oh look it's him from the worst (Dave) series of "Taskmaster"!"

[George White]

Trigger as assassin 'Mank Urquhart' in The Professionals

Also pops up as a Cuban in Richard Lester's Cuba
He's in the Magus as young Anthony Quinn in flashbacks.

[Glebe]

Anyone ever mentioned Mark Heap in Octopussy? Seen very briefly as a fire juggler:

https://youtu.be/PBYFFyFOpxw?t=175

No way! That's pretty astonishing. According to Wiki he was born in India.

[Rizla]

Trigger as assassin 'Mank Urquhart' in The Professionals

Mank Urquhart? Manc Our Kid more like!

[monkfromhavana]

Pierce Brosnan in The Professionals as a radio operator.
Moxey from Auf Wiedersehen Pet in Batman
Arnie in The Long Goodbye playing a mute henchman (and credited as "Arnold Strong" in the err.. credits)
Amanda Hillwood (Brief Morse pathologist and love interest in 'A Very Peculiar Practice' as a flight attendant in Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
Jude Law in "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes", Orlando Bloom in Midsomer Murders.

[monkfromhavana]

Trigger as assassin 'Mank Urquhart' in The Professionals

He's "Ramos" and is dubbed in The Professionals. He doesn't make a very convincing hitman.

[George White]

The Professionals is full of familiar British character thesps playing dodgy foreigners.
There's an early ep about a Baader-Meinhof proxy, the Meyer-Helmut gang, who include David Bradley as 'Tony Kristo'. I don't think he is dubbed.

[jobotic]

He's "Ramos" and is dubbed in The Professionals. He doesn't make a very convincing hitman.

Would have been good in a Velvet Underground biopic though. Play it cool Trig

[Mr Banlon]

He's "Ramos" and is dubbed in The Professionals. He doesn't make a very convincing hitman.

That's definitely a Mank Urquart.

[Glebe]

Interesting to see the young David Bradley there!

[George White]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwXKvZWjHC4 Clarke Peters played the President of some African state in a Professionals. Also Charles Dance looking like Roddy Llewelyn, as a Sarth Ifrikan mirceniree.

[thecuriousorange]

A young Sylvester Stallone as a thug in an early Woody Allen film (Bananas?)

[monkfromhavana]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwXKvZWjHC4 Clarke Peters played the President of some African state in a Professionals. Also Charles Dance looking like Roddy Llewelyn, as a Sarth Ifrikan mirceniree.

I like the one where Duncan "Dinnerladies" Preston plays a menacing thug.

[The Culture Bunker]

He's "Ramos" and is dubbed in The Professionals. He doesn't make a very convincing hitman.

As I remember, it's dubbed to the point of being so obvious it's comical, though I did wonder if Lloyd-Pack had to go back and read the lines again or they roped in someone else to do the dodgy (East European?) accent.

I think there's an episode of the Professionals were David Suchet plays the head of a mercenary group offering his team's services to some big-time crime boss played by... Geoffrey Palmer.

There was also one featuring a slightly unhinged colleague of Bodie and Doyle who (at least in my memory) looked the spit of Malcolm MacDonald, but presumably wasn't.

[George White]

I am 99 per cent sure the guy dubbing Lloyd-Pack is the king of dubbing, Robert Rietty, a prolific on-screen actor (he's one of the monks in the Omen who reveals to Peck and Warner the disfigured Father Spilletto), but best known voice-wise dubbing Largo in Thunderball.