A new 'surprized by the appearance of' thread.

[monkfromhavana]

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.

Geoffrey Palmer main henchman is played by Jeremy "Boba Fett" Bulloch in that episode as well. The unhinged colleague is played by John Castle who is one of those jobbing actors who were in plenty of stuff from the late 70s to the early 90s.

Other Professionals alumni include:

Pamela Stephenson (Nurse with grenade down her top and junkie in a bowling alley)
Keith Barron (deranged chemist threatening to poison a city with a mind-bending drug in an episode which has some ludicrous "drug" acting.
Ian McDiarmid (Deranged guy trying to kill doctors)

[The Culture Bunker]

The unhinged colleague is played by John Castle who is one of those jobbing actors who were in plenty of stuff from the late 70s to the early 90s.

Just looked him up and he played the bad guy in Robocop 3!

[George White]

Watching 1980s Spanish-American slasher Rest in Pieces. Jeffrey "Mr. Perkins from Rentaghost" Segal (also the father of that awful lad in Fawlty Towers who wants salad cream) plays a sinister American priest.