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LogDog75

(789 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:45 PM Wednesday

Before the were stars

What movies or TV programs did actors appear in before they became stars?

Leonard Nimoy, Fess Parker, and Clint Eastwood we all in the movie THEM!.

Nimoy played an AF NCO, Fess Parker was the pilot in the loony ward, and Eastwood was a pilot in the jet although the oxygen mask hid his face.

Leonard Nimoy later went on top play Mr. Spock in Star Trek, Fess Parker played Dave Crockett in two Disney movies and Daniel Boone on TV, and Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates on Rawhide and then went on to stardom in Italian westerns and then American movies as an actor and director.

What actors have you seen in their early roles.

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Before the were stars (Original Post) LogDog75 Wednesday OP
Jack Nicholson in the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960). Dave Bowman Wednesday #1
lenoard nemoy leonard nemoy filmography AllaN01Bear Wednesday #2
Laurence Fishburne As Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee's Pkayhouse. johnp3907 Wednesday #3
I recently found out that he was in Apocalypse Now. (1979) Dave Bowman Wednesday #5
Oh wow! johnp3907 Wednesday #6
Keanu Reeves in River's Edge, 1986. catbyte Wednesday #4

johnp3907

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3. Laurence Fishburne As Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee's Pkayhouse.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 03:41 PM
Wednesday

He was also in an episode of MASH, listed in the credits as Larry Fishburne.

catbyte

(37,599 posts)
4. Keanu Reeves in River's Edge, 1986.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 06:19 PM
Wednesday

I knew he had something, and I suspected he was going to be famous. I was right.

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