There's an old episode of the Professionals on ITV4 at the moment, and the ruthless, ex-SAS, assassin is being played by the bloke who played Geoffrey Fourmile, the long-suffering estate agent neighbour out of George and Mildred.
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Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments
I work in care and one of the people I used to work enjoyed watching Murder She Wrote on a Sunday morning. This was occasionally enlivened by the appearance of a (now) well known guest, most notably George Clooney.
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Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments
Seeing Leonard Rossiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey is always a bit of a shock.
It didn't happen of course, but Billy Idol was being lined up to play the T-1000 character in Terminator 2: Judgment Day until his motorbike accident.
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The Professionals always yields a few surprises when it comes to fresh, soon-to-be-famous faces, such as when one episode saw David Suchet as a balaclava-wearing mercenary.
But nothing prepared me for a Minder episode which saw Derek Jacobi - not long after his memorable turn in I, Claudius - paying a scowling Cockney hood.
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Actually, a few week s ago I was watching one of those Discovery Channel docudramas. It was on Nero (I think), and who should turn up as the titular role? Michael Sheen, he of Frost/Nixon fame. It was a pretty decent production, but I spent the whole time thinking Why is Brian Clough trying to murder his mum?
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Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments
ian.64 wrote: I recall that, Slightly, but I think it was when Sheen was popping up in everything before his appearances began to even out into a steady line. Not as ubiquitous today, though.
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Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments
I watched a few episodes of the early 80's Euston Films drama series Fox a while ago, and had to do a double take when I realized that the sleazy journalist was played by a very fresh-faced Bill Nighy.
I had the sonic version when listening to early radio adaptations of Yes, Minister, where Nighy played Jim Hacker's conscientious (and soon to be removed) administrative advisor.
On other 'blimey' moments: seeing Benedict Cumberbatch as a dopey office bod in an episode of Nathan Barley. Discovering Ewan 'Trainspotting' Bremner as a gay boyfriend of the son of Harry Enfield's straitlaced, socially-afraid dad in Harry Enfield's Television Programme, the very same show which also saw the distinguished Michael Kitchen also play a film director opposite Enfield's Tim Nice-But-Dim character.
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I get this earlier than most, working in theatre. Sheen was that young Welsh lad in the Vanessa Redgrave play I did in '91. Probably too many to remember over the years, but still do the double take thing.
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Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments
As if I could have wished for more, in today's Professionals it's the bloke who was 'Jacko' out of Brush Strokes, as a machine-gun toting armed robber who cross-dresses as a female hostage in an attempt to escape from his own siege. But Lewis Collins shoots him anyway.
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