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    Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments

    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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      I watched Platoon for the first time in years the other day and only then realised Johnny Depp was in it. As was Dr Perry Cox from Scrubs.

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        Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments

        yer man from scrubs is charlie sheen's trading contemporary in wall st as well

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          Walt McCready from Justified = Hank Jennings from Twin Peaks

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            Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments

            Not so much "oh, it's him", more "oh, this fuqer has taste":

            Deadwood>Justified>Breaking Bad =

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              Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments

              Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: … the long-suffering estate agent neighbour out of George and Mildred.
              Brian Murphy improbably appears as one of Oliver Reed's torturers in The Devils.

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                Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments

                As for jaw-dropping, it has to be seeing a fresh-faced Jack Nicholson in The Raven, the wonderful '63 Karloff/Lorre/Price B-movie.

                Fetching clobber, too:

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                  Jaw-dropping "oh, it's him!" moments

                  Geordie Michael from Alan Partridge voices Captain Barnacles in the Octonauts, that was a shock. For me.

                  Not him

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                    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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                      I've read that, but Billy also claimed to be in the running to play Jim in The Doors so maybe his agent just has an evil sense of humour.

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                        Blackie Lawless from WASP was also apparently up for the T-1000 role too

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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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                            And on the subject of Suchet, a few Poirots had Stephen Mackintosh as a fresh-faced newspaper boy and, in one full-length episode, one of the first glimpses of one Michael Fassbender.

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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.
                              Only good bit about it.

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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

                                  Watching the beginning of Superman 2 the other week, I somewhat surprised to spot Richard Griffiths as a terrorist planting a beumb in the Eiffel Tower.

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                                    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.

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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.
                                        Also known as The Stuart Maconie Effect.

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                                          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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                                              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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                                                I never got used to big Alf Roberts of Corrie corner shop fame playing a bad guy in Get Carter.

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                                                  My mate is a devout Catholic, as was Bryan Moseley. He has a great story about Moseley's wrestle with the morality of being in such a film until his priest persuaded him the good guy won.

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