Funny how the mind works. A few recent posts got me thinking about just when the slasher craze started dying out. I got to thinking about Wes Craven's Shocker, and that made me think of a totally different topic.
Name an actor you always associate with a cheesy early role, even after they've moved on to bigger things.
The inspiration for this question was Mitch Pileggi. Through the entire run of the X-Files, I always thought of him as Horace Pinker.
Michael Pataki...he'll always be a loathsome piece of crap like his characters in Sidehackers and The Glove to me. Pataki? Patooey (that's a spitting noise, like I spit at the very mention of his name, get it?)!
Brother R
hmmm Michael Ironside. he's always the slimey villain, but i'm not sure if he ever moved on to better things. anyone got any suggestions?
David Packer was the Hitler youth in the "V" miniseries - even as a kid, I loathed his very existence and I was psyched when he was eaten by the visitors (off camera, of course).
While collecting my Sega CD's, I came across a game starring him, Corey Haim, Deborah Harry and R. Lee Emery. I guess he didn't move onto bigger and better things after all...
Anyone who was ever on Twin Peaks (including the now-bigshots, like Lara Flynn Boyle and Heather Graham).
Patrick Duffy in The Man From Atlantis
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Ben Murphy in The Gemini Man