I saw Elya Baskin, our dear Yuri Dimitri--better known as 'Biff'-- in Spiderman III. He played Peter Parker's landlord, Mr. Ditkovitch.


I just love it when I see an old friend like this! Who have you seen lately?

I'm rewatching DS9 and will always think of Nana Visitor (Kira Nerys) and Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien) as MacGyver actors (Carol Varnay/Laura Farren and Dr. Irwin Malcolm). There's on ep where the replicators aren't working the coffee tastes awful and all I can think is that Kira must have made the coffee and it tastes like diesel fluid!

Mac

You didn't notice him in Spiderman 2 ?

Nope... I thought it was Yakov Smirnoff [I know I mangled the spelling of that name ]. I don't know what I was thinking!

You mean, that drunken man that always wanted his money? No, didn't recognize him, either!

Peter knocks on the door, to know if anyone's there in the bathroom and Baskin just walks in without saying anything except: Rent?

In the third film he's a bit more friendly.

Are any other 24 fans enjoying seeing Tzi Ma (Wing Lee, Children of Light) again?

Mac

Just the other day I noticed W. Morgan Sheppard ("Dr. Zito" in "Deadly Dreams" and "Lesson in Evil" episodes of MacGyver) in a 2007 Hallmark TV-movie "A Stranger's Heart" (It's really quite good- I'd recommend it.)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792003/

Was he the villain Chen?

I know that Don S. Davis (Stargate's Gen. Hammond) used to be Dana Elcar's stunt double for a while during the shows run...

The little Russian girl from the Bigfoot episode and whatever other one she was in (sorry, I don't know all the names of Mac epsodes) grew up to the Well's wife in the SG-1 episode 'Heroes'.

My how time does fly.

Yeah, Chris Judge (Teal'c) was in an episode too. Credited as Doug Judge I think...

He was indeed. And Don S. Davis is in a few episodes as a guest star (the poaching one comes to mind-and the cement truck one with the bomb in the van).

And there are more from SG-1.

Siler (Dan Shea) is my first thought, and I can't think of any others right now, but I know when I was watching Mac recently, I was always seeing folks I knew from that greatest of great shows.

(And for the record, that is not an exclusive title-it's shared with a select few.)

A couple of great actor-spottings this week

First, I got a copy of David Hewlett's (better known as Rodney the Annoying Scientist on SG-1/SGA) 'A Dog's Breakfast', which he co-wrote, directed, and starred in with Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson of SGA). Chris Judge (Teal'c of SG-1) had a small but hilarious part in this film, and we'll remember seeing him in the MacGyver episode 'Live and Learn'.

Then, today I watched an episode of Mr. Moto (I am a HUGE Peter Lorré fan) and I saw a very, VERY young Keye Luke, who we saw in 'Murderer's Sky' as Luke's grandfather, Adam Chen.

Whoa! A Dog's Breakfast! Woo-hoo!!! You should watch the extras, Lothi!

Then, you will know how funny it is when I say:

Oooooooo.......NINJA!

You know that the girl in 'Starcrossed' (the show in the movie) is Rachel Luttrell, right? (Teyla Emmagan from SGA.) I know you don't watch SGA, but yeah...that movie is a right little SGA reunion, with CJ thrown in for fun. LOVE his part!

Oh, and 'Starcrossed' is in production as an actual show-produced by David Hewlett.

Speaking of guest stars, I always laugh for some reason when I watch Blood Brothers and see Jason Priestley!!!

I saw our own dear Dr. Creepy Zito -- W. Morgan Sheppard -- on a recent episode of NCIS. He played a very, very bad guy!

He hasn't lost his touch... he can still make me shiver just at the sound of his voice!

OMG.

Ever since we watched the episode of SG:1 a few weeks back where Carter gets kidnapped and the homeless guy sees it and exclaims "Ninjas!!", it's become a bit of an "in joke" with my kids.

When ever something happens around the house now one (or both) of them exclaim "Ninjas!"

OMG! I'm watching RoboCop, and just realized that I'm looking at Whitecloud from 'Trail of Tears'! Michael Gregory plays the negotiator in the ex-mayor terrorist scene.

What a fun old flick! Gun-crazy and waaaaay over the top, but FUN!

If you watch Vantage Point or Cinderella Man you can see Bruce McGill, although he is a lot older. But he still is a good actor.

And lets not forget Ronny Cox who played Senator (and later Vice President) Robert Kinsey in SG:1

OMG! That's right! D'oh!
That movie really had an awesome cast!

Oh! I am laughing so hard!

I was watching an episode from the first season of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (circa 1954) and they were using the Griffith Observators as a setting as a super-sekrit T.H.R.U.S.H. powerstation in the Austrian Alps!

I wasn't positive that it was that place, until I saw the monument in the courtyard in front! Then I squee'ed and said "OMG! It's MacGyver's first apartment!"

LOL!

I loved The Man From Uncle . . . but I loved MacGyver more. Now, if only Mac had been there to foil the Thrush baddies!

MacGyver wakes up, goes to front door, peers out at Thrush agents.

"You darn kids -- get off my lawn!"

Been watching 'Colditz' on YouTube... and I have the privilage of seeing a very very young Christopher Neame!

My goodness The lad has certainly grown up... but I am at a bit of a loss now. I'm kind of bemused at his performances in 'MacGyver' now, because his work in 'Colditz' is stellar, whereas in 'MacGyver' he was King of Cheese.

O how the mighty have fallen

Still It is great seeing him in action!

Michael Des Barres is still young at heart he is still acting and singing.

Well, of course! He's immortal!

very true.

This post has been edited by MacNymph on 2 June 2009 - 01:51 PM

Ha ha ha!! I just watching an old David McCallum movie called 'Shattered Image' (rather forgettable) and saw a grown-up Ramon Franco (played Ramon and Spider in two episodes of MacGyver, 'Final Approach' and 'Blood Brothers')

It took me a while to remember where I'd seen him... which is funny, 'cause he looks just the same!

How about these from Babylon 5?

Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari, was Prof. Charles Walden in Trumbo's World)
Bruce McGill (an Earthforce Major)
W. Morgan Shepherd (a Soul Hunter)

I'm trying to think of some more...