Minor Characters In Dallas You Recognize From Movies Or Other TV

[Kenny Coyote]

I think a thread where we say why a certain minor character looks familiar to us would be interesting, whether we saw the actor in a movie or another TV show.

Just yesterday I saw Kramer vs.Kramer for the first time. Good movie. I found it interesting that the actor who played the Lawyer of Dustin Hoffman's character seemed very familiar to me. Then I realized why. This was maybe 10 years earlier, roughly speaking, but there was no doubt in my mind that this was the same actor who played Senator O'Dell in the storyline where Bobby buys a 100 year land trust for O'Dell in exchange for O'Dell's cooperation in helping convince the Justice Department to allow Bobby to legally resume using the Ewing Oil name.

 

[Justine]

Whenever I watch Mitch Cooper scenes, I always see Damien from General Hospital. I also re-watched J.R. and Cally's wedding episode recently (don't ask why) and noticed it was my favourite Edward Quartermaine (John Ingle) who performed the ceremony.

I haven't watched the later seasons but Susan Lucci will always be Erica Kane to me; the same can be said for Susan Flannery in season 4 and, of course, Barbara Eden.

The best one will always be Barry Corbin, who I first watched in The Thorn Birds - I loved that TNT called him back to read J.R.'s will.

 

[Guzzler’s Frightening Hair]

One that jumped out to me fairly recently was near the beginning of All The President's Men, the Nixon-Watergate-Redford-Hoffman-Woodward-Bernstein blockbuster. Robert Redford attends an initial court hearing for the Watergate break-in and tries to get some info from a reticent attorney... who happens to be Bobby's partner in his short-lived construction business Joe Morris, and a year later, Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County Lyle Sloan

 

[Piggyrella Sanderson]

I don´t know if the Wendell may be considered a minor character but he was in every show of the 60s and 70s, and some films of those decades too. His role in "Papillon" is quite memorable by the way.

Here is The Wendell when he wasn´t in the closet.
But one day he threw his glasses away and got back in there!
(Pic from the "Mission: Impossible" original series)​

 

[Swami]

Daniel Pilon (Naldo Marchetta) had a sizeable role in the John Wayne movie "Brannigan".

Swami

 

[Jock-O-Lantern]

Denver Pyle as Blackie Callahan

 

[Herofan]

Martin E Brooks played Edgar Randolph who I believe was in the Office of Land Management. I remembered him as Dr. Rudy Wells on the Six Million Dollar Man.

 

[Swami]

Monte Markham (Clint Ogden) later appeared in Baywatch.

Swami

 

[Kenny Coyote]

Deborah Shelton (not a minor character but not part of the main cast either) appeared in some movies before Dallas. The most successful one was the movie she starred in the year before she joined Dallas. It was a movie directed by Brian De Palma titled "Body Double."

 

[kenneth]

One that jumped out to me fairly recently was near the beginning of All The President's Men, the Nixon-Watergate-Redford-Hoffman-Woodward-Bernstein blockbuster. Robert Redford attends an initial court hearing for the Watergate break-in and tries to get some info from a reticent attorney... who happens to be Bobby's partner in his short-lived construction business Joe Morris, and a year later, Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County Lyle Sloan

Not to mention Mason Capwell.

 

[Sarah]

I don´t know if the Wendell may be considered a minor character but he was in every show of the 60s and 70s, and some films of those decades too. His role in "Papillon" is quite memorable by the way.

Here is The Wendell when he wasn´t in the closet.
But one day he threw his glasses away and got back in there!
(Pic from the "Mission: Impossible" original series)​

He looks like Spock!!!

 

[Piggyrella Sanderson]

He looks like Spock!!!

The Wendell was in Star Trek too!!

 

[Lastkidpicked]

Steve Forrest was around quite a bit in the 60's and 70's.

He disappeared for a while before returning to television in Dallas.

 

[Sarah]

One of the scariest movies I've ever seen is 'Hotline' with Lynda Carter and also starring Monte Markham (who played Sue Ellen's old boyfriend Clint Ogden).

If I had seen this movie before I realised he'd be in Dallas, Sue Ellen would have been receiving 24/7 police protection:



PS Steve Forrest is in it as well :laughing:

 

[Guzzler’s Frightening Hair]

The Wendell was in Star Trek too!!

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this photo reinforces my long-held belief that Lorimar should have produced an album of William Smithers in character as Jeremy Wendell doing dramatic spoken-word interpretations of popular hits, ala Shatner below

 

[Swami]

Tracy Scoggins (Diane Kelly in season 6) and later Anita Smithfield in JR Returns also appeared in The Colbys.

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[Justine]

Monte Markham (Clint Ogden) later appeared in Baywatch.

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Golden Girls, too - this scene kills me every time:

 

[Herofan]

I have to include Tina Louise from Gilligan’s Island.

 

[Swami]

James L Brown (Harry McSween) was Rip Masters in The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin.

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[Barbara Fan]

Nice to see Brooks Oliver aka Donald Moffat - Miss Ellies lawyer get to be the President of the USA in Clear and Presnt danger starring the lovely Mr Ford

and Walt Driscoll / Ben Piazza as head teatcher in Mask (with Cher)

One of my fav character actors is John Randolph who was Miss Ellies divorce lawyer and he was Al Pacinos boss in Serpico

and his wife Sarah Cunningham played a Court Judge in Jagged Edge with Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close