Actor Film Debuts

We recently did a discussion about Death Wish and noted that Jeff Goldblum made his film debut as a thug aka Freak#1 in the movie.
What are some other examples of now well-known actors making their film debuts as small characters, odd parts, or even in B-movies?

Here is a couple off the top of the head.
Michael Jai White – Toxic Avenger 2
Jennifer Aniston-Leprechaun
Johnny Depp – Nightmare on Elm Street

Jake Gyllenhaal - City Slickers (as Billy Crystal's character's son)

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Audrey Hepburn - as a 'cigarette girl' in Lavender Hill Mob.





Hilary Swank - as one of the 'mean girl' types in the original movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer

i don't know how many times I've watched City Slickers but every time I watch I find myself saying "OMG, that's Jake Gyllenhaal playing his son!"

This future Oscar winner got off to a pretty spectacular start:

Geena Davis made her film debut with an impressive all-star cast in Tootsie (1982)

Kurt Russell made an inauspicious film debut with the one and only Elvis Presley in It Happened at the World's Fair;







Fifteen years after the release of this film, Russell would play Elvis in a TV movie, a performance that would earn Russell an Emmy nomination.

Ahh good one!

Wow never seen this one. Nice!!

Oprah made an impressive film debut in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, earning an Oscar nomination for her film debut.

Two time Oscar winner Jane Fonda barely made a blip on the radar playing a bubbly high school student in a 1960 comedy called Tall Story:

Helen Hunt made her big screen debut at the age of thirteen playing George Segal's daughter in the 1977 thriller Rollercoaster.

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Goldie Hawn made her film debut, billed in the closing credits as "Giggly Dancer" in the 1968 Disney musical The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band. She had one line in the film and it was on the set of this film where she met her future life partner, Kurt Russell.

Liza Minnelli made her film debut at the tender age of three in the arms of mother Judy Garland and Van Johnson in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime

Fred Astaire made an inauspicious film debut dancing with Joan Crawford in a single musical number in a 1933 film called Dancing Lady

Richard Dreyfuss made a forgettable two-part film debut...he was in one scene in the 1967 potboiler Valley of the Dolls...his line was "Five minutes, Miss O'Hara"




He also had one line in the 1967 Best Picture nominee The Graduate...his line was "I'll call the cops...should I call the cops?"




A mere decade later, Dreyfuss would win the 1977 Oscar for Outstanding Lead Actor for The Goodbye Girl

There is a school of thought that Steve Martin's film debut was in The Jerk, but it was actually in the very forgettable Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Tom Hanks' debut was a horror movie


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Knows_You%27re_Alone

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Nice,great find there!

Believe it or not, that's future Oscar winner Kevin Costner as a drunken frat boy in his film debut in the 1983 Ron Howard comedy Night Shift:

Judging by this picture I can think of a couple other things that are impressive about Miss Davis...