Before They Were Famous in the Nineties (and now), in the Eighties They Were..., Actors First Names Beginning with C

This is a list of actors from the little and big screen, and the small roles they had before their big break. I'm not looking for what a particular actor did outside of acting, I'm looking more for bit roles and TV commercials. I think you could just write down waiter for almost any actor if you really wanted to if that were the case.

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Actors beginning with: [Index] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] [misc]
Carla Gugino
She played a wilderness girl in the movie "Troop Bevery Hills".
Carla Gugino
She played Becca in Pauly Shore's "Son-In-Law"
Carla Gugino
Played Michael J. Fox's live-in girlfriend in first season of "Spin City".
Catherine Hicks
Catherine Hicks played Andy Barclay's mother in the 1988 horror thriller "Child's Play". She also appeared in "Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home".
Catherine Hicks
She played the girlfriend of Widowed Dad in the 1987 movie "She's Out of Control". Matthew Perry also plays the not-so-nice boyfriend.
Catherine Hicks
Played Andy's mother in "Child's Play".
Catherine Hicks
Played Andy's mother in Child's play and even appeared in such other films as she's out of control and star trek 4 the voyage home.
Charles Shaughnessy
He played Shane Donovan on "Days of our Lives" and went on to play Maxwell Sheffield on "The Nanny".
Charlie Sheen
He played the jock Cappie in "Lucas" with Kerry Green and Cory Haim.
Charlie Sheen
Was in the movie "The Wraith" with Sherrilyn Fenn and Clint Howard.
Charlie Sheen
Had a small part in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Played Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn in the movie "Major League".
Charlie Sheen
Was in the movie "The Boys Next Door" with Maxwell Caulfield.
Charlie Sheen
Had a small cameo in his father Martin's movie, based on the hunt for Son of Sam. The police knocked on his door.
Charlie Sheen
He played one of the teens in the movie "Red Dawn", also starting Patrick Swayze and Lea Thompson in 1984. in that same year, he was also in a TV movie "Silence of the Heart", playing a teenager despondent over his friend's suicide.
Charlotte Rae
Before playing Edna Garrett on "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life". She played a mail carrier named Molly on the children's television workshop program "Sesame Street".
Charlotte Ross
Played Eve Donovan on "Days of Our Lives".
Chris O' Donnell
Chris O ' Donnell played in a movie similar to "Dead Poets Society". It was called "School Ties". He plays Brendan Fraser's roommate. It is about a young Jewish man fitting in at a rich boys' school, not about a teacher.
Chris O'Donnell
Played Sean Patrick Leonard's roommate in "Dead Poet's Society" (which also had Lara Flynn Boyle playing a small part),
Chris O'Donnell
Chris O'Donnell was NOT Sean Patrick Leonard's roommate in "Dead Poet's Society", I am not even sure he was in the film! Leonard's roommate was actually Ethan Hawke in that film. Sorry :0) Its one of my favorite films, I dont mean to be nit picky.
Chris O'Donnell
Sold a hamburger to Michael Jordan in a McDonald's commercial.
Chris Rock
He was an extra in the movie "Krush Groove", standing in a crowd, while Russell Simmons got into a fight.
Chris Rock
Chris Rock's first film appearance was in the movie "Krush Groove".
Chris Rock
Made his very first appearence in a movie as the kid who parked Eddie Murphy and Judge Rheinhold's cement truck at the Playboy mansion in "Beverly Hill Cop II" and then appeared as the cheap drug dealer in "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" who asked if the restaurant had change for a hundred on a few doller order.
Christian Slater
Grant Show
Christina Applegate
Played Kitten, the friend & drummer in Jennifer Keaton's band on "Family Ties".
Christina Applegate
She appeared in a 1987 episode of "Family Ties" as a member of Jennifer's all-girl pop group.
Christina Applegate
Before her smash show "Married With Children", a 14 year old Christina appeared in ABC's "Heart of the City", a drama in which she played the daughter of a widowed detective. It only lasted a year (1985-86), but she was a beauty even then!
Christine Taylor
Played squeaky clean blonde hair girl Melody on Nickelodeon's Hey Dude.
Christopher Guest
Played the cop at the end 'Death Wish' who finds Charles Bronson's gun and turns it in.
Christopher Titus
Had a small role in the 1988 horror film "Killer Klowns From Outer Space".
christopher walken
Played Diane Keaton's wacky brother Dwayne in Woody Allen's 1977 film 'Annie Hall'.
Christopher Walken
Was in "The Deer Hunter" with Robert DeNiro.
Christopher Walken
Appeared in the 1982 horror film "The Dead Zone" that was based on Stephen King's novel.
Chynna Phillips
In the 80's film "Say Anything", Chynna appeared in a *small* role as the character Joe's new girlfriend. She walked in next to him at the graduation party near the start of the film and had maybe one line.
Chynna Phillips
She played a spoiled stupid superficial snotty b---- in Caddyshack II.
Cindy Crawford
A model in the montage as Michael J. Fox starts off in a small apartment in New York in "The Secret of My Success".
Cindy Crawford
Had a brief appearance in Michael J. Fox's "Secret of My Success",
Clancy Brown
Played the evil immortal Kurgan in the 1986 film 'Highlander'.
Clancy Brown
Was in the movie "Bad Boys" with Sean Penn and Esai Morales.
Colin Farrell
Played a bit role in the BBC mini-series "Falling for a Dancer".
Colin Mochrie
Played a copycat rapist/killer in the 1989 Kevin Kline dud "The January Man".
Corey Feldman
Before doing "Gremlins", he appeared in "Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter" as Jason's nemesis Tommy Jarvis.
Corey Feldman
First movie was Gremlins (the kid who spilled water on Gizmo), Goonies, Stand By Me, Fox and the Hound (young hound's voice) and many more into the 90s.
Corey Feldman
Yes, he was in the movie "Stand by Me" but not with Chris O'Donnell. The actor who played the chubby character (Vern) was Jerry O'Connell. It's an easy mistake what with the names. Also, in the movie were Kiefer Sutherland and, yes, the late and great River Phoneix.
Corey Feldman
Was in the movie "Stand by Me" alongside a young and chubby Chris O'Donnell and the late River Phoenix.
Corey Haim
Don't forget one of Corey's first movies in which to me is the one that made him famous and that was Lucas..Charlie Sheen also starred in the movie...Corey played the school's geek and got injured (not in real) towards the end of the movie when he suited up and went out on the football field..after that he earned the respect of the whole school!
Corey Haim
Corey Haim played C. Thomas Howell's little brother in the 80's movie 'Secret Admirer'. The one who always stole money from him. Kelley Preston is also in it along with Casey Siemaszko and Lori Laughlin (Becky from Full House)
Corey Haim
Before appearing in "The Lost Boys", he appeared in 1981 horror film "Silver Bullet" that was based on Stephen King's novel "Cycle of the Werewolf.
Courteney Cox
She played in an awful short-lived show in the fall of '85 called "Misfits of Science".
Courteney Cox
Appeared in an episode of "Murder, She Wrote", in which she played Jessica's niece who asks her to look for her long lost grandfarther, who is believed to be dead.
Courteney Cox
Played in an 80's Tampax commercial.
Courteney Cox
She was in Cocoon II. Once where the alien chick was showing Steve Guttenberg his future (she was his future wife!) also at the end of the movie when he actually meets her for real.
Courteney Cox
Played the mom on "Coccoon".
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance was in the movie "Platoon" with Charlie Sheen in 1987. And he played the principal in "Dangerous Minds" in 1994.
Courtney B. Vance
Was not in "Platoon", but was in "Hamburger Hill".
Courtney Cox
First appearance was in a video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video, she was the girl who was pulled on stage at the end. She was Michael J. Fox's 2nd regular girlfriend on Family Ties and before that she starred as the girlfriend of the head scientist and head misfit on the show Misfits of Science. She was also in "Masters of the Universe". This movie was so cheesy and is a good example of how thin she has gotten over the last few years.
Courtney Cox
Played a psychologist student who was experimenting with Alex on "Family Ties".
Courtney Thorne Smith
She starred in an obscure teen flick titled "Welcome to 18".
Courtney Thorne-Smith
She played the main student in Mark Harmon's class in "Summer School".
Courtney Thorne-Smith
She played a child psychologist on the short lived comedy "Day by Day" with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and child star Thora Birch.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
She was the girlfriend of Charlie Sheen in the 80's movie "Lucas."
Craig T. Nelson
Played Tom Cruise's football coach in the 1984 movie "All the Right Moves", also starring the late, great Christopher Penn and a young Lea Thompson.
Craig T. Nelson
Before appearing on the series "The District", he played the main character on the comedy series "Coach". He also played the father in the first two "Poltergeist" films.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson played Shelley Long's husband in the 80's movie "Troop Beverly Hills"
Cree Summer
She was one of the cast members of the '80's sitcom "A Different World".
Crispin Glover
Before doing "Back To The Future", he played one of Jason's victims in the 1984 horror film "Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter".
Crispin Glover
Played the part of Alex P. Keaton's (Michael J. Fox's) friend on a couple of episodes of Family Ties.
Crispin Glover
Played the original role of George McFly in the 1985 film "Back To The Future".
Crispin Glover
I just wanted to say he was in this great movie (along with Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper)called "The River's Edge". He was great in the movies and played kind of like a dope smoking hippie type.
Crispin Glover
Played a kid who was tired of getting picked on in the movie "Teachers" with Nick Nolte, Ralph Macchio, and Laura Dern.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Had several television appearances on "MacGyver" with Richard Dean Anderson.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Sang an eardrum piercing version of "Like a Virgin" in a bad "Fame" imitation called "Sing". Also did a pretty decent "Muhammad Ali" impression in the other "Gladiator" movie about boxing not Romans.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
He was getting a haircut at the barbershop in "Coming to America"
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Was getting a haircut in "Coming to America",
Cuba Gooding, Jr
Was a kid in the barber's chair in "Coming To America". Also, was a contestant on lip-sync show, "Puttin' on The Hits".
Cuba Gooding, Jr
Was in an episode of "In the Heat of the Night"
Cynthia Nixon
Played a little pre-teen hippie in the comedy "Little Darlings".
Cynthia Nixon
Was in the original Broadway cast of the play "Hurlyburly", also starring Sigourney Weaver.
Cynthia Nixon
Played the girlfriend of the kid bomb maker in "Manhattan Project."
Cynthia Nixon
She had a small role in a Richard Dreyfuss movie called "Let It Ride" co-starring Teri Garr.
Cynthia Nixon
Played a young hysterical girl in "Amadeus".


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