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

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]
Samuel L Jackson
Played Stacks in the Mafia Movie "Goodfellas".
Samuel L Jackson/Lawrence Fishburne
In Spike Lee's School Daze...Jackson played one of the "local" town people at Kentucky Fried Chicken who had a problem with the Fishburne who played a college student at an HBCU...
Samuel L. Jackson
Played the role of Mister Loving Daddy in the 1989 film "Do The Right Thing".
Samuel L. Jackson
In the film "Coming To America", he played the armed robber whom Eddie Murphy foiled with the mop at McDowell's.
Samuel L. Jackson
Played the man who attempted the rob the fast food restaurant Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall worked at in the movie "Coming To America". He also played a junkie in the Spike Lee Joint "Jungle Fever".
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson appeared in the movie RAW, Eddie Murphy live, as one of his uncles who loved hearing little Eddie telling bad jokes.
Samuel L. Jackson
He had a small part in "Sea of Love", playing one of the criminals that Al Pacino was looking to arrest at a pseudo baseball event for kids.
Sandra Bullock
She played a sexy cyborg in the TV movie "The Bionic Showdown" with Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reprising their bionic roles from the 70s.
Sandra Bullock
Was in the movie 'Love Potion #9'.
sarah jessica parker
She was the girl with pink in her hair who worked at the lab in "The Flight of the Navigator".
Sarah Jessica Parker
Starring in the 80s classic teen-angst TV show, "Square Pegs" (only lasted one season, but I loved it!)
Sarah Jessica Parker
She played one of Lori Singer's friends in "Footloose".
Sarah Jessica Parker
Had a part in the Disney movie "Flight of the Navigator".
Sarah Jessica Parker
Square Pegs
Sarah Jessica Parker
Was one of the stars of "Square Pegs".
Sarah Jessica Parker
Starred in the movie "Girls Just Want To Have Fun".
Sarah Jessica Parker
Played a friend of Kevin Bacon's in "Footloose". Also was in "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" with Helen Hunt.
Sarah Martin
Had an uncredited role on "The Wonder Years."
Sarah Michelle Gellar
She started in teen drama/soap opera called "Swans Crossing'.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
She was on the daytime soap opera ALL MY CHILDREN as "Kendall", Erica Cain's long forgotten daughter.,
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Appeared in a TV movie, "An Invasion of Privacy," in 1983, and the soap opera "The Guiding Light," in 1986.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah had a small, uncredited role in the Chevy Chase film "Funny Farm". She was also on Swan's Crossing (early 90s teen soap opera)...she played a character Sydney. Incidentally, on one episode of "Buffy", she tells a character who's about to take an airplane flight to watch the movie unless it's a "movie with a dog in it and Chevy Chase." This is a reference to "Funny Farm". She also did a Burger King commerical with Lea Thompson and Elisabeth Shue.
Scott Baio
Don't forget 'Zapped'.
Scott Baio
Played the role of Chachi on the comedy television series "Happy Days" and it's spinoff "Joanie Loves Chachi". He also played the main character on the comedy tv series "Charles In Charge".
Scott Bakula
Scott played Joe DiMaggio in the Broadway flop "Marilyn: An American Fable".
Scott Bakula
Broadway ("Romance Romance"), small parts on TV shows (Matlock, My Sister Sam, Gung Ho, Designing Women). Starred in the 1986 Disney TV movie "The I-Man". Of course, this all paved the way for his most famous role, as Dr Samuel "Sam" Beckett on the science-fiction series "Quantum Leap." (1989-1993).
Scott Wolf
Scott was on an episode of "Kids Incorporated". This was the same season Jennifer Love Hewitt was on the show. Who knew they would become "Bailey and Sarah" on "Party of 5?"
Scott Wolf
He had a recurring roll as an extra on "Save by the Bell."
Sean Astin
In "The Goonies".
Sean Connery
Was the original James Bond.
Sean Connery
Played Connor McLeod's tutor in the first two "Highlander" films.
Sean Penn
A movie worth seeing with Penn and Timothy Hutton: "Falcon and the Snowman". They were also both in "Taps", another 80s classic!
Sean Penn
Played an uncredited role of "Kid" in "Little House On The Prairie", back in 1974.
Seth Green
Appeared on an episode of the horror television series "Tales From The Darkside".
Seth Green
He played Richie Tozier in the miniseries of IT (the wonderful book written by Stephen King).
Seth Green
He was in the movie "Airborne" with Shane McDermott (who was in Swans Crossing with Sarah Michelle Gellar & also on All My Children). He played Shane's dorky cousin that lives in Cincinnati.
Seth Green
Had a small role as the bratty son of Bette Midler in "Big Buisness",
Seth Green
Seth Green was also in a movie about some teens vs. a demonic virtual reality arcade machine. He played a typical grundge teen. It was produced by Full Moon Entertainment. Dunno when it came out, but it was pretty bad. I actually think it ws called "Arcade" if I remember correctly.,
Seth Green
He had a small part in "My Stepmother Is An Alien" with Dan Aykroyd and his future Buffy co-star Alyson Hannigan.,
Seth Green
He was in "Can't Buy Me Love" as the wise-acre little brother. Was the youngest brother, Egg, in the movie "The Hotel New Hampshire", starring Rob Lowe and Jodie Foster.
Seth Green
Played the nerd taking Alyson Hannigan (Willow on Buffy) on a date in " My Stepmom's an alien" also starring Dan Akroid, Kim Basinger, and Jon Lovitz. Seth also played the bratty little boy in " the Twilight Zone movie" and played the fast talking, wise cracking Eddie in Stephen King's "It." He also co-starred in a shortlived sitcom with Jennifer Love Hewwitt called " The Birds Of Paradise.",
Shannen Doherty
She was in a movie with Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Clint Howard, and Richard Belzer called "Night Shift". She is only seen a few moments; but if you watch it, you'll see her. She leads a rebel Girl Scout troop as they pound Winkler in the head with boxes of cookies because they think he is a mugger.
Shannen Doherty
Played Jenny Wilder on "Little House on the Prairie".
Shannon Doherty
Had a guest role as a former drug addict turned religious sister of Keith Coogan's character in an episode of "21 Jumpstreet",
Shannon Doherty
She was the punk kid in "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". She was the main guy's sister. Shannen Dougherty was also on Little House:A New Beginning. She was on Our House with Chad Allen. She also appeared opposite Winona Ryder in "Heathers". She was the Heather who took over as the "leader" of the Heathers after the first two were killed.
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone also played the wife of auto tycoon Peter Dellaplane(Craig T. Nelson) in the 1987 movie Action Jackson staring Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed in Rocky). Did you know that the Prince protege' Vanity was in this movie too? Awful!
Sharon Stone
Played Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife in 1990's "Total Recall".
Sharon Stone
Played Blake Chandler in "Irreconcilable Differences" (1984) and had a nude scene in it.
Sharon Stone
Was the wife of Nico(Steven Segal) in "Above The Law".
Sharon Stone
guest-starred in - MAGNUM PI -a two-parts episode in which she had a double part : twin sisters.,
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone appeared in Police Academy 5 (Citizens on Patrol) before Basic Instinct. A young Lisa Kudrow also appears in that film.,
Sharon Stone
Had a small part on an episode of Remington Steele playing a homecoming quen who was killing off people to avenge her brother's death.
Sigourney Weaver
Played Lt. Ellen Ripley in the four "Alien" movies, and the role of Dana Barrett in the "Ghostbusters" films.
Soleil Moon Frye
Played the main character on the comedy TV series Punky Brewster
Stacy Ferguson
She played sisters w/ Renee Sands on the Disney childrens show "Kids Incorporated". Early 90's formed the group Wild Orchid w/ former castmate Renee Sands.
Stacy Ferguson
She was one of the kids on "Kids Incorporated".
Stephen Collins
Played one of the members of the Starship Enterprise in the 1979 film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".
Stephen Dorff
Appeared in the 1987 horror film "The Gate".
Steve Martin
Played Audrie's abusive boyfriend in the 1986 comedy horror musical film "Little Shop of Horrors".
Susan Sarandon
Played the role of Janet in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and starred in the 1983 horror film "The Hunger".


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