The penny drops.
Have you ever watched a film, instantly recognized an actors face and spent the next ten minutes desperately wracking your brain to remember what you’ve seen them in before?
If you have then you’ll know that it feels like there’s a cinematic splinter lodged in your brain and you won’t rest easily until you find out what you’ve seen them in.
Fear not film fans because I’ve decided to take a look at some of those faces that aren’t quite A-listers or supporting characters but are still incredibly familiar.
Here are their faces, names and list of credits. I’m going to start with…
Name: Vincent Schiavelli
You know him from: One Flew Over the Cooko’s Nest, Batman Returns, Amadeus, Tomorrow Never Dies.
Most famous role: Ghost
Name: Judy Greer
You know her from: Californication, Two and a Half Men, Jurassic World, Ant-Man
Most famous role: Arrested Development
Name: Geoffrey Arend
You Know Him from: Garden State, Devil, Body of Proof, Bubble Boy
His most famous role: 500 Days of Summer
Name: James Rebhorn
You know him from: Homeland, Scent of a Woman, The Game, Meet the Parents
Most famous role: Independence Day
Name: Glenn Morshower
You know him from: X-Men : First Class, Friday Night Lights, Moneyball, Transformers: Dark of The Moon
Most famous role: 24
Name: Titus Welliver
You know him from: Argo, The Town, Man on a Ledge, Transformers: Age of Extinction
Most famous role: Gone Baby Gone
Name: Gary Cole
You know him from: Pineapple Express, Talladega Nights. Entourage, Suits.
Most famous role: Office Space
Name: Adam Goldberg
You know him from: Saving Private Ryan, Fargo, Entourage, A Beautiful Mind
Most famous role: Friends
Name: Stephen Tobolowsky
You know him from: Memento, Californication, Heroes, Thelma and Louise
Most famous role: Groundhog Day
Name: Bob Gunton
You know him from: Daredevil, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, 24, The Lincoln Lawyer.
Most famous role: The Shawshank Redemption
Name: James Hong
You know him from: The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Blade Runner.
Most famous role: Waynes World 2
Name: Bob Balaban
You know him from: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Moonrise Kingdom, Capote, Ghost World, Seinfeld, Best in Show.
Most famous role: Friends
Name: Chris Elliot
You know him from: There’s Something About Mary, Kingpin, How I Met Your Mother, The Abyss
Most famous role: Groundhog Day.
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