Where'd You Meet Your First?

[the_sneaker]

I am certainly sure that the majority of the schmoes on the board here have a top ten. And if you don't you will soon. Anyway, I was thinking about my top ten favorite films of all time, and it got me thinking of the actors that were in the film. So, I was wondering, out of the actors/actresses who are in your top ten, where did you first see them, film wise? My top ten is:

1.) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 10/10
2.) American Beauty (1999) 9.9/10
3.) The Usual Suspects (1995) 9.8/10
4.) Fight Club (1999) 9.5/10
5.) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 9.5/10
6.) Donnie Darko (2001) 9.5/10
7.) Frailty (2001) 9.0/10
8.) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 9.0/10
9.) Braveheart (1995) 9.0/10
10.) Reservoir Dogs (1992) 9.0/10

So, from here I will name one or two (oh, hell, even three, of the actors in the said films and say the first films I ever saw them in).

Reservoir Dogs: Unfortunatley, the first actor that comes to mind is Steve Bucsemi, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that as in the first movie I ever saw him in was Armeggedon (c'mon, I was 12!)
Braveheart: I think of Mel Gibson. And the first movie I think of when I think of him as a child was Lethal Weapon, which I loved as a child.
The Silence of the Lambs: Anthony Hopkins. Acutally, this was the first movie I ever saw with him in it, and I can understand why he earned the title of 'sir' and why he earned an Oscar for this roll.
Frailty: I think of Bill Paxton, and the first movie I think of with him in it is Twister. When I was 10, I wanted to be a storm chaser. I thought that would be the coolest career. Hell, I still think that would be a badass career.
Donnie Darko: I think of Jake Gyllenhaal. I first met Jake as an actor in the film October Sky, and that is still one of my favorite films.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Of course, I think of Jim Carrey. And when I think of Jim, I cannot help but think of Dumb and Dumber. I grew up around this movie. Shit, when I was 7 I was quoting this movie. I used to go to Christmas parties with my family and be the light of the evening with my brother when I would quote this movie.
Fight Club: I think of Brad Pitt. When I was growing up, my dad's favorite movie was A River Runs Through It (which eventually turned me on to Robert Redford).
The Usual Suspects: Unfortunately, The Usual Suspects reminds me of Kevin Pollak, not Spacey or del Toro. I don't mean for that to sound bad, because on of the first films I ever saw Pollak in was A Few Good Men, however, the first movie I ever saw Pollak in was House Arrest, and when I was 9, I loved that fucking movie.
American Beauty: Another fantastic performance by Kevin Spacey, and another movie that does not first remind me of him, only because I saw a film with Thora Birch first (which was Patriot Games.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Now, LOTR series had a lot of 'firsts' for me: Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Cate Blanchet, and especially Viggo Mortensen. But the first actor in this series of films that I can remember from childhood movies growing up was Sean Astin. I was born the same year The Goonies came out, so he was one of my childhood favorites.


So, yeah, try to think of your favorite all time films, then think about the first time you saw some of the main actors on screen for the first time. It is pretty interesting.

[JackassFan]

Hmmm....

1. Reservoir Dogs
Harvey Keitel - Taxi Driver
Tim Roth - The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Michael Madsen - Free Willy (I know.... )

2. Gangs of New York
Daniel Day Lewis - The Bounty
Leonardo DiCaprio - Titanic or Basketball Diaries, I'm not sure which
Cameron Diaz - The Mask

3. Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks - Big
Tom Sizemore - Natural Born Killers
Matt Damon - Chasing Amy

4. Goodfellas
Robert De Niro - Godfather: Part 2
Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
Ray Liotta - Field of Dreams

5. Fight Club
Brad Pitt - No Mans Land
Ed Norton - American History X
Helena Bonham Carter - Howard's End

6. Donnie Darko
Jake Gyllenhaal - October Sky
Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing

7. Mystic River
Sean Penn - Bad Boys
Kevin Bacon - A Few Good Men
Tim Robbins - Shawshank Redemption

8. The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher - Just Married (Unless Punk'd counts?)
William Lee Scott - October Sky
Amy Smart - Rat Race

9. Football Factory
Danny Dyer - Human Traffic
Frank Harper - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

10. Sleepers
Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate
Billy Crudup - Almost Famous

[RandalGraves]

1. Commando
~ Saw Arnold in Terminator 2, it was my first R rated movie I saw in the theaters.
2. The Blues Brothers
~ John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd this was my first movie with the both of them.
3. Clerks 2
~ Jeff and Brian/Kevin Smith I was first introduced to them when I saw the original Clerks and Mallrats on dvd.
4. Grandma's Boy
~ Fan of Adam Sandler and all the guys he puts in all his movies, so I saw this.
5. Broken Arrow
~ Saw Travolta in Saturday Night Fever
6. Waiting
~ Saw Ryan Reynolds in Van Wilder
7. Collateral
~ Tom Cruise was first introduced to me in Top Gun
8. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
~ Kevin Smith movie cause I had seen all his other flicks.
9. Troy
~ First movie I saw with Brad Pitt was Interview with a Vampire I believe
10. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
~ Arnold is my favorite actor...this was the most anicipated release I had ever had.

[dalomini]

Interesting thread.

1. Annie Hall
Woody Allen - Don't Drink the Water (made for TV version with Michael J Fox)
Diane Keaton - The Other Sister, went to see it when it came out with my mom when I was like 10, sue me.
Tony Roberts - This movie
Shelley Duvall - Frankenweenie!!!
Christopher Walken -Batman Returns

2. Hook
Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Maggie Smith - This movie. This is a childhood favorite of mine, so this is the earliest I've seen many of the greats in this film.
Bob Hoskins - Super Mario Bros...ouch...

3. Life is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni - Johnny Stecchino
Nicoletta Braschi - Johnny Stecchino
Giorgio Cantarini - Gladiator

4. Psycho
Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Anthony Perkins - This movie
Martin Balsam -12 Angry Men

5. Raging Bull
Robert De Niro - Analyze This
Joe Pesci - Home Alone
Cathy Moriarty - Casper

6. Memento
Guy Pearce - L.A. Confidential
Carrie-Ann Moss - The Matrix
I have to add this one...
Stephen Tobolowsky - Groundhog Day "it's me, ned. RYERSON!"

7. Field of Dreams
Kevin Costner - For Love of the Game
James Earl Jones - does Star Wars count?
Ray Liotta -Hannibal

8. Magnolia
Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
Julianne Moore - Hannibal
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Boogie Nights
Jason Robards - Little Big League
William H. Macy - Pleasantville
John C. Reily - Chicago

9. American Psycho
Christian Bale - Batman Begins
Reese Witherspoon - Pleasantville
Willem Dafoe - Spiderman

10. The Truman Show
Jim Carrey - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Laura Linney - Primal Fear
Ed Harris - This movie

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Haha from the thread title I thought you were asking us where we met the people we lost our virginities to.

[zeppelin]

Interesting thread. Since some of the actors and actresses are in more than one of my top 10 movies, I won't mention them again once I've already covered them:

1. The Godfather
Marlon Brando- Superman
Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, & James Caan- this movie
Diane Keaton- Annie Hall

2. Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight- Actually, the first one I saw was Tomb Raider, come to think of it...luckily I didn't let that influence my opinion of him.
Dustin Hoffman- Rain Man

3. Paris, Texas
Harry Dean Stanton- Alien
Dean Stockwell- Blue Velvet
Nastassja Kinski- this movie

4. Manhattan
Woody Allen- Antz, actually
Meryl Streep- Technically, it was her guest appearance on The Simpsons, but not counting that, The Deer Hunter
Mariel Hemingway- this movie
Michael Murphy- Batman Returns

5. Hannah and Her Sisters
Michael Caine- Unfortunately, it was Jaws: The Revenge
Mia Farrow- Rosemary's Baby
Carrie Fisher- Star Wars
Barbara Hershey & Dianne Wiest- this movie

6. Do the Right Thing
Danny Aiello- The Professional
Spike Lee- this one
John Turturro- I think it was actually 13 Conversations About One Thing...though I could be wrong

7. This Is Spinal Tap
Christopher Guest- Small Soldiers, believe it or not (I didn't realize until now that all 3 of these guys are voices in that movie...now I want to watch it again)
Michael McKean- Jack
Harry Shearer- The Simpsons, but in terms of what movie I saw him in first, I think it was the Godzilla remake

8. Annie Hall
Since I've already covered the two leads, I'll go for the cameos:
Christopher Walken- I'm pretty sure it was on one of his SNL gigs, but in terms of movies, my first Walken experience was Batman Returns
Jeff Goldblum- Jurassic Park

9. Seven Samurai
Toshiro Mifune & Takashi Shimura- Rashomon
All others- this one

10. Some Like it Hot
It was this movie for all of them, with the technical exception of Jack Lemmon, who, again, I was first introduced to via The Simpsons

[Hannibal21]

All About Eve
Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, and Hugh Marlowe: uh, this movie
Bette Davis: earliest recollection of her was in the gothic horror 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?', that film made me a fan for life
George Sanders: Rebecca
Marilyn Monroe: The Seven Year Itch

Casablanca
My first introduction to all the members of the cast, most notables being two of my all time favorite actors & actresses: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

Citizen Kane
I've never even heard of the great Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, or any of the other mercury actors before this movie.

Double Indemnity
Fred MacMurray: The Shaggy Dog
Barbara Stanwyck: Titanic
Edward G. Robinson: Little Caesar

Rebecca:
Laurence Olivier: Hamlet
Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, & George Sanders: this movie

Sunset Boulevard
William Holden: Sabrina
Gloria Swanson & Erich von Stroheim: thie movie (don't think I have seen Swanson in anything else)

Swing Time
Fred & Ginger: Top Hat

2001: A Space Odyssey
The first time I've even heard of any of these actors. I'm not familiar with any of them.

Vertigo
James Stewart: It's a Wonderful Life
Kim Novak: this movie

Wild Strawberries
Bibi Andersson: Persona
Max von Sydow: The Exorcist
Ingrid Thulin: Cries and Whispers
All the others: this movie

[Brando @$$ Fat]

I know there're eleven but I couldn't help but put Unforgiven in there as an honorable mention.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Hadn't heard of any of the actors beforehand.

Annie Hall
Woody Allen: Sleeper
Diane Keaton: The Godfather
Christopher Walken: The Deer Hunter
Paul Simon: his music.....of course

Blue Velvet
Kyle MacLachlan: Dune
Isabella Rossellini: this was my first Rossellini flick.
Dennis Hopper: Easy Rider

The Crying Game
Stephen Rea: Michael Collins
Jaye Davidson: never saw him in anything else
Forest Whitaker: Bird
Miranda Richardson: Damage

Fanny and Alexander
Never really saw any of these great actors in anything else.

Fargo
Frances McDormand: Almost Famous
Steve Buscemi: Reservoir Dogs
William H. Macy: Magnolia

The Godfather
Marlon Brando: On the Waterfront
Al Pacino: Dick Tracy
Robert Duvall: To Kill a Mockingbird
James Caan: Misery
Talia Shire: Rocky

Platoon
Charlie Sheen: first Sheen flick I saw.
Tom Berenger: The BIg Chill
Willem Dafoe: Mississippi Burning

Raging Bull
Joe Pesci: GoodFellas
Frank Vincent: GoodFellas
Cathy Moriarty: Soapdish

Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro: The Godfather Part II
Harvey Keitel: The Piano
Jodie Foster: The Silence of the Lambs

Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood: Dirty Harry
Morgan Freeman: The Shawshank Redemption
Gene Hackman: Hoosiers
Richard Harris: The Guns of Navarone

[the_sneaker]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
Haha from the thread title I thought you were asking us where we met the people we lost our virginities to.

LOL.

Originally posted by dalomini
2. Hook
Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Maggie Smith - This movie. This is a childhood favorite of mine, so this is the earliest I've seen many of the greats in this film.
Bob Hoskins - Super Mario Bros...ouch...

Great choice. Hook was one of my favorite childhood films and still holds a great place in my heart. I still love this movie!

[X-Nightcrawler]

This . . . is a difficult question because I didn't actually NOTICE the actors until the movie had become my favorite so I'll just go by the first movie I saw them in AFTER my favorite (if it applies of course).

1. The Lion King
-James Earl Jones (Star Wars trilogy).
-Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Godzilla 2000).
-Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With A Vengeance).
-Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act)

2. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
-Neve Campbell (Scream trilogy).
-Andy Dick (NewsRadio/Andy Dick Show, Roadtrip).

3. Silent Hill
-Sean Bean (007: Goldeneye)
-Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black, Man On Fire).

4. The Constant Gardener
-Ralph "God's Avatar" Fiennes (English Patient, Red Dragon).
-Rachel Weisz (The Mummy).

5. Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End Of Evangelion
-Absolutely nothing.

6. Battle Royale
-Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill Vol. 1).
-Yuko Miyamura (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

7. Final Destination
-Devon Sawa (Idle Hands, Little Giants).
-Ali Larter (House On Haunted Hill).
-Chad E. Donella (Disturbing Behavior).
-Sean William Scott (Roadtrip, American Pie).
-Kerr Smith (The Forsaken).

8. Underworld
-Kate Beckinsale (Withering Heights)
-Michael Sheen (The Four Feathers)

9. Savior
-Dennis Quaid (Dragonheart, Frequency)

10. Ice Age
-John Leguizamo (Spawn, Moulin Rouge!)
-Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond)
-Dennis Leary (Demolition Man, Wag The Dog)

[Le_Big_Mac]

Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Uma Thurman: Batman & Robin
Bruce Willis: Die Hard

Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro: Meet the Parents

A Clockwork Orange
Never heard of any of the actors before

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
William Holden: The Wild Bunch

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Clint Eastwood: Million Dollar Baby

Dazed and Confused
Ben Affleck: Armageddon

The Lady Vanishes
First for all the actors (except for Hitchcock in his cameo appearance)

Kill Bill Volume 2
Uma Thurman: Batman & Robin
David Carradine: Kill Bill Volume 1
Chia Hui Liu: Kill Bill Volume 1
Samuel L. Jackson: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Reservoir Dogs
Harvey Keitel: Pulp Fiction
Tim Roth: Pulp Fiction
Steve Buscemi: Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction

Badlands
Martin Sheen: Apocalypse Now
Sissy Spacek: Carrie

[sarah1980]

1.E.T.
First for all the actors

2.Psycho
First for all the actors

3.Titanic
Leonardo DiCaprio-Critters 3 (unless you count Growing Pains)
Billy Zane-Dead Calm
Bill Paxton-The Terminator

4.Gladiator
Russell Crowe-The Quick And The Dead
Richard Harris-Unforgiven
Joaquin Phoenix-Space Camp
Connie Nielsen-The Devil's Advocate

5.Terminator 2 Judgment Day
Arnold Schwarzenegger-Twins
Linda Hamilton-The Terminator (unless you count Beauty And The Beast)
Robert Patrick-this
Edward Furlong-this

6.Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks-Splash
Matt Damon-Good Will Hunting
Tom Sizemore-either Striking Distance or True Romance can't remember
Vin Diesel-this
Giovanni Ribisi-The X-Files Season 2 Episode D.P.O.

7.Schindler's List
Liam Neeson-Darkman
Ben Kingsley-this
Ralph Fiennes-this

8.A Clockwork Orange
Malcolm McDowell-Star Trek Generations
first of everyone else

9.Jaws
First for all actors

10.The Abyss
First for all actors

[Bonham]

1)True Romance
-Chris Walken- Batman Returns
-Gary Oldman- Air Force One.
2) Fight Club
-Brad Pitt- Interview with a Vampire
3) Reservoir Dogs
-Steve Buscemi- Billy Madison
4) The Good The Bad and The Ugly
-Clint Eastwood- True Crime
5)Princess Bride
-everyone- this was one of the first movies I saw as a child

I'm only giving my top 5 because I'm tired.

[Monotreme]

Interesting thread. Here goes:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey - The Mask, I'm pretty sure.
Kate Winslet - Titanic, which at the time was the only mainstream thing she had done.
Kirsten Dunst - Jumanji.
Elijah Wood Flipper :P

Schindler's List
Liam Neeson - I don't think I saw Schindler's List before 1999 (I was 10 years old, so you know...), so The Phantom Menace.
Ralph Fiennes - This movie, and now he's one of my favourite actors.
Ben Kingsley - Gandhi, which we watched in the 7th grade in history class, I believe.

The Empire Strikes Back
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and the whole cast really - Star Wars (A New Hope). Both films were childhood favourites of mine, but I'm pretty sure that regardless of my young age, I saw the first film before Empire, but I really can't be sure. I was 5.

Magnolia
Tom Cruise - Hard to tell, but I'd imagine Mission: Impossible.
Julianne Moore - The Fugitive, another film from my (later) childhood, but I'd seen it before The Lost World, so yeah, I think The Fugitive.
William H. Macy - He was in Air Force One, right? If so, then that.
John C. Reilly - Chicago. Yes, I saw that in theatres, and yes, I hadn't seen Magnolia yet at the time it came out.
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Twister, I do believe.

Pulp Fiction
John Travolta - Grease
Bruce Willis - The furthest back I can remember is The Fifth Element, and I doubt I saw Die Hard before that.
Samuel L. Jackson - Jurassic Park
Uma Thurman - Gattaca

American Beauty
Kevin Spacey - A Bug's Life
Annette Bening - Mars Attacks!
Thora Birch - Patriot Games

Star Wars
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and the whole cast really - This film. This is one of the first films I distinctly remember watching.

Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks - Big
Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Sally Field and the others - This film. This was also one of the earliest films I remember watching, since early childhood, but I also distinctly remember Big (and Sleepless in Seattle, actually) before Gump. In regards to Hanks.

The Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Tim Robbins - The Hudsucker Proxy

Fight Club
Brad Pitt - Seven Years in Tibet
Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter - This film. I first saw it a while ago, and Norton and Carter hadn't done work on this caliber quite yet (in terms of "mainstream", although this isn't exactly a mainstream film either, but definitely more so than Carter's old Mercheant and Ivory pictures and Norton's indies).

[powersauce]

Ferris Bueller - I saw it on a local UPN affiliate when I was 15 a decade after it came out although I saw that "damaged Ferrari" scene on Showtime at my uncle's house 4 years after it came out.

Matthew Broderick - I remember seeing parts on Biloxi Blues on HBO and Showtime when I was little.
Jeffrey Jones - I saw Beetlejuice when it first aired on HBO.