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OBSCURE STARTS FOR GREAT CAREERS
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Tags: humble beginnings, obscure, actors
do you remember how some of our more famous actors got humble starts in obscure tv roles or blink-and-you'll-miss-them tv series. check some of these out.
| | goldie hawn-got her start in a series called "good morning world" that did not last a season. this was pre-laughin and pre-big movie career. |
| | barbara hershey-one of the most experienced actresses on the big screen played a wholesome orphan in a 60's tv series called the monroes. |
| | jennifer lopez-was one of the dancing fly girs in the skit comedy show "in living color" |
| | kathleen turner-movie actress and oscar nominee played a character called "nola"in a now defunct soap opera called "the doctors". |
| | dustin hoffman-one of his first breaks was a car commercial showing how roomy the vehicle was. |
| | mark hamill-before he was luke skywalker, he starred in a short-lived tv series called "the texas wheelers." what is even stranger is that gary busey played his older brother. |
| | david caruso-before he was a nypd and miami crime investigator. he played a bit part as the head of an irish street gang in "hill street blues". |
| | diane keaton-an actress with an illustrious film career did a series of anti-perspirant commercials in the 60's. |
| | rob reiner-now a film director and an "all in the family" regular once played a teen hoodlum in love with susan dey on "the partridge family." |
| | richard dreyfuss and martin sheen-both were guest stars on "the mod squad". |
| | shelley long-before "cheers", she guest starred as a sexy nurse on a date with Hawkeye on "Mash". |
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