OMG - picking up on my last thread, i just got to the episode where FARSCAPE'S BEN BROWDER had a bit part as Alison's high school boyfriend she runs into while visiting her family. I remember hearing he had a dayplayer part on Melrose Place and even looked up what part he played but this is actually the first time i'd seen it since hearing about it!
This would have been about six years before he started on Farscape and if you think he looked real boyish that first season (despite being in his late 30's at the time), just imagine how much younger he looks here! Longer hair too - still "short" but still quite more than he had on Farscape!
Even though he basically had a "nothing" part, you could still see he had a quiet intensity to his performance. What a treat! So far after watching seasons one and three and now almost all of season two (took awhile to find a cheap used copy), i've seen three of my fave actors from other shows in bit parts! Ben Browder, Kassie DePaiva (as mentioned in my last post), Tuc Watkins (from Desperate Housewives and One Life to Live...just saw him as a celeb guest earlier this week on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader which was real fun - he got ten out of the ten questions but decided not to risk the bonus question. On MP he played a blind date of Alison's which was a small nothing part that he didn't really do anything special with despite his later ability to Make the Sun Shine in every scene he's in on both shows) - i also know Dan Gauthier (OLTL's Kevin Buchanan) shows up in a recurring part later on in the show's run which i can't wait to see!