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Jack Black, Seth Rogen & 25 Other Actors Before They Were Famous

by Ethan Anderton
August 15, 2011
Source: YouTube

Jack Black in 25 Actors Before They Were Famous

Before many of today's biggest talents on the silver screen became movie stars, they were just struggling actors looking to make a name for themselves. Many times their early appearances go largely unnoticed or become forgotten moments on film. Thanks to the wonder of the internet and its inability to forget anything, we're pleased to bring your attention to Before They Were Famous: 25 Actors in 3 Minutes, a video compilation that features some of the earliest appearances of some of today's most recognized actors. You'll recognize young faces of Jack Black, Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Rogen, Harrison Ford and many others.

Here's the short and sweet video courtesy of YouTube user PleatedJeans (via Vulture):

Flashing back to material like this is such a refreshing and entertaining blast from the past. Considering the high profiles and stellar quality of work that many of these stars have turned in since making it big and knowing that their career blossomed from some of the scenes displayed above is truly impressive. I think my personal favorite is Daniel Craig making an appearance in A Kid in King Arthur's Court or Ryan Gosling in one of my favorite childhood shows "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" But it gets hard to beat Jack Black leading a leather jacket-clad gang in The Neverending Story III. Good times. Which are your favorite?

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Spoilerinsider

Scarlett Johanson still delivers her lines the same way. lol
happy camper

haha i remember that Are You Afraid of the Dark episode!
Jericho

is it weird that i have seen half of those movies and never recognized ANY of them even now until this video came?....
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363064612 Said Samayoa

i remember i saw Water world once (not in there but i just remembered) and i was like "Hey! thats Jack Black!!"
andrew

that was great, what about Josh Brolin in The Goonies
989

Jack Black is also in Demolation Man for two seconds.
- Mayhem
  
  And in The Jackal.
Anonymous

lame Jack Black was awesome in Airborne a full year earlier. I'd rather see footage of him in Bob Roberts.
David Banner

The Neverending Story III ??? A third The Neverending Story ???
- Whoisyerdaddy
  
  Yeah, because it like... never ends...
  - Alex
    
    If the first one never ended, why did they make a second one... ...or a third?
http://twitter.com/darktaxidermist Davide Coppola

Favorites: Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi
Dkurysz137

How about Christian Bale in EMPIRE OF THE SUN..
- nick
  
  or Christian Bale in Treasure Island
  - Adam
    
    Nah, man. Christian Bale in "Newsies"!
    - http://www.facebook.com/oddfossil Matt Gonzalez
      
      Christian Bale as a lil kid in Mio & The Land of Faraway (jub jub)
      - Lisancny
        
        christian as a baby in "Babies"
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5111584 Nate Carroll

Awesome video but they fail in using parts where the actors had even earlier parts. Natalie Portman was the most obvious 'cause everyone knows her with Leon...The Professional.
- http://Independencefilm.blogspot.com Sidiki
  
  Yeah, I agree, but I think the video is intended to show us the actors before they were famous, not their first roles in film. It could range from years ahead their first jobs.
The_Kid89

Daniel Craig in A Kid in King Arthur's Court was the most surprising. I've seen that movie a bunch of times (it use to come on channel 11 on Sunday mornings) never realized that was him, must be the doofy looking haircut.
Cookie

A Kid In King Arthur's Court also had Kate Winslet before Titanic.
Beakerboy

No Dogboy?
Serenity

Zac Efron in Firefly as young Simon
Ross

What about Ellen Page in Trailer Park Boys.
Grant

But wasn't Daniel Craig in The Power of One in like 1992
stfugtfo

lol jack black
http://www.facebook.com/nballein Nathan Ballein

Um, Darby O'Gill and the Little People (the Sean Connery one) didn't do too bad in the box office. Sean Connery also didn't have a SMALL role in that, he had a featured part.
The Time King

jack black was in a porno
PeasAnGravy

Jack Black's first role was in a skate movie called Airbourne in 1993, that movie also has a young Seth Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tlNI1ja8k
whiten

Don't forget about Sam Rockwell and Skeet Ulrich in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

favorite early Schwarzenegger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e1TkV6RzNQ
http://www.facebook.com/oddfossil Matt Gonzalez

Seth Green & Devon Sawa as Nerf or Nuthin' kids? I never realized that was seth rogen in Donnie Darko though, as many times as i've seen it.
http://www.fuckoff.com Jimmy Love

Now i have to see the neverending story 3