Years ago I was watching in a theater a double feature showing old sci fi classics from the 1950s in 3D. One of them was It Came From Outer Space and Russell Johnson has a bit part in it. Unless you were paying attention to the credits you wouldn’t have been expecting him to show up but when he did a large number of the audience yelled out in unison It’s The Professor!!!. I still get a chuckle out of that spontaneous moment in my movie going life.
Yeah, it’s strange to see actors you’re so familiar with pop up here and there in various other films and tv shows. I remember seeing “Sam Drucker” from Green Acres in some serious film role. It might also have been a Sci-Fi.
Bit parts are fun to look for in those old classics...remember Clint Eastwood in ‘Revenge of the Creature’ or napalming the snot out of the giant spider in ‘Tarantula’?
Sam Drucker from Green Acres (Frank Cady)
It must have been “When Worlds Collide” (1951)