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Why so many Seinfeld characters?


Anybody notice that this movie has at least, by my count, 4 actors who also had small roles on Seinfeld?

In Rising Sun, I noticed Crazy Joe DiVola, Mr. Kruger, the Korean woman from the nail salon that George's Dad had an affair with, and the weird TV Guide-obsessed subway guy who fell in love with Elaine.

What's the connection between this movie and Seinfeld?

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the connection was kruger industrial smoothing was bought out by nakamoto corp.? i did notice the korean woman. i thought i knew her from somewhere. she was the lab tech at the crime scene in rising sun?




I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"

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I don't remember George having an affair!
Do you know which episode it was?

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He said George's father. Not George.

Kelloway: Doyle, get in the car.
Doyle: But I ordered Onion Rings.
Kelloway: Doyle!

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//Do you know which episode it was?//

It was Frank Costanza who had the affair and the episode is the "The Understudy."

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And the red head who meets them at the place with the two legged robots was from the episode where Jerry gets bumped at career day. She works at the school "Single file Jerry!"

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lol I forgot that was Crazy Joe in the boardroom meeting!

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Also, the guy who played Ishihara was the man at the register in the episode "the chinese restaurant". Remember: "Did someone call for Costanza?"
"Yeah.. I call Cartright no one answer."
"Well, did they say Costanza, or Cartright?"
"Yeah, no one answer. She say curse word, I hang up."

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no it wasn't him

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Maybe they all worked for Vanderlay Industries.

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bonnie from 'the label maker' is in here too!




His name...was Julio Iglesias!

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They are all character actors. That means they jump from one TV show to another, or one movie to another, filling-in n small roles. It's how they make their living.

If you pay close attention you'll probably see lots of character actors popping-up randomly throughout TV and movies. Like the guy who plays onk... before becoming the nonw-famous detective he did lots of small roles dating as far back as Matlock in the early 80s.

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he was on galaxy quest. so was sam lloyd, who is in this movie. and round and round we go.

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The connection is coincidence, especially since we're talking about small roles. The movie has a lot of actors who were in Showdown in Little Tokyo, too, and not just Japanese ones (Tia Carerre, for example), but the production crew isn't the same and Michael Crichton certainly didn't write Showdown in Little Tokyo.

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the human fund = money for people.





His name...was Julio Iglesias!

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Could be he pulled from NBC's pool because at the country club, the guy Snipe's character calls at the newspaper is Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe.

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and ricky who made the tv guide bouquet for elaine!



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There are actually eight actors who had small roles on Seinfeld.

In addition to the five already mentioned (Amy Hill, Peter Crombie, Daniel von Bargen, Sam Lloyd, 'Bonnie' from "The Label Maker"), there is Meagen Fay (she played a school teacher at Jerry's old junior high school), Tom Dahlgren (who played a priest in The Puerto Rican Day episode) and Patricia Ayame Thomson (one of the women who flirted with George when he wore a wedding ring as a sociological experiment).

The connection I think is because both Seinfeld and Rising Sun are filmed in Los Angeles. You'll find quite a lot of Hollywood movies from around the time of the production of Seinfeld that were filmed in L.A. are going to have multiple actors who appeared in both.

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good calls.



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