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Danson!

posted 8 years ago by tenantennae
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Bet nobody saw that cameo coming. When he walked on the set during filming, even Spielberg probably went "Woah, Danson's in this?"

[–] mikeyg24 8 years ago

Why? The only decent thing he's ever done is Sam from Cheers. All his movies are crap!

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[–] mnphotoguy99 (436) 5 years ago

@mikeyg24. For the most part I agree with you on Ted Danson's movies....with one exception. In Body Heat (1981) he played a very interesting, and somewhat quirky, assistant district attorney. Check it out if you haven't seen it. Mickey Rourke's scenes are scene stealers too!

[–] Dave-R011 8 years ago

He and Dennis Farina, in my opinion both reasonably competent actors, were about twenty or twenty-five years too old for their parts and looked it. Hanks was too old to be a Ranger captain as well, but I believe he looked young enough to get away with it.

[–] ebright99 8 years ago

Danson and Farina were bad casting. They are too famous and stick out like sore thumbs.

[–] CGSailor 8 years ago

Then on the other hand you had Captain Malcolm Reynolds....

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