This week's guest is someone who holds a special place in history: he was my very first Random Roles interview. You know Peter Gallagher and/or his eyebrows from such projects as The Idolmaker, The O.C., Summer Lovers, and While You Were Sleeping, in which he played the guy who was sleeping. Oh, right, and he was also ... more
Clancy Brown has a voice that may be familiar to you from a plethora of animated series, playing everyone from Mr. Krabs on Spongebob Squarepants to Lex Luthor on various programs in the DC Animated Universe, but in the real world, relatively speaking, he’s also popped up in numerous films and TV series, including High... more
You’ve almost certainly seen W. Earl Brown's name in the credits of dozens of movies and TV series over the years, including such classics as Scream and There’s Something About Mary, and he’s also a familiar face to fans of HBO’s Deadwood, but it will come as no surprise to regular listeners to this podcast that the on... more
With appearances in 200 films and on 150+ different TV series, it's hard to imagine that you don't know Richard Riehle from something. Maybe it's Office Space. Perhaps it's Star Trek: The Next Generation. Or Glory. Or Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Or NCIS. We could go on and on (and on and on) with this, but we won't. We'l... more
Welcome to a special episode - but not a very special episode - of Obscurity Knocks, in which we set aside the usual format in favor of spotlighting an actor whose films and TV appearances were a big part of my childhood: Ike Eisenmann. Ike was one of the stars of the short-lived sci-fi series The Fantastic Journey, wh... more
Curtis Armstrong first made his mark in the ‘80s, first thanks to such films as Risky Business, Better Off Dead, and the Revenge of the Nerds franchise, and then transitioning to TV with a supporting role on Moonlighting. Since then, he’s… Well, basically, he’s been in everything ever. I mean, not really, but it seems ... more
You know Xander Berkeley from so many different things that it's hard to know what an individual's personal point of reference is going to be, but of late he's probably known by most people as Gregory on The Walking Dead. Then again, he was also Magistrate Hale on Salem, Percy on Nikita, and George Mason on 24, all of ... more
Yes, it's been ages since we last posted an episode - we discuss our absence a bit in a very special intro that's all apologies - but we're back with an episode that was actually reocrded a year ago today. The sound quality varies wildly throughout, but the stories are great, so here's hoping you can endure the sonic s... more
Peter Mackenzie, as you may be aware, is currently a cast member on ABC’s black-ish,and once you listen to this episode, you’ll be so happy for him that heis, because our last few topics of conversation would have you believe that most of the man’s career has involved working on pilots that never got picked up. I... more
Barry Primus is a character actor's character actor, a fellow who got his start in the theater, went on to work on TV and in film, and has expanded his palette over the years to include writing, directing, and producing. You may know him from his work in New York, New York (not to mention half a dozen other Robert DeNi... more
John Kapelos is an actor you may know from his work with John Hughes onsuch iconic ‘80s films as Sixteen Candlesand The Breakfast Club, or if you’rea vampire aficionado, you might have watched him in the ‘90s on Forever Knight. But the man hasbasically been a workaholic since the early ‘80s, as you can tell from th... more
Kurt Fuller has had so many roles in so many films and TV series overthe course of his career that when the time came to introduce him onto Obscurity Knocks,I was so intimidated by the sheer volume of options I had available to me to mention that I actually starred stammering and failed to mention nearly as many... more
Bruce McGill is a man whoselist of credits is far too long to list here, but he has a history of making animpression just about every time he turns up in TV and films, whether it’splaying the William Tell Overture by tapping on his throat in Animal House, intimidating the hell outof you in The Insider, or trying t... more
You may remember Mackenzie Astin from his younger days, when he was hanging out with Blair, Tootie, Natalie, and Jo at Edna’s Edibles and Over Our Heads on The Facts of Life, but he's been out of Peekskill for quite some time now. Only last year he could be found squaring off against Jon Hamm during one of the final e... more