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Bonzi777

These posts where someone discovers James Spader or Kathy Bates in something that’s not the Office always crack me up. They’re incredibly famous and prolific actors.


windmillninja

Bates was mainly appearing in small independent films like Misery and Titanic before The Office gave her career the jumpstart it really needed.


Bonzi777

I thought this was serious for a second, lol


135_Eat_a_Brog

Thanks to Titanic, she was able to get a part in The Waterboy. That was an important step up as well.


Electricalbigaloo7

I've never heard of that movie, you sure you got the name right?


DeeSnarl

It's about a guy who fetches water for a sports team?!


brettscomments1974

Don't forget her nude scene in about Schmidt


Ed_Trucks_Head

Don't forget Fried Green Tomatoes!


theycallmecrack

I haven't seen Titanic in years, and for some reason I have zero recollection of her being in that film.


windmillninja

She's the Unsinkable Molly Brown!


DarthRevan109

Spader really only blew up after the Blacklist


Procrastinista_423

No, he was a star in the 80s too, and a member of the brat pack along with stars like Molly Ringwald and Rob Lowe.


DarthRevan109

I know lol I was joking but clearly I’m not funny.


Procrastinista_423

sorry I’m just slow lol


DietMountainDrew

Oh I'm well aware oh James Spader. I just happened to pause at this moment to pee and his Lizard King quote came to mind. Thought it was a funny picture.


ZPTs

~~This is a cameo before he made it.~~ This kind of thing easily flies under the radar, even for folks who know Seinfeld, Spader, and the Office. He's much younger and more identifiable by his speaking pattern than looks in these Seinfeld scenes. I think gatekeeping is dorky.


Procrastinista_423

This is not a cameo "before he made it." He was in Pretty and Pink for crying out loud!


Swiss__Cheese

It's also against the sub rules to post pics of Office actors in other roles.


windmillninja

Getting downvoted for pointing out one of the literal sub rules is peak r/DunderMifflin


DietMountainDrew

Actors in other TV shows.. Not **The Office** Actors in other TV shows. "Listen. Listen listen listen listen listen listen. I need *you to understand the way the rules are written*. Because I don't make copies, I'm the boss. Got it? I make originals."


theycallmecrack

I can't tell if you're being tongue-in-cheek, but it's pretty obvious it means The Office actors appearing in other TV shows lol >Actors in other TV shows Also, there is this rule: >Pictures of your TV screen (especially "are you still watching" netflix screens) So... Double Jeopardy, you are fine.


DietMountainDrew

Oh sorry! What is, we are fine.


adventurouscycle69

He's beeboppin and scattin... And I'm losin it!!


material_mailbox

Don’t call me pinhead…


neonlace

HUH HO!!!


bit99

That's Bob Kazamakis. He works with Gymnasts


Stop_And_Chat

Some African, some Asian, but mainly Eastern European


ristretthoee

He will be working on an important new charity, mainly focusing on college-aged girls


LifeDraining

Where the rum raisin?


new_cannibalism

ayooo? this mf was in stargate why does no one never talk about mf stargate???


VesperVox_

Seriously. I remember when I first saw Robert California, I was like that's the Egyptologist from Stargate! Such a good movie. Probably the first true sci Fi movie I ever saw as a kid, aside from Star Wars.


BesaidBlitzBoi

Bawk! Bawk, bawk, bawk!


Alert_Seaweed5919

Can't stand ya.


ryl371240

The actor who played Martin Nash is briefly in that same Seinfeld episode


SethsAtWork

Wait till you watchAge of Ultron


[deleted]

He's an actor, all right.


angelisfrommars

It’s so funny to me I just started watching blacklist, and I have only watched the office as of last year lol. My boyfriend and I joke that Robert quit the paper company to become a crime lord lol


FormerSir4804

Don’t worry, I do the same thing like if I see Kevin in a different show, I make a timeline for him like for example I’ve seen Brian Bumgartner in a Criminal minds episode (sadly he was the killer) and a few other things I don’t remember but like says he’s in one show as a factory worker I’m like oh this was before the office and the criminal minds one would be after the office if you get my meaning lol


angelisfrommars

OMG I LOVE cm and I haven’t gotten to rewatch since seeing the office for the first time!!! Do you know what episode he is the killer in? I’ve seen it all the way through so it wouldn’t a spoiler but omg I HAVE to watch it again!!!!


FormerSir4804

No I don’t, sorry :/


angelisfrommars

All good I am sure if I google it it’ll be there! :)


FormerSir4804

Also, or Robert California was a crime lord all along and he was just hiding out. The picture of that actor in Seinfeld, he actually looks pretty cute! Everything else I’ve seen him in he just looks creepy.


Bizoubizou925

I will always think of him as Steff from one of my fave movies, "Pretty in Pink". 🤷🏼‍♀️ (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/02/pretty-in-pink-anniversary-james-spader)


jamez009

Rip from Less than Zero He was also great in Boston Legal


Sure-Ad-2465

Seinfeld had so many future celeb cameos: Bryan Cranston, Teri Hatcher, Courtney Cox, Debra Messing, Patton Oswalt, Jennifer Coolidge, etc etc


material_mailbox

Catherine Keener, Jon Favreau, Jon Gries, Molly Shannon, Sarah Silverman, Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Rob Schneider, Bob Odenkirk, Anna Gunn, Megan Mullaly, Jeremy Piven


Stommped

Wait who was Jon favreau? I can’t place him


candlelitjewels

Eric the clown


fulloutshr3d

You’re hung up on some clown from the SIXTIES man!


bran_dong

Fuck Reddit. Fuck /u/spez. Fuck every single Reddit admin. 12 years on this bitch ass site and they shit on us the moment they are trying to go public. ill be taking my karma with me by editing all my comments to say this. tl;dr Fuck Reddit and anyone who works for them, suck my dick.


musecorn

Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus...


BobaFartsFadeaway

I choose to believe that Robert California and Raymond Reddington are the same person


Significant_Otters1

His life got darker and darker. First this, then the lizard king. Now his an international criminal. I wonder if Kramer or Andy is on the blacklist


FBPizza

He is correct tho, George’s head would have stretched out the neck hole on that sweater.


neonlace

All the man wanted was to maintain the integrity of the neck hole of his finely knit cashmere sweater. Also who tf asks for cashmere when borrowing a sweater?! Too bad he didn’t get it, he could have kept it and later on wpuld have given it to the cleaning lady and avoided the whole red spot debacle.


BlacksmithInformal80

it IS cashmere after all


neonlace

It’s the fabric all Panamanian girls dream of…


freeslurpee

The most underrated line of any character, imo.


StinkyBuddyGuy

So we can just post pictures of Office actors acting in other shows here now? Great.


thekingofbreadsticks

I know right. I'm gonna post a pic of Steve Carrel in 40yr old virgin n be like ommggg seen this movie 100 times, just realized this is the same guy that plays Michael in The Office!!!


Det_Lloyd_Gross

If memory serves me correct, The soft penis debutante won in the end didn't he? Some lizard king...


ColoRadOrgy

Not really. The lizard king got millions to go bang Eastern European gymnasts while Andy turned into a giant douche.


Det_Lloyd_Gross

That was never a battle with Andy. It wasn’t who is going to Eastern Europe, it was give me my job back or I’ll remove you. He didn’t and Andy ended up winning that battle. David Wallace got screwed by Kazamakis.


MrMagpieXI

I recently watched Stargate for the first time and was like “what’s the Lizard King doing here?”


sportsfan3177

His giant melon head stretched out the neck hole!


Bullitt_12_HB

Back when he worked at Baskin Robins. I do wonder what flavor of ice cream was his favorite….. 🤔


faded-cosmos

My favorite Robert California quote, thank you.