6. Ron Perlman has been around for decades, mostly doing low-rent genre television and a ton of voice work in television cartoons and movies. Most of us of a certain age probably first remember him from the television series, Beauty and the Beast, opposite Linda Hamilton. I was young enough that images from that show still feel a little traumatizing.
7. It was the friendship Perlman developed with Guillermo del Toro in Cronos that would later land him the role that most of us knew him for before Sons of Anarchy: Hellboy. The studio wanted a more bankable star (specifically, Vin Diesel), but del Toro insisted on Perlman.
8. See that woman on the left, standing next to Jeffrey Tambor in Hellboy? That’s Perlman’s daughter, Blake, with his wife of 32 years, Opal.
9. Most people know that Katey Sagal is married to Sons of Anarchy showrunner, Kurt Sutter, but back when Sagal was 18 and a struggling waitress, she used to bang Gene Simmons, from KISS.
10. In fact, dating Gene Simmons led Sagal to her first career, as a backup singer to the likes of Bette Midler, Boy Dylan, and Oliva Newton John. Here she was back in the day:
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Regarding the question of Opie’s IRL wife’s feelings about coming home to how he looks now…she better be stoked. If she’s not, I am pretty sure my wife will dump my ass for him and his beard with much quickness.
Mine too. Mine too.
Tommy Flanagan also played a russian goon in The Saint… which I feel as though has been on HBO a lot lately otherwise it is a little odd that I’d have that at the top of my head.
And an Irish terrorist in Sin City.
and as the courier for Russell Crowe in Gladiator
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! There has always been something nagging me about where I’ve seen Ryan Hearst before…Remember the Titans! Apparently it wasn’t nagging me enough, though, to IMDB him.
He was on an episode of House, too. As some asshole tying to make sure House didn’t kill his dying sister.
/Hurst
//He’s also apparently not a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army either
Wow, I didn’t make the connection until just now. That beard makes him a whole new man.
He also played the guy who was hard of hearing due to machine gun fire in Saving Private Ryan. ” We missed our drop zone by about 20 miles, ended up way over by Bumville or some damn place.”
I always loved that Hurst was in Remember the Titans and ended up as Opie and that Wood Harris was also in the movie then played Avon Barksdale on The Wire
Maggie Siff played Rachel Katz (one of Don Draper’s early extramarital conquests) in Mad Men, and I would totally kill you in your sleep for a chance to lay pipe to her. Also, Mark Boone Jr. played the corrupt cop Flass in Batman Begins.
I’m still waiting for him to eat falafal on SOA
Tara Knowles = meh. Rachel Katz = full agreement with Mr. Deisel.
this. x1000
Maggie siff also played thee rabbi in leaves of grass
As much as I love Katey Sagal, I can’t stand her singing. I don’t know what it is about it, but it just bugs me.
I hear that. For some reason she always sounds like somebody that’s really good at karaoke. Although, maybe I just get bent out of shape at how much Sutter seems to cram her on the soundtrack….
Ryan Hurst also had a pretty small, but memorable part in Saving Private Ryan. He was the guy who Tom Hanks had to shout at because his hearing had been messed up by an explosion.
I think he was in We Were Soldiers too wasn’t he? Somebody IMDB that. I’m lazy.
Holy shit! I’m so glad I just looked that up! Jon Hamm, Ryan Hurst, Barry Pepper, Clark Gregg and Marc Blucas were all in that movie. Also Arszt from Lost and Nina from 3rd Rock From the Sun.
Was that movie actually good? I don’t really remember it other than thinking Gary Bertier was in it.
It was okay.
Devo rewatch Black Hawk Down some time. Half the cast went on to do really good work on TV and film.
Yay, Trading Places!
Mark Boone Junior was also in Buscemi’s film “Trees Lounge.”
And holy shit, he was in “Memento”? Was he the motel clerk?
He was in one of the fast and furious movies too he played aa crooked cop aand yes I mean fast and the furoous not batman
It makes me sad that Katey Sagal dated that human trashpile Gene Simmons.
Simmons is said to have a large flexible tongue…..so good for Katey…
Terrifying.
Nicholas Guest voiced Rasheed in the Cowboy Bebop movie. That blows my mind. I always thought his voiceovers in SOA were done by Miguel Ferrer.
Since Jimmy Smits is gonna be in this season, it pleases me to imagine that SOA and The West Wing occupy the same continuity. Just gives it an interesting flavor, is all.
SOA and Star Wars.
Caught Mark Boone Junior on an old episode of Seinfeld. It was the OTB scene with Kramer: “his father was a mudder, his mudder was a mudder…”
“You know who’s a man. (I forget his name)’s a man.”
“I’m a man.”
Lincoln Potter; the doofy coach from “The Blind Side.”
Katie Sagal is also the sister of the Doublemint Twins, whom you may also know as the twins from Double Trouble.
I’m still waiting for someone to say, “I’ll go fast like a man, just give it!” to Jax.
Katie Sagal is a black belt in Aikido and used to be married to Kelly LeBrock.
She taught Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida the front kick.
I realize Tommy Flanagan has an Irish name and all, but he’s a Scot. He was born and raised in Glasgow, worked as a DJ in Glasgow, and got knifed after a gig… in Glasgow. It’s called a Glasgow smile, and it was just something Glaswegian gangs did in the 80′s. It’s totally horrendous, but walking around certain parts of the city (like Easterhouse, where Tommy Flanagan is from) you see a LOT of older fellas with that same scar on one, or both sides of their faces. I spent five years of my life in that city, and my husband’s from there. The country is pretty proud of their people who become something great–and there’s no doubt Tommy Flanagan has done that, so make sure everybody knows he’s from Scotland!
The Glasgow smile was the inspiration for Ledger’s Joker scars.
. Its called a glasgow smile in glasgow. Its called a chelsea smile in london. Here in ireland its called look at that guy he’s a garda(cop) rat. Its given to scumbags who rat to the gards. Its differentt everywhereyou don’t need to use a knife either you can put a credit card in a guys mouth and slap him around the place. Eqully as effective.
I would rather have not known that Katey Sagal banged Gene Simmons.
True story… Ryan Hurst wanted to option my screenplay. Seemed like a good dude. His d-bag lawyer? Not so much. Vague Hollywood aspirations denied!
Every single time I see an article that says “Things You Didn’t Know About such and such” I just want to punch someone in the throat.
Nicholas Guest also played the headmaster in USA High, one of the many, many, many Saved by the Bell clones churned out in the mid 90s.
Fact: Ron Perlman’s greatest contribution is still the skit Ben Stiller did about his ugliness on “The Ben Stiller Show.”
I love the SoA -> Deadwood cast crossover:
Wayne Unser -> Charlie Utter
Jimmy O’Phelan -> Silas Adams
Maureen Ashby -> Trixie
Lincoln Potter -> Reverend Smith
Ally Lowen -> Calamity Jane
I was really surprised this didn’t make the list. I guess everyone already knows.
Johnny Lewis will also be known as Gilby to me.
nothing about Kristen Renton (Ima)?? that chick is effing sexy