Hollywood Trivia

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Before casting Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, Kevin Costner and Harrison Ford were offered the part. Ford later played Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, and Costner later played Ryan's mentor in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Tom Cruise was older in the last two Mission: Impossible films (49 and 53) than Peter Graves was when the original TV series ended (47).

Graves came back for the 1980s revival series at 62 and finally ended his role at 64. Let's see if Cruise can beat his record.

Peter Graves and James Arness were brothers.

Sean Connery turned down the villain roles in Star Trek V and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Alan Rickman has died. His last film is Alice Through the Looking Glass, which it seems he managed to finish.

Humphrey Bogart had to wear platform shoes in Casablanca because he was shorter than Ingrid Bergman.

Yul Brynner was quite a bit shorter than Ingrid Bergman, and when platform a shoes were suggested, he refused.

He said to her 'I'll show the world what a horse you are!'

Tim Curry was hired to play the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series, but after recording four episodes, the producers decided his interpretation was too scary for children and he was replaced by Mark Hamill.

And Mr. Curry was that vile clown in the mini-series 'It'.

Tim Curry played two roles played earlier by Charlton Heston. Heston played Cardinal Richelieu in the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers; Curry played him in the 1993 version. Heston played Long John Silver in the 1990 version of Treasure Island; Curry played him six years later in Muppet Treasure Island.

Desmond Llewelyn, the man most known for playing Bond gadget wizard 'Q', was himself a technophobe in real life. (There's irony for you.)

Hal Smith, who played Otis the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, never drank in real life.

The casting directors of Rocky IV turned down Dolph Lundgren for being too tall. He didn't get the part until he directly contacted Sylvester Stallone, who said he would cast Lundgren if he gained 20 lbs of muscle.

The cliché of the Frankenstein monster lurching forward with arms outstretched originated with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. The monster was supposed to be blind, but scenes establishing this were deleted.