Wire Actors in other things

yeah he was in the opening credits in the vid i posted above, i didn't even remember him, the only people i remember from that show were the mathnet cops

"I don't dig bunk."

D'Angelo smoking ice and playing russian roulette high with an undercover agent portrayed by an Australian underwear model, in Patrick Swayze FBI-veteran-on-the-edge series The Beast.

amazing

well maybe not 'amazing', but seeing burrell in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is probably going to be good for a laugh.

This thread is great, but I can't even believe no-one has mentioned Bunk as the Republican Lexus dealer who gets booted off the bus in Spike Lee's Get On the Bus! (Wendall Pierce also appears as himself in Lee's Katrina doc.)

whoever said the thing about the end of 8MM being hilarious if you see it after knowing Frank Sobotka OTM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDXkDZI7kCo

That soundtrack is perfect

Clark Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op3JksjPw6Y

Cdn TV movie from a few yrs ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um2ZFg6jbwg

Bodie hijacks a truck with Brendan in the 2nd episode of the Sopranos!

Carver was in Starship Troopers

― clotpoll, Saturday, 11 July 2009 15:22 (2 months ago)

Was just watching this, and I said "wow, apart from Neil Patrick Harris, I think this is the best thing any of these actors ever wound up being in," which I figured would probably be untrue based on some older character actor, and not because Carver popped up in the next scene.

haha wait, I had forgotten Rue McClanahan was in it, too

it = Starship Troopers and not, sadly, The Wire

Avon Barksdale in 'Next Day Air'

omar was on law & order this week

http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/742_Brokeology997532.jpg
th' bunk in off-broadway play broke-ology

omar's in The Road, right?

yeah, though it ain't much of a spoiler to tell you it don't work out well.

Saw Diedre Lovejoy in the trailer for The Stepfather: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814335/

i think marimow has an uncredited role in the 30 rock 3rd season christmas ep as jenna's accompanist

I just can't get past that part in that "people from the wire/hlots" clip where the medical examiner is in the middle of a heated confrontation with Tony Gray and lifts his chin up. Perhaps the most uncanny Wire-actors-in-other-things moment I've seen.

i think marimow has an uncredited role in the 30 rock 3rd season christmas ep as jenna's accompanist

that's Tina Fey's husband, who does the score for 30 Rock and often appears as Jenna's accompanist

he is about half the height of Marimow

omar was on law & order this week

This past week I watched like 8 various Law & Orders at various times and ALL of them had Wire actors in them somewhere. Nick Sobotka as a failed actor. Burrell as an upstate cop, sorta improbably letting Benson's brother off the hook for shooting a hostage. Carver as Goren's temporary replacement. Rawls as a convict/informant. Method Man terrorizing Nigerians. Judge Phelan as a New York judge. Omar as that hitman. It might have been more than 8, even.

The crossover isn't surprising -- there's a crapload of actors in the Wire and pretty much any TV actor hits L&O at some point -- but like four of those were watched during some kind of marathon, so it was like four in a row

Just saw Valchek in the trailer for The Blind Side.

i just saw him in that "Red Dragon" movie last night - he plays a security guard

Brother Mouzone as a colonic therapist in Bored To Death, beatifically promising to find all Zach Galifinakis' rectal treasures

i want to see lester freamon star in an ike turner bopic IMMEDIATELY

Carver as Goren's temporary replacement.

That episode also has four actors from Oz in it!

how has stringer beel in the office not been mentiones?

http://craignj.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/idris-elba-and-steve-carell.jpg

bell

took me a while to remember who she was, but McNulty's ex-wife on the USA show "White Collar"

http://cdn.videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/true_blood_2_finale/andy_jason.jpg

clarke peters as cathy tyson's psychotic pimp in 'mona lisa'

Cutty is the coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2.

oh, tru?

wallace is in the new season of friday night lights!

He was also on Bones.

Michael is in Rihanna!

sorry.

Omar is so so sad in the Road.

I'm really curious to see what Wallace looks like 9 years later

I just saw a teenage Seth "Ellis Carver" Gilliam on the Cosby Show a moment ago!

i feel like seth gilliam is in that upcoming sarah jessica parker/hugh grant movie? as a cop.

if not then i saw him in the trailer for some other terrible movie recently

I was randomly channel surfing and had stopped on the Cosby Show and thought to myself "hey, this guy looks like Carver". I watched the whole thing to make sure it was him. Saw him on L&O:CI as a detective, and on Oz where he played a CO (along with a scene with him in full naked glory). I'm sure his wife must be a very happy woman, etc.

McNulty presenting Have I Got News For You, right now.

xp - yeah he was good in Oz.

avon barksdale in southland tales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAAv2lNnnI

^^^ opening scene starting @ 0:09