Ditto with DX. The funny thing about east coast actors is that, if one of them ever worked for Tom Fontana, you'll see him again and again, usually in bigger and bigger roles. It's sort of silly, and sort of alarming, seeing a guy on Homicide -- erika, I love your tag -- and then on the prison show Oz, and then on one (or several) of the Law & Order shows...
Early L & O is awesome for guest stars. William H. Macy was in the pilot. I see my old soap stars on those shows all the time, even now.
(But I have to say, it is sort of funny when regional-accented actos show up in TV shows set in different cities. At one point, Boomtown had Gary Basaraba -- New York -- and John Frank Hughes -- waaaay Philadelphia -- on the show at the same time, as Los Angeles cops. I mean, I know lots of people move to Los Angeles, but it was just funny. Thank goodness Donnie Wahlberg dropped the Bawston talk.)
Law & Order's not Fontana though, is it? Or is he partenered with Dick Wolf too?
Which is really just some actor getting jobs.
Nope, not a remotely porny statement at all.
walks aways, whistling innocently
I think none of the L & Os are Tom Fontana, but Oz and SVU share (shared) soem writers and a couple of producers. So lessee -- I think 5 Oz actors and one directly from Homicide have shown up on SVU; of those, two are contract (Chris Meloni and Munch) and one (B.D. Wong) is a regular visitor. Also, Dr. Skoda on L&O Classic.
It's like a festering love nest of synergy, I swear. I think except for Sex and the City, I have never seen the guy who played Ryan O'Reilly in anything but a Tom Fontana and/or L&O show.
It's like a festering love nest of synergy, I swear. I think except for Sex and the City, I have never seen the guy who played Ryan O'Reilly in anything but a Tom Fontana and/or L&O show.
However, his brother (of both the actor and the Ryan O'Reilly character) memorably turned up in Angel season 1.
Right. And Matt Damon got to sass him in a major motion picture. Can't say no to a job like that.
Didn't they get him to play the "actor" playing that character in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as well?
Right. And Matt Damon got to sass him in a major motion picture. Can't say no to a job like that.
Whoa - Cyril O'Reilly was the Harvard asshat in Good Will Hunting? I totally missed that. Or is it some other Matt Damon movie?
According to IMDB the Dean Winters (Ryan O'Riley on Oz) was Tom Marans in several episodes of Homicide.
He didn't do much before Oz except some guest spots and small roles in a few movies.
OZ is actually very strange to watch because so many of the actors are people you know or associate with other projects. Of course, some of those projects came later - I'm several years behind due to the lack of HBO in my life. (And why the hell haven't they gotten past season two in the DVDs yet anyway?) Several L&O, a few from Homicide, (Chris Meloni is both, actually), and at least a few others I've seen elsewhere.
I wasn't a Kate-hater when ER was on Angel, although she didn't really interest me much until her last few eps. But she's gawdawful on L&O. It may not be entirely her fault, though. The show as a whole has gotten really preachy - more speechifying than Buffy at the end - and a big part of her function as Lawyer No. 2 is to be a foil for elevator conversations Exlaining the Issues. Not a lot she can do with that. But her predecessors did it better.
However, his brother (of both the actor and the Ryan O'Reilly character) memorably turned up in Angel season 1.
He was on Homicide once or twice as well.
