Veteran Godzilla actor Akihiko Hirata, who appeared in several past Godzilla films ( best known of his role of Professor Serizawa from Godzilla ) was slated to play Professor Hayashida ; however, he had died from throat cancer before production began.

Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played numerous recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches, although actress Abby Hagyard later joined the show to become " the other grown-up " in the cast roster, and frequently played " Mom " opposite Lye's role as " Dad.

Veteran character actor Noah Beery, Jr. played Rockford's father, Joseph " Rocky " Rockford, while Gretchen Corbett portrayed Rockford's lawyer and sometime lover, Beth Davenport, until she left the series over a salary dispute with the studio.

Veteran Irish actor Dan O ' Herlihy was cast as Conal Cochran, the owner of Silver Shamrock and the witch from the film's title ( a 3000-year-old demon in Kneale's original script ).

Veteran Disney actor and performer Mark Priest was fatally injured in an accidental fall while performing in Pirate Tutorial in Florida in July 2009.

Veteran actor James Coburn also directed an episode.

Veteran actor Glynn Turman portrayed the high school science teacher whose study of a mogwai leads to his death after it forms a cocoon and emerges as a vicious gremlin.

Veteran character actor Mark Metcalf appeared in heavy prosthetic make-up for the role of the Master, belying his iconic performance in the film National Lampoon's Animal House ( 1978 ) as Douglas C. Neidermeyer, a strident rule-following ROTC officer ( and the associated role in Twisted Sister's " We're Not Going to Take It " music video ).

Veteran Disney voice actor Paul Frees had a rare on-screen appearance in the film – for which he received no on-screen credit – as Dr. J. W.

Veteran stage actor Harry Groener was cast in the role of the Mayor of Sunnydale, the embodiment of a quintessential American politician.

Veteran film actor John Saxon played Nancy's father, police lieutenant Donald Thompson.

Veteran stage and screen actor Steve Hodson, who may be best known for his role as Steve Ross on the 1970s children's television series Follyfoot.

Veteran character actor Charles Lane appears as a photographer at City Hall trying to get a picture of Mortimer Brewster getting a marriage license at the beginning of the film.

Veteran character actor Morris Ankrum makes an uncredited appearance, his last in the movie industry.

Veteran actor John Doucette played the exasperated Captain Andrews, a character not unlike " the Chief " portrayed by Edward Platt in Adams ' earlier Get Smart.

Veteran movie actor Peter Cushing wrote to the show in 1986 to ask if a variety of rose could be named after his late wife.

" Veteran actor Carl Weathers played Koechner's rival coach.

Veteran actor William H. Macy makes a brief appearance as " JJ ", and Chazz Palminteri makes a brief appearance as " Hood # 2 ".

Veteran voice actor Paul Frees dubbed the voice of Dr. Hu in the American release.

* Veteran Tamil film actor Nassar essayed the role of C. P. Ramasami Iyer in the 1998 Malayalam movie Rakthasakshikal Sindabad.

* Harry Lee Haines, Civil War and Indian Wars Veteran, Served under Generals Miles & Custer

Veteran radio announcer Ed Herlihy, a friend of Morgan, remembered him to radio historian Gerald Nachman ( in Raised on Radio ): " He was ahead of his time, but he was also hurt by his own disposition.

* Jones Morgan, the last surviving Spanish-American War Veteran

League roster rules give each player an LS ( Length of Service ) rating, based on the number of full years the player has played professionally: Rookie, LS-1 through LS-5, and Veteran.

Veteran private eye Philip Marlowe returned as a modern-day sleuth in 1969's Marlowe played by James Garner ( based on Chandler's The Little Sister ), and in Robert Altman's revisionist The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ) played by Elliott Gould.

Veteran studio drummer Earl Palmer played the same drum beat on " Somethin ' Else " as Charles Connor did on Little Richard's " Keep A-Knockin '".

In Washington, D. C., the U. S. Army band played God Save the Queen ( the British national anthem, the melody of which is also used in an American patriotic hymn, My Country ' Tis of Thee, in the United States ), a suggestion of US Army Veteran John Miska made to Vice Chief of Staff General Cody, outside the British embassy in the city.

Veteran music engineer David Richards ( Pink Floyd and Queen ) was brought in to create footage and sound mixes that Jagger and Bowie could perform to in their respective venues.

Fonda had in mind to make a film about the Vietnam War inspired by her friendship with Ron Kovic, a paraplegic Vietnam War Veteran, who she met in an antiwar rally.

Veteran film star Joan Bennett was soon cast as Victoria's employer Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, a woman who had not left her home in over eighteen years.

Veteran Mervyn LeRoy produced and directed the film, which opened at Radio City Music Hall on 25 October 1963.

Veteran performers Frank Oz and Dave Goelz operated various puppets in the film, as did Karen Prell, Ron Mueck and Rob Mills who had all worked with Henson on Fraggle Rock.

Veteran stunt man Dave Sharpe, a man of shorter than average height, often doubled for women in film serials of the 1930s and ' 40s.

This area can also be seen in the 1953 film Genevieve, as the starting point for the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

Veteran stuntman Sonny Hooper ( Burt Reynolds ), known in Hollywood as " the greatest stuntman alive ," is currently working as Adam West's stunt double on the fictitious action film The Spy Who Laughed at Danger.

Veteran Italian film producer Ovidio G. Assonitis served as Chairman and CEO of the new Cannon Pictures from 1990 to 1991.

Veteran serial writer – creator Irna Phillips was hired to adapt the movie for television, picking up the story some years after the end of the film.

He is the subject of the 2002 documentary film, " Seasoned Veteran: Journey of a Winter Soldier ", by Benito Aragon, Melinda Kahl and Michael Kirschbaum.

Veteran actors Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini make special appearances in the film.

Veteran actresses Agnes Moorehead and Mary Astor also appeared in the film.

Veteran director Syed Noor had announced a Punjabi film named Ik Si Sher which will starr Shaan Shahid and Saima.

Veteran film noir-writer Ben Hecht worked on the film's script, but is not credited.

Veteran character actors Charles Bickford, John Carradine and Percy Kilbride ( of Ma and Pa Kettle fame ) lend strong support to the sizzling twosome of Andrews and Darnell, who would make only one more film together, when they were both past their prime: 1957's Zero Hour !, a forgotten grade-Z thriller.