Name that actor from a 1978 McDonald’s commercial
March 21, 2024 8:16 PM Subscribe
The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on YouTube was linked in the Erma Bombeck thread and in that video at about 4:07 is a kid with a speaking part in a McDonald’s commercial that I think I recognize as someone who became a popular actor. Who can name that kid?
Looks a bit like Tom Hiddleston but he’s too young and not American. But it’s also pretty low grade video so it may look like a lot of people. You may want to stay for the car commercial that follows, with Hal Linden. $6,089 for a brand new Chrysler Newport.
Looks a bit like Tom Hiddleston but he’s too young and not American. But it’s also pretty low grade video so it may look like a lot of people. You may want to stay for the car commercial that follows, with Hal Linden. $6,089 for a brand new Chrysler Newport.
Here's a clearer version if it helps anyone.
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:30 PM on March 21, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:30 PM on March 21, 2024 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I don't think he's anyone, but he looks s little like Anthony from queer eye. Ray Liotta would have been 24 that year, which makes him a possibility.
posted by Iteki at 2:05 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by Iteki at 2:05 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
My thought was John C. Reilly. It’s a stretch because he would have been 13-14 at the time, and the actor looks more in the 16-20 range. Maddeningly, the internet is offering nothing to confirm or deny.
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 9:53 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 9:53 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
Is it Stephen Collins (from Seventh Heaven)?
posted by yellowcandy at 10:44 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by yellowcandy at 10:44 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
Not him, but looks a little and, to my ear sounds exactly like, Topher Grace.
posted by kate4914 at 10:45 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by kate4914 at 10:45 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
Also can't be him but could you possibly be thinking of Shawn Ashmore (or his twin, Aaron Ashmore)? To my eyes, they have almost the same face.
posted by paperback version at 11:47 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by paperback version at 11:47 AM on March 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: These are good guesses but I have to say, since I watched the cleaner version I think Iteki is right, it's probably not someone we(I) know.
To me he looks so much like Tom Hiddleston in the fuzzy version that when I realized it could not be him for multiple reasons, I figured it must be someone else that reminds me of him. But it only looks like him in the fuzzy version.
posted by Glinn at 3:40 PM on March 22, 2024
To me he looks so much like Tom Hiddleston in the fuzzy version that when I realized it could not be him for multiple reasons, I figured it must be someone else that reminds me of him. But it only looks like him in the fuzzy version.
posted by Glinn at 3:40 PM on March 22, 2024
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