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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9642562" data-attributes="member: 18">I read that it was a &quot;significant role&quot; but I also haven't seen American Graffiti since the 1990s so I can't really judge. Both him and Carrie Fisher essentially had one &quot;significant&quot; non-starring movie role, so I think the term that might have been used was the now less-popular &quot;relative unknown&quot;, which is for when an actor can't honestly be called an unknown, but hasn't been in much of note, particularly not in memorable roles (I checked Variety - over 2000 hits on the phrase &quot;relative unknown&quot; and unlike most people they're still using it!). Mark Hamill had only non-starring TV roles (except in a sitcom which only last 8 episode because it got absolutely destroyed by The Rockford Files*).Looking this up I was fascinated to learn Robert Englund (i.e. Freddie!) got Mark Hamill to go audition for Luke!* = I only ever watched a little of it in the early 1990s, but The Rockford Files seemed waaaaay above most 1970s TV in quality/style/charm, so I can see why people were tuning in to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9642562, member: 18"] I read that it was a "significant role" but I also haven't seen [I]American Graffiti[/I] since the 1990s so I can't really judge. Both him and Carrie Fisher essentially had one "significant" non-starring movie role, so I think the term that might have been used was the now less-popular "relative unknown", which is for when an actor can't honestly be called an unknown, but hasn't been in much of note, particularly not in memorable roles (I checked Variety - over 2000 hits on the phrase "relative unknown" and unlike most people they're still using it!). Mark Hamill had only non-starring TV roles (except in a sitcom which only last 8 episode because it got absolutely destroyed by [I]The Rockford Files*[/I]). Looking this up I was fascinated to learn Robert Englund (i.e. Freddie!) got Mark Hamill to go audition for Luke! * = I only ever watched a little of it in the early 1990s, but [I]The Rockford Files[/I] seemed waaaaay above most 1970s TV in quality/style/charm, so I can see why people were tuning in to it. [/QUOTE]

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