TV & Film

Obscurity Knocks

Will Harris

We ask actors about a dozen obscure projects from their back catalog in hopes of getting stories you've never heard before.

Episodes

14 episodes

This week's guest is someone who holds a special place in history: he was my very first Random Roles interview. You know Peter Gallagher and...

99:53Sep 24, 2019

Clancy Brown has a voice that may be familiar to you from a plethora of animated series, playing everyone from Mr. Krabs on Spongebob Square...

90:39Sep 14, 2019

You’ve almost certainly seen W. Earl Brown's name in the credits of dozens of movies and TV series over the years, including such classics a...

85:43Jul 10, 2019

With appearances in 200 films and on 150+ different TV series, it's hard to imagine that you don't know Richard Riehle from something. Maybe...

55:44May 30, 2018

Welcome to a special episode - but not a very special episode - of Obscurity Knocks, in which we set aside the usual format in favor of spot...

31:16Mar 14, 2018

Curtis Armstrong first made his mark in the ‘80s, first thanks to such films as Risky Business, Better Off Dead, and the Revenge of the Nerd...

66:57Oct 16, 2017

You know Xander Berkeley from so many different things that it's hard to know what an individual's personal point of reference is going to b...

84:25Sep 2, 2017

Yes, it's been ages since we last posted an episode - we discuss our absence a bit in a very special intro that's all apologies - but we're...

96:59Apr 29, 2017

Peter Mackenzie, as you may be aware, is currently a cast member on ABC’s black-ish, and once you listen to this episode, you’ll be so happy...

91:42Apr 30, 2016

Barry Primus is a character actor's character actor, a fellow who got his start in the theater, went on to work on TV and in film, and has e...

46:16Apr 6, 2016

John Kapelos is an actor you may know from his work with John Hughes on such iconic ‘80s films as Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, or...

59:42Mar 26, 2016

Kurt Fuller has had so many roles in so many films and TV series over the course of his career that when the time came to introduce him onto...

49:21Mar 8, 2016

Bruce McGill is a man whose list of credits is far too long to list here, but he has a history of making an impression just about every time...

48:51Feb 15, 2016

You may remember Mackenzie Astin from his younger days, when he was hanging out with Blair, Tootie, Natalie, and Jo at Edna’s Edibles and Ov...

80:56Feb 5, 2016