Before they were famous - they were in Super Bowl commercials.

Before they were famous - they were in Super Bowl commercials.

One of the fun things about the the worlds largest super bowl commercials archive is fame-spotting. Here's ten super bowl ads with actors before they were famous.
Before he was Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, or the shark-jumping Fonzie, Henry Winkler played a son in a family where shaving was such big topic, he brings his razor home when he visits the folks. Ah, the naive ad-scripts of the seventies, even the comic relief line is so old it has whiskers. How appropriate! But wait, there's more! The mother is none other than Frances Sternhagen, a character actress with a long resumƩ. You might know her as John Carter's grandmother in ER.
Schick - Mustache Henry Winkler / The Fonz - (1973) 0:30 (USA)
From the 1973 super bowl VII commercials.


for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Maybe that's not so much "famous" as "infamous".
Budweiser - True - Wassup - What Are You Doing? (2001) - 0:30 (USA)
This one found in the 2001 super bowl XXXV commercials, I hope that guy hasn't been typecast as "beer ad guy".


the little guy asking us to stay tuned during the halftime show.


Pets.com - If You Leave Me Now (2000) - 0:30 (USA)
It wasn't Michaels fault that pets.com went belly-up, a lot of the companies advertising in the 2000 super bowl XXXIV soon popped in the dot-com bust.


1998 super bowl.
Bud Light - Shopping (1998) - 0:30 (USA)




When Homer Simpson keeps breaking the fourth wall in this 2004 Mastercard commercial talking to the "stupid voiceover guy" he's interacting with Billy Crudup, who starred in "Almost Famous", and later (literally) let it all hang out when he played Doctor Manhattan in the film "Watchmen".
Mastercard - Homer- (2004) 0:30 (USA)


"Trois", opposite Gary Dourdan so here we go again with the six degrees as he's now on CSI with James Wallace Langham! Gretchen Palmer embodied everything early nineties when she was one of Ray Charles' "Uh-Huh" girls back in the 1991 super bowl.
Diet Pepsi - Ray Charles - Uh Huh - You Got The Right One Baby (1991) - 0:30
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