Obscurity Knocks

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 expanded his palette over the years to include writing, directing, and producing. You may know him from his work in New York, New York (not to mention half a dozen other Robert DeNiro movies), his stint on Cagney & Lacey, or films like Heartland, The Rose, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, and Space Camp. Join us as he regales Obscurity Knocks with stories about working with Del Close, George C. Scott, Roger Corman, and Bill Maher, among many others.

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 if you’re

a vampire aficionado, you might have watched him in the ‘90s on Forever Knight. But the man has

basically been a workaholic since the early ‘80s, as you can tell from the 60+

films and 100+ TV programs he’s popped up on over the years, including – just

to cite a few more recent credits – Justified,

Modern Family, Transparent, Togetherness,

and to keep the folks at home happy, Republic

of Doyle.

the course of his career that when the time came to introduce him onto Obscurity Knocks,

I was so intimidated by the sheer volume of options I had available to

me to mention that I actually starred stammering and failed to mention

nearly as many of them as I'd intended. Be it Psych or Supernatural, Ghostbusters II or Wayne's World, Miracle Mile or No Holds Barred,

Fuller has been all over the place, and he's got one of those faces

that you recognize immediately, even if you can't always come up with

his name. Maybe that'll change after you listen to our

conversation. Perhaps from now on you'll see him and immediately think,

"Oh, hey, it's Kurt Fuller from Moonbase!"

kidding. Nobody's ever said that before, and nobody ever will. And if

for some reason they do, Kurt Fuller will have my hide.

list of credits is far too long to list here, but he has a history of making an

impression just about every time he turns up in TV and films, whether it’s

playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on his throat in Animal House, intimidating the hell out

of you in The Insider, or trying to

get rich quick and get in trouble even quicker on MacGyver. You can currently catch Mr. McGill in theaters in Ride Along 2,

where he reprises his role as Lieutenant Brooks, and he's just kicking off what is unfortunately the final season of Rizzoli & Isles on TNT.

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 Over Our Heads on The Facts of Life, but he's been out of Peekskill for quite some time now. Only last year he could be found squaring off against Jon Hamm during one of the final episodes of Mad Men, and that's far from the only high-profile gig he’s had lately: over the past few years, he’s turned up on Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Shameless, Bones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scorpion, and Castle, among others, and he had a recurring role on Scandal last season that carried over into this season as well. When we talked to him for the debut episode of Obscurity Knocks, he couldn't talk about his latest endeavor, joking that "the nondisclosure agreement I just signed had its own nondisclosure agreement," so just keep your eyes open for him. But that's good advice in general: as you can see from the above list of credits, you never know where that guy is going to show up next!