10 Early Film Roles For Famous Actors You Totally Forgot

Jack Black can be seen popping up in films throughout the early '90s, from Tim Robbins' satiric mockumentary Bob Roberts to an extra in Demolition Man to Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, but his primary focus was always forward-thinking. At the ripe age of 13, he appeared in an Atari commercial for Pitfall! and joined the Actors' Gang the moment he was of age.

Though fans already were familiar with his music work with friend and collaborator Kyle Gass as the music duo Tenacious D (which culminated in a feature film, eventually), it appears the years before his breakout role as the fascistic music snob in High Fidelity may have been a bit of a blur. He may have started as a cub scout, but struggled with cocaine when he was 14 - a crisis no doubt compounded by the loss of his older brother to AIDS in 1989.

It's unclear if his performance in The X-Files third season episode "D.P.O." is substance-induced, but he certainly nailed the role of a stoner-arcade '90s kid if it wasn't. Sporting Donal Logue-hair and a fashion style that could have only been inspired by a post-MC Hammer apocalypse, he's the best friend/victim of co-star Giovanni Ribisi, who can harness the power of lightning.