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An actor who featured in one of the most enduring films of the 1980s, and on two of its most beloved TV series, was spotted in this week.
His best-remembered role was in the picture that made movie stars out of and an actress who later became one of 's leading ladies.
During the same decade, he played recurring characters on an iconic musical TV drama as well as a hit sitcom about a girls' boarding school.
In more recent decades he has appeared in movies with such names as and and on shows ranging from Will & Grace to CSI: Scene Investigation.
Now aged 69, he was glimpsed this week looking sprightly as ever as he surfaced for a grocery run in a casual ensemble of jeans, a hoodie and tortoiseshell shades.
Can you guess who he is?
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An actor who featured in one of the most enduring films of the 1980s, and on two of its most beloved TV series, was spotted in Los Angeles this week
His best-remembered role was in the picture that made movie stars out of Sean Penn and an actress who later became one of Quentin Tarantino's leading ladies
He is none other than Robert Romanus, best known to movie fans as the scalper Mike Damone in the 1982 high school movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Based on a book by Cameron Crowe, the coming-of-age film proved to be a career breakthrough for Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Judge Reinhold, as well as for first-time director Amy Heckerling, who went on to make Clueless.
He is none other than Robert Romanus, best known to movie fans as the scalper Mike Damone in the 1982 high school movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Based on a book by Cameron Crowe, the coming-of-age film proved to be a breakthrough for Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the latter of whom is pictured with Romanus
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Now aged 69, he was glimpsed this week looking sprightly as ever as he surfaced for a grocery run in a casual ensemble of jeans, a hoodie and tortoiseshell shades
He enrolled in an acting class, fell in love with the profession and shortly thereafter landed his first movie, the 1980 coming-of-age drama Foxes starring Jodie Foster
Three years went by before he landed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which he had to audition for seven times because the producers were unconvinced
Romanus noted: 'All the actors were fairly new. Sean Penn, I think, who was maybe the most known at that moment, was coming off TAPS…So there was no: “I am this, I am that, I want a big trailer, blah blah blah… I’m a star.”'
