Viggo Mortensen’s “film debut” is trickier to define than you’d think.

A quick glance on IMDb will tell you that his first film is Witness (1985) as Moses Hochleitner, an Amish farmer. However, Mortensen had filmed scenes for another movie the same year, the Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Those scenes were left on the cutting room floor though, so he doesn’t appear in any version of that film (this will NOT be the last story about poor Viggo being cut out of a movie…).