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Here are two vintage commercials, the first of which is for a toy that I can't imagine anyone selling today. It's from Mattel's Zero M line which allowed kids to pretend they were secret agents with various items that transformed into cap pistols so you could pretend to shoot your parents and playmates dead. The kid in the commercial would seem to be a very young Kurt Russell.

The second one is for Tootsie Rolls and I'm pretty sure the actor in it is Bill McCutcheon, who did an awful lot of commercials and guest roles on TV shows and was featured for a time on Sesame Street, plus he was in movies as varied as Steel Magnolias and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. He also had a pretty good stage career. He was in the revue New Faces of 1956 and later, among other plays, the eighties revivals on Broadway of The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You, The Front Page and Anything Goes. He even won a Tony award for the last of these — just one of those actors who spent his entire career working in something without becoming a household name…