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Anyone ever been in the movies?

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
Beekeepers post about his father being in a movie some years ago brought back some old memories. My senior year in high school, Hollywood came to town to make a movie...Norman Lear (All in the Family fame) was producing a movie called "Cold Turkey" with Dick VanDyke, and Bob Newhart...it was about a town that quit smoking for 25 million dollars. My brother, mom, cousins, and I all got jobs as movie extras...quite an experience. Made more money that summer sitting around the movie set than we ever had picking up hay for the neighbors. Even had a couple of scenes I was in that made it past the cutting room floor. Anyone else have similar experiences?
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No but the local news channel used old footage of me working at my desk during some Veterans Day "touchy feely" human interest bit.
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  • Matt45Matt45 Member Posts: 3,185
    edited November -1
    I was an extra in a Cyndi Lauper video, wayyyyy in the back hardly noticeable. Other than that, I worked on a low budget Canadian film pilot about a stunt school and how certian stunts were done. It was in the early days of my pyrotechnics career, and I was an assistant to the lead pyro.
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wasnt in any but I have some friends that was extras in "HOFFA". They filmed part of it at Raystown Lake which is 15 minutes from here. I have pics of Danny V and Jack N that I snuck out onto the lake to take(lake was closed while they was there but me sneaky!) Sort of my own paparozi(however its spelled) shots
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Rem.,it was my uncle,Totch Brown ,he played guitar and sang a couple of his songs in the 50s movie 'Wind Across The Everglades'.He played the part of a guy named 'One Note'who was in a gang of outlaw/poachers..Their leader was a guy named 'Cotton Mouth',played by Burl Ives.There was also Christopher Plummer,jypsy Rose Lee,Peter Faulk,Emitt Kelly the clown,etc...My dad was a guide/boat builder for the movie.My uncle wrote the theme song to the movie 'Gone Fishin`,..and Willie Nelson played a charactor loosely based on my uncle,and had our last name..218[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 12-30-2001).]
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  • loan sharkloan shark Member Posts: 130 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was a fill in with a whole bunch of people in the original Mohammed Ali film, The Greatest, filmed in downtown Houston when I worked there in the mid 70's. It was a scene when he was at the court house, but they filmed it in front of the old post office. Nobody ever asked me for an autograph.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beekeep....isn't "gone fish'n" the title of the theme song for the "Andy Griffth Show"...you know the one where Andy and Oppie head down to the fishing hole while someone whistles the tune? We use to have a local outdoor sportsman's radio show that play that song with someone singing the lyrics....
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    They shot "Cold Turkey" in and around Winterset, Iowa, birthplace of John Wayne.At the time of shooting, my uncle lived there and did a walk by as an extra. I never could find him though.I was never in the movies, but I had a few seconds on "60 Minutes" once.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I think the Andy Griffith theme song was "Fishin' Hole."Well let's all get a fishin' poleAnd we'll go down to the fishin' hole...
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.[This message has been edited by Lowrider (edited 12-30-2001).]
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks Lowrider, that's the one I was thinking of....neat song, just can't get it out of my head...Nunn, we lived just about 10 miles from Winterset. Most of the filming was done there and in Greenfield. I played one of the "Son's of the Confederacy", my job was to pass out cigarettes and get people to smoke....Small world isn't it?....What did you do on 60 minutes? [This message has been edited by Rembrandt (edited 12-30-2001).]
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Yeah Rem.,come to think of it.But I`m talkin about a movie named 'Gone Fishin' with Joe Pecci and Danny Glover.The name of the song in this movie was 'Down In The Everglades'.,Glover,and Pecci sang it during the movie,and Nelson sang it at the end...and maybe the beginning..218
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry Beekeep, you did say movie...I didn't read it close enough....
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    my mother got to almost star in a commerical for cable tv for Jane's husband. In centeral Montana. Does that count?
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bee, I remember that movie,When Burl would pull out that cottonmouth out of his pocket.Made me wont to blow a hole in the screen.I have never once shot a cottonmouth.I usualy shoot them 10 or 12 times.
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  • TRIGGERSGHOSTTRIGGERSGHOST Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wifes father had a speaking part in the movie An American Guerrilla in the Phillipines.His speaking part comes in about halfway in the movie.The scene is aboard a ship in the radio room.He was in the Navy at the time.He was decorated for shooting down 2 zeros.My wifes mother and father were at Pearl Harbour in Dec.1941--Her dad had left on a ship a day before we were attacked.Her mother witnessed the whole thing happen.We lost them both about 10 years ago.Well it's late and we want go to the flea market tomorrow-night all
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  • pops401pops401 Member Posts: 616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NEVER WAS IN ONE, BUT WORKED ON A COUPLE. RAN A CRANE FOR LIGHTING ON THE 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT' IN INDIANTOWN. AND RAN THE PROP BARGE ON 'JAWS'(plastic shark&cow)IN THE BAHAMAS.
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got you all whipped! CO-starred in a film produced by Nebraska Public Television when I was a freshman in highschool, let's see that would have been in 1978. The film was only 30 miniutes long, but it took 13 days to shoot. It was about a train (of course) and was called Engine 8444. Lots of fun, lots of money, (at that age) and a free trip to Colorado!
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Too ugly for TV. Did a radio commercial once!
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  • r.e.bobr.e.bob Member Posts: 36 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, not in the Movies.Played Drums with "Ray Price" in 63 & 64. The band was the "Cherokee Cowboys", Buddy Emmons (steel) Darrell McCaw (guitar). I was the first Drummer to solo at the "Ryman" aud. in Nashville. Worked 42 states. Never knew where I was from one day to the next. I was 20 years old at the time. It was a very confusing time. Wink, Wink, say no more.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    the kids have a video with me on it- heavily censored, tho
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  • UnclePatUnclePat Member Posts: 77 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have an uncle who was one of the characters in the original "Our Gang" comedies (the Silent version). I got my 15 minutes of fame on Ted Mack's Amateur hour when I was 14 singing with our school choir; we did the classic "Yes, We Have No Bananas."
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got a job as a stunt double for a Viagra commerical
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have done a bunch of TV and have also worked several movies and commercials as a rattlesnake and tarantula wrangler.
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  • sig-mansig-man Member Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the movie Navy Seals with Charlie Sheen, they Leased my buddies houseboat to use as his house in the movie, after they trased it they gave it back, he still has it at the local marina, and it's for sale if your interested. Also helped build the set for the movie virus with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Southerland{a-hole}...My next door neighbor was a bimbo in the movie Murder on sorority row filmed at the University of Tennessee, she was killed in a car wreck with four other kids that same summer...
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    I was almost in the movie "Pursuit of the Graf Spee". They filmed our fleet oiler (USS Mississinewa, AO-144)refueling the "Graf Spee" (played by the USS Salem, CA-139) but we ended up on the cutting room floor.A high school buddy of mine was on the Salem at the time and was one "German sailors" lined up in the deck scene.
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Did anybody see the movie "Sorcerer" starring Roy Scheider? It was shot in NJ and Columbia.It was the biggest bomb made since the one dropped in Japan. They even changed the name later to Wages of Fear. I appear in it, in a police chase where the car flips. (That's the part the stunt men did, lol) I have a photo of Roy (who was born here in Orange, NJ) and me chatting on the set between takes. I'll post it if I can find it.-Charlie
    It's the stuff dreams are made of AngelMember: NRA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2AMPD and the AARP. njretcop@copmail.com [This message has been edited by njretcop (edited 12-30-2001).][This message has been edited by njretcop (edited 12-30-2001).]
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm in a street scene in an otherwise forgettable piece of fluff called 'Three in the Attic' filmed in Chapel Hill, NC circa 1969.
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  • iron sightsiron sights Member Posts: 41 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My feet were in a comercial for Pay Less Shoes, they didn't like from the knees up.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Did I ever mention my involvement with'CATS'.218
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was thinking primarily of movies when I started this....but TV appearances seem to be coming up, so here goes....Did a show with TNN a few years back, "Great American Outdoors with Ron Schearer". Had Ron instructing me on the art of Sporting Clays shooting...used a borrowed 20 gauge, could hardly hit a thing...by the time the show aired they had me hitting almost every bird. All the misses must have ended up on the cutting room floor. The show also featured Chuck Heston and Sen Phil Gramm. had the club's Computer Prairie dog town featured as well. PBS's "Frontline" also did some footage of the same event for one of their specials. During the last Presidential election I was "volunteered" to introduce then Gov. George W. Bush at a Sportsman's event....a little nervous about that one...it was live TV with all the major Network News Organizations and C-Span, fortunately we stumbled through it.... [This message has been edited by Rembrandt (edited 12-31-2001).]
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  • ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been asked to "double" for Tom Cruise in an as yet un-named future project. The producers anticipate that Cruise will groww 11", gain 100 pounds and lose all his hair. At that point we will be identical. I'll keep you posted.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My greataunt's diner was used in "The Blob" with Steve McQueen. Did a lot of television commercials (skydiving scenes) and movie premieres, one with Charlie Sheen - what a jerk.
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Iconclast -I remember going to see "Three in the Attic" at the outdoor theater here in town about 1970 or thereabouts. I had forgotten about that until I saw the name of the movie in your post. Don't remember a thing about the film, but, for whatever reason, the title stuck with me.CocealedG36 -I got YOU topped; in a tryout for a RADIO commercial, they said I wasn't good looking enough!
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    I sat and answered ridiculous questions with a goat under my arm and a straw hat on my head once.It was a promotion for a local fair and my mother was good friends with the Head of Advertising and Promotion at the TV station. Guess who got drafted for the job?
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was never in a movie or TV show per se. Have been on a couple of Quiz shows, though. One called "Hollywood Stars" with Peter Marshall.Ir was a take off on Hollywood Squares that he did after he lost his "Squares" gig. LSO On one called "Crosswits". A crossword puzzlegame. Won a bunch of stuff and some $$.My little brother and I have the dubious distinction of being beaten out of jobs by the same guy. Lloyd (glub, glub) Bridges.My brother auditioned for a commercial (Shell I think) that was down to him and Bridges. Bridges got the job because of his recognition factor.I auditioned for the part of a "mountain man" in the movie "George Washington" which was being filmed in and around Mt. Vernon. They wanted someone who could ride a horse well and not knock over too much furniture. The director (Buzz Kulik) wanted me because of my size and appearance. The producer wanted Bridges. Guess who won? And I could out-ride, and out act Bridges on his best day. PUTZ!!!Mudge the heartbroken
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  • sig380sig380 Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was in 3 movies and works on 12. I was the movie "Follow that Car" With Jimmy McNickes. A real winner (jimmy and the Movie). I was in the Sewer seen in the movie Alligator; my big line was "Lets get this Mother". And I ran down the Beach in the movie Persona. My sister was In 6 episodes of bewitched, the ghost and miss Mur, and about 20 other 60's TV Shows as well as the movie Hello Dolly, The Great Bank robbery, The great Race, The last Elvis Movie. She was cute had red hair and freckles.
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  • sig380sig380 Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I licked the movie "Sorcerer". It was a remake.
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  • sig380sig380 Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I licked the movie "Sorcerer". It was a remake.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    Back in the early 80s, 60 Minutes did a story on a man who was convicted of Aggravated Robbery. He happened to be an engineer at a local aircraft outfit in the same city where I work. There was a big deal about it, and there was even a made for TV movie about the story. He supposedly was wrongly convicted. The camera crew was doing some establishing shots outside the station. I came outside, got in a patrol car and drove away. I saw these guys on the parking lot pointing a camera at me. I did not think anymore about it until my sister called me and told me she saw me on TV.My uncle Jerry Don White was a rural mail carrier in Winterset, Iowa, and he told me he served as an extra in "Cold Turkey." I saw the movie, but never found him.
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  • sig380sig380 Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Cold Turkey." That was a funny one! I have'nt seen that one in years.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nunn...when "Cold Turkey" was filmed, it ran over on the production schedule....last filming was completed in the fall...big problem....the leaves and corn fields all turned and the shots weren't going to match earlier footage. The crew spray painted the leaves and corn in the fields green in order to finish filming. They would pay us $15 per day as an extra...tax free cash and provide a meal. If you had a speaking part you got more($50 per day). Back in 1969 that was a lot of money for us country kids. We usually sat around all day until they needed us for a short scene....many days we never shot a thing, but collected our money the end of each day. My brother worked in the wardrobe department....he made quite a bit more than the rest of us. Educational experience to say the least....
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