so, have you ever been in a movie?

SCWDP911 · SCWDP911's Garage

The wife-swap thread inspired this thinking.

I myself have never been. However, I do have a story about my brother in law. He is a surgeon. At the time he was living in Rapid City, SD. His wife came to work one day and stole him away for a date. He had no idea what they were doing. He can be a little boring, but I know it is just because of the amount of time he spends thinking about his work. Anyway, Steph, his wife, picks him up and drives down to Custer, SD, where they were filming the movie Hidalgo. They had put out a call for extras for the filming of the scene at Wounded Knee in the beginning of the movie. Once he found out what was going on, he put up a fight but in the end, his wife persuaded him to just do something different for a change. He ended up being one of the Soldiers in the scene at Wounded Knee. He was supposed to just fight over a gun with one of the indians adn keep his mouth shut. He could not help himself though and during the first take, as they were struggling over the gun, he blurts out "give me the gun" or something like that. He feels embarassed as they yell out cut and apologizes. The director tells him that it was perfect and he wants him to do it just like that now. He ended up having to sign up for the SAG and gets his little royalty check from time to time. The rest as they say is history...

After watching the movie, I told him not to quit his day job.

slodave · slodave's Garage

Yes. Small part in an indy film. My 911 was in it too.

Fortunately, the paparazzi leave me alone.

HardDrive · 10-26-2008, 11:26 AM

Nope.

Sister and bro-inlaw are both actors. You seem them all the time on TV.

http://dutchboy.com/refresh/

Click on 'View Television Commerical' once the page loads(there is a short flash intro). My sister and bro are the ones that sit down on the couch.

Zeke · 10-26-2008, 01:06 PM

I participated in the filming of a commercial at Knott's Berry Farm. I was a extra, no pay. I rode the parachute ride up and down for almost 2 hours while they did take after take with different cameras, etc. Some were mounted on the parachute gondola that the actors were riding in. We were all supposed to yell and scream each and every frickin' time. That should have been a speaking part. Where's my money?

Next they went over to the corkscrew kinda ride (I think these have all been replaced). I could see being there for another 2 hours so I left. The best thing was the catering for the crew which we got to eat. All after midnight when the park was closed.

onlycafe · 10-26-2008, 01:08 PM

in the crowd scene at the foot of the world trade center after king kong falls to the sidewalk, in the jeff bridges/ jessica lange version in the seventies.

slodave · slodave's Garage

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Originally Posted by milt

The best thing was the catering for the crew which we got to eat. All after midnight when the park was closed.

I was a bartender - was not seen behind a bar though, but outside. It wasn't fake beer we were drinking all night - for three nights.

http://www.collierandcomovie.com/

Hugh R · 10-26-2008, 01:43 PM

Not in front of the camera while visible to the camera, but on the sets of pretty much every TV show that airs on ABC, a few on NBC and CBS that we (Disney/ABC) produces for them. Also every feature that Disney has done for the last 10 years. Plus a lot of others that Universal, Paramount, Fox, Sony and others produce. I've had two independent features shot at my house and one Discovery Channel show.

Hard-Deck · 10-26-2008, 05:46 PM

No movies, but a couple of Discovery Channel shows. Military stuff.

teo · 10-26-2008, 05:52 PM

My wife and i were in several scenes of Ladder 49. Amazing what goes on behind the scenes

gassy · 10-26-2008, 05:57 PM

Crowd scene at the football game in "Lucas".

LeeH · 10-26-2008, 06:14 PM

I've never been in one. I dated a girl who's side job was as an extra in the Carroll O'Connor/Howard Rollins show, In The Heat of the Night. It was filmed around in small suburbs of Atlanta. She had quite a few scenes where she was clearly visible... she even went on a diet after the camera panned across her back side in one scene. I had another friend who was in several movies; George Washington, The Man With One Red Shoe (I have to watch him walk across the street whenever this one's on), and some war movie. I have pictures of him on the set dressed as a Marine, which is a very funny sight.

targa911S · 10-26-2008, 06:18 PM

My old 911S was in Forever Mine. Filmed at the Don Ceasar in St. Pete FL. I drove it down the street in a scene. For this they gave me the best haircut I've ever had and paid me $25.00 a day. I had to wear 70's clothes too. They paid me $50.00 a day for my car. VERY brief sighting. It changed the way I look at movies forever.

austin552 · austin552's Garage

I have been in the news a couple times.

Wifes Stepfather played an Indian in a John Wayne movie. He was more Caucasian than I am.

Hugh R · 10-26-2008, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by teo

My wife and i were in several scenes of Ladder 49. Amazing what goes on behind the scenes

That was one of my movies!

legion · 10-26-2008, 06:54 PM

My FIL was an extra in "Flags of Our Fathers", "The Road to Perdition", and "The Dark Knight". One of my college roommates was also an extra in "The Dark Knight"--he was one of the people in the "party" scene.

johnco · 10-26-2008, 07:13 PM

I've never seen the actual tapes or film, but these guys in a mealwagon/roachcoach truck were parked across the street from my house and filmed me and my friends coming and going for a week or two. sort of an research/documentary I suppose. I believe I was the main character, I wasn't given a script, they only recorded me speaking when I used the phone, I would just start to improvise when I heard the clicks as the recordings started along with my dialtone.. quite a few of my female friends were extras, but their part was only walking to my door and later back to their car... unless they managed to sneak a camera and mic somewhere in my room. hmmm, maybe that's why they sat in that raggedy, hot truck for 8-12 hours waiting to film the 2-3 hours a day I was actually home. Damn.. I want a copy of that.. if nothing else.. just a sound recording would be good ... never heard from them after that so I assume they gave up on the project.. does that count? the closest I've been to anything in the motion picture business was when I met Hollywood Hugh and some of the film crew. although several of my friends were extras in many films. there's not enough money for all the hours waiting around for me. if they ever need a period car for a movie filming around here... I've got something for the 30's, 50's, 60's. 70's and wouldn't mind doing that

dhoward · dhoward's Garage

I inadvertantly became the sub-plot in the Millitary Channel series 'Quest for sunken warships' episode "Torpedo Alley". Ended up with a case of DCS after a bad gas mix. My fault for not using my own analyzer.

Eric 951 · 10-27-2008, 06:48 AM

My younger sis played a recognizable zombie in the first remake of night of the living dead. She has a close-up when the black dude is waving a torch at a zombie group apporaching the farmhouse.

I also have a hubcap and the trunk emblems from the Benz 240D which crashes in the cemetary at the start of the flick.

Mad Mike · 10-27-2008, 06:53 AM

I was a precision driver in the Kingdom. Lots of fun. I got the car I was in up to insane speeds...backwards. So boring on the set you have to do something to break it up.

Mike

JCF · 10-27-2008, 05:09 PM

Does made for tv serial count ?

I was in Paris and got a part as an extra in "The Life of Hemingway" with Stacy Keach.
They shaved my head.
I was a GI and almost got run over by a half track (not part of the act).
Director had a cornary .
Whole thing was pretty much a disaster.

Did manage to rate a full screen shot throwing a softball to Hemingway/Keach.