# What interesting movie things have you learned from imdb.com? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230 "2003-02-06T16:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/1 "2003-02-06T16:45:24Z")
Two off the top of my head: 1. Marisa Tomei had a bit part in “The Toxic Avenger” 2. “Super Dave” Osbourne and Albert Brooks are brothers. 3. Albert Brooks’ (and Super Dave too I guess) original last name was Einstein. Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/2 "2003-02-06T20:23:22Z")
That much of the cast & crew of Titanic somehow wound up ingesting PCP on the final night of shooting. (Didn’t you list three things?) ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/3 "2003-02-06T20:41:12Z")
The strange music video “Fish Heads” from 1982 was a collaboration by Billy Mumy (_Lost In Space_’s Will Robinson) and Bill Paxton (_Aliens_, _A Simple Plan_). Eat them up, yum! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/4 "2003-02-06T21:21:12Z")
That the ubiquitous composer Danny Elfman was/is the lead singer for Oingo Boingo. (!!) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/5 "2003-02-06T21:22:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lost4life \* > \*\*(Didn’t you list three things?) \*\* Do’h! Yeah, I had only the 1st two in mind when I started the post, but the 3rd item came to mind from the 2nd. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/6 "2003-02-06T21:25:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TGWATY \* > \*\*The strange music video “Fish Heads” from 1982 was a collaboration by Billy Mumy (_Lost In Space_’s Will Robinson) and Bill Paxton (_Aliens_, _A Simple Plan_). > > Eat them up, yum! \*\* Woah. Which one performed the lyrics, Mumy? I don’t remember it sounding like Paxton. ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/7 "2003-02-07T00:00:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **CrankyAsAnOldMan** > That the ubiquitous composer Danny Elfman was/is the lead singer for Oingo Boingo. Was. He’s still alive, but the band is dead. ☹ For that matter, I was surprised to learn that Anne Dudley (who won the Best Score Oscar the year Elfman was nominated twice) was with Art of Noise. For the sake of this thread, let’s say I learned that fact on IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/8 "2003-02-07T00:14:17Z")
You can see Danny Elfman performing live with Oingo Boingo during one of the party scenes in “Back to School”, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/9 "2003-02-07T00:53:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TGWATY \* > \*\*The strange music video “Fish Heads” from 1982 was a collaboration by Billy Mumy (_Lost In Space_’s Will Robinson) and Bill Paxton (_Aliens_, _A Simple Plan_). > \*\* no, Barnes and Barnes are Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy, not Bill Paxton. [http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Barnes/](http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Barnes/) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/10 "2003-02-07T00:59:02Z")
Too many things to list. But one in particular floored me b/c I can’t believe I didn’t recognize her, having seen both movies several dozen times: Mayor Carmine DePasto’s daughter from _Animal House_ was also Danny Noonan’s Irish girlfriend from _Caddyshack_. And of course my .sig: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/11 "2003-02-07T01:12:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*no, Barnes and Barnes are Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy, not Bill Paxton. > > [http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Barnes/](http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Barnes/) \*\* According to the IMDB, Paxton was the director and main character of the video, which is what **TGWATY** was referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/12 "2003-02-07T02:02:38Z")
I wandered around imdb a few nights ago looking at the credits of the various people who voiced _Diablo 2_. The thing that made my eyes pop out of my head is Michael McConnohie, who voices the incredibly sexy D2 Necromancer (well, and Warriv) was the English dubbing voice of Vampire Hunter D! I also discovered that the Paladin is voiced by the guy who played Tri-Lam Lamar Latrell in _Revenge of the Nerds_, the guy who voiced the Druid and Nihlathak has done everything from Smurfs to G. I. Joes to Transformers to Quakerjack on “Darkwing Duck” (and Groppler Zorn on the TNG pilot) … and the guy who voiced Deckard “No really, I’m not Sean Connery” Cain was, among MANY other things, Alfred in all the recent Batman movies. Being a consummate gamer geek, I was bouncing in my chair at this imdb-given epiphany. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/13 "2003-02-07T02:04:36Z")
Just remembered another one - Ted Knight was the narrator from the old Superfriends episodes. “Laterrrrrrr…at the Hall of Justice!!!” ---
**Author:** ![TVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@TVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVS)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/14 "2003-02-07T04:06:20Z")
1: Annabelle Gerwitz (I hope that’s the right name, the original chick on TBS’s Dinner and a Movie) was a staff writer for the mid-eighties cartoon Thundercats. 2: Gabrielle Bryne had not seen a completed edit or final script for ‘The Usual Suspects’ until the movie premiered. When asked who Kieser Soze is, he replied, ’ I thought I was’. 3: James Cameron wrote the Terminator as an exercise in low-budget film-making. He knew he wanted to have a robot, so he made it a cyborg that looked human. He wanted it to be futuristic, but he couldn’t afford the sets of a war-ravaged earth for two hours, hence… time-travel. Actually, the trivia for all of Cameron’s movies are pretty interesting. I have a really boring job a couple of nights a week, I have killed a number of hours reading though trivia… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/15 "2003-02-07T06:54:24Z")
O. J. Simpson was considered for the part of the Terminator. Originally, the time machine in _Back to the Future_ wasn’t a DeLorean, but a refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/16 "2003-02-07T07:12:35Z")
Bill Laimbeer (of the Detroit Pistons) was a Sleestak ([http://us.imdb.com/Name?Laimbeer,+Bill](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Laimbeer,+Bill)) ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/17 "2003-02-07T13:30:40Z")
I had always thought that George Lazenby was, shall we say, disinvited to the Bond party after In Her Majesty’s Secret Service bombed. So I saw it a few months ago, and it was pretty good (aside from the lame ending). I thought, “Gosh, he was a pretty good Bond, I wonder what else he did.” And discovered that, according to the bio on the IMDB, _he turned them down._ Because he was sure the Bond franchise was a no go in the happenin’ sixties. I also saw that, at the time he made IHMSS, he was the highest paid male model in the world. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/18 "2003-02-07T13:43:57Z")
[Crocodile Dundee](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hogan,+Paul) plays the butler on “Joe Millionaire”. ---
**Author:** ![big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_yellow_kingswood)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/19 "2003-02-07T15:28:03Z")
Gough Whitlam (Australian Prime Minister 1972-75) had a small uncredited part in a 1937 movie. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230/20 "2003-02-07T15:37:38Z")
That Sarah Kozer (Joe Millionaire) is hardly the only bondage model to show up on TV or in mainstream movies. In fact, a LOT of them have, one’s a regular on a comedy series (cable, not network) right now. No, I’m not naming any names. I’m not some scummy journalist. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-interesting-movie-things-have-you-learned-from-imdb-com/153230.md?page=2)