# What is that guy's name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982 "2008-07-18T19:45:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/41 "2008-07-19T16:34:36Z")
If he is dead now (and I’m not too sure about that), didn’t the Phred Phelps website have something about how he was in hell? That should give me the information I need to go to their webiste and find his name! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/42 "2008-07-19T16:44:28Z")
Oh yeah, that guy! That was…[Troy McClure](http://ravenstd.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/troy_mcclure.png).\* You might remember him from such Cafe Society threads as… “SICK, SICK, SICK past times of the rich & famous,” and “101 things to do with fresh salmon.” I can’t believe I’m the first person to post it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/43 "2008-07-19T16:55:14Z")
[QUOTE=aldiboronti] Yeah, I always used to confuse him with that guy who did a lot of other TV shows. He was related to somebody too. He was often the guy who said to the hero, “It’s quiet out there”, and the hero would reply, “Too quiet.” [/QUOTE] When he was young he used to be the guy who’d say “Sarge I’m…I’m scared.” And then John Wayne or Lee Marvin would say “We’re all scared, son. I’m scared too.” And he’d say :“You, Sarge? _You’re_ scared?” And John Wayne or Lee Marvin would say: “Course I’m scared son. Only a fool wouldn’t be scared in a spot like this. Do I look like a fool to you? But tomorrow we’re gonna take that hill. Tomorrow we’re going to do our jobs, no matter how scared we are. Because that’s the only way we can get out of this place. I’m counting on you, just like you’re counting on me. And I know you won’t let me down.” “Yes Sarge. Yes Sir!” ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/44 "2008-07-19T18:06:44Z")
Dr. Jack Horkheimer. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/45 "2008-07-19T20:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] When he was young he used to be the guy who’d say “Sarge I’m…I’m scared.” And then John Wayne or Lee Marvin would say “We’re all scared, son. I’m scared too.” And he’d say :“You, Sarge? _You’re_ scared?” And John Wayne or Lee Marvin would say: “Course I’m scared son. Only a fool wouldn’t be scared in a spot like this. Do I look like a fool to you? But tomorrow we’re gonna take that hill. Tomorrow we’re going to do our jobs, no matter how scared we are. Because that’s the only way we can get out of this place. I’m counting on you, just like you’re counting on me. And I know you won’t let me down.” “Yes Sarge. Yes Sir!” [/QUOTE] You forgot the part when the kid gets gutshot on the way up the hill and dies in John wayne or Lee Marvin’s arms. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/46 "2008-07-19T20:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] You forgot the part when the kid gets gutshot on the way up the hill and dies in John wayne or Lee Marvin’s arms. [/QUOTE] I heard that the guy who flies up into the air, when the grenade blows up and does the Wilhelm scream? That stuntman was his roommate for years. They were famous for throwing hellacious, debauched parties where half the Hollywood A-list would end up naked in a pile. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/47 "2008-07-19T21:34:04Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] I heard that the guy who flies up into the air, when the grenade blows up and does the Wilhelm scream? That stuntman was his roommate for years. They were famous for throwing hellacious, debauched parties where half the Hollywood A-list would end up naked in a pile. [/QUOTE] My understanding is that the Hollywood A list ends up naked in a pile pretty much every night. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/48 "2008-07-19T21:39:23Z")
Wasn’t he the guy that was in **We are the World** , but wasn’t shown in the video do to a contract problem. I know I’ve seen him recently selling insurance or something on TV. I do clearly remember him singing, “Take me out to the Ballgame” during the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley. Is that the guy you are thinking of? SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/49 "2008-07-19T21:53:42Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Wasn’t he the guy that was in **We are the World** , but wasn’t shown in the video do to a contract problem. I know I’ve seen him recently selling insurance or something on TV. I do clearly remember him singing, “Take me out to the Ballgame” during the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley. Is that the guy you are thinking of? SSG Schwartz [/QUOTE] No, but I think I saw him dressed as an Indian Chief at a Cleveland game. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/50 "2008-07-20T00:44:01Z")
Does he wear t-shirts sometimes? ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/51 "2008-07-20T00:45:14Z")
Earl Holliman. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/52 "2008-07-20T00:57:55Z")
I think it’s Wilford Brimley. The kid he played was Ethel and Fred’s son Morty on the first season of _I Love Lucy_ who was sent to prison for a murdering a Cuban drug lord and Batista official who was really killed by Lucy (who thought it was Ricky’s dad and decided to play a joke with him using what she thought was a rubber machete). Morty Mertz came back in the missing final season but was played by Jonathan Harris as a transvestite under the name of Mertzi Boku. The super model he dated was… well really, what super model _hasn’t_ Brimley dated? And the paternity suits were from, among others, Princess Stephanie of Monaco (settled out of court), Kim Fields from _Facts of Life_ (no DNA testing needed- one look at the kid and you know it’s Wilford’s), Olivia Newton John (knocked her up during a smoke break on _GREASE_), Nicolette Sheridan, Angie Dickinson (proven to be not his when records revealed Dickinson was born a man- specifically Dan Blocker), and most recently Jamie Lynn Spears. Or you might be thinking of Dan Hedaya, but it wasn’t a supermodel he was dating but Brigitte Nielsen who left him first for Flavor Flav and then for Sunny von Bulow (who, she claims, is the first person to really “get me”- she calls her by the nickname Veggie Tail). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/53 "2008-07-20T01:54:56Z")
\*Oops! Never mind. \* ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/54 "2008-07-20T03:39:53Z")
I dunno, I always thought it was great that he didn’t DO anything…that was the beauty of it… ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/55 "2008-07-20T04:30:20Z")
He looked a lot like Strother Martin, only younger and with dark hair. He was famous for that one line, “Things are more like they are now, boys, than they have ever been before.” It was at the end of a western, or maybe it was a World War Two film ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/56 "2011-06-10T19:26:22Z")
Clu Gulager ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/57 "2011-06-10T19:56:13Z")
Wasn’t he in one of those zombie movies? That one where they’ve barricaded the door of the house, or maybe it was a barn or a shopping mall, but the zombies’ arms are coming through and he uses the butt of the shotgun to try to fight them off? He ends up becoming a zombie himself and his buddy (the movie’s hero) has to shoot him. That guy. ---
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/58 "2011-06-11T02:18:40Z")
yeah! yeah! the actor dude! you know, he was in that movie. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/59 "2011-06-11T07:14:21Z")
After three years, you’d think we’d have figured out who that guy was. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-guys-name/456982/60 "2011-06-11T14:49:40Z")
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