I honestly couldn’t tell you – I only saw it once, and it was a lifetime ago. I just know it’s a blink-and-you-miss-me moment (but the scene I’m talking about is obvious).
The church in the movie was St. Peter’s Church, and I went to St. Peter’s School, next door. It was obviously a big deal to us kids the whole time filming was going on. One day, they told us that a few kids who got good grades on that day’s test would get a bit role – I nailed it. 
In the movie Necessary Roughness the Texas State Armadillos football team travel around Texas playing football against real schools. One of the schools was my college. I’m not in the movie, but I helped the costumer load our band uniforms into a truck for use in the movie. They didn’t use our band, but they used our uniforms. 
That’s my closest brush with big-time show business.
In a twist of fate, the college I attended is now called Texas State University.
I was in an independent film called “Placebo LI”, a kind of dark dramedy vaguely in the Tarantino genre. While all my parts finished filming, the director had a family emergency interrupt the rest of filming and actors became unavailable so the film never got finished. I recently saw a little scrap of one of my scenes on youtube, though a good portion of the dialogue was cut. It’s amateurish, but amusing.
They filmed “Baby Boom” in Vermont near where my grandpa lived and he’s an extra in the barn party scene. My friend Todd was in some swim team teen stalker movie that I forget the name of.
Swimfan?
Like most people in my area, I found my way onto the filming for a scene for the “We Are Marshall” movie. You can’t see us though. My dad took off work, and wore a bright red sweater. He put my 2 year old up on his shoulders so we’d be easy to spot in the crowd scene. But when you watch the movie they cut off panning across the crowd before you get to us. You can see us in some of the promo stills though!
I have friends that were actually paid extras though. They are Marshall faculty, and there is even a close-up of them looking at each other. The coolest thing about that was when our local cinemas sold early screenings to local businesses. These two friends, along with another lady at their business, bought one of the showings and sold tickets to all their clients & friends – so here is a whole theater packed with people who know Todd and Tara and there is a huge close-up of them on the screen! Cool moment. We screamed and cheered. <G> (Tara was even in the trailers for the movie.)
Hey, there you are! I mentioned you and wifey in the True Blood thread in this forum, but I couldn’t remember your screenname.
Am I right that that’s you getting your hair tousled by an impressively tall blond in the dancing scene?
And, no movies for me…but…in 1991 my high school choir went to a taping of America’s Funniest Home Videos. At the time, it was a new show, and they’d pay large groups to come fill the audience. Made for an interesting and entertaining fundraiser.
Anyway, I have always had rather large reactions–and so, cameras love me on shows like this, and this was no exception. They got a close up of me laughing my butt off at something that really wasn’t that funny–a barking bird. I believe they got that shot when, after taping, they showed a ton of their “best of” clips that were positively hilarious. While they showed them, the cameras were rolling on us…so they presumably mixed and matched reactions to the clips of their choice.
For years I’d hear, “Hey, I saw you on America’s Funniest Home Videos last night!” which bugged the crap out of me since I only saw it when it originally aired. Then, last fall, twice in the space of about 3mos friends who did not know me in 1991 said, “Hey! Were you ever on AFHV?” I’m just happy my 17yro self is still recognizable as being the same person as the 36yro self.
And FTR, Bob Saget on that show was 1,000 worse than what would finally air. His “jokes” were excruciating, and with us at least, met with dead silence. He would then reshoot and reshoot and reshoot the same bit, literally begging the audience to laugh. I remember him saying, “Really, guys, if you hear something that sounds like a joke, go ahead and laugh.” Don’t worry Bob, if we hear an actual joke, we will.
I get killed during the titles of Cut Up. That’s the only ‘official’ appearance I have.
I was filmed for The Right Stuff, but didn’t make the final edit. I was in Immoral Minority Picture Show (‘I.M.P.S.’), but I don’t think that was ever released. I get shot in a scene from Agony, but that project fell apart before it was finished. I’m mutilated by aliens in Mutilation Maniacs, a super-8 film we made right after high school and which is an ‘extra feature’ on the Night For Nixie DVD.
My wife was in some Hallmark Channel made for TV movie last year, something about Christmas, with Candace Cameron and Roseanne’s ex husband. I can’t remember the name of it since it was so awesome.
She was actually a paid extra. We thought it was $45 an hour, turns out it was $45 a DAY, less than minimum wage. And it was an 8 hour day, outside wearing heavy hot winter clothes in the hottest part of July. They used computers to add snow during editing… I hung out to watch for awhile, ate some free food, got bored and went home. Apparently they shot the scene 12 times, with 20 minutes between every take.
So yeah, you can see her from behind as she walks past a train for 10 seconds.
All of this was after we had to drive an hour each way for her to audition for the part! But it’s all good, she teaches high school drama, so it was a good experience for her to share with the students that think they are talented and can become famous starlets overnight.
Extras: Props that eat.
I’m in the HBO movie Truman, but you can only see my hat.
I am in CSA: The Confederate States of America all over the place, but only as background. You can see my feet in one shot, and I’m ‘interviewing’ the presidential candidate, so all his shots are him reacting to me. I was mostly behind the scenes in that one.
I love that movie. I’ll have to keep an eye out for you now.
I seem to recall a poster whose wife was that blonde pigtailed girl who was holding up the two frogs in the movie E.T. and looking scared out of her wits. I can’t remember his name, though.
Some Civil War reenactment buddies of mine were in the background in several shots from Gettysburg (especially when Lee is riding past a line of Confederate guns with Longstreet), and my sister-in-law’s husband’s brother was an extra in the first Spider-Man movie, as well as having one line in a late-series episode of Alias, but I’ve never been in a movie. I was in the audience for the taping of a Comedy Central standup special that included Judy “Worship me, pigs!” Tenuta, but otherwise I got nothin’.
I am in the last scene of The Portrait as an extra. I’m wearing an orange, black and purple swirls shirt but it’s still very hard to catch me. I’m practically a blur with glasses.
You can see the shiny back of my bald head in all the audience scenes in YesAnd. Um, I’m not mentioned in the IMDB listing…
You have to really be looking. We were literally hours getting into our dirt makeup, too. It was really a ton of fun - the afternoon was spent getting into nice 30’s clothes, after changing out of our migrant worker makeup and broken down boots, and they took my mom for a scene we’ve never seen that probably got cut, and I never even moved from my chair. I’m sure I had a good book, though. Everybody was super-nice, and we met Cliff Robertson, which was kind of a big deal to my mom, and Gabrielle Anwar, who never got to be anybody. The food was awesome, though - it’s the first time I ever had lamb.
ETA - if my dear boyfriend’s Season 2 of Buddy Cop Show ever comes out, you can see me full face. Unless I get cut, two years after the fact, because of other stuff they never shot. Even though I showed up for shooting because they don’t KNOW ANY OTHER WOMEN the day my grandfather died, because I wanted to keep busy. I didn’t even want to be in the thing because I can’t stand to see myself on video. I also made them tons and tons of food, which at least didn’t get cut.
Not me, but a close friend of mine is the guy, in a loud red Hawaiian shirt, that tosses something in the trash at the “Grand Canyon” causing a young Joe Dirt to pop up.
She may not exactly be a household name, but she’s had a long, busy career and is a regular presence on television.
OK, it’s a stretch, but…
In Animal House, there’s a scene where Tom Hulce and Karen Allen go to professor Donald Sutherland’s house. They end up sitting in a clawfoot bathtub smoking dope.
Well, the house they used is a big Victorian-era fourplex at the corner of Sixth and Lawrence in Eugene, OR. As you look at the front of the house, they used the lower left apartment to film in.My brother and his wife lived in that same apartment several years earlier and I and four other college students lived the apartment above,
Though my brother and his wife had moved on a couple of years before the film was shot, my claim to fame is…
I helped paint that bathroom.
Sure, it’s pitiful, I know. But it’s neat to see the old apartment.
Not me, but my cousin Billy had a small part in the original version of “The Taking of Pelham 123.” He plays the role of “hippy cop”. You see glimpses of him sitting on the train thoughout the movie, then near the end he has a speaking part and gets shot by one the the bad guys.
He’s now a chiropractor.