Surely there has to be people here who’s had their 15 minutes of fame and have been in a movie or two. Even if it was just an extra or someone in a group.
What movie do you appear in, either with lines or just another face in the crowd?
The Amityville Horror. I was Kid Playing Basketball. I made 30 bucks. I was richer than God that day.
None. But my friend was in a massive crowd scene in Howard Stern’s movie.
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken - my mom and I were paid extras. Spent a day in the middle of nowhere, made up for two scenes but only ended up in one. If anybody’s even seen this movie, which is an Inspirational Story about, er, high diving horses, when they’re on their way to Atlantic City they pass a group of migrant workers around a broken down truck. Blink and you’ll miss it, but the woman and girl are me and my mom. We had all kinds of fake dirt on us and everything. I’m two degrees from Kevin Bacon!
Not exactly widely-known movies, but I was in two feature length documentaries about Star Wars fans: Millennium’s End: The Fandom Menace (2000) and its sequel, Galaxy’s End: Revenge of the Myth (2006). I have quite a lot of screen time in the second one.
Also I was in a (very large) concert crowd scene in the largely-forgotten film **Georgia ** (1995), starring Jennifer Jason Leigh & Mare Winningham.
Largely overlooked, yes, but at worst it’s an interesting failure. I personally love that movie, but I’m a bit off.
Not me, but my father was an extra in The Day Without a Mexican–“Angry White Man #2” or something like that.
I was in the crowd on the original Nerds movie shot at the U o fA. 
-XT
My mother was an extra in one of the crowd scenes in Babe. It was filmed near where she lives and all of the locals went along.
How 'bout a “close but no cigar.”
When they were filming “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” in Kentucky, my friend and I (we were 15 at the time) went to an extra casting call (or whatever it is called), and our jeans, white t-shirts, and wing-tips borrowed from our fathers passed muster for the late-40s/early-50s, but we were told that on the day of filming we would have to have haircuts appropriate to the era. Horrified at the prospect of having to cut our shoulder length, parted in the middle, feathered back hair, we didn’t show up for the filming. I mean, like, there are just some things you don’t do, even for ART! 
Sir Rhosis
I’m in the stadium at a football game in Necessary Roughness, which was filmed at my undergrad while I was there. My mom told me she swears she clearly saw my brother walking across the campus in one scene, apparently unaware he’s being filmed. I don’t know myself - I’ve never gotten around to watching the whole movie.
They shot a movie once in my home town
Every body was in it from miles around
Out at the speedway some kinda Elvis thing
Well I ain’t no movie star but I can get behind anything
[/Tragically Hip]
I was in an indie movie called A Private Dick in Six Units. I had a fair number of lines. But I’ll bet no more than a few hundred people have ever seen it, though.
I was just barely in one of my Favorite movies. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
All the scenes in CVN-65 USS Enterprise were actually filmed on CV-61 USS Ranger. There is a scene on the Hangar bay of the Big ‘E’ with hundreds of sailors milling about in our white Sailor Caps (Dixie Cups). I am one of the hundreds.
Much cooler than being unrecognizably on screen for a split second was sitting up on a hard to reach sponson high over Elevator 1 and watching Leonard Nimoy direct Walter Koenig (Checkov). I have some pictures from that night from a crappy Disc Camera.
As an old school Trekkie, this was all rather incredible.
Jim {Live Long and Prosper}
I was at a mall in California (West Coast Plaza maybe) when they were filming a scene for Kindergarten Cop. As I came off the escalator, a guy asked me “are you in this shot?”. Being a naiive honest kid, I said no. Turns out, had I said yes, I would have been found out quickly because the extras had assigned positions and things to be doing. Arnold’s stunt double was a big guy, but his face looked more like Paul Reubens than Arnold.
The only movie I had lines in was made by my neighbor. It’s called Closure, and it’s a terrible indy horror movie. I’ve been promised a cut of the action if it makes money. :rolleyes: I don’t care about that, I just want an IMDB listing. That would kick righteous ass! That DVD holds a place of honor in the DVD rack. It’s great for when someone needs a good laugh.
I am quite proud of my contributions to the screen classics Big Bad Mama II and (Lambada) The Forbidden Dance.
My wife is in a couple scenes of the completely horrible The Slaughterhouse Massacre. If anyone here has seen it, I hope you have recovered from the experience. I love the comments people have left about the movie.
I’ve been in a couple shorts that have been screened in festivals, but I doubt anyone has seen them.
I was a professional non-union extra for the first months of 1998. I mostly ended up on television, but I was in a crowd scene in Lethal Weapon IV. They kept us overtime for two nights, so I was handsomely paid.
I was also in a dance club scene in a movie that was being shot with the title “Dancing About Architecture”, but was released as… hang on a minute… “Playing By Heart”.
I did a TV movie called “Texarkana” with Sam Elliot, where I was a prisoner. The “prison” was the old Firestone plant in South Gate, CA.
I was almost in a Star Trek movie (Insurrection, I think) but I didn’t look enough like the other people they had already cast as a particular alien race.
Oh, before that I had featured roles in two films that friends of mine made, called A Pound of Flesh and Starving Artists
None.
But I have a very good friend whose grandfather is one of the waiters running in a scene in “Some Like It Hot.” That’s the closest I can name.
I did background for some forgettable movies in the late 90’s:
“Most Wanted,” starring Keenan Ivory Wayans, chasing him up a freeway ramp (along with about 500 other extras);
“Fire Down Below,” starring Steve Seagal, I have some good “coverage” standing in the background during a confrontation at a county fair (that powder blue patch of shirt in the background is me!);
“Money Talks,” starring Chris Tucker & Charlie Sheen. I’m with the county morgue, carrying a bodybag in the background during the resolution scene.
I had a chance to be in another movie called (at the time), “Between Friends.” I would be in a restaurant scene where some writer guy gets into an argument with a waitress. But I had another commitment, so I passed on the audition.
They changed the name of the movie to, “As Good As It Gets”. The writer was Jack Nicholson and the waitress Helen Hunt, as in Oscar-winning for that performance Helen Hunt. :smack: