# What movie were you in?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 23, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651 "2006-03-23T23:25:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/1 "2006-03-23T23:25:25Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/2 "2006-03-23T23:30:53Z")
_[The Amityville Horror](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078767/)_. I was Kid Playing Basketball. I made 30 bucks. I was richer than God that day.
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### Author:  [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/3 "2006-03-23T23:33:00Z")
None. But my friend was in a massive crowd scene in Howard Stern’s movie.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/4 "2006-03-23T23:39:48Z")
_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!
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### Author:  [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/5 "2006-03-23T23:43:54Z")
Not exactly widely-known movies, but I was in two feature length documentaries about _Star Wars_ fans: [**Millennium’s End: The Fandom Menace**](http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=98) (2000) and its sequel, [**Galaxy’s End: Revenge of the Myth**](http://www.fadproductions.com/index.php?categoryid=16&p2_articleid=2&s=&) (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](http://imdb.com/title/tt0113158/) \*\* (1995), starring Jennifer Jason Leigh & Mare Winningham.
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### Author:  [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/6 "2006-03-23T23:45:30Z")
> [@vaderspal](#):
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> Also I was in a (very large) concert crowd scene in the largely-forgotten film \*\*[Georgia](http://imdb.com/title/tt0113158/) \*\* (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.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/7 "2006-03-23T23:46:34Z")
Not me, but my father was an extra in _The Day Without a Mexican_–“Angry White Man #2” or something like that.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/8 "2006-03-23T23:53:48Z")
I was in the crowd on the original Nerds movie shot at the U o fA. 🙂
-XT
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/9 "2006-03-23T23:54:33Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/10 "2006-03-23T23:56:41Z")
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
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/11 "2006-03-24T00:02:52Z")
I’m in the stadium at a football game in [Necessary Roughness](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102517/), 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.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/12 "2006-03-24T00:09:12Z")
_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.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/13 "2006-03-24T00:17:35Z")
I was just barely in one of my Favorite movies. [Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/) (1986).
All the scenes in [CVN-65 USS Enterprise](http://www.enterprise.navy.mil/) were actually filmed on [CV-61 USS Ranger.](http://www.uss-ranger.org/) 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).](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.armysurplus4less.com/images/upload/lg_usnsailorhat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.armysurplus4less.com/largeView.cfm%3FprodID%3D462&h=225&w=300&sz=20&tbnid=jFy1utHi_JwXuM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=111&hl=en&start=11&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDixie%2Bcup%2Bhats%26svnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN) 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](http://www.answers.com/sponson&r=67) 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}
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### Author:  [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/14 "2006-03-24T00:27:21Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/15 "2006-03-24T00:28:57Z")
I am quite proud of my contributions to the screen classics [Big Bad Mama II](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092652/) and [(Lambada) The Forbidden Dance](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099595/).
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### Author:  [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/16 "2006-03-24T00:36:33Z")
My wife is in a couple scenes of the completely horrible [The Slaughterhouse Massacre](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447448/). 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.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/17 "2006-03-24T00:39:42Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/18 "2006-03-24T00:42:40Z")
Oh, before that I had featured roles in two films that friends of mine made, called _A Pound of Flesh_ and _Starving Artists_
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### Author:  [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/19 "2006-03-24T00:42:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/20 "2006-03-24T01:04:02Z")
I did background for some forgettable movies in the late 90’s:
[“Most Wanted,”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119709/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9bW9zdCB3YW50ZWR8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=23;fm=1) starring Keenan Ivory Wayans, chasing him up a freeway ramp (along with about 500 other extras);
[“Fire Down Below,”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119123/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9ZmlyZSBkb3duIGJlbG93fGZ0PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=22;fm=1) 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,”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119695/) 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”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119822/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9YXMgZ29vZCBhcyBpdCBnZXRzfGZ0PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1). The writer was Jack Nicholson and the waitress Helen Hunt, as in Oscar-winning for _that_ performance Helen Hunt. :smack:
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