# What movie were you in? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/21 "2006-03-24T01:07:37Z")
My father was an extra in **[Sweet Liberty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092035/)**. He’s easy to see – he’s standing right behind Alan Alda when the freeze the frame on Alda in the closing credits. My mother was also an extra there, and [my aunt](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092035/) was hired to play music at one of the party scenes. The scene was cut, but you can hear her in the background of one scene set outside the party. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/22 "2006-03-24T01:15:55Z")
I worked as an extra in _The Right Stuff_, but I didn’t make it into the final cut. (I still look for me though.) I got killed in _Cut Up_. I also got killed in _Agony_ which isn’t finished yet (and won’t be any time soon since the director has ‘other things going on’). ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/23 "2006-03-24T01:17:54Z")
I’m one of the listed actors in [this one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481620/); I played “Eric Brown.” I just discovered that page a few days ago; I got pretty excited when I found out I have _my own IMDb page_. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/24 "2006-03-24T02:48:51Z")
My dad was one of the firefighters who extinguished a car fire in [Sheba, Baby](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073697/). I was an extra in the extremely independent _Puggs and Toast_. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/25 "2006-03-24T02:51:23Z")
I’m in a few crowd shots as a random plague victim in the as-yet-unreleased movie _Stringer_. It’s a very New Zealand movie, in the tradition of _Smith’s Dream_. Lots of fun to be involved with, but unlikely to show up at a cinema near you. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/26 "2006-03-24T02:53:08Z")
_Sleeping Dogs_, that is, rather than _Smith’s Dream_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/27 "2006-03-24T02:54:00Z")
I’m briefly in a scene in “When Harry Met Sally.” Not even 15 \*\*seconds \*\*of fame. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/28 "2006-03-24T02:55:01Z")
My wife and I are in _Serenity_. Well, not so much in the movie as we are in the DVD. In the feature about the making of the movie, there is a sequence at Comic-Con. As the camera pans over the actors backstage, as they start to go on, the shot lingers for a second on the crowd. We are #37 & #38, Row 27, Center Section, just to the right of the camera stand. I’m the geek. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/29 "2006-03-24T03:00:38Z")
Not a movie but I appear for about 2 seconds in a VH-1 special about U2–long enough that two different friends spotted me. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/30 "2006-03-24T03:13:47Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > Oh, before that I had featured roles in two films that friends of mine made, called _A Pound of Flesh_ and _Starving Artists_ I was also a character in a severely-horrible “suspense/murder mystery” called _A Midsummer’s Nightmare._ I was the “red herring” that you thought was the murderer. The title is the best thing about the movie. …Yeah, I know. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/31 "2006-03-24T03:21:27Z")
I was almost a double for the guy who played the little kid in [The Wizard of Loneliness](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096455/), a practically unheard of film that was mostly shot in my hometown. I was too young, and therefore too short, at the time, though. My father and sister are both in the movie, however. My sister is in a couple crowd scenes, in at least one of them skipping rope, and my father plays a firefighter and drives an old firetruck through the town square. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/32 "2006-03-24T03:25:58Z")
In the movie [Running Cool](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108006/) **Ms.Nic** has a pretty good shot in two places in the movie and I am one of the couple hundred Harleys in the big ride-through-town scene. One of the main characters is named Bear. His real name is Bubba and is a long-time good friend of mine and we worked on his bike here at the house last Monday. He has been in several movies like Monster (he’s a bartender), Bad Boys II (he’s a Klansman), and others as well as commercials. ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/33 "2006-03-24T03:26:58Z")
I was an extra in [Keeping the Faith](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171433/) . To this day, I have not seen the movie, so I have no idea if the scene made it past the cutting room floor. There is a veeeeeeeerrrrrry slim chance I am somewhere in [Wonder Boys](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185014/) . It was flimed on the campus where I was an undergrad. At certain times, walking across particular parts of campus, the crew would ask us where we were going, then we would be told to “just keep walking.” I never did pay any attention to that. Yet another movie I haven’t seen. BTW, **What Exit**? Damn, that’s 🆒 ! ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/34 "2006-03-24T03:55:10Z")
I’m in the Fenway crowd in the final scene of _Fever Pitch_. It’s neat to see how they took not a lot of people and made it look like a huge crowd. I’m right next to the dugout, behind the photographer’s well. Not sure if I’m visible. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/35 "2006-03-24T04:12:30Z")
> [@dinahmoe](#): > > I’m in the Fenway crowd in the final scene of _Fever Pitch_. It’s neat to see how they took not a lot of people and made it look like a huge crowd. I’m right next to the dugout, behind the photographer’s well. Not sure if I’m visible. I’m also in _Fever Pitch_! Only I was one of the people walking across Queen’s Park–the place where they filmed some of the scenes with Jimmy Fallon acting as a hotdog vendor, I think. My church was where the final wedding scene was set in _How to Deal_. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/36 "2006-03-24T05:48:05Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I was in the crowd on the original Nerds movie shot at the U o fA. University of Alberta? I think that the Nerds movie was at the University of Arizona, not the University of Alberta. Hey, what can I say? I’m currently a U of A student–University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Anyway. I was an extra in Spielberg’s “Into the West.” I was one of the Mountain Men who watched Gary Busey deal, then duel, with Matthew Settle. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/37 "2006-03-24T06:38:11Z")
Overall, I’ve had quite a bit of uncredited movie appearances. I was an extra in four-for-TV movies. _Death of Ocean View Park_ and _King Crab_; both shot in southeast Virginia. Also as one of a brigade of confederate soldiers in _North and South_ and _North and South, Book 2_. Most recently, though, I’m in the opening scene of _The Drew Carey Show_ with a few hundred others running down a street. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/38 "2006-03-24T06:45:47Z")
My brother managed to end up as an Extra in a genuine Bollywood Movie (which was being filmed in New Zealand), in a crowd scene. He had to watch with interest as the cast did their lines in Hindu, then randomly broke into song for no apparent reason. Apparently all the extras had a lot of trouble keeping straight faces… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/39 "2006-03-24T12:25:43Z")
I’m in the new version of Heavy Metal Parking lot. The original was about a Judas Priest concert in the mid 80s shot near DC. Mostly it’s a bunch of drunk people on film. A couple of years ago while going to see Iron Maiden my buddy told me about this movie and how his neighbor made the film. When we get to the parking lot the guy’s there and he’s filming for the new version. I think I might be in the comercial [here](http://www.heavymetalparkinglot.net). I can’t see it because I can’t install Quicktime, but if you see a guy with long hair saying, “Heavy Metal Parking lot rules”, then sticking out his tounge while in fast forward that’s me! Now I’ve got to find a way to see if I can watch the commercial and see if I get my 15 minutes on the net! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651/40 "2006-03-24T12:51:10Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > 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? Ferris Buehler’s Day Off. Me and Kid Kalhoun. It is one of the best memories of my life. A truly great day. We were in the parade scene. I’ve never actually found myself in the crowd, but I was there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-were-you-in/349651.md?page=3)