I was one of the people waltzing in Grand Central Station during the fantasy sequence in The Fisher King. At one point during filming, they yelled “CUT!!” and my partner and I stopped dancing, I turned around, and I’m standing in front of Robin Williams. I was surprised to note that he was a few inches shorter than me. For the next 15 minutes while they set up the next shot, I chatted with Robin. He was a pretty nice guy considering it was about 3 a.m.
If you freeze the DVD at just the right moment, there I am, in the middle of the frame.
Tokumei Research as Dr. Philip Zimbardo. I got to demonstrate his “Broken Window” theory with a sledgehammer. Neat.
Same show, different episode, as a buddy of a guy who sleep-murdered his in-laws, and later one of the jurors at his trial (they hire a small pool of foreigners for their re-enactments, then just use us anywhere).
Beauty Seven as a guy in a French restaurant. Between shots, Kaori Momoi came over and started chatting with us. Very nice woman.
African Night as a teacher at a Yakuza-run English school. I was on for half a second.
Amuse. A kids show where I’m demonstrating children’s games from around the world with a bunch of other grown men. We were wrestling, playing tag, jumping around and dancing with a bunch of women in Marilyn Monroe dresses for about eight hours. I couldn’t walk by the time we were done. Fortunately, it was on a cable channel that nobody ever sees, but it’s bound to one day end up on one of those “weird Japanese game show” video websites.
That is too cool, another one of my all time favorite movies.
The scenes at the “Reactor” with Chekhov was the dressed up Control booth of the Machine Room I did the electrical maintenance for. I could identify each break in his run until he injured himself. They had him going from below the waterline to the O3 level above the hangar bay and then back down to the hangar bay with no rhyme or reason but only a carrier sailor would catch the creativity of the cuts.
I will be eternally jealous of one of my friends, who was not a Trekkie that got to be the ships Electrician assigned to accommodate the movie electricians.
My friend was an extra in Mallrats, and apparently is pretty noticeable (that is, she’s not in an anonymous crowd shot). Not sure if she has any lines - I haven’t rented it lately to see what scene she’s in.
When she told us, we thought it was the neatest thing we’d heard in a long time, but she laughed it off as no big deal. Seems she was in the right place (Eden Prairie mall) at the right time. It’s still crazy cool, though.
Fellow Doper diku and I are in the rasslin’ crowd in the Chris Rock political epic Head of State. We’re in the top left hand side of the screen (widescreen version). I’m in a bright orange shirt…with my camera in front of my face
I was inside a local hardware store while they were doing some exterior, second unit shooting for *Joe Somebody *. I assume there’s no way that I’d be visible, but didn’t make it through the whole movie to find out for sure.
I’m in an independent documentary called The Hunt. It’s about the world’s larget scavenger hunt, which I’ve been a part of for six years. Unfortunately, I’m no longer in Chicago and will only be spectating this year. The IMDB entry isn’t much to look at and doesn’t even have a full set of credits. I’m only in it briefly, but my husband has quite a bit of screen time.
I was almost an extra in Proof, and some of my friends actually got in. Haven’t see it yet, though, so I don’t know if they’re visible.
Oh, I forgot, I’m in Season 2 of my boyfriend’s independent comedy TV show, Buddy Cop Show. I have lines and everything. Season 2 is still in post-production, however, and even if it weren’t, nobody here would have seen it. He’s trying to invent local access cable here partly so he can get it on the air, if that tells you anything. Season 1 did have a premiere in a real movie theater, though, and has sold a number of DVDs. His kid brother is in every episode, however, and has lately been getting a lot of little movie roles, so it’s possible that one day I’ll be famous in a “wasn’t she the receptionist in the movie that guy did when he was a kid?” way.
I never believed a friend of mine when he said he was in Caddyshack when he was 10.
Turns out he lived in a house adjacent to the country club / golf course in Florida where it was filmed. He and his brother would set up a lemonade stand along the back 9. Some guys looking for extras saw them and asked them if they wanted to be in a movie. They put on orange t-shirts and were a couple of the younger kids hanging around the caddy house.
I didn’t believe him till he showed me some pictures of him as a kid and the scenes in the movie.
John Wayne’s The Green Berets was mostly filmed in and around Ft. Benning, Georgia. At the very end of the film, there’s a shot that includes a bunch of soldiers jogging by in their cammo trousers and combat boots. My dad is one of them – he was going through jump training at the time. He’s not too difficult to spot. Just look for the bald skinny white guy.
My brother was an extra for The Day After Tomorrow. He’s part of the crowd trying to cross the Mexican border. I stood and watched the scene being filmed from my office window.
I’ve never seen it to check, but if the glass isn’t too reflective, you can probably catch me in the booth of the auditorium scene in the latest lousy film in the Conversations with God series.
I’m in the concert movie/documentary Texas, featuring Russell Crowe and his band Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts. My sister and I are visible a few times, including one good two-shot of us. Now I can tell people I was in a movie that played Sundance.
