Fame – extra in “RHPS” scene
Andy Milligan’s House of the Seven Belles as a drunk hick–though I’m not sure he ever completed it, so it probably doesn’t count.
And a whole bunch of my friends from Staten Island Civic Theatre were in Milligan’s Blood – it’s kinda disturbing to see a good friend disemboweled with a hand saw!
I’ve been an extra in two.
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) was filmed in Macon, GA while I was going to law school. It was about Negro League baseball, and we had a rather shabby ball park in town that fit the bill. A notice went up on the school bulletin board that the producers were looking for extras to sit in the crowd. I spent a couple of days at Luther Williams Field in Macon Georgia, dressed in 1930’s period clothes, getting moved from one part of the ballpark to the next. It only take a couple of hundred people to create the illusion that there are several thousand people in a ball park.
In 1994, I had an 8 hour layover between trains in Chicago, so went wandering around kiiling time. As I walked across the Michagan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River, I noticed a lot of people milling around movie equipment, and I milled around with them. Turned out they were filming *Stuart Saves His Family *, an attempt to parlay Al Franken’s Stuart Smalley character into a feature film. They were filming a scene where Stuart steals a crucial videotape, and runs across the bridge. Everyone except me was a union card holding member of the actors’ guild getting paid for hanging around. To their credit, they didn’t begrudge me hanging around with them. The assistant director, or whoever was filming the piece, took me and a young lady aside and said,“I want the two of you to walk along the sidewalk in this direction, acting like you’re chatting with each other. When Stuart comes running past you, turn to each other and act astonished, as in ‘what was THAT all about?’”
The actual scene in the movie lasts less than ten seconds, and it took about four hours to film. It was a really interesting way to kill time!
I haven’t seen it to verify, but I was at the recording of the Alison Krauss + Union Station live CD (recorded at the Palace Theater in Louisville, KY). They were also shooting a DVD, and I had comeras all around me at different times.
Not me. I am ze nobody.
But my wife was in E.T.
She was the little girl looking paralyzed, holding two frogs after Elliot runs amok in the biology class.
Best pic I could find was here (lower right-hand card).
She was a goofy-lookin kid, but she’s way cuter now.
I was interviewed for the documentary American Mullet. I’m the third mullet from the left. I’ve grown my hair out since then, but I honestly miss it.
Hey, that’s really cool. I haven’t seen that movie in years, but I can picture that little girl perfectly – very memorable scene. She’s really got a little piece of cinema history there.
Yeah, tell me about it. I haven’t even seen that movie for awhile, but I know exactly what she looks like. It’s one of those scenes that everyone remembers. I even asked my roomate (who’s seen it all of twice in his life) and he remembers her.
That’s neat.
I was a crowd extra in a movie with working title A Touch of Wing but I don’t think it was ever released. The high concept was “Karate Kid goes to college” and the part the extras call was for was being shot in the old gym at San Jose State. A call had gone out to the martial-arts schools in the area and there were lots of kids in gis on the floor of the gym (around the edges). Us ordinary folk were up in the stands as the audience. Only about a quarter of the number they’d hoped for showed up, but as has been mentioned before, they are wizards at making hundreds look like thousands. Several takes of a scene would be shot, then they’d spend about a half-hour setting up to shoot the other side of the conversation (or what-not) and we’d troop over to the other side of the stands to sit all squished in, as if it was SRO.
DesertWife and I were there for the whole eight-hour day. We got a box lunch and every hour or two, they’d draw for some prize, like a VHS player, but we didn’t win any. We were then dismissed and the real crew broke for dinner, then back for more shooting into the night. I’m assuming they used angles so us extras weren’t necessary.
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I was a member of the pre-production crew on a New Zealand movie called Scarfies, or as it is known in the US, Crime 101. The director of that started out in commercials and short films, and I worked quite heavily on a couple of his short films as an on-set crew member, and an extra.
In Signing Off my legs feature heavily, as it doubles for the main actor in a difficult and exhausting chase sequence up a ladder, with a rat climbing up the inside of my trousers.
When I was in college, they advertised for extras for the filming of Celtic Pride, and they promised to give a car away to one of the extras. My friend was convinced that it was going to be her car - so we spent the day in Boston Garden (the final day, they kept telling us) watching bad actors pretend to play basketball.
I may be in the movie, but it would be a crowd scene, plus it looked like a horrible movie, so I’ve never actually seen it.
A bunch of my mates from the hostel I used to live in are in the upcoming The Da Vinci Code.