# Who was the famous actor who was... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963 "2008-07-10T11:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/1 "2008-07-10T11:41:53Z")
…staying in a hotel on the [Cahuenga Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuenga_Pass) who eventually got away alive in _Pulp Fiction_? My mind has gone blank. Can somebody help me? ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/2 "2008-07-10T11:43:37Z")
[QUOTE=guizot] …staying in a hotel on the Cahuenga Pass who eventually got away alive in _Pulp Fiction_? My mind has gone blank. Can somebody help me? [/QUOTE] Bruce Willis? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/3 "2008-07-10T11:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] Bruce Willis? [/QUOTE] Yes, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/4 "2008-07-10T13:41:17Z")
This is not meant as as “Google is your friend” type of snark, so I hope you don’t take it that way. IMDB is a great place to go when you’re trying to find an actor’s name, or trying to remember what movie you saw that actor in years ago, that sort of thing. Just input the movie name and you get a cast listing. Its been a big help to me for sure, because in the days before internet, I’d go nuts trying to remember something like that! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/5 "2008-07-10T13:50:32Z")
Is Quentin Tarantino working on anything? It’s high time for my fix. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/6 "2008-07-10T18:34:36Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Is Quentin Tarantino working on anything? It’s high time for my fix. [/QUOTE] [His war epic _Inglorious Bastards_ will finally see the light of day after close to a decade of development](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37401). It’s a-gonna be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/7 "2008-07-10T20:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] [His war epic _Inglorious Bastards_ will finally see the light of day after close to a decade of development](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37401). It’s a-gonna be awesome. [/QUOTE] Like “Snakes on a Plane” awesome? Or “Reservoir Dogs” awesome? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/8 "2008-07-10T22:04:45Z")
[QUOTE=user\_hostile] Like “Snakes on a Plane” awesome? Or “Reservoir Dogs” awesome? [/QUOTE] “Snakes on a Reservoir” Awsome. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/9 "2008-07-10T22:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] “Snakes on a Reservoir” Awsome. [/QUOTE] I was hoping for “Dogs on a Plane” awesome myself. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-famous-actor-who-was/455963/10 "2008-07-11T04:29:27Z")
[QUOTE=user\_hostile] Like “Snakes on a Plane” awesome? Or “Reservoir Dogs” awesome? [/QUOTE] More like _Dirty Dozen_ awesome. That’s the template for the movie (that, and an Italian ripoff, [The Inglorious Bastards](http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/tarantino-talks-inglorious-bastards-cut-in-half-kill-bill-style/)). > [@](#): > > _The Inglorious Bastards_ is an Italian war film from the 1970s which garnered many fans when shown on American TV, one of which was Quentin Tarantino, the master director of such classics as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and many others. > > So Tarantino, being the reference sponge that he is, took the idea of the original Italian film, and decided to make his own version. He’s clever like that. The only problem is he’s been working on it for what seems like forever, having been writing it for at least 6 years.