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Yes. Don't judge - I was young and I needed the money.
Mr. Stallone, is that you?
PSA for NYC Parks TV spot for Wollman Rink when I was teen. The production was guerilla style. Actually the only reason I know it was a PSA is because a friend saw us and himself when it was aired. Camera followed my gf from a bench to the ice I walked net to her. Trust me no one ever noticed who was walking next to her.
Background in couple dozen print ads shot in restaurants.
Typical acting story...
First real break
Friend spent 2-3 rainy uncomfortable weeks traveling with the cast and crew and staying in Newfoundl while filming "Orca" in 1975 or 76. He actually had a name and story line with the leads. Good sized over a number of pages that wound thru a number of scenes.
Cutting room floor.
Not a trace of him even in background.
Actually yes, in High School.
Cut school with a girl and we went and were extras in a Disney movie. Totally silly and boring thing to do.
A kid on my floor during my 1st year of college was an extra in The Mighty Ducks. There was a shot of his back as he was skating backwards during one of the Duck's games. Dude was a legend.
A Duck wrote:
Actually yes, in High School.
Cut school with a girl and we went and were extras in a Disney movie. Totally silly and boring thing to do.
Two thumbs up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmNc98GaXVUYes, I have been in movies with Daniel Craig, Brian Cox and Helen Mirren.
It's really not a big deal, even though it sounds like it might be.
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Yep Double McGuffin
Also interviewed for CNN and Discovery Channel and NBC news spots
SMJO wrote:
Yes, I have been in movies with Daniel Craig, Brian Cox and Helen Mirren.
It's really not a big deal, even though it sounds like it might be.
I think I saw you in Caligula! Your vagina part was exceptional.
yeah, i've been an extra in a bunch of stuff in Hollywood South (new orleans). abraham lincoln: vampire hunter was my most "in depth" role - ha ha...
I was an extra in the worst and most unintentionally funny movie ever made about running - The Games.
Directed by Michel Winner of Death Wish fame.
Crazy to me is the accelerated rise of former Toledo coach, Kevin Hadsell, in the acting world. I've known Kevin for years and happy for him he turned his life around. There is no way he will coach again but it is just crazy to me that he can break into show business like that after only 9 months. He just announced the other day he has a personal agent now and he landed two roles as the main character in two new comedy series.
If you haven't seen it already, his imdb page (he acts under his grandfathers name) is
and his Facebook is Facebook.com/kevinmichael.barbaro. He has a lot of support from coaching community on these from coaches like Gary Wilson, Bob Bramen, Wendel MCRaven, Kelly MacDonald. Etc.
Wish him the best. Interesting to see someone go from our world of college coaching to show business. Despite his personal issues that led to his downfall, he was always a friendly face and quick with a laugh or a joke. Anyway it is intriguing to say the least.
According to imdb, his "star rating" is around 43,000 which is out of over 4 million actors world wide on imdb. He seems to be rated even higher than the host of Restaurant Stakeout that he appeared in recently.
Joe Binks wrote:
I was an extra in the worst and most unintentionally funny movie ever made about running - The Games.
Directed by Michel Winner of Death Wish fame.
excellent, one of my favorite (comedy) films. Michael Winner talks about it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDWE8-IsL7kJoe Binks wrote:
I was an extra in the worst and most unintentionally funny movie ever made about running - The Games.
Directed by Michel Winner of Death Wish fame.
Oh, come on! "The Games" (1970, I believe) is a classic, and nowhere near the worst movie ever made about running! (For unintentionally funny running scenes, check out the 1979 movie "Running," with Michael Douglas doing his best zombie routine as he lurches toward the finish of the Olympic marathon.)
By the way, is "The Games" available through any modern media?
I was never in a motion picture but my mug shot was shown in the news across the entire state.
gotta agree with you there (4:30 onwards)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1MYFfcy5o
only seen The Games once on British TV, I've never found it on the net, or on DVD or video.
Poor Michael Winner in that clip, clearly very ill and getting a bit forgetful. It wasn’t at the White City, but a different stadium in London where all those plastic dummy spectators were and where we had to run so slow, we were tripping over each other, despite looking as if we were running fast, to enable chain smoking Charles Aznavour, a French crooner, popular at that time, to overtake us.
He was supposed to be representing a Zatopek character, but kept collapsing every 70mts or so and had to receive regular doses of oxygen!
Gordon Pirie was supposed to be the ‘technical director’ but having seen the film, announced that nobody would listen to his advice.
Didn’t stop him announcing in a magazine article that he could have trained Michael Crawford to run a four minute mile.
Considering that in the cross country scene in the movie, he positioned Crawford 300mts from the finish, waiting for Tim Johnson, who had run 9 miles, to reach 400mts from the finish and then set off Crawford to sprint for the line to film him winning the race.
To the relief of the film crew, he got there first - just - by a couple of yards.
So much for the 4 minute miler.
And then there was the chubby Ryan O’Neal - as I recall in the movie, he was the USA’s 400mts champion.
Then he goes up to the US coach and says, “Coach, I want to run the marathon at the next Olympics.”
And instead of the coach telling him to f**k off and not waste his time, he was supposed to take him seriously!
I haven’t time to mention other gems apart from Crawford’s coach looking at him in the eyes before the Olympic marathon - “Harry, I want you to run the 2 hour marathon!”
I would love to see a legitimate running movie being produced that is realistic.