famous extras/cameos in movies

[shane88888]

Flea's best line from Lebowski:

[The Dude's in the bathtub]
Nihilist (walking away): We're going to cut off your johnson Lebowski.
Flea: Yeah, then we'll stomp on it and squish it.

Also, the guy who played Mike Teevee in the original Willy Wonka is in Lebowski. Who he plays, I cannot tell you.


Keeping with Mr. Scorcese, look for Iggy Pop in The Color of Money. He's one of the players in the montaaaaaaage.

I don't remember if it was Cruise or Newman who had the audacity to drink his shot.

Why is Barfly not on DVD?

[youtalkfunny]

I never heard of most of the people mentioned so far. Let's get back on track:

When Paul Newman is giving his closing argument in "The Verdict", the climax of the movie, one of the extras sitting in the courtroom audience is young, unknown Bruce Willis.

That blonde guitarist from Heart is the chick in the Corvette laughing at Judge Reinhold's pirate outfit in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (she was married to the producer, or the director, or somebody). And just about everyone already knows that Nicolas Cage was Reinhold's buddy in a few scenes (no lines).

Pool great Willie Mosconi, who served as technical advisor for "The Hustler", has a cameo in the film. Gleason orders, "Rack 'em, Willie," and Mosconi dutifully racks 'em up.

[youtalkfunny]

Just thought of a good one, and even though I'm sure I've posted about this before, I like telling this story, so I'm going to post it again:

I'm watching "Cobb", where Tommy Lee Jones plays Ty Cobb. I like Tommy Lee (who doesn't?), and I liked his co-star, Robert Wuhl (this was before "Arliss", but after "Hollywood Knights"; think of the "Batman" Wuhl--in other words, he was on top of his game), so I'm watching this...

There's only one scene that takes place on the playing field (the rest of the film is old Cobb being crazy). Tommy Lee steps into the batters box, talks some trash with the catcher AND the umpire, digs in, and takes a fastball for strike one. I mean a FASTBALL. The pitch came in from off camera POP!

I sat up in my chair. "My God! That fastball was really moving! Where did they find an extra to throw like that??? They must have a pitching machine set up off camera or something..."

Cobb sneers at the pitch, like he's not impressed with it. The catcher throws the ball back to the mound...to 32-year-old Roger Clemens.

"Oh. That explains the fastball."

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Cam Neely in Dumb and Dumber as Sea Bass

Roger Clemens in Kingpin as Skidmark

Sarah Michelle Gellar in She's All That as an un-named girl who refuses pepper from Simon (a Culkin brother), who is Laney's (Rachel Leigh Cook) little brother in the cafeteria.

[cbloom]

David Lynch as the spice miner in Dune. (he does have some lines though)

[NancyD]

Tom Waits in Outsiders
Ethan Hawke in Quiz Show
John Turturro in Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese in most of his own movies

[XXXNoahXXX]

Kurt Russell is the voice of Elvis in Forrest Gump, but he's not in the credits.

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Tom Waits in Outsiders
Ethan Hawke in Quiz Show
John Turturro in Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese in most of his own movies

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wow, you came out of the woodwork for this post.

[Warik]

Lou Ferrigno in the Hulk.

[Jimihat316]

Isn't that Stan Lee as well?