As I’ve mentioned here before, I just happened to stumble across a reference one day to the fact that a man I once worked for (indirectly) had the distinction of playing himself in the movie “Black Sunday.” He didn’t share any screen time with Bruce Dern, and he didn’t get to run from the hilariously-cheesy blimp replica as it came crashing down into Miami’s stadium, but he did get to yell at Robert “the Captain in ‘Jaws'” Shaw and then pucker his face up in a really funny way. Here, for prosperity, are a few images. If I had more time, I’d make up some funny captions. (Robert Shaw, by the way, died shortly after this, at the age of 51.)
What terrible and/or prescient movies have your employers appeared in?
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In addition to working for the aforementioned “Black Sunday” actor, I also worked for John Cadenhead. He was a character actor from North Texas who starred in a few movies including “Ernest Scared Stupid” and “UHF”. He owned a video store that I worked in for a while when I was in high school and one of his sons is still a good friend of mine.
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Don Adams of “Get Smart” fame, very briefly managed a pool hall I worked at in Akron. He made it a week before quitting. He didn’t like how we’d all talk into our shoes.
I don’t know how prescient “The Nude Bomb” was. Only time will tell.
Ted, Is that Akron, Ohio? Can you say what pool hall, when he owned it, and where in the city it was?
I didn’t know he had any connections to my (most recent) hometown. Did you ever notice victor french hiding in a corner pocket?
My former boss didn’t actually appear in any movies, but he went to school with Joss Whedon, who as a screenwriter named the villain in Alien: Resurrection after him.
My former boss was a recent movie villian.
His name was Ken Lay. You might have seen him in “Smartest Guys in the Room”.
Clearly you travel in different circles than I. My former and current employers are utterly without distinction.
Though my college roommate’s sister was in a crowd scene of “She’s the Boss” once. Does that count for anything?
What’s “She’s the Boss”?
I’m imagining an adult version of “Who’s the Boss,” the TV show.
I worked with a man who was in Robert Altman’s A Wedding and Gorp. At the same company there was a fellow who ended up in the first Pirates of the Carribean movie and, most recently, a Starburst commercial.