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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 23, 2020 21:39:27 GMT
By that I mean they didn't actually set out to become actors, but directors/producers decided to put them in a movie/show anyways. For example R. Lee Ermey was originally supposed to just be an advisor on "Full Metal Jacket" for the boot camp section, but Kubrick liked him so much he casted him in the movie.
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Post by Geddy on Sept 23, 2020 21:41:45 GMT
Harrison Ford.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 23, 2020 21:42:50 GMT
He was originally a carpenter for Hollywood types, right?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 23, 2020 21:45:23 GMT
He was originally a carpenter for Hollywood types, right? "After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His roles in movies and television (Ironside (1967), The Virginian (1962)) remained secondary and, discouraged, he turned to a career in professional carpentry. He came back big four years later, however, as Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973). Four years after that, he hit colossal with the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Another four years and Ford was Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)."
so no ....
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 23, 2020 21:50:29 GMT
" Wolfgang Bodison was working for Rob Reiner on the film A FEW GOOD MEN as a location scout when Reiner decided he was perfect for the part of Lance Corporal Harold Dawson. Reiner said he looked like a Marine."
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 23, 2020 21:50:38 GMT
Ben Johnson
Johnson's film career began with the Howard Hughes film The Outlaw. Before filming began, Hughes bought some horses at the Chapman-Barnard ranch, the Oklahoma ranch where Johnson's father was foreman, and hired Johnson to get the horses to northern Arizona (for The Outlaw's location shooting), and then to take them on to Hollywood.
Johnson liked to say later that he got to Hollywood in a carload of horses.[6] With his experience wrangling for Hughes during The Outlaw's location shooting, once in Hollywood, he did stunt work for the 1939 movie The Fighting Gringo, and throughout the 1940s, he found work wrangling horses and doing stunt work involving horses.
His work as a stuntman caught the eye of director John Ford. Ford hired Johnson for stunt work in the 1948 film Fort Apache, and as the riding double for Henry Fonda.[3] During shooting, the horses pulling a wagon with three men in it stampeded. Johnson, who "happened to be settin' on a horse", stopped the runaway wagon and saved the men. When Ford promised that he would be rewarded, Johnson hoped it would be with another doubling job, or maybe a small speaking role.[7] Instead he received a seven-year acting contract from Ford.[8] Ford called Johnson into his office, handed him an envelope with a contract in it. Johnson started reading it and when he got to the fifth line and it said "$5,000 a week," he stopped reading, grabbed a pen, and signed it, and gave it back to Ford.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 23, 2020 22:31:08 GMT
Steven Van Zandt
David Chase was fascinated by Miami Steve's induction of the Rascals into the Rock and Roll HOF (aboulutely hilarious, check it out sometime). Van Zandt auditioned for Tony Soprano.Chase decided of Gandolfini but love Miami and wrote the part of Silvio Dante just for him.
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 23, 2020 22:33:19 GMT
Rodney Dangerfield. By 1980, he was a successful comedian, but he wasn't an actor by trade with few roles being an uncredited extra in The Killing and a supporting role in The Projectionist. Caddyshack made him a star.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 23, 2020 22:42:48 GMT
Jaye Davidson was born in Riverside, California in 1968, the son of a Ghanaian father and English mother. The family left for England when Jaye was two and a half. Jaye left school at 16 and had been alternately unemployed and doing odd jobs (running for a production company, working in a factory) ever since. Jaye had no real acting experience when discovered by a casting associate at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's Edward II. He was working as a fashion designer at that time and took the role for the money. He was cast to play Dil in The Crying Game (1992), which became a sleeper hit that shocked audiences worldwide and, in 1992, was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Jaye. His overnight stardom earned him his next big role as the sun god Ra opposite James Spader and Kurt Russell in the 1994 blockbuster Stargate. Since his brush with movie fame, Jaye has spent his time doing big-name fashion shoots: Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue, Michael Roberts for Joseph, and a GAP ad by Annie Leibowitz. He accompanied Kate Moss to the British Fashion Awards, and in Paris at Valentino's jet-set party in honor of Sharon Stone, he accompanied Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.
He hated it and quit acting.
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 23, 2020 22:51:21 GMT
Bolaji Badejo. He was studying graphic design in the U.S. after emigrating from Nigeria. He was selected to play the Xenomorph in Alien after someone noticed his staggering height. Badejo never acted again since and sadly passed away in 1992.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 23, 2020 22:54:24 GMT
Bolaji Badejo. He was studying graphic design in the U.S. after emigrating from Nigeria. He was selected to play the Xenomorph in Alien after someone noticed his staggering height. Badejo never acted again since and sadly passed away in 1992. I did not know that. Incidently the Predator was also played by a tall black guy who also died quite young:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Peter_Hall
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 23, 2020 23:50:17 GMT
Robert Mitchum
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 23, 2020 23:53:54 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 23, 2020 23:56:30 GMT
Jack Elam "Colorful American character actor equally adept at vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks. As a child he worked in the cotton fields. He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently became an accountant and, at one time, manager of the Bel Air Hotel. Elam got his first movie job by trading his accounting services for a role. In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood, thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an out-of-kilter left eye, sightless from a childhood fight. He appeared with great aplomb in Westerns and gangster films alike, and in later years played to wonderful effect in comedic roles." www.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
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Post by sdrew13163 on Sept 24, 2020 0:00:50 GMT
Mel Gibson was found with a black eye after a bar fight and some producer for Mad Max thought he looked perfect for the titular role.
I think he was into acting a little bit already, but he lucked into the role that made him a worldwide household name.
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 24, 2020 0:19:45 GMT
oh, I don't know. It's just something I heard a long time ago and he seemed the type to just sort of fall into a good thing by accident. I could be totally wrong about this. I do like Robert Mitchum a lot. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 24, 2020 0:20:07 GMT
Darren McGavin was a set painter for a studio before he got into acting.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 24, 2020 0:27:24 GMT
Johnny Depp was just accompanying a friend that was auditioning for Nightmare on Elm Street when someone noticed he looked like Johnny Depp and asked him to do one.
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Post by Geddy on Sept 24, 2020 0:31:59 GMT
He was originally a carpenter for Hollywood types, right? "After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His roles in movies and television (Ironside (1967), The Virginian (1962)) remained secondary and, discouraged, he turned to a career in professional carpentry. He came back big four years later, however, as Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973). Four years after that, he hit colossal with the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Another four years and Ford was Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)."
so no .... Well if it weren't for George Lucas, no one would have ever heard of Ford. |
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