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Documentary shot at the tiny town where Fried Green Tomatoes was filmed. I play a nutty guy dressed in 30's garb who is looking for a plastic model of a Model-A truck plastic model. In this scene I approach Danny Vinson who last had the model. [fyi-Danny recently appeared in a scene with Reece Witherspoon in Walk The Line]

HMO Commercial
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While working as a stand-in on Time To Kill, a casting agent was there and just off-handedly asked if I wanted to audition for a commercial as the main bungling doctor. Yep, I did.



Murder in the China Basin
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Satan tempted me to stay in L.A. by letting me have this part. Playing a vagrant, I didn't need makeup because the ravages of a 2 years in helltown made me look that way. This wasn't initially a speaking part but the director liked what me and my vagrant pal were doing so we ended up bantering dialogue with our two undercover cops. I already had my character in my head as someone who was more of a whiner, so you can barely hear me say things like "everybody needs help now and then." Yeah, that is an L.A. homeless mantra.


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I was one of the Mississippi crew from Time To Kill that moved out to L.A.   Joel Schumacher and Jamie Crumley put us to work on Batman and Robin. The scene called for someone to "over react" to the sight of the world's largest telescope. Mr. Schumacher let me be the over reactor and after the scene was shot he claimed, in his usual positive nature, that it was a "great job." (I think he had stepped out to craft services)


Melrose Place
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This was one of my last gigs in L.A. It was the season finale in '98. No one had made the connection that Dr. Mancini, Thomas Calabro, and I had a great last name. I had spoken to Thomas on Melrose Place a year earlier. At that time I introduced myself. However, even though he didn't remember me in '98 he must have thought that I was one of the regular MP actors. We ran through the scene where he's getting ruffed up and then I, and the studly dayplayer, run in. After rehearsal he said to me "when you pull me away why don't you say to me 'are you alright, sir?'" Sounded good to me; my first line on TV (although you don't see me say it and it's barely audible). As we're escorting him to the end of the scene you also don't hear him say to me "you know you're a good looking guy." Take that, studly dayplayer.


Santa with Muscles
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Hulk Hogan is a criminal who saves the day as Santa. 2 out of 3 days I sat at holding doing nothing. This was shot quickly due to budget. I didn't have time to even tell Hulk that we were both from Central Florida (his band used to play in my hometown, Lakeland, FL). During this scene Santa walks past a boy with who has a Christmas list. I suggested to the director that it would be ok if Hulk/Santa forearms me into the wall (a throw back to his wrestling days). The director said no but Hulk didn't hear him say no.


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The great Memphis Filmaker, John Michael McCarthy, gave me my first stunt in the biz and also my first bruise from the exploding squibb. I am the cop on the right who's squeezing D'Lana's face at the beginning. When you see the three cops, the one at the top is JMM. Then, next scene, I am the second cop getting shot. The gun is real so they emphasized my taking care of it. So, when I die and I hit the stairs you'll know why I hold the gun that way. It actually looks cool, though.



Austin Powers
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No one knew what to think when this was being filmed. Mike Myers' head was shaved and he wore a bizarre wig with even bizarre-r teeth. But it was a fun day of dancing. I am screen right behind Myers. I have blurred out all but me since the size of this viewable mpg file is small.


Cultivision (collapsing stars) right click here to save ---------------- file size 15mg
It was a great opportunity to be in the film that played at tne New York International Independent Film/Video Fest. This is the scene where the audience finds out that my character is about to have a crisis of his faith in Edrose; the reincarnated Rod Serling.

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This is a clinic in how to stay on the camera. They had stuck me in the back, as usual. When Freddy Krueger comes out in a wheel chair I just kept a peripheral eye on them and followed them to the end of the scene. Oh yeah, we're all robots, by the way.





You can see me in the group of girls dancing behind Mike Myers screen right. They had placed me a mile in the back and it was one of those shoots where I was tired of wasting my day faraway from the camera. As soon as "action" was said I just started walking until I got behind the girls dancing. As usual, I moved unnoticed from the people that coordinate extras. And, of course, the big people in charge had no idea that my fabdance wasn't choreographed. De