Extras

[Mordac]

Anyone ever been an extra in a film? It's on a list of things I'd like to do , but I dont really have a different enough face for it. Mordac has the face, he could be a pickpocket or a madman but not me.

You're too kind amigo. I haven't, but my brother was in a few BBC things in the early 80's. One was borderline soft porn, a series about Cleopatra. Lucky fecker. Shame he was too young to appreciate it at the time.

[oraclesmith]

I was in a crowd scene in a market in a Shoestring episode when I was about 13. Mind you, it was a real market and none of the inadvertent 'extras' got paid !

[Toad]

Aaahhh Eddie Shoestring. the IT consultant who had a nervous breakdown and smashed up millions of squids of mainframe equipment before becoming a Private eye ?

Inspired me that did.

[oraclesmith]

Yep, and me. I dreamed of doing that. One day.....

[darmstadt]

I was the main subject of a TV Eye documentary in the early 80's about motorbike accidents.

[Flubster]

I used to work on Grandstand, so was seen in the background every week. Actual acting parts were starting the 'April Fools Fight' and signing 'Five Gold Rings' once Xmas with some of the other lads.

Do I win a prize?

[DimPrawn]

I was Spartacus in the film of the same name.

[OrangeHopper]

I was more into sound effects rather than straight speaking parts. My hiss as I deflated in "Dark Star" was one of my best.

[Ardesco]

The OTC i was in while at uni charges up the beach and got killed in Saving Private Ryan, alas it happened the year before I got there so I didn't get to do it myself. Apparently they got quite a decent wage as well, but bearing in mind we were students at the time it prolly wasn't that great

[MarillionFan]

I once appeared on a really bad satelite channel playing table football in a 13 week 'competition'. We didnt take it seriously and kept going to the bar.