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In 1968′s ROSEMARY’S BABY, producer William Castle is waiting outside the phonebooth used by Mia Farrow. Castle was previously known as a mediocre director of laughably bad horror/suspense movies (THE TINGLER/THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL/HOMICIDAL). Castle owned the rights to Ira Levin’s book this movie is based on. Robert Evans at Paramount agreed to green light the film, on the condition that Castle NOT direct. Excellent call by Evans.
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Cinematographer Michael Chapman as the taxi driver driving Jack Nicholson and his fellow Navy sailors to a brothel in THE LAST DETAIL (1973).
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Standing in for an absent Ronald Lacey as Major Toht, due to their similarity in facial appearance, six-time Oscar winning special effects wizard Dennis Muren peers over a “Life” magazine in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981). The Life issue he is reading is from Nov 30, 1936, with the cover story on West Point. This was only the second issue of the new magazine.
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Indiana Jones is a little preoccupied to take out the German pilot, played by co-Executive Producer Frank Marshall in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981). Marshall later directed ARACHNOPHOBIA and ALIVE.
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In 1984′s GREMLINS, Executive Producer Steven Spielberg (w/ leg cast) can be spotted driving around in circles around when Hoyt Axton is checking in on his family from the Inventors Convention.
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Rick Baker, Academy Award-winning make-up artist on AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981), as the drug dealer in INTO THE NIGHT (1985). Both films were directed by John Landis.
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Producer Robert K Weiss as the hot dog vendor during “best date ever” sequence in THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD (1988).
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Longtime Demme film producer Kenneth Utt has a brief cameo as Dr. Akin in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991), in charge of the victim’s autopsy in West Virginia. Among Utt’s producer credits are the films THE FRENCH CONNECTION, ALL THAT JAZZ, and MIDNIGHT COWBOY, as well as the Demme films PHILADELPHIA, MARRIED TO THE MOB, and SOMETHING WILD.
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Hitting the floor as per Pumpkin’s (Tim Roth) instructions is longtime Quentin Tarantino film producer Lawrence Bender, billed as ‘Longhaired Yuppie Scum’ in PULP FICTION (1994).
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At the end of the STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999), when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine congratulates Queen Amidala, the two extras directly behind is Sound Effects Editor Ben Burtt and Producer Rick McCallum. Burtt has won 4 Academy Awards for sound design (out of 10 nominations) and designed sound for all the STAR WARS films, as well as E.T., INDIANA JONES and WALL-E.
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Make-up artist extraordinaire Rick Baker as one of the Apes in Tim Burton’s PLANET OF THE APES remake (2001).
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A cameo in LAND OF THE DEAD (2005) is makeup artist/actor Tom Savini. He worked on George Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978), and in a nod to that film, he appears dressed as his character from DAWN.
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Producer Grant Curtis cameoed as the driver of an armored car that Sandman attacks in SPIDERMAN 3 (2007).
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SUBMARINE was a 2010 coming-of-age UK comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. Co-producer Ben Stiller has a few seconds of screen time as Soap Opera Star appearing on the telly.
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Cinematographer Michael Chapman as the taxi driver driving Jack Nicholson and his fellow Navy sailors to a brothel in THE LAST DETAIL (1973).
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SUBMARINE was a 2010 coming-of-age UK comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. Co-producer Ben Stiller has a few seconds of screen time as Soap Opera Star appearing on the telly.
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At the end of the STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999), when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine congratulates Queen Amidala, the two extras directly behind is Sound Effects Editor Ben Burtt and Producer Rick McCallum. Burtt has won 4 Academy Awards for sound design (out of 10 nominations) and designed sound for all the STAR WARS films, as well as E.T., INDIANA JONES and WALL-E.
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