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Lon Chaney's great skill as a silent film actor came about
as a result of his upbringing. Both of his parents were deaf-mutes,
so he learned to communicate by expressive pantomime. |
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg played a cameo role as
the clerk who receives Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi's money
at the end of the Blues Brothers. |
Max Von Sydow plays Jesus Christ in 'The Greatest Story Ever
Told' and Satan in 'Needful Things', the only actor to play
both parts. |
Ed Koch, the Mayor of New York in 1984, played himself in the
film, The Muppets Take Manhattan. |
Stephen King, no stranger to taking walk on roles in the films
of his own novels, played the minister at a funeral in the
1989 adaptation of his book, Pet Cemetery. |
Actress Sissy Spacek got so into the part of Carrie that she
slept with fake pig's blood all over her to ensure continuity. |
David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader in the original
Star Wars films, was also in the Stanley Kubrick classic 'A
Clockwork Orange'. He is the caretaker of the man who was beaten
by Malcolm McDowell's character and his gang. David Prowse
carries the man who is now in a wheel chair around the house. |
Ronald Reagan was the only president to have ever worn a NAZI
uniform. (Of course. he wore it as an actor in a movie) |
Artist Pablo Picasso appeared in a crowd scene in Jean Cocteau's
1962 film, The Testament of Orpheus. |
Both actors that have played 'Mr. Rourke' on the 'Fantasy Island'
television programs have also played a villain on 'Star Trek'.
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