Yong Fang
01-21-2016, 04:30 AM
We all have seen these actors, people who are in TV shows, and especially hour long shows in the 1980's and before that no one really knows at all.
These people who say truthfully "I had two lines of a Barnaby Jones episode back in 1978." People who are listed in credits in these shows that again the viewer has no idea who these people are, not even character actors people would recognize but maybe not the name but less than that.
Law and Order franchise is a good example. The one off brodega owner who speaks one or two lines and this is it "Hey, he went thatta way. He threatened me with a knife!"
Were a lot of these people, "real people" with regular jobs who occasionally get called up by someone to do two lines of one show, get paid $300 bucks and are never heard of again. These "E list actors" (less than D) are probably in a lot of things, we just never notice them, and they are totally anonymous. Probably a lot of them have taped their one 1974 Rockford Files episode to show their boring grandchildren.
My question from this was that were there just people from the outside of Hollywood who would be called in as extras or say one or two lines and then back to real life? Like "Edie Porgenstien....Witness #3" in a 1972 Kojak episode.
These people who say truthfully "I had two lines of a Barnaby Jones episode back in 1978." People who are listed in credits in these shows that again the viewer has no idea who these people are, not even character actors people would recognize but maybe not the name but less than that.
Law and Order franchise is a good example. The one off brodega owner who speaks one or two lines and this is it "Hey, he went thatta way. He threatened me with a knife!"
Were a lot of these people, "real people" with regular jobs who occasionally get called up by someone to do two lines of one show, get paid $300 bucks and are never heard of again. These "E list actors" (less than D) are probably in a lot of things, we just never notice them, and they are totally anonymous. Probably a lot of them have taped their one 1974 Rockford Files episode to show their boring grandchildren.
My question from this was that were there just people from the outside of Hollywood who would be called in as extras or say one or two lines and then back to real life? Like "Edie Porgenstien....Witness #3" in a 1972 Kojak episode.