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Tankeryanker
04-17-2018, 06:47 PM
I was watching The Birds this morning and noticed Benji had a role as a kid eating at a diner.

stevea
04-17-2018, 07:38 PM
I always get those 2 kids mixed up (Rory Stevens and Joey Scott) in threads, but there was a thread pretty recently about one of them being in The Birds. Benji is Joey Scott--so he was in The Birds--was Rory Stevens (Chuckie), too?

Tankeryanker
04-17-2018, 07:41 PM
Benji and Chuckie are two different kids?

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 08:42 PM
I always thought it was Chucky , Rory Stevens that was in The Birds! Not 100 percent sure being he was uncredited, but to me that kid looks more like Chucky than like Benji !;)

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 08:45 PM
I was watching The Birds this morning and noticed Benji had a role as a kid eating at a diner.


No, only one of them was in The Birds and I personally think it was Rory Stevens/ Chucky ! ;)

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 08:48 PM
Benji and Chuckie are two different kids?


Yep, two very similar little blonde boys.:) I get them mixed up too! :D

stevea
04-17-2018, 08:55 PM
Yeah, it's confusing--but, yes, they're different kids. Joey Scott played Benji Bellamy, and Rory Stevens played Chuckie Murdock.

I checked IMDB and Wikipedia and neither one is shown in the cast on those sites. IMDB lists Jeannie Russell--I think she was in Dennis the Menace.

stevea
04-17-2018, 09:02 PM
Joey Scott (Benji) is the kid who spilled the green paint all over himself, and in season 3, got upset when he thought Larry turned Beaver into a rock.

Rory Stevens (Chuckie) was the (at the time) unnamed kid who was buying ice cream from Wally when he was selling Igloo bars, and later needed shoes, and Beaver took him to the shoe store.

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 09:14 PM
Joey Scott (Benji) is the kid who spilled the green paint all over himself, and in season 3, got upset when he thought Larry turned Beaver into a rock.

Rory Stevens (Chuckie) was the (at the time) unnamed kid who was buying ice cream from Wally when he was selling Igloo bars, and later needed shoes, and Beaver took him to the shoe store.


I'm thinking Benji seemed a little younger and more babyish than Chuckie? :confused: But other than that, they were very similar! ;)

stevea
04-17-2018, 09:21 PM
Which one, or were both, in The Birds?

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 09:24 PM
Which one, or were both, in The Birds?


Read post # 5! ;) :wave:

stevea
04-17-2018, 10:36 PM
Yes, sorry about that--just saw post 5--obviously missed it before. I think Chuckie was the one we were talking about in the other thread. Whichever one that was.

Tankeryanker
04-17-2018, 10:55 PM
Second picture down shows the only glimpse I can find of the boy in the diner.

https://thelastdrivein.com/2013/01/16/hysterical-woman-of-the-week-doreen-lang-at-the-diner-in-the-birds-1963/

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 11:02 PM
Yes, sorry about that--just saw post 5--obviously missed it before. I think Chuckie was the one we were talking about in the other thread. Whichever one that was.

Oh, don't worry, it's cool! ;) These posts go so fast, it's easy to overlook one!! ;) Yeah, and come to think about it, I was in on that thread about Chuckie being in The Birds, I can't remember which thread it was on either though ? :confused:

Bonniegirl
04-17-2018, 11:13 PM
Second picture down shows the only glimpse I can find of the boy in the diner.

https://thelastdrivein.com/2013/01/16/hysterical-woman-of-the-week-doreen-lang-at-the-diner-in-the-birds-1963/


Very cool!!!;) From that picture it is kind of hard to tell which one of the blonde boys it is? :confused: Last time I saw The Birds I checked the DVD out from the Public Library , I'm thinking to go over and get it again and specifically watch this scene extra closely and see if again I think it's Chuckie ? I LOVE this movie anyway, so if I get time to get to the library I will do this! ;)

Doesn't that hysterical lady look like she is too old to be those kids Mother ? :eek: :confused: More like she is the Grandmother ! ;)

Scrabjan1
04-18-2018, 07:42 AM
In a recent post called Beaver the Babysitter I mentioned in the 8th thread how I saw a bit of The Birds and there was Rory in the diner with his neurotic mother. It was not Joey Scott the two don’t really look alike. He got no billing. I’ve seen Rory in Gomer Pyle and he looks the same but nothing like his brother, Rusty. If you put Rory-Chuckie next to Joey-Benjy they just have blond hair.

Torgo
04-18-2018, 08:28 AM
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stevea
04-18-2018, 09:19 AM
Totally uncredited. He wasn't even on the uncredited list on IMDB. Probably because he had no lines.

Thanks, Scrabjan, for pointing out the other thread.

Scrabjan1
04-20-2018, 03:27 PM
Welcome!!!

Bonniegirl
04-20-2018, 03:37 PM
And Thank you Torgo for the really cool pictures! :) ;) :wave:

Oh yes, there we can clearly see it's Rory! Such an adorable little boy!:)

Hazel Anyday
04-20-2018, 11:10 PM
I still can't tell the difference, they both look alike to me.

Bonniegirl
11-21-2018, 02:51 AM
I just was doing some more research on Rory Stevens and he played Lester in the Going, Going steady Brady Bunch ep. !;) He was the boy Marcia went steady with after Harvey Klinger the insect expert !!:D

https://bradybunchreviewed.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/lester.jpg?w=397&h=274


He also was in a Season 1 ep. of One day at a time playing Jeff, a boyfriend of Julie's!:) I can't find a picture of him from there though!

stevea
11-21-2018, 08:40 AM
He was also in a My Three Sons, I think from season 7. It was the one where Ernie thinks he sees a flying saucer.