Saturday, August 29, 2015

Lawrence McCutcheon in Hollywood

According to IMDB McCutcheon played himself in Wonder Woman in 1978. It was his only television or movie credit.




However, McCutcheon was also an extra in 1976's Gus, along with quite a few other Rams players who were uncredited. In the first shot, McCutcheon is on the far right, in the second shot he's on the far lest, with Fred Dryer on the far right.


Friday, August 14, 2015

Roman Gabriel's Work in Hollywood

 Gabriel began his Hollywood work in 1966 on Gilligan's Island as an Island Native
Next was Skidoo in which he played a prison guard.
After that, he played "Blue Boy" in the John Wayne epic The Undefeated:





Gabriel made an appearance on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
In 1970 Gabriel played Lt. Holloway in the TV show Ironsides
Khan! was next in 1975 in which he played himself and starred with Joe Kapp.
In the TV Series Wonder Woman  he played himself.
The next year, 1979 he again played himself in The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, the premise being an annual rival football game with another Sheriff's.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The Replacements (2000)

The Replacements  was based loosly on the 1987 NFL strike replacement teams (scabs) that were composed of some interesting players, some former NFL players, some who were not quite NFL-level and many who were not even close to NFL level talent.

This film did not have NFL cooporation and had no logos associated with the NFL. Only John Madden and Pat Summerall had any NFL connection. At the time both were Television Broadcasters for Fox. As far as we know there were no NFL athletes in the actions scenes, but readers may have information we don't currently have. IMDB.com does not list a football advisor or coordinator as many films do.

Partial cast:
Keanu Reeves,  Gene Hackman,  Brooke Langton,  Orlando Jones,  Clifford Franklin, Faizon Love, Jamal Jackson, Michael Taliferro,  Ace Yonamine,  Troy Winbush,  David Denman,  Jon Favreau, Michael Jace,  Rhys Ifans  
Favreau and Ifans
Favreau
  

Reeves

Love, Reeves and Taliferro

Monday, August 3, 2015

Charlie Britts Hollywood Connection

Los Angeles Rams defensive back Charles Britt was married to actress Pamela Austin

He gets a line in the Ozzie and Harriot show: