Being a Background Actor in Movies
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Santee is an amazing actor. He can play any role ! Sheriff, Saloon girl, donkey ! 🤠
You saw me play a donkey? Awesome. I thought nobody recognized me.
...and we saw whatchu were doin' 🤨
I thought we all agreed not to mention Santee being a saloon girl. Especially as some of us are still in therapy.😬
@@anthonycarlisle6184 There's a thought we'll never forget
@@bigblue6917 now there's an idea for an episode: portraying a psychotherapist in the old west.
Very interesting subject! I had never heard of the "featured extra". My wife was an extra on several episodes of the TV show Hunter in the late 80s.
Very cool! I'm sure she enjoyed it.
The bad side of being the 'Extra'? You go to see the film, and laugh in the wrong place. You know what when wrong in the take. 🤣
Yes!
That’s just movie trivia!
@@MistbornPrincess I've done film and TV work with horses. There have ben situations with major stars, that have turned hilarious. Horse don't care, they will make a fool of anyone!
Interesting work. Was in James Michener's Texas and Gambler 5: Playing For Keeps.
There ya go!
I was an extra in North and South Book 2 and Glory. I can be seen in both films. It is fun to see how the movie turned out especially ground explosions that give off little noise or to see sound effects that have been added later but where not there when filming. The thing is you stand around and wait, A lot.
You do, and do the same take over and over.
And Broderick couldn't ride a horse to save his life, if you recall.
Sounds like the military. Hurry up and wait.
This video was over too soon. Very interesting video of all the hard work that all the people do behind the scenes very much appreciated. Looking forward to more of these in the future. 🤠
Appreciated!
Another fine episode. Always wondered about the background people and their interactions on set. I and others forget the actors are just the noticeable top part of the hidden iceberg mob of the film crew. Nice to get a glimpse of the folk that create the movie magic. More inside peaks, please Santee.
Very interesting. I’ve always been intrigued by the logistics of productions. Lots of work behind the scenes.
You're welcome.
2:17 No one mentioning the friggin T-Rex dino walking down the street?! I thought I was seeing things for a second, had to double take haha
He got paid a lot.
Excellent episode Santee… learned lots from this as I was also curious on how background actors worked in a movie… thanks
You're welcome
Great episode 👏🏽. Love to see the follow up.
Thank You!
Very interesting view of the actors who populate a film and nobody really knows who they are. Thanks Santee
You mean you don't recognize "Waiter at Counter?" 🤠
@@ArizonaGhostriders I recognize you and others from Arizona Ghostriders but there are many who people won’t know because they aren’t in many movies where they play any parts that are beyond walk ons or extras. Their role is invaluable in movies and worth making us aware of them.
@@richardrosenthal9552 They are all absolutely invaluable.
My Dad was an extra in Apocalypse Now. He flew one of the Huey helicopters in that scene involving Robert Duvall. He and his fellow pilots got no individual credits, but they did receive the collective thanks of everyone. That was a film that had a lot of production problems.
Still, pretty cool!
Thanks for the insight, Santee. Also, hmm.... NYC without people in it.... Paradise. (Give you one guess where I live, Santee. For more decades than I care to admit.)
Thanks for sharing! I'm fromt there, too.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Yeah, but you managed to escape! I'm still waiting for my cake with a hacksaw baked into it. 😉
After retiring from my second career as a State Corrections Officer and previous 1st career as an Army Soldier, I always wanted to be an extra in westerns.
Do it.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Where would I start?
I've always thought I could be an actor. I'm already a world-class BSer! -Desert Rat Rick
LOL!
Thanks for the behind the scenes. I was an extra for the movie Rookie of the Year when i was in high school. Spent all day sitting in the stands at Wrigely Field pretending to watch a baseball game. Also it was late October in Chicago (really cold too) and we had to pretend like we were in the dog days of summer. OK Everybody jackets off and look warm while filming crowd reaction shots. Hey at least I got a free lunch out of it. Thanks for the insider info as always Santee.
You're welcome!
Very cool! Answered several questions!
Awesome!
Santee, Absolutely awesome stuff. Thank you very much. You and Mrs. Pew Pew have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
Thank you kindly
Thanks again Santee & Co. When i was a US Navy MP in Japan some of my shipmates were hired as extras to portray drunken Sailors and Marines in a film titled A Sign Days . They received a few Yen and got to drink some free beer .
Woohoo!
Sounds like a lot of fun doing Westerns. We did some filming for the 125th anniversary of the Battle of the Wilderness for a docuseries. That was a lot of fun and very loud with several hundred muskets all being fired at one time, and then having to keep up firing for about an hour. It was one continuous roar. I would love to try my hand at Westerns.
Fun stuff!!
I got to work security for a Cuba Gooding Jr. movie decades ago. It was very interesting watching how scenes were set up, rehearsed and then shot.
Neat!! Yeah, it's a real learning process.
That was cool!! Then add Rex galloping down main street and Brazelton’s epic dance performance… Yeehaw!!!
Thank You!
Thanks for the behind the scenes view. Any production usually requires a crew if not an army of invisible people to make it happen, expecially the chuckwagon.
Yes!
This is so cool, Santee. I will have to look carefully at the *extras, in any future Western I view. I'll find you. You'll be the one with the 🦕 . another, great one 🤠🌞👏🏻👏🏻
HAAH! Yes.
"Back to ONE!" On set until 3am. Once you've been on both sides of the camera and movie screen, you see things differently.
You do! It's great learning about all this, right?
@@ArizonaGhostriders Absolutely! I need to grow my wardrobe and hat collection so I can do more.
Well Santee, that's a heck of a cork screw to open that bottle. :) Long time ago, there was a TV Christmas Movie filmed in the small town I was living in. Lot of the extra's were town folk. Travis Tritt, Melissa Gilbet and Gordon Pinochet were in the movie. I only got to talk to Travis who was so easy and nice to talk to. Really interesting to watch how things got done.
Pretty neat!
My wife's uncle just died. He was in hundreds of films/TV shows. He was mostly used as a body double. And often he got no screen credits. He was very good looking, athletic, trim. But didn't do big stunts. Because of his job, which he could always put on hold, he was available nearly anytime to the studio. And it helped he lived nearby. He said a lot of his shots were performed after the regular filming was already done. And the stars had gone. I was also a neighbor to a studio musician and his work.never got screen credit. But he said it was better then being always on tour. Hollywood has a lot of jobs you never heard of.
Sorry for your family loss. Cool that he had such a career!
Interesting and informative as always
Thanks again!
Another awesome job, thank you, y'all are great
Thanks again!
Loved this video! Glad to see stuff about background actors!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mighty interesting! Thanks for sharing 👍
You bet
Another great episode Santee, Thanks for sharing it. I liked the song at the end too. JT
Glad you enjoyed it
I was an extra in the Burt Reynolds TV movie, The Man From Left Field. I got the day off from Middle School (7th or 8th grade.)
Interesting.
Shantee is living legend.. A true cowboy indeed!! Edit :- love from India 🇮🇳❤ And i am a cop.. to be more specific ~ A lawman!!
Thanks, lawman!
Great episode! Being an extra is an awesome experience. So far I have had nothing but positive experiences on all the movies I have been in and highly encourage others to try it at least once! There are definitely plenty of material that can be covered on this topic for future episodes. Did you find a genie in that bottle?
I never got in the darned bottle. Thanks for bringing THAT up!
Absolutely loved this! Please do more on this exciting facet of your life.
Thank You!
Most of us would never guess what work goes into making a film. Thanks so much for sharing. Makes me embarrassed to watch my back of the bus videos that we make. Ha ha ha ha ha 😂 😄 😆
Awww, it's all fun stuff and we learn, right?
@@ArizonaGhostriders yes Sir my friend
Another great one santee!
Thanks for listening
Great episode Santee! Thanks for the look into the background actors. In 1985 I spent a week and a half filming the battle scenes for North and South Book 2. Pretty enlightening. Have a great weekend! Cheers!
Thank You!
Very interesting, Santee. And I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on being an extra. That must be exciting everyday when you come to work.
Absolutely!
another great episode, Santee. Awesome to see you in front of the camera, even if its a smaller role. You are a great actor.
Thank You!
Thanks for giving us an inside look, it must be alot of fun at times!
It really is!
Keep Up The Good Work!!!!!!
Thanks! Will do!
I was fortunate enough to be chosen as an extra for "The World According To Garp"; was filmed in part at my School. Was an experience I'll always remember...hopefully. :)
What a great experience!
This was an Extra special episode today. Thanks, Santee.
LOL!
Very good episode. In a way being a background actor parallels Old West life because they were the capable hard working people that made things happen but never got the credit or recognition. Looking forward to seeing you in the next movie.
Back in the day, even stuntmen didn't get credit.
Great video Santee
Thanks!
So very interestingly awsome and interestingly informative video, I really liked and enjoyed it and I learned alot about background actors in western cinema, Ionce again got a lot of inspiration for both my mythos project ' New Earth Star Files and the Mysteriarch Mythos: Pixel Pioneers and the polygon realms and my spiritual journey/ truth curiosity seeking documents project. Great job and well done, keep up the great work. I'm definitely going to be adding some western cinema and old west frontier history to both my writing projects.
Thank You!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks and your welcome. Right now I'm getting further inspiration from true encounters and true stories of sky creatures, extraterrestrials and UFOs as well as other paranormal and supernatural encounters for both my writing projects. I realized that everyone has their own truths and beliefs of the universe, though I do not fully agree or resonate with the truths and beliefs of star seeds , light workers or galactic emissaries that some people in the world are, I just let people believe what they want and not argue.
Great job santee
Thank You!
If i ever had the chance I'd like to try it
You should.
This is one of those things I've never thought about very much, and it was fascinating!
Glad you learned.
I envy you!! Great stuff....my dream for sure ! I can only do that! Keep up amigo!
Thank You!
Great video! And Bill did a great job dancing in NY.
He always wanted to dance with Gene Kelly.
That so cool! I'd love to do this
It's an experience to cherish
I've always been interested in acting. Even being a background character or an extra would be nice. Thank you for this episode!
You're welcome.
Nondisclosure. I sign them at distilleries all the time.
You do? Didn't know that!
Now thats awesome.
Thank You!
Hi Santee, interesting video on how everything is done making a movie. Never thought about if no xtras no movie. 🤔 Looks like a lot of fun,but I can imagine a lot of hard work too. Thanks for al your hard work and time Sir.🤠🇺🇲
Much appreciated.
Thanks, Santee. It's good to get to know what happens on set.
Thank You!
That's just plain cool Santee!
Thank You!
Interesting Santee, didn't know you where in the movies. Thanks
You're welcome
It sounds quite interesting. It sounds exciting to do for a while
Oh yeah
I m glad you have had the chance
My daughter has been an extra on many TV programs in the Chicago area and a production assistant on many as well. I don't think people have any idea how grueling that work can be. The long hours on set sometimes upwards of 12 to 14 hours. My hat is off to all of you that take on the jobs you do. PS she loves her work and wouldn't have it any other way ..
Nice!
I talked with a background/extra wrangler. At one point, I asked why we were whispering. Appears she did a lot of yelling to be heard the previous day. 😂
Oh!
Interesting!
Thank You!
I'm always amused when reading the credits for the movie "The Blues Brothers", there's an actress extra credited as 'Girl on the Cutting Room Floor'. Didn't make the movie, but she got a credit!
HA!
done been in a couple of movies as background,was even balast for a stage so it wouldn't tip over as it raced around the corner.was lots of fun.
Cool!! It is
I know a guy who was an extra in The Fugitive, and as I was walking the theater, he was walking out, and he shouted “Look for me over the Sheriff’s shoulder in the train wreck scene!” Sure enough, I spotted my buddy in the film!
Fun!
I and a bunch of us Nebraskans, went down to Jekyll Island, Georgia, to be extras in the movie "Glory." We were among 500 other reenactors participating in this brilliant movie. Sure got a lot of marching experience there.
Great movie.
So cool!
Been there, done that. As a reenactor I was privileged to take part in Gettysburg and God's And Generals. Great job there Santee.
Thank You! Congrats.
Ok that was just plain kewl.
🤠
Keep the videos coming... I envy your ability and job... I always wanted to be a cowboy.
Thank You!
The first film I directed was a western (we shot it in school and I persuaded the teacher to "borrow" the school's only camera) By the way, in Germany we use the term Komparsen instead of extras.
Interesting! Thank You!
I love the feeling of being in front of a camera, I've had one main character speaking role and several roles as extras, one movie my speaking extra role as a sport spectator was cut but I didn't mind. The funny thing is they were all sporting movies, one was cricket, then horse racing and then Aussie rules football. Several other roles I have had have not made the screen and one zombie movie I acted in was never completed due to production dispute and all was deleted.
Glad you had the experience.
! Scott Joplins' rag - time music ; from early 1900's. GOOD choice, Sir, !. Theme music, from 1972 movie, THE STING (Paul Newman and gang ). WoW who'da thunk .....eh ?....wow. Wish other U tubers, were as ' tuned in '.../ TO G00D MUSIC.
Thank You!
Thar sounds like fun great video love the song at the end
Recognize Garrett?
@@ArizonaGhostriders yes I did sounded good we got a pretty cool community he did one for me too. Cool to see the channels and creators collaborating and helping each other.
I believe i can play the part of a rock. I've actually been practicing.
🤠
Super fun video , I’ll bet you all have a blast. Love to see one about how some background actors actually bested or helped a director make a better film, since you all likely know a bit more about reality than say the average Hollywood hipsters ! Hate to see some of the new b westerns with rubber soled boots, really cheap hats etc. keep em coming!
Sometimes you find some really neat moments that go on in the background.
Sometimes you find some really great moments initiated by background actors.
Thanks Santee. This episode has helped me to realize that from a very early age, I have been a background actor in my own movie ......
Good!🤠
Got to be on set for an episode of Succession. It didn’t go well as the sky was dark grey cloudy and I definitely bumbled a couple takes.😂. I was told they only used about two seconds of footage from the entire day anyhow.
Awww, well. That happens.
Thanks again Santee for another great video on behind scene in movies. I always wanted to be in a movie so got to be in Travis Mills movie Pearl Hart movie in train station also movie documentary on Pleasant Valley war as a Stetson cowboy where this really happened which make it better. I found interesting the process. -Kid Yuma
Good!
@@ArizonaGhostridersthanks enjoyed it, Long day but fun.
YeeHawwww.....Thanks Santee!
You're welcome.
Better not let Rexy hear you call him an "extra".
HAH!
A nice episode Santee, it’s a good idea to do these as I’ve been on amateur sets where even though I had a main part, the other guy thought the fight scene had to really be fought. It was so bad and the guy couldn’t get it into his head and the guy just didn’t know how to act that I almost walked off set. Unfortunately he was also the director. But I won’t be working with him ever again.
Sounds like a bad deal. Sorry you had that experience.
@@ArizonaGhostriders it’s one of those things Santee, I’ve had good experiences too. I think the world sees things and “presumes” things are done a certain way, without having experience or bothering to learn. The best film set I was on was for a documentary for the life of Tupac. It was a small set but very professional, I have an LAPD Crown Victoria Police Interceptor and the LAPD uniform, and when ever the car is needed for a film set, I always wear my uniform, the director was so impressed with the detail in the uniform he asked if I would be one of the arresting officers, so I got to take Tupac down and handcuff him lol. I wasn’t expecting that, but it’s happened a couple of times when I wear the uniform. I think because I’m 6’ 2” and quite broad shouldered and carry myself with confidence, they notice that, I never slouch in the uniform. I also see it as in that uniform, I’m portraying the LAPD and Police everywhere so I try my best to conduct myself in a professional manner to honour them. At Car shows, I’ve had parents say to their kids, if they don’t behave, they have me arrest them, which I respond, I don’t arrest children, and then pretend to arrest their parent, and pop them in the back of the shop lol, the kids faces light up and gives them a story to tell their friends at school lol 😂
Very cool! Heck of a life! 👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
Sure can be.
Fascinating! You could make a whole movie, about how to make a movie! 🤠 🎥
Yes!
i thought that there was a difference between background actor and extra: extras are just there for being there to flesh out bodies for scenes without notice except existing, while background actors were there to interact and be noticed including having clearly shown faces and roles…like the jury or bartender that you mentioned
Well, now you know they are the same. What you mentioned is "featured extra"
@@ArizonaGhostriders ok, guess someone didn’t like that their careers didn’t take off and coined the term to not feel bas about not having lines and kudos to you: it’s a hard job to not be too noticeable taking away from the speaking actors…i can think of a scene from “Yes, Dear” where Tim Conway was portraying a featured extra on JAG and got fired for that
@@bostonrailfan2427 Quite possible. Since I've had lines in television and movies I can tell you...it doesn't matter to me. I just enjoy the process. Just like every career, for some it's a bigger deal to have their 15 minutes of fame.
I’ve really enjoyed the films I’ve worked on. The magic of movie making is really interesting.
It sure is!
Good thing no one gets to play a cactus. Basically the equivalent of a school play where someone gets to be a background tree😅
HA!
Fun. Im going to be a background actor later this month
Cool!
A friend's dad was in like, 20 movies as an extra. Somehow he knew where to be, and was just put into the TV/Movie scene because they needed background people. I'm not sure if he was paid, but he was fed, lol...
That does happen...just food for work.
That's my dream job right there Santee.
CooL!
Ol Gospel Bill movies/TV were filmed out at Dry Gulch north of Pryor Creek back in the day 🤠🆗
Cool!
That sounds like fun, I'd love to be an extra in movies.
It is.
Well, Santee, I think the next movie set you’re involved in, you should walk right up to the producer and demand to have the leading role, you know, the one who rides off into the sunset with the beautiful leading lady.
Hmmm....that just might work!
I was an extra for 10 nights in a movie made here in KC; Article 54. Good experience.
CooL!
My wife was in the movie "The Doors" with Val Kilmer. She was in the audience when Val was on stage, and she was on the sidewalk when Val walked by. They paid her with food. In both shots, you see her maybe for 3 or 4 seconds. But she's in there never the less. She was in another movie, and I can't recall what movie. I can't ask her now she passed away last May. Both times, they paid her with food. She said it was fun.
That's so cool! Sorry for her passing.
Hm. “Corkscrews in the Old West. Let’s check it out.” ;)
I found out they knew I was coming. The cork is GLUED in!!!!
never knew a lot of this😎
Glad to help!
Hey Santee, Did you have two spots in Far Haven?If not, there is a stunt triple racing around.
Yes, I had a couple of nice moments. Rest of the time I'm crossing the street.