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Author Topic: Is your name a movie character's name? Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-08-2009 12:31 AM                     Pretty simple premise. Find a movie where your name is the same as one of its characters and post it here. Or post other FT member names and examples of movie characters with identical names. To get started, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was one of the biggest big budget movie disasters of the 1970's. The songs from the classic Beatles album were forced into movie form with The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton playing the main characters. I think Aerosmith and Steve Martin were among the few whose careers were not totally screwed up by this movie. Surprisingly, one of the HBO channels was airing this thing tonight and as I was flipping past it I caught my own name mentioned. Yeah. The balding drummer from the Bees Gees (the late Maurice Gibb) played a character named "Bob Henderson." Shit. Why couldn't my name by used by a character in a cool movie?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-08-2009 09:09 AM                       Interesting. IMDB search shows Clint Howard played a character named Tim Reed in a movie called, "Salty" (1973). I'll have to look out for that one. Otherwise, closest I came was one of the guys on the TV show "Emergency" was called Jim Reed. It sounded like my name sometimes. Also, the actor Tim Reid was Venus Flytrap on "WKRP". But that was it.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 08-08-2009 10:19 AM                        No characters, but some actor named me apparently played about 25 different bit roles on bad TV shows I mostly didn't recognize. I'm thinking he's British. Oh, and I apparently wrote an episode of "Batman" and some dialogue for "The Little Mermaid". WHERE THE HELL ARE MY ROYALTIES  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-08-2009 01:07 PM                        |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 08-08-2009 01:27 PM                     I think I'm safe from this one.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-08-2009 02:53 PM                        Me too, unless there's a character named "Mike Leonard" or something. (Leonard being my middle name.)  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-08-2009 03:26 PM                        No movie characters, though Calvin Trillin wrote a story once where a novelist with my name (and spelling) won an award. Several people have asked me what novel I won an award for. My mother even thought he based it on me (and I've never written a novel).  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-08-2009 05:16 PM                     Not yet, but Jeff Goldblum is in talks to play me in an untitled bio-pic to be released sometime in the future.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-10-2009 02:12 AM                     White Hunter, Black Heart Read it and weep boys.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-10-2009 10:17 AM                     There was a movie called "Joshua" that came out a few years ago but he certainly did not have my Scandanavian last name.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-10-2009 01:33 PM                     Not me, but there is one actor whose name is close to mine: Antonio Banderas. A long time ago the "new girl" at a vendor I dealt with thought I was the actor trying to get under the radar with my real name. Now if the novel I'm writing makes it into a movie form, well there will be a character with my real name in a movie then.  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 08-10-2009 05:39 PM                    No but a couple with the surname Chet (the hook) McCracken (Slapshot) Big Ern McCracken (Kingpin) Both bad guys.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-10-2009 05:49 PM                        Claude Raines & Claude Jarmin Jr. perhaps but Claude Ayakawa? No way, Jose! -Claude  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 08-10-2009 07:29 PM                        Speaking of quote: Todd McCracken McCracken ... on the episode titled "Day's Play" of the TV show "Cheyenne", John Durren plays a character named Phil McCracken: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0540103/ -- As for me, I haven't heard of any with my first & last name. In past internet searches I've come across a TV weatherman somewhere with my name, maybe he'll be in a movie one day. Of course there's the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy" which was pretty popular when I was in HS, but that's off topic.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-10-2009 09:34 PM                     quote: Jeremy Jorgenson on the episode titled "Day's Play" of the TV show "Cheyenne", John Durren plays a character named Phil McCracken That sounds like a stage name for someone who performs in gay adult videos.  |  IP: Logged

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