Bit players became heroes just for making it on camera.
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Either way, candidates can increasingly feel like bit players in their own campaigns.
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Sometimes immersive shows make their participants the main characters, other times bit players.
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A new generation of Arab novelists elevates Jews from bit-players to centre-stage.
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Or according to Politico, "the Kushners were no longer bit players from the Jersey swamps."
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Bit players come and go, disappearing and reappearing without a clear indication of their ultimate importance.
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"The girls and the women involved were relegated to bit players in the narrative," she said.
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On most African reserves, for example, waterbucks are uncommon, bit players compared to other antelope species.
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Other bit players spin through the chaos of Westeros, trying to grab a little peace or safety.
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The British investigative documentarian Nick Broomfield is a natural sensationalist, drawn to bit players in tabloid dramas.
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Meanwhile, they were largely bit players during Republican attempts to roll back or repeal Obamacare in 2017.
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The Ghost Nation were introduced in season 1 as bit players in the larger landscape of the park.
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That approach demotes neighboring empires and native peoples to bit players and minor obstacles to inevitable American expansion.
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Lest you dismiss my observation by assuming it is only bit-players like Michael Cohen, you are wrong.
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Producers are becoming pop stars, songwriters thrust into the foreground, bit players transformed into leading men and women.
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If it enforces the laws against anyone, it targets the bit players — while the big fish swim away.
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All but one of the sitters have been cast as emoting bit players in a French Romantic drama.
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Maher excels at finding the bit players who often seem to have more power than the main cast.
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After an intense debate amongst our entertainment team, we decided to round up some television's most hated bit players.
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Actual Iranians are just bit players in our imperialistic soap opera, the passive recipients of our greatness or perfidy.
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Just as Seinfeld had four primary characters with others making regular cameo appearances, so here there are many bit players.
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Some worried that Lebanese people would not only be bit players in their own history, but violent ones at that.
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They don't know who will see them -- players (maybe even bit players) in the administration -- as a deserving target for violence.
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In that time period, private equity firms have gone from bit players in the startup ecosystem to major actors in it.
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With so much tabloid coverage comes so many questions … and so many forgotten bit players in the MTV drama that rocked America.
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These groups were once bit players in the conservative organizational universe, controlling about 6 percent of the money in right-wing politics.
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The combatants at Fenway were bit players — the Yankees' Tyler Austin charged the Red Sox' Joe Kelly — but the uniforms mattered most.
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One of the bit players in The Seventh Function of Language, encountered at the Ithaca conference, is the translator and theorist Jeffrey Mehlman.
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Childbirth is all about the woman in labor, obviously, and those of us in attendance are just bit players in the main event.
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It's a strange mark of distinction that even the bit players in Coen movies are so specific and memorable that they can be distracting.
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Of note, internet service providers are relative bit players in the $83 billion digital ad market, which made singling them out for heavier regulations so suspect.
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For most Americans, Native Americans are little more than a footnote in the history books, bit players in the founding and expansion of the United States.
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The tablet space seems to be on a years-long innovation hiatus, while most of the new phones at CES were niche products from bit players.
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It's fun when the biggest games turn on bit players, but there's a different gravity to it when they sit squarely on the most renowned shoulders.
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It recounts his first marriage, to the painter Joan Mitchell, but subsequent wives — there were five in all — appear, minus introductions, as bit players in anecdotes.
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Co-owner and cameraman Matthew Wolfe, on-screen "talent" Andre Garcia, and a litany of companies and bit players are named alongside Pratt as co-defendants.
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Too often in the classic War Story, Iraq and Iraqis are often merely the exotic backdrop or inscrutable bit players in the journey of American bildungsroman.
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Now that it's gone, the number of platforms willing to play host to him seems limited to bit players like far-right social network Gab and Google+.
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A closer look at Mr. Nadler's initial 81 targets — a mix of household names and bit players — reveals a web of lines of inquiry and overlapping interests.
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There were cameos by familiar bit players: the Naked Cowboy and a man who paces through the lobby reading aloud from books like "Night," by Elie Wiesel.
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Richardson, who spent parts of his childhood living with his mom in Ghana, saw to it that the casting department stayed accurate, right down to the bit players.
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Indeed, Mr Kaine and his opponent, Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, seem bit players in the drama, drawing the spotlight only during their nominations in the summer.
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Mackay's sax and Manzanera's guitar solo complete the moving Beatle tribute, so it's a shame that Ferry reduced their roles in Roxy to bit players by their final album.
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They wind up bit players in the Sturm und Drang of it all, overshadowed by financial finagling and designer wrangling, when they should be the focus of the conversation.
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The secondary can't really tackle outside of Kareem Jackson, but Houston has gotten enough from bit players like A.J. Bouye to survive a slew of injuries in the secondary.
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The standardized apartment blocks essential to the Yugoslav cityscape — the ones that I was most familiar with — appear only as bit players in some of the sections on urban planning.
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Mohamed Sanu and Taylor Gabriel are good bit players, but they were exposed when asked to win one-on-one with Logan Ryan in the slot and Malcolm Butler outside.
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But in telling a small story of bit players, the director, Jon Spira, captures a more universal picture of the droplets of fame created by a pop-culture tidal wave.
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Even firms regarded as bit players in Silicon Valley are larger than Britain's home-grown content platforms, measured by aggregate time spent online by British users—Sweden's Spotify beats the BBC.
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In France and the Netherlands, once-mighty centre-left parties have been reduced to bit players; in Italy and Germany they have been pushed into third place behind populists or Greens.
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Thus does David Bell, in "Americana," hope to discover in the small towns and bit players of this uncontainable country something that will make him one with the pure incandescent image.
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Klay Thompson was uncharacteristically cold from three, shooting 0-7, and the Warriors relied on (very talented, but still) bit players Mo Speights and Ian Clark to keep them in the game.
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The international grapes that were planted at the beginning of Priorat's renaissance, like cabernet sauvignon, merlot and syrah, have faded to bit players, allowing the traditional local grapes to define the wines.
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They said that they did not question the credibility of the women who came forward, but that his death showed how bit players can be swept up with perpetrators, and badly hurt.
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From gang members to an Evangelical Christian who painted an enormous holy trinity based on Hollywood bit players, Varda's film radiates empathy and respect, even ensuring the muralists are credited in voiceover.
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A celebrity romance that plays a constant, seemingly exhausting game of cat and mouse with the media is tricky, but so far Hiddleswift and its assorted bit players are doing their damnedest.
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The Court concurs with DOD's extensive review – that the individuals at issue were "bit players," in the Court's own words, and the alleged conflicts had no impact on the integrity of the procurement.
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He returned on a minor league deal in February, and on Wednesday he joined Ishikawa and the former starter Ryan Vogelsong as bit players from the past who came back to help in October.
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It introduced many to Tobey Maguire, who we promptly abandoned in 2007, and the cast is rounded out by bit players who ended up becoming household names — including J.K. Simmons, James Franco, Elizabeth Banks, and Octavia Spencer.
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It also shows how cellphone pioneers like Nokia, Ericsson of Sweden and Motorola, whose patents are now owned by Google, are still trying to profit from the industry in which they are now bit players, at best.
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In any case, Ms. Ryan and Mr. Hanks are bit players here; the real focus is Alex Neustaedter, a relative newcomer who does a creditable job as Homer (a role played by Mickey Rooney in a 1943 film version).
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This makes Harrison Barnes sound worse than he is, but his boring competence stands out on this effervescent, devastating Warriors squad, where even bit players like Shaun Livingston and Mo Speights have a certain danger and panache to them.
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If our shorthand description of the war at this remove is "Allies defeat evil Axis," the journey to that endpoint was a jumble of major figures and bit players, noble efforts and vile intentions, cataclysmic events and quiet vignettes.
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Bit players though they may be, Rick and Cliff occasionally intersect with what's on course to become legend — namely, up-and-coming actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), who happens to be Rick's next-door neighbor, and members of the Manson Family.
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But if Thompson can outproduce Portland's backcourt by himself, and if Curry can get healthy while he watches it happen from the sideline, the Blazers will be little more than bit players in a Golden State season moving toward June.
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In one sense, "Lost Landscapes of New York" is a rejoinder to the more familiar commercialized visons of the city that fantasies and deep pockets produce, one that turns it into an atmospheric set and its people into bit players.
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But on one evening last October, there we were — a motley crew of movie extras, bit players and retirees — gawking at a magnificent panorama of Manhattan, while sipping complimentary chardonnay and nibbling on fruit and cheese in its 24th floor lounge.
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Like Ferber herself, this production takes sympathetic note of the bit players as well as the stars of her story, including in the background the stevedores on the wharves, the women sweeping up the hotel rooms and the waiters serving in the nightclubs.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) could have limited the supply of opioids and taken stronger legal action against companies that carelessly let their drugs proliferate to unscrupulous prescribers, instead of focusing on bit players, like pill mills that popped up across the country.
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Photo company Kodak is now selling crypto miners, while other bit players like iced tea companies and Hooters franchises have all announced weird blockchain tie-ins with the hope of cashing in before investors wake up sober the next day and realize what they've done.
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But this is also star-studded cast — here are a few of the minor and even bit players: Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Annette Bening (who is married to Beatty), Martin Sheen, Haley Bennett, Paul Schneider, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Coogan.
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After those games, the bit players will leave the stage, and it will be time for the Yankees and the Red Sox, first in the Bronx, then a week later at Fenway, and then, two weeks later, back in the Bronx again on Labor Day weekend.
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Yet there are others, like Carter Page—who was a target of a federal counterintelligence surveillance warrant through much of 2016—and Felix Sater, a one-time intelligence asset himself, who may be bit players in the entire matter or may end up proving to be consequential figures.
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" The characters Jean Valjean and Javert become bit players in this excruciating and wayward production, much of it filmed by a camera crew that follows the actors around, often capturing them in extreme close-up, like a cross between an Ingmar Bergman film and "The Blair Witch Project.
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In fact, I would argue the only other one out there is Maia, whose Brazilian jiu-jitsu is so glorious that over and over again he's used it to minimize the greatest fighters in the welterweight division and turn them into bit players in the great novel he himself is writing.
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As I play, I wonder if players who look like me came up in the meetings where Hangar 13 writers pitched one another on this bit; players who've had the word "nigger" hurled at them as (and sometimes, along with) a weapon as we move through our days and nights.
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Yoon weaves brief narratives from bit players (an immigration lawyer in love with his paralegal, a just-barely-hanging-on security guard, a grieving drunken driver who almost runs down Natasha) and interstitial entries on topics like "Hair: An African-American History" into the overarching love story between Daniel and Natasha.
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Any given episode is 22 minutes, after commercials, and when you have to set up six main characters and a handful of funny bit players, as the Great News pilot does, then you have limited real estate to do anything but frantically hurl jokes at the wall in the hopes something will work.
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It is clear from the episodes and set pieces that she has read a lot of background material, absorbed what she has read, and selected both major and minor incidents to fictionalize, usually by adding an array of diverse and wildly interesting characters — bit players, to use Hollywood parlance — that achieve star status.
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But the cast as a whole is terrific, from one-scene bit players to Anne Dudek and Adam Lustick as Kate and John, two toadying junior executives who serve as warning signs for where Jake and Matt might end up, to comedian Aparna Nancherla as a beleaguered human resources rep who's the closest thing the show has to a character who's an actual human being.
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GM Bobby Evans, who took over from long-time head man Brian Sabean a few months after the final out of the 2014 World Series, has spent his time at the helm finding bit players and the occasional star willing to buy into the San Francisco way, and who is able to contribute some specific skill set to a club that seems perennially locked into 85-95 wins.
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Pablo Trapero, in neo-realist fashion, used extras and bit players when he filmed.
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Miguel Pereira, in neo-realist fashion, used extras and bit players when he filmed in the Jujuy Province and Chorcán.
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Many of the extras and bit players (both Israelis and Palestinians) were reenacting in the film scenes they experienced in their own lives.
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Edward Gargan (July 17, 1902February 19, 1964) was an American film and television actor, one of the most prolific bit players in the history of film.
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Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins is a 2012 English non-fiction book written by Anthony Slide about the relatively unknown actors of cinema of the United States.
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Harrison's Reports called it "Excellent! ... Lewis Milestone's direction is masterful, and the performances, from the stars to the bit players, are superb.""'Edge of Darkness' with Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston." Harrison's Reports, March 27, 1943, p. 50.
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The film, which stars among Sennett's bit players Jess Dandy, Al St. John, John T. Dillon, and Helen Carruthers, is far more centered and clear in direction. Comedy flows from within the story rather than as a by-product of story. After all this is a typical bank robbery storyline.
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Gowland went to the United States from Britain by way of Canada in 1913 where he met Beatrice Bird, also from Great Britain, whom he married. They moved to Hollywood, working as bit players. In 1914 he acted in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, followed by Intolerance. In 1916, his son, actor and photographer Peter Gowland, was born.
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According to financial data prepared by MGM in 1956, Radio Bugs cost $22,121 to produce, but lost $4,759 at the box office. The real Red Skelton provides the voiceover for the radio show Froggy's family enjoys during the first scenes of the film. One of the bit players in this short is Mickey Rooney's father Joe Yule, who portrays one of the pained dental patients.
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They did prefer to hire lead actors with some name recognition but would hire experienced bit players so they would not hold up production. Pine said they often got ideas from the newspapers. They did not make many murder mysteries because the majors did them and they did not want to compete. Pine says he and Thomas were paid out of the profits of their films.
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Writing for Entertainment Weekly, critics Mary Kaye Schilling and Mike Flaherty stated "Even Seinfeld's bit players must have some grounding in reality — you need to love to hate them. Ultimately, there's no redeeming comic payoff to Rava's and Ray's weirdness." Flaherty and Schilling graded the episode with a C-. Colin Jacobson of the DVD Movie Guide called the episode's storyline "fairly pedestrian," but felt the performances of Conway and Koppel saved the episode.
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She then went on to her first sitcom, What I Like About You (2002-2005), with Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth. While on hiatus from the show, she produced and directed and features. Her first short film she produced, Mutual Love Life (1999), received Oscar consideration as Top 10 Live Action Short. She then worked as associate producer for Bit Players, which led her to her first trip to Sundance Film Festival.
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While famous actors like William Shatner of Star Trek are paid tens of thousands of dollars per convention, minor and obscure bit players pay to set up booths to sell autographs and memorabilia. Commercial events also tend to have less small-scale programming; panels will more often be composed of famous actors, directors, etc. on press junkets, where the panels are held in very large rooms with very high attendance. The largest conventions (in terms of attendance) tend to be commercial ones.
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TCM.com reports that Mary Astor later recalled that the constantly expanding internment of Japanese Americans ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 3, 1942, deprived Japanese actors of their jobs on the film. The file on Across the Pacific in the USC Cinema-Television Library shows that ethnically Chinese actors were cast as the Japanese characters from the beginning. Aside from Technical Advisor Dan Fujiwara and “a few bit players”, there were no ethnically Japanese participants in Across the Pacific.
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He argued that dialogue is a form of art and that audiences, and not film producers, should set limits on what constitutes moral and ethical dialogue. He essentially outlined an argument that it is appropriate for external forces to censor films. In November 1929, he founded the United Character Actors' Association that purported to represent day actors, such as bit players and extras. However, day actors only earned $15 a day and Pease could not earn a living operating the association.
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This film, like several previous Fox Films such as The Queen of Sheba, A Daughter of the Gods and some Theda Bara films, featured full nudity in some sequences. Actress Pauline Starke is completely nude in the Hell sequences, with the exception of a large flowing black wig that covers her nether regions. Some bit players and extras are fully nude. The different prints of the film were more than likely edited according to the attitudes of the different regions or parts of the world they played in.
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Even the order of their deaths is preordained: First the extras die, then the bit players, then the featured actors, until finally only the hero and the villain are left." James Berardinelli gave the film two stars out of four, writing: "The Substitute has its moments, all of which fall in the realm of high camp. ... Nevertheless, aside from a lot of only moderately-satisfying violence, The Substitute comes across as rather lame. It's not boring, but that dubious qualification isn't enough to earn the movie a passing grade.
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Burbank Studios and the Warner Ranch in Calabasas. The archery tournament was filmed at the former Busch Gardens, now part of Lower Arroyo Park, in Pasadena. Stunt men and bit players, padded with balsa wood on protective metal plates, were paid $150 per arrow for being shot by professional archer Howard Hill. Hill, although listed as the archer captain defeated by Robin, was cast as Elwen the Welshman, an archer seen shooting at Robin in his escape from Nottingham castle and, later, defeated by Robin at the archery tournament.
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The preview audience remains the only one who saw Pitts in the role, although she does appear for about 30 seconds in the film's original preview trailer. The film was shot with two cameras side by side, with one negative edited as a sound film and the other edited as an "International Sound Version" for distribution in non-English speaking areas. A great number of German Army veterans were living in Los Angeles at the time of filming and were recruited as bit players and technical advisers. Around 2,000 extras were utilized during production.
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When Sennett left to found Keystone Studios, Henry Lehrman joined him, working as an actor, a screenwriter, and as the first director of Charlie Chaplin. In 1915, Lehrman established his own film company called the L-KO Kompany to make two-reel comedies for Universal Studios. He was notorious for his low regard for actors, such as for Charlie Chaplin in the actor's earliest films, and his willingness to place his actors in dangerous situations earned him the nickname "Mr. Suicide". Author Kalton C. Lahue noted that bit players and extras actually refused calls from L-KO.
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On October 4, 1938, Walshe was cast in the most prominent role of his career: his feature film debut in The Wizard of Oz, where he played Nikko, the leader of the Winged Monkeys. Unlike the other monkeys, Nikko was a credited role, serving as the Wicked Witch's (played by Margaret Hamilton) Minion and second-in-command. Though he had no spoken lines, performing only through physical movement, he received on-screen credit (rare for bit players at the time). Instead of the simple stage makeup he generally used in his shows, he had to wear complex prosthetics designed by Jack Dawn.
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Other roles followed in the 1950s and 1960s including Orson Welles' 1955 production of Moby Dick—Rehearsed. In his autobiography, Fading into the Limelight, Sallis recounts a later meeting with Welles where he received a mysterious telephone call summoning him to the deserted Gare d'Orsay in Paris where Welles announced he wanted him to dub Hungarian bit- players in his cinema adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial (1962). Sallis wrote that "the episode was Kafka-esque, to coin a phrase". Later, he was in the first West End production of Cabaret in 1968 opposite Judi Dench.
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Players and missiles were also updated, including four 8-bit players and four 2-bit missiles, but also allowing an additional mode to combine the four missiles into a fifth player. Shortly after design began, the home computer revolution started in earnest in the later half of 1977. In response, Atari decided to release two versions of the new machine, a low-end model as a games console, and a high-end version as a home computer. In either role, a more complex playfield would be needed, especially support for character graphics in the computer role.
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King of the Gypsies is a 1978 American drama film by Paramount Pictures starring Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Annette O'Toole and Judd Hirsch. Directed by Frank Pierson, the screenplay was adapted by Pierson from the 1975 book King of the Gypsies by Peter Maas, which tells the story of Steve Tene and his Romani (Gypsy) family. Several technical advisors, bit players and extras who worked on the movie were real gypsies. David Grisman composed the score, which prominently featured legendary jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli; both men also appeared onscreen as gypsy musicians.
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He was popular and well enough known to headline many of the comedies. He made a transition to supporting character roles in sound films, often playing cockney types in later life, as in the Bulldog Drummond film series, Mysterious Mr. Moto and as a London newspaper vendor in "A Ghost for Scotland Yard", a 1953 episode of The Adventures of Superman.Anthony Slide (2012)Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins P.162, University Press of Mississippi. Cook married actress Alice née Draper in 1925 and a child, Julia, was born of the union.
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As a publicity promotion for Colton, Fox cast the unknown actor in the lead and billed him directly below sex goddess Mansfield. During the filming of the feature, Mansfield and Colton had a brief love affair, unknown at the time. Both Nico Minardos and Bob Mathias were added as supporting characters at the last minute when the appearances of both Lt. Alexi and Coach Graham were lengthened to become more than bit players. Less experienced actors had initially been cast, but when Fox demanded the roles be lengthened, the more experienced Minardos and Mathias were brought in as replacements.
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In 2014, Rosselyn Domingo and her boyfriend Alvin Campomanes, a history professor from the University of the Philippines, who played as bit players in the teleseries Forevermore, accused Molina, talent supplier John Leonardo and a woman named "Jeng" of mistreatment of their extra. Domingo points that Molina allegedly said foul words and humiliated her and Campomanes during a taping of the drama series shot in Benguet. The open letter of Domingo with a complaint of Campomanes addressed to Cory Vidanes, ABS-CBN's COO, originally posted on Facebook on December 31, 2015. Film director Peque Gallaga backed the two talent's testimonies against Molina.
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Arthur Rhodes, Bengie Molina, and Lonnie Smith played in the World Series against a team they played for earlier in the season, guaranteeing them World Series rings regardless of the series outcome. As both the physical size and number of rings given out has increased, teams have started producing both "A" and "B" versions, and sometimes "C" versions, that are similar in appearance but smaller in size and use cheaper materials. The most expensive "A" rings are typically reserved for full-time players, coaches, and executives, while bit players and other team employees receive the cheaper "B" and "C" rings.
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Welles also dubbed the dialogue for 11 actors in The Trial. Welles reportedly dubbed a few lines of Anthony Perkins’ dialogue and challenged Perkins to identify the dubbing. Perkins was unable to locate the lines where Welles dubbed his voice. In actor Peter Sallis's 2006 autobiography, Fading into the Limelight, Sallis details how he starred with Orson Welles in Welles' stage play, Moby Dick—Rehearsed and tells of a later meeting with him where he received a mysterious telephone call summoning him to the deserted and spooky Gare d'Orsay in Paris, where Welles announced he wanted him to dub all the Hungarian bit-players in The Trial.
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Yardley captained the team in which Hutton and Lowson were the established openers although, with Hutton's Test calls, there were more opportunities for Halliday and Geoffrey Keighley. Lester, Watson, Wilson and Billy Sutcliffe were the other batsmen and Brennan was the wicket-keeper. The main bowlers were Wardle, Coxon and Eddie Leadbeater. Brian Close was doing his national service and could only make a single appearance, Ellis Robinson had departed and Ron Aspinall's career had been wrecked by his injury. So Trueman and Whitehead, who made 13 appearances, contested the fourth bowling place but one of the bit players was Bob Appleyard, who would make a major impact in 1951.
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The production model resembled that of movies more than normal US television series. Each complete series — equivalent to three seasons of conventional dramas — was filmed in about four months, as nine crews worked simultaneously,MyNetworkTV to offer series of 'telenovelas' : Entertainment : Evansville Courier Press For example, Desire used three directors, 50 cast members, 200 bit players, 2,000 extras and 2,800 script pages (compared to 120 pages for features and 45 for dramas). Two main groups worked on the novelas, one for the Desire brand and one for Secret Obsessions serials. The Desire shows, such as Watch Over Me, were more action- oriented to attract more male viewers.
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An important distinction can be made between commercial events (often called "shows") – those run by dedicated companies who specialize in con organization, or by local for-profit firms – and volunteer-run cons. Usually run for profit, commercial events tend to charge for "tickets" or "admission" rather than having "memberships". A primary focus of commercial events is meeting celebrities, such as stars of science fiction TV show and movies, anime voice actors, etc. There are frequently very long lines of people waiting for autographs at commercial events; while famous actors like William Shatner of Star Trek are paid tens of thousands of dollars per convention, minor and obscure bit players pay to set up booths to sell autographs and memorabilia.
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By 2000 their producer and director was Colin Bromley, and by 2004 Thorburn had left the group with Butts and Demarest set to continue. In June 2006 they ended their association with the ABC, and entered into a new distribution deal with Warner Bros. For their 2006 material additional voices were provided by Kirsten Butts – wife of David Butts – and Mal Heap; they were produced by Jill Coleburn, and directed by Missy Stephens-Gaha. In February 2007 The Australians Michael Bodey and Jim Gaines described how The Hooley Dooleys had "broken free in contentious circumstances", the group had been restricted at the ABC to "merely bit players below the [network's] premier suite of money- spinners, The Wiggles, Bananas in Pyjamas and Play School".
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Missile to the Moon is an even lower-budget remake of the low-budget film drama Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) and closely follows the plot details of the earlier feature. That film offered 3D as its big attraction, but all its male characters were middle-aged. The 1958 remake opted to better appeal to a teenage audience by adding a pair of youthful escaped convicts, one a good kid who had made a mistake, the other an incorrigible crook, and providing them with lunar love interests in due course. In the 1953 film, the bit players portraying the minor Moon maidens are described as "Hollywood cover girls"; in the remake, they are credited as "international beauty contest winners".
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Henry Bergman had made one picture with Phillips Smalley before turning up at L-KO; not long after he would join Charlie Chaplin's regular troupe of character actors. Lehrman proved even more frugal with budget than Sennett had been, and he favored a rough-and-tumble style of slapstick that reputedly resulted in injury. Author Kalton C. Lahue reported that there were stunt persons and bit players of the time who would not answer a call from L-KO owing to the possibility of danger;Kalton C. Lahue and Terry Brewer, Kops and Kustards: the Legend of Keystone Films, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1967 stuntman Harvey Parry referred to him as '"Suicide" Lehrman.'Kevin Brownlow and John Kobal, "Hollywood: The Pioneers," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980.
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McFarland & Company. . His being cast in only comedic bit parts and small nonsupporting roles meant his efforts were more often than not uncredited (of 210 films where he made an appearance, he was credited in 73 of them), as was the norm for bit players in Hollywood at the time. For example, Robert Dudley (who appeared in two movies with Toones: The Palm Beach Story and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) made 93 films between 1930 and 1951 – many times playing a millionaire, doctor, judge, scientist, minister, or lawman - but was credited in only eight of them. In contrast, character actor Stepin Fetchit made only 53 films (one-quarter as many as Toones) playing the same kind of parts as Toones, but received credit in nearly every one of them.
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He also notes that: "The Americans and British concluded, even in the summer of 1945, that, as a nationwide network, the original Werwolf was irrevocably destroyed, and that it no longer posed a threat to the occupation." Biddiscombe also says that Werwolf violence failed to mobilize a spirit of popular national resistance, that the group was poorly led, armed, and organized, and that it was doomed to failure given the war-weariness of the populace and the hesitancy of young Germans to sacrifice themselves on the funeral pyre of the former Nazi regime. He concludes that the only significant achievement of the Werwolfs was to spark distrust of the German populace in the Allies as they occupied Germany, which caused them in some cases to act more repressively than they might have done otherwise, which in turn fostered resentments that helped to enable far right ideas to survive in Germany, at least in pockets, into the post-war era. Nevertheless, says Biddiscombe, "The Werewolves were no bit players";Biddiscombe, The Last Nazis, p. 8.
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He was often seen making a brief comic turn as a hotel, airline or train porter, as well as an elevator operator, custodian, butler, valet, waiter, deliveryman, and once as a launch pilot (in the 1939 movie Mr. Moto in Danger Island). Willie Best received screen credit most of the time, which was unusual for "bit players"; most in the 1930s and 1940s were not accorded due credit. This also happened to white actors in small roles, but black actors were not credited even when their roles were larger. In more than 80 of his movies, he was given a proper character name (as opposed to simple descriptions such as "room service waiter" or "shoe- shine boy"), beginning with his second film. He also played the character of "Hipp" in three of RKO’s six Scattergood Baines films with Guy Kibbee: Scattergood Baines (1941), Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942), and Cinderella Swings It in 1943. Actor Paul White, who played a young version of Best’s "Hipp" in the first film, went on to play "Hipp" in the next three films; Best returned to the role in the last two.
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The league's tallest player until the arrival of Willie Huber in 1978, Dailey was a tremendous combination of size and skill on the blueline. He was selected ninth overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft from the Toronto Marlboros, where he had won the Memorial Cup as a junior. He immediately stepped into the Canucks roster as one of their top defenders, registering 7 goals and 24 points as a rookie in 1973–74. In 1974–75, Dailey registered 12 goals and 48 points to lead Canuck defenders and was named the club's top blueliner. He had another fine season in 1975–76, notching 15 goals despite missing time to injury. However, the Canucks would deal him to the Philadelphia Flyers midway through the 1976–77 season in exchange for Jack McIlhargey and Larry Goodenough. The deal would prove a lopsided one as McIlhargey and Goodenough were never more than bit players for the Canucks while Dailey would be the Flyers' top defender for the next 5 years. In 1977–78, Dailey emerged as a star for the Flyers. His 21 goals and 57 points would set club records (now broken) for a defender, and he was selected to play in the NHL All-Star Game.
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