Thursday, 27 September 2007

Into The Night trivia...can you name all the cameos?

Eighteen film directors, one make-up artist and one screenwriter have cameos in the film:

* Paul Mazursky co-stars as beachhouse owner and accused drug dealer Bud Herman.
* Roger Vadim also co-stars as Monsieur Melville, the French kidnapper.
* The man on the elevator with the "nice dog" is played by Jack Arnold.
* The top-hatted doorman at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel is Paul Bartel.
* Ed's boardroom supervisor is played by David Cronenberg.
* The aerospace engineer sitting next to Herb (Dan Aykroyd) in the cafeteria is played by Richard Franklin.
* Amy, the clumsy waitress in Ship's Restaurant, is Amy Heckerling.
* Mr. Williams (Carl Perkins) instructs a man to get off of the phone. The man is Jim Henson. Incidentally, the person Henson is talking to is named "Bert", after Henson's muppet.
* The actor playing the terrorist at a beauty concert is Colin Higgins.
* The script clerk on the hostage film is played by Jonathan Kaufer ("Soup for One" (1982)).
* The director of the hostage film, up on the crane, is played by Daniel Petrie.
* The police detective who interrogates Bud Herman at his beachhouse is Lawrence Kasdan.
* The tailor who fits the SAVAK agents is Jonathan Lynn.
* The driver ogling dirty pictures in the traffic jam at the start of the film is Andrew Marton (King Solomon's Mines (1950), The Longest Day (1962)).
* The man caught with a girl in the bathroom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel is Don Siegel.
* At the end, two Secret Service agents argue with the head agent (Clu Gulager) in Ed's hotel room. The thin one with the glasses is Jonathan Demme and the larger one with the moustache is Carl Gottlieb.
* John Landis himself appears as the mute member of the quartet of Iranian hitmen.

* Other cameos:
* The drug dealer who tries to sell to Ed and Diana in their car is played by Academy-Award-winning make-up artist Rick Baker.
* The hooker who appears just before Baker is played by Michelle Pfeiffer's sister, Dedee Pfeiffer.
* Screenwriter Waldo Salt plays the derelict who tells Ed that his car has been towed away by the cops.
* Landis often casts musicians in his film. In this one, David Bowie fights Carl Perkins to the death.
* Dan Aykroyd, the star of Landis' earlier film The Blues Brothers, plays Ed's co-worker, Herb.
* Bruce McGill, the co-star of Landis' National Lampoon's Animal House plays Diana's Elvis-impersonator brother, Charlie.

1 comments:

Pat & Greg said...

Does anyone know the address of Ed Okin's little white house, the one by the freeway overpass?