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Have any TrekBBS members been on screen?

I remember a guy posting on the boards about his appearance in Enterprise. He had a speaking role, but for the life of me I can't seem to find him on Memory Alpha or IMDB . . .
my google fu is weak
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of this guy, and almost as sure that his username here was the same as his character's name on ENT.

Another TrekBBS member still more or less active here has appeared both on ENT and on DS9, as well as in roles in other productions.
I was thinking of the second :)
 
I've done several shoots for movies tv and ads the most visible of which was being at the blackjack table next to Ed Helms and Heather Graham in the first Hangover movie.
 
I was interviewed for a news segment when I was in high school.
 
Also did a brief "speak out" message for a Pittsburgh TV station back around 1975 as the result of an English homework assignment. Guess I could do persuasive writing. :p

It was funny afterwards; when I went to our local supermarket, a few women approached me to ask if I had been on TV.

I was kind of embarrassed about it since my message was promoting year-round school. I really didn't want that crap, but a half-hour before the class ended one day, the teacher had told me that the assignment, which I thought was due in a few days from that day, was due at the end of the class. I hurriedly wrote whatever b.s. I could and hoped for the best. I didn't expect it to be chosen to be on TV, damn it.
 
I attended the Senate Judiciary Hearing in April 2007 at which then-U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rather infamously answered "I do not recall..." to numerous questions from the Senators about the U.S. Attorneys dismissals scandal. CNN did a story about protestors who were in the audience (I was not amongst the protestors), but I could be seen briefly in the background during that segment. Made sure to call up my family that day and let them know.
 
Doesn't count but when I was 10 years old or so, I was on a local news affiliate smack dab a body shot and then a face closeup on a news broadcast about our Fourth of July parade.

I was in the audience in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. Part of it was filmed in the (former) Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in 1979.

Dunno if I was seen, as this was ages ago and I never did see the movie, but the husband and I were part of the crowd.

Let me tell you, waiting between shots is dull. Even for non-entities. Dunno how actors do it.

T'Bonz, wasn't there a open casting call for extras in crowd scenes in the new Batman movie down in Pittsburgh just recently? A friend of my sister said she was going there to do it.
 
I don't live in da Burgh, anymore, so while I did know about the movie being shot there, I didn't know about the casting call. I'd have probably gone downtown though had I been there...
 
I've been on local news a few times.

Good Morning Arizona visited my high school and filmed our choir singing songs from Footloose.

Several local news outfits covered the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith line-up. ABC15 used a clip of me that we staged as the teaser for the story. I leaned against a wall holding a cardboard sign that said, "Will work for Republic Credits." Someone dropped change by my feet and I said, "May the Force be with you."
 
True story: a friend of mine once made a serious effort to stay off TV. Unknown to her parents, she had skipped school to see RETURN OF THE JEDI on opening day, so she hid when the TV crews came by to film all us fans standing in line outside the theater . . . .
 
I was in a shot of the audience as the camera panned by on an episode of Double Dare. I was looking up at the monitors above the bleacher seats they had us in, and not at the camera as it moved by. I think I was 12 at the time.
 
My brother was filmed for a crowd scene in the HBO series "Eastbound and Down", but it was cut before airing.
 
When I was a teenager I appeared briefly on CTV National News for a segment on teens and safe sex.
 
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