Celt47

I was an extra on one scene in this film. The staging area was the Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston. The scene was filmed in a bar on Shawmut Ave around the corner (I don't remember the name of the bar).

The scene is where JFK enters the bar with a campaign aide who introduces him as "This is John Kennedy who's running for congress in the eleventh district." A guy at the bar says " Yeah, you and eight other guys." I'm the bartender who smiles and laughs in the background.

Prior to that I was an extra on "Dragnet" (the 1987 version with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks and on "Hanoi Hilton" (I've posted a comment on Hanoi Hilton on this site).

The casting agency called me back for other productions but I had found other work which worked out well and now I'm retired and living in the Caribbean.

Working as an extra on three productions was a fascinating experience.

Very funny short subject about two oddly matched characters who, for some reason, have to bury a body. It's about ten or fifteen minutes long and hilariously focuses on the tension between the two characters. One is obviously the 'brains' and the other is a wasted beer guzzler. The tension arises from the inabilty of the drunk to follow the instructions of the 'boss', including how and where to store the body and procuring shovels to get the job done. It is never explained why they have to bury the body but that doesn't matter because the tension between the two is the whole story. The 'boss' has very specific ideas on how to get the job done and his wasted assistant's ineptitude produces one belly laugh after another.