Back to One: The Movie Extras Guidebook : How to Make Good Money As a Background Actor in Film and TV - Softcover

Cullen Chambers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962457752 ISBN 13: 9780962457753

Publisher: Back to 1 Pubns / February, 1998

Synopsis

The Movie Extras Guidebook shows you how to get started, find jobs, work with agents, market yourself and make money as a Hollywood extra. Included is essential information-- Photos and wardrobe-- Resumes-- Callbacks-- Working conditions-- Set etiquette-- Labor laws and pay scalesUp-to-date listings of unions, studios, extras-related services and publications, 100 extra casting agencies and AFTRA TV shows are packed into this useful guide. This book and a little persistence are all that is needed to begin a career in the movie business.

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About the Author

CULLEN CHAMBERS has worked in over 2,000 film, television, commercial and video productions. A talented actor, producer, director, writer & comedian he has studied at Actor's & Director's Studio, Second City TV, MCM Drama Co. & Ohio State Univ. He has worked as an actor, Stand-in, Extra, Photo-double, Stunt-Double, Featured, Silent, Special Bit and Bit Player on such shows as Deep Impact, Pulp Fiction, Student Bodies, Dallas, Cheers, Matlock, L.A. Law, Twilight Zone, Harlem Nights, Hunter, Frasier, Ordinary People, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, The Five Heartbeats, Rocky V, Die-Hard II, Murder She Wrote, I'm Gonna Git Ya Sucker, Darkman and as a regular on such hit TV series as Star Trek-The Next Generation, Hill Street Blues and In Living Color. Cullen has appeared in national commercials for Nintendo, American Express, Taco Bell, Sears, Doritos, Pepsi, Penney's and I.B.M..

Review

Follow the directions to the letter in his book "Back to One: The Movie Extra's Guidebook." and you will do fine! -- Daily Bruin - UCLA by Brent Hopkins, June 25, 2000

Edition details

• Publisher: Back to 1 Pubns / February
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962457752
• ISBN 13: 9780962457753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304