Here's my list.
1) Home from Home Alone
2) Lighthouse from Aquaman (worked as security during shoot)
3) Seinfeld apartment in Los Angeles
4) Mathew Broderick's apartment in Cable Guy (by accident, I was there and recognised it)
1. Most of Vertigo's locations in SF (Mission Dolores, Palace of Fine Arts, Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, Fort Point-Golden Gate Bridge.)
2. Bodega Bay from The Birds.
3. San Simeon as model for Citizen Kane's Xanadu.
4. The 'Singles' apartment building in Capitol Hill in Seattle.
5. The Hobbits hide from Nazgul in Fellowship of the Ring GreenBelt spot in Wellington, NZ.
6. Blade Runner's Bradbury Building in LA.
7. And lots of NYC such as bits of Central Park, Grand Central, The Met, The Dakota, Tiffanys, top of the Empire State, Washington Sq Park etc. have huge movie associations.
That's about it.
Pretty much everywhere from Alfred Hitchcock's film "I Confess" (1953). I've been to Quebec City quite a few times, and the entire thing is filmed on main streets and was able to recognize all of them.
shareI´ve been to Quebec City and didn´t even know a Hitchcock film was shot there. "I Confess" is one of the few Hitch films I haven´t seen, will have to check it out. ty.
shareIt's a very solid film. If you stayed in Quebec for 2 or 3 days, you'll recognize most of the places in the film. They film in the big locations.
shareCame across one of the Castles built for the film Highlander, whilst on family holiday in scotland in '85
Have picture of me and my brother lifting polystyrene boulder that would have otherwise weighed tons!
brought one home too :)
That's cool. I've been to one of the castles of Higherlander too. Its called Eilean Donan.
shareFort Knox. I was an extra in Stripes (1981).
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Interesting. Which scene were you in?
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The graduation scene -- outdoors, crowd in bleachers, Murray and his pals arrive late and do their weird drills. I'm onscreen briefly, not in closeup but I am identifiable. I thought my performance as "Some Dude In The Background" was both memorable and groundbreaking, but the Academy snubbed me; I not only didn't get an Oscar, I wasn't even nominated for one. Bastards.
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Dayum! There is no justice in the world!
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Oh yeah! Now I remember you, and those Academy guys are douches!
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PS So did you get to hang with Bill, and is he a real party animal?
> So did you get to hang with Bill
Actually, I almost met him. I was walking on a street near the bleachers where that scene was filmed, but away from the main action. IIRC -- it was forty years ago -- it was lunchtime and I was either going to get food or returning from doing that. And here comes Bill Murray walking the other way on the same street, walking toward me. Nobody else nearby, just me and him. I wasn't going to ask for an autograph or anything, I intended to just smile and say hello and keep going. I don't think I looked like the overeager gushing fanboy, because I wasn't thinking "oh wow!" or anything like that. But when he saw that I had made eye contact he looked away with a cold expression on his face. He clearly didn't want to interact so I didn't do anything. I didn't take offense; I figured that if celebrities give "just a moment" to everyone they meet they'd have no time for lives of their own.
Very interesting.
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Wow, I just realized something. I'm amazed I had never made the connection. That's why I didn't get the Oscar!
Of course that's it! That bastard Murray called up all his bigshot buddies and blacklisted me. "Here's this extra, the mere puke who doesn't know his damn place! Getting uppity, looking me right in the eye like that. Who the hell does he think he is? Can't let that sort of thing go on, gotta make an example of him, am I right?"
"Damn right, Bill!"
Oh, I see it now! I can't prove it with absolute certainty. But it makes so much sense, especially since I never got any work in Hollywood ever again after that.
Getting serious -- Barbra Streisand puts it in her contract that when she's doing a project "the help" aren't supposed to look her in the eye. I get it that celebs are humans too and need their space, but that's a little bit much, don't you think?
"That's the fact, Jack!"
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Meanwhile, Babs is know to be a total diva and bitch! I cannot stand her!
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> Babs is know to be a total diva and bitch! I cannot stand her!
I got to know some people in a recording studio she had used. This was after she had been there so I didn't meet her. But I heard two quite different opinions of her.
The management sang her praises. "What an inspiration! So dedicated to her craft!" Et cetera. Well, she was paying for studio time by the hour and racking up a lot of it, so I daresay they'd be happy.
The people who actually worked with her, the engineers and such, had a quite different take. Imagine the old TV gag, from Gilligan's Island, The Flintstones, and other such works -- a woman is trying to make up her mind about where a very heavy piece of furniture should go and asks the men to move it "over there," then "no, back here," then "no, over there again" while the dudes are going into apoplexy from lugging the thing around. That was Babs. "Let's try it this way," then, "no, let's do it this other way," then "no, I think that way again." Over and over. And when anything went wrong it was never her fault, oh no! -- always something the engineers had allegedly done.
That was their take on Babs. And I heard the word "bitch" a few times as they were telling it. Now, that's all second hand, I never met her, but there it is.
The Vasquez Rocks near Los Angeles, where the did half the Star Trek location shoots. Gorgeous park, and highly recommended for any old Trekkie, if you're in the LA Basin.
Lone Pine, Ca., in the Owens Valley. Half the old westerns were shot there, and the 1930s "Gunga Din", and movie companies still use the dramatic mountains in the background to stand in for places like Spain and Afghanistan, that area is in the opening scenes of the first "Iron Man" film. Absolutely gorgeous area, highly recommended if you can get some place that remote.
The cave in Griffith Park, which is an old mining tunnel that played the entrance to the batcave in the sixties TV series. Not recommended, it's just a hole in the ground with a short tunnel behind it, and there were official signs in the parking lot saying "DON'T LEAVE ANY VALUABLES HERE WE MEAN IT", and a scuzzy twitchy guy waiting for everyone to leave so he could break into the cars.
The hospital from Session 9. Didn't go inside, though. The place had pretty tight security before it was demolished.
shareI live in San Jose (near San Francisco)... a couple places stand out.
My mom worked at Filoli Historic House & Garden, which is this epic mansion about 30 miles north. Movies like The Game, Heaven Can Wait, The Wedding Planner, Rent, and the TV show Dynasty were set here.
My favorite is The Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, where The Lost Boys, Sudden Impact, and Us were filmed.
If you go down to Monterey and walk around town you'll recognize a lot of movies like Play Misty for Me, Turner & Hooch, and Star Trek IV.
I’ve been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium used in Star Trek IV. That area of the country features in many John Steinbeck stories.
sharePretty much - Actually Monterey Bay Aquarium is located in Cannery Row, which was the base and title of one of Steinbeck's best novels.
share> I’ve been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium used in Star Trek IV. That area of the country features in many John Steinbeck stories.
Might be a story idea there -- "The Grapes of the Wrath of Khan."
1. The Brady house - An odd fact: The front view is actually the garage and the window you see, is fake, not to mention, from the inside view, the house is clearly a TARDIS.
2. The Tate and La Bianca houses (I don't know if they were actually used in movies, but cool to see).
3. One of the M*A*SH locations
4. The museum in Things to do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) - Oddly, Denver has a museum but the one in the movie in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.