No. He is the man sitting at the left table in this screenshot, which I uploaded to Imageshack. If you have Downhill Racer on DVD, put it in an Xbox 360 and play it at around the 53:00 minutes mark. The restaurant scene is just after the part where Robert Redford scoffs at the woman who asks him if he practices self-denial. Whatever that is.
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Anyway, if you use the DVD viewer on an Xbox 360, you can zoom right in and look at Sly's face while he is at the dinner table. Although I've sent IMDb this screenshot several times now, the editors obviously don't think it's him, and that tiny article on stallonezone.com probably isn't "sufficient" evidence that he was even in the movie, as it only states he was in it and nothing else.
I recently found Sly as an extra in several other films. He was in Bananas as one of the two muggers who chase Woody Allen on a train, although I would class that as being more of a minor role than being an extra, really.
He was in the film Klute where he is briefly seen dancing in a disco. He was the guy in front of the organ at the back, but his face is very blurry. It's quite funny, too, because Donald Sutherland who stars in the movie as the detective investigating Jane Fonda, later played the evil prison warden in Lock Up.
In Lovers and Other Strangers, you only see Sly in two shots, very briefly. There is a wedding scene where they play the famous song 'For All We Know' sung by Larry Meredith, but is more well-known in a cover by Karen Carpenter, and he was one of the groomsmen. He is just standing there, as still as a statue, but his face is blurry again. You can obviously tell him apart from the others due to his height and dark hair.
He also appeared as an extra in The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker and had a fair bit of a screen presence, dancing and walking around at a party. This movie wasn't even on his IMDb page until I added it in.
He was a mob boss in Cannonball wearing shades, and he was in Mandingo during the scene where the black man is about to be hanged. He is sitting down, and I think he is wearing a red or black hat, but he's just an onlooker who doesn't have any lines.
You may also recall he was in Staying Alive, which he also directed. He bumps into John Travolta in the street. Sly's brother Frank had a big hit in America on their Billboard Hot 100 chart with a song called 'Far From Over' which plays during the opening dance scene. Oh, and Cynthia Rhodes who co-starred in it was in a cheesy pop band called Animotion. She was part of a later line-up, several years after 'Obsession' was the biggest hit for the group.
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BrettLovesKerri
8 years ago
In the grey suit?????. No way. Definitely not sly. Sorry but I know Sly and they aren't his facial features of when he was young.
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