Other income?
Does anyone know what sort of residuals - if any - such actors get? I haven't seen the movie - yet - so apologies if this was "covered."
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From what little I've heard, residuals aren't very much for 99.999% of actors. If you've managed a long career, like the guys in this doc, 100+ films + TV, they probably make no more than a few thousand a year. To get residuals, the show/film has to re-air. While TV certainly re-runs a lot of crap, they don't re-run the same crap for very long.
The best residual money is for regular characters in TV shows in syndication. Not that they get paid a lot per episode airing, but that if they appeared in nearly all the episodes, shows in re-run tend to air 5 days a week, meaning those actors get paid for 5 episodes a week. Of course that's winning the lottery, because as was mentioned in the doc, you have to be so lucky just to become a regular on a TV series, rarer that it's even picked up, rarer still that it has any success, and the rarest that it lasts long enough to go into syndication (with insanely fewer shows that actually stay in re-runs for more than a few years).
Tim Omundson from this doc, who played a detective on Psych is probably going to be enjoying some nice residuals for awhile. No idea what you get if your show goes to Netflix, but if it's anything, that's good news for many because a lot of 1+ season shows get a chance that they otherwise wouldn't on TV.
Residual lottery winners:
Seinfeld
Star Trek and TNG
Pretty much every pile of crap from the 50s and 60s got continuous airplay for 50+ years. The Beverly Hillbillies has probably been aired more times over 50+ years than every other show ever aired combined. If someone had a speaking part in that series and got even a penny per episode they'd probably be trillionaires by now. All joking aside, that damn show has been on way too much for way too long.
Precisely zero TV actors from the 50s and 60s ever got residuals. I'm not sure when it first started, but I remember hearing one of the regulars from MASH once stating that he never made a dime from reruns.
shareThat probably explains why they aired so often then, didn't cost them much.
shareYou're absolutely right about that. There was an actors strike around 1980 or so that changed this so that they would get residuals.
I remember listening to the Howard Stern show in the late 80s where he was interviewing the kid from The Courtship of Eddie's Father, who had obviously grown up. Howard was ribbing him (of course) about how even though he wasn't working lately, at least he had a steady stream of residual checks coming in. The kid reminded him that - exactly like you said - actors from the 50s, 60s, or 70s got exactly bupkus in residuals, because it was before the actors strike.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.