larycrews

I became a background actor by serendipity. While beginning my career as a broadcast journalist at KTRH Radio in Houston, Texas in 1970, I was hired by director Robert Altman to be his assistant on the film Brewster McCloud, which was shot at the Astrodome and vicinity. [I lived two blocks away at the time.] Eight years later, while I was pursuing a successful career as a radio news director at WDUV in Tampa, Florida, Altman came to town and hired me again, this time to be his assistant on his film HealtH, shot in St. Pete Beach, and starring Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson, Carol Burnett and James Garner. I was hooked on making movies. I went on to appear as a background actor in nearly all the feature films shot in Central and West Florida over the next twenty years, including COCOON, BODY HEAT and LICENCE TO KILL. I also acted in 31 regional theater productions and wrote an historical mystery novel - EXTREME CLOSE-UP - based on my experiences on location movie shoots. It’s still in