![]() ![]() I got my SAG card, I qualified for free Health Insurance. During my first meeting they said they had an audition for a small role in BJ & the Bear (TV series). I made an appointment to meet the Agent when I got back from Pittsburgh. probably $750-$1000 for the other guys.īubba Smith had a role in the movie, and towards the end of the week I asked him who his Agent was. All totaled, I probably made $5,000 over the decades vs. That one sentence made me SAG (Screen Actors Guild) scale pay for the week which was about 2-3 times what the other Extra Players were making plus I got residuals which I still get to this day whenever it shows (rarely). My lines were “Hey Joe, who’s that guy Audie Murphy?”. My first scene was with Joe Greene in the weight room. Later on in the day the Director asked me if I wanted to play the role of “the Rookie”. I remember going up to the Director the first morning of shooting and saying “Make me a Star”. They paid for first class airfare, hotel and I think it was $150 per day to basically be a Player/Extra in the background. ![]() Anyway – one day I got a call to come back to Pittsburgh to play a team member in Rocky Bleier’s movie “Fighting Back”. Off-season workouts with the team were not mandatory back then. Why spend the winter & spring in Pittsburgh, instead of sunny warm California were my thoughts. Just after Super Bowl XIV (1980) I moved out to California for the off-season. I guess I’ll start at the beginning with the acting. First, can you tell readers what you have been doing with yourself since your time in the NFL and how you got involved in acting? ![]()
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