Another Bear said:
Ronny Cox was their guitar playing buddy in Deliverance. In 1980 I was an extra in this movie with him:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080767/ One of my Hasting's buddies had a mom that was active in local theater in Napa and the movie producer had put out a request for 5 young guys that could pass for FBI agents for the final scene of the movie. I played one of them.
The plot: Richard Crenna was an accountant for the mob that testified against his boss and was put into the witness protection program as a winemaker in Napa. The mob kidnaps his daughter and the FBI rescues her in the last scene.
The daughter was supposed to be 18 and was portrayed by actress Robin Dearden, who is now married to Bryan Cranston. Wow, was she pretty. My buddy asked her out at the bar of the Holliday Inn but she turned him down. She was older than us (I was 25).
Ronny Cox was the only actor that spoke to us. He said he had just wrapped The Onion Field and that "Jimmy" Woods was creepy brilliant it it.
Under the Kevin Bacon "Six Degrees" game, being in that movie put me within 2 degrees of many of my favorite actors. Richard Crenna, the star, was in Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen. Eli Wallach was in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly with Clint Eastwood, and Don Murray was in Bus Stop with Marylin Monroe. It was quite an adventure for a movie fan.
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