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Lary Crews is going to be 80 Aug 27th.
I will talk about my life as usual.
Stanford Crews, our college-educated cat, is working for the democrats to put a proper president in the US.
I will talk about my life as usual.
Stanford Crews, our college-educated cat, is working for the democrats to put a proper president in the US.
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Wow!! Noticed and valued for being you!! What an interesting life.
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Wow!! Noticed and valued for being you!! What an interesting life.
Most casting directors want you to do well. One casting director told me, "The casting process is as exhausting for us as it is for the actors. I want to see an actor who is prepared," she explained, "but not so over-rehearsed that they can't take direction. I am happy if they show up on time."
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Most casting directors want you to do well. One casting director told me, "The casting process is as exhausting for us as it is for the actors. I want to see an actor who is prepared," she explained, "but not so over-rehearsed that they can't take direction. I am happy if they show up on time."
I spent a half-hour with the director. He interviewed me, and I totally improvised my answers based on his notes. From his inscrutable smile, I cannot guess whether he will cast me. But it was a great experience to exercise my mockumentary muscles once more.
A day later, I got that job.
A day later, I got that job.
December 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I spent a half-hour with the director. He interviewed me, and I totally improvised my answers based on his notes. From his inscrutable smile, I cannot guess whether he will cast me. But it was a great experience to exercise my mockumentary muscles once more.
A day later, I got that job.
A day later, I got that job.
The mockumentary is one of my favorite film forms. I have worshiped at the shrine of Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration) for years and have a natural gift for the straight-faced improv that genre requires.
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The mockumentary is one of my favorite film forms. I have worshiped at the shrine of Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration) for years and have a natural gift for the straight-faced improv that genre requires.
I auditioned for a character named Jack McKee. Recently divorced and trying way too hard to cover up his depression with false optimism, McKee gave up his highly paid job as an architect to join the sandcastle circuit, which had become an obsession. He'll do anything to win his fifth trophy.
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I auditioned for a character named Jack McKee. Recently divorced and trying way too hard to cover up his depression with false optimism, McKee gave up his highly paid job as an architect to join the sandcastle circuit, which had become an obsession. He'll do anything to win his fifth trophy.
At the USC campus, I had the chance to audition for a project I wanted to be in: Sandcastles: A Mockumentary. Basically, the short film is about a budding documentarian who follows the major players in the "fictional" Greater Los Angeles Sandcastle Showcase (GLASS).
December 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
At the USC campus, I had the chance to audition for a project I wanted to be in: Sandcastles: A Mockumentary. Basically, the short film is about a budding documentarian who follows the major players in the "fictional" Greater Los Angeles Sandcastle Showcase (GLASS).
I learned to audition for anything for which I am even remotely right. Because even the inevitable dead ends where you screw it up or they decide to "go a different direction" give you something for which you probably would not pay but should: experience auditioning.
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I learned to audition for anything for which I am even remotely right. Because even the inevitable dead ends where you screw it up or they decide to "go a different direction" give you something for which you probably would not pay but should: experience auditioning.
I did not aspire to stardom. However, I'd have to be crazy not to try to move up to under-fives, character parts, or the coveted guest star.
To that end, we background actors throw ourselves into the ninth concentric circle of hell, also known as Auditioning.
To that end, we background actors throw ourselves into the ninth concentric circle of hell, also known as Auditioning.
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I did not aspire to stardom. However, I'd have to be crazy not to try to move up to under-fives, character parts, or the coveted guest star.
To that end, we background actors throw ourselves into the ninth concentric circle of hell, also known as Auditioning.
To that end, we background actors throw ourselves into the ninth concentric circle of hell, also known as Auditioning.
I signed up as an actor at Central Casting in 2009, and they got me 7 auditions which resulted in jobs, Cold Case (CBS), Hawthorne (TNT), Heroes (NBC), Miracle on the Hudson (Nippon TV), Sons of Anarchy (FX), and two days on The Office (NBC).
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I signed up as an actor at Central Casting in 2009, and they got me 7 auditions which resulted in jobs, Cold Case (CBS), Hawthorne (TNT), Heroes (NBC), Miracle on the Hudson (Nippon TV), Sons of Anarchy (FX), and two days on The Office (NBC).
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He’s looking good Lary. Do you have everything you need for him?
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
He’s looking good Lary. Do you have everything you need for him?
Since my only claim to fame is my role as the "1940's whistling ghost dad" in the feature film INSIDIOUS (2011), we'll get that out of the way now. YouTube viewers tell me my scene is scary. Here is the 3-minute scene that made the final cut. tinyurl.com/3-Insidious
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Since my only claim to fame is my role as the "1940's whistling ghost dad" in the feature film INSIDIOUS (2011), we'll get that out of the way now. YouTube viewers tell me my scene is scary. Here is the 3-minute scene that made the final cut. tinyurl.com/3-Insidious
James Wan's film Insidious crossed the $50 million mark in the US and ended up with a worldwide gross of $97,009,150, almost a hundred million. That gives the indie horror pic, made for under $1.5 million, the best cost-to-gross ratio of 2011, a good measurement of profitability.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
James Wan's film Insidious crossed the $50 million mark in the US and ended up with a worldwide gross of $97,009,150, almost a hundred million. That gives the indie horror pic, made for under $1.5 million, the best cost-to-gross ratio of 2011, a good measurement of profitability.
When he returns to the living room, my daughter, my wife, and I are dead. The other daughter shot us. For a split second, he thinks we are smiling at him and then he heads up the stairs still looking for his son.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When he returns to the living room, my daughter, my wife, and I are dead. The other daughter shot us. For a split second, he thinks we are smiling at him and then he heads up the stairs still looking for his son.
Since Patrick is looking for his son, Dalton, we must "play dead" as he passes with the light. But my "wife" blinks, giving us away. When he looks at me again my newspaper is now quivering. He hears a gun being cocked and discovers one of my daughters in the dining room.
December 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Since Patrick is looking for his son, Dalton, we must "play dead" as he passes with the light. But my "wife" blinks, giving us away. When he looks at me again my newspaper is now quivering. He hears a gun being cocked and discovers one of my daughters in the dining room.
Wan explained that I should look like I was whistling. "Don't worry. We've hired a professional whistler to actually do it in post."
The whistling is what got Patrick's attention. (That's the reason I stop whistling when I see the light from his lantern.)
The whistling is what got Patrick's attention. (That's the reason I stop whistling when I see the light from his lantern.)
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Wan explained that I should look like I was whistling. "Don't worry. We've hired a professional whistler to actually do it in post."
The whistling is what got Patrick's attention. (That's the reason I stop whistling when I see the light from his lantern.)
The whistling is what got Patrick's attention. (That's the reason I stop whistling when I see the light from his lantern.)
Wan explained that Patrick was going pass in front of us with a high-tech lantern, to see if we were dead. He told us to remain still and look straight ahead. As we would do the scene, the crew had to repeatedly pump smoke in close to the floor.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wan explained that Patrick was going pass in front of us with a high-tech lantern, to see if we were dead. He told us to remain still and look straight ahead. As we would do the scene, the crew had to repeatedly pump smoke in close to the floor.
James Wan was an easygoing man who addressed me as "Sir." He asked me to sit on the (screen left) side of the couch facing the fireplace with the girl playing one of my daughters to my left and he stationed my "wife" behind an ironing board to my right.
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
James Wan was an easygoing man who addressed me as "Sir." He asked me to sit on the (screen left) side of the couch facing the fireplace with the girl playing one of my daughters to my left and he stationed my "wife" behind an ironing board to my right.
Moose, the extras handler, had me report to the living room of the house. Inside, it was dark and smoky (smoke machines, not cigarettes).
The strange woman assigned to be my wife was there. I had tried to make friends the day before and she would have none of it, so we didn't speak at all.
The strange woman assigned to be my wife was there. I had tried to make friends the day before and she would have none of it, so we didn't speak at all.
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Moose, the extras handler, had me report to the living room of the house. Inside, it was dark and smoky (smoke machines, not cigarettes).
The strange woman assigned to be my wife was there. I had tried to make friends the day before and she would have none of it, so we didn't speak at all.
The strange woman assigned to be my wife was there. I had tried to make friends the day before and she would have none of it, so we didn't speak at all.
I went to a make-up trailer to get my hair cut into a 1940s style. Using airbrushes, and special material, it took three hours to transform me from an old guy to an 1940s dead guy. They made up my face, neck, about an inch onto my chest, and my hands up to about two inches on my arms.
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I went to a make-up trailer to get my hair cut into a 1940s style. Using airbrushes, and special material, it took three hours to transform me from an old guy to an 1940s dead guy. They made up my face, neck, about an inch onto my chest, and my hands up to about two inches on my arms.
With Insidious, director James Wan was taking a chance. He wanted to make a haunted-house thriller that relied on suspense and atmosphere instead of gore and blood.
He said, “Making something that’s scary and creepy is extremely hard, and I really relish that challenge.”
He said, “Making something that’s scary and creepy is extremely hard, and I really relish that challenge.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
With Insidious, director James Wan was taking a chance. He wanted to make a haunted-house thriller that relied on suspense and atmosphere instead of gore and blood.
He said, “Making something that’s scary and creepy is extremely hard, and I really relish that challenge.”
He said, “Making something that’s scary and creepy is extremely hard, and I really relish that challenge.”
The last film I made before leaving LA was Insidious, in which I have a "featured extra" role. I made the final cut in a three-minute scene with leading man Patrick Wilson. YouTube viewers email me about how scary my scene is. I am basically "a whistling 1940s ghost dad."
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The last film I made before leaving LA was Insidious, in which I have a "featured extra" role. I made the final cut in a three-minute scene with leading man Patrick Wilson. YouTube viewers email me about how scary my scene is. I am basically "a whistling 1940s ghost dad."
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Did you run along with him?
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Did you run along with him?