Q for barefoot

no, when they shoot a movie, they use teamster drivers...people who
drive steak beds and grip trucks etc, as drivers...it's much cheaper
than using a car service for a 3 month shoot...
my friend gary has been ron howard's and tim burton's driver on their
movies for over 10 years...and my buddy eric is his roomate who's been
in the business for just a few...
i did it too...i drove george clooney on three kings in
arizona...that's how i ended up in los angeles, thought i would work
on movies forever. but then the actor's strike happened and ended up
doing autographs instead...

if you ever see a real movie call sheet, you'd see...
actually, you can look them up on imdb.com for most of them..and gary
even gets credits in movies..
there's a whole side business where there's a "driver coordinator" who
hires a crew.
i don't have any credits on imdb, but my friends do...

and i'll tell you this..you've always been right on this one sue..the
people who work on sets, don't generally ask for autographs from the
people they are working with... if they do, it's like AT MOST 5
autographs of a person per show...but i do get some great tips of
where the sets are when my friends work on movies...it's how i got my
photo with arnold in the leather jacket and sunglasses on the set of
terminator 3. email me directly and i'll tell you my friend's names
and you can look them up on imdb.com.

and no, i wasn't thinking that eric would know if harrison signed in
australia, i was asking mr. b if he did or when the premiere was
there..that's all. i know you probably read that wrong.

and to answer your question about the harry potter thing correctly,
unless the actor's hire a driver themselves (or have it on their
rider) it would be a set driver...it's likely that it's the same
drivers on every movie (especially if the actor's parents really liked
the drivers, like my friend gary)...but they could realistically have
a different driver for every movie.
mike

There's a guy I am looking for (driver) who did work on Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory too... it could be possible your guy met him and
might know what company was out there then.

I don't know what comment you are referring to on the MR. B question.
Don't remember commenting on that. No consequence to me anyway.

This guy is the same driver for all the movies. He's in some of the
films and even has some minor speaking roles and is one of my biggest
pain in the arse's to find. He actually signed trading cards for
companies so... I must find him! He's probably in the top three
people bugging me that I can't find (name way too common, lives in UK
and is low profile). I am out of my mind when I can't find someone
because usually if I work hard enough, anyone can be found but this
one .... UGH. I've been on call sheets and read through credits
(companies and special thanks) as well as blindly emailing potential
candidates.

I may email you later for the guy's name. Maybe he can quess at least
at the name of companies Tim Burton uses. No clue is ever too small
to work off of. You get the name of one and they tell you another and
then you reach someone who knows... it's all possible to get.

On Sat, 17 May 2008 18:53:26 -0700 (PDT), barefoot
wrote:

no, when they shoot a movie, they use teamster drivers...people who
drive steak beds and grip trucks etc, as drivers...it's much cheaper
than using a car service for a 3 month shoot...
my friend gary has been ron howard's and tim burton's driver on their
movies for over 10 years...and my buddy eric is his roomate who's been
in the business for just a few...
i did it too...i drove george clooney on three kings in
arizona...that's how i ended up in los angeles, thought i would work
on movies forever. but then the actor's strike happened and ended up
doing autographs instead...

if you ever see a real movie call sheet, you'd see...
actually, you can look them up on imdb.com for most of them..and gary
even gets credits in movies..
there's a whole side business where there's a "driver coordinator" who
hires a crew.
i don't have any credits on imdb, but my friends do...

and i'll tell you this..you've always been right on this one sue..the
people who work on sets, don't generally ask for autographs from the
people they are working with... if they do, it's like AT MOST 5
autographs of a person per show...but i do get some great tips of
where the sets are when my friends work on movies...it's how i got my
photo with arnold in the leather jacket and sunglasses on the set of
terminator 3. email me directly and i'll tell you my friend's names
and you can look them up on imdb.com.

and no, i wasn't thinking that eric would know if harrison signed in
australia, i was asking mr. b if he did or when the premiere was
there..that's all. i know you probably read that wrong.

and to answer your question about the harry potter thing correctly,
unless the actor's hire a driver themselves (or have it on their
rider) it would be a set driver...it's likely that it's the same
drivers on every movie (especially if the actor's parents really liked
the drivers, like my friend gary)...but they could realistically have
a different driver for every movie.
mike

ok..i'll see...gary does a lot of work with burton (but didn't work on
sweeney todd.) but i do know derek really well, he's tim's personal
assistant and has been for over 12 years...he actually gets an exec
producer credit on the last few tim movies...i think he was even the
first credited name at the end of corpse bride...derek made a huge
choice in movie to london with tim when tim started living with helena
bonham carter...
that's truly the extent of my "contacts" though...it's not like i know
a ton of people in hollywood in high up posistions...

like gary said, he's the guy next to the guy...he actually has some
cool pics of him on the set with jim carrey and ron howard with him in
the bg.
m