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Rock » 15 Jun 2022, 9:39 am » wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2022, 9:39 am

Huey » 15 Jun 2022, 9:23 am » wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2022, 9:23 am

I was never in a movie but I did get to meet Robert Mitchum when they were filming the a few scenes for sequel to the Winds of War. They filmed a could of the scenes at Tipton Army Airfield at Ft Meade.  They flew some WW2 planes in but had no acft tug to move them around.  Me and my buddy, both SGTs moved them around as needed.  The 3 scenes they had were probably a minute and half in the movie but took 13 hours to film.  

We got hungery and they allowed us to eat off of what the director called a Roach Coach.  It was a five star restaurant on wheels. We went in our hangar to eat and in walks Mitchum.  He asked if we were real or actors.  We told him real.  He sat down, talked to us for about 40 minutes and then he wanted to see our Hueys.

He was a real nice guy to us.

That's really cool. I liked Mitchum and really enjoyed the winds of war, the TV series and the book. I shook hands with Charlton Heston when he did a book signing at a bookstore here.

When I was very young, 5 or 6 I think, the movie April Love (another movie about a horse) was filmed here in Lexington. Pat Boone and Shirley Jones starred. We watched a scene being filmed and when it was over we were driving away and saw Pat walking so we stopped and got his autograph. He couldn't have been nicer.