Numismatists on the silver screen..,
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Jed Clampett - Buddy Ebsen
Kareem - Roger Murdock in Airplane!
Danny Kaye - long career in film - White Christmas
Charlie Bodin as Trip Kisker in Halt and Catch Fire season 4.
OK, it’s not the silver screen but the small screen. But it’s a terrific show. Check it out on Netflix.
Radiant Collection: Numismatics and Exonumia of the Atomic Age.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/3232
Darth Vader (voice) - James Earl Jones
Shallow Hal - Jack Black
Adolf Monjeau (did I spell that right?) Many films in the 40's and 50's.
I do not see enough movies to spot these people...other than Buddy Ebsen....I lived near him in CA for a while...Did not know he was a coin collector at the time...Cheers, RickO
Gary Burgdorf (sp?) - MASH
Nicole Kidman in too many roles to list.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
please dont forget Buddy Ebsen as "Barnaby Jones", not the silver screen i know...thanks rln
some useless trivia, Gary Burgoff was the only actor from the movie "MASH" to also star in the tv series...thanks rln
How does this game work? Are we naming folks that people on this Forum know as numismatists, & then naming roles/characters they portrayed?
Sissy Spacek(spelling) Coal Miner's Daughter to name 1.
Does this qualify? Depending on how one defines numismatist and if "Silver Screen" is expanded to include TV shows, I guess I could make the cut.
An appearance as a juror on"Dateline" (Mystery at Bootleggers Cove"); and on the Hawaii Five-0 Episode 6 from Season 4 (4:06)
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FWIW, anyone interested in seeing the above referenced Hawaii Five-0 episode, it is airing as a rerun on TNT March 29, 2018. It will be the second of three season four episodes that (at least in my time zone) begin at 2:00 AM and continue until 5:00 AM. The show titled, "Broken", runs from 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM. Check your local listings and if you are not up at that hour the DVR is your friend.
THU
MAR 29
3:00AM
Kupouli 'la (Broken)(Season 4, Episode 6)
TNT
Five-0 investigates when a zombie-like man is shot on Halloween. The probe reveals that a mad man is conducting experiments on humans.
Kristin Chenoweth - actress, beauty, and collector of quarters.
Too many roles to list... here's her IMDB page:
imdb.com/name/nm0155693/
She's not the usual Hollywood snob. She's extremely friendly and down-to-earth.
I don't know if it's just me.. but when I see someone in visual media manipulating gold or silver coins and I hear clad against clad, it bugs me.
...actually I was surprised last weekend. We watched Percy Jackson Lightning Thief or whatever and Journey to the Mysterious Island (Dwayne Johnson). The gold coins the girl pulls out of the fountain in Medusa's lair sound like gold on gold, and when The Rock pulls old Atalantean gold from some ruins it sounds like real gold. I was very surprised on both. Great Foley mixers.
Walt Disney wasn't an actor but a film producer who did make many appearances on silver screens promoting his movies.
He was not a collector in the modern sense, but this "collection" was assembled by Walt Disney, an American working in France just after World War I.
He kept a collection of coins from his service days in France after World War I in a bag which was still in his possession when he died in 1966.
The coins are on display at the Disney Family Museum at the Presidio of San Francisco.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Also, in journey to the mysterious (lost?) Island, they were filming in Hawaii. The script had called for it to "rain gold". Well, come to find out, it's against the law (jail and fine) to litter. CGI would've never worked for the scene. The local environmental enforcement wouldn't even let them use gold colored sugar flakes. They bought "a couple handfuls of gold bars", turned them to dust and shot them out leaf blowers.
In the resident evil movies, 2 and 3 (?), Alice uses Washington Quarters to stuff down the barrels of her shotguns (this doesn't actually work). There's a great scene in which she blows apart a group of zombies and a bloodied eagle reverse stuck in a wall gets a closeup.
Later on during a shower scene, she blows the chest out of a big hulking monster, and on the shower floor there's an assorted mix of clad, silver, and state quarters. And, super awesome Foley mixers again, it sounds like both clad and silver hitting the tile.
And let's not forget the Dark Knight with Two Face and his double obverse Peace dollar. It sounds like silver the whole movie.
Peter Weller (Robocop, Naked Lunch)
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
In the Outlander series (based off the book airs on Starz, totally recommend), all the coins I've seen or heard sound properly like copper silver and gold.
Indirectly on the silver screen - Jerome Kern, composer of many songs and state play music, most notably "Show Boat." I know that he owned an 1876-CC Twenty Cent Piece.
Marial Hemingway - she once owned the 1894S dime.
In TNMT Out of the Shadows, Laura Linney is wearing some kind of bezel gold coin. Looks to be the size of a half eagle. No closeups though, sadly.
I think Laura Linney makes her own jewelry too, so it wouldn't be a reach for her to wear a personal one on screen, or to be a collector.
The only two names that I have heard so far that would likely qualify as 'numismatists' might be Ebsen and Kidman. Mr. Menjou did own gold coins as a hedge against inflation. I definitely need a source on the Mariel Hemingway - 1894-S dime connection.
Could Michelle Johnson bidding on Dr. Jerry Buss' 94-S 10c be the mixed up source of the Mariel Hemingway story?