I never knew George Allen was an extra in a movie about the Confederacy...

[Crankie Avalon]

...here he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_8dnMIg5I

I guess I'm coming to this late, but how on earth did this guy ever get to be so into the Confederacy? Born in California, raised there and in Chicago...what was the attraction? What else can it be but "nostalgia" for slavery?

George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952 in Whittier, California) is a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia.

His father George Herbert Allen was a legendary NFL coach who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002. His mother was a French immigrant. The family lived in Southern California until 1957, when they moved to Chicago, Illinois after George Sr. got a job with the Chicago Bears. The family moved back to Southern California in 1966 after Allen's father was named head coach of the Los Angeles Rams

While in Los Angeles, Allen developed an affinity for Southern culture, though he had never lived in the South. Allen received his first pair of cowboy boots while in L.A., and learned to dip from his father's players. Allen's favorite T.V. show at the time was Hee Haw, and he enjoyed listening to country music. A high school yearbook photo of Allen shows the teenager with a Confederate flag lapel pin, and Allen reportedly drove a car with the same flag painted on its hood while in high school.

http://www.answers.com/topic/george-felix-allen

[LA lady]

1. Lots of famous people were in it

Byrd was in it too

[Crankie Avalon]

2. What's the name of it?

Was Byrd a Confederate, too? These politicians must have pulled strings to worm their way into it. I can't imagine it was the director's artistic idea to have them in there.

[sarge43]

4. Gettysburg

Actually the producers and directors were happy to have 'names' doing bit parts - free PR. They had a hard time getting the film made and whatever drew the money men was welcome. Ted Turner contributed a butt load of money. He played one of Pickett's generals and was killed during the Charge :evilgrin:.

It is a flawed film, but it does give some hint of what it must have been like during those three awful days thanks mainly to the re-enactors and filming in the actual settings.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. I thought that was Gods and Generals?

No?

[sarge43]

7. I don't think so

That picture looks like the scene where Bobby Lee rides along the Confid line and takes the salute of the troops.

I'll run the mile long credit list and see if I can catch Allen's name.

[LA lady]

6. Gods and Generals

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279111/

Byrd played a Confederate General

Prequel to Gettsburg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107007/

[sarge43]

8. My mistake

I retire from the field of fire.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. You will be shot at dawn

If we get up that early after partying all night.

[sarge43]

12. Damn

Here I was hoping I'd just pull Latrine Queen duty again.

[sarge43]

3. Yup

Ted Turner, Ken Burns, among others. Martin Sheen played Robert E. Lee and I submit the last thing you could call Sheen is a racist. Allen is a racist, but a bit part in Gettysburg proves nothing.

[Tyler Durden]

9. My neighbor was in "Gettysburg" on both sides.

But I don't think he came in his shorts when he play a Rebel like Allen did.

[Yupster]

10. Byrd was he one who shocked me

You'd think with his discraceful history as a klansman, he would have run for the hills when he was shown his Confederate Gray uniform for the movie.

Phil Gramm of Texas was the smart one. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature, so he got to be a Confederate without wearing a uniform.

It was an okay movie, but too long.