Dana Kaminski Burt Reynolds BL Stryker Ep3 Sc1
This was the 2nd episode/movie I was in, but it’s Episode3 because I came, at first, to appear as a guest star in the second. When we finished my scenes, I waited around my hotel, wondering why no one was calling me with my return flight plans; and, then, a new script appeared outside my hotel door. When I leafed through it, I realized that my character was central to the plot, in this episode, and the story concerned a character referred to as my “brother”. Exciting? I’d say… I was hired for two weeks in the second episode, and wound up staying for the rest of the entire season… And, then, the season after that…
Neil Patrick Harris, Dana Kaminski, Michael Chiklis, Burt Reynolds, In One Acting Scene
I think this was actor Neil Patrick Harris’s first television role. Look at Michael Chiklis, this was his second acting job altogether…I think his first was a small film, just before this. This was an episode of BL Stryker. Each episode was a 2 hour long TV movie, part of “The ABC Mystery Wheel”. Neil had taken an acting class, +if my memory serves me correctly, it was taught by Mark Ryder, at a college near his home. Mark used Neil in a small film, just prior to his doing BL Stryker. I used to kid with Neil’s dad, all the time, about how his son was a “chosen” one. (They came from a town outside of Hollywood or New York…) Michael Chiklis had worked with our cameraman on a prior project, and came to visit him. He hung around the set a lot, and Burt then cast him, then, in this episode. Ossie Davis was also in this scene. Burt was always remarking how dignified he was. He was even-keeled, and exceptionally nice, as well. The two actors in the fight scene were from Burt’s Theatre Training; I believe they are working actors now.