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Autobiographical Role
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When someone plays himself in a Docudrama, Biopic, or other dramatization of a true story. This is not a celebrity or public figure appearing "as himself" in an entirely fictional work. Those examples should go under As Himself. This is when events are being re-enacted by the person who enacted them in the first place. If a starring role, may overlap with Non-Actor Vehicle. Compare Real-Person Cameo. Contrast Character as Himself, in which a fictional character is given a real-world screen credit. Also contrast Adam Westing, where an actor plays his public persona. |
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Coal Miner's Daughter: Country music stars Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb and country comedienne Minnie Pearl appear as themselves, after Loretta Lynn (played by Sissy Spacek) hits the big time. | |
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself is in fact about a film being made about the Mexican revolutionary who sold the rights to film one of his battles which resulted in The Life Of General Villa, which did indeed star Pancho Villa portraying himself. | |
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No: Several members of the "No" campaign to unseat Augusto Pinochet appear as themselves, including Patricio Aylwin, who succeeded Pinochet as president of Chile. | |
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While parts of Titus are fictionalized for the sake of comedy, the show's overall story is overtly based on Christopher Titus's real life, and he plays himself, while his friends and family are played by other actors. | |
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Heaven Knows What: The film is based on the memoir of Arielle Holmes, a former street junkie from New York City. Holmes plays the lead character, Harley Boggs, who represents herself. | |
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Beyond the Line of Duty is a 1942 short film meant to boost American morale during World War II. It starts Capt. Hewitt Wheless as himself, recreating his courageous bombing run on a Japanese troop transport in December 1941. | |
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Knute Rockne, All American: Real Life college football coaches Glenn "Pop" Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Howard Jones, and Bill Spaulding appear as themselves in a scene where they join up with Rockne to defend college football from a Congressional inquiry. | |
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Alice's Restaurant recounts a true but comically exaggerated Thanksgiving adventure. Arlo Guthrie played himself and Stockbridge police chief William Obanhein ("Officer Obie") played himself in the film version, explaining to Newsweek magazine that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool. Singer Pete Seeger also played himself. | |
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The Iranian film Close-Up has this for essentially all of the people who were involved. | |
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Warning: Parental Advisory: a particularly shameless Made-for-TV Movie about how Dee Snider stuck it to the PMRC with him playing himself. | |
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United 93: several of those involved in the events surrounding the hijacking played themselves, most notably Ben Sliney. | |
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In Inglourious Basterds, Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl) plays himself in the propaganda film Stolz der Nation, which chronicles his exploits fighting on the front in Italy. | |
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The 15:17 to Paris: Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos, the three American soldiers who foiled a terrorist attack on a train to Paris, play themselves. | |
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Many extras in London's Burning were actual London Fire Brigade personnel; some of the more elaborate rescues in the show doubled as training exercises. | |
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In the newspaper version of Spider-Man, Spidey hears they're making a movie about him and auditions for the lead role. He is initially snubbed because he's too short, but gets the role after doing some webswinging to prove he's the real deal. | |
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While Purple Rain may not exactly have been The Real True Prince Story, it did touch on elements of his life, feature him playing with his band, and film on location in his hometown. | |
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Frank Wills, the security guard who first discovered the Watergate burglary, in both All the President's Men and Forrest Gump. | |
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Jerry Lawler, David Letterman, Lorne Michaels, and most of the cast of Taxi played themselves in Man on the Moon (a Biopic of Andy Kaufman). Though Danny DeVito | |
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Danger Mouse: In "A Loo to a Kill", DM is playing himself in a film. Penfold gets Gender Flipped and is played by Scarlett Johamster. | |
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The Pride of the Yankees: Babe Ruth played himself in the Lou Gehrig biopic , as did Bill Dickey, Mark Koenig, Robert Meusel, and sportscaster Bill Stern. | |
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Sully: The search and rescue team on the helicopter and the ferry workers that come to the plane passengers' aid are played by themselves. | |
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Goodfellas: Comedian Henny Youngman, singer Jerry Vale, and FBI agent Edward McDonald play themselves, as the film is a biopic about New York City gangster Henry Hill. | |
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The Great Ziegfeld: Ray Bolger, Harriet Hoctor, and Fanny Brice, all veterans of the Ziegfeld Follies, play themselves in this biopic about them. | |
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Space Jam stars Michael Jordan as himself, and covers his brief retirement from basketball, failed attempt at a baseball career, and return to basketball only a short time later. Of course, the bulk of the film is spent on a minor bit of creative liberty suggesting he regained his passion for basketball by player-coaching the Looney Tunes to victory in a high-stakes match against alien slavers, but the parts that focus solely on Jordan play the trope quite straight. For an extra bit of Reality Subtext, the practice he got during the making of the film helped sharpen his skills for the real unretirement depicted in the film's final moments. | |
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Fantasia Barrino of American Idol played herself in the Made-for-TV Movie Life Is Not a Fairytale, based on her memoir. | |
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Three Seats for the 26th offers an unusual example that is both In-Universe and Real Life. Yves Montand plays Yves Montand, who has come back to his hometown of Marseilles to star in "Montand Remembers", a musical show about his own life. While the movie is fictional, the musical Show Within a Show does in fact portray the real Montand's real life, including how he worked as a riveter in the Marseilles shipyard as a young man and how Édith Piaf gave him his big break. | |
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