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21 unusual facts about Screen Actors Guild


Berton Churchill

In 1925, Churchill helped found the Masquers club that led to him and five other actors creating the Screen Actors Guild in 1933.

Brad Ecklund

A member of the Screen Actors Guild, having earned a role in the movie North Dallas Forty, Ecklund also did some acting in TV commercials and appearances as John Wayne's look-alike while residing in Los Angeles.

Career Transition For Dancers

In 1985, nonprofit organization Career Transition For Dancers, Inc. was established in New York City with money from Actors’ Equity Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, American Guild of Musical Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild.

Chukky Okobi

He has been a member of Screen Actors Guild since 2006 and has starred in commercials for ESPN, Campbell's Chunky Soup, and the Pennsylvania Lottery.

Conversations with Maria Menounos

Rob Lowe's appearance was recorded on November 1st, 2013, and he spoke about his portrayal of presidential icon JFK in National Geographic's "Killing Kennedy", a role in which earned him a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Feature film

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and British Film Institute, a feature film runs for 40 minutes or longer, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is 80 minutes or longer.

The Centre National de la Cinématographie in France defines it as a 35 mm film longer than 1,600 metres, which is exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films, and the Screen Actors Guild gives a minimum running time of at least 80 minutes.

Gender marking in job titles

The Screen Actors Guild annually gives out awards for "Best Male Actor" and "Best Female Actor".

Kim Roberts Hedgpeth

From 1987 to 1992, she served as Executive Director of AFTRA’s San Francisco Local and the Screen Actors Guild's San Francisco Branch.

Kurt Lockwood

The roles earned him a Screen Actors Guild card but ultimately didn’t pan out into acting fame and fortune.

Lee, London

Estelle Winwood, English stage and screen actress who later lived in the USA and, at the time of her death at 101, she was the oldest member in the history of the Screen Actors Guild.

Lindsay Doran

She worked at the Screen Actors Guild, where she "learned a lot" and soon received another job at Hollywood studio Avco Embassy Pictures, working her way up.

NEHST Studios

It was reported in 2010 that NEHST was asking actors to pay to be cast in its movies, and might be investigated for the practice by the Screen Actors Guild.

Niko Bellic

Hollick was paid about $1,050 a day for his work on the game, about 50% more than the standard Screen Actors Guild-negotiated rate for actors, although he claimed it was still a fraction of the income he would get from a film or TV-show performance, and that he was upset about not getting residuals from game sales, putting the blame on the union for not securing such agreements.

Return of Pink Five

While Volume One was not eligible for the Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards due to combination of a longer running time and the use of union actors, it was presented as "out of competition feature" due to the long connection of the cast and crew with Atomfilms.

Ross Mathews

In 2010, Mathews joined the E! Network's red carpet team, filling in for Ryan Seacrest as co-host alongside Giuliana Rancic for E! Live From the Red Carpet coverage of the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards, the 2010 Emmy Awards, the 2011 Golden Globe Awards and the 2011 Academy Awards.

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series is one the awards given by the Screen Actors Guild.

Shay Roundtree

That movie, which was released in 2003, along with a television commercial appearance, qualified him to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Steve Millen

He is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild as a stunt driver, which provided the healthcare he needed when he had his career ending crash.

The Magic Behind the Voices

In the earliest days of cartoons, voice actors were seldom credited for their work, and prior to 1990, voice actors' potential as real actors was overlooked even by the Screen Actors Guild, with Mel Blanc, the so-named "Man of 1,000 Voices," being the only voice actor known to the general public.

Tim Russell

Tim Russell (born 1947/8) is an American radio announcer and voice actor (AFTRA/SAG) in Minneapolis – Saint Paul.


Courage of the West

Lewis was told that the Screen Actors Guild did not have jurisdiction at this distance from Los Angeles, although its members would have to be paid the standard rates agreed with the Guild.

Equity Card

These unions are the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), and Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

Frank Partos

Frank Partos (7 February 1901, Budapest - 23 December 1956, Los Angeles) an American screenwriter, of Hungarian Jewish origin, and an early executive committee member of the Screen Actors Guild, which he helped found.

Guy Aoki

Silverman and Aoki later appeared together on the August 22, 2001 episode of Politically Incorrect, along with panelists David Spade and Anne-Marie Johnson, chair of the Screen Actors Guild Ethnic Employment Opportunity Committee.

Jodi Leib

The film has also screened at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Laemmle Sunset 5, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and Market, and most recently at the Screen Actors Guild.

Joseph Runningfox

He was featured in Ravenous as George (although credited as Joseph Running Fox) and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Joseph Sheppard

He is a member of Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actor's Equity, and Screen Actors Guild.

Millie Perkins

By 1978 Perkins was sufficiently far off the Hollywood radar that the Screen Actors Guild had her on their inactive list and that September the Hollywood column "Ask Dick Kleiner" responded to the query: "What ever happened to Millie Perkins?" with "Millie Perkins died recently"; a letter from Perkins herself resulted in a January 1979 retraction by Kleiner, although the columnist maintained: "almost everyone in Hollywood believes that Perkins died."