Central Casting is an American casting company that specializes in the casting of extras, body doubles, and stand-ins. It was founded in Los Angeles in 1925, with additional offices opening in New York City, New Orleans, and Atlanta in the 21st century.
In popular usage, a person may be said to be "straight out of central casting" if their demeanor is felt to be stereotypical in nature, typically for their vocation or other attributes.[1]
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CentralCasting is an American casting company that specializes in the casting of extras, body doubles, and stand-ins. It was founded in Los Angeles in...
Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and...
mold. Typically, a disc-shaped mold is spun along its central axis at a set speed. The casting material, usually molten metal or liquid thermoset plastic...
time, Harlean went to CentralCasting and signed in under her mother's maiden name, Jean Harlow. After several calls from casting and a number of job offers...
having random strangers invited to the productions. The show hired CentralCasting to gather a cast of "laughers" who would be recorded during taping...
"Casting the Runes" is a short story written by the English writer M.R. James. It was first published in 1911 as the fourth story in More Ghost Stories...
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look better eating a bacon sandwich. If you want the politician from centralcasting, it's just not me, it's the other guy. If you want a politician who...
character, although she pointed out the lack of verisimilitude in her own casting as a biblical matriarch, i.e. a "blonde, blue-eyed Jewess". Her final screen...
shift to stations airing the same pre-recorded program material and central-casting via Internet or satellite. The 1996 Telecommunications Act removed...
tour in Britain was cancelled after some weeks, Valerie contacted CentralCasting and started to work as an extra in movies - her first film was That...
p. 168. Sagan, Carl (2000) [Originally published 1973]. "'Hello, CentralCasting? Send Me Twenty Extraterrestrials'". Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection:...
and The Dark Pictures Anthology. The game's title was revealed as The Casting of Frank Stone at The Game Awards 2023 and is scheduled to release in 2024...
worked on a series of supplements focusing on character creation called CentralCasting (1988-1991) to be published by Flying Buffalo, although they were instead...