Evan McNeeley • Pre-SAG (c.2020 & before)

Try and guess who I am. The Background Character I am is in the 'Description' section when you 'Watch on YouTube.'

I tried to find every thing I've worked on after they were released, every single one. I was on a 3 month to a year delay waiting for the premieres. It's difficult time-wise & I didn't have all the subscriptions. I'm usually in just one scene per film project or one episode per TV season; sometimes 2 or 3 as the same character... or 5, 6 in scenes I'm 'non descript' ('ambiguous)' either wearing a mask, or a 'blur,' or small 'face in the crowd' or audience. Sometimes I was right up front, but usually I was 'behind the action' ...or way back 'in the rack' (sometimes the scene wasn't even used at all or me on that day, I would get paid but just sat waiting off set the whole time with a tiny little set appearance). Here are a few good clips, above, I did find! None of my pics (below) are of the set or any wardrobe & props I was given. On my pic info (album below), I never posted what project they were from (they are all from NYC Film & TV sets, taken by other Background Actors before c.2020). All the clothing and props are mine in the pics. On my resume (or reel above), I would never post the credit until the project was released (the second half of my career) with one exception during the pandemic. The cover photo (of the Album) below right became 'kind of' famous among the industry, as I left it up for years on my Casting Networks account (my principal source back then). A 'mock up' of it was featured on a very popular TV Show... (with my name as the character that got 'doxxed') and in one 'super hit movie' (the shirt, haircut, shaking of my leg as I do sometimes). "I loved it was used like this... thanks for putting up with me all those years!" - Evan

(ND): CU, MS, 3/4 & Full - All taken by fellow Background Actors 'On Day'(2012-20) during NYC's Golden Age Revival of the Film & TV industry. These pics were used to submit for my next booking right away, it worked like magic, one booking after another. I did the same for them, with their camera for their submissions. It was a community before the Pandemic Lock-down; that doesn't exist anymore.

Click 'Google Photos' to return to your Albums & Photos after viewing if it doesn't return/reset automatically.

The 'Mystery of My Life'

...that is me... that even I have forgotten or can't prove.

This is me, I am almost completely sure, the boy on the platform; there is no credit for the boy in the movie and IMDb has a credit for a voice-over (over what the boy originally said) a credit taken by a fellow from Orange Co. California. I would have been 5 or 6 at the time of shooting, while my Dad was still a director. Maybe a women named Barbara Jabailey or Yvette accompanied me or perhaps Frank or Mary... or Miles and his paramore did the shoot themselves and submitted it (maybe even Mom or Dad / Jon, Rochelle). I remember a 'train situation' / set-up, scenario the train may not have been there at the shooting, it might be at HB Studio or NYU or Queens or Bloomfield, NJ / Donna & Miles (I remember saying lines / messing up) ...vaguely, that's what led me to think that I am this boy... and pics of me then (this year of the shooting) look like this boy (still just a maybe, not a definite though) ...again almost completely sure however, that this is me but have no way to prove it.

Tidbit: The line in "Young Frankenstein" that the boy on the track platform says is ["...Track 29, ...can I give you a shine?"] People think many things about this... but it is also a line from Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo-Choo." In the version by the Andrew Sisters, (above) they sing the line at [0:25]. This movie is pure magic... & I'm sure there are more 'Easter Eggs' than this little special addition.
Thanks for checking out my site, 'reel' & pics! - Evan

I have done little things my whole life... my dad was a 'failed director' ...I've signed many things over the course of my life that I don't even remember really (or can prove ) ...movies... MTV ...much more... it is possibly & easily as much as I have listed on my resume (but maybe not).
Only as I have gotten older, and people telling me too, that I realized I have been beaten senseless many, many times (while sleeping or unaware) and have no recollection of the attacks as well as many great memories or great deeds I have done (the bad stuff gone is good though at least). "I'm living in Marwen" ("Welcome to Marwen," that movie with Steve Carell) ...permanently... (I'm in danger if I don't realize this) but I've been so trained in things (to include acting) that I remember 'how to perform' (and other things), other than that, I probably won't do much talking any longer, because I always put my foot in my mouth.

I believe I am in the background of this scene... 0:08 - 0:12 & 0:19 - 0:29 ...upper right corner... in the rack ...gray collared shirt / black t-shirt ...dancing & talking to small group in front of me wearing jacket (s) / tie(s) ...and cocktail dress(es). I was in so many things that I didn't keep a record of... but I saw this and it hit me ...and brought a smile to my face... thanks for this gamus100 !

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