Central Casting

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Central Casting is a casting company located in Burbank, California. They currently specialize in casting extras, body doubles, and stand-ins.

1 History
2 Trivia
3 Quotes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Central Casting was established in 1925 initially as a wing of the major Hollywood movie studios. By the 1970s they came to dominate the field of extras casting.

The name of this company had developed into a jargon term denoting a generic or a stereotypical location where someone could travel to and cast a specific character type for a specific type of film or television production. The term, Central Casting is also in widespread use outside of the film industry.

In April of 2006 Central Casting officially opened its New York division.

[edit] Trivia

Central Casting is also the name of several out-of-state casting agencies, and of a broker for MUSH players.

Central Casting is also the name of a series of role-playing supplements originally published about 1990 by Task Force Games. These supplements were aimed at "fleshing out" characters to be used during role-playing games by providing randomly generated background information for the characters.

[edit] Quotes

In many respects, [Tim Berners-Lee] looks like an Englishman from central casting - quiet, courteous, reserved. ("The Quiet Englishman": Profile of Tim Berners-Lee)
The venerable Chinese woman who popped out of the darkness to hand me an IBM punch card looks like she's straight out of central casting for a B-movie about dry cleaning. ("Complainer, Master Complainer")

[edit] References

You Won't Find These Definitions in Webster's. Career Journal, Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on January 8, 2005. — includes an example of the slang use of "central casting" as applied to the recruitment industry
Central Casting. OnLine NewsHour. Retrieved on January 10, 2005. — Central casting of news