Yes, that's College electrician Danny Curran playing the part
of a peanut vendor in Time Machine, the
just-released remake of the science-fiction film based on the book by
H.G. Wells.
Curran's cameo comes in a nighttime winter scene
at Iroquois Lake in Schenectady's Central Park. The
several-minute scene, shot in February of 2001 between 6 p.m. and
6 a.m. over four consecutive days, required about 50 takes,
Curran recalls.
The weather was brutally cold, Curran says, but the extras
were treated to frequent warm-up breaks and ample food.
The scene is a key one in the film; it is the setting of a
marriage proposal and a death.
Curran, who admits he went to the casting call “on a
lark,” said his ample mustache may have helped him land the
part. “They called me back (after the original audition) to ask if
my mustache was real,” Curran said. “Evidently some of
the people were pasting them on.”
As for his future acting plans, Curran is clear: “I'm waiting
for Hollywood to call.”