Years ago, I found Stallone in many movies as an extra. Ones from when he was young, and this was during the period when he was an unknown actor, so I doubt any producers involved with these movies even knows he appeared in any of them.
I also had evidence that I just found this information online in the first place, and I didn't see anybody else really covering it in depth. So I bought the movies to see if I could spot him since they never said if they found him or not.
IMDb has a support forum, and I posted the proof. Originally, they did add these films to his page. Some stupid trolls were sceptical that it was really him. They edited the page, and deleted the credits. After that, the staff kept saying I needed verifiable sources or they were never adding them back. They asked me to post a video, and this was back when I could copy DVDs with the VLC program, and yet that still wasn't enough to convince them that he showed up in these movies. In the end, I just gave up caring about their site. I posted a picture of a white flag on their forums after making so many threads, trying to debunk them. They were also messing with other credits that were on his page already, which I never added.
For example, in 1969, Stallone was studying in Switzerland at an American college, located in Leysin. I've got a book about him where it mentions that his mother sent him to Geneva to study as he was getting expelled from so many schools. A film was shot there with Robert Redford called
Downhill Racer, and I happened to spot Sly in a scene where Redford had a blonde chick in a restaurant. I think this was in a hotel. I cannot post the whole scene, but they basically pay the waiter and then go in an elevator to a room, and have sex. Well, Stallone had an uncredited role in this scene here.
And this is a clip from a rare book that has this film mentioned.
He also shows up in
M*A*S*H as an extra, too. He's in the scene where the guy with the cap goes over to Donald Sutherland in a tent, to ask him about a stolen jeep.
This was written by Elliott Gould.
Stallone may or may not be somewhere in “M.A.S.H.” “When I met Sylvester Stallone with my friend Burgess Meredith, Stallone told me he never admitted to doing extra work out in Hollywood. But one of the few pictures he admitted he was an extra on was ‘M.A.S.H.’” Gould says. “When I mentioned that to Bob, he said, ‘I don’t accept that. Sylvester Stallone couldn’t have been an extra in my picture.’ But that’s what Stallone told me.”
This is from an interview with Stallone.
DEADLINE: We just interviewed Burt Reynolds for his memoir and he said he very much wanted to play Rocky. He was a huge star at the time…
STALLONE: He would have done well with it, but you know…I just…couldn’t. You’re right, though. At that time, it was the apex of very physical actors. You had Ryan O’Neal, who loved boxing. I saw him spar with Joe Frazier once when I was doing extra work in 1971. I said, “Wow, look at that,” and then you had Burt Reynolds who was a real good college football player. Another tough guy, Jimmy Caan, liked it and you had Nick Nolte. All these guys were the prime suspects to play the character, and they’d all probably have done it very well. It was a miracle that it happened the way it did.
I think that's him here in
What's Up, Doc? as an extra. I added it to Wikipedia. That film was made in 1971 and released in 1972.
This is his first starring role in a lame 70's drama called
No Place to Hide, aka
Rebel. I think the original version bombed at the theatres, so they shot new scenes with feds in pursuit of Stallone's character in the 80's... and re-titled it, and the VHS cover has him as Rambo, on a motorbike.
