Ultimate B-Movie Biker Gang

AndyC · July 13, 2008, 07:24:42 PM

It's amazing what kind of thoughts pop into your head while mowing the lawn. I have a lot of lawn and only a push mower, so I gave this one quite a bit of thought. If you could put together a biker gang for a movie, who would be in it? Doesn't matter if they're too old now, or deceased. Let's assume we could get them all in their prime.

My gang would include:

Bob Tessier
I think there was a regulation at some time that you couldn't have a biker gang without him in it.

Mickey Jones
Good as a biker, blue-collar worker, hillbilly, whatever you need.

Danny Trejo
Needs no explanation.

Sid Haig
Highly underrated heavy from the 70s and 80s, and still around. Hooray for Captain Spaulding.

Peter Fonda
Another actor who has played a few bikers in his time.

Vernon Wells
Yes, he did play Bennett, but he was pretty good in The Road Warrior.

RCMerchant · July 15, 2008, 06:30:23 AM

GOOD PICKS!

I would also add:
Bruce Dern!!! the Loser!
William Smith!
Russ Tamblyn...watch him in SATAN'S SADISTS. A real dirtball.
Diamond Dallas Page....he and Danny Trejo made a good pair in the DEVIL's REJECTS
Micheal Berryman! He just looks weird and scary.

AndyC · July 15, 2008, 07:03:41 AM

How could I forget William Smith? Another familiar face. And Bruce Dern too. All good choices.

Another one who comes to mind is Randall 'Tex' Cobb.

Also maybe Donald 'Ogre' Gibb.

Andrew · July 15, 2008, 10:51:45 AM

These come to mind for that gang:

Hulk Hogan

James Earl Jones

James Coburn

Phil Fondacaro (with Angelo Rossitto in the sidecar)

Who for the little weasel guy who always starts trouble?

Doc Daneeka · July 15, 2008, 11:06:26 AM

Quote from: Andrew on July 15, 2008, 10:51:45 AM

Who for the little weasel guy who always starts trouble?

I think Bill Paxton would be the obvious answer

AndyC · July 15, 2008, 12:40:05 PM

Quote from: Andrew on July 15, 2008, 10:51:45 AM
Who for the little weasel guy who always starts trouble?

I was thinking maybe Bill McKinney, who filled that role in Every Which Way But Loose.

That reminds me, the gang also needs John Quade.

Patient7 · July 15, 2008, 02:20:53 PM

Don't forget

CheezeFlixz · July 16, 2008, 11:57:56 PM

Any movie bike gang isn't worth it's salt, without some movie biker babes ...

RCMerchant · July 17, 2008, 05:26:10 AM

Biker babes! Yeah!

Like...
NANCY SiNATRA
REGINA (the Freak Out Girl!) CARROLL
ANN MARGRET
TRACI LORDS!!!
.....here's a clip of Regina (she's the tall,blonde one) in ANGEL's WILD WOMEN-
(I REALLY NEED to see this movie!!!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=77P3pdNzuWo

"But-these sex orgies is unnatural!"

It's directed by Al Adamson....and has Gary (ONE MILLION AC/DC) in it too...a sure mark of quality viewing!

Andrew · July 17, 2008, 10:42:27 AM

Thought of somebody I missed: Fred Williamson. How could I forget him?

For biker women, how about Tura Santana?

Also, the woman who played the soft-spoken Texas Air Ranger in "Gunhed." The actresses name is Brenda Bakke. I've never seen her in anything else, but her persona from "Gunhed" would be darn near perfect.

peter johnson · July 17, 2008, 01:19:45 PM

Nobody mentions Gimp, The Satan's Onion . . .
I'm crushed, I tell you . . . crushed!!
peter j/denny c

JJ80 · July 17, 2008, 01:23:27 PM

Given his bearded appearance, wouldn't Brian Blessed make a great biker character? Think of his Hawkman turn in Flash Gordon with a contemporary twist.

AndyC · July 17, 2008, 05:44:34 PM

Quote from: JJ80 on July 17, 2008, 01:23:27 PM
Given his bearded appearance, wouldn't Brian Blessed make a great biker character? Think of his Hawkman turn in Flash Gordon with a contemporary twist.

You know, that might be a perfect role for Blessed. I've seen him play every other kind of loud, violent, bearded person. Would he need to put on a southern US accent, or could he just be the British guy?

RCMerchant · July 17, 2008, 07:21:19 PM

Quote from: Andrew on July 17, 2008, 10:42:27 AM
Thought of somebody I missed: Fred Williamson. How could I forget him?

For biker women, how about Tura Santana?

Also, the woman who played the soft-spoken Texas Air Ranger in "Gunhed." The actresses name is Brenda Bakke. I've never seen her in anything else, but her persona from "Gunhed" would be darn near perfect.

At work today,I tought "Tura Santana would be a bad-ass biker chick too..."...sigh...such is my interesting job,that I daydream about B-movies...

Another chick I thought about was from an obscure movie I had bought from Something Weird Video some years back...unfourtantly...it has mysteriously vanished from my collection-but it was called SHE MOB-and the leader of the,uh,she mob was this nasty dyke woman called Big Shim-(she-him-get it?)....

...whatta scary looking broad!

JJ80 · July 20, 2008, 10:09:03 AM

Quote from: AndyC on July 17, 2008, 05:44:34 PM
Quote from: JJ80 on July 17, 2008, 01:23:27 PM
Given his bearded appearance, wouldn't Brian Blessed make a great biker character? Think of his Hawkman turn in Flash Gordon with a contemporary twist.

You know, that might be a perfect role for Blessed. I've seen him play every other kind of loud, violent, bearded person. Would he need to put on a southern US accent, or could he just be the British guy?

You could play it two ways: either have Blessed as the posh English leader of an American, deep-south biker gang with little or no explanation given as to how he got there, or set the story in the genteel countryside of the English Home-counties combining elements of "Wild Hogs" and "Psychomania".