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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964)
Cat actor sees you, Mike Nelson!!!
If you ever find yourself short for a word count, try to work in commentary on the film The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964). The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies is a great slice of low budget monster mayhem. This cat actor scares Carmelita (Erina Enyo) who admits to being terrified of cats. Surprisingly, this bit of information does not appear in the plot at all and no other cats are seen or mentioned in the film. Which film, you ask? The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. Director Ray Dennis Steckler also directed the rock and roll classic Wild Guitar (1962) starring Arch Hall Jr.
The Atomic Brain (1963)
Sci fi thriller The Atomic Brain (1963) may be deserving of the MST3K treatment it receives, but the producers manage to give credit where credit is due. Xerxes the cat appears in the credits alongside his co-stars where he belongs. IMDB shows that Xerxes did not get any work after this low budget film about a mad scientist switches brains between people and animals, but he acted about as well as everyone else in the film.
Xerxes puts the hammer down.
His final appearance in the film. Xerxes will never act again.
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
This very articulate cat actor ushers Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino) into Juliette Gréco’s living room and then excuses herself. This recent biopic on the life of the iconic French musician unfolds with many terrifically surreal moments. It’s fortunate the producers were able to hire a talking cat.
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Eileen Brennan as The Cat Lady
Ominous cats linger in a dark, screened porch.
Among the many stops Patricia and Darry Jenner (Gina Phillips and Justin Long) make fleeing The Creeper (Jonathan Breck) is a remote house occupied by a crazy cat lady and an unspecified number of cat actors. This group of cat actors did not get much screen time, but they did get the opportunity to act alongside veteran character actor Eileen Brennan.
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Carol Hill looking for her dog Baron.
Cat leaps…
relief.
A feline actor performs a classic cat scare opposite Cindy Weintraub as her character searches Baron’s house in Roger Corman’s Humanoids from the Deep. This Lovecraft-esque tale of a small fishing town overrun by man-fish while teenagers try to have sex is loaded with dog acting, but this cat has its moment.
More outrageous than a race of man-fish surfacing to terrorize a small town is a scene where a ventriloquist sees a woman naked.
Inferno (1980)
The eyes have it.
Pounce!!!
Check and Mate.
There are few false scares in the films of Dario Argento. Cat actors employed by the master of Italian horror get right into action, as these two unnamed cat actors did with co-star Daria Nicolodi during a pivotal scene in Inferno.
Louie Season 1: Episode 6
Unnamed cat actor portraying a bodega cat in the hit TV show Louie
Kittie opposite co-star Louis C.K.
The ever-lovable bodega cat is represented well by this comic actor and his co-star, comedian Louis C.K.
The Delta Force (1986)
While this uncredited cat’s contribution to this Chuck Norris movie may not seem significant, the filmmakers thought enough of the cat’s performance as “cat running across the street” to have him come back and add dialogue. A loud “meow” can be heard as trucks full of freed hostages come barreling through Beirut. The cat could not shake the typecast of being a cat that crosses the street at opportune moments and eventually retired from acting.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Catlady Miriam Karlin and her co-stars.
Actors scurry as McDowell rushes in.
A talented roster of cat actors were employed during a pivotal scene in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). Catlady (Miriam Karlin) is unaware that Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is breaking into her health farm. The cats are also caught off guard.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
This feline comic actor portrays a re-gifted cat whose antics help to push Clark W. Griswold Jr. (Chevy Chase) to a boiling point during a Christmas Eve dinner in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989).
