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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Kathryn Alexander

Kathryn Alexander appeared as a lizard performer in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with later credits including an episode of MacGyver and Making Him Famous.

Gil Boccaccio

Cast · Known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Gil Boccaccio appeared in The Verne Miller Story and as a doorman in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Margery Simkin

Casting · Known for Avatar, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Beverly Hills Cop

Margery Simkin is a casting director whose credits include Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Score, Death to Smoochy, Radio, Christmas with the Kranks, Freedom Writers, Marley & Me, Pacific Rim and James Cameron's Avatar films, as well as the series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Blue Eye Samurai.

Brian Le Baron

Cast · Known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Brian Le Baron played a valet parker in Martin Scorsese's Casino and a parking attendant in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and appeared in Luckytown and episodes of Nash Bridges and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Trudi Forristal

Trudi Forristal appeared in Rich Girl, an episode of Seinfeld and as a lizard performer in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Kristin Draudt

Kristin Draudt appeared in an episode of L.A. Law and as a lizard performer in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Lisa Hoyle

Lisa Hoyle is a stunt performer and stunt coordinator with a background in gymnastics and flying trapeze, which she performed in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. She has doubled for numerous actresses, including Diane Kruger in National Treasure and Goldie Hawn in Snatched. Her stunt credits include Drag Me to Hell, Zombieland, Super 8, Iron Man 3, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and Captain America: Brave New World, and she coordinated stunts on Mack & Rita and Don't Log Off.

Erin Chandler

Erin Chandler is an actress and writer, working in Theatre, TV, and Film, from Chicago Hope and The Net to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dead Husbands, Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel, and Ted K.

Nan Friedman

Nan Friedman's credits include the dance film Splitz, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and A Time to Love, as well as writing for the animated series Rugrats.

Carmen Cuba

Casting · Known for Blink Twice, Heretic, Now You See Me

Carmen Cuba is a casting director born in Lima, Peru. After working as a casting assistant on Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, she cast Larry Clark's Bully and Ken Park and began a long collaboration with Steven Soderbergh that includes Bubble, Behind the Candelabra, The Knick and Magic Mike's Last Dance. Her other credits include Ridley Scott's The Martian, The Power of the Dog, Nope and the series Stranger Things, and she won Emmy Awards for casting Behind the Candelabra and Stranger Things.

Richard Foos

Executive Producer · Known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Richard Foos is a music and film executive who co-founded Rhino Records with Harold Bronson. Through Rhino's film arm he was an executive producer of Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and his later executive producer credits include Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy, Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man and Old Henry.

Frank Perl

Cinematographer · Known for The Mentalist

Frank Perl is a cinematographer who worked as a camera assistant on Tiger Town and Creepshow 2 and as camera operator on Two Evil Eyes, Broken Arrow, Space Jam, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Stir of Echoes. He later served as director of photography on Deterrence, Supernova and the series The Mentalist.

Alex Craig Mann

Alex Craig Mann is an actor, writer and director. His screen roles include Party of Five, Seinfeld, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bowfinger, Angel, Friends, The King of Queens and Grey's Anatomy, and he wrote and directed the horror comedy Detention of the Dead.

Tod Davies

Writer · Known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Tod Davies (born 1955) is an American writer, producer and publisher born in San Francisco. She co-wrote the screenplay for Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Alex Cox, to whom she is married, and wrote and produced Cox's Three Businessmen, in which she also appears. She produced Kurosawa: The Last Emperor and Revengers Tragedy and founded the independent publisher Exterminating Angel Press, which has published her books Jam Today, Snotty Saves the Day and Lily the Silent.

Tony Grisoni

Writer · Known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Tony Grisoni (born October 28, 1952, in London) is a British screenwriter. He wrote Queen of Hearts for Jon Amiel and co-wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tideland and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with Terry Gilliam. His other screenplays include In This World, Brothers of the Head, Red Riding, The Unloved and How I Live Now, and his television work includes Southcliffe, The Young Pope, The City and the City and Marlow. He also teaches screenwriting at the London Film School.

Ransom Gates

Cast · Known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Ransom Gates performed stunts on Planet of the Apes, Minority Report and Big Bad Wolf and appeared on screen in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story.

Christopher Callen

Christopher Callen's screen credits include an uncredited appearance on Moonlighting, a waitress at the Bazooko Circus in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Enchanted, and later roles in Hansel Vs. Gretel, Cage Dive, The Missing, Music City Mistletoe and an episode of The Paper.

Chris Hendrie

Chris Hendrie is an actor whose credits include Psycho II, Fright Night, The Langoliers, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Old School and Shallow Ground, along with guest roles on Little House on the Prairie, Melrose Place, The West Wing, ER, Grey's Anatomy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Heroes and Criminal Minds.

Milt Tarver

Milt Tarver (December 20, 1943 – December 30, 2004) was an American actor born in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He appeared in Total Recall and Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and in many television films and series, including St. Elsewhere, Falcon Crest, Beverly Hills, 90210, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Married... with Children, Melrose Place, Charmed and The West Wing.

Noon Orsatti

Noon Orsatti is a stuntman and stunt coordinator, the son of stuntman Ernie F. Orsatti. His stunt work includes Beetlejuice, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, True Romance, Alien Resurrection, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame. He has coordinated stunts on The Expendables, The Expendables 2, Bullet to the Head, Escape Plan, Extraction 2, Borderlands and Thunderbolts*, as well as the series The Closer.

Seth Edelstein

Producer · Known for For All Mankind

Seth Edelstein began as an assistant director on films including Daylight, Liar Liar, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Next Friday, Orange County, One Hour Photo and DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, and wrote and directed Anticipating Sarah. He later moved into television production management and producing, on Murder in the First, Better Call Saul, Euphoria, Hacks and For All Mankind, on which he became an executive producer.

JoAnn Fregalette Jansen

JoAnn Fregalette Jansen is a choreographer whose film credits include Michael, One Eight Seven, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Astronaut's Wife, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Along Came Polly, Elizabethtown, Rango and End of Watch. She was also an associate producer of Fresh and White Man's Burden and a co-producer of A Price Above Rubies and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.

Molly Allen

Executive Producer · Known for The Equalizer 2

Molly Allen is a producer who began as a location manager on films including Final Mission, Empire Records, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Antwone Fisher, Bringing Down the House, Constantine and Fun with Dick and Jane. She moved into production supervision and producing, as co-producer of The Great Debaters and Seven Pounds, production supervisor on The Town and Django Unchained, and executive producer of Fences, The Jungle Book, The Equalizer 2, A Journal for Jordan and Nine Perfect Strangers.