Chig Page

Here is the breakdown of my appearances on FOX's short lived television series "SPACE: Above and Beyond". Although the show is no longer being run, it still has a huge following - which just goes to show how "out of touch" Hollywood executives actually are.

As far as major acting roles go, my film career is more or less a that of "Where's Waldo". So please excuse the element of "self publicity" But no one else around here seemed to want the job.

STAY WITH THE DEAD: My S:AAB debut. I played West's hospital roommate (the moaning guy) as well as one of the Chigs.

WHO MONITORS THE BIRDS: I was one of the Chigs shot by Hawkes (the one without the handheld satellite link) as well as the Chig who gets knifed in the neck by Hawkes Bayonet booby trap. A real pleasure working,again, with actor Dale Dye, a good personal friend of mine.

LEVEL OF NECESSITY: I was Chig a plenty in this one. My first appearance was just my hand dropping a Chigrenade in the teaser. Next, I was seen hacking the legs up of a marine... (hey, he was in my way!) But Damphousse got her revenge by ducking under my blade and poking me with her bayonet... but I was back again showing my reflection in a pool of water (yeow that stuff hurts). Then just a regular everychig taking pop shots at the bad guys (humans). finally, I got to lay back as a dead Chig and let the special effects guys blow some fire over me. (well, it looked good on paper..)

TOY SOLDIERS: A real quickie. I was the Chig who you see get shot. ( "He got me, he got me"... A Chig inside joke.)

PEARLY: My first REAL near death experience as a Chig. We only had one scene in this episode, we all thought it was gonna be an easy day. Well..... The first mess was that they wanted us to run down a hill while numerous explosions went off all around us. "Oh joy." We were promised it would be safe. "yeah, right." They decided that the best way to see as many Chigs as possible would be to have us run down the STEEPEST hill available. "Boy wouldn't that look neat." Here is a little inside scoop about Chig armor. THAT STUFF IS HEAVY! When the cameras started rolling, I was an actor in a Chig costume... Before we even were halfway done, I was transformed into a crash test dummy inside 150 lbs. of scrap fibreglass! And as a little surprise. The assistant director FORGOT to tell us that he had strategically placed live human extra's playing dead marines around the battlefield. Walking in Chig armor is difficult, running-unpleasant, sprinting-unthinkable! Yes, we lost control. What the audience didn't see was an eight Chig pile up at the end of the scene.

SUGAR DIRT: Oooh, we are so bad. I portrayed "M.C. Chig" on the intergalactic "Mister Microphone" Playing such hits as "Abe Lincoln is dead" as well as "The Chicago Cubs Suck!" and many more. Then in the finale, we hack up a marine. (by the way - I was surprised to see that the actor hired to play a marine victim was none other than my good friend, Joe Ordaz, who I've had the pleasure of working on dozens of other films with. I still tease him about that scene.) Also note, the "hacking" scene was originally supposed to be used in the episode "Who Monitors The Birds" but was used in this episode instead.

AND IF THEY LAY US DOWN TO REST & TELL OUR MOMS WE DID OUR BEST: Four actors actually portrayed the Chig ambassador in the last two episodes. The primary one was Derek Mark Lochran, he was the actor who played the Chig Nanny and wore the articulated mask. I was the Chig body. Whenever we needed to see the Ambassador walking or we didn't see his gills moving.. Me. The other two were the Stuntman who jumped through the glass wall and an extra who did some background work. I also had a quick scene as a Chig moving through the "Egg Catacombs" just to get wasted by Hawkes (I was used to that kind of thing by now.) Another tidbit of info... I can also been seen playing a human aerotech aide leaving the shuttle just before E. Allan Wayne steps off. (I'm the tall one.) This was another little private joke about just how much Aerotech has an inside scoop about the Chigs.

And just like that Panda... we had no idea...