Buffett’s Jurassic World cameo is the best ever

Buffett’s Jurassic World cameo is the best ever

Jimmy Buffett accrued an extensive resume of film credits to his name over the years, including a hilarious cameo in the 2015 Jurassic Park sequel, (above) Jurassic World.
In the movie, Buffett plays a bartender at Margaritaville Resort who makes a run for his life when the town comes under attack by dinosaurs. But he makes sure he saves his margaritas, making a run from the predators with a drink in each hand.
One of the all-time great cameos in movie history (at least among Parrot Heads), it came about thanks to a pre-existing relationship between Buffett and producer Frank Marshall, who would go on to produce an award winning documentary about the New Orleans Jazz Fest.
Buffett appeared in two of Marshall’s earlier films, Hoot and Congo, and Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow wanted the scene to feel as authentic as possible – including using real brands like Margaritaville.
“Somehow, a Margaritaville wound up being chosen to be the bar here and it’s just marvelous to see. I’m a big fan of Jurassic Park and it was fun to do,” Buffett said.
Buffett played a heckler in the 1994 movie “Cobb,” the Tommy Lee Jones biopic about troubled baseball great Ty Cobb.
During the shooting of that film, Buffett rewarded unpaid extras who participated in crowd scenes at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham with a free concert.
Buffett wrote music for Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Urban Cowboy. He also appeared in Rancho Deluxe. His TV credits included the Hawaii Five-O revival of the 2010s, on which he starred as the helicopter pilot Frank Bama, a character from his best-selling 1992 novel, “Where Is Joe Merchant?”