November 02, 2006
Mark Foley is being cast as a lot of things these days. But a B-movie actor?
In the wake of his resignation from Congress, people are rediscovering Foley's little-known role in a straight-to-DVD action flick.
During a short role as a congressman who hires mercenaries to recover his kidnapped daughter, Foley shows an acting range that politely could be called limited. But with the disgraced Fort Pierce Republican now a household name, the movie is generating new buzz.
Filmed in Palm Beach County and released in 2001 as The Librarians, the flick did not make much of a splash on its first go-round. Ditto for round two, when it was re-released two years later as Strike Force.
But Radar, an online Web magazine, unearthed the film this week after a freelance writer poring over Foley's financial disclosure forms noticed a $400 payment for his role in the movie.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/state/epaper/2006/11/02/a9a_foley_1102.html