text: Anjelica Huston as Polly Deutsch
  Donald Kendrick as A Background Vocalist
  Fred Willard as Air Force Lt. Bob Hookstratten
  Wonderful Smith as The Janitor
  Robert Bauer as Moke, Spinal Tap's Roadie
  Fred Asparagus as Joe "Mama" Besser
  Production
  Background
  Michael McKean and Christopher Guest met while in college in New York City in the late 1960s, and they played music together. They worked with Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner on a TV pilot in 1978 for a sketch comedy show called The TV Show, which featured a parody rock band called Spinal Tap. During production of that sketch (while being burned with oil from an on-stage effect) McKean and Guest began to improvise, inventing characters that became David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel.
  Guest had previously played guitar under the name "Nigel Tufnel" on Michael McKean and David Lander's album Lenny and the Squigtones.
  Development
  The entire film was shot in Los Angeles over a period of about five weeks on handheld 16mm cameras. The visit to Elvis Presley's grave was filmed in a park in Altadena, with a mock-up of the grave site. The band sings "Heartbreak Hotel" because that was the only Elvis song for which producer Karen Murphy could obtain rights.