Appearance in film and television
* Ojai appears as "Shangri-La" in the 1937 movie Lost Horizon directed by Frank Capra.
* Ojai is the television hometown of title characters Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman), with the shows sometimes set in Ojai (but shot at the Hidden Valley Ranch outside of Westlake Village, CA)
* Ojai is the location where Green Day's music video for their single "Wake Me Up When September Ends" was shot. The war scenes were shot elsewhere.
* It is the home of the 101-year-old character Rose DeWitt Bukater (portrayed by Gloria Stuart) in the 1997 blockbuster movie Titanic (Cameron's homage to Ojai resident Beatrice Wood, upon whom Rose is partially based)
* The Ojai Valley Inn was the location for the 1952 film Pat and Mike, which starred Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracey.[7]
* Ojai is thought to be one of the towns which provided the inspiration for the fictional town of 'Bristo Camino' in the Bruce Willis film Hostage.
* Ojai is mentioned in the movie Thirteen, when Evie's aunt declares that she and her niece are moving to Ojai so Evie "won't get in any more trouble."
* A process shot of the Ojai Valley was used for the 1937 film Lost Horizon. [8][9]
* The film The Two Jakes was filmed at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa.
* In the 1992 film Mom and Dad Save the World, the main characters get lost after taking a wrong turn onto a road leading to Ojai.
* Ojai is the town to which Steven Seagal's character flees in Hard to Kill.
* Academy Award winning documentary "Mighty Times: A Children's March" was filmed and produced in Ojai in 2004.
* On Animaniacs, Buddy, the classic Looney Tunes star from the 1930s, now works as a nut farmer here.
* In Brothers & Sisters, the Walker family ranch is located in Ojai, which also inspired the naming of the family business: "Ojai Foods."
* Ojai can be seen in several car chase scenes of the movie Smokey and the Bandit, starring Burt Reynolds. Both Ojai Liquors and the now demolished Ojai Frostie can be identified, as can Foster Park.
* In the episode "Sixty Five Million Years Off" from the second season of Psych, Shawn sees a box with a label reading "Ojai Fruit" in the shop of the man whose murder is being investigated. They later visit the fruit stand, but no footage was shot in Ojai as the show is filmed in Vancouver, BC, despite it being set in Southern California.
* In his autiobiography, Monkee Micky Dolenz claims that "a golf course in Ojai" is where the group, their producers, & Jack Nicholson met to work on the ideas for what would become the foursome's sole freature film, Head.
ruinedbyidiots06.1.09 - 2:19 am
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In the episode "Sixty Five Million Years Off" from the second season of Psych, Shawn sees a box with a label reading "Ojai Fruit" in the shop of the man whose murder is being investigated. They later visit the fruit stand, but no footage was shot in Ojai as the show is filmed in Vancouver, BC, despite it being set in Southern California.
I could always see places in Northern California being portrayed in British Columbia, but Ventura County?
Landscape is totally different.
Then there was this movie called Rapid Fire which portrayed the
1980 Norco Shootout, which had some small town in BC passing for a part of Riverside County.
Didn't mean to get off-topic, but some of these production crews seem to have nose-picking, tweedle-wads for location scouts.
bentstrider06.1.09 - 9:50 am
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The docudrama about the
Ruby Ridge fiasco (probably my home town's only claim to fame), was shot in Chico, CA, which looks so little like North Idaho that it was distracting to watch. I mean, it was kind of distracting to watch anyway, with all that heavy-handedness and scenery chewing going on, but still...
Also: Animaniacs was a funny afternoon cartoon.
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