As the credits roll for Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Malcolm Drummond studies the names.
"There," he says, pointing to the character "Welfare Recipient."
It's his name, albeit misspelled as "Malcolm Drummon."
He filmed the bit part in 1980 - a moment in a life so full he could give Forrest Gump a run for his money.
Malcolm, 74, had been a Broadway dancer, a soap-opera extra, and a Hollywood stunt man.
He was a cook, a drug and alcohol counselor, and a security guard.
He picketed in 1965 to open Girard College to black students and went to Uganda in 1974 with a U.S. delegation of civil-rights activists.
Today, Malcolm has a new role.
He is homeless.
It's not a label he wears comfortably, seeing himself more as a man in a bind. He lost his apartment last year and faced one health issue after another.
"A shelter was a means to an end," Malcolm said, "to get to where I am now."
And where he is now is sitting in the clean, comfortable living room of a three-bedroom rowhouse owned by Christ of Calvary Covenant Church in West Philadelphia. He moved in last August - his third place in 18 months.
The pastor, the Rev. Rodney Rogers, a married father of four, wasn't using the house and offered it at a low rent to Malcolm and two other shelter residents.
The idea came from the Bethesda Project, a Philadelphia nonprofit that runs shelters and saw the possibilities in linking homeless people to churches or individuals with roofs to spare.
It was an easy sell for Rodney. From the time he came to the church nine years ago after graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, he made certain that the congregation was connected to the neighborhood and its problems. Homeless outreach became one of his priorities, and the church started serving free meals once a month, which he hopes to increase to once a week.
Volunteering to help cook is Malcolm.
Last Saturday, he donned a white chef's coat to prepare eight turkeys for 142 people, some of them homeless, many of them just hungry. "Something inside me is saying this is what I need to do," Malcolm said.
His voice is raspy. He has a thin mustache and a small nose - totally remade, along with his cheekbones, after his face smashed through a windshield in an errant stunt for a TV pilot.
Malcolm said he learned how to cook in New York in the 1960s. When he wasn't dancing in Broadway musicals like Hello, Dolly! and Golden Boy, he worked in restaurant kitchens.
