(credited as Richard Brando) Joe Flood as Mr. Dumpkin Joe Talarowski as Principal Harlow Hebrew Peters Mimi Weddell as Miss Mumsley Dario Jones as Mawamba Carl Jacobs as Dr. Sigmund Peggy Cooper as Ms. Van Dyke Janice E. O'Malley as Nurse Krud Kevin Mannis as Scott Sara Eckhardt as Patti Priswell Oscar James as Football Coach/Sheriff Kay Ogden as Ms. Leclair "The Stick" (Patrick Boone Varnell) as Malvert The Janitor Brian Batytis as Wheels Joan Browning Jacobs as Mrs. Hummers Angela Bressler as Julie Keith Singleton as Charlie Production Student Bodies features a cast of true unknowns; most of them, including leads Riter and Goldsby, have never made another feature film. (Riter did appear as a dancer in the J. Geils Band's "Centerfold" music video; her resemblance to MTV's Martha Quinn led to an urban legend that the VJ was in the video.) Third-billed Cullen Chambers has appeared in numerous films and TV shows since 1981, but his main employment has been as a body double for such actors as Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker. The best-known performer in the film is probably Mimi Weddell, an actress in her 60s who later went on to play several roles on film and TV, including a grandmother in the hit series Sex and the City. Future judge and Texas Senator Sarah Eckhardt appears in a small role, while comedian Richard Belzer was the voice of the Breather. Mickey Rose wrote and directed the film, with executive producer Jerry Belson offering additional material; however, Michael Ritchie was placed on set as an overseeing producer to guide Rose should he need it. Some sources say that Ritchie was actually the co-director/writer and had to take the "Alan Smithee" credit due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America; others maintain that he took said credit to distance himself from the project. Mickey Rose was (and is) also a WGA member and received full credit; this would seem to debunk the "union problem" rumors. R-rating Student Bodies contains no sex, nudity, graphic violence or even foul language—until 26 minutes into the film, when the action is interrupted by a man sitting at a desk. He explains that, in order to achieve an R-rating, a film "must contain full frontal nudity, graphic violence, or an explicit reference to the sex act". He intones that R-rated films are by far the most popular, so