The Lost Valentine - coming soon
In a scene with Jennifer Love Hewitt, I play a worker who is carrying a box out of JLH's office.
She stops me and gives me a dirty look and takes a item from my box. I smirk and walk on.
Movie premiers Valentine week 2011 - I think ABC
Always and Forever - coming soon
An alien from 3127 goes back in time to find love. No, not with me. I am playing accordian
in a Zydeco band. Movie premiers, I think, Valentine week ABC Family channel 2011
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______________________________________________________________________ The People Vs. Leo Frank
I play Detective John Starnes in the documentary of the Mary Phagan murder in 1913.
Playing
Leo Frank is Will Janowitz (from the Soprano's)
IBM at The Masters - commercial
Shot on the 18th hole in Augusta, this commercial runs every year, network and cable.
Of the two guys carrying the giant oil painting, I am not the black one.
ATL
Shot in the atl, I was cast as a plain clothes detective who breaks into a school locker with a pair of bolt cutters. Everytime I went through the motions of cutting the lock off, I put in a lot of oomph. When the director discovered that I hadn't cut 'em, that I was only pretending, he stated "oh. You're a good actor."
dang-straight.
Fried Green Tomorrows: Juliette, GA Lives
Documentary shot at the tiny town where Fried Green Tomatoes was filmed. I play a nutty guy dressed in 30's garb who is looking for a plastic model of a Model-A truck plastic model.... plastic.
In this scene I approach Danny Vinson who last had the model.
HMO Commercial
While working as a stand-in on Time To Kill, a casting agent was there and just off-handedly asked if I wanted to audition for a commercial as the main bungling doctor. Yep, I did. The commercial won an ADDY.
Murder in the China Basin
Satan tempted me to stay in L.A. by letting me have this part. Playing a vagrant, I didn't need makeup because the ravages of a 2 years in helltown made me look that way. This wasn't initially a speaking part but the director liked what me and my vagrant pal were doing so we ended up bantering dialogue with our two undercover cops. I already had my character in my head as someone who was more of a whiner, so you can barely hear me say things like "everybody needs help now and then." Yeah, that is an L.A. homeless mantra.
Batman and Robin
I was one of the Mississippi crew from Time To Kill that moved out to L.A. Joel Schumacher and Jamie Crumley put us to work on Batman and Robin. The scene called for someone to "over react" to the sight of the world's largest telescope. Mr. Schumacher let me be the over reactor and after the scene was shot he claimed, in his usual positive nature, that it was a "great job." (I think he had stepped out to craft services)
Melrose Place
This was one of my last gigs in L.A. It was the season finale in '98. No one had made the connection that Dr. Mancini, Thomas Calabro, and I had a great last name. I had spoken to Thomas on Melrose Place a year earlier. At that time I introduced myself. However, even though he didn't remember me in '98 he must have thought that I was one of the regular MP actors. We ran through the scene where he is getting ruffed up. Then I, and the studly dayplayer, run in. After rehearsal he said to me "when you pull me away why don't you say to me 'are you alright, sir?'" Sounded good to me; my first line on TV (although you don't see me say it and it's barely audible). As we're escorting him to the end of the scene you also don't hear him say to me "you know you're a good looking guy." Take that, studly dayplayer.
Santa with Muscles
Hulk Hogan is a criminal who saves the day as Santa. 2 out of 3 days I sat at holding doing nothing. This was shot quickly due to budget. I didn't have time to even tell Hulk that we were both from Central Florida (his band used to play in my hometown, Lakeland, FL). During this scene Santa walks past a boy with who has a Christmas list. I suggested to the director that it would be ok if Hulk/Santa forearms me into the wall (a throw back to his wrestling days). The director said no but Hulk didn't hear him say no.
The Sore Losers
The great Memphis Filmaker, John Michael McCarthy, gave me my first stunt in the biz and also my first bruise from the exploding squibb. I am the cop on the right who's squeezing D'Lana's face at the beginning. When you see the three cops, the one at the top is JMM. Then, next scene, I am the second cop getting shot. The gun is real so they emphasized my taking care of it. So, when I die and I hit the stairs you'll know why I hold the gun that way. It actually looks cool, though.
Austin Powers
No one knew what to think when this was being filmed. Mike Myers' head was shaved and he wore a bizarre wig with even bizarre-r teeth. But it was a fun day of dancing. I am screen right behind Myers. I have blurred out all but me since the size of this viewable mpg file is small.
Cultivision (collapsing stars)
It was a great opportunity to be in the film that played at tne New York International Independent Film/Video Fest. This is the scene where the audience finds out that my character is about to have a crisis of his faith in Edrose; the reincarnated Rod Serling.
This is a clinic in how to stay on the camera. They
had stuck me in the back, as usual. When Freddy Krueger comes out in a
wheel chair I just kept a peripheral eye on them and followed them to
the end of the scene. Oh yeah, we're all robots, by the way.
You
can see me in the group of girls dancing behind Mike Myers screen right.
They had placed me a mile in the back and it was one of those shoots where
I was tired of wasting my day faraway from the camera. As soon as "action"
was said I just started walking until I got behind the girls dancing. As
usual, I moved unnoticed from the people that coordinate extras. And, of
course, the big people in charge had no idea that my fabdance wasn't choreographed.
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