- Born
- Nickname
- Ramdino
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Tor Ramsey graduated from North Carolina State University, lettering as a Manager in Men's Varsity Basketball under legendary coach Jim Valvano before discovering his true passion of writing for the entertainment media.
"Ramsey in Reality" hit the airwaves on WKNC in Raleigh, featuring outlandish sketch comedy and parody in the vein of Stan Freberg and "Saturday Night Live". Ramsey received a Certificate in Filmmaking from New York University before signing with several literary agents in the process of writing screenplays that never sold. In 1995, Ramsey threw out the rule book and wrote a movie after his own heart and personality, _Urban Mythology (1999)_. After moving to Los Angeles shortly after production of the film, Ramsey gathered the resources to shoot a 30 minute episodic, which eventually became the series pilot for "The White Chick and The Haole Crew". Ramsey later found work as a script doctor for several projects such as the kid's caper movie Snoopers, then returned to familiar territory directing and producing outrageous comedy sketches for E!'s Talk Soup (1991). In 2000, Ramsey earned his second gig as director, for the feature _Children of the Living Dead (2001)_ in which he learned how to survive under the worst of all possible conditions while still delivering a completed film. 'Children' was released by Artisan Entertainment in October 2001. Ramsey considers himself to be first a writer, then an Editor and then a Director --- in that order. He is currently developing a series concept called "Dead Michigan" and a new feature about con artists called Gypies Tramps And Bail-Jumpers.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Brad Gyorest
- Uncredited appearance on Talk Soup (1991) as a Woody Allen-esque victim of the mob family 'The Castratos".
- Wrote over 200 comedy sketches for syndicated radio show. Specializing in bizarre satire and parody.
- Freelance Writer/Director/Producer, Los Angeles, California.
- Trained and performed at Second City Improv in Los Angeles, as a means of getting more in tune with the craft of the actor, for directing purposes.
- Was hired to direct "Children of the Living Dead" with no AD, no Script Supervisor, no Makeup Department, no Wardrobe Department, and an Art Department consisting of one person who rarely was on set, and then only to take stills. Despite that, Ramsey convinced his financiers to add money to the budget for Tom Savini, therefore giving the movie at least one salable element. During production, some of the producers claimed he was destroying the picture by allowing Savini to take over the opening sequence.
- On Urban Mythology (2000): "My first day of shooting was the first time I had ever been on a movie set. My AD really didn't think I was going to be able to run set, when out of the blue I asked my DP to swap out the 35 prime for a 25, and frame the actor right of frame which ought to give the other actor a window in the upper left hand side to drop down into. Right after that when faced with a screen direction problem, I told Gregg to start the next shot with talent off screen, pulling off another couple, drop the last line of dialogue from the last shot over that first frame before talent entered frame, so I could cut off the first shot before the actors exited frame to kill the screen direction problem. My AD asked me how the hell I knew all this stuff. The joke was on him - I didn't know anything. I just acted like I did and picked up on it as I went along."
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