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Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Bellamy is a graduate of Yale
University. She also studied at Oxford University in England. In New
York, she starred on Broadway as Mary in Cy Coleman's "The Life" and also
as Meg in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along". Other
notable theater credits include Margaret in the world premiere of
Randy Newman's "Faust" and LouAnn in the world premiere of Lanford Wilson's "Book
of Days".- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Paul Schneider was born on 16 March 1976 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Lars and the Real Girl (2007), All the Real Girls (2003) and Elizabethtown (2005).- Actress
- Producer
Sierra Mccormick was born in Asheville, NC and grew up in Palm Springs, CA. She began performing in film and television at a young age, and had a number of roles on different network TV shows throughout the late 2000s, including Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Monk, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Later, she worked on larger studio films including Land of the Lost and 20th Century Fox's Ramona & Beezus. From 2011 to 2013 she was a series regular on the TV show ANT Farm, and in 2014 starred in the horror film Some Kind of Hate, for which she was nominated for the Fright Meter Award. Following this, she worked in many genre-spanning features including Lionsgate's The Honor List and Lifetime's Sorority Nightmare. She is starring in the upcoming film The Vast of Night, (which won the Slamdance Film Festival audience award and the Overlook Film Festival grand jury prize) as well as the ensemble horror piece V.F.W.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Chris Chalk was born on 7 December 1977 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and director, known for When They See Us (2019), Perry Mason (2020) and Detroit (2017). He is married to Kimberley Dalton Mitchell.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Jessy Hodges was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Barry (2018), Indebted (2020) and PEN15 (2019). She has been married to Beck Bennett since 25 August 2018. They have one child.- Hannah Kepple (Born Nov. 2000) is an upcoming and rising American Actress, and she is known primarily for her recurring role as "Moon" on the American web series titled "Cobra Kai." She also has worked on some smaller projects and TV Shows, including documentaries and some other TV Series. Also made an appearance as Emily on "Tell Me Your Secrets"(2019) and Kristy Ray on "Your Worst Nightmare,"(2019) one of which is a Mini Series and the other being a documentary made and filmed for Television.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Shirley Hemphill was born on 1 July 1947 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for What's Happening!! (1976), What's Happening Now! (1985) and Martin (1992). She died on 10 December 1999 in West Covina, California, USA.- Pat Finley was born on 14 October 1938 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for The Rockford Files (1974), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996).
- Trinity Whiteside was born in Asheville, North Carolina. His father is Mickie Whiteside of Lake Lure, North Carolina and his mother is Cynthia Ray of Asheville. His father is African-American and his mother is Caucasian. He was identified as an intellectually gifted child early on in life, scoring in the top eight percent in the nation on the California Achievement Test given to elementary school students. He was also deemed to be gifted artistically as well, with a fondness of illustration. He married his wife, Nikkia Whiteside, on September 13, 2002. They have three children, Makaiya Young, Nikolas Trinity Whiteside and Skye Jordan Whiteside. He decided to pursue a career in acting in 2013 upon the suggestion of his wife after revealing it to be his life's passion. His first appearance was as a football player on BET's "The Game" during 2013. Shortly after he landed several other parts including roles on the CW's "The Originals", "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay", "Lila and Eve", "Masterminds" and "Barbershop 3". It wasn't until he began working on "The Fate of The Furious", that he landed his biggest role yet, receiving his SAG-AFTRA eligibility for his work.
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Angela Joann Shelton is an award-winning filmmaker, whose semi-autobiographical movie Tumbleweeds (1999) was awarded the Sundance Film Festival (2000) filmmaker's trophy and earned the lead actress Janet McTeer an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe® win.
Angela followed Tumbleweeds with her highly acclaimed adaptation of Kaye Gibbons's novel Charms for the Easy Life (2002), starring Gena Rowlands.
In 2004 Angela made her directorial debut with Searching for Angela Shelton (2004), a documentary aimed at surveying women across the U.S. who were also named Angela Shelton. However, she soon discovered that 70% of the women she interviewed with the same name had, like Angela, been a victim of rape, childhood sexual abuse or domestic violence. The film received many accolades and went on to begin a grassroots movement of survivors and humanitarian organizations around the world dedicated to exposing the epidemic of abuse.
Her memoir, "Finding Angela Shelton" was published in 2006 and described how her journey across America, whilst making the documentary, changed her life.
Committed to helping others, Angela traveled the world for over a decade as an internationally recognized social activist raising money for rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters as a public speaker. She collaborated with trauma informed care providers to create a healing program to help abuse survivors move on from trauma.
On film Angela has starred in 9 Line (2014), Comfortably Numb (1995), The Shrink Is In (2001), The Big Time (2002) and her television roles include Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope and Becker. She won a regional EMMY for her portrayal as Safe Side Superchick in the Safe Side Series (2004, 2006) created by Baby Einstein's creator, Julie Clark.
Angela's feature film, Heart, Baby! (2018), starring Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jackson Rathbone, Keir O'Donnell, that she wrote, produced and directed, tells the remarkable true story of a prison boxer who was offered freedom to fight in the 1984 Olympics and refused to go.
In Eagle and the Albatross (2019), Angela used her own experiences with her mentors in the tear-jerking comedy about an orphaned half Korean girl who seeks help from a widowed optometrist with the only thing both of them love - golf. The only problem is, he only has three months to live.- Eileen Fulton was born on 13 September 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for As the World Turns (1956), Our Private World (1965) and Girl of the Night (1960).
- John Ehle was born on 13 December 1925 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer, known for Winter People (1989), The Journey of August King (1995) and General Electric Theater (1953). He was married to Rosemary Harris and Nancy Gail Oliver. He died on 24 March 2018 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
- Director
- Producer
- Actor
Sam Irvin is a veteran film and television director, producer,
screenwriter, author, journalist and educator.
After beginning his career as the assistant to Brian De Palma on
"Dressed to Kill," Irvin has directed many movies, including "Guilty as
Charged" (Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather Graham, Isaac Hayes),
"Acting on Impulse" (C. Thomas Howell, Linda Fiorentino, Nancy Allen,
Paul Bartel Isaac Hayes, Cassandra Peterson), "Out There" (Billy
Campbell, Rod Steiger, Billy Bob Thornton, Jill St. John, Paul Dooley,
Robert Picardo, Julie Brown), "Fat Rose and Squeaky" (Louise Fletcher,
Cicely Tyson, Julie Brown, Lea DeLaria), "Magic Island" (Zachery Ty
Bryan, French Stewart, Isaac Hayes, Martine Beswick), "Oblivion" and
its sequel "Oblivion 2: Backlash" (George Takei, Julie Newmar, Isaac
Hayes, Meg Foster, Maxwell Caulfield), "A Very Cool Christmas" (George
Hamilton, Donna Mills), "Deadly Skies" (Antonio Sabato Jr., Rae Dawn
Chong, Michael Moriarty), "Proof of Innocence" (Joely Fisher, Denise
Richards, Patrick Muldoon, Jim O'Heir, Debra Wilson), "My Santa"
(Samaire Armstrong, Matthew Lawrence, Julie Brown, Jim O'Heir, Paul
Dooley), and "Kiss of a Stranger" (Mariel Hemingway, Dyan Cannon, David
Carradine) for which he also wrote the original screenplay.
Irvin has also produced a dozen additional films, including co
executive producing Bill Condon's Academy Award winning motion picture,
"Gods and Monsters"(Sir Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn
Redgrave).
For television, Irvin directed three entire seasons of the supernatural
series "Dante's Cove"(Tracy Scoggins, Charlie David, Thea Gill, Stephen
Amell, Booboo Stewart, Reichen Lehmkuhl), for which he also co wrote
the theme song. Irvin has also directed all episodes of the comedy
series "From Here! On OUT" (Terry Ray, T. J. Hoban, Juliet Mills,
Suzanne Whang, Julie Brown). He also directed several episodes of
Comedy Central's "Strip Mall"(Julie Brown, Cindy Williams, Stella
Stevens, Maxwell Caulfield, Jim O'Heir, Carolyn Hennesy).
Irvin's first book "Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise" was
published by Simon & Schuster and honored by Kirkus Reviews and the
Theatre Library Association Awards as one of the "Best Biographies of
the Year." While researching the life of Thompson, Irvin served as a
historical consultant for the Tony Award winning Broadway event "Liza's
at the Palace"(a recreation of Thompson's nightclub act performed by
her goddaughter Liza Minnelli). Irvin also produced and annotated the 3
CD compilation "Think Pink! A Kay Thompson Party"(Sepia Records).
Between projects, Irvin is an adjunct faculty member at the University
of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts where he teaches
graduate courses on directing. He resides in Los Angeles.
Biography in more detail:
Sam Irvin was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. In 1964,
when he was eight years old, Irvin went on a family trip to California
where he was able to tour various movie studios. At Warner Brothers, he
watched an elaborate sequence being filmed for Blake Edwards's "The
Great Race" starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood. In a
giant water tank on a sound stage, Irvin watched with wide eyes as a
nighttime storm scene unfolded, featuring antique cars floating across
the Bering Strait on icebergs. From that moment on, he decided he
wanted to direct movies. Commandeering his father's Super 8mm home
movie camera, Irvin directed numerous horror movie shorts, including
one starring his younger brother, Tim, as Dracula wearing a black beach
towel for a cape, plastic fangs, and lots of ketchup.
Like the young boy in "Cinema Paradiso," Irvin spent much of his youth
in movie theaters. His grandfather, Warren Irvin, was the district
manager for Wilby-Kincey Theaters, a chain of cinemas throughout the
Southeast. And his father, Sam Irvin Sr., co owned Irvin-Fuller
Theaters, a competing chain with cinemas in North and South Carolina.
During his youth, Irvin worked in these theaters in every capacity,
from popping popcorn to tearing tickets to organizing horror movie
kiddie matinées (with an emphasis on Vincent Price, Roger Corman, and
Hammer Films). Later, during his college years, he worked for
Irvin-Fuller Theaters as its Advertising and Publicity Manager,
spearheading a record breaking year long run of "Silver Streak"(Gene
Wilder, Richard Pryor) at the Gamecock Cinema in Columbia, South
Carolina.
As a teenager, he edited and published Bizarre (1972 to 1975), a
fanzine on fantasy, horror and science fiction films, for which he
traveled to England to conduct in-person interviews with the likes of
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee (on the set of the James Bond movie "The
Man with the Golden Gun"), Peter Cushing, Diana Rigg, Ingrid Pitt, Jane
Seymour, Joan Collins, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, and Sir James
Carreras and his son, Michael Carreras (of Hammer Film Productions),
among many others. (See retrospective 13 page spread on the history of
Bizarre in Richard Klemensen's Little Shoppe of Horrors, issue number
27, October 2011.)
In 1978, Irvin graduated from the University of South Carolina with a
Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts. While attending the university, he was
the film critic for the Gamecock, the campus newspaper, and won a
student film award for his thesis short film. He was also chairman of
the University of South Carolina Film Committee that ran a year round
cinema program at the campus theater.
During his summer break in 1977, Irvin interned on the Chicago location
shooting for Brian De Palma's "The Fury" (Kirk Douglas, John
Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Charles Durning). He worked on the feature as a
production assistant and extra, and also wrote a journal on the making
of the movie that was published in Cinefantastique magazine, Vol. 7,
No. 2, 1978. Irvin also conducted an exclusive interview with Amy
Irving in which, for the first time anywhere, she discussed her
relationship with Steven Spielberg; it was published in
Cinefantastique, Vol 6, No. 4 and Vol. 7, No. 1 (a special double "Star
Wars" issue, 1978).
Irvin next served as Associate Producer and Production Manager on Brian
De Palma's "Home Movies" starring Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, and Keith
Gordon. Then, Irvin worked as De Palma's assistant on "Dressed to Kill"
starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon.
He also worked closely with De Palma on several projects in
development, including "Blow Out"(which eventually De Palma directed,
starring John Travolta and Nancy Allen), and "Prince of the City"(which
was originally going to star Robert De Niro from a script by David
Rabe, but was ultimately directed by Sidney Lumet starring Treat
Williams).
Irvin gave up his position as De Palma's assistant to produce "The
First Time," a coming of age comedy for which De Palma served as a
credited Creative Consultant. Executive produced by Robert Shaye and
released by New Line Cinema, the film starred Tim Choate, Wendie Jo
Sperber, Wallace Shawn, Cathryn Damon and Jane Badler.
During the 1980s, Irvin served as Vice President of Marketing for three
film distributors: United Artists Classics, Spectrafilm, and Vestron.
During this period, Irvin won Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards for
designing the movie posters for Francois Truffaut's "Confidentially
Yours" and Paul Verhoeven's "The Fourth Man." He also helped spearhead
the record breaking year long run of Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Diva" in
New York City.
Irvin's first directorial effort, which he also wrote and produced, was
the 1985 dark comedy short "Double Negative" starring Bill Randolph,
Justin Henry, Wayne Knight, and William Finley. It premiered as an
official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently
played theatrically in New York and Los Angeles. Janet Maslin of the
New York Times wrote that it was "an exceptionally promising first
effort." This short film has been included as an extra bonus featurette
on the 2013 European Blu-Ray DVD release of Brian DePalma's "The Fury."
Irvin went on to direct many feature films, including:
"Guilty as Charged" starring Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather
Graham, and Isaac Hayes. (The film won the Gold Special Jury Award for
Best Independent Feature at Houston Worldfest.)
"Out There" a Showtime Original Movie starring Billy Campbell, Billy
Bob Thornton, Rod Steiger, Jill St. John, Paul Dooley, Robert Picardo,
David Rasche, Bill Cobbs, and Julie Brown.
"Acting on Impulse" a Showtime Original Movie starring C. Thomas
Howell, Linda Fiorentino, Nancy Allen, Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Isaac
Hayes, and Cassandra Peterson.
"Fat Rose and Squeaky" a Showtime Original Movie starring Louise
Fletcher, Cicely Tyson and Julie Brown.
"A Very Cool Christmas" (aka "Too Cool for Christmas") starring George
Hamilton and Donna Mills.
"Deadly Skies"(aka "Force of Impact") starring Antonio Sabato Jr., Rae
Dawn Chong and Michael Moriarty.
"Elvira's Haunted Hills" starring Cassandra Peterson as Elvira,
Mistress of the Dark, and Richard O'Brien. (The film won the Audience
Award at the 2002 Provincetown International Film Festival.)
"My Santa" starring Samaire Armstrong, Matthew Lawrence, Julie Brown,
Jim O'Heir, and Paul Dooley.
"Proof of Innocence" starring Joely Fisher, Denise Richards, Patrick
Muldoon, Jim O'Heir, and Debra Wilson.
From his own original screenplay, Irvin directed the Showtime Original
Movie "Kiss of a Stranger" starring Mariel Hemingway, Dyan Cannon,
Corbin Bernsen and David Carradine.
Irvin directed the cult science fiction westerns "Oblivion" and its
sequel "Oblivion 2: Backlash" starring Julie Newmar, George Takei,
Isaac Hayes, Meg Foster and Maxwell Caulfield. ("Oblivion" won the Gold
Award for Best Fantasy / Science Fiction Feature at Houston Worldfest.)
He also directed the Disney Channel time travel pirate fantasy "Magic
Island" starring Zachery Ty Bryan and French Stewart.
For television, Irvin directed several episodes of Comedy Central's
"Strip Mall" starring Julie Brown, Cindy Williams, Stella Stevens,
Maxwell Caulfield, Jim O'Heir, and Carolyn Hennesy.
Irvin has directed all episodes of the comedy series "From Here! On
OUT" starring Terry Ray, T. J. Hoban, Juliet Mills, Suzanne Whang,
Julie Brown.
Irvin directed three full seasons of "Dante's Cove" starring Tracy
Scoggins, Charlie David, Jenny Shimizu, Thea Gill, Stephen Amell,
Booboo Stewart, and Reichen Lehmkuhl. (Irvin also co wrote the series'
international hit theme song, "Dying to Be with You").
Also for television, Irvin directed the opening of the 100th
Anniversary of the World Series (2003), for Fox Television (a "through
the ages" montage featuring the music of and starring Sheila E.).
Irvin directed several segments for the 2004 Super Bowl including a
comedy sketch starring Eugene Levy as a scientist trying to improve the
entertainment value of football. Other vignettes included Will Smith,
Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon.
And, for the Fox Sports opening of the 2007 Sugar Bowl, Irvin directed
"Dueling Musicians," shot on the streets of New Orleans.
After directing several American financed films in Romania, Irvin was
invited by Romanian based Mediapro Studios to direct "Garcea si
oltenii," a spin-off of Romania's most popular television show,
starring a Monty Python-like sketch comedy group known as Vacante Mare.
It became the highest grossing motion picture in Romanian history up to
that time, beating previous record holder, James Cameron's "Titanic."
Also in Romania, Irvin directed "I Will Return a Man," a rock opera
performed by the Romanian rock group Vama Veche, broadcast live on
television from the National Theater in Bucharest. It was an anti war
musical in the same genre as Pink Floyd's "The Wall."
His credits as a producer include:
Associate producing Brian De Palma's "Home Movies" starring Kirk
Douglas, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon. (Irvin also served as Production
Manager.)
Co-executive producing Bill Condon's Academy Award winning film "Gods
and Monsters" starring Sir Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn
Redgrave. (Irvin also co directed with David Skal the "Making of"
documentary for the DVD, entitled "The World of Gods and Monsters: A
Journey with James Whale.")
Co-producing Greg Berlanti's "The Broken Hearts Club" starring Timothy
Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, John Mahoney, Nia Long and Justin
Theroux.
Co-executive producing Bob Clark's "I'll Remember April" starring Haley
Joel Osment, Pat Morita, Mark Harmon, Pam Dawber and Paul Dooley.
(Irvin also was the second unit director.)
Co-executive producing "Big Monster on Campus" (aka "Boltneck: Teen
Frankenstein") starring Ryan Reynolds, Shelley Duvall, Matthew Lawrence
and Judge Reinhold.
Associate producing "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human"
starring Mackenzie Astin, David Hyde Pierce, Carmen Electra and Lucy
Liu.
Co-producing "Error in Judgement" starring Joanna Pacula, Joe Montegna,
Kate Jackson and Paul Dooley.
Co-producing "When Time Expires" starring Richard Greico, Mark Hamill
and Chad Everett.
Associate producing "Sticky Fingers" starring Helen Slater, Melanie
Mayron, Eileen Brennan, Carol Kane, Christopher Guest and Loretta
Devine.
Producing "The First Time" starring Tim Choate, Wendie Jo Sperber,
Wallace Shawn, Cathryn Damon and Jane Badler. Creative Consultant:
Brian De Palma.
Irvin's first book "Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise" was
published by Simon & Schuster (November 2010) and was honored by Kirkus
Reviews, The Theatre Library Association Awards, Robert Osborne, and
Leonard Maltin as one of the "Best Biographies of the Year." Acclaimed
by columnist Liz Smith as "a smashing work" and by entertainer Michael
Feinstein as "one of the best showbiz bios I've ever read," this
comprehensive biography covers the life and career of the legendary
singer, actress, composer, arranger, author, fashionista Kay Thompson.
She was the mentor and best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru to
Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne, the mentor and longtime lover of Andy
Williams, and the godmother and Svengali to Liza Minnelli (who
recreated Thompson's nightclub act in the 2009 Tony Award winning event
"Liza's at the Palace").
In connection with his research on the life of Kay Thompson, Irvin
served as a historical consultant on the Tony Award winning Broadway
event "Liza's at the Palace"; he produced and annotated the 2009 3 CD
box set compilation "Think Pink! A Kay Thompson Party"(Sepia Records);
and he appeared in and consulted on Paramount Home Entertainment's
documentary "Kay Thompson: Think Pink!" (an extra included in
Paramount's Centennial Collection DVD edition of Stanley Donen's "Funny
Face" starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson).
As a journalist, Irvin has recently written articles for Little Shoppe
of Horrors magazine, including an interview he conducted with Richard
O'Brien of "Rocky Horror" fame.
Between projects, Irvin is an adjunct faculty member at the University
of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts where he teaches
graduate courses on directing.
He resides in Los Angeles with Gary Bowers, his partner since 1982.- Actor
- Location Management
Big John Hamilton was born on 29 October 1916 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Tough Enough (1983), Bandolero! (1968) and Hellfighters (1968). He died on 5 December 1984 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Dayci Brookshire was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (2018), Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt (2020) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018).- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Collier Young was born on 19 August 1908 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and Never Fear (1950). He was married to Marjory Ann Marsh, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Ruth Valerie Edmonds. He died on 25 December 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Stunts
- Actor
Actor and stuntman Bill Couch was born on September 3, 1926 in Asheville, North Carolina. The younger brother of fellow stuntman Chuck Couch, Bill was a circus performer who specialized in high wire work which included a sway pole act prior to becoming a stuntman in the early 1960's. Among the actors that Couch doubled for are Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner. Bill died at age 72 on February 25, 1999 in Studio City, California.- Actor
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
David Topp is an award-winning American actor and filmmaker. He has a love of all aspects of film and likes working behind the
camera as much as in front of it. In 2012, he co-founded his own
production company, Topp Scot Productions.
In May of 2014, he won Best Actor at the prestigious Young Artist Awards in
Hollywood California for his dual lead roles in his companies' first production, The Box (2013) The Box went on to win a Telly Award for Excellence and to air world wide on the Shorts HD TV Channel; a stellar success for a first film. The second film from his company Topp Scot Productions, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in, entitled Quitter (2014) also won a Telly for Outstanding accomplishment in Health and Wellness and the third, Sangria Lift (2015) is surpassing them both in winning awards.
Coming from a line of performers, films have been his biggest passion
from a very young age.
His professional "break" came in the Hallmark Channel movie,
The Shunning (2011),
directed by Michael Landon Jr. as Daniel Fisher, the
love interest to Danielle Panabaker for which he gained a loyal fan following.
Immediately afterward followed a nice role in a successful ION
Channel Television movie,
Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas (2011)
in which he also played the love interest to Mandie, the lead
character. He has also worked with names such as
Michael Madsen,
Tom Sizemore , and most recently received accolades for his dramatic role as the
grandson to Michael Gross in the multi award-winning film, Our Father (2014)
In acting, his biggest inspirations are Robert Redford, Russell Crowe
and Will Smith.
He is a young Renaissance man of many diverse talents and abilities. He
grew up outdoors, camping, hiking, climbing, riding dirt bikes,
shooting guns, bows & arrows and riding horses. Before his acting
career, he apprenticed to be a blacksmith and worked shoeing horses.
He excelled in martial arts and was once a Junior Instructor. He's
proficient with many weapons and stage combat, his favorite being sword
fighting. He's an expert horseman and survivalist, having learned to
live off the land among bears, much in the style of National
Geographics' Casey Anderson
When he's not working, the wilderness calls him and it's camping there,
alone with his dog, hiking and climbing, that he feels the most
connected and at home.
Being an only child raised in a somewhat isolated, often harsh mountain
environment by a single mother gave him plenty of time alone for self
reflection and philosophy, as well as a heart and passion for those
less fortunate. Animals have often been his best friends. He loves
swimming and canoeing and anything that keeps him in or on the water.
He embraces his Scottish heritage. He loves to cook. He loves art and
music from all genres with a passion for indie, alternative music and
likes to play his guitar.- Additional Crew
- Transportation Department
- Actress
Odessa Whitmire was born in 1975 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for This Means War (2012), Argo (2012) and The Sum of All Fears (2002).- Producer
- Actress
- Director
Melodie Sisk was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is known for Ms. Guidance, Little Sister (2016) and White Reindeer (2013).- Actor
- Stunts
Stuntman and actor Charles Edward Couch was born on September 1, 1922. The older brother of fellow stuntman Bill Couch, Chuck was a boxer and a seasoned circus performer who was proficient with the trapeze, tightrope walking, and a sway pole act prior to becoming a stuntman in the mid-1950's. Among the notable actors that Couch doubled for are Stephen Boyd, Richard Long, Martin Landau, Guy Williams, Jack Lord, Terry-Thomas, and Ricardo Montalban. Moreover, Chuck invested in real estate and made a lot of money renting condos that he had bought while living and working in Hawaii as a stunt coordinator for the hit TV series Hawaii Five-O (1968). Couch died at age 68 on June 18, 1991.- Penelope Vess was born in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
- Helen Harmon was born on 21 February 1967 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for Visions (1976) and Where the Lilies Bloom (1974). She has been married to Hassan Ismail since 19 November 1989. They have two children.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Dick Bennick Sr. was born on 3 November 1928 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Creature Feature (1971), Shock Theatre (1966) and Horror, Inc. (1969). He died on 15 February 1995 in Winter Haven, Florida, USA.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
John Edmonds-Kozma was born on 25 January 1972 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Southern Momma's? (2016), Food Hero Mimi Kozma (2015) and Southern Momma: The Darren Knight Story (2018).- Actor
- Stunts
- Director
Brandon Fisher is a Lees-McRae College graduate, born in Asheville, North Carolina. He started his acting career in more than 35 stage plays with numerous theaters and touring companies along the East Coast. Since moving to Los Angeles, Brandon has had the opportunity to work on television shows such as Criminal Minds and 24, as well as various Independent Films.- Editorial Department
- Editor
- Producer
Lynn Hobson was born on 14 January 1968 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania (2022), Transformers One (2024) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
Richard L'Estrange was born on 27 December 1889 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a production manager and assistant director, known for The Squaw Man (1914), The Lost City (1935) and Teen Age (1943). He was married to Georgia ?. He died on 19 November 1963 in Burbank, California, USA.- Thomas Rickman was born on 17 August 1982 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Thomas is an actor, known for Terrifier 2 (2022) and Stream.
- Cash Wheeler was born on 17 May 1987 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE NXT (2010) and WWE Raw (1993).
- Franklin Graham was born on 14 July 1952 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer, known for God's Not Dead (2014), Storms in Latin America (2021) and Light in the Darkness (2021). He has been married to Jane Austin Cunningham since 14 August 1974. They have four children.
- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Travis Grant was born on 29 January 1988 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Lost Angeles (2021), Rearview (2012) and Refuge (2013).- Additional Crew
Nina Seely was born on 19 June 1944 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Nina is known for Search for Tomorrow (1951) and Great Performances (1971). Nina has been married to Josef Sommer since 1984. They have one child.- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Hope Larson was born on 17 September 1982 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is a director and actress, known for Bitter Orange (2013), Got a Girl: Did We Live Too Fast (2014) and She Makes Comics (2014). She was previously married to Bryan Lee O'Malley.- Actor
- Producer
- Production Designer
Gregory Harrison was born on 11 September 1964 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Club Dead (1994), DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: Parents Just Don't Understand (1988) and The Illegal Immigrant (1985).- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Warren Haynes was born on 6 April 1960 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Perfect Storm (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) and Renegades (1989).- Annette Larkins was born on 13 January 1942 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for Annette's Raw Kitchen (2005), Stay Young - with Michael Mosley (2023) and Steve Harvey (2012). She has been married to Amos Larkins, Jr. since 5 September 1958. They have two children.
- Actor
- Producer
Ron Rice was born on 1 September 1940 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Driving Me Crazy (1991), From Hawaii with Love (1986) and Miracle Beach (1992). He was married to Darcy LaPier and Linda. He died on 19 May 2022 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.- Joe West was born on 31 October 1952 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor, known for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) and Dark Ride (2006). He has been married to Jean Jo Mason since 25 December 1988.
- American novelist Ward Greene was born in Asheville, NC, in 1892 to a
family that could trace its lineage back to the American Revolution
(one of his ancestors was Gen. Nathanael Greene of the Continental
Army, who served under Gen. George Washington). When he was a child the
family moved to Atlanta, GA, where he was raised. He attended the
University of the South in Tennessee from 1912-1913, and in 1913 he
took a job on the "Atlanta Journal" as an assistant sports editor. He
stayed at the paper for ten years, graduating from the sports
department to covering the police beat to finally becoming the paper's
"star" reporter. In 1918 the paper sent him to the battlefields of
France to cover the war from the perspective of troops from Georgia.
Returning to the US after the war, he began to write in his spare time,
and his first novel, "Cora Potts", was published in 1929. He has
written several novels since then, with his most famous one probably
being "Death in the Deep South" (1936), which was based on the
notorious Leo Frank case in 1915,
in which a group of citizens in the Georgia town of Marietta lynched a
Jewish man named Leo Frank who was in jail accused of the rape and
murder of a 13-year-old girl. As it turned out, Frank had nothing to do
with the girl's death (she was raped and murdered by a janitor in the
factory where her body was found, which was owned by Frank's family).
The novel was a best-seller and was made into the film
They Won't Forget (1937).
Ward Greene died of a heart attack in London, England, in 1969, at age
76. - Writer
- Actor
Charles Frazier was born on 4 November 1950 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Cold Mountain (2003), Cold Mountain: Deleted Scenes (2004) and Cold Mountain (2004). He is married to Catherine. They have one child.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Michael Bayer has a diverse
background as a business affairs and entertainment attorney, a producer
with several feature film and TV credits, and a creative force. He has
a unique perspective in that he has first hand experience not only in
business and legal affairs, but also in development, production,
acquisitions and distribution.
A graduate of Phillips Academy, Duke University, and the University of
North Carolina School of Law, Bayer has worked on numerous film and
television projects in a variety of capacities. He also serves as a
Producer's Rep, assisting filmmakers with distribution, packaging and
financing issues.- Editorial Department
- Producer
- Production Manager
Ryan Kennedy was born on 8 December 1983 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Big Stan (2007), Suits (2011) and Alphas (2011).- Thomas Wolfe was born on 3 October 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer, known for Camera Three (1955), Of Time and the River (1953) and Herrenhaus (1966). He died on 15 September 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Dillon was born and raised in the growing Asheville, North Carolina community. His love for acting began at an early age. He stars in a short film at his local college that is played each semester. He loves every aspect of acting, particularly in film and television. After starring in that first short film, he decided to pursue his love of acting.
- Robert Morgan was born on 31 July 1918 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Linda Dickerson and Elizabeth Morgan. He died on 15 May 2004 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
- Actor
- Talent Agent
Zane Pedersen was born on 4 February 1997 in Asheville NC. He is an actor and talent agent, known for 31 Days in Marshall, North Carolina (2018), The Blue Ridge Massacre (2019) and Deaf U (2020).- Grew up in Westerly, Rhode Island, the son of an Episcopal minister and
an elementary school librarian.
Graduated from the University of Hartford (2002) with degrees in Music
Composition and Politics and Government, and Oxford University, UK,
(2004), with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Served in the United States Navy.
Currently attends Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. - Actor
- Writer
Harry Bates was born in 1870 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for By Parcel Post (1914), The Brass Bowl (1914) and Laddie (1914). He was married to Maude Morrison. He died on 29 December 1932 in East Islip, New York, USA.- Joseph Tydings was born on 4 May 1928 in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Kate Geny (Dawson) Clark, Terry Huntingdon, Virginia Reynolds Campbell and Rosemary Margaret Anne (Elliott) Keyser. He died on 8 October 2018 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.