Born and schooled in the San Fernando Valley; aspired early on to a career in athletics while playing and coaching football at the high school and small college levels from 1970 to 1985. Beginning in Chatsworth pop warner leagues to Encino Crespi High, to Los Angeles Pierce and Los Angeles Valley Colleges and ending with a last-ditch tryout for USFL's Los Angeles Express in 1982...See full bio »
Dan and his father Ken worked on the last film ever scored by Nelson Riddle: "The Chattanooga Choo Choo" in 1984. Nelson went on tour with Linda Ronstadt directly after the movie, and died shortly thereafter.
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