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Mike Kimmel(I)

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Mike Kimmel
Trailer for Ghost Quake
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Haunted High (2012)
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Mike Kimmel is an experienced actor, public speaker, playwright, teacher and audition coach. He is a twenty-plus year member of SAG-AFTRA with extensive experience in both the New York and Los Angeles markets. He has worked with directors Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Craig Shapiro, and Christopher Cain among many others. TV credits include Game of Silence, Zoo, Treme, In Plain Sight, Cold Case, Breakout Kings, Memphis Beat, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was a regular sketch comedy player on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for eleven years.

Mike has performed on Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, and trained with Michael Shurtleff, William Hickey, Ralph Marrero, Gloria Maddox, Harold Sylvester, Wendy Davis, Amy Hunter, Bob Collier, and Stuart Robinson. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. from California State University at Dominguez Hills.

Mike has been on faculty at Upper Iowa University, University of New Orleans, University of Phoenix, Glendale Community College, Nunez Community College, Delgado Community College, and has taught in the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Burbank, California public schools. He is a two-time past president of New Orleans Toastmasters, the public speaking organization, and often serves as a speech contest judge. He is the 2014 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Upper Iowa University, and the author of several books for actors of all ages: Scenes for Teens, Monologues for Teens, Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens, Monologues for Kids and Tweens, Monologues for Adults and four additional titles.
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Regular Sketch Comedy Player on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show @Oprah
Picture wrap on Distant Vision with the incomparable Francis Ford Coppola
With Laura Cayouette, Mykelti Williamson, and Philip Fornah  on the feature film  Convergence for writer/director Drew Hall in Mobile, Alabama.
Final shootout on Convergence for director Drew Hall, 2015
As Vincenzo Corrado in Francis Ford Coppola's semi-autobiographical epic, Distant Vision
With Actor-Author Joyce Storey at Theatre Santa Fe
Mike Kimmel
With Karen Allen at Santa Fe Film Festival (February 2023). What a blast to meet Karen Allen, whose work I've admired ever since The Wanderers, shot in my old neighborhood in the Beautiful Bronx. Karen went on to perform amazing roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Animal House. We got to share a few private "Bronx Tales."
Mike Kimmel
What an incredible thrill to finally meet my first crush  ... the one-and-only Jacqueline Bisset.
Pre-Publication Review for Monologues for Young Adults on Reedsy Discovery (Februuary, 2023)

Known for

Francis Ford Coppola, Pablo Santiago-Brandwein, Mihai Malaimare Jr., Cecilia Albertini, Anthony Giacomelli, Emily Mikolitch, Mads Larsen, Xingzhong Zhao, and Marcus C.W. Chan in Distant Vision (2016)
Distant Vision
5.6
  • Vincenzo
  • 2016
Deep in the Heart (2012)
Deep in the Heart
5.4
  • Ralph
  • 2012
Jay Leno in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.3
TV Series
  • Various Characters
  • Sketch Comedy Player
  • Patient
  • Sketch Comedy Player (segment: The Me Channel)
Live Cinema Workshop (2017)
Live Cinema Workshop
  • Self
  • 2017

Credits

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Actor

  • Sweet deal (sort of) (2023)
    Sweet deal (sort of)
    • David
    • Short
    • 2023
  • Burque Tales (2021)
    Burque Tales
    • Frank - Stanley's Publisher
    • Sports Announcer Mike
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2022
  • Galactic Fantastic! (2020)
    Galactic Fantastic!
    • TV Evangelist
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Jimmy Kimmel in Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
    Jimmy Kimmel Live!
    • Various (2003 -)
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • The Royal Palace
    • Oliver
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall (2013)
    Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall
    • Bill
    • Rudy
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2019
  • Clayne Crawford, Ethan Embry, Mykelti Williamson, and Chelsea Bruland in Convergence (2017)
    Convergence
    • Isaac
    • 2017
  • Gabe White in Mest' (2016)
    Mest'
    • Gravedigger Joe
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Francis Ford Coppola, Pablo Santiago-Brandwein, Mihai Malaimare Jr., Cecilia Albertini, Anthony Giacomelli, Emily Mikolitch, Mads Larsen, Xingzhong Zhao, and Marcus C.W. Chan in Distant Vision (2016)
    Distant Vision
    • Vincenzo
    • 2016
  • Larenz Tate, Bre Blair, Michael Raymond-James, Derek Phillips, David Lyons, Katie Kelly, McCarrie McCausland, and Judah Lewis in Game of Silence (2016)
    Game of Silence
    • Gun Salesman
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Rite (2015)
    Rite
    • Farmer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Billy Burke, Kristen Connolly, Alyssa Diaz, Nonso Anozie, and James Wolk in Zoo (2015)
    Zoo
    • Morgue Attendant
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
    When the Game Stands Tall
    • Security Guard
    • Larry
    • 2014
  • Sons of Liberty (2013)
    Sons of Liberty
    • Winston
    • 2013
  • Flying Monkeys (2013)
    Flying Monkeys
    • Principal Smith
    • TV Movie
    • 2013

Producer

  • HER WILDERNESS official poster.  Designed by Walter Coots.  Photograph by Nick Prendergast.
    Her Wilderness
    • associate producer
    • 2014
  • 3 Thumbs Up (2012)
    3 Thumbs Up
    • associate producer
    • 2012
  • Ho-Sung Pak in Fist of the Warrior (2007)
    Fist of the Warrior
    • executive producer
    • 2007
  • Séance (2006)
    Séance
    • executive producer
    • 2006
  • Mike Kimmel and Robert Anthony Meyers in Being Steven Spielberg (2006)
    Being Steven Spielberg
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2006

Writer

  • The Purchase (2012)
    The Purchase
    • story
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Mike Kimmel and Robert Anthony Meyers in Being Steven Spielberg (2006)
    Being Steven Spielberg
    • story
    • Short
    • 2006

Videos4

My Demo Reel
Demo Reel 3:36
My Demo Reel
Ghost Quake
Trailer 2:17
Ghost Quake
Deep in the Heart
Trailer 2:05
Deep in the Heart
The Wedding Video
Trailer 1:42
The Wedding Video

Personal details

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    • Author Website
    • Official Site
  • Alternative name
    • Mighty Mike Kimmel
  • Other works
    Commercial for Joe's Crab Shack (Doin' All Three)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Interview
    • 3 Articles

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Professional wrestler from Bronx, New York. Competed throughout the 1980s.
  • Quotes
    When working on your own projects, don't rush the process. Resist the temptation to do things quickly. Try instead to do them masterfully.
  • Nicknames
    • The Beast from the East
    • Mighty Mike

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