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- David Levine has worked in television production and film development for numerous luminary producers. He wrote for the Daytime Network Soap Opera "General Hospital." His associates have included Skip Steloff (Heritage Entertainment), Paul Witt, Tony Thomas, and Susan Harris (Witt-Thomas-Harris Productions Network Televison), Mort Lachman and Alan Landsburg (Alan Landsburg Productions Network Television), Frank Konigsberg (Twentieth Century Fox Made for Television Movies), Hart-Thomas-Berlin Productions, and Carole Isenberg, among others. He also worked in development as a producer on several major motion pictures for MGM (Richard Zanuck Production), and Universal Pictures (screenplay by David Webb Peoples). David graduated UCLA with a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and postgraduate studies in Business at Columbia University. He studied piano at Juilliard Evening Division; drama with Peggy Feury at the legendary Loft Studio; and completed a three-year professional acting program with Wayne Dvorak in the Meisner Technique. Collectively, the many years studying classic film, literature, poetry, art, history, philosophy, and music defines his aesthetic sensibility.
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David Paul Mesler is a classically trained jazz musician known for his work on The Blind Side (2009), Warm Bodies (2013), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), Battlefield Earth (2000), and The Wrong Guy (1997), as well as the Emmy Award winning television features, Eloise at the Plaza (2003), and Eloise at Christmastime (2003). David is also a prolific maker of experimental films and a career educator in the arts.- Actress
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Born in Rochdale, May 14th 1975, Gemma trained at Oldham's famous Theatre Workshop, under the direction of David Johnson. Her professional career began at the age of 10, appearing in many leading roles in children's television dramas, including series regular Holly Painter in Wilderness Edge, How We Used To Live, The 8:15 From Manchester and Dramarama.
At the age of 16 she was cast in the Manchester production of Les Misérables. Within the year Cameron Mackintosh offered Gemma the leading role of Eponine in London's West End production.
Other theatre credits include; creating the role of Serena Katz in the Original London cast of Fame, Mrs Lester in the Original London cast of Betty Blue Eyes, Miss Red in the Original London cast of Shout!, Cinderella's Mother in the Olivier award winning production of Into The Woods at Regent Park Open Air Theatre. In television and film, playing series regular Chris Jacobs in Channel Five Soap, Family Affairs, working with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters in the television film, Pat And Margaret as well as featuring in the epic Les Misérables movie. More recently, Gemma played there role of Mrs Brown in the CBBC drama, Harriet's Army.
Other TV credits include: Doctors (BBC), Life On Mars (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Supplies (ITV Granada). Gemma is also a regular featured voice-over artist for film, television and radio. She has made several recordings for BBC 4, including : Relative Strangers, There's a Valley in Spain and The Stone Book. Big Finish recordings: Wendy Plainfolk in Judge Dredd and Alys in Doctor Who with Colin Baker.- Actor
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Joshua likes lobster bisque and sweater vests. He has appeared in several films and television shows most notably DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL (Mac Digby), THE WALKING DEAD (Fat Joey), HALT AND CATCH FIRE (Bodie), THE NICE GUYS, LOGAN LUCKY, and HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. When he's not riding around LA or NYC in an Uber XL, Joshua performs theater, sketch comedy and improv. He was in the Ovation! recommended & Los Angeles premiere of Matt Stone & Tre Parker's CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL as Humphrey, and has studied comedy & acting at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Groundlings, and Lesly Kahn. If you still watch a television and see those archaic things called commercials, you've definitely seen Joshua shake what his maternal figure gave him, specifically in the Mountain Dew Kickstart 2015 Super-Bowl Commercial COME ALIVE. And if you fancy yourself a fan of country music videos you may also find Joshua 'Somewhere on a Beach' with Dierks Bentley if he didn't get too 'Drunk on a Plane' (See what he did there? Ugh. YouTube it.)- Paul David Ridley was born 13th May 1965, in Ilford, Essex to Jill and Martin Collis Hurndall Ridley. His father enjoyed amateur dramatics and was in several productions, but his mother does not like the limelight at all. At age 8, the family (including his only sibling, Jane Martine Ridley - 3 years older) moved to Romford, Essex after the devastating death of his maternal grandfather. Paul attended Rise Park Junior School and was involved in various school productions. His "debut" was as a traffic warden in a musical. It was only a small part, but the lights, greasepaint and enjoyment of the audience made its' make and he determined that he wanted to be an actor/entertainer. He then went on to Marshalls Park School in Romford and joined the choir, drama group and was in several productions, both dramatic and musical as both background singer and soloist. Paul also became involved in performing arts outside of school and studied Theatre and Acting at the Queens Theatre in Hornchurch, Essex for two years and appeared in various productions there. After leaving school at the age of 16, Paul enrolled at the Havering College of Adult Education and furthered his education in Acting and another course in Stage Management. Again, during this time, he appeared in productions in and around Essex. In 1981, he had the leading role of Jesus in THE PASSION, (a musical of the last few days of the life of Christ). Not only did he sing in this, but was also involved in the creating of many of the props used. The Passion went on a small tour in 1981 and Paul also sang and acted "On The Fringe" at the Greenbelt Music Festival. His father enjoyed seeing him act and sing and helped him accumulate his first makeup box. Unfortunately, his father had a massive heart attack and died when Paul was just 17 years old, which was a huge shock to the whole family, but to honour his father, he was performing just six weeks later in Hastings. Paul then founded Seed Productions and wrote and directed as well as acted in their productions. In 1984 Paul was invited to travel to Los Angeles to be part of a drama troop for six weeks. During this time, he acted, helped to write scripts and direct the productions, but was also touched by the poverty of many of the areas around Los Angeles and committed to going back there a year later to work with homeless and desperate people. In the year between going back to Los Angeles, he continued to lead Seed Productions and also read and helped produce the local newspaper for the blind, and also appeared in a couple of commercials for French Television. In 1985, he went back to Los Angeles and again, worked in drama and music whilst also working with young people and volunteering at the LOS ANGELES MISSION. Whilst there he also married his wife of 17 years, and continued to sing, act and work in Radio, Television and Theatre, travelling to Chicago, Illinois and Canton, Ohio. In 1997, Paul and his family moved to Houston, Texas continuing to sing, act, work in Radio and Television. Shortly after his marriage fell apart in 2002, he worked with Glen Sharp in some small productions. He moved back to Romford in 2003 and was having a short break from acting and auditioned for the first series of The X Factor but was in a road traffic accident in March of 2004 just days before the recording which caused him to become disabled and had to pull out of it. Paul never lost his love of acting and entertaining and his knowledge and experience in drama helped him cover the deep depression he was suffering as a result of the break-up of his marriage and disability. In 2013 he was at the absolute depth of depression and was going to take his own life, but AUGUST RUSH was playing on the television and just as he was about to end it, JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS (Paul's favourite actor) spoke some lines which stopped him from doing so and realised how powerful acting could be in his campaigning against bullying and inequality. Paul owes his life to Jonathan Rhys Meyers and was able to thank him in person on October 2014 and has been actively involved in acting, teaching and campaigning since then. In March 2015 he was part of an Anti-Bullying Film with Ditch The Label and Lucky Tooth Productions and has also filmed a comedy pilot called KNOBS. Paul also volunteers at an all inclusive theatre charity group called THE HABBIT FACTORY. This is a wonderful charity which works with children of all abilities and backgrounds. Paul has more work in the pipeline and will be continuing to volunteer at HABBIT FACTORY. In January of 2016, Paul will be returning to the Queens Theatre in Hornchurch with the children of the HABBIT FACTORY in a behind the scenes role, of a play written by the charity itself called "THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICALS"
- Born in Wolverhampton in 1968, Paul trained in Cardiff, at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 1990.
Since then Paul has worked as an actor, theatre director and for the past 10 years as an acting coach.
The first 20 years of Paul's careers were spent working in theatre until his break into TV came in 2008, appearing in, first, Doctors, as aggressive drunk, Trevor Brookfield, then in Coronation Street, as former lover to Michelle Conor, JD. Paul Spent 7 months in total, on Coronation Street before next appearing on our screens in s early in 2013, as Mob boss, Chris Pearson, in Prisoner's Wives (Season 2). In 2014, Paul first joined the cast of Emmerdale, eventually spending 5 years on the show as one of the 2 village policemen, playing PC Gary Stone.
Paul continues to work in TV, Film and Theatre and has 2 films due out in 2022/23. Both are Horror movies. Lure and The Experiment. - Additional Crew
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Paul Jeffrey Davids grew up in Kensington and Bethesda, Maryland, where he attended Garrett Park Elementary School, Kensington Junior High School and Walter Johnson High School. He is the son of Dr. Jules Davids (Ph.D.), the late tenured full professor of American Diplomatic History at Georgetown University who was one of the "Founding Fathers" of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. Jules Davids was also author of the textbook America and the World of Our Time published by Random House and a contributor to John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage who is acknowledged in the Preface to JFK's book for his material contribution to several chapters. Paul Davids' mother, Frances Davids, taught 5th grade throughout her career. Becoming a winner in the first Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine Amateur Movie Contest at age fourteen was an early influence for Paul Davids in choosing a career in motion picture production. From elementary school days onward, he made many amateur science-fiction, dinosaur, dragon and monster films using stop-motion animation, and his cinematic heroes from a young age were Ray Harryhausen, George Pal and Forrest J Ackerman. As an undergraduate at Princeton University (majoring in psychology) he won numerous writing awards, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for writing literature. He was the only undergraduate who kept an animation stand in his dorm room to draw and film cartoons while in college. From Princeton, he was accepted as one of the first 15 fellowship students at the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies in Beverly Hills. His student film at AFI is called "Examination" and featured Paul Picerni, noted for TV's "The Untouchables." His mentor at AFI was George Seaton, writer of "Miracle on 34th Street" and director of many films. Paul Davids' earliest experiences in the entertainment business were as an employee of agent Paul Kohner, known as "The Magician of Sunset Boulevard." Work for five years as a script analyst and assistant to Paul Kohner created working relationships during the latter years of the lives of Kohner clients William Wyler, John Huston, Charles Bronson, Cornel Wilde and Alistair MacLean. It was at that time that he wrote the script for the Robert Dornhelm feature "She Dances Alone," about Nijinsky's daughter, Kyra. He was a segment producer for F. Lee Bailey on the TV series "Lie Detector," and then his first major break came when Marvel Productions' executive producer Nelson Shin hired him as the production coordinator for "The Transformers" animated series. He was aboard for 79 episodes, and he also wrote numerous episodes. Lucasfilm then contracted him (with his wife, Hollace) to write six sequel Star Wars novels ("The Glove of Darth Vader," "The Lost City of the Jedi," "Zorba the Hutt's Revenge," "Mission From Mount Yoda," "Queen of the Empire" and "Prophets of the Dark Side"). The illustrated books began appearing in 1992 and sold millions of copies in paperback and hardback worldwide, including translations into Japanese, French, Hebrew and several other languages. Following his role as executive producer and co-writer for Showtime's "Roswell" (1994) he went on to produce, write and direct almost a dozen independent films, dramas or comedies, and many of them feature documentaries, sometimes on controversial topics. Universal released five of Paul Davids' features to TV worldwide. The participation of Peter Jackson in the Paul Davids documentary "The Sci-Fi Boys" helped with its release around the time of Peter Jackson's "King Kong," and it went on to win the Saturn Award for Best Documentary of 2006, as well as other awards, and extensive worldwide TV showings. Paul Davids has been a longtime member of WGA and PGA. He is been married to Hollace G. Davids (Senior Vice-President of Special Projects for Universal Pictures for over fifteen years), and they have two grown children, Jordan Duvall and Scott Michael Davids (who has many credits as an editor and special effects supervisor on major films and TV shows). Paul Davids is also a noted artist who has had many exhibitions (including a three month exhibit in 2014 at the Ritz-Carlton resort in Laguna-Niguel). He has lectured at many conferences, often on the subject of UFO's and the Roswell Incident. His favorite hobby is magic, and he has been a member of the Magic Castle in Hollywood (the Academy of Magical Arts) for 28 years - and he generally attends "The Castle" than once a month when he is in Los Angeles.- Director
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Pennsylvania-born Victor Schertzinger trained as a violinist and toured internationally, then became a symphonic conductor. His first film credit was for composing the orchestral accompaniment for Civilization (1916). He directed Charles Ray films, among others, during the silent era. He went back to composing when talkies came in, with many credits throughout the '30s, ending with The Fleet's In (1942), which appeared posthumously after his sudden death in 1941. This superb score included four hit songs, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. He also directed films during this era, including the sumptuous British production of The Mikado (1939) in Technicolor, which stands the test of time to this day. He also had close directorial relationships with James Cagney, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. He was unusually well-liked, and known for getting along with everyone.