Bio Written by Bill Blair
I was born and raised in Kent, Ohio. I attended Kent State University
from kindergarten clear through college and graduated 1977 with a
Bachelor of Science degree in speech-telecommunications. I was very
active in high school theater and music .
After college I concentrated full-time on my music career, playing in
several bands including Climax who had the hit Precious And Few in 1972,
and the Classics IV. During the early 80's I toured the country with my
own group called Expression.
In 1982, after a lengthy recovery from a severe injury while touring
with Expression, I moved to Chicago and began a career in modeling, this
led to acting. I studied at John Robert Powers in Chicago and became an
instructor there for the next two years while pursuing my new career. I
spent a lot of shoe leather knocking on doors my early days in Chicago,
and landed my first modeling job using only my left hand holding a
silver circle ring for a MasterCard print commercial. My first bit part
in a movie came in the fall of 82' in an American Playhouse film titled
"The Killing Floor", as a security guard. By the following
summer, I was doing featured bit parts and stand in on several films. I
got my first speaking role, one liner, on the TV movie The Impostor
early in 1984 before I moved to Dallas. My first commercial also came
while in Chicago when I happened to knock on the door of Joe Saedelmeyer
productions. His secretary took a black and white Polaroid of me, and
two weeks later I auditioned for one of his commercials. I didn't get a
part from that audition, but agreed to work as an extra in the
commercial. On the day of the commercial, Joe came up to me and asked me
to read a line. Later that day I said the line in the commercial as
principal.
I ended up in Dallas after attending a modeling and talent convention
in New York City where I won first place in TV commercial and second in
commercial print while I was there.
I spent about five years in Dallas doing several print ads for
magazines and other media-industrial shows and movies including the
first "RoboCop". I also attended film acting school for two
years.
While in Dallas I actually played my first alien. I portrayed Mr.
Spock in an industrial at the Dallas Convention Center for the Oracle
Software Company.
I first moved to the Los Angeles area in January of 1990. In the
spring of '92, I attended a week long seminar trip in Orlando, Florida.
where I met industry people from the Florida area. I returned to Florida
in the fall of 92 and signed with agents in Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.
After a short two to three weeks, I had auditioned and won a job
entertaining at Busch Gardens new water park called Adventure Land
portrayed a new life animated character called " Fabian".
Unfortunately,after only working opening day at the park, I was injured
in a car wreck and hospitalized for 10 days. I lost the use of my legs
for the next two months. I spent the time recovering at my family home
in Ohio. In July of '92, I accepted a 16-week contract as a disc jockey
for American Hawaii Cruises. In January 1993, I returned to the Los
Angeles area.
Since returning to Los Angeles, I have been busy with my life as an
alien. It all started when I met make up designer Richard Snell, and his
girlfriend Natalie Wood on the show "Demolition Man." This led
me to my first work on the TV movies of "Alien Nation." It was
from there that I found myself working on "Babylon 5" in their
first season, and shortly thereafter "Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine." I worked all five seasons of "Babylon 5 plus two TV
movies and I have worked the past 4-5 seasons on "Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine." I did my first episode of Sliders on the 1998 season
premiere episode "Genesis" as a Kromag Guard. In 1999 I
appeared in various human form throughout the season. I also worked with
my friend Peter Jurasik from "Babylon 5", on three
"Sliders" episodes. During the 1999/2000 TV season, I'll be
appearing in several episodes of Ally McBeal.
My hobbies and pastimes include music, dancing, camping, remodeling
homes, traveling (especially weekends in Las Vegas), and making new
friends.
In 1986, I wrote a book titled "The Professionals Talent
Handbook: The Guide To Getting Started".
I composed a song titled "The Crowning Glory" for the
organization known as National Campers and Hikers Association, now known
as Family Campers and RVers. The song was written for their teen queen
pageant for which I was master of ceremonies for about 10 to12 years,
starting in 1983 when I wrote the song. I was like the Bert Parks of
this program (ala the Miss America pageant)
I've also appeared in the "TV Guide" (July 5, 1997), and
the August 1998 issue of "Galactic Alliance."
