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Robert Alexander Swenson, Jr. (January 5, 1957 – August 18, 1997), was an American professional wrestler, stuntman, and actor.

Career[link]

Swenson wrestled for World Class Championship Wrestling in 1987 and 1988 for manager Gary Hart. His main feud was with Bruiser Brody, who was wrestling as the masked "Red River Jack". According to Swenson, he had the largest biceps in the world at that time. He was billed as being from South Africa, although he was an American.

Swenson returned to wrestling for a match at World Championship Wrestling's Uncensored pay-per-view on March 24, 1996. He performed as a member of the Alliance To End Hulkamania. Swenson was originally named The Final Solution, but following complaints from Jewish organizations to the Turner corporate offices, his character was renamed The Ultimate Solution. WCW claimed they were unaware that The Final Solution was the name Adolf Hitler gave to his plan to destroy the Jews. The Alliance comprised the Dungeon of Doom and the Four Horsemen, and they posed to end Hulk Hogan's career.

Swenson also had a short career as a professional boxer, but after two successful matches, Jeep was stopped in round one after getting knocked down twice by Frankie Garcia in his pro debut. Swenson had boxed as an Amateur middleweight.

The 6' 4", 405 lb. Swenson appeared as pit fighter "Lugwrench" Perkins in the 1989 Hulk Hogan film No Holds Barred. He also played James Caan's bodyguard Bledsoe in the Adam Sandler film Bulletproof, before playing possibly his best known character Bane in the 1997 film Batman & Robin.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Swenson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Patricia Maxine (née Wells) and Robert Alexander Swenson, Sr. Swenson was married to Erin Hillsman. The couple had a daughter named Kayleigh.

Death[link]

On August 18, 1997, Swenson died of heart failure at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 40 years old. Hulk Hogan and James Caan gave eulogies at Swenson's funeral.

In wrestling[link]

• Finishing moves
  • Standing, short-range or a running lariat
  • Left-handed knockout hook

References[link]

External links[link]

Professional wrestling portal

• Jeep Swenson at the Internet Movie Database
• Professional boxing record for Robert Swenson from BoxRec

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Rose Marie
Rose Marie on May 6, 2010
Born	Rose Marie Mazetta (1923-08-15) August 15, 1923 (age 88) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1926–present

Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.

A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, records, theater, night clubs, and television. Her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on CBS's The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares.

Early years[link]

Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazzetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name "Baby Rose Marie." At five, Rose Marie became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films.

Rose Marie was a nightclub performer in her teenage years before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as "The Darling of the Airwaves." According to her autobiography, Hold the Roses,^[1] she was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the opening night of the Flamingo Hotel which was built by Siegel.^[2]

At her height of fame as a child singer (late 1929–1934), she had her own radio show, made numerous records, and was featured in a number of Paramount films and shorts. In 1929, the five- or six-year-old singer made a Vitaphone sound short titled "Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder," (now restored and available in the Warner Brothers DVD set of The Jazz Singer). For her first recording session, in 1932, she was accompanied by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. She continued to appear in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and a feature, International House with W. C. Fields, for Paramount.

Television[link]

In the 1960–1961 season, Rose Marie co-starred with Shirley Bonne, Elaine Stritch, Jack Weston, Raymond Bailey, and Stubby Kaye in the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen. She played Bertha, a friend of the Sherwood sisters, Ruth, a magazine writer, played by Stritch, and Eileen, an aspiring actress, Bonne's role.

After starring for all five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show (in the role originally played by Sylvia Miles in the pilot episode), Rose Marie co-starred on CBS's The Doris Day Show as Doris Martin's friend and co-worker, Myrna Gibbons. She later had a semi-regular seat in the upper center square on the original version of Peter Marshall's Hollywood Squares, alongside her friend and longtime Van Dyke co-star, Morey Amsterdam. She also appeared on both 1986 and 1998 syndicated revival.

In the early 1990s, she had a recurring role as Frank Fontana's mother on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. She also played Roy Biggins's domineering mother, Eleanor "Bluto" Biggins in the TV series Wings.

Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City, shortly before Amsterdam's death in October of that same year. She appeared with the surviving Dick Van Dyke Show cast members in a 2004 reunion special. Rose Marie was especially close to actor Richard Deacon from that show, and offered him the suits left behind when her husband died in 1964, as the two men were of similar height and build. She was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964.^[3]

She also appeared in two episodes of the NBC series The Monkees in the mid 1960s.

Theater[link]

From 1977–81, she co-starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O'Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue 4 Girls 4, which toured the U.S. and appeared on television several times. As of 2011, she continues to occasionally perform.

Filmography[link]

Features[link]

• International House (1933)
• Top Banana (1954)
• The Big Beat (1958)
• Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
• Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
• Memory of Us (1974)
• The Man from Clover Grove (1975)
• Bruce's Deadly Fingers (1976)
• Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
• Lunch Wagon (1981)
• Witchboard (1986)
• Sandman (1993)
• Psycho (1998)
• Lost & Found (1999)
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes (2004)

Short subjects[link]

• Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929)
• Rambling 'Round Radio Row #4 (1932)
• Back in '23 (1933)
• Sing, Babies, Sing (1933)
• Rambling 'Round Radio Row (1934)
• At the Mike (1934)
• Surprising Suzie (1953)

Television work[link]

• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1960)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
• The Hollywood Squares (1966–1981) (regular panelist)
• Walter of the Jungle (1967) (unsold pilot)
• The Virginian (1967)
• The Doris Day Show (cast member from 1969–1971)
• S.W.A.T. (1975) (multiple cameos as Hilda, the sandwich delivery lady)
• Bridge Across Time (1985)
• Remington Steele (1986) (Series 4 Episode 17 - Steele in the Spotlight)
• The Jackie Bison Show (1990) (unsold pilot) (voice)
• Scorch (1992) (canceled after 3 episodes)
• Hardball (1994) (canceled after 7 episodes)
• Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (1995)
• Wings (1997)
• Suddenly Susan (1997)
• The Hughleys (2001)
• Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
• The Alan Brady Show (2003) (voice)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004)
• The Monkees (TV series) Monkee Mother (1967) … Milly

References[link]

Rose Marie appeared on "Caroline In The City" with Morey Amsterdam. The episode was about an old desk Caroline had picked up.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rose Marie

• An interview with Rose Marie, March 2011
• Rose Marie at the Internet Movie Database
• Rose Marie Interview with Archive of American Television

Will Swenson
Born	William Swenson (1973-10-26) October 26, 1973 (age 38) Provo, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	actor screenwriter film director film producer

William "Will" Swenson (born October 26, 1973, Provo, Utah) is an American actor, writer and film director best known for his work in musical theatre. He also has developed a film career, primarily in Mormon cinema.

Swenson is best-known among Mormons for his role as Jonathan Jordan in the LDS Cinema movie The Singles Ward (2002) and its sequel, The Singles 2nd Ward (2007).^[1] Swenson co-wrote, directed and acted in the LDS Cinema feature film, Sons of Provo (2004).

A grandson of Nathan and Ruth Hale, a playwright and actress,^[2] Will Swenson was born in Utah and moved around a lot throughout the United States during his childhood. He attended Brigham Young University and later served as a Mormon missionary in Ecuador. However, he is no longer a practicing Mormon.^[3]

Swenson appeared on Broadway in Lestat, 110 in the Shade and Brooklyn. He created the role of Stacee Jaxx in the musical Rock of Ages but did not go on to perform the role on Broadway because he was offered the starring role of Berger in the Broadway revival of Hair. He played Sir Sagramore in Camelot at Lincoln Center and Chris in the second national tour of Miss Saigon.

He played the role of Berger in the Off-Broadway 40th Anniversary Concert of Hair opposite Karen Olivo. In 2008, Swenson was again cast as Berger in The Public Theatre's revival of the show in Central Park. He went on to reprise the role when the production moved to Broadway in March 2009.^[4] He received critical acclaim for his performance on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. He played the role of Berger again in the West End revival of Hair which began performances on April 1, 2010,^[5] and ended his limited engagement on May 29, 2010.^[6] Audra McDonald and Swenson reprised their roles in 110 in the Shade in the Hale Center Theater Orem's production.

Tony Sheldon and Swenson (who will play "Tick"/"Mitzi") will lead the cast of the pre-Broadway North American company of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert beginning in Toronto, Canada on 26 October 2010.^[7] On October 8, 2009, Swenson appeared as in the guest cameo slot for the extension performance of Katie Thompson's R.R.R.E.D.: A Secret Musical, as part of the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Family[link]

Swenson met his former wife, Amy (née Westerby) while they were both in one of his grandmother's comedies, Hopsville Holiday. The couple has two young sons, Bridger and Sawyer, but have since divorced. Swenson and Audra McDonald became engaged in January 2012.^[8]

Filmography[link]

• The Singles Ward - Jonathan Jordon (2002)
• The R.M. - Kori Swenson (2003)
• Dear John - Tyson (2004)
• Sons of Provo - Will Jensen (2004)
• The Singles 2nd Ward - Jonathan Jordon (2007)
• Runnin That Trany Train (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Media related to Will Swenson at Wikimedia Commons
• Will Swenson at the Internet Movie Database
• Will Swenson at the Internet Broadway Database

Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg in 1999
Birth name	Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Born	(1925-10-22)October 22, 1925 Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Died	May 12, 2008(2008-05-12) (aged 82) Captiva, Florida, United States
Nationality	American
Field	Assemblage
Training	Kansas City Art Institute Académie Julian Black Mountain College Art Students League of New York
Movement	Neo-Dada
Works	Canyon (1959), Monogram (1959)

Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance.^[1][2] He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993.^[3]

Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City as well as on Captiva Island, Florida until his death from heart failure on May 12, 2008.^[4]

Life and career[link]

Rauschenberg was born as Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas, the son of Dora Carolina (née Matson) and Ernest R. Rauschenberg.^[5][6][7] His father was of German and Cherokee ancestry and his mother of Anglo-Saxon descent.^[8][9] His parents were Fundamentalist Christians.^[8] Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Académie Julian in Paris, France, where he met the painter Susan Weil. In 1948 Rauschenberg and Weil decided to attend Black Mountain College in North Carolina.^[10][11]

Josef Albers, a founder of the Bauhaus, became Rauschenberg's painting instructor at Black Mountain. Albers' preliminary courses relied on strict discipline that did not allow for any "uninfluenced experimentation".^[12] Rauschenberg described Albers as influencing him to do "exactly the reverse" of what he was being taught.^[4]

From 1949 to 1952 Rauschenberg studied with Vaclav Vytlacil and Morris Kantor at the Art Students League of New York,^[13] where he met fellow artists Knox Martin and Cy Twombly.^[14]

Rauschenberg married Susan Weil in 1950. Their only child, Christopher, was born July 16, 1951. They divorced in 1953.^[15] According to a 1987 oral history by the composer Morton Feldman, after the end of his marriage, Rauschenberg had romantic relationships with fellow artists Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns.^[16] An article by Jonathan D. Katz states that Rauschenberg's affair with Twombly began during his marriage to Susan Weil.^[17]

Rauschenberg died on May 12, 2008, on Captiva Island, Florida.^[18] He died of heart failure after a personal decision to go off life support,.^[19][20] Rauschenberg is survived by his partner of 25 years, artist Darryl Pottorf,^[20] his former assistant.^[13] Rauschenberg is also survived by his son, photographer Christopher Rauschenberg, and his sister, Janet Begneaud.

Artistic contribution[link]

Rauschenberg's approach was sometimes called "Neo Dadaist," a label he shared with the painter Jasper Johns.^[21] Rauschenberg was quoted as saying that he wanted to work "in the gap between art and life" suggesting he questioned the distinction between art objects and everyday objects, reminiscent of the issues raised by the "Fountain," by Dada pioneer, Marcel Duchamp. At the same time, Johns' paintings of numerals, flags, and the like, were reprising Duchamp's message of the role of the observer in creating art's meaning.

Alternatively, in 1961, Rauschenberg took a step in what could be considered the opposite direction by championing the role of creator in creating art's meaning. Rauschenberg was invited to participate in an exhibition at the Galerie Iris Clert, where artists were to create and display a portrait of the owner, Iris Clert. Rauschenberg's submission consisted of a telegram sent to the gallery declaring "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so."

Robert Rauschenberg, Riding Bikes, Berlin, Germany, 1998.

By 1962, Rauschenberg's paintings were beginning to incorporate not only found objects but found images as well - photographs transferred to the canvas by means of the silkscreen process. Previously used only in commercial applications, silkscreen allowed Rauschenberg to address the multiple reproducibility of images, and the consequent flattening of experience that implies. In this respect, his work is contemporaneous with that of Andy Warhol, and both Rauschenberg and Johns are frequently cited as important forerunners of American Pop Art.

In 1966, Billy Klüver and Rauschenberg officially launched Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) a non-profit organization established to promote collaborations between artists and engineers.

In 1969, NASA invited Rauschenberg to witness the launch of Apollo 11. In response to this landmark event, Rauschenberg created his Stoned Moon Series of lithographs. This involved combining diagrams and other images from NASA's archives with photographs from various media outlets, as well as with his own work.^[22][23]

As of 2003 he worked from his home and studio in Captiva, Florida.

In a famously cited incident of 1953, Rauschenberg erased a drawing by de Kooning, which he obtained from his colleague for the express purpose of erasing it as an artistic statement. The result is titled Erased de Kooning Drawing.^[24][25] In 1964 Rauschenberg was the first American artist to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale (Mark Tobey and James Whistler had previously won the Painting Prize). After that time, he enjoyed a rare degree of institutional support.

[edit] The White Paintings, Black Paintings, and Red Paintings

In 1951 Rauschenberg created his "White Paintings," in the tradition of monochromatic painting, whose purpose was to reduce painting to its most essential nature, and to subsequently lead to the possibility of pure experience.^[26] The "White Paintings" were shown at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York during October 1953. They appear at first to be essentially blank, white canvas. However, one commentator said that "…rather than thinking of them as destructive reductions, it might be more productive to see them, as John Cage did, as hypersensitive screens – what Cage suggestively described as ‘airports of the lights, shadows and particles.’ In front of them, the smallest adjustments in lighting and atmosphere might be registered on their surface.^[27] Rauschenberg himself said that they were affected by ambient conditions, "so you could almost tell how many people are in the room." The Black Paintings of 1951 like the White Paintings were executed on multiple panels and were single colour works. Here Rauschenberg incorporated pieces of newspaper into the painting working the paper into the paint so that sometimes newspaper could be seen and in other places could not. By 1953-1954 Rauschenberg had moved from the monochromatic paintings of the White Painting and Black Painting series, to the Red Painting series. These paintings were created with diverse kinds of paint applications of red paint, and with the addition of materials such as wood, nails, newsprint and other materials to the canvas created complex painting surfaces, and were forerunners of Rauschenberg's well-known Combine series.^[26]

Combines[link]

Rauschenberg picked up trash and found objects that interested him on the streets of New York City and brought these back to his studio where they could become integrated into his work. He claimed he "wanted something other than what I could make myself and I wanted to use the surprise and the collectiveness and the generosity of finding surprises. And if it wasn't a surprise at first, by the time I got through with it, it was. So the object itself was changed by its context and therefore it became a new thing."^[28]

Rauschenberg's comment concerning the gap between art and life can be seen as a statement which provides the departure point for an understanding of his contributions as an artist. In particular his series of works which he called Combines served as instances in which the delineated boundaries between art and sculpture were broken down so that both were present in a single work of art. Technically "Combines" refers to Rauschenberg's work from 1954 to 1962, but the artist had begun collaging newsprint and photographic materials in his work and the impetus to combine both painting materials and everyday objects such as clothing, urban debris, and taxidermied animals such as in Monogram^[29] continued throughout his artistic life.

His transitional pieces that led to the creation of Combines were Charlene (1954) and Collection (1954) where he combined collage technique and started to incorporate objects such as scarves, comic strips, and faux architectural cornice pieces. Considered one of the first of the Combines, Bed (1955) was created by dripping red paint across a quilt. The quilt was later stretched and displayed as a work of art. Some critics according to the UK Telegraph considered the work to be a symbol for violence and rape.^[30]

Critics originally viewed the Combines in terms of the formal aspects of art, shape, color, texture, and the composition and arrangement of these. This 1960s view has changed over time so that more recently critics and art historians see the Combines as carrying codified messages difficult to decipher because there is no apparent order to the presentation of the objects.

Performance and dance[link]

From the early 1950s until 2007 Rauschenberg designed for dance. He began designing sets and costumes for Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Trisha Brown and for his own productions.^[31] In the 1960s he was involved in the radical dance-theater experiments at and around Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village and was close to Cunningham-connected experimentalists like Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, and Steve Paxton; he even choreographed himself. Rauschenberg’s full-time connection to the Cunningham company ended with its 1964 world tour.^[32]

Commissions[link]

In 1986, Rauschenberg was commissioned by BMW to paint a full size BMW 635 CSi for the sixth installment of the famed BMW Art Car Project. Rauschenberg's contribution was the first to include the wheels in the project, as well as incorporating previous works of art into the design. He also won a Grammy Award for his album design of Talking Heads' album Speaking in Tongues.

Exhibitions[link]

In 1951 Rauschenberg had his first one-man show at the Betty Parsons Gallery^[33] and in 1954 had a second one-man show at the Charles Egan Gallery.^[34] In 1955, at the Charles Egan Gallery, Rauschenberg showed Bed (1955), one of his first and certainly most famous Combines.^[35]

A retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1997), traveled to Houston, Cologne, and Bilbao (through 1999). Recent exhibitions were presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, through 2007), and at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2009; traveled to the Tinguely Museum, Basel, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, through 2010).^[36]

A memorial exhibition of photographs opened October 22, 2008, (on the occasion of what would have been his 83rd birthday) at the Guggenheim Museum.^[37]

Legacy[link]

Already in 1984, Rauschenberg announced his Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, or ROCI, at the United Nations. This would culminate in a seven year, ten country tour to encourage "world peace and understanding," through Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Beijing, Lhasa (Tibet), Japan, Cuba, Soviet Union, Berlin, and Malaysia in which he left a piece of art, and was influenced by the cultures he visited. Paintings, often on reflective surfaces, as well as drawings, photographs, assemblages and other multimedia were produced, inspired by these surroundings, and this was considered some of his strongest works. The ROCI venture, supported by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., went on view in 1991.

In 1990, Rauschenberg created the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RFF) to promote awareness of the causes he cared about, such as world peace, the environment and humanitarian issues. He also set up Change, Inc., to award one-time grants of up to $1,000 to visual artists based on financial need. Rauschenberg's will, filed in Probate Court on October 9, 2008, named his charitable foundation as a major beneficiary, along with Darryl Pottorf, Christopher Rauschenberg, Begneaud, his nephew Byron Richard Begneaud, and Susan Weil Kirschenbaum. The amounts to be given to the beneficiaries were not named, but the estate is "worth millions," said Pottorf, who is also executor of the estate.^[38]

The RRF today owns many works by Rauschenberg from every period of his career. In 2011, the foundation, in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, presented “The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg,” selections from Rauschenberg's personal art collection; proceeds from the collection helped fund the endowment established for the foundation’s philanthropic activities.^[39] Also in 2011, the foundation launched its “Artist as Activist” print project and invited Shepard Fairey to focus on an issue of his choice. The editioned work he made was sold to raise funds for the Coalition for the Homeless.^[40] The RRF artist residency takes place at the late artist’s property in Captiva Island, Florida. The foundation also maintains the 19th Street Project Space in New York.

Art market[link]

In 2009, the Gagosian Gallery was selected to represent the estate of Rauschenberg; his work had previously been handled by Pace Gallery for more than 15 years. In 2010, Studio Painting (1960-61), one of Rauschenberg's "Combines", originally estimated at $6 million to $9 million, was bought from the collection of Michael Crichton for $11 million at Christie's, New York.^[41]

See also[link]

• Arte Povera
• Assemblage (art)
• Happening
• Experiments in Art and Technology
• Art Students League of New York
• Moon Museum

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Busch, Julia M., A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960s (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1, ISBN 978-0-87982-007-7.
• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 8; p. 32; p. 38; p. 294-297.
• Fugelso, Karl. "Robert Rauschenberg's Inferno Illuminations." In: Postmodern Medievalisms. Ed. Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004). pp. 47–66.
• Sweeney, Louise M. "Rauschenberg's Worldwide Quest for Art and Ideas," The Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 1991.

External links[link]

• Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 2012

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Robert Rauschenberg

• Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art
• Robert Rauschenberg biography on the New York Guggenheim Museum website.
• Current exhibitions on Artfacts.net
• Screening of Robert Rauschenberg's 1966 Film "Open Score" at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
• "OUR PICASSO?", Village Voice
• 1997 Vanity Fair Profile
• Art Quotations by Robert Rauschenberg - The Painter's Keys Resource of Art Quotations
• disorientations.com Obituary
• Dossier : Robert Rauschenberg, Combines (1953-1964) , exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, 2006
• Cardboard VI from the Cardboard Series (1971)
• Linoleum (After Robert Rauschenberg) Piece on Linoleum and Erased de Kooning Drawing at Triple Canopy (online magazine)

D.C. Douglas
Born	(1966-02-02) February 2, 1966 (age 46) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Voice Actor
Years active	1978–present
Website
http://www.dcdouglas.com

D.C. Douglas (born February 2, 1966) is an American character actor, voice actor, and director now living in Los Angeles. Douglas was born in Berkeley, California.^[1] His father was a salesman,^[1] and his mother was an artist and writer.^[1][2] His grandparents were vaudeville performers.^[1] His grandmother, Grace Hathaway,^[3] continued in burlesque as a dancer and his grandfather, Joe Miller,^[4] became known in San Francisco for his talks at the Theosophy Lodge and his weekly walks through Golden Gate Park.^[5]

Theatre, film and television[link]

Douglas performed on stage in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s, moving to Los Angeles in 1985 to study at the Estelle Harman Actors Workshop. In Los Angeles, he co-founded the improvisation troupe Section Eight, and was a member of Theatre of NOTE.

In 1996, he landed a small role in Boston Common, an NBC pilot. When the show was picked up for a season he returned in ten additional episodes as the character D.C., the antagonist to Hedy Burress's character.

The Crooked Eye starring Linda Hunt and Fay Masterson

That same year, Douglas wrote, produced and starred in Falling Words, his first festival film short. In subsequent years he wrote, produced and directed The Eighth Plane, an anti-Scientology gangster film short and Freud and Darwin Sitting in a Tree, about cousin marriage and Lewis Henry Morgan.

In 2005, Douglas's film short, Duck, Duck, Goose!, played film festivals worldwide and received awards for the Best Short from the Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) and Best Actor from the Trenton Film Festival.

His 2009 CGI film short, The Crooked Eye starring Fay Masterson and narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt, played festivals around the world and won awards for Best Narration (STIFF), Best Screenplay (HDFest - New York) and Best Animated Short (Red Rock Film Festival)^[6]

Film credits include Black Ops with Lance Henriksen and Universal Remote: The Movie with Charles Q. Murphy; Hallmark Channel TV movie Final Approach with Dean Cain; and the Lindsay Lohan "comeback" film Labor Pains on the ABC Family channel.

Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful, 24, Star Trek: Enterprise, NYPD Blue, ER, Charmed, Without A Trace among others. He most recently appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds, ABC's Castle and Fox's Raising Hope.

Voice over[link]

D.C. Douglas' voice over career encompasses video games, television and radio commercials, film and voice-matching celebrities like Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey. He was part of the first wave of "internet age" voice over artists at the beginning of the 21st century who built and worked from home studios.

Voice over credits include The Master in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game, Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil 5 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Raven in Tekken 6, AWACS Ghost Eye in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, Commandant Alexei in Tales of Vesperia, Legion in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, Grimoire Noir in Nier, as well as several national campaigns (including the GEICO Celebrity campaign from 2006–2008, the McDonald's Be The Sizzle campaign from 2009–2010, and Radio Shack's Holiday Hero campaign in 2010).

Douglas is the voice of Chase in The Hub's Transformers: Rescue Bots.

In addition to his commercial and video game voice over work, he also does many voice overs for the non-profit progressive research and information center Media Matters for America.^[7]

Politics[link]

D.C. Douglas in Tea Party PSA

In April, 2010, Douglas came under fire from the Tea Party movement for a phone call he made to Freedomworks in which he left an inflammatory voice mail. A day later GEICO dropped him from the new "shocking news" series of internet commercials that were in post-production.^[8] This led to some debate in the voice over community about whether announcers were public figures.^[9] Douglas responded by producing a mock Tea Party PSA for YouTube that was subsequently broadcast on Joy Behar's HLN show with Douglas as a guest.^[10]

The experience spurred Douglas to continue creating short political videos, the majority of which are satirical. Most viewed were his Burn A Koran Day video (posted by The Huffington Post^[11]) and his Why #OccupyWallStreet? video (aired on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell^[12] and posted on the MoveOn.org^[13] and Daily Kos^[14] websites).

In November, 2011, D.C. Douglas tweeted out a quote from a Tower Heist Q & A at the ArcLight Hollywood where Brett Ratner made a disparaging remark about homosexuals. The Hollywood Reporter subsequently reported Douglas' tweet as the beginning of a controversy which led to Ratner stepping down from the 2012 Oscars. ^[15]

Television highlights[link]

• 2 Broke Girls
• Hot in Cleveland
• Castle
• Franklin & Bash
• Raising Hope
• Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures
• Criminal Minds
• Pushing Twilight
• Without A Trace
• 24
• ER
• JAG
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• What About Brian?
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• Strong Medicine
• Las Vegas
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• Boston Common
• That 80's Show
• Mister Sterling
• NYPD Blue
• Charmed
• Silk Stalkings
• Renegade
• Diagnosis: Murder
• Melrose Place
• Coach
• Days of our Lives
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• General Hospital
• Civil Wars
• Al TV

Anime highlight[link]

• Fighting Spirit - Aiko's brother

Video game highlights[link]

• Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - Albert Wesker
• Star Wars: The Old Republic - Various
• Nier - Grimoire Noir
• .hack//G.U. vol.1//Rebirth - Gabi, Taihaku (2006)
• .hack//G.U. vol.2//Reminisce - Gabi, Taihaku (2007)
• .hack//G.U. vol.3//Redemption - Gabi, Taihaku (2007)
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - AWACS Ghost Eye (uncredited)
• Eternal Sonata - Jazz
• Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - Dominic 'Vulture' Zubov (voice segments only) (uncredited)
• Dragon Age: Origins - Justice (PRC) (2010)
• Eternal Sonata - Jazz (2007)
• Mass Effect 2 - Legion (2010)
• Mass Effect 3 - Legion (2012)
• Resident Evil 5 - Albert Wesker
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - Albert Wesker (uncredited)
• Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - Albert Wesker
• Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D - Albert Wesker
• Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 - Additional Voices (uncredited)
• Rise of Dragonian Era Online - Unknown
• Street Fighter X Tekken - Raven
• Might & Magic Heroes VI - Michael
• Tales of the Abyss - Emperor Peony (uncredited)
• Tales of Vesperia - Alexei (uncredited)
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology - Kelvin Garr
• Tales of Graces - President Dylan Paradine (uncredited)
• Caesar IV - Various
• Armored Core: For Answer - Additional Voices
• Tekken 6 - Raven (uncredited)
• Tekken 5 - Additional Voices (uncredited)
• Radiata Stories - Additional Voices
• Soulcalibur IV - Custom Voice (uncredited)
• Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars - Avatar/Malacay/additional voices
• SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix - Various
• SpellForce: The Breath of Winter - Uzakhan, Shamziro, Bario, Blind Monk, Desperate Soul
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - Suou Uzuki, Voyager
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Master
• The Granstream Saga - Additional Voices (uncredited)

Further reading[link]

• Power, Richard. The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller, 1993. ISBN 0-9618916-8-8. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• D.C. Douglas voice over website
• D.C. Douglas acting website
• D.C. Douglas production website
• D.C. Douglas news website
• Tea Party PSA
• D.C. Douglas blog
• D.C. Douglas political videos
• D.C. Douglas video archive
• D.C. Douglas at the Internet Movie Database
• D.C. Douglas at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)