Greg Joseph, actor/voiceover/writer

Home Town City:

Kansas City

Hometown State:

Missouri

Current Location City :

Glendale

Current Location State:

Arizona

About Me:

Actor, writer, former newspaper reporter, TV columnist, teacher.

Range: cops, doctors, lawyers, professors, cowboys, fathers, soldiers, a U.S. Secretary of State, priest, judge, homeless man, serial killer and club pianist (really play).

Recent film: The Track Owner in Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes' "Away We Go" with John Krasinski ("The Office"), The Club Pianist in Dan Ireland's "Jolene" with Dermot Mulroney and Frances Fisheri, Guy in Jon Bonnell's "Match.Dead" (aka "The Abducted"), The Mortician in Jeff Santo's "Jake's Corner" with Diane Ladd, The Soulless Gunfighter in "Cowboy Dreams" with Bill Engvall and Danny Trejo (the Steve Briscoe/Paul DeNigris production is currently making the festival rounds [LA's Dances with Films fest et al]), The Killer in Chicagoan Frank Ziede's "Cover" (semi-finalist in the 2008 LA Action/Cut Short Film Competition), and the Warren Jeffs-like Prophet Rodney Barlow in the New York University Film thesis project, "When the Dogs Cried Out," a roman a clef about a polygamous religious cult directed by Aaron Jackson.

Television: Timothy Busfield's Lifetime miniseries, "Maneater," the TBS sitcom "My Boys" (as a newspaper reporter) and the CW Network's dark satire, "Hidden Palms."

BA with honors in Speech & Theatre from the University of Missouri - Kansas City, taught under an assistantship through MU, Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow nominee.

Launched feature career with a major role opposite Michael Douglas in "Adam At 6 A.M." -- a movie produced by Steve McQueen hailed as "the sleeper of the year" by Los Angeles Times Film Critic Charles Champlin.

Studied with New York Actors Studio founding member Robin Humprey ("Mr. and Mrs Bridge"), a classmate of Marlon Brando's, and worked with the late Dana Elcar at the L.A. Actors Theatre (which Mr. Elcar, best known for his role on "MacGyver," founded). Continue to train with working industry professionals such as casting directors Marlo Tiede ("The Prestige," "Ghost Whisperer"), Erica Berger of Liberman Patton Casting in L.A. ("Pushing Daisies," "Swingtown") and Faith Hibbs Clark, C.S.A., of Phoenix and Los Angeles.

As writer: supplied material for Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" and profiled many famous people, actors from Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck to pop icons suchs as playwright Neil Simon ("The Odd Couple"), composer Frederick Loewe ("My Fair Lady"), Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, Warner Brothers cartoonist Chuck "Road Runner" Jones, dancer/choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fess "Davy Crockett" Parker, baseball great Willie Mays, others.

Reporting included the Middle East during the 1980 Iran hostage crisis and participation in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of a commercial airliner crash.

Returned to professional acting full-time a dozen years ago.

Website 1:

http://nowcasting.com/gregjoseph

MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/gregjoseph1

IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430595

Agency / Representation 1

FORD/Robert Black Agency

What industry function are you involved in?

Production

What is your profession or specialization?

Actor

How did you find out about FilMixer?

Word of Mouth

Favorite Movie:

The Third Man (1949: D: Carol Reed), The Little Fugitive (1953; D. Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin), all Laurel & Hardy (except "Utopia"; very best, "The Music Box," "Big Business")

Favorite Director:

Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood

Favorite Writer:

Mark Twain

Favorite Actor:

James Stewart

Favorite TV Show:

Midsomer Murders (British), Law & Order (entire franchise), 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother

Favorite Magazine:

TIME, Atlantic Monthly, WatchTime

Favorite Album:

Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris (LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl)

Favorite Music Artist:

Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra

Favorite Song:

Mona Lisa, Smile (Cole); Someone To Watch Over Me, Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night of The Week) (Sinatra)

Are you a Gamer?

No

Approximately how many hours a week do you average?

0 to 3 hours

Game Space?

Online

Favorite Novel

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Favorite Author

David McCullough (Truman, John Adams)