B.C BUTCHER
Actors in new Troma film "B.C. Butcher"
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Kansas Bowling directed her first feature film "B.C. Butcher" starring Kato Kaelin when she was 17-years-old. She shot it on 16mm in her dad's backyard with money she raised bussing tables. It was released by Troma Entertainment when she was 19-years-old. Since then, Kansas has directed over 30 music videos for artists such as Iggy Pop, and has acted in films directed by Quentin Tarantino and Glenn Danzig. Her second feature film "Cuddly Toys" is out 2023.- Actor
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Kadeem Hardison was born on 24 July 1965 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for A Different World (1987), White Men Can't Jump (1992) and Drive (1997). He was previously married to Chanté Moore.- Actor
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Kato Kaelin was born on 9 March 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for BASEketball (1998), Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) and Winners (2014). He was previously married to Cynthia Coulter.- Actor
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Rodney Bingenheimer was born on 15 December 1947 in Mountain View, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Repo Man (1984), Up in Smoke (1978) and Inevitable Grace (1994).- Actress
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Natasha Halevi was born and raised in Ventura, California. She is known as a director and actress in horror and sci-fi and is known for her work on Fatale Collective: Bleed (2019) and in B.C. Butcher (2016). Halevi graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Biology B.S. and a Dramatic Arts B.A. While at UC Davis, she was a whitewater rafting, sea kayaking and rock climbing guide for Outdoor Adventures. During college she spent two summers working in Yosemite National Park as an Interpretive Ranger and Biological Technician. Halevi moved to Boulder, Colorado in her early 20s where she was an avid rock climber and active proponent of sustainable design. Halevi helped design and build over 20 LEED certified buildings and also produced and hosted a green building radio show for the Colorado Green Building Guild called Footprint Radio. Halevi is married to actor Sean Gunn.- Actress
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Parker Love Bowling was born on 7 April 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), Cuddly Toys (2022) and Dragonfly (2021).- Actress
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Alyssa Baric was born on 16 July 1997 in San Pedro, California, USA. She was an actress and cinematographer, known for Criminal Minds (2005), Major Crimes (2012) and Flirting with Madness (2015). She died on 4 July 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known as The Rock, was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. He is the son of Ata Johnson (born Feagaimaleata Fitisemanu) and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles). His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black Nova Scotian descent), and his mother is of Samoan background (her own father was Peter Fanene Maivia, also a professional wrestler). While growing up, Dwayne traveled around a lot with his parents and watched his father perform in the ring. During his high school years, Dwayne began playing football and he soon received a full scholarship from the University of Miami, where he had tremendous success as a football player. In 1995, Dwayne suffered a back injury which cost him a place in the NFL. He then signed a three-year deal with the Canadian League but left after a year to pursue a career in wrestling.
He made his wrestling debut in the USWA under the name Flex Kavanah where he won the tag team championship with Brett Sawyer. In 1996, Dwayne joined the WWE and became Rocky Maivia where he joined a group known as "The Nation of Domination" and turned heel. Rocky eventually took over leadership of the "Nation" and began taking the persona of The Rock. After the "Nation" split, The Rock joined another elite group of wrestlers known as the "Corporation" and began a memorable feud with Steve Austin. Soon the Rock was kicked out of the "Corporation". He turned face and became known as "The Peoples Champion". In 2000, the Rock took time off from WWE to film his appearance in The Mummy Returns (2001). He returned in 2001 during the WCW/ECW invasion where he joined a team of WWE wrestlers at The Scorpion King (2002), a prequel to The Mummy Returns (2001).
Dwayne has a daughter, Simone Alexandra Johnson, born in 2001, with his ex-wife Dany Garcia, and daughters, Jasmine, born in 2015, and Tiana Gia, born in 2018, with his wife, singer and songwriter Lauren Hashian.- Actress
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- Elysia Richards was born on 29 August 1991 in Portland, Maine, USA. She is an actress, known for Everlasting (2016), Bigger Than the Beatles (2017) and Stranglehold (2014).
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Molly Elizabeth Ring was born on February 26th, in Edina, Minnesota. She loved performing from a young age; for kindergarten through 8th grade, she attended The Blake School which was a school that offered arts classes, including drama, every year. It was in these drama classes that Molly realized she was going to be an actor.
At the age of 8, Molly was approached asked to be in a catalog for a local store. This started an interest in modeling as well, which flourished into many jobs in the future.
Molly loved performance so much, that she decided to transfer to Main Street School of Performing Arts in 9th grade. At MSSPA, Molly was a theatre "major" who also worked on music. While in high school, Molly started taking her career head on with a multitude of acting classes (both in and out of school), singing lessons, modeling jobs, and of course, school plays. Although she was in many plays throughout her school years, her favorites remain The Murder Room, RENT, and Pirates of Penzance. Before graduating from MSSPA with high honors, Molly was awarded both a letter in theater and an arts endorsement.
While in high school, Molly also had a chance to work on films being shot in the Twin Cities area. Most notable of which was A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers.
Although she still loves theater, Molly found her true passion to be film. Because of this, she moved to California to pursue acting and attend the University of California, Santa Barbara. She chose to major in psychology to help her better understand the inner workings of the characters she plays. As a freshman she became the music director of the UCSB Glee club and in her sophomore year she joined the Delta Delta Delta sorority. These experiences, along with college as a whole, helped shape her into a more well rounded individual with an ability to play a wider variety of characters.
Molly graduated from UCSB and has since moved to Los Angeles.- Additional Crew
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Leilani Fideler was born on 27 May 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Worst Day of My Life (2021), Pretty Little Liars (2010) and B.C. Butcher (2016).- Actress
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Annie Caitlin Milligan was born March 23, 1992 in Berkeley, California to Jeanne (nee Bates), a lawyer, and Charles, a Medicaid expert. Her family moved to Albuquerque, NM when she was 2 and then finally to Takoma Park, MD when she was 9. She has one younger brother. Annie is of Irish, Italian, Scottish and German descent. At an early age she showed enthusiasm for the arts: ballet, gymnastics, painting, drawing and entertaining. In middle school and as a teenager, her love of story-telling kept her immersed in theatre. After graduating high school and at the age of 18, Annie made her way to Los Angeles on a scholarship to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she received her Associate's degree and went on to perform in their company the following year.- Zoe Grossfeld is known for Richard Peter Johnson (2015) and B.C. Butcher (2016).
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Miranda is a one of those rare, natives of Los Angeles. She earned her BA at The University of California At Los Angeles, UCLA and her MA at Loyola Marymount. Miranda began her work in film via The Topanga Canyon Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is both on the board of the festival and is the producer of the festival's Chaplin Showcase and is a regular at the Topanga festival.- Actor
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William Preston Bowling is known for Spirit Riser (2024), Cuddly Toys (2022) and B.C. Butcher (2016).- Molly Anderson is known for B.C. Butcher (2016).
- Lauren Crowell is known for B.C. Butcher (2016).
- Independence Walker is known for B.C. Butcher (2016).
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Stanley Lloyd Kaufman never really wanted to make movies, he wanted to work in Broadway musicals. During his years in Yale he was introduced to "B" pictures and the works of Roger Corman. Lloyd later got the opportunity to executive-produce a short movie made by a fellow student. The film, called "Rappacini", got him even more interested in movies. He bought his own camera and took it with him to Chad, Africa, were he spent his summer. There, he shot a 15-minute film of a pig being slaughtered. That was his first movie, and was the birth of what was later to become known as Troma Films. He showed the footage of the squealing pig being killed to his family, and their reaction to it made him wonder if making movies that shocked audiences would keep them in their seats to see what would happen next.
He wanted to be a director right then and there, so he got a couple of friends at Yale and made his second movie, The Girl Who Returned (1969). People loved it, and he went straight to work on other films, helping out on projects like Joe (1970), Rocky (1976) and Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Lloyd put in a lot of long, hard hours in the film business, just to be in the credits and to get money for his next project, a full-length feature. It was a tribute to Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and the classic era of silent-film comedy. Even though Lloyd hated the movie when it was completed, people seemed to love it. He formed a studio called 15th Street Films with friends and producers Frank Vitale and Oliver Stone. Together, they made Sugar Cookies (1973) and Cry Uncle (1971), directed by John G. Avildsen. A friend from Yale, Michael Herz, saw Lloyd in a small scene in "Cry Uncle" and contacted him to try to get into the film business. Kaufman took Herz in, as the company needed some help after Oliver Stone quit to make his own movies. Michael invested in a film they thought would be their biggest hit yet, Schwartz: The Brave Detective (1973) (aka "Big Gus, What's the Fuss?"). It turned out to be a huge flop and 15th Street Films was ruined. Lloyd and Michael owed thousands of dollars to producers and friends and family members who had invested in the picture.
Lloyd, trying to find a quick way to pay off the bills, made The Divine Obsession (1976), and with Michael formed Troma Studios, hoping to make some decent movies, since they only owned the rights to films they thought were poor. They were introduced to Joel M. Reed, who had an unfinished movie called "Master Sardu and the Horror Trio". The film was re-edited and completed at Troma Studios (which consisted of just one room) during 1975, re-titled and released in 1976 as Blood Sucking Freaks (1976) (aka "Bloodsucking Freaks"). It was enough of a success to enable them to pay the rent so they wouldn't lose the company.
Lloyd later got a call from a theater that wanted a "sexy movie" like The Divine Obsession (1976), but about softball (!). The resulting film, Squeeze Play (1979), used up all the money Troma had earned from "Bloodsucking Freaks" and, as it turned out, no one wanted to see it--not even the theater owner who wanted it made in the first place (he actually wanted a porno movie). Just when things looked their darkest, they got a call from another theater which was scheduled to show a film, but the distributor pulled it at the last minute. Troma rushed "Squeeze Play" right over, and it turned out to be a huge hit. Lloyd, Michael and Troma eventually made millions from it, and had enough money to buy their own building (which remains as Troma Headquarters). Troma then turned out a stream of "sexy" comedies-- Waitress! (1982), The First Turn-On!! (1983), Stuck on You! (1983)--but there was a glut of "T&A" films on the market. Lloyd noticed that a lot of comedies were being made and decided to make one, but much different than the rest. After reading an article that claimed horror movies were dead, Lloyd got the idea to combine both horror and comedy, and Troma came up with "Health Club Horror"--later re-titled and released as The Toxic Avenger (1984), a monster hit that finally put Troma on the map.
Lloyd Kaufman and Troma have become icons in the cult-movie world, and Troma has distributed over 1000 films. Lloyd has continued his career as a director in addition to producing, and Troma has turned out such films as Monster in the Closet (1986), Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986), Combat Shock (1984), Troma's War (1988), and Fortress of Amerikkka (1989), and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006), which follows an army of undead chickens as they seek revenge on a fast food palace.