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GUESTS! ROBERT CRAIGHEAD Robert Craighead is an award winning actor, writer, producer and country singer. An alumni of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he is respected as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Craighead is known for his recent roles in Seth Rogen’s Hulu TV series, ‘Future Man’, as Detective Vincent Skarsgaard and as Tyler Perry’s “go-to” country sheriff. He was series regular, Sheriff Mobley, on Perry’s ‘Too Close to Home’ and currently stars in his 3rd Season as Sheriff Conley in Perry’s ‘Ruthless’ on BET Plus. Robert recently completed a new feature film with his old AADA classmate and fellow alumni, Nick Cassavetes in Mexico City titled “God Is A Bullet” to be released in 2022. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe and Jamie Foxx. It marks the first time they had been reunited since their days at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in the early ’80’s. Also to be released in 2022, Robert appears in the new action filled, dark comedy “Redville”, written and directed by Isacc Eaton and starring Jake Manley and Chris Elliott. His extremely notable career has spanned over 30 years. He has made guest appearances in hundreds of television shows, had roles in over 50 feature films, performed in over 100 theatrical productions and has seen recent success as a country music singer. Craighead is recognized for his deep, gravelly voice and has appeared in several highly successful motion-capture video games. He starred as Brok, the foul-mouthed blacksmith, in 2018’s Video Game of the Year, ‘God of War’ and is currently reprising this role in the sequel “God of War : Ragnarok” currently in production. He also starred as the evil Father Matthias opposite Camilla Luddington’s Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Raider’ and starred as the diabolical General Hemlock in ‘Dead Rising 3’, among others. Craighead also writes and produces his own projects in association with the production company he founded, Positude Productions. Most recently he produced the 2020 award winning short film ‘Amazing Grace’. His screenplay ‘Catch a Fallen Star’, featuring music by CMA and Grammy winner Paul Overstreet, is in the works and a television comedy pilot, ‘And the Weeds Grow Taller’, has garnered screen writing awards at several recent film festivals. Originally from the tiny Texas oil town of Electra, Robert makes Los Angeles his home with his wife of over 30 years, Jennifer. SACANIME SUMMER 2023 SEPTEMBER 1ST - 3RD, 2023
GUESTS! JIM CUMMINGS Tell the kid he’s got it,” said the legendary Mel Blanc with a smile, after listening to a young man’s first demo tape of cartoon character voices. The year was 1984, “the kid,” was Jim Cummings. Since then, the kid has gone on to give life and voice to some of America’s most beloved animal Characters, even a few of the late Mel Blanc’s, and he was even nominated for an Emmy Award for his work as the lovable Tigger on Disney Channel’s “My Friends Tigger and Pooh,” in which he also voices everyone’s favorite bear, Winnie the Pooh. Born and raised in Youngstown Ohio, Cummings spent Saturday mornings riveted to the TV screen as he mimicked the characters in his favorite cartoons, all the while dreaming that one day he would voice them himself. At age 19, he moved to New Orleans, where he performed as a drummer, a singer, a deck hand on riverboats, and even designed and created Mardi Gras floats, all the while absorbing the rich characters and accents that would someday find expression in animation. Years later, Cummings relocated to Southern California and managed a video store as he pursued his childhood dream. He gave his first demo to a customer who was also a movie producer, and the rest, as they say, is history. In 1984, Cummings landed his first role as Lionel the lion, in Disney Channel’s “Dumbo Circus.” During his illustrious career, he has worked extensively for the Walt Disney Studios voicing classic characters such as Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, King Louis, Kaa the Snake, Pete (formerly peg legged Pete), and more. His many other credits include Darkwing Duck, Bonkers, Fat Cat, and Monterey Jack on “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” Don Kamage on “Tailspin,” and too many others to mention here. Cummings has done scores of voices for Warner Bros, as well, including Taz the Tazmanian Devil himself, Steven Spielberg’s “Animaniacs,” ”Tiny Toon Adventures,” “Batman,” ”Pinky and the Brain,” ”Tazmania,” “Duck Dodgers,” and more. Other credits include “King of the Hill,” “Bump in the Night,” “Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius,” “The Replacments,” “The Addams Family,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Simpsons,” “Sophia the First” and “Transformers”. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for his role of Hondo in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”. Not Limited to the small screen, Cummings has acted in several blockbuster feature films for Dreamworks including “Shrek,” “Antz,” “Kung Fu Panda’s Furious 5,” “Hook,” “The Bee Movie,” “Balto,” and more. His credits read like a top-list of animated and live-action films. Credits include “Who framed Roger Rabbit,” “The Little Mermaid,” ‘Aladdin,” “Tarzan,” “Pocahontas,” “The Lion King,” “Babe: Pig in the City,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Brother Bear 2,” “The Princess and The Frog ” to name a few. He was even nominated for an Annie Award for his performance in “Gnomeo and Juliet,” where he played the amorous garden flamingo, Featherstone. Cummings’ uncanny ability to sing in character and voice match for stars who are, in his words, “great actors, just not great singers,” has led to many platinum and gold records for soundtracks like “Anastasia,” “The Lion King,” “Fox and the Hound,” “Pocahontas,” “Hercules,” and more. He was also AC, the lead singer of the famed California Raisins. Cummings’ work in voice over includes hundreds of television and radio commercials, movie trailers, promos, and videogames. “Pretty much anything involving microphones, music, noise in general, and padded walls,“ jokes the affable actor, and “remember, only you can prevent forest fires,” so says Smokey the Bear, aka Jim Cummings. No matter how busy Cummings, schedule may be, it all stops when Famous Fone Friends of Make a Wish Foundation call on behalf of a very ill child and distraught family in need of a phone call from their favorite cartoon character. “Just bringing a respite, however brief, and perhaps a smile and giggle or two, means so much to the child and their family. I consider it a true blessing to be able to do that.” Cummings is a proud father of four and resides somewhere in California with his beautiful two younger daughters Grace and Lulu Rose…and their critters. SACANIME SUMMER 2023 JANUARY 1ST - 3RD, 2023
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