Greg Joseph, Actor/Writer

Current City / State

Glendale, Arizona

About Me:

Greg Joseph is a full-time professional actor, and writer. He is a former newspaper reporter/photographer, TV columnist and teacher.

He has portrayed cops, feds, doctors, lawyers, judges, engineers, priests, professors, newsmen, cowboys, grandfathers, fathers -- and a U.S. Secretary of State, homeless man, serial killer and club pianist (he has played since age 7 and has composed several songs).

Greg holds a BA in Speech & Theatre from the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and taught on an assitantship through MU.

He has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) since 1970.

Greg launched his film career with a major role opposite Michael Douglas in "Adam At 6 A.M.," a film produced by Steve McQueen. The movie, which co-starred Joe Don Baker, was hailed as "sleeper of the year" by Los Angeles Times Film Critic Charles Champlin. The picture developed a loyal cult following and was considered by many as a sort of sequel to "The Graduate."

After filming, the producers (who would go on to make the ground-breaking TV movie, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman") invited Greg to Hollywood. He accepted.

Greg's most recent work includes the role of The Track Owner in Oscar-winning "American Beauty" director Sam Mendes' upcoming film, "Away We Go," starring Maggie Gyllenhaal ("The Dark Knight") and John Krasinski ("The Office," "Leatherheads").

Other features of late: a leading role in Jon Bonnell's "Match.Dead" and supporting turn in Jeff Santo's "Jake's Corner" with Diane Ladd, as well as principal parts in shorts such as Steve Briscoe and Arizona Filmmaker of the Year Paul DeNigris' "Cowboy Dreams" with Bill Engvall and Danny Trejo, and "Cover," starring and directed by Frank T. Ziede of Chicago (a semifinalist in the 2008 Los Angeles Action/Cut Short Film Competition).
Greg starred in a one-character film short chosen as finalist in 2007 Phoenix Film Festival.

Greg began his training as an actor unde the tutelage of Robin Humphrey ("Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"), a graduate of the New York Actors Studio founding class with Marlon Brando. Subsequently, he worked with the late Dana Elcar ("The Sting," "MacGyver") at the L.A. Actors Theatre (which Mr. Elcar founded), and continues to study with casting directors such as Marlo Tiede ("The Prestige," "Ghost Whisperer") and Erica Berger of Lieberman Patton Casting in L.A. ("Pushing Daisies," "Swingtown") as well as Faith Hibbs-Clark, C.S.A., of Phoenix and L.A.

As a writer, Greg had comic material used on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show," profiled many Hollywood icons (actors ranging from Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Gregory Peck to Jim Carrey; directors from Frank Capra to Spike Lee) and other celebrites (e.g., Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Mikhail Baryshnikov). He also served as an ongoing judge at The Improv, moderated live stage and radio shows (e.g., "A 'Some Like It Hot' Celebration with Billy Wilder" and "An Evening with Stanley Kramer"), and was a TV columnist for two major metropolitan newspapers successively (The San Diego Tribune and The Arizona Republic).

As a reporter, Greg was the first print journalist inside CNN during 1991 Gulf War, was dispatched to the Middle East during the 1980 Iran hostage crisis, was on the staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of a San Diego commercial airliner crash, and took part in the infamous pre-Columbine Brenda Spencer school-shootings story that inspired the international hit song, "I Don't Like Mondays," by the Irish band The Boomtown Rats, led by the singer and later Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof.

Greg has held state SAG posts and is currently on a national committee for the organization. He is a former member of NATAS (National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences) board of governors, the TV Critics Association and the Arizona Film & Media Coalition.

He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World as actor, writer and advocate.

Greg returned to acting full-time in 1997.

Home Page:

http://www.nowcasting.com/gregjoseph

IMDB

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

Agency / Representation

Ford/Robert Black Agency (Matt Englehart)

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Favorite Movie

The Third Man, any Laurel & Hardy

Favorite Director

Frank Capra

Favorite Writer

Mark Twain

Favorite Actor

James Stewart