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Shane Stanley

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
15 June 1971, Encino, California, USA

Birth Name / Gerçek Adı
Shane Eric Stanley

Mini Biography / Biyografi
At seventeen years old, Shane had already received his first Emmy Award for his work on Desperate Passage (1987) which starred Michael Landon. Over the next few years he learned filmmaking under his father Lee Stanley on what became known as The Desperate Passage Series (1988 to 1995) starring Sharon Gless, Edward James Olmos, Marlo Thomas and Louis Gossett Jr.. The self-produced series earned a total of thirty-three Emmy nominations, (winning thirteen) as well as numerous Christopher Awards and CINE Golden Eagles. In 1994, the Stanleys feature film, Street Pirates (1994) was a two-time winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award for best feature documentary and film editing.In 2002, Shane launched Visual Arts Entertainment, his own production company, most notably credited with Gridiron Gang (2006) starring The Rock & Xzibit as well as the critically acclaimed independent film, A Sight for Sore Eyes (2004) with Academy Award nominee, Gary Busey. The film, (produced for under $10,000) marked Shane's directorial debut and went on to win the Gold Special Jury Award at Worldfest Houston as well as Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Independent film at the 2004 Aurora Awards. In 2005 the picture was honored with a Telly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film and Television. IMDb Mini Biography By: D. Patterson-Daily

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Grandfather, Samuel Morse was fraternity brothers with Jack L. Warner (co-founder of Warner Bros.).Grandfather, Frederic Stanley was a famous painter from the 1920s through 1950s whose work included numerous covers of The Saturday Evening Post and various Coca-Cola print ads. His most famous, ""The Village Blacksmith."" Shane often uses his grandfather's work in his films.Frank Sinatra was Godfather to his half-sister, Quinn Gonzalez Shane did not meet his half-sister until he was 21 and she was 25.Was an avid motocross racer. His dad got him his first motorcycle (an Indian) when he was only three. Shane raced locally as a semi-pro until 2001, when he was seriously injured training for The Glen Helen Grand Prix. During his 30 years on motorcycles, he won two Grand Prix championships, broke more than twenty bones and suffers from arthritis and chronic neck & back pain.Was asked to edit Turning It Over (2004) which was executive-produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck but declined due to a scheduling conflict with his own film, A Sight for Sore Eyes (2004)Uncle, Neil Portnow, is the President of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammys)Cousin by marriage to Stacy Ferguson (a.k.a. Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas) and Dana Ferguson.Son of writer/director Lee Stanley and Carol Stanley. Half-brother of Quinn Gonzalez. Stepson of Linda Stanley and stepbrothers are Christopher Tremaine & Brett Tremaine.Testified in the Bret Michaels and Pamela Anderson sex tape trial in 1999 against IEG. Alan L. Isaacman of The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Ed Masry of Erin Brockovich (2000) fame were two of the attorneys in the trial.Went to the same high school as Jonathan Lipnicki of Jerry Maguire (1996) as well as Adrianna Costa, Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson of Linkin Park.Was next door neighbor of both Tom Poston and Jonathan Goldsmith in mid 1970's.Was considered to edit the pilot episode of "Sunday Morning Shootout" (2003) with Peter Gruber. Coincidentally Gruber's Mandalay Pictures had an option on Gridiron Gang (1993) (TV) at the time to produce as a feature film. Eventually Neal H. Moritz obtained the option and produced Gridiron Gang (2006) with the Stanley'sAttended Agoura High School with Heather Graham, her sister Aimee Graham, photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff, producer James Robb and model, Beverly Peele.Drummer in a rock band in the early 90s which opened for such acts as The Stone Temple Pilots, Lenny Kravitz and The Black Crowes. Band mates were Tommy Fields Blair Pickar and Chris Woods. Shane often uses Tommy's music in his projects, who has a successful solo project.Was contracted to write & and produce an original dramatic series centered around a troubled continuation school for Jeff Sagansky former VP of Series Programming for NBC.Often hired to re-edit films for their release and/or sale but doesn't take a credit. Most have been horror films, thrillers and murder mysteries.He and his wife, Val Barri were married in Big Sur, California by the same minister who performed the ceremony for Jack Black and Tanya Haden.Has aixelsyd (dyslexia).His aunt Marilyn, attended high school and was good friends with Tami Shad, mother of Judd Apatow.The youngest recipient of an Emmy Award, (as a non-actor). He won his first at seventeen and his second at nineteen.