Don Dingas
DON DINGAS Director / Actor / Writer Creative Bio Don Dingas has been working professionally in the entertainment industry since the age of sixteen, when he first stepped in front of the camera, performing in local commercials and television shows. As his career flourished, Don discovered that he also had a strong interest in production, and especially, directing and cinematography. Quite naturally, Don found himself eager to learn more about cameras and directing, and so, it wasn't long before he founded DFT Audio Visual, Inc., a full service entertainment production company. Don began producing television programming for PBS, along with, hundreds of television commercials for, American Express, Anderson Consulting, KPMG, Comcast, the United States Army, American Cancer Research, CBS, ABC, World Television News, BBC London, Allstate, Anheuser-Busch, Johnson & Johnson, Israeli Television, and many more. Alongside of his busy work schedule in corporate and entertainment programming, Don has also found time to continue his passion for the arts, and has produced three feature films, and two national award-winning documentaries, with focus on environmental awareness. As a result, his skills in producing, directing, writing, acting, cinematography, editing, and even, composing, have all grown exponentially. Don has become quite the multi-hat wearing filmmaker, and an expert in telling a compelling story that mesmerizes the audience. Don's newest effort, his third feature film, is entitled, "AURORA 663". It is a shining example of his keen story telling skills. It is also an action-packed Science Fiction movie, which is currently enjoying a successful award gathering film festival run, both domestically and overseas. Don has proven himself again and again to be a highly motivated, impressively savvy, and incredibly gifted professional filmmaker and actor, who has many projects in various stages of production. And who always has an eye out for that next great project. Don accredits his many successes to staying grounded and treating the work with respect. And he plans to continue enjoying his love of film making, and the thrill of acting, for a very long time to come.
Don Dohler
Don Dohler was born on January 27, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland. Dohler became interested in fantastic films at a very young age (Dohler was a longtime reader of the popular horror magazine "Famous Monsters of Filmland"). He began making 8mm shorts at age 12. Dohler also published a "Mad" magazine type spin-off called "Wild" in his teen years. Dohler's initial forays into filmmaking include the stop-motion animation short "Mr. Clay" and the sci-fi effort "Pursued." Both films won awards from the amateur filmmakers club the Washington Society of Cinematographers. In 1972 Dohler launched the movie magazine "Cinemagic," which had an eleven issue run which lasted until 1979. Dohler made his feature length debut with the enjoyably cheap "The Alien Factor." Don's follow-up films were a pretty eclectic bunch: the creepy horror offering "Fiend," the gloriously gaga "Nightbeast," the goofy "Galaxy Invader," and the outrageously gruesome "Blood Massacre." After a regrettably lengthy absence from movie-making, Dohler bounced back with the belated sequel "Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage." In addition, Don served as both writer and producer on the straight-to-video fright flicks "Harvesters," "Stakes," "Crawler," and "Vampire Sisters." Moreover, Dohler was managing editor of the newspaper the Times Herald. Don Dohler died at age 60 of cancer on December 2nd, 2006.
Don Dokken
Don Dokken was born on June 29, 1953 in the USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Dark Angel (1990), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and Brütal Legend (2009).
Don Dowe
Don Dowe was born on October 14, 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He is an actor, known for Bruce Almighty (2003), Battle of the Sexes (2017) and Eddie Presley (1992).
Don Dubbins
This boyish-looking New York-born actor of film and (especially) TV was born in 1928 and signed by Columbia at the onset of his teen career. Also known as Donald Dubbins, he started off playing earnest young cadet types in the war films From Here to Eternity (1953) (as a young bugler) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). It was superstar James Cagney who took a distinct liking to the rookie actor and prominently displayed him in two of his subsequent films. In These Wilder Years (1956), Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son and, in the western Tribute to a Bad Man (1956), he forms an unlikely romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney and senorita Irene Papas. He also was at the mercy of Jack Webb's title character as a private in the Dragnet-styled military film The D.I. (1957). He subsequently played a frequent suspect on several episodes of the Dragnet 1967 (1967) series. Finishing up the 1950s, he was a part of the cast in the Jules Verne sci-fi picture From the Earth to the Moon (1958). Although Dubbins never became a box office name, he certainly was a reliable asset on TV and was seen in a host of character roles over the years, not to mention a good number of smaller parts in such films as The Prize (1963) and The Learning Tree (1969). A character player adept at both good guys and bad guys, he retired completely in the late 1980s after filming episodes of Dynasty (1981), Highway to Heaven (1984) and Knots Landing (1979). He succumbed to cancer less than a decade later in 1991 at the age of 63.
Don Durrell
After graduating from San Jose State University with a B.S. degree in Business Administration, Don Baldaramos worked for the IBM Corp. as an Inventory Control Specialist. However, his passion for the entertainment industry quickly compelled him to accept the position of Business Manager for Green and Mendecino Productions in San Francisco. There, he assisted in producing Columbia Records' recording artist Taj Mahal, while maintaining a membership at the Back Stage Theatre Co. in Berkeley, California. Relocating to Los Angeles in 1981, Don appeared on the Voyagers TV series and Days of Our Lives. But it was his talent in Shakespeare that got him accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. After performing five plays in London, including the fringe's record run of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and completing the film Cuban Breeze, he moved to New York City. There, he performed in over one hundred off and off-off Broadway plays. He studied and performed via The Actor's Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. In addition to writing/directing The Legend of the Big Apple, Don also originated roles written by Academy Award winner Horton Foote. He has appeared with Tom Sizemore, Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Susan Lucci, Ron Silver, Steve Collins, Steve Silver, Jose Ferrer and others. In 1988-90 he was Artistic Director of the Atrium Theatre Co., while appearing in his recurring role as Dan on All My Children. For his performance as Teddy in When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?, Don received the prestigious Drama Logue Award. In l995, he began commuting between NY-LA, doing Film and Television work. It wasn't until 2002 that he landed the lead in Boncrate Studio's, The First Time. And in 2004, starred in the western, Bitter Creek. Baldaramos was formerly an independent Producer for Gigapix Studios in Chatsworth, California. Collaborating with Executive Producer Marc Zicree, and consulting producer Rod Roddenberry, he recently Co-Produced an episode of the Internet Star Trek series: New Voyages, shot at Gigapix Studios. As a consultant, Don also serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors for Legacy Media. His consulting duties include: development, producing, and marketing for Legacy's film division. In 2002-'04 he was the Executive Producer for Legacy Media's, The Actor's Journey project - A documentary with such Academy Award and Emmy Award winning Actors, Writers, Directors, and Producers as: Richard Donnor, Screen Actor's Guild Pres., Melissa Gilbert, Director's Guild of America President, Mr. Jack Shea, Actor, Michael York, and many other celebrities. In between production assignments, Don is also in conceptual development for Pasha, an animated feature about a curious relationship between a lovable Camel and a Wild Mustang whose serendipitous fates, align while escaping together into the moon-lit abyss of the Arabian Desert. As a writer, Don is a member of the Los Angeles Writers Bloc, where he is penning his novel Dance or Die. Don is featured in the upcoming Lion's Gate, 2006 re-release, of the film Saw II's new DVD. But, amazed all by having originated the role of an unquestionably dubious character in Star Trek's: New Voyages episode of "World Enough and Time", written by Marc Zicree / Michael Reaves and then teaming with Writer/Director, Zicree, to play --- a dead Romulan.
Don Duvall
Don Duvall is a producer and cinematographer, known for Blood Road (2017).
Don E. FauntLeRoy
Don E. FauntLeRoy was accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers, with only 7 years experience as a Director of Photography. His rise has been swift, and his reputation as one of the most talented young cinematographers, rapid. Don's major break came in 1994, when he was given the opportunity of shooting David L. Wolper' epic mini-series, Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994), which culminated with the ASC honoring him with a nomination. His most recent films have been Today You Die (2005), Mercenary for Justice (2006), Stan Lee's Lightspeed (2006) and Once Upon a Time in the Hood (2004) for Sony Pictures", all of them directed and photographed by Don. Don's technical knowledge is formidable and his experience virtually unsurpassed. Starting as an assistant cameraman in 1972, he has worked with some of the finest directors and cinematographers in the business: Harry Stradling Sr., Peter Hyams, Michael Chapman, Martin Scorsese, Robert Surtees, Herbert Ross, Haskell Wexler, James Cameron, Adam Greenberg, Richard Donner, Sam Peckinpah, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg and Blake Edwards, to name a few. His style, speed, and exuberance reflect this intense professional background. He has since gone on to direct and photograph some of the screen's most interesting talents: Sam Shepard, Dean Stockwell, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Diane Lane, Mimi Rogers, Elizabeth Pena, Rutger Hauer, Jacqueline Bisset, Linda Hamilton and, of course, his gorgeous wife, Lesley-Anne Down. Don's grandfather was a still cameraman and his father was an optical cameraman, from them came Don's interest, then passion for this wonderful industry, his grandfather's collection of antique cameras and photographic equipment was handed down to Don, and he has continued to build upon that collection, now possessing a large, rare, and virtually irreplaceable array of film cameras and paraphernalia, which will be inherited by his eldest daughter, Season FauntLeRoy, who already is an accomplished young assistant camera-person, herself. When Don works, he insists on two things. Panavision equipment, both film and digital, along with Eastman Kodak stock, "they are the best", he says, and coming from one of the best, you know he is right.
Don Earl
Don Earl is an actor, known for Karpenter (2017).
Don Ed Hardy
Don Ed Hardy is known for Tattoo Nation (2013), Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life of Norman K. Collins (2008) and Christian Audigier The VIF (2017).