Kent Victor Schuelke

Kent Victor Schuelke is a screenwriter, actor, journalist, on-set film production worker, Hollywood historian and tour guide. He has starred in three "B" movies using stage name Kent Cool. He played the lead in horror film "Hauntsville" (scheduled on demand and DVD release in 2015), with co-stars John Amos (TV dad on classic "Good Times"), Roberto Sanchez ("2 Fast 2 Furious") and Tiny Lister (Debo from "Friday" movie series. Kent and Tiny played unidentical twins in "Hauntsville"). He appears in a supporting role in "Mercy for Angels" released in USA on DVD and on demand in April 2015. As an Iowa college journalist, Schuelke landed a rare interview with legendary actor Cary Grant. When Grant died a few months later, Schuelke sold the piece to Andy Warhol's trendy New York magazine, Interview. Born and raised the son of a car salesman in an Iowa farming village, Kent has been obsessed with movies since age four. Schuelke spent one year as an intern in the story development department of Francis Ford Coppola's San Francisco film company, American Zoetrope. Schuelke provided script coverage, story notes, and did research for upcoming Zoetrope productions. He worked as stand-in for Robin Williams on film "Jack". Schuelke has worked hundreds of days on set, including low budget indie films, Network TV series, HBO and Comedy Central TV specials, TV commercials and major Hollywood productions. Schuelke has worked as a PA, Script Supervisor, Script Coordinator, Production Coordinator and Associate Producer. He has worked for Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony Pictures, HBO, Comedy Central, Fox Television, CBS Television, E! Entertainment, Jim Henson Creature Shop, Universal Studios, Telling Pictures and Clementine Films. Kent studied acting in the Lifebook Acting Academy (Los Angeles) Scene Study classes for 2 1/2 years and was promoted to the level of Advanced Student. He also studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Schuelke has worked as a script reader and written coverage for five independent film producers between 1992 and present. Schuelke has written hundreds of articles on cinema for daily newspapers, print magazines and websites. Schuelke has produced and performed more than 5,000 individual 2-hour tours of Los Angeles. His tours focus on LA landmarks, Hollywood history and filming locations. He has worked as a tour guide from 2009 to present. Schuelke enjoyed several years of employment for two Los Angeles video game production companies and publishers, including Activision and Pandemic Studios. His start in the professional movie business was in 1992 when he began what became a 2-year internship on the documentary feature "The Celluloid Closet". In 1993 he was a key member of the team which produced the first-ever gay and lesbian comedy special for national television - Comedy Central's "Out There". The show was a smash and Kent was hired to be associate producer of two Out There sequels in New York City and Los Angeles. Kent was a general assignment newspaper reporter for a small-town Iowa daily newspaper for two years in the 1980s. Kent lives in Hollywood, CA, 1/2 block from Paramount Pictures and Hollywood Forever Cemetery. His greatest artistic influence is Bob Dylan. His favorite novelist is Fyodor Dostoevsky. His filmmaking influences are Sidney Lumet, Peter Bogdanovich, Paddy Chayevsky, John Ford, Gene Kelly, Robert Altman, P.T. Anderson, Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Elia Kazan, Howard Hawks, Elmer Bernstein, Hal Ashby, Arthur Penn, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Herrmann, Michael Chapman, Robert Benton, Gregg Toland, Walter Murch, Vittorio Storaro, Roger Deakins, Gordon Willis, Nestor Almendros, Abner Singer, Douglas Sirk, Sam Peckinpah, Waldo Salt, Milos Forman, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Gus Van Sant, Haskell Wexler, Frank Pierson, Buck Henry and the writer who started it all - Lois Weber.