Sam Maccarone
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| Sam Maccarone | |
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| Born | March 14, 1975 Yosemite, California |
Sam Maccarone (born March 14, 1975) is a film actor, film director, and writer. He wrote and directed National Lampoon's TV: The Movie. In the film, he plays Jeffry Sutton, Dick Weston Fernandez and Chad (in Your in the Army Now).
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[edit] Personal life
He grew up in Yosemite, California. He lives in Hollywood, CA and has no children.
[edit] Career
Maccarone created and directed the internet hit "Roommates: the Series" in 2000 with Dian Bachar, from Orgazmo. In the six episodes produced for their website, they had guest appearances from Clifton Collins, Jr. and Ian Somerhalder.[1] An epidode called Clifton's Later is rumored to have been shot starring Christian Slater although, it's never popped up on any websites.
Maccarone helped write as well as sang on raps songs with Jackass star Steve-o for Universal Records. In February of 2008 on the Jackass 24 hour take-over of MTV, Steve-O from Jackass and Maccarone brought the show back from the dead for Steve-o to rap on. The old set was carefully recreated and on that episode Johnny Knoxville revealed that Mike Judge had created a brand new Beavis & Butthead episode with B & B ripping on Steve-O's rap video.
Maccarone wrote, directed and stars in The Life of Lucky Cucumber. Cucumber was co-written by Jackass star Preston Lacy. Lucky stars Dian Bachar and American Pie veteran Chris Owen and Stella Keitell.[2]
He stars in ThinkFilm's Gangster Rap: The Glockumentary along with Clifton Powell and rapper Too Short.[3] He was a writer on the 2006 Billboard Music Awards as well as a music video director for MCA/Universal Records. At age 24, he was the youngest show creator for MTV after then time producer John Miller bought a show called Disco Masters from him. Disco Masters was originally a short film Maccarone directed starring himself as "the Disco Master."
In 1998 he directed a music video for the group Cosmic Slop Shop which included the rapper Big Lurch who is currently serving a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend on PCP.
He plays Billy in Les Claypool's directorial debute Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo.[4] He got his SAG card in 1995 from Amy Heckerling getting bumped up from an extra (actor) in Clueless.
