| Alki David | |
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Alki David at the Beverly Hills offices of FilmOn.com. |
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| Born | Nigeria |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, producer, and actor |
| Spouse | Jennifer Stano |
| Website | |
| http://www.filmon.com/ | |
Alkiviades "Alki'" David is a digital media entrepreneur whose companies include FilmOn, Battlecam and 9021go.com. David has also appeared in feature films, including The Bank Job, and on UK TV.
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David was born in Nigeria,[1] and educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland.[2] His father, Andrew A. David (1934-2000),[3] was a managing director of Hellenic Bottling Company S.A,[4] which merged in 2000 with Coca-Cola Beverages into Coca-Cola Hellenic.After serving in the British Army, he studied film at the Royal College of Art in London, England, and then moved to Los Angeles, California, where he lived for eight years and was part-owner of a film post-production company.[1] In 1998 he returned to London and co-founded Independent Models, an agency whose models included Helena Christensen.[1]
He was married and divorced twice, having two sons with his first wife.[1][5] He met second wife Emma in 2004, marrying her in 2009, and separating in 2009.[1] As of 2011 he is married to Jennifer Stano, a swimsuit designer and former model who founded Have Faith Swimwear with David in Beverly Hills, California, in 2010.[6]
In the 2008 film The Bank Job, David played a bank-vault expert hired by Jason Statham to help with a bank heist.[1]
David's main projects are:
| Year | Title | Character | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Freediver | Hector | Also producer and writer |
| The Grid | Yussef Nasseriah | TV series (one episode) | |
| 2005 | Opa! | Spiros Kakogiannis | |
| Spooks | Badrak Madjid | TV series (one episode) | |
| 2006 | Hotel Babylon | Mr. Pappas | TV series (one episode) |
| 2007 | Living with Lew | Co-producer | |
| Flight of Fury | Rojar | Direct-to-DVD | |
| Voyage: Killing Brigitte Nielsen | Villain | Also director, producer, writer, and editor | |
| Fishtales | Captain Mavros | Also director, producer, writer, and editor | |
| 2008 | The Bank Job | Bambas | |
| 2009 | Trial & Retribution | Hikmet | TV series (one episode) |
| Waking the Dead | Coban | TV series (two episodes) |
CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox Broadcasting and their studios won a temporary restraining order against David's FilmOn in November 2010 to prevent unlicensed use of their broadcast signals . David sued CBS, dropped the suit, and sued CBS Interactive in November 2011, alleging copyright infringement due to the CNET website having editorially covered infringing uses of peer-to-peer file-sharing software.[7]