| Joe Zaso | |
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| Born | Joseph Zaso November 20, 1970 Queens, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film, television actor, director |
| Website | |
| http://www.cinemaimages.net/josephzaso.html | |
Joseph Zaso (born on November 20, 1970 in Queens, New York City) is an American actor and filmmaker.
He is a b-movie regular and has been involved in the low budget science fiction and horror industry since 1990. Zaso, an avid bodybuilder, is usually cast as husky villains.
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Joe Zaso is of Sicilian-Italian and Russian ancestry.[1]
He formed his own film production company Cinema Image Productions in 1986 and since then he has primarily produced and acted in horror films.[2] Zaso broke into the film industry with the horror musical It's Only a Movie (1990), which he wrote, directed, and appeared in. He followed it up with several producing jobs, including the Italian giallo-inspired Five Dead on the Crimson Canvas.
He teamed up with New York director Kevin Lindenmuth on several pictures, including Alien Agenda: Endangered Species (1998), Rage of the Werewolf (1999), and Addicted to Murder 3: Blood Lust (2000). He also worked with German horror director Andreas Schnaas on both Demonium (2001) and Nikos (2003).
Zaso has also appeared as an extra in the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) and on the popular daytime TV series, Days of our Lives.
Zaso appeared as the Jersey Devil in a special promotional video created for the New Jersey Devils hockey team, which played in the Prudential Center before all 2007/2008 games.
According to his MySpace profile, Zaso admires the work of film directors Dario Argento, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Alfred Hitchcock.[3]
Braincell (2010) Perry St. (2010) BearCity (2010) Virus X (2011)