| Kevin Carvell | |
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Carvell at The Dark Knight premiere in July 2008. |
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| Born | Kevin Lee Carvell May 24, 1975 Ephrata, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Other names | Kevin L Carvell |
| Occupation | actor, producer, consultant |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Website | |
| http://www.kevincarvell.com/ | |
Kevin Lee Carvell (born May 24, 1975) is an American actor, writer, television, film, and music producer, and consultant. After years as an on again/off again actor, Carvell became the founder and CEO of Flashpoint Studios,[1][2] a television and film production company and promotional firm.
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Carvell was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, the son of Shelby Jean Hutchinson, a factory worker, and Paul W. Carvell, a night watchman.
After his parent's divorce at the age of five, Carvell and his mother moved around his native Lancaster County. He lived in Akron, PA and attended Akron Elementary School for kindergarten through second grade. Then for grades three and four he attended Highland Elementary School in Ephrata, PA. He then attended fifth grade at Caernarvon Elementary School in Narvon, PA after his mother's second marriage to Evan Weinhold. Upon Weinhold's death less than a year later, Carvell and his mother once again moved back to Ephrata where he finished out his public schooling at Highland Elementary and then later at Ephrata Junior High School (grades seven and eight) and Ephrata Senior High School (now known as Ephrata High School). Carvell spent his senior year of high school at home recovering after a life-saving surgery to stop and correct the effects of Scoliosis, which he began to suffer from a few years prior.
In 1982, Carvell first got his taste of the entertainment industry when he appeared on camera for a locally-produced public service announcement. This piece was later recycled for the television series Parent and Child. Then in 1989, in another chance happening, a video segment that Carvell and some of his friends produced while playing Nintendo's Double Dragon made the cut in the release of the tips and tricks video Score More Points Nintendo Blue.
In the summer of 1992, Carvell put his voice and song talents to use when he starred as the Genie in the regional tour of Disney's Aladdin: The Musical, promoting the looming release of the blockbuster film. He also served as an understudy for Aladdin.
After years of disappointment with the few roles that were coming his way, Carvell decided to re-focus his interest behind the camera. He began to experiment with many areas of production, animation, and writing.[3][4]
In 1994, during this period of change in his career, Carvell also launched the underground publication Endeavours of the Universe (which would later become CinemaEdge). The fanzine focused on the very latest news on genre television and film. "Endeavours of the Universe" (or "EU") was the recycled name of a failed Star Trek: The Next Generation/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine crossover script. However, Carvell would have some satisfaction at last when numerous elements of this script would make their way to not only to ST: TNG and DS9, but to Star Trek: Voyager as well. EU was also the first known print publication to have digital updates on pre-Internet bulletin boards. In 1996, EU became CinemaEdge and an online companion website was launched... CinemaEdge.com. In 1998, CinemaEdge went completely online, doing away with the print edition. It also expanded beyond genre news and movie trailers and became one of the first sites to offer original animated web content. After a series of site changes during the 2000s, CinemaEdge.com extended its longtime Amazon.com partnership and re-launched as an entertainment portal to Amazon.
Then in 1996, while still continuing to learn his craft and reconnecting to friends and colleagues in the industry through his work on CinemaEdge, Carvell launched Aurora Mediaworks (which would later become Flashpoint Studios), a production and new media company. Due to his connection with the fans, the networks, and studios, he soon found himself acting as a consultant and liaison. In this new capacity, he first lent his assistance to the TV series' Early Edition, Gargoyles, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and the film Tarzan.
In 2000, Carvell decided to re-brand the company to the more marketable "Flashpoint Studios" while ramping up involvement as a television and film production company and promotional firm. The new decade saw one notable project after another with television series like Alias and The Dead Zone.[5][6][7][8][9]