Earl Owensby Studios

Independent film-maker Ernest Earl Owensby (born 1935), created a 200 acre Shelby, North Carolina motion picture studio active in the 1970s and 1980s.^[1] E.O. Productions made dozens of low-budget, action movies, many of which originally played on outdoor drive-in theaters throughout the South. Television producer Ray Livesay, Director/NYU Film professor Tierry Pathe, Ginger and Terri Alden, as well as numerous other actors first worked or honed their skills in Owensby productions.

Underwater sections of The Abyss were shot in the abandoned Cherokee nuclear power plant containment vessel near Gaffney, South Carolina,^[2] which had become an annexation to the studio, creating at that time, the world's largest underwater sound stage.

External links

• Earl Owensby's web site
• Earl Owensby at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654494/

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