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Alan Gelfant

Birth : 1957-05-21, Syracuse, New York, USA

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Gelfant (born May 21, 1957 in Syracuse, New York) is an American film actor. Alan Gelfant has acted in more than 50 plays and dozens of TV shows and movies, including leading roles in the films Next Stop Wonderland, The Destiny of Marty Fine, Men in Scoring Position, Turn of Faith and highly acclaimed documentary Hero. As a director, he has put his interest in new plays. Consequently, he is the co-founder of the annual Stella Adler Theatre - One Act Play Festival in Los Angeles. He was hired by HBO to direct and co-write Colin Quinn’s one man show The Seven acraments. In the Upper Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont, Gelfant has produced, directed and acted in performances at the Parish Players, playing Eddie Carbone in A View From The Bridge. Besides professional acting and directing for TV, movies and the stage, Alan Gelfant teaches acting, playwriting and filmmaking at high schools. Currently, he is a teacher and tutor in Writing and Rhetoric Program of Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College, focusing on research and study in making documentary films for educational use. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Gelfant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Father Frank

Mob drama starring Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, Mia Sara and Costas Mandylor.

Byron Sadowski

Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise.

Glen

The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend and on the verge of transformation. She's helped along in that process by Betsy Wright, a misanthropic dog-walker in need of help with her business and struggling with her own dark past.

Ray

Alex, a struggling painter, is going through a particularly bad patch. Dumped by his girlfriend and unable to get work, Alex finds his life taking a rare upswing when he moves into a new apartment and falls for his neighbor, Lori. But when things start to go wrong between Alex and Lori, their close proximity to each other proves to have an enormous downside, leading to further amusing antics.

Dr. Edelstein

After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!

Men in Scoring Position

Men in Scoring Position

Mitch DiLeo

Longtime buddies Mitch and Danny are working-class guys in their 30s that life has slapped around ever since their glory days as high school jocks. Sick of the cycle of idle talk, half-baked plans and fears about the future, both guys finally decide to realize their dreams and find the perfect catalyst in Lucy, a mysterious new woman passing through town.

Next Stop Wonderland

Next Stop Wonderland

Alan Monteiro

A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!

The Crow: City of Angels

The Crow: City of Angels

Bassett

After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel. The second film based on James O'Barr's cult comic.

The Destiny of Marty Fine

The Destiny of Marty Fine

Marty Fine

When an ex-boxer witnesses a Mob hit the gangster forces him to commit a murder in order to save his own life.