Misplaced Pages

Douglas Tait (actor): Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 04:49, 3 October 2012 editNovaseminary (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users10,467 edits same, rm unsupported cat← Previous edit Revision as of 04:51, 3 October 2012 edit undoNovaseminary (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users10,467 edits →High school years: we don't know he finished season as leading scorer, only that he was before he was temporarily removed from the team for poor behaviorNext edit →
Line 24: Line 24:
== High school years == == High school years ==


Tait attended ], in ], where he played on the ]'s ] team and was the team's leading scorer his ] during the 1992-1993 season.<ref name=LATimes>{{cite news|title=4 Alemany High Players Kicked Off Team | author=Fletcher, Jeff | date=December 8, 1992 | newspaper= ] | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-08/sports/sp-1692_1_alemany-high-players | accessdate=2012-5-13}}</ref><ref name=LATimes2 /> Tait attended ], in ], where he played on the ]'s ] team and was the team's leading scorer, as of December 1992, his ] during the 1992-1993 season.<ref name=LATimes>{{cite news|title=4 Alemany High Players Kicked Off Team | author=Fletcher, Jeff | date=December 8, 1992 | newspaper= ] | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-08/sports/sp-1692_1_alemany-high-players | accessdate=2012-5-13}}</ref><ref name=LATimes2 />


Two years earlier, in what was his ] season (1990-1991), Tait "spent most of the season on the varsity bench nursing injuries to his hands, wrist, back and ankle."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-04/sports/sp-130_1_point-guard |date=December 4, 1991| title=Southern Section Basketball Preview: Mission Leage: Alemany |newspaper=Los Angeles Times | accessdate=2012-9-30}}</ref> In December 1990, a point in the season at he was averaging 14 points a game, Tait broke both wrists by punching a brick wall during practice when a teammate's errant ball hit him in the face as he attempted a ].<ref name=Agora /> At the time he broke his wrists, which led Tait to wear casts on both for an expected four weeks, Tait was his team's third leading scorer.<ref name=Agora>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=December 19, 1990 | title=Agoura Needs Points From Other Sources |authors=Leech, Paige A., Brian Murphy and Jeff Riley|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-19/sports/sp-6136_1_agoura-high |accessdate=2012-5-22}}</ref> Two months later in February 1991, Tait scored 18 points, all on three-pointers, in a division tournament game.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=February 16, 1991 | title=Division Iii-aa Roundup |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-16/sports/sp-912_1_laguna-hills |accessdate=2012-10-1}}</ref> Two years earlier, in what was his ] season (1990-1991), Tait "spent most of the season on the varsity bench nursing injuries to his hands, wrist, back and ankle."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-04/sports/sp-130_1_point-guard |date=December 4, 1991| title=Southern Section Basketball Preview: Mission Leage: Alemany |newspaper=Los Angeles Times | accessdate=2012-9-30}}</ref> In December 1990, a point in the season at he was averaging 14 points a game, Tait broke both wrists by punching a brick wall during practice when a teammate's errant ball hit him in the face as he attempted a ].<ref name=Agora /> At the time he broke his wrists, which led Tait to wear casts on both for an expected four weeks, Tait was his team's third leading scorer.<ref name=Agora>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=December 19, 1990 | title=Agoura Needs Points From Other Sources |authors=Leech, Paige A., Brian Murphy and Jeff Riley|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-19/sports/sp-6136_1_agoura-high |accessdate=2012-5-22}}</ref> Two months later in February 1991, Tait scored 18 points, all on three-pointers, in a division tournament game.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=February 16, 1991 | title=Division Iii-aa Roundup |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-16/sports/sp-912_1_laguna-hills |accessdate=2012-10-1}}</ref>

Revision as of 04:51, 3 October 2012

For other people named Douglas Tait, see Douglas Tait (disambiguation).
Douglas Tait
BornDouglas Tait
Occupation(s)Film actor
Television actor
Independent filmmaker
Stuntman
WebsiteOfficial website


Douglas Tait is an American actor, stuntman, independent filmmaker, and former high school basketball player. Tait played “monster” and creature characters in Star Trek, Zathura: A Space Adventure, Thor, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Land of the Lost.

High school years

Tait attended Bishop Alemany High School, in Los Angeles, California, where he played on the high school's basketball team and was the team's leading scorer, as of December 1992, his senior year during the 1992-1993 season.

Two years earlier, in what was his sophomore season (1990-1991), Tait "spent most of the season on the varsity bench nursing injuries to his hands, wrist, back and ankle." In December 1990, a point in the season at he was averaging 14 points a game, Tait broke both wrists by punching a brick wall during practice when a teammate's errant ball hit him in the face as he attempted a slam dunk. At the time he broke his wrists, which led Tait to wear casts on both for an expected four weeks, Tait was his team's third leading scorer. Two months later in February 1991, Tait scored 18 points, all on three-pointers, in a division tournament game.

As a junior, in January 1992, Tait was suspended for one game for fighting. Earlier that month, he scored 13 points and "ended the bleeding with a three-point basket" in his team's first home loss.

The following year, as a senior, in December 1992 he and three other teammates sat out one game as a result of conduct at a girl's basketball game. A week prior, Tait had led all scorers in double figures in an opening-round tournament game.

Entertainment career

Early work

According to Tait, he was subsequently cast as a teen basketball player in television commercials because of of his high school basketball experience. During a 2011 interview, Tait said: "I started doing extra work in high school. I knew I wanted to perform, but was clueless about how to make it into a career. I got a job at Universal Studios playing Frankenstein and performing in shows, then got a manager right out of high school. I was an All Star basketball player so she sent me on basketball commercials, which quickly got me in to S.A.G., and I made a living doing basketball commercials in the early years while I was honing my acting skills. I have been in the business for 15 years, but have only started working consistently for the past 2 years."

Creature character roles

Tait's first creature character role was at age 16, when he was hired to perform as "Frankenstein" in the live stage shows at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Tait later played creature characters in film. He was one of three individuals who played the role of a "Zorgon" in Jon Favreau’s Zathura. He also played the role of "Abominog" in The Knights of Badassdom and a "Frost Giant" in Thor. Tait also played "Head Sleestak" in Land of the Lost and the "Long Face Bar Alien" in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek.

Makeup artist Barney Burman who, along with Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, won the 2009 Academy Award for best makeup for their work in Star Trek noted that the work Burman did on Tait's character, Long Face Bar Alien, was especially complex. As Burman noted: "I made this big, long face for him, and what I didn't really consider was just how much heavier silicone is than foam latex. He was one of our first aliens, so fighting gravity on him taught me a lot about how to approach the makeup thereafter."

In 2009, Tait was a member of the stunt ensemble for the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category of "Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture".

Independent film work

Tait was executive producer, along with Isabel Cueva, of "In The Name of Freedom", a 16-minute short film that appeared at the 14th Annual LA Shorts Fest in 2010. It was an Official Selection of the New York International Latino Film Festival, won in the category of "Best Drama Short" at the 2010 Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival, and won the "Best Fiction Short" category at the 2010 CINE Film and Video Competition.

Tait starred alongside Sally Kirkland and Tony Todd in, and was also producer of, the independent film One by One: Death's Door which, as re-titled Jack The Reaper, was picked up for distribution by American World Pictures. Tait also acted in the independent film, The Season.

References

  1. Garrett, Tommy Lightfoot (October 28, 2011). "Douglas Tait's Happy Halloween To You, An Exclusive". Highlight Hollywood. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. Garrett, Tommy (September 19, 2010). "This Week In Hollywoodland". Canyon News website. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  3. Garrett, Tommy (June 19, 2011). "Hollywood's Famous And Special Fathers". Canyon News website. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  4. "Movies & TV: Douglas Tait: About This Person". New York Times website. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  5. ^ Fletcher, Jeff (December 8, 1992). "4 Alemany High Players Kicked Off Team". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-5-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) Cite error: The named reference "LATimes" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ Fletcher, Jeff (December 11, 1992). "Thousand Oaks Tournament: Foster Twins, Thousand Oaks Dismantle Oxnard, 89-36". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-5-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. "Southern Section Basketball Preview: Mission Leage: Alemany". Los Angeles Times. December 4, 1991. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  8. ^ "Agoura Needs Points From Other Sources". Los Angeles Times. December 19, 1990. Retrieved 2012-5-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  9. "Division Iii-aa Roundup". Los Angeles Times. February 16, 1991. Retrieved 2012-10-1. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ Elling, Steve (February 2, 1992). "Notre Dame's Trying Times on the Court Spare No One". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-5-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. Elling, Steve (January 09, 1992). "Alemany Fades in Late Going of 65-57 Loss". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-10-1. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Behind The Mask with Douglas Tait". Inkless Magazine. February 9, 2011. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  13. ^ Garrett, Tommy (September 3, 2010). "Douglas Tait, A Man Of Many Faces". Canyon News website. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  14. "Zathura (2005) - Cast & Crew". Yahoo Movies. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. Coratelli, Carlo (March 19, 2011). "Movie Comics: Intervista a Douglas Tait - Thor". Comicus. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  16. "Nominees & Winners for the 82nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2012-10-2. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  17. ^ Gaita, Paul (February 26, 2010). "The Contender Q & A: 'Star Trek's' Barney Burman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-10-2. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  18. "The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild. Retrieved 2012-5-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  19. "In the Name of Freedom: Isabel Cueva". LatinoLA. LatinoCities, Inc. August 10, 2011. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  20. LA Shorts Fest. LA Shorts Fest 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  21. IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM HBO's New York International Latino Film Festival. 2010 Retrieved March 15, 2012
  22. Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  23. Fall 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Award Recipients Cine 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2012
  24. "AFM 2010: Knock Knock! American World Pictures Scores One by One: Death's Door". Dread Central. November 8, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2012. {{cite news}}: |first= missing |last= (help); Check |first= value (help)
  25. Powers, Tom (November 11, 2010). "American World Picks Up 'One By One'". Cinefantastique. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  26. Gingold, Michael (November 9, 2010). "American World is at "DEATH'S DOOR"". Fangoria.
  27. Borys, Kit (November 18, 2009). "Kilo scaring up 'One by One' film: Horror movie to star Douglas Tait, Tony Todd, Sally Kirkland". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  28. NYIFF official announcement: The Season New York International Independent Film & Video Festival April 8, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2012

External links

Template:Persondata

Categories: