John Schwab is an American actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, TV producer and musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 who was born in Pensacola

Pensacola

Pensacola is a city in the western part of the U.S. state of Florida.Pensacola may also refer to:* Pensacola people, a group of Native Americans* A number of places in the Florida:** Pensacola Bay** Pensacola Regional Airport...

, Florida

Florida

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 and currently resides in London

London

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. He recently produced The Hide

The Hide

The Hide is a 2008 film, the debut from director Marek Losey, grandson of Joseph Losey, who previously had an award-winning career as a director of advertisements. The film starred Alex MacQueen and Phil Campbell, based on the stage play The Sociable Plover by Tim Whitnall, who also wrote the...

 with Christopher Granier-Deferre, which was nominated for a BIFA 2010

Early life

Schwab went to high school in Okinawa, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

, South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

. He met his wife, Tamsin, in Seoul after graduation and studied English Literature at Durham University. He has two sons.

Filmography

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Noel's House Party Noel's House Party Noel's House Party was a BBC television light entertainment show hosted by Noel Edmonds that was broadcast live on Saturday evenings throughout the 1990s. It was set in a large house in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom, leading to much innuendo. The show was broadcast during the...		Episode: #7.18
1997	Teletubbies Teletubbies Teletubbies is a BBC children's television series targeted at pre-school viewers and produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. It was created by Ragdoll's creative director Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport, who wrote each of the show's 365 episodes. The programme's original narrator was...	Voice Trumpet	Unknown episodes
2001	Hotel!	Agent Imefine
2003	My Dad's the Prime Minister My Dad's the Prime Minister My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor...	American Businessman	Episode: Homework
2004	Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets is a mockumentary about a manned voyage through the solar system. Space Odyssey premiered in 2004 and was made by the BBC...	Larry Conrad, CAPCOM
2005	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...	Bywater	Episode: Dalek Dalek (Doctor Who episode) "Dalek" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 30 April 2005. It should not be confused with the first Dalek serial, The Daleks...
2005	Monarch of the Glen	Bill	Episode: Episode #7.4
2005	Broken News Broken News Broken News is a comedy programme shown on BBC Two in autumn 2005 and in Australia on SBS-TV from the 17 July 2006. The show poked fun at the world of 24-hour rolling news channels. The title of the show is a play on the phrase "Breaking News". It had six thirty-minute episodes...	Miles Anderton	Episodes: Tomato Flu, Missing Island, Half Way There Day, Bolivian Crisis
2006	Ultimate Force Ultimate Force Ultimate Force is a British television drama series that was shown on ITV, which deals with the activities of the fictional Red Troop of the SAS...	Lt. Pincher	Episode: Dividing Line
2006	The Only Boy for Me	NY Colleague
2007	Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...	Texan Cliff Barnes	Episode: Episode #2.1
Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
2001	Nothing to Declare	Pilot	Voice
2003	The Order The Order (2003 film) The Order, also known as The Sin Eater, is a 2003 mystery horror film written and directed by Brian Helgeland, starring Heath Ledger, Benno Fürmann, Mark Addy, and Shannyn Sossamon...	American Bureaucrat
2004	Back to Gaya	Zeck	Voice
2004	Mr. 3000 Mr. 3000 Mr. 3000 is a 2004 American sports comedy film starring Bernie Mac and Angela Bassett. The film's plot surrounds a retired Major League Baseball player who makes a comeback at age 47 in order to attain 3,000 hits.-Plot:...	Umpire
2005	Foster Foster (film) Foster is an upcoming 2012 English comedy-drama film written and directed by Jonathan Newman, based on his 2005 short film. Part of it was shot at Legoland Windsor in April 2010...	Older Zach	Also associate producer
Video Games
Year	Game	Role	Notes
2002	Vietcong Vietcong (computer game) Vietcong is a 2003 tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Pterodon and 2K Czech, published by Gathering of Developers. It is set during the Vietnam War in 1967....
2002	Prisoner of War Prisoner of War (video game) Prisoner of War is a 2002 third-person stealth game developed by Wide Games and published by Codemasters. It follows the story of Captain Lewis Stone, a downed American pilot who must escape numerous prisoner of war camps and return home.-Gameplay:...		Also in special thanks
2002	Simple 2000 Series, Vol. 16: The Sniper 2	Harry
2004	Vietcong: Fist Alpha Vietcong: Fist Alpha Vietcong: Fist Alpha is an expansion pack for the computer game Vietcong. It was released in February 2004.It is a prequel to Vietcong, occurring three months before the events of that game. In Fist Alpha you play the main character of Sergeant First Class Douglas Warren...
2004	Vietcong: Purple Haze
2004	Killzone Killzone Killzone is a first-person shooter exclusive to the PlayStation 2 game console, developed by Netherlands-based Guerrilla Games and released on November 2, 2004 in North America. A sequel, Killzone: Liberation was released on the PlayStation Portable and another followup, Killzone 2 was released for...	Additional ISA Voices
2006	Pursuit Force Pursuit Force Pursuit Force is a video game for the PlayStation Portable. It puts the player in the role of a police agent who joins up to a law enforcement agency known as the Pursuit Force, to restore order to a city overrun with crime. This elite unit specialises in direct armed encounters with adversaries,...
2006	Killzone: Liberation Killzone: Liberation Received IGN's award for Best PSP Offline Multiplayer Game of 2006 .-External links:**...	ISA Demolition Guy, ISA Generic
Audio
Year	Audio	Role	Notes
2006	Doctor Who: The Nowhere Place The Nowhere Place The Nowhere Place is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...	EXO Moore	Audio drama
2006	Doctor Who: The Reaping The Reaping (Doctor Who audio) The Reaping is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...	Lieutenant Doyle	Audio drama
2007	Doctor Who: Phobos Phobos (Doctor Who audio) Phobos is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 28 January 2007.-Plot:...	Hayd	Audio drama
2008	Stargate SG-1: Gift of the Gods	Lt. Hunter	Audio drama

Music

Schwab played the harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

 in the TV show The Hit Factory

The Hit Factory

The Hit Factory was a recording studio in New York City famous for its clientele. It was officially closed for business April 1, 2005 whereas other Hit Factory studio locations remained open, such as in Miami, Florida.-History:...

: The Pete Waterman Story (2001)

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