Michael Legge is a B-movie award winning Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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-born actor

Actor

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, and filmmaker. He is known for producing low-budget comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

-horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

s which he writes, directs and generally stars in. He founded the production company Sideshow Cinema.

Early life

According to Legge, he enjoyed watching the comedies of The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

 and was also a big fan of horror movies that were so prevalent in the 1950s/1960s. He started making movies at a young age with an 8mm

8 mm film

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 movie camera and by high school was making spoofs of movies such as David Lean's

David Lean

Sir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...

 Bridge on the River Kwai. Legge was writing and acting in these films as well as shooting and editing them, with help from friends and family members.

Acting career

Legge has won several awards as an actor including a B-Movie Award for being the Best Villain in 1999 in his film Braindrainer at the B-Movie Film Festival

B-Movie Film Festival

The B-Movie Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Syracuse, United States.The festival was founded in 1999 by local filmmaker Ron Bonk to promote the art of B-movie making. It was canceled in its third year due to the effects of September 11 attacks...

. He has acted on the stage as well as on screen. In 2000, he played Dr. Wahl in The Girls from H.A.R.M.! directed by Pat Bishow

Pat Bishow

Pat Bishow is an American independent filmmaker and writer, and former drummer for The Mosquitos.His 2009 film is called The Adventures of C.C. Brite and stars Jessica Jolly...

.

Filmmaking career

Michael Legge's filmmaking career developed out of his love of the movies and of his own skill at making short comedies and off the wall films. His early movies were all shot on film. From 1979 to 1986 he made dozens of films. He continued to produce and develop films through his production company Sideshow Cinema. With his success on the festival circuit an independent film distributor signed him up and released many of his short and feature films on video. Currently, Sub Rosa is releasing all his films.

Honey Glaze

Honey Glaze

Honey Glaze is a 2003 low-budget action-comedy film written, produced and directed by the American filmmaker Michael Legge. The film stars Lorna Nogueira, as Honey Glaze, a blonde leather-clad secret agent....

(2003) was Legge's biggest-budget film ever, and it had a successful Sub Rosa release. His comedy film Democrazy, released January 25, 2005, stars himself, Lorna Nogueira, John Shanahan, and Stacy Armstrong.

List of films

• Squirrels (1987), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Chat for Mrs. Order (1987), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Working Stiffs (1989), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Loons (1991), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Cutthroats (1994), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Sick Time (1995), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Potential Sins (1997), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Alien Agenda: Under the Skin (1996–1997), wrote and directed an "Alien Abductee Interviews" segment
• Stumped (1998), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Creaturerealm: Demons Wake (1998), wrote and directed "Dryer Straits" segment
• Braindrainer (1999), writer, producer, director, and actor
• The Girls from H.A.R.M! (2000), actor
• Honey Glaze
  Honey Glaze
  Honey Glaze is a 2003 low-budget action-comedy film written, produced and directed by the American filmmaker Michael Legge. The film stars Lorna Nogueira, as Honey Glaze, a blonde leather-clad secret agent....
  
  (2003), writer, producer, director, and actor
• That's Independent! (2004), interviewee
• Democrazy (2005), writer, producer, director, and actor
• Dungeon of Dr. Dreck (2007), writer, producer, and actor
• "My Mouth Lies Screaming" (2009), writer, producer and actor
• "Evan Straw" (2010) writer, producer and actor

External links

• Interview at Rogue Cinema