- Born
- Birth nameWilliam Philip Dewees
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Rusty De Wees was born on November 15, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Icebreaker (2000), Where the Rivers Flow North (1993) and Before I Sleep (2013).
- The lucky break which led to his film career came when he was hired to shovel snow from the driveway of actor Benjamin Hendrickson's Vermont home. Hendrickson told him he had a great look for commercials and helped him with connections when he got back to New York.
- Famed throughout Vermont for his one-character play, "The Logger: A Play in 2 Ax", which he has performed many times throughout the state since he first created it in 1997.
- He grew up in a section of Stowe, Vermont called Stowe Hollow.
- Though Rusty often speaks about "Nativer Vermonters" and talks about being a Vermonter himself, he has admitted in performances that he was actually born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Performing his play, "The Logger" on radio station WKOK 98.9 in Stowe, Vermont.
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