- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Born Jessie Robert Demeo in Brooklyn NY, and raised in the Rosedale Queens area to Aldo and Amelia Demeo. Moved to Florida in 1969 with entire family. Attended Broward Community College for two years while Playing in popular So. Florida rock band Latifundia. Finished college at U-M in 1972. Jessie changed his last name to Eastland when he arrived in California in 1982.
While still in Florida, he was taking live action stills for the movie Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971), when the director asked him if he wanted to play a main character in the film. Jessie agreed, and that would be his only acting credit in the industry, by his own choice.
When he in arrived in California, he pursued a career behind the camera, and In 2015 he completed his full-time ambitions in Hollywood, and retired to the High Desert.
As of this writing (2022) Jessie resides in Joshua Tree, California, and spends most of his time shooting the sky for his website: Skytrek.life
- IMDb mini biography by: Unknownian
- His Father Aldo DeMeo was a Bailiff in Broward County Florida when Dustin Hoffman and Company came to town to film "Lenny". He was offered the opportunity to play the Bailiff in "Lenny", which he accepted. During the Acadamy Awards Show in 1974 when "Lenny" was Nominated for "Best Picture", the scene where Dustin Hoffman is dragged out of the Courtroom by Aldo DeMeo the Bailiff was chosen as the clip shown to represent the movie.
- Has been best friends with Actor Kent Lane for over 35 years.
- As of October 2016, Jessie Eastland has released 12 of his original tunes on the Amy Deb label. Some of the tunes are fully orchestrated, and some Jessie plays all the instruments. These songs are available for download on all online outlets.
- Is the son of Actor Aldo DeMeo.
- Changed his name to Eastland in 1982, to reflect on "the land in the east" where he was born and raised.
- Romantic love is a temporary condition limited to the attribution of fulfilling one's need to express emotion, satisfy sexual desires, and defeat the loneliness we are all born with.
- When asked about the saying: 'don't look back, always look forward', his reply was: "When you cross an intersection you always look both ways. If you only look forward, your entire existence is only a matter of seconds."
- They say that a camera doesn't lie, and its true, but their lenses are the biggest liars on the planet.
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