- Born
- Birth nameJack Roger van Landingham II
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- An actor and mixed-martial artist, capable of playing both good and bad guys with equal ease. Began studying Martial Arts at the age of eight. He initially majored in Pre-Med in college but went on to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts before moving on to Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Paul Henderson
- SpouseCara van Landingham(1995 - ?)
- Co-founded Actability, an acting school on Broadway in New York City in the year 2000.
- Like Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, and Francis Ford Coppola, Jack got his break from "The King of the B's", legendary producer Roger Corman. Jack landed his first film role as the mutant "Gargoyle" in Roger Corman's The Terror Within (1989) (where he was billed under the pseudonym "Roren Sumner").
- Studied "The Method" style of acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and "The Meisner Technique" at Playhouse West under the direction of Jeff Goldblum and Robert Carnegie.
- Studied acting with Bruce Glover , father of actor Crispin Glover.
- Studied Aikido at the dojos of both Steven Seagal and Toshishiro Obata. He also studied Hapkido with Grandmaster Kwang Sik Myung.
- Lead, follow, or get out of your own way.
- Being touched by believable human behavior in a film is the real "special effect".
- The most challenging thing about teaching actors is getting them to understand that they're "good enough" already. It's not really about adding anything to yourself. It's already there. It's actually about subtracting. Taking your doubting mind out of the equation...listening...and discovering.
- The highest expression of diversity exists within the individual - each as unique as their own fingerprint.
- To live the life you imagine, you must first realize that you already are.
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