Joe O'Connell(II)

Actor
Director
Producer

Joe O'Connell's film Rondo and Bob examines the life of Texas Chain Saw Massacre art director Robert Burns and Burns' obsession with the actor Rondo Hatton. It ran the film festival circuit from late 2020 through 2021 and won multiple awards. It was released streaming in 2022. His debut feature is Danger God, which details the life and career of B-movie star and stuntman Gary Kent. O'Connell is a former film industry columnist for The Austin Chronicle, Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesman. In 2022, he completed the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's Book Project where he worked on The Contortionists, a book about the Ross Sister of West Texas. O'Connell lives on the outskirts of Austin, Texas.

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Awards
- 7 wins & 3 nominations total

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Known for

Rondo and Bob

6.2

Director

2020

Blood of Another

Short

Director

2020

Amici

Short

Director

2020

Danger God

7.0

Director

2018

Credits

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Actor

Leanne
7.2
TV Series
- Jack
- 2026
One Life
Video
- Narrator
- 2020
Meet the Creeper!
Short
- Narrator
- 2020
Frame Switch
6.3
- Journalist
- 2016
Z: A Zombie Musical
5.2
- Zombie Casting Director
- 2007
Where the Heart Is
6.7
- Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 2000
Austin Stories
8.3
TV Series
- Record executive
- Car salesman (uncredited)
- 1997
Courage Under Fire
6.6
- Man in bar (uncredited)
- 1996
The Swinks
Video
- Interviewer
- 1993

Director

Producer

Personal details

Height
- 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
Spouse
- Tiffany O'Connell2000 - present
Relatives
- Casey O'Connell(Sibling)

Did you know

Trivia
Joe O'Connell has written about the Texas film industry in columns for the Dallas Morning News, The Austin Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman. In the past he was a frequent extra (and often wrote about the experience for newspapers) in movies including Courage Under Fire, The Newton Boys, Varsity Blues, Where the Heart Is and in two episodes of the MTV television series Austin Stories.

In Courage Under Fire, he is magically in the same scene twice--as a bar patron and a guy on the telephone across the room.

He is the author of the novel Evacuation Plan, which won the North Texas Book Award and was a finalist for the Violet Crown Book Award.

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