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Halfbreed Billy Gram as "Demon/Indian"

Biography

Halfbreed Billy Gram

Overview

  • Nicknames
    • Wildman
    • HalfBreed
    • The Legend Keeper
  • Height
    6′ 4″ (1.93 m)

Biography

  • Halfbreed Billy Gram developed a cult following and fan base based upon his work in various entertainment genres. He was the singer/frontman for Philadelphia punk/metal band Saints in Hell, whose other members included Tom Keifer and Eric Brittingham who later rose to stardom in the band Cinderella. Gram also had a successful Indy solo CD/album in 1991. The project and band were called Ghostdance Tribe. Gram sang, played guitar and wrote the material for GDT. The mixed blooded entertainer became a very visible activist for Native Sovereignty and treaty rights, particularly in the struggle of the Iroqouis people. He also was for many years a traditional dancer and pow wow singer and drummer. Billy also had a run as a personal appearance manager for dozens of celebrities, most of them horror genre actors, booking their appearances at various horror conventions and autograph shows. The venture that brought Gram the most public notoriety has probably been his years as a professional wrestling manager for various independent promotions in the US. He created and leads a faction known as Cult Fiction,with Gram portraying a Charles Manson-esque character who leads a group of the most feared and brutal wrestlers on the Indy scene. Known for his talking/promo skills, Billy developed a reputation among the fans as the most hardcore, non-wrestler manager in the history of that business, due to his willingness to be physically abused in violent and shocking manners, taking beatings and being assaulted and maimed with various implements including steel chairs, barbwire, thumbtacks, tables, fluorescent light tubes, trashcans and staple guns (including the only known use of an electric one in professional wrestling).
    - IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Trademarks

  • Cult Fiction

Trivia

  • In professional wrestling Gram has been introduced and identified with various colorful nicknames and by lines including: The Leader of Cult Fiction, The Father of the Cult, the bastard son of Alice Cooper, and the American Standard. He is often taunted by fans with chants of Alice Cooper and Lady GaGa.
  • The lyrics in the Cinderella song The Last Mile "Me and Billy Boy and Old Lady Jane, we hitched a ride, took a fast movin' train." are a reference to Gram.
  • During his tenure with CZW, Gram created and edited 38 music videos, often credited on the dvds using his Indian name...Koga Doska.
  • In 1988, Billy did three adult films. In 1990 he bought the films from the producers.
  • One For the Fire: The Legacy of Night of the Living Dead, of which Billy was the screenwriter, won a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for the best dvd extra of 2008.

Quotes

  • Professional wrestling is the most honest business based on a lie that I know of,...organized religion is the most dishonest lie based on business that I know of.
  • I'm the thinker, I'm the brains. I'm an important person. I don't deserve to have this shit done to me.
  • To every season turn the other cheek no more forever.
  • I did the pornos because I needed the money really bad, then a little over a year later I made a chunk of change with my music, and things were going fast with my band, so I had a notion that those things might start getting too much attention. One of them was called "Tools Out", the other two were "Welcome to My Tight Wares" and "Billion Dollar Rape Me". They had me in Alice Cooper make up, with snakes and sh*t. The thought of maybe running into Alice and being "THAT guy" from Tools Out, well I was embarrassed. So I spent most of what I had just earned buying them back, these guys must have tripled their money without ever selling a print or a tape. I say that, because I know what I was paid, and I knew they didn't pay me or any other um,..actors too much, and there wasn't even snacks or beers on set, so the budget was very little. Now I wish I would have kept my money. Who cares what people think?

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