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Michael Legge (born June 12, 1953) is an award winning Massachusetts-born actor and filmmaker. He is known for producing ultra-low-budget comedy-horror films which he writes, directs and generally stars in. Sideshow Cinema is the name of the production company he founded.

Early Life

Michael Legge was born in Massachusetts on June 12, 1953. As a youth he enjoyed watching the comedies of The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, however, he was also a fan of the science fiction and horror movies that were so prevalent in the '50's and '60's.

He started making movies quite young with an 8mm movie camera and by high school was already making spoofs of movies such as David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai. Legge was not just shooting and editing these films, but he was also writing and acting in them. He would use friends and family members to help make these mini productions. As he got older his films became more sophisticated and professional.

Acting Career

Legge's natural ability at acting led him to the stage, from an early age, where up to the present he has performed in literally hundreds of musicals and stage plays. He runs his own theater company in Medway, Massachusetts, which he does out of his love for the art. He usually directs these productions and has garnered a fan following over the years.

He has produced, on stage, each of the Marx Brothers musical comedies. His Groucho Marx impersonation is considered by many to be very good and the shows are said to have sold out in advance before each performance.

Legge has won several awards as an actor including a B-Movie Award for being the Best Villain in 1999 in his film Braindrainer at the B-Movie Film Festival. His acting as been in much demand on the stage as well as on screen. In 2000, he played Dr. Wahl in The Girls from H.A.R.M.! directed by Pat Bishow.

Filmmaking Career

Michael Legge's filmmaking career developed out of his love of the movies and of his own skill at making short comedies and off the wall films. His early movies were all shot on film. In 1987 his short film Squirrels won an award at a film festival. He contiued to produce and develope films through his production company Sideshow Cinema.

With his success on the festival circuit an independent film distibutor signed him up and released many of his short and feature films on video. Currently, Sub Rosa is releasing all his films. His crazy brand of horror humor has a large following in American and overseas.

Honey Glaze
which was released in 2003, was Legge's biggest effort. A feature the film had the biggest budget up till that time and it had a succesful Sub Rosa release. His most recent comedy feature is Democrazy
which was released January 25, 2005. It stars himself, Lorna Nogueira, John Shanahan, and Stacy Armstrong. It was nominated for three awards at the B-Movie Film Festival in Syracuse, New York — Best Special Effects, Best Movie, and Best Screenplay (the last of which it won).

Screenwriter and Playwright

Michael Legge's success as a filmmaker and actor is that he also creates his own material. He has written everyone of his many films as well as writing plays for the stage. The first stageplay he wrote was Memoirs of a Gorilla which he also produced and directed on stage. Jac Publishing has published two of his previously staged plays that he wrote, Shake-a-spear and The Fabulous Imbecile.

List of films

Squirrels (1987), writer, producer, director, and actor
Chat for Mrs. Order (1987), writer, producer, director, and actor
Working Stiffs (1989), writer, producer, director, and actor
Loons (1991), writer, producer, director, and actor
Cutthroats (1994), writer, producer, director, and actor
Sick Time
(1995), writer, producer, director, and actor
Potential Sins
(1997), writer, producer, director, and actor
Alien Agenda: Under the Skin, wrote and directed an "Alien Abductee Interviews" segment
Stumped (1998), writer, producer, director, and actor
Creaturerealm: Demons Wake (1998), wrote and directed "Dryer Straits" segment
Braindrainer (1999), writer, producer, director, and actor
The Girls from H.A.R.M! (2000), actor
Honey Glaze
(2003), writer, producer, director, and actor
That's Independent! (2004), interviewee
Democrazy
(2005), writer, producer, director, and actor

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