-One Favorite Moment of your role as Proctor?

I met G.W. Bailey when I was doing Police Academy 4. I had been working with Art Metrano on Police Academy 2 & 3, but G.W. came back as Captain Harris in PA4. The first scene we were filming was the scene where I had already shot a hole in the hot air balloon and we had landed in a raging river. I arrived on the set which was a river bank out in the woods in Canada, and they introduced me to G.W. We had never met. We said, “Hi, how are you doing?” And then they threw us in the river on a submerged gondola and they shot the scene where we were racing down the rapids toward a massive waterfall. That was the beginning of our friendship. You tend to get close quickly when your life is passing in front of your eyes!

-But now let us talk about the present. All-Stars , after all these years as an

Actor now you produced and wrote a Movie. What made this the right time to try your hand at that side of things?

I have wanted to do this for a long time. I’ve worked in television as a writer/director/producer for years and wanted to direct a film, finally deciding that now was the time.

I had the idea for ALL-STARS quite a while ago. It’s really my story. My daughter started playing softball when she was 5. I coached her throughout her rec league career until she was about 10 or 11, and then she started playing on club and travel teams. I followed her, coached a little, but was mostly the parent in the stands. I always said when my daughter, Logan, goes to college I’ll come back to the rec league and coach again. All those years in rec league as a coach, I had experienced the crazy parents on my team and other teams. I always thought they would be great characters in a film and I needed to tell that story. The outrageous behavior of parents in the name of their child is a universally understood behavior, and it’s not limited to just softball. It’s certainly true in any youth sport, or youth activity for that matter. ALL-STARS deals with parents who live vicariously through their children and have unrealistic expectations for their child whether or not she has any actual talent or ability. The unrealistic dreams they have for their child result in the outrageous behavior of the parents that is so inappropriate and absolutely hilarious.

I wrote the script and then it took me almost 5 years to find the financing for ALL-STARS. When I finally did, I was lucky enough to assemble a fantastic cast including Angela Kinsey (THE OFFICE), Illeana Douglas, Kyle Howard, Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Nicole Sullivan (KING OF QUEENS, MAD TV), Richard Kind, Sam Richardson (VEEP), Fred Willard (BEST IN SHOW, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN), and John Goodman. The cast is hilarious and the film has won multiple awards on the film festival circuit. ALL-STARS is now available on VOD, iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play, and all digital platforms.