Damon Packard
- Editor
- Director
- Cinematographer
The name which could have been synonymous with Steven Spielberg.
Perhaps in a parallel dimension, but as things would turn out, not this
one. Packard grew up in a rural district of Akron. His father Ray
Packard was a professor of fine arts and highly regarded
artist/collector/gallery-owner of Akron. The Packard Gallery on W.
Exchange St was a well known staple in the 60s & 70s, with its statue
of Minerva and three Packard automobiles parked in front, art
collectors and other notable clientele (which included Orson Welles)
had frequented the place. Packard's mother Francis was a stage and
commercial actress of Akron whose career was cut short by her passing
from a strange illness in 1968. It can be noted that she had almost
married the actor Kier Dullea a few years earlier. Packard spent his
later early years growing up in Chatsworth, California and began making
experimental films in 1979 at the age of 11, the first of which were a
series of animated and stop motion shorts, some made for school credit.
In the early 80s Packard embarked on a series of ambitious productions
(Amazing Stories, The Afterlife, Werewolf Hunters, etc) the prior
mentioned preceded, but had no direct connection with the mid-80s
Spielberg TV series. He now resides in a small cheap rented room in
Eagle Rock, California, destitute, debased, and devoid of future
projects.