- Has primarily written, produced and starred in foreign films shot in Bollywood, the Middle East or Asia.
- He and childhood friend, MyAnna Buring, both decided to become professional actors after watching a stage performance in Stockholm, Sweden in 1992 and have remained friends since.
- He was raised in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as a result of the position his scientist father held with the United States government.
- Was requested to provided testimony in a welfare fraud case against a former employee who was under investigation for their drug-dealing activities as a Hell's Angel's associate in North Bay, Canada and fled the country in 2003.
- Convinced Bollywood producers to cast Sunny Leone in her first mainstream role.
- Despite their relatively high budgets, many of his films have barely received theatrical releases. "Pirate's Blood" starred both Filipino and Bollywood superstars but received only a limited theatrical release.
- Inspired by the films of Fred Olen Ray, for whom he has expressed great admiration publicly.
- On film since age twelve, when he first appeared as an uncredited extra in the horror film "The Carrier" and worked with Bruce Campbell of the Evil Dead, who was employed in the film as a sound editor.
- Upon his return to the United States as a veteran of childhood street fights he became an adept wrestler and reached the state regional championships at age twelve.
- As a child overseas he was often in street fights with local children and frequently robbed. In Africa at the age of ten he was beaten by a grown man and his bicycle stolen.
- His birth name is German. He adapted the more American-sounding screen moniker on the advice of his first agent.
- Completing the horror film "Black Shama" in Cebu, Philippines. (March 2011)
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