Scott McGinnis(I)
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Scott McGinnis has over twenty-five years experience in the
Entertainment industry with dozens of credits to his name. He began his
career as an actor, performing in Network TV Series and theatrical
films co-starring with Actors Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, James woods and
Paul Reiser (McGinnis is best known by Star Trek fans as Mr. Adventure
in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He then moved into directing,
with his first Feature Film starring academy award nominee Virginia
Madsen at The Roger Corman Studio where the careers of Francis Ford
Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter
Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, James Cameron, John Sayles, Curtis Hanson and
Robert Towne (to name a few) were started. His second feature film was
nominated for "Best Film (1995) International Fantasy Film Awards. He
was the co-creator of 360 Entertainment leading the development team
producing films with partner Robert Patrick for Paramount and Warner
Bros. home video. One of these productions led to a Saturn Award for
Best Home Video Release. He then directed over twenty-five episodes of
network television with Producers like, Joss Weadon (The Avengers)
Shawn Ryan, David Greenwalt (Grimm), John Landis and The Walt Disney
Company. He also produced and directed two reality TV pilots for MTV
and Turner Networks.
