CRAIG CAMPOBASSO was born in Sun Valley, California on October 5, 1959. Just out of high school, while attending acting school, he found himself working behind-the-scenes under writer/director David Lynchs’ and producer Raffaella De Laurentiis’ tutelage on Dune. Craig learned from the master storytellers, working on the entire production for 4 years. He also worked on Conan: The Destroyer at the same time as Dune, both films for Universal Pictures and shot at Estudios Churabusco in Mexico City. Raffaella gave Craig his start in the business, and later as a casting director, after he apprenticed as a Casting Associate on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. With close to 50 films under his casting belt (Click here for IMDB Link: Craig Campobasso ) including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (additional casting) and Redline, Craig was also nominated for an Emmy for casting David E. Kelly’s Picket Fences.
Craig and his casting partner Joy Todd have just completed casting My Life Untitled starring Jesse Johnson (Redline) and Rachel Hunter. The film is shooting in Miami.
They have also just finished casting Pizza With Bullets starring Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) and Talia Shire (The Godfather and Rocky movies.)
They are currently casting Hot Men, the Bennie Goodman and Gene Krupa Story; Magic Man, a thriller starring Billy Zane, Robert Davi & Bai Ling; Zoyatchka, a drama.
Badland starring Jamie Draven and Vinessa Shaw is coming to DVD soon.
Forget About It starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Robert Loggia, Charles Durning and Phyllis Dillers is now on DVD. BUY IT and Craig's other DVDs by clicking on MY PROJECTS ON DVD below.
Craig has also been an acting coach for 25 years.
Between casting projects over the past 21 years, Craig wrote his graphic book Autobiography of an ExtraTerrestrial: The StarSeed Journals based on his personal experiences with spiritually advanced extraterrestrials. He worked with one artist for 2 years, and another for months--to create 80 color pieces of artwork of the extraterrestrials, inside and outside their spaceships, and landscapes of their home worlds.
Craig has also written the screenplay to the highly popular book Stranger at the Pentagon by Dr. Frank E. Stranges. It’s a real life The Day the Earth Stood Still.
What’s next on the horizon for the busy Campobasso? “Directing movies,“ he says with great passion. “To tell stories from my vast otherworldly experiences will greatly enrich lives. I can’t wait to visually translate all that’s in my mind’s eye to the big screen.”
In October 2004, Craig became a “Knight of Honour” by the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Justice in London, an organization that dates back to the Knights of Round Table, for his great service to peace and the human cause in his endeavors to create harmony, fraternity, cultural understanding, tolerance and for promoting the great human virtues that are the hallmarks of civilization.
