Ross Marshall's Memory Lane!

                                       1965                   1969                   1972                    2002

A Real 'Song Of the South' Southern Boy: A 69'Apollo Boy; A 72' Jar Head!  Now a Bauld Head!

    My name is ROSS MARSHALL and I am an Actor, Writer, Artists, Animator-Cartoonist. I was born and raised in a little town in Texas called Bridge City. A little "po-dunk town" of red-necks and oil refineries: A real nice place for a born artist to grow up in.

My brother and I were born clowns! And we loved imitating TV personalities! When I was 8 years old The parents took a Vacation to California and other States. In Hollywood, we went to the sights along Hollywood Blvd., and this is where I met Franky! he really impressed me and from that point on I wanted to go live in Hollywood and work for DISNEY as a cartoonist.

   I began drawing in school in the art contests and found I was real good at it. My Mom and Dad were very supportive about my interests, yet Dad warned me about the art field - "Ya' can't make a very good living! Try Auto Mechanics! But he let me have my artistic way! After all, they clowned around in theatre and local plays themselves!

Here's Mommy, Isn't she a Sweet-Cake? And Pops! Mom always wanted to be an Actress and did a lot of stuff as a young pretty girl; traveling to New York and all the other major Cities, in her High School Theatre class. Here they are later in a play in Saudia Arabia!

Anyway, when I turned 19, I left for California to work in the animation studios. After some major strife with the Folks, they let me go and I packed my 1948 Plymouth and left Texas for California!  I arrived in L.A. in 1974 and went to work for Hanna Barbara Studios. Here I am ready to leave Texas... Here i am driving down Hollywood Blvd.

 I worked on Dino Mutt, Jabber Jaws and other low budget Saturday Morning cartoons and moved around a lot to the many studios about Hollywood.

Here I am as a 19 year old Cute Hunk working at the Studio. Later, after a few years and many studios, I met Chuck Harvey, an Ex-Disney Animator and work under him for a year.  He really taught me a lot and I will always remember him!  If there ever was a FACIAL EXPRESSION to be had, he could do it! I learned even more on how to be a CLOWN! I worked in the field for 20 years on many shows such as AMERICAN TAIL, and SWAN PRINCESS, etc...and finally decided to give up animation - since it was being sold over in contracts to foreign countries.

Me and MOM at the Screening of SWAN PRINCESS!

Anyway, his left us all unemployed! So I dropped out and picked up LIVE ACTION as an actor! I met Daryl Carstensen at Don Bluth's Studio on AMERICA TAIL, and became good friends with him. He loved MOVIES and Live Action and told me he loved shooting films. I was intrigued and said, that with all the animation going over seas, we should start a Live Action Studio,.... and so we did!

For the years since I arrived in L.A., I attended 4 Colleges: CALIFORNIA INSSTITUTE OF THE ARTS and the Disney Animation Program, MASTER"S COLLEGE, COLLEGE OF THE CAANYONS, Valencia and CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE; and earned 298 Credit units in art, science, history and writing. I obtained an Associates degree and decided I had had enough of Scholasticism.

 During this period Daryl and I Incorporated in 1994 as PLUTONIUM FILMS PRODUCTIONS, INC., and began our quest of shooting Live Action Movies. I had all the school knowledge and training I needed to be his best Film Maker Partner!

DARYL CARSTENSEN, President of Plutonium Films, Inc.

   Hollywood was great! I loved the lime-light and the celebrities. I even met the Queen of England and got her autograph!

   So, the first thing Daryland I did was write up some scripts to shoot. Some real low budget film titles: DE-LIVER-ME, UN-NATURAL BORN KILLER, ZOMBIE GANGBANGERS,etc. SEE: http://www.weirdvideos.com/horror.html

In our shows we hired such great beauty Queens as Stephanie Beaton and Kit Natividad.

Stephanie Beaton and I played the lead rolls in UN-NATURAL BORN KILLER ...

a real out-ragous Gore film! The ravings from the fans across the country attest to the horribleness of the show.

    Kit was a great lady to work with. We hired her to play the Bar Owner, Lady of the House and Stripper! She was great and a BIG Star too. Big in more ways than just acting! Look at the size of her! A real Russ Myer Beauty Queen!

KITTEN in her Younger Years............Kitten in Later years in ZOMBIE BANGBANGERS.

   Presently, we are now working on more films: THE THING FROM MARS, TRIUMPH OF THE GODS, and a few others. I am still acting, writing, drawing, storyboarding, and creating Special Effects for our films!

    I also am a musician and play what is called a THEREMIN.

SEE ME AND MY THEREMIN AT: http://www.weirdvideos.com/music.html

Besides playing the Theremin, I also collect, repair and sell Philco Televisions! http://www.weirdvideos.com/PHILCO1.html