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Patrick Kilpatrick – As rugged as he is genteel, the six-foot two-inch 230-lb Patrick Kilpatrick has been one of the finest screen/television character actors of his generation, playing against a spectrum of Hollywood's leading action heroes in 120+ films and TV shows. In addition he has been a prolific media creator, screenwriter, producer and event organizer.
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Current films – starring in “Already Dead” with Christopher Plummer and Ron Elldard, and “Parasomnia” directed by House “On Haunted Hill” and “Fear.com” director Bill Malone, released in July 2010.
Most recently, Kilpatrick appeared as the Terminator on “Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles” and on the television series “Chuck”. He also wrapped, starred and produced “Never Surrender” – a film set in the world of ultimate fighting. In addition, he worked back to back to back guest star episodes of “Nip/Tuck”, “Cold Case”, “CSI: Miami” and “Chuck”. |
In a whirlwind year and a half, he did leads in five major studio films, two independents and 27 television guest star spots on 18 different shows. The pace continues to the present with appearances on “Boomtown”, “Las Vegas”, “Blind Justice,” “CSI-Las Vegas”, “24” as Secret Service Agent Dale Spaulding -- “the man who ‘killed’ Jack Bauer”, and hit shows “Criminal Minds” and James Wood’s “Shark”.
After nearly dying in a car crash as a teenager, Kilpatrick rehabilitated to largely doing his own stunts in three decades of films and TV projects.
Kilpatrick’s action film villain appearances span a multitude of genres and embrace an international Who's Who of leading men: Replacement Killers against Chow Yun Fat, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Caan in Eraser, Last Man Standing opposite Bruce Willis, Under Siege II opposite Segal, Presidio opposite Sean Connery and Mark Harmon, two award-winning and highly rated original cable westerns opposite Tom Selleck -- Last Stand at Saber River and Crossfire Trail, one western opposite Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw -- HBO's Premiere Films adaptation of Louis L'Amour's The Quick and the Dead, and the ever-popular action mainstay Death Warrant opposite Jean Claude Van Damme, as The Sandman. He has even done battle with the largest mammal on earth in Free Willy III.
The versatile Kilpatrick has played leads in everything from "American Playhouse" to a film debut in Nick Roeg's masterwork "Insignificance", to Shakespeare's "Anthony and Cleopatra" at Los Angeles Theater Center in the hands of Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson. His resume embraces recurring roles on such hit television shows as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "Tour of Duty" and “Dark Angel”, Stephen King's popular miniseries "The Stand", HBO's "ARLI$$" and many, many more. It was his work on James Cameron’s "Dark Angel" that led Spielberg to seek him out for the Tom Cruise sci-fi action thriller "Minority Report".
Moreover, Kilpatrick has directed/assistant directed off and on Broadway, the West End of London, and regional theatre, as well as created full spectrum media for glamour fashion icons such as Givenchy and Maud Frizon.
His broad media experience includes publicity, marketing and journalist/advertising creation for such key media titans as the New York Times, Interview, Time Inc. -- Sports Illustrated, People, Popular Photography, Cycle, Boating, Skiing, Modern Bride, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. He was a member of the small creative team responsible for re-launching Life Magazine. Kilpatrick was given assignment by Rolling Stone to journey to Kenya and cover the rape of dozens of female preparatory students by the adjoining boys’ preparatory school and served as South American correspondent for numerous New York magazines covering sports and the cocaine wars in Venezuela and Columbia. He has interviewed luminaries such as Ted Turner, Perry Ellis, Che Guevara’s sister Celia Guevara, Gregory Hines and American Ballet Theater principal and Broadway star Rebecca Wright as well as motocross champion Bruce Penhall.
Currently single, he is the father of two sons, Ben and Sam. His interests range from politics to fashion, veteran’s affairs to solar/wind energy application, gun ownership to Gandhi. He has traveled to Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan with the USO entertaining troops as part of the Henry Rollins/Patrick Kilpatrick South West Asia Tour and is active with the Coalition to Salute Americas’ Heroes, Wounded Warriors Project, Guide On.org, Gallant Few, California Wish Foundation, Brookes Army Medical Center (San Antonio, TX), Stars and Stripes Foundation, Quail Unlimited, Pheasants Unlimited, South Dakota’s Camp Gilbert for Juvenile Diabetes, California Paralyzed Veterans and numerous other charities. He has stated that the proudest accomplishment of his life was being selected to be Master of Ceremonies for the California Welcome Home Purple Heart Recipients Service at the Ronald Reagan Library. Patrick, trained as a shooter for acting by Navy Seals and the LAPD, is a member of the Sons of The American Revolution with ancestors dating from 1640's colonies. His father received the Silver Star at Okinawa as an Underwater Demolition Team member, the World War II precursor to the Navy Seals -- the inspiration for “Naked Warriors”. A lifetime member of the NRA, he has a strong devotion to sporting clays, hunting and fishing, linguistics and global ecological/media development. He is the host and organizer of the Hollywood Celebrity Sporting Clays Invitational shooting event, which debut October 9th, 2010. He has produced, directed and financed outdoor and wounded warrior programming for a wide variety of sponsors and military entities. He has been a two time speaker at Safari Club International (SCI), as a “Hunter in Hollywood” and is a Quail Unlimited Sponsor. Recently Kilpatrick completed certified training as a Child Grief Facilitator by the Arnold C. Yoder Foundation – an organization devoted to aiding children heal from the loss of a loved one. A “lifetime” athlete and performer – baseball, football, basketball, rugby, swimming, equestrian cross country and stadium jumping, fencing, scuba certification, motorcycling and martial arts – he has been known to utilize dialects while acting and has been a gastronome and advocate of organic, elegant food and beverage for many decades.
Kilpatrick has lent his distinctive voice and style to such notable voice-over work as the Olympic IMAX Movie and the global eco sporting event Sailplane Grand Prix.
Kilpatrick is president and CEO of Uncommon Dialogue Films, Inc. (UDF) – a full service event and media production/development company. He travels the world producing, organizing and consulting/educating on film, acting, directing, distribution, media and ecological/outdoor sporting event production and has been a guest lecturer at Hampton Sydney College (Virginia), Edinboro University (Pennsylvania) and the University of The Pacific (Fiji).
The Patrick Kilpatrick Entertainment Seminars which he personally offers to secondary institutions, universities and professional actors emphasizes tools for becoming: first a working professional in acting, entertainment writing and producing then onward to becoming a powerhouse within the entertainment industry.
UDF has a dynamic slate of international, cost conscious movies, TV, media and events in advanced development, pre-production and production. For more on individual productions and partner/investment opportunities contact UDF directly. UDF and Kilpatrick pride themselves on making REVENUE FOR ALL INVESTORS while minimizing and safe guarding risk – even in the most challenging of economic climates.
UDF hosted the Entertainment Conservation Summit in northern California – first time assemblage of Hollywood heavyweights and representatives of global outdoor sports and ecological groups. The UDF series “Natural Laws” was presented there.
