Reggie Bannister

Infobox actor
caption =
birthname = Reginald Horace Bannister
birthdate = Birth date and age|mf=yes|1945|9|29|mf=y
birthplace = Long Beach, California
deathdate =
othername = Regman
occupation = Film actor
spouse = Gigi Porter
website = http://www.reggiebannister.com/

Reginald Horace "Reggie" Bannister [According to the State of California. "California Birth Index, 1905-1995". Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com] (born September 29, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and director most known for his role as Reggie, a balding ex-ice cream man, in director Don Coscarelli's "Phantasm" series. He currently resides in Crestline California where he lives with his wife Gigi "Fast Elk" Porter. He is still active in film-making and music.

Bannister is known for his "four way shotgun" (also known as a "streetsweeper", because of the wide dispersal pattern of shot) weapon used in the "Phantasm" series in which he starred alongside A. Michael Baldwin and Angus Scrimm. He also composed some of the music for the "Phantasm" series, for example the song "Have You Seen it" used in Phantasm IV. Bannister has appeared with Jim O'Rear in Wolfsbayne and [http://www.itcamefromtrafalgar.com It Came From Trafalgar] .

Filmography

* "Walking Distance" (2009) - Webber
* "Song of the Dead' ( [2008] )
* "It Came From Trafalgar" (2007)
* "Wolfsbayne" (2006)
* "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X" (2005) (filming) - King Clayton
* "The Rage" (2007) (post-production) - Uncle Ben
* "Cemetery Gates" (2004) (post-production) - Belmont
* "Bubba Ho-Tep" (2002) - Care Home Administrator
* "Up Against Amanda" (2000) - Lead Guitar Ted
* "" (1998) - Reggie
* "Wishmaster" (1997) - Pharmacist
* "" (1994) - Reggie
* "That Little Monster" (1994) - Twelvetrees
* "" (1990) - Eli
* "Survival Quest" (1989) - Pilot
* "Phantasm II" (1988) - Reggie
* "Phantasm" (1979) - Reggie
* "Jim the World's Greatest" (1976) - O.D. Silengsly
* "Kenny & Company" (1976) - Donovan

Other work

* "Making of 'Bubba Ho-tep'" (2004)

References

External links

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* [http://www.reggiebannister.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/reggiebannister Myspace Page]
* [http://www.phantasmarchives.net/int_reg.html The Phantasm Archives] Unpublished Interview from 1992