Russ Kingston

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Russ Kingston
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Alma mater UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
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Russ Kingston is an American film and television actor, editor, and cinematographer. [1]

Kingston is best known as an actor for such films as I Come with the Rain , Transmorphers: Fall of Man , Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus , Guillotine Guys , [2] Day of the Dead 2: Contagium , Dark Medicine , Bomb It [3] and Guyver: Dark Hero . [4]

Kingston is an editor and cinematographer having worked on Elliott Hong's 1973 documentary Tears of Buddha , [5] Timothy Carey's Tweet's Ladies of Pasadena , Blue Sunshine , Andrew Davis' Code of Silence , Michael Mann's Band of the Hand , [4] Tommy Lee Wallace's Aloha Summer , [1] Future Zone starring David Carradine, [4] Wishman , Guyver: Dark Hero and The Lord Protector: The Riddle of the Chosen starring Patrick Cassidy, Olivia Hussey and Charlton Heston. [1]

Kingston has acted on television series such as Aftermath with William Shatner , America's Most Wanted , General Hospital , Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , Mystery ER and Call 911 .

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