Reggie Bannister Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Musician, Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Activist - Referred to as "The Hardest Working Man in Horror," Reggie Bannister is known world wide for his starring role as the intrepid ice cream vendor-turned hero in the action-horror series, Phantasm I-IV. His career spans over 40 years in television, film and entertainment with a background that ...
Gigi Fast Elk Porter (m. 2001), Gayle Bannister (m. 1988–1997), Susan Harper (m. 1982–1987)
Star Sign
Libra
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Trademark
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His role of Reggie in the Phantasm series
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His ponytail
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Quote
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[About making a fifth Phantasm movie]: Hopefully, we'll get to do one more before everybody croaks.
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I was drafted into the Army, went to Vietnam, got back, and I felt like I had been robbed of my life.
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This genre, horror...I've been fascinated with it ever since I was a little kid. And I've tried to figure it out. The people that I've known as fans are extremely bright, intelligent, creative... to call them strange, you'd have to be so locked into the "everyday mundane world" that you couldn't see outside it. These people aren't strange, they're different. And both on an intellectual level and on a social level, they're wonderful folks. I just love'em. Every time I go to anything, and they come up to me and talk to me, I go, jeez, this could be a friend. I like to intellectualize, I like to talk politics, I like to talk spiritualism, I like to talk about things that matter. And so do these people, and we just get along great.
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Possibly, the real key to what made "Phantasm" what it became was that there were a lot of people jamming ideas, what are we gonna do here, I don't know, let's construct something, let's make something. The old "mother of invention".
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I'd get burned out on music and I would turn to acting. I would get burned out on acting and I'd turn to music.
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I'm a product basically of the Sixties.
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"These movies tickle something dark in people's imaginations. They deal with death -- and that's the great unanswerable question." (on the appeal of the "Phantasm" films)
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Fact
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Moved to Crestline, California with wife, Gigi Bannister. [April 2003]
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Reggie's daughter is also an actress and vegetarian.
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He greatly admires Laurence Olivier and considers him one of the greatest actors ever, if not the best.
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His favorite music albums are "Eagles Live", "Best of CSN", and "Best of Jimmy Hendrix".
He enjoys pictures that are psychologically frustrating for the observer, such as Repulsion (1965), Angel Heart (1987), Fight Club (1999) and Memento (2000).
He plays basketball, does weight training, push ups and sit ups in a daily basis to be on good shape when he plays a role in a movie.
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The strangest place where he has had autograph was on a woman's breast and another on a man's arm, who then tattooed the signature. There are several fans who inked his face in a tattoo. To date, he has never turned away an autograph or photo request.
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Called the "hardest working man in horror," he is a fan favorite of horror conventions. He started going to conventions after feeling that Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) (when going direct to video) needed more promoting. The release of the movie was delayed for almost a year and, after a very limited theatrical release, it went direct to video.
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He met the late "George "Buck' Flower' in the set of Wishmaster (1997) and they both became good friends until George passed away in 2004. As a homage, Reggie based his performance as "Gus" in The Final Curtain (2007) (aka Acts of Death) upon him. In Wishmaster (1997), George once asked his wife, 'Gigi Fast Elk Porter' if he had a sense of humor. George then inserted the line "Bald headed baboon" for the shock value. It worked.
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For most of his life, was an occasional smoker. He didn't smoke at the time of filming Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990), and had to play a character who was smoking constantly. He tried to convince director Brian Yuzna about his character to switch from cigarettes to eating sunflower seeds, but Yuzna didn't agree. He no longer smokes unless for a character.
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He currently runs a production company called "Production Magic Inc" with his wife 'Gigi Bannister'.
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Following the filming of Phantasm (1979), his day job was as flower delivery for a The Sunnyside Mortuary & Cemetery during two years. The same place some scenes of Phantasm were shot.
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He has appeared on every Don Coscarelli movie up to date except for The Beastmaster (1982) and _"Masters of Horror" Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (2005)_.
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He and his current wife, 'Gigi Bannister,' are both vegetarians.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bonejangles
2016
completed
Edgar Sr.
The Obsidian Curse
2016
completed
Professor Reginald M. Sydow
Phantasm: Ravager
2016
Reggie
The Intruders
2015/II
Short
Narrator
Doctor Spine
2015
Patch Castle
Twiztid: Boogieman
2015
Video short
The Puppetmaster
Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami
2013
Dr. Jeff Taylor
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp
2012
Father Richard Cummings
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
2012
King Clayton
Zombie Family
2012
TV Series
Policeman
One for the Road
2011/I
Short
Herb Tooklander
Primitive
2011
Dr. William Stein
Abolition
2011
Matthew
Transformers Prime
2011
TV Series
Guard
Red & Blue Marbles
2011
Vagrant
Not Another B Movie
2010
Mad Umpire
Sawblade
2010
Malcom
Carnies
2010
Video
Detective Conrad Ellison
Satan Hates You
2010
Mickey
The Quiet Ones
2010
Mr. Martino
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Victor
Psychic Experiment
2010
Joseph Webber
It Came from Trafalgar
2009
Mervin Mudd
Metal Man
2008
Video
Dr. Arthur Blake
Text
2008
Reggie
Spring Break Massacre
2008
Video
Sheriff Jacob Yates
Sigma Die!
2007
Chief Moorhouse
Revamped
2007
Video
Luther
The Rage
2007
Uncle Ben
The Final Curtain
2007
Gus
Interstate
2007
Police officer
Necronaut
2007
Dr. Reed
Fallen Angels
2006
Radar
Last Rites
2006
Video
Mitchell
Cemetery Gates
2006
Belmont
Dead Things
2005
Video
Mr. Levin (Segments "Prologue" / "The Wish")
The Mangler Reborn
2005
Video
Rick
Journeyman
2005
McFearson
Song of the Dead
2005
President of United States
Aconite
2005
Oliver
Bubba Ho-Tep
2002
Rest Home Administrator
Up Against Amanda
2000
Lead Guitar Ted
Phantasm IV: Oblivion
1998
Reggie
Wishmaster
1997
Pharmacist (as Reggie Banister)
Drop Off
1997
Eric's Father
The Demolitionist
1995
Warden Thomas
That Little Monster
1994
Twelvetrees
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
1994
Reggie
Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
1990
Video
Eli
L.A. Law
1988
TV Series
Jury Foreman
Survival Quest
1988
Pilot
Phantasm II
1988
Reggie
Phantasm
1979
Reggie
Kenny & Company
1976
Mr. Donovan
Jim, the World's Greatest
1976
O.D. Silengsly
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Phantasm: Ravager
2016
composer: additional music
Schrödinger's Cat II
2016
Short music coordinator
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp
2012
musician
One for the Road
2011/I
Short musician
The Quiet Ones
2010
musician
Text
2008
composer: additional music
Stop It, You're Killing Me
2000
composer: additional music / musician
Kenny & Company
1976
music associate
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Phantasm: Ravager
2016
co-producer
Schrödinger's Cat II
2016
Short producer
The Intruders
2015/II
Short producer
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp
2012
producer
One for the Road
2011/I
Short producer
Carnies
2010
Video associate producer
The Quiet Ones
2010
associate producer
Sigma Die!
2007
associate producer
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Schrödinger's Cat II
2016
Short first assistant director
Carnies
2010
Video assistant director
The Quiet Ones
2010
assistant director
Sigma Die!
2007
assistant director
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
2012
performer: "What's Up With Johnny?", "Here We Go!"
Phantasm IV: Oblivion
1998
lyrics: "Have You Seen It?" / performer: "Have You Seen It?" - as Reggie B
$850,000
