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Credits & Achievements
  • Acting
  • Biography
  • Writing, Directing, and Producing
  • Teaching





Acting

Select Films
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (TV) .... Pap
  • Adventures of Nellie Bly, The (TV) .... Stanfil
  • Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The .... Wes Hardin
  • Beggarman, Thief (TV) .... Sagerac
  • California Gold Rush (TV)
  • Copacabana (TV) .... Angelo
  • Devil's 8, The .... Bubba
  • Fortune Cookie, The .... Purkey
  • For Which He Stands .... Javier Chavez
  • Front Page, The .... Officer Jacobi
  • Great Brain, The
  • Greatest Story Ever Told
  • Guardian of the Wilderness .... McCollough
  • Hangar 18 .... Sherif Barlow
  • Incident at Crestridge (TV)
  • In Search of a Golden Sky .... Trapper
  • Irma la Douce .... Police Sergeant
  • Joe Panther .... Rance
  • Kiss Me, Stupid .... Barney
  • Lone Star Bar & Grill
  • North Avenue Irregulars, The .... Big Chin, Food Stand Operator
  • Oklahoma Crude .... Massive Man
  • Sharks' Treasure .... Lobo

Select Television Appearances
  • "Bodies of Evidence" playing "Bruno Semple" in episode: "Time Served"
  • "Murder, She Wrote" playing "Kris Karas" in episode: "Szechuan Dragon, The"
  • "Bob Newhart Show, The" playing "Leonard DePaolo" in episode: "Heavyweights, The"
  • "Invisible Man, The" playing "Elevator Guard" in episode: "Barnard Wants Out"
  • "Emergency!" playing "Clyde" in episode: "Election"
  • "All in the Family" playing "Nick Howard" in episode: "Prisoner In The House"
  • "Gunsmoke" playing "Tom Macomb" in episode: "Pike: Part 2"
  • "Odd Couple, The" playing "Effraim" in episode: "Hideaway, The"
  • "Gunsmoke" playing "Daniel Sadler" in episode: "Roots of Fear"
  • "Land of the Giants" playing "Jolo" in episode: "Chamber of Fear"
  • "Ironside" playing "Freddie" in episode: "Trip to Hashbury"
  • "Batman" playing "Andante" in episode: "Wail of the Siren, The"
  • "Hogan's Heroes" playing "Marko" in episode: "Crittendon Plan, The"
  • "Wagon Train" in episode: "Alias Bill Hawks"
  • "Dakotas, The" in episode: "Thunder in Pleasant Valley"
  • "Twilight Zone, The" playing "Manuelo" in episode: "Gift, The"

See IMDb for complete credits list.



Biography

Cliff Osmond comes to the acting business from a variety of venues:

A member of Kappa Alpha Sigma Honorary Business Fraternity, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and Who’s Who in America. Mr. Osmond received his Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Datrmouth College, holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) from UCLA where he also advanced to candidacy for his Ph.D. in Theatre History.




Writing, Directing, and Producing

Mr. Osmond is a screenwriter as well. Since then, he has written scores of television episodes, movies and pilots, as well as several feature films and a novel. He was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for an episode of "Streets of San Francisco" and he collaborated on a screenplay ("Power Play," which starred Peter O'Toole) that won the Best Screenplay Award at the Canadian Film Festival.

He was hired as a staff story editor on an NBC series entitled "Sweepstakes." His duties there (in addition to writing several episodes himself) included developing additional story ideas for all episodes of the series.

He also wrote the film "The Penitent," which he directed, starring Raul Julia and Armand Assante.

He has also involved himself in the production side of the film business. He co-wrote and served as Creative Supervisor on a film entitled "Joe Panther," in charge of all post-production activities, including final editing.

He worked for Taft Pictures, a division of the Cincinnati-based media conglomerate, Taft Broadcasting, as producer-writer-director. During his two-year tenure there, the company produced two full-length feature films, "The Conspiracy to Kill the President," which Mr. Osmond co-wrote, and "The Boogens." He was also involved with two two-hour NBC television movies, "The Nashville Grab," and "The Return of Grizzly Adams." He acted as Associate Producer on all four of the above films.




Teaching

Concurrent with his other film careers, Mr. Osmond has conducted weekly scene-study classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco and around the country.

He has also lectured and conducted acting workshops at the U.S. Film and Video Festival in Park City, Utah, the Denver Film Festival, the University of Texas, University of Utah, St. Edwards University, Louisiana Tech University, University of Houston, Southern Methodist University, The Southwest Theatre Conference, Southwest Theatre Festival, Rocky Mountain Festival, Texas Educational Theatre Association and at private acting schools and seminars throughout almost all the fifty states.

By his estimate, he has taught over 20,000 students during the teaching phase of his career.


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