About Me
Hello from Sandy Eggo!!
Hey, it's Doug. I'm introspective, impetuous, unswervingly ambivalent, quietly assertive, and I dance perfectly out of rhythm.
Originally from the Peyton Place of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, and reared in Baton Rouge, New Orleans (Metairie) and points west, I was a latch-key kid who grew up with a roaming mother and a pack of wild Doberman Pinschers. Today, aside from a mild intolerance toward poodles, I'm doing well.
After graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University in the latter part of the last century, armed with a severe case of daydreamer ADD and my mother's insatiable quest for adventure, I moved to Los Angeles (several times), New York City, Portland, Oregon, back to post-Katrina New Orleans again, South Beach, Central Florida, and now, San Diego.
trivia
* My uncle Al lived next door to Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in 1963, just before Oswald moved to Dallas. The day Kennedy was shot, before they'd taken anyone into custody, my uncle casually remarked to his co-workers, "I bet that Lee Harvey Oswald did it!"
* My maternal grandparents immigrated to the US from Peterborough, Ontario.
* My paternal grandfather moved to Hollywood from New Orleans in the silent picture days and worked as a plumber and later in the offices at Columbia Pictures, before returning to New Orleans during WWII.
* He used to get my grandmother and uncle (Al) work as extras on various films, including Frank Capra's Miracle Woman (1931), starring Barbara Stanwyck.
* He was a psychic and often had accurate premonitions about future events, and passed away when I was only 4.
* I unwittingly followed in his footsteps and moved to LA from New Orleans in the mid-80's, only to return again later.
* While in LA, I qualified for my SAG card by playing an orderly on General Hospital, which was taped at the time on the Columbia Pictures lot (now Sunset-Gower Studios) where my grandfather had once worked.
* I moved to Portland, Oregon from New Orleans in August 2005, arriving just 10 days before Hurricane Katrina hit!
* I've worked as a stand-in for various actors, including Martin Short (The Making of Me), George Burns (18 Again!), and Freddy Rodriguez (on the pilot episode of Six Feet Under and Dreamer). I've also worked countless days as a background player in LA, on TV and film projects including The New Leave it to Beaver, The Bradys, One Hour Photo, Providence, Cagney & Lacey, Moonlighting, The Naked Gun, The Running Man (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura), Cool As Ice (Vanilla's silver screen debut), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Life Goes On, Highway to Heaven, Sledge Hammer (directed by Bill Bixby), Newsies, and Back to the Future II. I finally landed my first big-budget speaking part as a racist in the 2005 Disney flick Glory Road, but the scene was cut from the final version. Probably for the best. I'm still in the closing credits, though!
* The first and only time I was fired during this illustrious career was on the set of Forrest Gump, after asking Tom Hanks to sign a picture for a friend. It was a really Forrest Gumpian moment...
* I was the waterboy in a high school soccer scene in a 1987 Disney TV-movie called Student Exchange; the highlight of the filming day was taking a group picture with our "coach" -- OJ Simpson.
