Also... the acting of Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Gene Hackman, and Mickey Rourke (in the early days). The philosophy of Thomas Paine, Emerson, and Thoreau. The writing of Charles Bukowski and Cormac McCarthy. The political street art of BANKSY. The documentary films of Errol Morris. The comedic genius of Ricky Gervais and John Cleese. (If you think Dane Cook is funny, we probably won’t get along.) The animation of Ralph Bakshi. The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. The photography of W. Eugene Smith, and my teachers: Lee Strasberg (through Douglas Dirkson), J.P. Guens, Brad Saunders, and Eric Sherman. Everything I’ve experienced in my entire life...
Directors
Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavetes, Martin Scorsese, Leni Riefenstahl, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Mann, Errol Morris, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Haneke, and The Coen Brothers.
Awards
Gold ADDY Award 2008. 3 Silver Telly Awards, and 1 Bronze Telly Award in 2008 for commercial directing.
Festivals
Sundance 2003- (acted in two short films)Tribeca Film Festival 2005-Co Producer "Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat, and Beers". (Click HERE to see Cam on imdb.com)
Professional Affiliations
Screen Actors Guild, (F)ind-Film Independent (IFP/WEST L.A.), International Documentary Association(IDA).
Cameron's Interests
General
Movies, photography, watching great actors do their thing, propaganda art and films, laughing until it's painful, experimental art of all kinds, political geek, Seattle Seahawks fan, weird dreams, mythology, Jungian Psychology, travel, all things ancient, home-brewing my own beer and ale, good coffee, the outdoors, reading, KCRW and National Public Radio. I love the art and paintings of Edward Gorey, Paul Laffoley, Pedro Kastro, Clive Barker, Fernando Apodaca, H.R. Giger, and Alex Grey. I'm really into cool quotes. Here are a couple of my favorites: "We will either find a way, or we will make one." -Hannibal "I will seize destiny by the throat!" -Beethoven "Fall Down seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese proverb. "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." -Charles Bukowski
Music
Tool (the thinking man's metal), Soundgarden, Nick Cave, Audioslave, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Beethoven, Jane's Addiction, Massive Attack, Wagner, Metallica, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Alice in Chains, Jose Gonzales, Led Zeppelin, The Police, Guster, Mad Season, DJ Shadow, Nirvana, Feist, The Cult, John Lennon, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam, Thievery Corporation, Wolfmother, Dead Can Dance, Slayer, The Cure, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Plastikman, Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter film scores.
Movies
Baraka, No Country For Old Men, Children of Men, Reservoir Dogs, Apocalypse Now, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blood Simple, Dreams, Raising Arizona, Alien, Aliens, Animal House, American Movie, Raging Bull, Unforgiven, The Thing, Pee Wees Big Adventure, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Holy Mountain, Anything with Peter Sellers, Bill Murray, or Bruce Campbell in it, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (hilarious!), Rocky (Only the first one!), The Natural, Waking Life, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, The Road Warrior, Pulp Fiction, The Deer Hunter, Three O'Clock High, The Straight Story, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cool Hand Luke, and Evil Dead 2.
Also, The Century of The Self, and The Power of Nightmares are two of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
If Will Smith, Keanu Reeves, or Adam Sandler is in it, chances are good that I won't watch it.
Napoleon Dynamite and The Boondock Saints are without a doubt... the most retarded movies ever made.
Television
Family Guy,The Office (BBC version), American Dad, Venture Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, In Treatment, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, The Twilight Zone, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Real Time with Bill Maher, and all things History Channel. I think Fox News is for inbred trailer dwellers. Reality TV shows disgust me.
Books
The Road (by Cormac McCarthy), Ham on Rye, Post Office, Man and His Symbols, No Beast So Fierce, The Killer Inside Me, Memories Dreams Reflections, The War of Art (not The Art of War), Jarhead, Siddhartha, Boleslavsky's "Acting", Emerson's "Self-Reliance" & "Civil Disobedience", The Politics of Self Determination, Prometheus Rising, Walden, Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom, 1984, The Doors of Perception. Greek & Arthurian myths, and all Nietzsche (What a total bad-ass!). Short stories by Roald Dahl and Barry Yourgrau are amazing, too.
Heroes
Charles Bukowski, Marlon Brando, Lee Strasberg, Bruce Lee* & Harrison Ford* (*childhood heroes), Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Bill Hicks, Keith Olbermann, Stephen Colbert, Timothy Leary, Wesley Clark, Cindy Sheehan, Pat Tillman (The guy quit the NFL to fight in Afghanistan AND to speak out against the war in Iraq. No wonder he had to go... ) Brock Samson(of course), Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther, Emerson, Thomas Paine, all the guys who signed the Declaration of Independence, Douglas Dirkson (my first acting teacher), the guys who fought World War Two, the people who fought against and protested Bush’s retarded and deceitful war in Iraq, my Mom, and my Grampa.
About me: (CLICK HERE TO GO TO CAMMCHARG.COM)
I'm Cam McHarg. Sometimes I go by my full name (Cameron), so either way is fine with me. I'm an actor turned writer-director who's here to share my commercial spots/movies, to meet great people who love movies, and to meet great people who want to work together. I want to have fun, try to hopefully make some kind of difference, and make a living doing it. This is what I love. I hate wearing ties. If I ever had to wear one to work, I'd consider myself a total failure. If I had to wear a tie and whore myself in some completely mundane, uninteresting, and soul-crushing job I'd probably end up hanging myself with it.
Here's a clip from my short film, "Kicking Sand in Your Face". It has just completed post-production, and it's on the way to film festivals soon! I will try to post a trailer and updates on my bulletin for you all so you can see it ASAP. Keep checking back! :) Here's a segment where Charles gets caught getting a humiliating beat-down on a hidden security camera...
(Here's a little movie I put together about when I was born, and what, if any, significance there was with me coming into the picture. It features stuff that was going on in pop culture and current events here in the U.S. at the time of my birth. The volume on the voiceover is pretty low, so you may have to crank it up a little. ) Enjoy!! :)
Here's a short dream sequence that I appeared in from, "Family Tree".
Here is a trailer for a film the I Co-Produced, "Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat, and Beers". Go check it out on Netflix!
Here's a goofy little comedy short that I made and acted in for fun when I was working my way through school at Warner Bros...
Here are a few little clips from an old acting reel of mine that I just found. The picture is tiny for some bizarro reason (I'm too impatient to try to fix it.), but I thought it was pretty amusing. Enjoy! :)
Here's the opening sequence that I made for the Merrill Davis Show on www.thestream.tv
Click on this button below to make your voice heard...
Make a difference, however you can. Click on the, "I'm Good." button...
Here's a short documentary that I made, "A Plain Pine Box". It's on Current TV. I'd love it if you would take just a second to hit this link and vote for me. Thanks!
Vote for Cam at CurrentTV.com
Who I'd like to meet: Smart, driven, fun, funny, open-minded, and creative people who want to make a difference and express themselves in a new and original way. I want to meet people who want to make things happen, and are more action than talk. I want to be around and work with people who care, and want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, not people who just want to make themselves bigger.
Thank you! Good advice! Btw, did you read the whole description?? "The making of this series was hindered by communist forces known as Lenin and The People". And it was! The first three takes had cats in frame lol!
Hello new friend! I found your 'Invisable Children' commercial disturbing,tragic and hard hitting. I hope it opens eyes all over the world. Well done ..I liked the direct and honest approach.
Dude, I forgot to tell you that I thought your short is freakin' awesome, well done. You are so talented! And on a side note...thanks for the sleestack, it made my night! ;)
Great commercial!! Remember me when you are rich and famous. Hell book me as an extra!! I'll be the guy plucking his nostril hairs fartin' off his ass walking around with his smelly feet smokin his bong pipe wishing upon a lucky start. You know pretty common shit.
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