Rodney Dangerfield, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg and of course, Abe Vigoda...
SOME OF HARRY BASIL’S MOVIES
TV Shows
HBO’S 9th annual Young Comedians special (Hosted By Rodney Dangerfield), Rodney Dangerfield’s HBO Special "The Really Big Show", Evening At The Improv, Comedy Central.
Films
"Peggy Sue Got Married", "Ladybugs", "The Seventh Sign", "Meet Wally Sparks" (Also wrote screenplay) "The 4th Tenor" (writer/director) "Back By Midnight" (writer/director) "Funky Monkey" (director) "Cloud 9" (director) "Soul’s Midnight" (director) "Fingerprints" (director) "Urban Decay" (director) "Funny Money" (writer/producer)
HARRY BASIL's Interests
General
MOVIES
Music
Bruce (The boss), John Williams
Movies
"The Godfather 1&2", "Jaws","The Searchers", "The In Laws" (original), "Nutty Professor", "The Shining". "Caddyshack", "Goodfellas", "North By Northwest", "The Producers", "Young Frankenstein", "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", "Back To The Future". "The Graduate", "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid", "The Russians are comming The Russians are Coming", "Die Hard", "The Great Escape", "Raiders Of The Lost Ark", "Casino Royale" "The Pink Panther", "The Party", "Any John Wayne Movie"
Television
Curb, Ali G, Extras, Entourage, anything on HBO
Books
"Green Eggs and Ham". (Got through half of it)
Heroes
Rodney Dangerfield
HARRY BASIL's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
BERGENFIELD NEW JERSEY
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Children:
Proud parent
Occupation:
Comedian/Writer/Director
HARRY BASIL's Schools
Bergenfield High
Bergenfield,New Jersey
Graduated: 1979
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Drama, Filmmaking
About me: HARRY BASIL “lives the movies”. He’s a human movie trailer, taking his audience on a wild romp through current and classic MOVIES with a trunk of outrageous props that could fill a sound stage. Harry moved out to Hollywood from New Jersey and created his comedy act at the world famous Comedy Store, where he was spotted and hand picked by Rodney Dangerfield for the "9th Annual HBO Young Comedian’s special". A close friendship developed between Harry and Rodney and Harry became Rodney’s exclusive opening act for 17 years. His love for the movies really paid off when he co-wrote and co-produced three of Rodney’s movies. ”Ladybugs” for Paramount, "Meet Wally Sparks” for Trimark, and “My Five Wives” co-starring Andrew Dice Clay and Molly Shannon, for Artisan .
The Movie Guy part 1 The Movie Guy Part 2
In 2001 he made his feature directing debut with "The 4th Tenor", a romantic opera comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield released by Warner Bros. He followed that in 2002 with "Back by Midnight", a prison comedy starring Randy Quaid, Kirstie Alley, Harland Williams, Dangerfield, and a whole cast of colorful comedians.
In 2003 Warner Brothers hired Harry to write and direct the family comedy “Funky Monkey”, with Matthew Modine, Jeffery Tambor, Gilbert Gottfried and a Chimpanzee skilled in karate. Harry then directed “CLOUD 9” a sexy beach volley ball comedy written and produced by Al Ruddy, Oscar winning producer of the Godfather and Million Dollar Baby. The film stars, Burt Reynolds, D.L. Hugley and Gabrielle Reese. Harry is also Executive producer and co-writer of “Funny Money” a wild farce starring Chevy Chase, Penelope Anne Miller, Armand Assante, Chris Mc Donald and Robert Loggia. The film made it’s world premiere at the 2006 “Aspen Comedy Arts Festival”.
Harry has since made the jump into the horror genre, directing the teen supernatural thriller, “Fingerprints” produced by Brother’s Cleveland and Oscar winning producer Gray Frederickson, (“Godfather 2”, “Apocalypse Now") The film stars Leah Pipes, (The CW's "Life is Wild") Kristen Cavalari (MTV's Laguna Beach) Josh Henderson (Desperate Housewives) Andrew Lawrence, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Sally Kirkland. The film generated great buzz, recently winning Best Feature at The New York City Horror Film Festival.
Since moving to Hollywood Harry has appeared in several films and television shows. He landed a feature role in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Peggy Sue Got Married” starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage and Jim Carrey.
He also appeared opposite Demi More in the sci-fi cult film, “The Seventh Sign”, and wrote himself small parts in “Ladybugs”, “Meet Wally Sparks” and "Funny Money". Harry has appeared on Evening at the Improv, HBO, Showtime and Comedy Central. He has appeared at The Aspen Comedy Festival and received standing ovations at his two appearences closing the show at "The Montreal Comedy Festival".
The Factory loves you Harry... not just because you are our featured comedian or because you will be here tonight and tomorrow and HALLOWEENIE too (Oct 30 and 31) in Long Beach!
Great chatting the other night at the LBC. Im back to Europe September 21st and I'll be there until the end of the year. Please contact me when you arrive in London.
Once again I'll be on the radio/internet co hosting the Johnny Brooklyn Show on Thursday, August 17th from 3PM - 5:30 PM west coast time playing the good stuff and being my usual self, so tune in! KPOO 89.5 FM outta San Francisco and at www.kpoo.com. The fun never ends in the world o' Pearl!
I must've done something right because I'll be back on the radio co hosting the Johnny Brooklyn Show outta San Francisco on KPOO, 89.5 FM and at www.kpoo.com on Thursday, July 16th at 3PM - 5:30 PM west coast time (6PM - 8:30PM east coast time) so listen in! I'll be playing lots of old timey Blues, R&B (the cool greasy 50s kind, not the sterile overproduced Whitney Houston kind), Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, Be Bop and all kinds of the good stuff and I'll be my usual irrepressable self, so call the censors and tune in!
Hey HARRY BASIL!! We are so stoked for you to see the music video for our song "What I Do". So here it is! Please let us know what you think, and if you dig it you should help us blow it up by watching it as often as you can and telling everyone you know about it. Thanks so much -Mark, Jarrod, Rich, TJ
