Deke Anderson

Deke Anderson (born March 16, 1959, in

Prior to becoming an actor, Anderson was employed at a gym in Reno, Nevada. A co-worker by the name of Kane Hodder encouraged him to become a film actor. His earliest acting was as a singer with the Nevada Opera Guild.[1]

Anderson runs Next Level Acting Studios which is located in The Woodlands, Texas.^[2] In 2001, Anderson was voted the no.1 acting coach in LA.^[3]

One of his earliest film roles was the 1990 film White Fury in which he had the lead role.^[4]

Career

1980s

His earliest role was in the 1984 beach comedy Hardbodies, appearing as a bodybuilder.

He had a supporting role in A Cry in the Wild, which starred Jared Rushton, Ned Beatty and Pamela Sue Martin. The film was a made for television adaptation of Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, a story about a 13-year-old boy learning to survive in the wilderness.[16]^[17] Anderson had a supporting role in the "Deep in the Heart of Dixie" episode of

In 1994, he appeared in another David A. Prior directed film Felony, in a supporting role playing the part of Dennis. Jeffrey Combs, Ashley Laurence, Charles Napier, Lance Henriksen and Joe Don Baker also starred in the film.^[23]

He co-starred alongside Joe Estevez in the William Burke directed Psychic Detectives which was released in 1996.^[24]

2000s

Anderson had a voice acting role in the 2016 film,

He played the part of 4 Star General Caven in The Green Lantern which was released in 2011.[25]^[26]

By 2008, Anderson and his wife had opened their second studio, which was Woodlands branch of Next Level Acting Studios.^[27] One of the students to come out of the studio was an Australian called Jake Staines. Stains, a local businessman competed for and was chosen over 200 other actors to land a featured role in a Ford-150 truck commercial which played during the Super Bowl.^[28]

In the 2010 anime anthology film, Halo Legends, he voices as Spartan 1337 in the segment, "Odd One Out".

He appeared as Paul Robinson in "Identity Crisis", an episode of The Resident that aired in February 2018.^[29][30]

In the 2017 series Dreamsville, Anderson played Chief Brian Johnson, an honest Houston cop who is involved in the "war on drugs".^[31][32]

Partial filmography

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