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== Early life ==
== Early life ==


Tait attended [[Bishop Alemany High School]], in [[Los Angeles, California]], where he played on the [[high school]]'s [[basketball]] team.<ref name=LATimes>{{Cite news|title=4 Alemany High Players Kicked Off Team | author=Fletcher, Jeff | date=December 8, 1992 | newspaper= [[Los Angeles Times]] | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-08/sports/sp-1692_1_alemany-high-players | accessdate=2012-5-13}}</ref><ref name=LATimes2 />
Tait attended [[Bishop Alemany High School]], in [[Los Angeles, California]], where he played on the [[high school]]'s [[basketball]] team.<ref name=LATimes>{{Cite news|title=4 Alemany High Players Kicked Off Team | author=Fletcher, Jeff | date=December 8, 1992 | newspaper= [[Los Angeles Times]] | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-08/sports/sp-1692_1_alemany-high-players | accessdate=2012-5-13}}</ref><ref name=LATimes2 /> Tait was suspended for a game as a junior in Janaury 1992 for fighting and sat out one game the next year as a senior because of his behavior at a girls basketball game.<ref>{{cite news|author=Elling, Steve|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|title=Notre Dame's Trying Times on the Court Spare No One |date=February 2, 1992| url= http://articles.latimes.com/1992-02-02/sports/sp-1838_1_notre-dame-high/2 | accessdate=2012-5-22}}</ref><ref name=LATimes /><ref name=LATimes2>{{cite news|title=Thousand Oaks Tournament: Foster Twins, Thousand Oaks Dismantle Oxnard, 89-36 | author=Fletcher, Jeff | date=December 11, 1992 | newspaper= Los Angeles Times | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-11/sports/sp-1867_1_thousand-oaks | accessdate=2012-5-13}}</ref> Tait missed most of his [[sophomore]] season (1990-1991) because, among other injuries that season, he "broke both wrists by punching a brick wall during a shoot-around practice" in December 1990.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=December 19, 1990 | title=Agoura Needs Points From Other Sources |authors=Leech, Paige A., Brian Murphy and Jeff Riley|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-19/sports/sp-6136_1_agoura-high |accessdate=2012-5-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-04/sports/sp-130_1_point-guard |date=December 4, 1991| title=Southern Section Basketball Preview: Mission Leage: Alemany |newspaper=Los Angeles Times | accessdate=2012-9-30}}</ref>


==Entertainment career==
==Entertainment career==

Revision as of 05:20, 12 October 2012

For other people named Douglas Tait, see Douglas Tait (disambiguation).
Douglas Tait
Born
Douglas Tait
Occupation(s)Film actor
Television actor
Independent filmmaker
Stuntman
WebsiteOfficial website


Douglas Tait is an American actor, stuntman, independent filmmaker, and former high school basketball player.[1] Tait has played “monster” and creature characters in several films, including Star Trek, Zathura: A Space Adventure, Thor, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Land of the Lost.[2][3]

Early life

Tait attended Bishop Alemany High School, in Los Angeles, California, where he played on the high school's basketball team.[4][5] Tait was suspended for a game as a junior in Janaury 1992 for fighting and sat out one game the next year as a senior because of his behavior at a girls basketball game.[6][4][5] Tait missed most of his sophomore season (1990-1991) because, among other injuries that season, he "broke both wrists by punching a brick wall during a shoot-around practice" in December 1990.[7][8]

Entertainment career

Early work

According to Tait, he was subsequently cast as a teen basketball player in television commercials because of of his high school basketball experience.[3]

Creature character roles

Tait's first performance role came during high school when he was hired to perform as "Frankenstein" in the live stage shows at Universal Studios Hollywood.[3]

He went on to play creature characters in film. He was one of three individuals to play the role of a "Zorgon" in Jon Favreau’s Zathura.[9] He played the role of "Abominog" in The Knights of Badassdom and a "Frost Giant" in Thor.[10] He appeared as "Head Sleestak" in Land of the Lost[2]

He also played "Long Face Bar Alien" in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek.[11] Makeup artist Barney Burman who, along with Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, won the 2009 Academy Award for best makeup for their work in Star Trek noted that the work Burman did on Tait's character, Long Face Bar Alien, was especially complex.[12][11] As Burman noted: "I made this big, long face for him, and what I didn't really consider was just how much heavier silicone is than foam latex. He was one of our first aliens, so fighting gravity on him taught me a lot about how to approach the makeup thereafter."[11]

In 2009, Tait was a member of the stunt ensemble for the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category of "Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture".[13]

Independent film work

Tait was executive producer, along with Isabel Cueva, of "In The Name of Freedom", a 16-minute short film that appeared at the 14th Annual LA Shorts Fest in 2010.[14][15] It was an Official Selection of the New York International Latino Film Festival, won in the category of "Best Drama Short" at the 2010 Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival, and won the "Best Fiction Short" category at the 2010 CINE Film and Video Competition.[16][17][18]

He starred alongside Sally Kirkland and Tony Todd in, and was also producer of, the independent film One by One: Death's Door which, as re-titled Jack The Reaper, was picked up for distribution by American World Pictures.[19][20][21][22]

Tait also starred in the 2008 independent film, The Season. which was screened at the 2011 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The film was also screened at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Screamfest Horror Film Festival, ShockerFest International Film Festival and Shriekfest, among others. [23][24][25]

References

  1. ^ Garrett, Tommy Lightfoot (October 28, 2011). "Douglas Tait's Happy Halloween To You, An Exclusive". Highlight Hollywood. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ a b "Movies & TV: Douglas Tait: About This Person". New York Times website. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  3. ^ a b c "Behind The Mask with Douglas Tait". Inkless Magazine. February 9, 2011. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ a b Fletcher, Jeff (December 8, 1992). "4 Alemany High Players Kicked Off Team". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-5-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. ^ a b Fletcher, Jeff (December 11, 1992). "Thousand Oaks Tournament: Foster Twins, Thousand Oaks Dismantle Oxnard, 89-36". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-5-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. ^ Elling, Steve (February 2, 1992). "Notre Dame's Trying Times on the Court Spare No One". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-5-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. ^ "Agoura Needs Points From Other Sources". Los Angeles Times. December 19, 1990. Retrieved 2012-5-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Southern Section Basketball Preview: Mission Leage: Alemany". Los Angeles Times. December 4, 1991. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ "Zathura (2005) - Cast & Crew". Yahoo Movies. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ Coratelli, Carlo (March 19, 2011). "Movie Comics: Intervista a Douglas Tait - Thor". Comicus. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. ^ a b c Gaita, Paul (February 26, 2010). "The Contender Q & A: 'Star Trek's' Barney Burman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-10-2. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  12. ^ "Nominees & Winners for the 82nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2012-10-2. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  13. ^ "The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild. Retrieved 2012-5-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  14. ^ "In the Name of Freedom: Isabel Cueva". LatinoLA. LatinoCities, Inc. August 10, 2011. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. ^ LA Shorts Fest. LA Shorts Fest 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  16. ^ IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM HBO's New York International Latino Film Festival. 2010 Retrieved March 15, 2012
  17. ^ Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  18. ^ Fall 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Award Recipients Cine 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2012
  19. ^ "AFM 2010: Knock Knock! American World Pictures Scores One by One: Death's Door". Dread Central. November 8, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2012. {{cite news}}: |first= missing |last= (help); Check |first= value (help)
  20. ^ Powers, Tom (November 11, 2010). "American World Picks Up 'One By One'". Cinefantastique. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  21. ^ Gingold, Michael (November 9, 2010). "American World is at "DEATH'S DOOR"". Fangoria.
  22. ^ Borys, Kit (November 18, 2009). "Kilo scaring up 'One by One' film: Horror movie to star Douglas Tait, Tony Todd, Sally Kirkland". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-9-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  23. ^ "The Season" to screen at The New York International Film Festival (NYIFF) New York International Independent Film & Video Festival April 29, 2011. October 4, 2012
  24. ^ Screenings 2008 Official Selection Screamfest Film Festival. theseasonthemove.com 2008 The Season the Movie. October 9, 2012
  25. ^ Vigilance Films: News Archives. The Season. Vigilance Films. Retrieved October 9, 2012

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