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This is my Resume. First, I'd like to begin my summarizing my background and credentials. I was born in Bloomington, Indiana and raised in California where I attended Aviation High School in Redondo Beach. After High School, I attended several colleges including Cal State University Long Beach where I studied Video Production. I learned theatrical writing, directing, producing, acting and subjects related to the field. In continued Video Production at the Southern California Occupational Center (S.C.O.C) a vocational school.
I also took Horiculture classes at El Camino College in Lawndale, California. Continuing my education I attended Practial Schools In Anaheim, California where I took a two-year course in Electronic and Computer Technology. After moving to Indiana I took a year in Word Perfect at Vinncents. Today I'm attending Ivytech and my major is presently in computers.
I learned at an early age that I was the grandnephew of John Dillinger's only wife, Beryl Ethel Hovious. I met with Beryl in 1989 and interviewed her for months. This inspired me to write my first book entitled "Dillinger, The Hidden Truth." My first book bought forth many contacts all over the world. In 2002, I was invited to the Golden Age of Gangsters in Chicago where I had the honor of meeting several actors from the Sopranos, Dominac Capone - Great relative of Al Capone, Antronette Giancana - daughter of real life mobster Sam Giancana and several other interesting actors and authors.
Tony Stewart's Most Recent Accomplishments:

My first book entitled Dillinger, The Hidden Truth Released 2002 - Xlibris Publishing

Presently working on two more books due for publication in 2007.

Worked with Jupiter Entertainment for an updated documentary on criminals of the 1920’s and 30’s entitled Crime Wave will air on the History channel in Spring of 2007.

Credited history consultant for ARES World Defense & Security in August 2006.

Radio Interview with Harry Boulade of Golden Rose Productions - AM 570 Journal, KCFJ AM 570 and KCNO 94.5 FM on July 7, 2006.

Worked with Morningstar Entertainment for a documentary for the Discovery channel entitled The Dillinger Conspiracy, aired March 18-19, 2006.

Interviewed in the March 2005 issue of Yesterday’s Memories magazine (continued in the April 2005 addition).

Worked with Principle Films of London, England as a History consultant for a program entitled It Happened Here,aired on The Travel Channel in 2002.
History consultant in the making of several documentary films, including The Real Untouchables Series, by Atlantic Production, which aired in April 2000 on The Learning Channel.

UPDATE!!

Lights! Camera! Clinton? Jupiter Entertainment uses local sites to film History Channel show

By BOB FOWLER, fowlerb@knews.com November 3, 2006

CLINTON — Tommy gun blazing, "Baby Face Nelson" led other gangsters out of the bank they’d just robbed in Sioux Falls, S.D.

In real life, the notorious criminal from the 1930s is Maryville actor Jason Leith, and the bank is Dr. Joe Rainey’s dental office in downtown Clinton.

That scene is one of many being filmed in several East Tennessee towns by Jupiter Entertainment of Knoxville.

The end result, a two-hour documentary "Crime Wave,’’ will air next spring on The History Channel, says Alex Alexander, a freelance re-enactment producer for the filmmaking company.

The film crew is capturing the exploits of some of the biggest kingpins of crime during the prohibition era of the early 1930s: John Dillinger, George "Machine Gun’’ Kelly and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, better known as Bonnie and Clyde.

The documentary also will explore the FBI’s role in combating that crime wave, Alexander said.

Filming began Oct. 26 and will wrap Nov. 10, she said.

Locations have included the old Morgan County Jail in Wartburg, downtown Oliver Springs and various locations in Clinton.

Filming is planned Sunday in downtown Knoxville, and other shots are scheduled in Harriman and Townsend.

"All of the small towns have been wonderful,’’ Alexander said. "We’ve worked closely with the police and sheriff’s departments.’’

Clinton Police Chief Rick Scarbrough said the filmmakers warned him in advance they’d be shooting machine gun blanks in Clinton Thursday afternoon.

Later that evening, they filmed Dillinger being gunned down behind Clinton’s historic Ritz Theater.
Alexander, in the business for 25 years, said she’s very familiar with East Tennessee locations, and she played a role in getting filmmakers to use Oliver Springs for scenes in the movie "October Sky.’’

"There’s a lot of film production in and around Knoxville ? lots,’’ says Jupiter Entertainment’s property master, Cheri Van Bynen.

Van Bynen says she’s the first to arrive on a location and the last to leave. "I make everything look the way it’s supposed to look,’’ she said.

To convert a dental office into a bank building, Van Bynen covered up signs, swept away leaves and removed a storm window so the mobsters could shoot through it.

Leith, 29, who landed his gig as Lester "Baby Face" Nelson Gillis through a Knoxville talent agency, said he’s been acting for years. He said he plays Burt Reynolds’ character’s son in the new movie "Broken Bridges.’’

Powell resident Phil Campbell portrays a member of Dillinger’s gang in the documentary, and he, too, has been acting for years, including a stint on the TV show "Hee Haw.’’

"This is a lot of fun,’’ Campbell said of his latest role. "You get to dress up and shoot guns.’’

Bob Fowler, News Sentinel Anderson County editor, may be reached at 865-481-3625.

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