Bruce Kimmel
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Bruce Kimmel (born December 8, 1947), also known as Guy Haines, is an actor, writer, director, composer, and Grammy-nominated CD producer. Kimmel lives in Los Angeles, California. He is long divorced, and has one daughter.
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[edit] Acting
As an actor, Kimmel appeared in many TV shows, such as The Partridge Family (multiple episodes), Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Alice, MASH, Little House On The Prairie, Dinah And Her New Best Friends (series regular), Donny and Marie (four guest shots), Playboy On The Air (series regular), as well as many pilots. He also appeared in the films The Apple Dumpling Gang, First Family, Super Mario Bros., and Racquet.
[edit] Film Director
He is the director of The First Nudie Musical (1976), The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983), Prime Suspect (1989). Currently writing and directing a new web series, Outside the Box (www.youtube.com/outsidetheboxseries).
[edit] Theater Director
He has also written many plays/musicals, including a thriller, Deceit (2006), and the musical, The Brain From Planet X (2006). The Brain is a spoof of 50's alien invasion movies and was featured in 2008's Festival of New American Musicals with a run at The Chance Theater in Anaheim, California. Other plays and musicals include The Good One, Stages, Together Again, a musical version of The Comedy Of Errors, Start At The Top, Feast, all of which were produced in Los Angeles. In 2004 he wrote most of and directed all of a hit musical revue called What If, at the Hudson Theater. In 2011 he directed a new musical revue, Lost and Unsung, based on his albums Lost In Boston and Unsung Musicals.
[edit] Record Producer
Kimmel became a record producer in 1993, producing many cast albums (Broadway and off-Broadway), Broadway singers, and musical theater concept albums, first for the Varese Sarabande label, and then for a company he founded Fynsworth Alley. He was nominated for a Grammy for the revival cast album of Hello, Dolly! To date, he has produced well over 180 CDs.
His current label is Kritzerland, which has issued cast albums, singers, and a series of reissues of limited edition soundtracks.
[edit] Author
Kimmel has written and self-published nine novels - his coming-of-age trilogy, Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland, and Kritzer Time, the mysteries Writer's Block and Rewind, and a mystery series featuring fifteen-year-old protagonist Adriana Hofstetter - Murder At Hollywood High, Murder At The Grove, and Murder At The Hollywood Historical Society. He has also written a book of short fiction called How To Write A Dirty Book and Other Stories.
He published his memoir of his acting, writing, and directing days, There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You in mid-2010.
He published the new Adriana Hofstetter mystery, "Murder At The Masquers" in 2011. In the fourth book in the Hofstetter series, Adriana turns sixteen.
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