TALBOT PERRY SIMONS
editFebruary 8, 2012 - Talbot Perry Simons is an actor and filmmaker living in Hollywood, California, USA. He is a world record holder with GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® recognized as the most awarded individual filmmaker in the world for his achievement in filmmaking with his multiple award winning feature film "Still the Drums". Here's what Guinness World Records® said:
Congratulations! Your record has been approved and the certificate has been sent to the address in your profile. The most film festival awards won in different categories by an individual" is five, achieved by Talbot Perry Simons (USA) who was recognized separately as Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Composer for Still The Drums (2009).
Here's the PRESS RELEASE that was sent out:
AMERICAN FILMMAKER SETS WORLD RECORD First time American filmmaker, Talbot Perry Simons has just been recognized by the Guinness World Records®, as the world’s most awarded individual filmmaker in all of filmmaking history! The actual record category is, “The most film festival awards won in different categories by an individual". Talbot’s world record reads as:* “The most film festival awards won in different categories by an individual" is five, achieved by Talbot Perry Simons (USA) who was recognized separately as Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Composer for Still The Drums (2009).”The world record was actually first set about 60 years ago by Sir Charles Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin), and has never been broken, until now! Before Talbot, Charlie Chaplin, had been the only filmmaker to ever receive awards in five separate filmmaking categories. Chaplin, received awards as producer, writer, director, actor, and composer and accumulated his five award categories from three separate films. The most awards that Mr. Chaplin received for one film in separate categories were four. He won for producer, director, writer, and actor, two different times, for the films “The Great Dictator”- ‘40 and “Mr. Verdoux”- ‘47. Chaplin, later won his award in a fifth category as composer in 1952, with his movie “Limelight”. Mr. Simons, achieved his record of five separate filmmaking categories with one film. This puts him in very prestigious company. The other noted “contenders”, who have received awards in four separate categories are noted filmmakers, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen and Stanley Tucci. Talbot is quoted as saying, “I’m so very proud. I guess now I’m the world’s most awarded, unknown, filmmaker of all time! Ha! Maybe now more people will want to see my movie, “Still The Drums“. It‘s all very exciting. Who knows? I might even get discovered! Finally! After 40 years!” “Still The Drums”, packed the house at both of it’s film festival screenings (in New York and Los Angeles). The story blew away the audience and judges and swept the top five awards. It won best film, best directorial debut, best screenplay, best actor and best song. Talbot personally did each one of those jobs and he even sang the best song winner. This is an amazing accomplishment. Especially for a first film. The movie’s story is about a U.S. Marine who was missing in action (M.I.A.) in Vietnam for thirty-nine years. His remains are found and he is brought home and buried as a fallen hero and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. It covers a fifty year journey in the lives of four best friends who were all Marines and combat veterans in Vietnam. Mr. Robert Radabaugh, former Executive Director of the Walt Disney Company, said in an interview, “This is a film that every American should see.“ The movie is currently rated 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon. It’s also available on the movie website (distributor direct), where a donation is made to a veteran’s charity of the buyer‘s choice, for every DVD that is sold. What’s next for Mr. Simons? This past October 2011, Talbot’s newest screenplay “PLANES” (a gangster style Twilight Zone®). recently won a top award at the Los Angeles Screenplay Competition. There’s a new filmmaker in the house, and his name is Talbot Perry Simons! note: Until published on the Guinness website and book the record can be verified with Guinness World Records® by calling Guinness’ New York office at (718) 513-7270 LINKS LINK to MOVIE WEBSITE LINK to TRAILER on YOUTUBE LINK to ARTICLE in MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE LINK to BACKSTAGE MAAZINE ARTICLE LINK to TALBOT on IMDB Bio: Multiple award winning producer, writer, director, song writer and actor. Talbot has received a total of 14 awards for his work. His first feature film "Still the Drums" - website, won the top 5 awards at the 2009 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival. BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, BEST ACTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST SONG! And the PLATINUM REEL from the Nevada Film Festival for STANDOUT FILMMAKING! Most recently he wond the award for screenwriting for his screenplay "PLANES" at the 2011 LA Screenplay Competition. Talbot's acting website was born and raised in the Bronx. In 1965 at the age of seventeen he joined the U.S. Navy where he attended two class "A” schools and trained as a Communications Technician and served during the Vietnam war. After the service he relocated to California. He first began to study acting at Orange Coast Jr., College in Costa Mesa, California (quite a difference from the Bronx). Talbot quickly took over the theater department and was the first student in school history to produce and direct a main stage show, which before then was only done by the instructors. In 1975, his final year at college he was cast and played five characters in the play “Lenny” for which he was nominated for, and won the “Irene Ryan Award” for “Best Actor“ and awarded a scholarship. Using his scholarship he went on to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Hollywood, Ca. At the “Institute”, he studied with Pat Randall (who was Lee Strasberg’s favorite instructor). Talbot also studied with Vera Vlasova, from the original “Moscow Art Theatre“ . Vera was a member of Stanaslavski’s original Prague Touring Group. The first Hollywood play he auditioned for character Pepper White in a revival of the classic Broadway hit “Golden Boy”. After Talbot auditioned the director ran up on the stage, hugged Talbot and gave him the part right on the spot. Since then he’s done over 30 plays and a dozen or so films in which he’s played everything from characters to co-leading roles. Besides acting, writing, producing and directing he has also successfully worked in film finance with several successful Hollywood production companies assisting them in raising capital to finance their films. Using his aquired knowledge from those jobs Talbot was able to personally create a partnership and personally raise all of the funds to make "Still the Drums". Talbot has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television Artists, since 1975. He has been writing, and directing plays, writing screenplays, performing on stage, TV, and in films for over 30 years but "Still the Drums" represents the first written work of Talbot's ever produced. "Still the Drums" marks Talbot's writer, producer, director debut as a filmmaker, while simultaneously playing one of the lead roles. Over the years Talbot has consistently received rave reviews and has been awarded for his work for both comedy and drama six seperate times. Talbot has also performed stand-up comedy at some major clubs in Hollywood, on the Sunset Strip, like the "Laugh Factory", "Carlos and Charlie's", and the regular MC for Skippy Lowe's "Belly Room" at the world famous "Comedy Store" Talbot says that, "Without a doubt "Still the Drums" has been the hardest undertaking of my life and has given me a whole new respect for all filmmakers."