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Robert. J. Locke, Jr. Producer-Director-Actor

Legendary Actor-Director, Robert J. Locke, Jr., directed the first Olympic Wrestling documentary in history, "Journey Into Freestyle Wrestling", which premiered at the American Film Market in 2004. At the time, there was only one other movie about wrestling: "Vision Quest". To date, there are now 30+ films about real wrestling, not fake wrestling.

Robert currently has two movies on Amazon Prime that he stars in: "Legend of Bloody Mary" (2008) (distributed by Lionsgate) and Directs and Stars in "Death Camp 1" (2022) distributed by 123 Go Films. Robert starred as Father O'Neal in "Legend of Bloody Mary".

Previously, Robert directed the dark comedy "The House of Yes" at the Nextstage theatre in Hollywood, and LA Weekly said of the play, "The acting was uniformly good under Robert Locke's deft direction."

Robert is putting the finishing touches on his men's and women's freestyle Wrestling documentary "Journey Into Freestyle Wrestling 2" with Olympic Gold Medalist & 15-time NCAA Champion Coach of Iowa Dan Gable, UFC Champ & Pan Am Games Champ Daniel Cormier, Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum played Mark in the critically acclaimed "Fox Catcher", 2014), 3-time World Champ Lee Kemp, All Navy Champ Donald Rumsfeld, Olympic Gold Medalist and 4-time NCAA Champ/Wheaties Box cover man/5-time NCAA Wrestling Coach Cael Sanderson, and 2-time Olympian/World Silver Medalist/ former Coach of Stanford/current coach of Univ. of Maryland Kerry McCoy.

Robert has been a volunteer videographer for the US National Freestyle Wrestling Men's and Women's teams since 2003.

In 2013, Robert created/wrote/co-directed/produced & starred in the ensemble comedy web series "Schoooled" starring top comedian Judy Tenuta, Trilby Glover, Seamus O'Brien, Bergen Williams, and Kent Boyd.

Robert started his production company August Sun Productions in 1997, and has produced & directed the feature films "The Family Web" (Finalist Award 2000 Zoie International Film Festival}, and "One Long Day" (official selection 2004 Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival). He also directed & produced "Scots In America" in 2004, exploring the first Scottish Day Parade in New York City. Robert co-founded The Bliss St. Repertory Theatre company in New York City in 1992 and has directed & produced more than eight plays off Broadway, and 12 plays off-off Broadway. He has four trailers on YouTube of his work: "Legend of Bloody Mary", "Journey Into Freestyle Wrestling", "Schoooled," and "One Long Day", starring former model & TV star Jason Olive and Frank Bello of heavy metal band Anthrax fame.

Robert began acting in the 5th grade, and he is grateful to his parents for encouraging him to follow his dream. By the time he was in the 8th grade, Robert had starred in 4 plays and played a student in the horror film "My Demon Lover" in 1984. He studied Method Acting in the BFA program at Central Connecticut State University, and moved to New York City three months after graduating to pursue work in theater and film.

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www.imdb.com/Robert J. Locke, Jr.