David Loftus Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
David Loftus is an actor, known for Coup de Cinema (2011), Deep Dark (2015) and Grimm (2011).
Net Worth
$15 Million
Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)
Profession
Actor
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Quote
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Philosophy is a particular sort of moaning that men make when they are especially afraid of the dark.
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I'm just trying to be my selves.
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Hope springs infernal.
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Any time you are not involved in activity that frightens you, you are only dying.
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Fact
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Was a full-time reporter, critic, and columnist for the daily Roseburg (Oregon) News-Review, and has published free-lance pieces in the Portland Oregonian, Portland Tribune, Willamette Week, Harvard Magazine, and Boston Herald.
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Was a performing Scandinavian folk dancer in his teens and later performed English morris dances with the Black Jokers in Boston (1981-1987) and was a founding member of the Bridgetown Morris Men (1992-2000).
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Does part-time work guiding downtown Portland Walking Tours and serving as a customer service representative for Portland Streetcar, Inc. [2014].
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Graduated from Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon, the alma mater of Steve Prefontaine, eight years after the American distance running ace. Loftus met Prefontaine at the end of his first week as a high-school freshman, and got to jog a little ways with him after Prefontaine witnessed Loftus's first cross-country race. The following spring, Loftus reset Prefontaine's school freshman two-mile record, by running a 9:59.4.
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Uncredited extra in Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992) aka "Disaster in Time" aka "The Grand Tour". Loftus was a reporter for the Roseburg (Ore.) News-Review at the time and did an interview feature with star Jeff Daniels for the newspaper as well as features on the film, working as an extra, and the crew.
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Played Benvolio in 1979 Harvard production of "Romeo and Juliet" in which Jonathan Prince appeared as Mercutio.
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Proofread and fact checked "Slippage" and "Edgeworks, Volume 3" for Harlan Ellison; Loftus is listed in the acknowledgements of both books.
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Is the author of "The Unofficial Book of Harvard Trivia," which was endorsed by Jack Lemmon, and "Watching Sex: how men really respond to pornography," endorsed by Tom Robbins.
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Won a 100-pound runner-up prize in a tournament sponsored by the Book Drum website for writing an in-depth profile of Ray Bradbury's _Something Wicked This Way Comes_ (March 2010).
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Has read literature aloud to live audiences at bookstores, libraries, coffee shops, as well as for recordings for the blind
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Sang baritone in the Portland Symphonic Choir 1992-1997, and was in the choir during the recording it made with the Oregon Symphony of Nicolas Flagello's "The Passion of Martin Luther King"
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Has reviewed books for the California Literary Review (www.calitreview.com) and the Portland Oregonian, and films for DocumentaryFilms.net.
