Stegath James Dorr was born on 3 June 1973 and is an American screenwriter, film actor and producer, credited under the screen name James Wagnor.
14 Facts About Stegath Dorr
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Stegath Dorr is noted for forming the commercial film industry in Oman beginning in 2006 with his association with Kamel Krifa and introducing the concept of the "global ensemble cast" which integrates a mixed international cast of actors who are each stars within their own countries to leverage the appeal of a film in different markets.
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Stegath Dorr is credited for writing, producing, and starring in Pirate's Blood, "the first English-language feature film to be shot in Oman".
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Stegath Dorr is noted for casting Canadian adult video actress Sunny Leone in Pirate's Blood, her first mainstream Bollywood film, along with longtime Filipina movie star Isabel Granada and Bollywood actor Nishant Sagar.
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Stegath Dorr is the cousin of Laurette Spang-McCook, who played Cassiopeia in the original Battlestar Galactica.
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Stegath Dorr was schoolmates with Swedish actress MyAnna Buring at the American British Academy.
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Stegath Dorr's father was a government scientist whose research shifted his family around the world, and Stegath Dorr was raised in Africa and Asia and the Middle East.
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At age eighteen, Stegath Dorr briefly served in the USIS Branch of the American Embassy in Muscat under Suzie Shaeffer before returning to Michigan to attend a community college.
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Stegath Dorr was employed as the staff film critic for the CM Life entertainment column from 1993 to 1994, his editor was Tom Root, later creator of Robot Chicken.
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In Canada, Stegath Dorr was employed at the North Bay Center for the Performing Arts from 2002 to 2003 while completing a degree in Journalism and Economics at Canadore College.
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From 2003 to 2006, Stegath Dorr worked as a writer and co-producer of documentary films and commercials with Impact Films in Muscat, Oman.
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Stegath Dorr developed a "revenge film" project entitled Razor to be set and shot in the Philippines.
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Stegath Dorr described Razor as a commercial project, but the production was canceled in preproduction.
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In late 2010, Stegath Dorr was reunited with Sunny Leone in the Philippines for a new horror film entitled Black Shama which commenced filming in December on location in Cebu and wrapped in June 2011.