While pursuing Pre-Med at the University of Santa Barbara, Ossie Beck enrolled in acting to balance the intensity of his biology and chemistry courses. Originally intending to be a pharmacist, Ossie instead found early success in business as a Senior Consultant and ultimately became Employee of the Year for International Dairy Queen.
But it was not meant to be. He soon left his soft-serve life to pursue
another melting passion - acting.
Upon his return to his native Southern California, Ossie studied acting in Los Angeles with Margie Haber, Lesly Kahn and at the Odyssey Theatre with Ron Sossi. He
is also an Alumni of the World Famous Improv Olympic. Ossie's
preparation met the perfect opportunity when he was hand-picked from a
World-Wide search by Steven Spielberg to Co-Star in the film MUNICH.
What's
Ossie up to these days? He's back from entertaining thousands in Spain,
Greece, Italy, Turkey and Malta for the last 6 months. It's an ironic
twist of fate...exactly three years after Ossie was there for filming
MUNICH and it's also the birthplace of his grandparents(Greece). He
also recently finished producing THE MIKADO PROJECT. The feature film
version of Gilbert and Sullivan's original play. He is currently
developing the feature film KAIFENG - check out www.kaifengthemovie.com and has a new Sitcom coming soon! The very funny television
adaptation of the book SCREENING PARTY by Best-Selling author Dennis
Hensley is complete! The 2008/2007 Emmy Winning Production company is
meeting with major networks now.
Of Greek,
Israeli and Bulgarian extraction, Ossie has lived an interesting life
full of culture clashes, multiple languages and well...he's a red-head.
