Biographie
Kent Victor Schuelke is a screenwriter, actor, journalist, on-set film production worker, Hollywood historian and tour guide. He has starred in three "B" movies using stage name Kent Cool.
As an Iowa college journalist, Schuelke landed a rare interview with legendary actor Cary Grant. When Grant died a few months later, Schuelke sold the piece to Andy Warhol's magazine, Interview.
Born and raised the son of a car salesman in an Iowa farming village, Kent has been obsessed with movies since age four.
Schuelke has worked hundreds of days on set, including low budget indie films, Network TV series, HBO and Comedy Central TV specials, TV commercials and major Hollywood productions. Schuelke has worked as a PA, Script Supervisor, Script Coordinator, Production Coordinator and Associate Producer. He has worked for Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony Pictures, HBO, Comedy Central, Fox Television, CBS Television, E! Entertainment, Jim Henson Creature Shop, Universal Studios, Telling Pictures and Clementine Films.
Kent worked for one year, 1995-1996, as an intern for Francis Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, in San Francisco. He reported to the head of development for whom he read scripts and novels and wrote coverage. He did research for an (at that time) upcoming Zoetrope production, "On the Road". He organized production files dating back to early 1970s and did other assorted tasks for Zoetrope bosses.
Kent studied acting in the Lifebook Acting Academy (Los Angeles) Scene Study classes for 2 1/2 years and was promoted to the level of Advanced Student. He also studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Schuelke has worked as a script reader and written coverage for five independent film producers between 1992 and present.
Schuelke has written hundreds of articles on cinema for daily newspapers, print magazines and websites.
Schuelke has produced and performed more than 5,000 individual 2-hour tours of Los Angeles. His tours focus on LA landmarks, Hollywood history and filming locations.
Schuelke enjoyed several years of employment for two Los Angeles video game production companies and publishers - Activision and Pandemic Studios.
His start in the professional movie business was in 1992 when he began what became a 2-year internship on the documentary feature "The Celluloid Closet". In 1993 he was a key member of the team which produced the first-ever gay and lesbian comedy special for national television - Comedy Central's "Out There". Kent was hired to be associate producer of two Out There sequels in New York City and Los Angeles.
Kent was a general assignment newspaper reporter for a small-town Iowa daily newspaper for two years in the 1980s.
Kent lives in Los Angeles.
