Biography
Born into a Hollywood film family, Eric Stacey graduated from Hollywood High, before starting work in major motion pictures such as the original "Planet of the Apes," and "Patton." His father, a founding member of the Director's Guild of America (1st AD - "Gone With The Wind"), was killed in 1969 in a location auto accident, after which time, Eric co-produced one of the first feature films to come out of the American Film Institute, "A Berkeley Christmas," directed by Frank Dandridge. Following a year at AFI, Eric wrote, produced and directed short films for the UCLA Media Center. Eric sold his first screenplay in 1976 and began adapting novels for the screen for producers including Patrick Duffy ("Dallas") and Craig Gilbert (the groundbreaking PBS series "An American Family"). In the late 1970's, Eric was admitted to the Director's Guild of America and worked as a second assistant director on the TV Series "Scruples," and features "Private Benjamin" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind - The Special Edition." Eric wrote and directed industrial films for General Telephone of California thru the 80's and after moving to The Big Island of Hawaii for several years, he returned to Los Angeles as Executive Sales Manager for Pure-Grade, Inc. (U.S. affiliate of Arai Machinery of Tokyo, Japan). In 1996, Eric returned to film making as Associate Producer with David Oyster ("Cosmos") on the PBS travel series, "America's Scenic Rail Journeys." Two years later, Eric began making his own films, including the CINE Golden Eagle Award winning "The Waldorf Promise," a low budget horror-comedy "Director's Cut" (winner Best Horror Comedy - Frightfest 2003), the PBS documentary "A Passion for Sustainability" (Telly Award), the feature film "Purple Mind" (distributed by Ytinifni Entertainment), his third feature, "Unthinkable: An Airline Captain's Story" (premiered at Quad Cinema in New York in 2014.) He lives in Gresham, Oregon with his wife, Hiroko. His daughter, Tobe, practices Chinese Medicine in Fallbrook, CA. And Eric still loves the movies!
