Biography
Logan Fry, a graduate of Oberlin College, is a trashfilm director and actor located in Richfield, Ohio.
He was born William Logan Fry in Columbus, Ohio in September, 1944. The son of a Federal Administrative Law Judge and an elementary school teacher, he graduated from Oberlin in 1967 and Case Western University Law School in 1970, concurrently serving in Artillery, then Judge Advocate General, units of the United States Army Reserve. In addition to reserve duty, Logan earned his tuition by working on the family Christmas tree farm near Akron, Ohio, as a janitorial assistant in a rubber company research lab, a shipping and receiving clerk in a light fixture factory, a rake and shovel man for a landscaping company, a food runner in the college dining hall and a night bellman at the local Holiday Inn.
Directing and acting weren't his first career choices; after graduation from law school, he served as a law intern in the Law Department of the City of Cleveland (Carl B. Stokes Administration), then attorney in Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Goodyear Atomic Corporation (which operated the Piketon uranium enrichment plant) and private practice. He retired in 1987 to become a world-class weaver with work from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum and the deYoung Museum in San Francisco; and an artist, writer and web designer. Logan has traveled the world, from active war zones in the Middle East to the brothels of Amsterdam, Knoxville, Tennessee and San Francisco.
Acting an opportunity that presented itself when Spider-Man 3 (2007) came to Cleveland, Ohio. Logan was hired on as a precision driver for scenes with Sandman attempting his escape from Spider-Man in an armored truck. Although he had no formal training, he was hooked. Since then, he has done background work in major studio films projects like I Am Legend (2007), Taking Chance (2009), Real Steel (2011), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), Gotham (2014), Mr. Robot (2015), Billions (2016), White Boy Rick (2018), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and White Noise (2022); as well as event participant, soldier, zombie or undead in regional independent film. Background in major film built knowledge--the opportunity to see the greatest directors and actors at work; while featured work in indies like Death of the Dead (2011), 25 Hill (2011) and Revenge of the Spacemen (2014) provided experience in speaking roles.
More recently, Logan has undertaken the production and direction of his own film, with short and micro-short films such as Gimme Head: the Tale of the Cuyahoga Valley Bigfoot (2016), Ro-Boob: The Farting Robot Monster (2018) and The Last Man on Earth (2020), generally performing every role and task of the filmmaking process. Success has come swiftly, and his films have screened not only in his home state of Ohio, and venues from NYC to LA; but also Canada, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Russia, Lithuania, Moldava, Romania, Slovenia, Portugal, Sweden, The Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Macedonia, Malta, Ukraine, Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Turkey, UAE, Iraq, Iran, India, China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Israel, Bangladesh, Philippines, Nepal, Bhutan, Tawain, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, and Australia, altogether fifty-four countries on six continents. In fact, Logan has traveled to Sudbury, Canada; Mexico City, Mexico; Montevideo, Uruguay; Barcelona, Spain; Belgrade, Serbia; and Kassel, Germany to be with his fans. "I'm an international filmmaker and being with a live audience teaches me so much about my films and how to connect with my audience and fans." He continues: "Covid slowed me down in 2020, but I'll be back on the circuit soon."
Logan counts outsider and trashfilm directors such as Don Dohler as primary inspirations; proving that you don't need to be a film school graduate with Hollywood connections to make good films. "Just make them funny and weird!" he insists.
