Jeff Kirkendall
- Acting
Biography
Jeff Kirkendall is an independent digital filmmaker & actor from Upstate New York. He has been passionately involved in making and promoting independent films since 1996 and has acted in over 100 movies to date. His first acting credit was in the 1994 feature Black Easter, which starred indie film luminary Debbie Rochon and Hammer movie legend Veronica Carlson. Jeff is a longtime fan of cinema. As part of a Communications degree program at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York he studied studio and field video production using analog (VHS) cameras and linear editing decks. He then began investing a substantial amount of time in self-study, training in non-linear post-production editing programs such as Adobe Premiere & Encore. Following graduation from college Jeff set out to produce his own independent shot-on-video (S.O.V.) movies. His early productions include the action/horror movies Terror of the Master and The Temptress, and the comedy Of Theatre & Bikinis, all produced entirely in the Capital Region of Upstate New York utilizing local talent. In addition to his own directorial projects, Jeff has served as Associate Producer & Editor on movies produced by other area filmmakers, including the features Killeidoscope, Project D: Classified, The Edge of Reality, London After Midnight and Bruce G. Hallenbeck's The Drowned. Jeff was also featured in the independent documentary Every Pixel Tells A Story from Albany Times Union newspaper writer Peter Hanson, which includes interviews with several leading Capital Region filmmakers shooting in the groundbreaking digital video format. As an actor Mr. Kirkendall has appeared in over 100 movies to date, such as Project D: Classified, The Drowned, Bloodlust, and several from Polonia Brothers Entertainment (PBE) directed by indie filmmaker Mark Polonia. These include Four Nights in Fear Forest, Cocaine Werewolf, The Girl Who Wore Yellow Lace, Amityville in Space, Amityville Exorcism, Sharkula, Feeders 3, Jurassic Prey, Sharkenstein, Bigfoot Vs. Zombies, Amityville Death House, It Kills Camp Blood 7, Empire of the Apes, Noah's Shark, Jurassic Shark 2 & 3, Cocaine Shark and Yule Log.
Known for
Filmography
- Bonkey: The Mutated · Chief Scientist Travis Jarrett (Voice)
- Killer Ants
- Clownsquatch · Donnie 'The Squeeze' Marino
- Shocktopus · Pickford
- Amityville Rex · Father Benna, Producer
- Amityverse: Infinity · Agent of the Dark Lord
- Killeidoscope · Dr. Chambers, Associate Producer
- Dummy · Archibald, Producer
- You're All Doomed · Reggie Rees
- Cape Cod Cthulhu · H.P. Lovecraft
- Robocidal · Lab worker
- Four Nights in Fear Forest · Malichi Bones / Dracula
- Battle Beyond Mars · Professor Benson
- Buster · EMT
- The Final Possession · Dr. Leroy James, Director
- Trail Cam Sasquatch · Ernie, Associate Producer
- Harvester of Eyes · Inspector Gotchell, Associate Producer
- The Devil's Hacksaw · Town Folk Interview 2
- Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge · Klaus
- The Stalking · Mr. Kirk, Writer
- Mummy Shark · Mountbatten
- Camp Blood: Clown Shark · Sheriff Johnson, Screenplay
- The Girl Who Wore Yellow Lace · Dante
- One Million Babes BC · Primitive
- Once Upon a Time in Amityville · Regis Kanterbery
- Air Fryer Slaughter · Jokey
- The Last Chainsaw Massacre · Man, Associate Producer
- Jurassic Exorcist · Bobby Dugan
- Teddiscare · Mr. Mallory
- Cocaine Werewolf
- Saurians 2 · Hunter #1
- Sharkula · Dracula, Producer
- Cocaine Shark · Security guard / Captain Dillon
- Revenge of the Empire of the Apes · Sentry (uncredited)
- Yule Log · Charles
- R.I.P. Van Winkle Part 3 · Knickerbocker, Director
- R.I.P. Van Winkle Part 2 · Knickerbocker, Director
- Motorboat · Barney Rayl
- Blamed · Stu Craven
- Found Footage: The Series · Anders Kult
- Conjuring Baba
- Amityville in Space · Father Benna
- Feeders 3: The Final Meal · Cinematographer
- House Squatch · Duncan
- R.I.P. Van Winkle · Knickerbocker
- Sister Krampus · Roger
- Noah’s Shark · Father Benna
- Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse · Duncan
- Invasion of the Empire of the Apes · Trask
- Bloody Nun 2: The Curse · Associate Producer
- Children of Camp Blood · Ghost
- Return To Splatter Farm · Jeremy, Writer
- Shark Encounters of the Third Kind · Sloan
- Camp Murder · Terrible Tommy
- Amityville Island
- Natasha Nighty’s Boudoir of Blood · Director
- Scarecrow County · Virgil
- The Girl in the Crawlspace · Saxon
- Bride of the Werewolf · Hunter
- Zillafoot · Yommoto, Location Manager
- Deadly Playthings · Neighbor
- Camp Blood Kills · Fletcher (archive footage), Associate Producer
- Outpost Earth · Thug
- Halloween Horror Tales · Bill / Technopath, Director
- Robowar
- Alien Surveillance · Lawrence Singleton
- Frozen Sasquatch · Dr. Masterson
- Ghost of Camp Blood · Interviewee - Killers Neighbor
- It Kills: Camp Blood 7 · Jeb
- Land Shark · Captain Bermuda
- Amityville Exorcism · Father Benna
- Sharkenstein · Klaus
- Project D: Classified
- Bigfoot vs. Zombies · Dr. Peele
- Jurassic Prey · Andy
- Amityville Death House · Zeke
- Camp Blood First Slaughter · Fletcher
- Empire of The Apes · Trask
- The Drowned · Father Merrow, Associate Producer
- Of Theatre & Bikinis · Writer, Director