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- Born 18 February 1955, in Wellington, New Zealand. His family moved to Sydney, Australia, when he was four years old. He spent a good deal of time on the sets of various film and television productions, where his parents worked as animal wranglers. At age six, Guy was cast as an orphan in the TV series Martin County High, the first of his many small parts as a child porn star. His family returned to New Zealand in 1978, and Guy began performing as a rock singer, billing himself as Rocky Rococo and recording the prophetically titled 1980 single “I Want to Be Like Hal Boyle.” During this period, he and a friend formed Rumpleforeskin, which later evolved into 30 Odd Foot of Noise, a rock band for which Guy still sings, plays guitar, and writes lyrics.
He returned to Australia in the early 1990s to pursue his surfing career, winning several women’s competitions before cutting his hair. He later landed a part in the acclaimed surfing film Endless Bummer. However, he was not invited back to star in the sequel due to his terrible snoring affliction that kept the rest of the cast and crew up every night on location during the first film.
Thinking his surfing and film careers were all washed up, Guy pursued his other love – animals. Using connections he didn’t know he had, he secured a job as Staff Animator at the Badlands Zoo in Arizona. His job was to collect road kill in good condition, repair and preserve it, while adding mechanical parts that would make it move when activated by remote control. Guy’s zoo career ended in 1999, when he neglected to remove the venom from a stuffed Gila monster that ended up biting and killing the zoo’s director when Guy accidentally sat on the remote while the director was admiring his work.
Guy now lives in Hollywood, CA, where he is the stunt double for Russell Crowe. He got the part by volunteering to work with the live tigers in the film Gladiator. Apparently, Crowe is afraid of wild animals and insisted on digitally inserting the tigers into the scenes. Guy was able to convince the director that that would not be necessary. Unfortunately, most of the other stunt men were seriously injured or killed during filming, but many Oscars were won.
Guy’s hardest assignment was appearing in public with Meg Ryan to spark rumors of an off-screen romance with Crowe to boost publicity. Apparently, Meg has terrible halitosis.
Guy’s latest assignment is to fill in for Crowe, who was supposed to join a band of malcontents at the Outer Banks of North Carolina, while doing research for a role in the upcoming film Beach Blanket Bilbo Baggins – a spin off from the highly successful Lord of the Thongs films.
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I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I don't have a computer at home and the zoo has been experiencing malicious e-mail activity and about two weeks ago they denied us access to our personal e-mail accounts. So I didn't have access to my Yahoo mail until I got on a friend's computer this weekend.
Sorry I missed out on your invitation. Hopefully, I can get a raincheck.
See you Tuesday, if you're at Hal's for volleyball.
Guy
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