Anthony Harper

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Anthony Harper is a United States actor, radio personality, freemason, writer, author, model, disc jockey, and voice-over artist, born August 1964 in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Harper has appeared in dozens of television commercials and industrial films for a wide range of products from Miller brewing product lines to consumer electronics, to automobiles and more, as well as his portrayal of Mr. King in the film Steam Town.

Harper was a highly popular pop and rock music disc jockey from 1982 through 1991, producing his own radio programs featuring such rock acts as AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Sammy Hagar, Head East, Billy Idol, Nirvana, Blue Öyster Cult, Joan Jett and many others as well as recording, editing and producing several "unknown bands" in the mid-west.

Harper owned and operated an online broadcast station from 2002 through 2006 featuring several guest deejays, including "Natalie", perhaps the youngest rock deejay in American radio history. Harper's online station provided an outlet for not only classic rock acts but many newer rock acts like the Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Vanishing Kids, The Profit$, Harmony Riley, Sixty-10, Stratocruiser, Army of Freshmen, Bowling for Soup, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, 30 Seconds to Mars, and many others.

NewsFlashRadio.com - In 2006, Harper began an online "news & views" talk radio program News Flash! which appears to be slated for syndication in 2007 pending contract and distribution negotiations. Critics of talk radio liken Harper to a combination of Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh with the consumer education appeal of John Stossel, all while keeping a unique sense of humor and political perspective. While considered a conservative by many, Harper has stated that he prefers to avoid any labels which pre-judge his radio program.

Harper is a long-standing supporter of the Second Amendment and has written several articles supporting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, often drawing critisism from the Violence Policy Center, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and other organizations which seek to limit access to firearms in America.

Harper is also a professional Arbitrator, and Mediator certified by the Florida Supreme Court and the Florida Court of Appeals, and has served as an elected officer for several civic and fraternal organizations and is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

Harper wrote Conspiracy of Hate: A Christian Perspective on the un-Christian Tactics of the anti-Masons (c) 1995, as well as several magazine and newspaper articles regarding Freemasonry.