Kevyn Major Howard
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Kevyn Major Howard is a Canadian actor best known for his role is Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.
After acting in high school Howard moved to Los Angeles and the Hollywood limelight in the late 70's.
Kevyn became frustrated with LA's headshot industry and perceived that it was unable to create an actor's artistic expression through their head shot. As a result, he decided to take his own picture.
Kevyn's new headshot was delivered to Paramount Studios, and shortly thereafter, he was called in and booked for his first major film roll, The Serial] (with Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman, Pamela Bellwood and Peter Bonerz). This was followed by the film Scared Straight Another Story. This film is still shown in high schools across the country to enable young people to realize the benefit in turning from a life of crime and instead invest in themselves for a positive future.
His career continued, giving him the opportunity to work with many A list artists.
Because his self-taken headshot resulted in an increase in auditions, Kevyn proclaimed his headshot concept and composition a success and now markets himself as having "reinvented the Hollywood industry standard for today's headshot". Kevyn is also noted as marketing himself with the tagline, "Headshots that open doors."
In the Discovery Channel show The Human Face Kevyn is touted as the "King of the Hollywood Headshot".
[edit] Acting career
Kevyn Major Howard's acting career includes:
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Sudden Impact (1983)
- Alien Nation (1988)
- Roadhouse 66 (1984)
- Scared Straight Another Story
- Death Wish II (1981)
- Joe Dancer
- Magnum, P.I.
- Miami Vice
- Off The Minesota Strip
- For Love and Honor
- Heroes of The Desert Storm
- The A-Team
- Trapper John MD
- Cagney and Lacey
- Strike Force
- Livers Ain't Cheap
- Blue Pretender
- MacGyver
- General Hospital
- Days Of Our Lives
- Serial
- Shattered
- What a Country
- The Human Face - Fame, the entire documentary is available for purchase on Amazon.com.
