Ed Polgardy, president of Black Hat Magic Productions, is an acclaimed comic book creator-writer-editor, an Emmy-Award-winning television producer-director, and a successful feature film writer-producer-director. PUBLISHING Polgardy co-created the internationally acclaimed hit comic book series "From The Darkness" and "From The Darkness: Blood Vows", and wrote the graphic novel adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's "From Dusk 'Til Dawn". As Senior Editor at Jim Shooter's Defiant Comics, he developed, wrote, and edited several hit titles, including "The Good Guys" and "Dark Dominion" (penciled by "Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko). Polgardy also held the Editor-in-Chief position at BIG Entertainment where he worked with celebrity concept creators John Jakes, Mickey Spillane, Tom Clancy, and Neil Gaiman. The resulting intellectual properties were licensed to Miramax, Alliance Entertainment, and ABC TV. TELEVISION Polgardy's TV work includes producing and directing: "Today's Environment", starring Ed Begley, Jr., "Millennium", hosted by Peter Weller, "The Best of Wine and Food", featuring George Hamilton, ".COM" and ".COM Kids", starring Mark Hamill, "Elegance with Ivana", featuring Ivana Trump, "Women in Charge", with Nancy Glass, "First Priority", hosted by Hunter Tylo, "Healthy Solutions", starring Mariette Hartley, and "Monsterama", featuring Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson. Polgardy also helped create Price/Parker, a television production company where he developed, produced, and directed "Identity", a female-empowerment show that aired on The Learning Channel. Moving into fictional programming, Polgardy produced "Oh Jerome, No" (starring Mamoudou Athie,Natasha Lyonne, and Georgina Campbell) through his Black Hat Magic Productions company, a short-form television series-eight 12-minute episodes-that aired on "Cake" on Disney's FXX Network and garnered a Best Actor Emmy Award nomination for star Mamoudou Athie. FEATURE FILMS Polgardy produced the motion pictures "Masked Mutilator" (featuring Brick Bronsky, Glenn Hetrick, and James DeBello), which he also co-wrote, "The Halfway House" (starring cult-film icon Mary Woronov), "The Ghostmaker" (starring Aaron Dean Eisenberg), "Window Of Opportunity" (with producing partner John Densmore, legendary rock-'n'-roll drummer from The Doors), "Dark Desire" (featuring Kelly Lynch and Michael Nouri), "Megachurch Murder" (starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Corbin Bleu and Romeo Miller) and "The Wretched" (featuring John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Kevin Bigley, and Azie Tesfai), which was the number one movie in America for six weeks straight in the summer of 2020. He line produced "Boiler Maker" (starring John Savage), and co-produced "Laid to Rest" (featuring Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker). As a second unit director, Polgardy worked on "Death's Door", "Laid to Rest", "Dark House", "The Ghostmaker" and "The Wretched". AT PRESENT Ed Polgardy creates and develops intellectual properties for film and TV at Black Hat Magic Productions, Inc., a development, production, and licensing company that he founded in 2010. He's currently working on a feature-length crime thriller called "Kill Everything" that he created, co-wrote and is scheduled to direct.
Ed Pope is an actor, known for 29 Light Years (2017), Brotherly Love (2017) and Shilo (2016).
Ed Quinn originally pursued a path in music before considering a career in acting. He was born in Berkeley, California and attended the St. Mary's College High School. After high school, Ed attended the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and lettering in Rugby and embarked on modeling throughout Europe, including Paris, Milan and Barcelona. Upon his return to the United States, Ed began his acting career. His first big break was the role of FINN in 2000 on the television series "Young Americans". Ed found work mostly on television during the early 2000s, including Jack & Jill (1999) and Crossing Jordan (2001). He appeared in the video sequel Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004). Other television appearances included episodes on JAG (1995), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), CSI: NY (2004) and most notably on vampire series True Blood (2008) and the Sci-Fi comedy/drama series Eureka (2006) in a Series Regular role. In recent years he has joined the casts of hit shows such as 2 Broke Girls, One Day At A Time, and Mistresses. During his time as a musician, Ed studied with instrumental rock guitarist Joe Satriani. After playing in the Los Angeles-based bands Mad Theory and Scattergood, Ed went on to cut his first solo demo CD, entitled "Quinn".
Ed Regine is an actor, known for Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019), Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and Next Stop Wonderland (1998).
Ed Renninger is known for Begin Again (2013), Plato's Reality Machine (2013) and Red Dead Redemption II (2018).
Ed Ricker is an actor and editor, known for Ipseity (2013), Under the Dome (2013) and From Faith to Freedom (2012).
Ed Robinson is known for Pairings (2012), Solo: The Series (2010) and Laced and Loaded (2016).
Ed Robinson is known for Darts (2021), Late Night in the Studio (2020) and Lightcatcher (2018).
Ed Rogers is known for Trader Hornee (1970), The Mystery Mind (1920) and Days of Our Lives (1965).
Ed Rue was born on February 13, 1945 in Louisiana, USA. He is known for Goodbye America (1997), House Party (1990) and Kiss of a Stranger (1998). He died on February 19, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.