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Dallas Tanner Wiki Occupation: Television Producer Executive Producer Television Director

Birthplace: Provide, Rhode Island Official Website www.dallas-tanner.com

Dallas Tanner is an American television producer, director, and writer and is known for creating many episodes of Television for syndication on television networks like [|CBS, ABC, Direct TV, Dish] and broadcast clients worldwide. He has worked with NASCAR and |Indy Racing teams and also trained to be a semi pro driver himself.

His notable work includes action and adventure film making in an area where its extremely dangerous work where he has worked with legendary stunt pilots, base jumping skydivers, cross country rally racing with stuntmen who train with the “Fast and Furious films” and he himself has taken the helm filming with sharks in the Pacific and high speed fighter jets over the Pacific Ocean on his television series Destination X Hawaii.

After attending both business school (|Northeastern University in Boston) and |The American Film Institute in Hollywood, he got his start in entertainment becoming a partner in NYC Magazine and serving on the board of directors of several other lifestyles magazines. He then took over a Pacific based action sports TV production and magazine group taking him to Hawaii where he lived and operated briefly one of the most influential action sports media companies supplying TV series for [Fox_sports|Fox Sports]. Here Dallas Tanner became the executive producer and creator of one of the longest running action sports series in the world which in 2005 we branded “Destination X Hawaii” and which was distributed to over 66 countries worldwide and continues to air in markets around the world.

EARLY LIFE

Dallas Tanner grew up on a 66 acre farm in New England, his mother was a journalist and father a construction contractor. He was an avid athlete playing both football and track and field and played semi professional football in the EFL (Eastern Football League). His grandparents were renowned writers having published many books. At age 18, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and attended Platoon Leaders School at Quantico, Virginia and was accepted into the elite naval aviators program at Pensacola, Florida but declined accepting his commission when he started work as a government contractor with many government clients including the |US Air Force and |US Army. After attending both business school ( Northeastern University in Boston) he launched at age 22, a government contracting company doing projects for the US federal government including the FAA, |US Army, EPA, and United States Air Force .He was the first contractor to commence excavation on Boston’s Harbour clean up as a heavy infrastructure contractor and he was given a commemorative  shovel to commemorate his company’s work on being the first company to break ground  in Boston on the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority’s clean up project, He was the youngest government contractor in New England by the age of 25 as he had landed millions of dollars in government contracts .After turning down an opportunity to receive an investment from Viacom head and Boston native Sumner Redstone to expand his construction company and opportunities on the Big Dig, (the most expensive construction project in US history)  he left construction to persue a career in entertainment and moved to Los Angeles, California and  enrolled part time in a directing program at  The American Film Institute in Hollywood where he studied approach to directing including with Clint Eastwood.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

●	Dallas Tanner got his start in sports and entertainment when he took over a Pacific based action sports TV production and magazine group taking him to Hawaii where he lived and operated one of the most influential action sports media companies supplying TV series for Fox Sports. Here he became the executive producer and creator of one of the longest running action sports series in the world. In 2005 he then launched an all-female version of the action sports series called Destination X Hawaii which was distributed to over 66 countries worldwide. He teamed up with Tony Broccoli, step son of James Bond Creator Albert R Broccoli to produce the second season of Destination X: California. Destination X Hawaii was distributed to channels in the USA including Direct TV, Dish, The Water Channel, MAVTV. In 2009 he teamed up with the producers of Twilight (Imprint Entertainment) to co-produce a reality tv series about making it in the music industry called “The Industry”. He has produced numerous awards shows and music concerts including a tribute to firefighter’s commeorating the World Center Tragedy from “911” and continues to expand his career in film and television projects. In addition to film making and television, Dallas Tanner has also executive produced recording artists for sound tracks in television.

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