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Mike R. Murehead Professional Biography

Mike R. Murehead was born in San Antonio, Texas three blocks from the Alamo. His Father was in the U.S. Air Force and the family moved from San Antonio to Phoenix and then many other cities and countries while Mike was growing up. This experience makes it easy for Mike to feel comfortable around almost any culture or environment. He started working in television production at the NBC affiliate in Temple, Texas and worked in TV stations while attending college. Mike was a cameraman during the Mexico City Olympics for ABC while working for WFAA in Dallas. From WFAA he transferred to KDTV where he gained experience producing and directing commercials and live shows. This was a television production house and Mike developed experience designing and building sets, lighting and all phases of television production. Dallas is also where Mike received his first acting jobs, mainly in TV commercials for local, regional and International accounts such as Canadian Lincoln-Mercury-Ford, Burger King and many others. Mike has worked in one capacity or another in over 1,000 television commercials. From Dallas, Mike moved to Chicago to gain experience in a larger broadcast market. By now he has received his FCC First Class Broadcast engineering license and is working at WGN-TV on live shows, sports broadcasts and commercials. At WGN one of his duties was Technical Director for the Chicago Cubs Baseball Network. Mike tired of the cold weather and came back to Austin, Texas after that baseball season where he worked for the local NBC affiliate in engineering, advertising sales and then with two Austin advertising agencies as an account executive. He then produced and directed weekly television programs like “Texas Outdoorsman” and acted in movies and other television shows. Movies Mike has been in are Hard Promises (starring Sissy Spacek & William Peterson), Wild Texas Wind (Dolly Parton, Gary Busey), Texas Justice (Peter Strauss, Heather Locklear) and most recently Elvis & Annabelle (Mary Steenburgen, Keith Carradine, Joe Mantagna). Mike acted in 17 episodes of the NBC series “Friday Night Lights” and received screen credit. Mike is currently living with his family in Bandera, Texas and has started BanderaMusic.com and Bandera Music & Film Productions where he has written the screenplay “Silent Stranger” for the Bandera Gunfighters series. “Silent Stranger” has been completed and is now in distribution. He is also working with Executive Producer Rudy Robbins as a Producer for the television series “Intriguing Mysteries Of The Old West”. The 30-minute pilot is complete and Mike recently edited a marketing version that is being shown to other production companies and producers. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQXmU7eSpk Mike is Liaison for the Bandera Film Office and also the current President of The Great Western Cattle Trail Association.

Mike R. Murehead Bandera Film Office (830) 796-7779 Email: mike@BanderaFilm.com

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