ARTHUR LIGHTBODY

Talent Rep: Fast Lane Talent Agency (NC)

 980-224-0337​

Height/Weight: 6’ 4” 220 lbs. Hair Gray Eyes: Gray Age Range: 65-80

​ Film - Role - Director/Film Company

• Andy/Lead-Raymond-Carissa Chen/SCAD.

• George’s Chick/Lead-Grandfather-Renzi Li/SCAD

• On-the-Line/Lead-Ben/Madelyn Rogers/Southern Advent Univ. (Post production) 

• RU Serious-Supporting/Bishop Max-Chris Davios

• Caged-Background-Michael Walker

• Fish Head Blues-Supporting-The Sour-Faced Man/Kevin Muenzer-Wildrover Films

• The Legend of Red Lake/Supporting-Street Person-Cory Warren (Post production)     

• The Rush Call/Supporting-Papa Stevens-Trey Riley

• Saturday Afternoon/Supporting-Dad/Laura DeBar 

• Grandma's Hats/Supporting-Grandpa/Anil Dhokai/Strawhouse Pictures 

• Salt Water Taffy/Principal-Older Man-Elias Gandy/Gandy Visible Pictures 

• Home Sick/Supporting-Old Man/Wesley Collins/SCAD 

• The Invaded/Lead-William/Electric Films and Candor Fiction

• Prodigal Sons/Principal-Vice Principal/Mark Stewart Iverson (Post production)

• Heyena Spots/Lead-Charles-Saad Hakim/Freewater Productions (Post production)

• Bringer of Light/Supporting-Abbot/Caleb Smedra/Crimson Rose and Colt Sugg

• Every Day is Exactly the Same-Music Video/Lead-Earl/Benjamin DiGiaccobe-NCSA

• The Plumber/Supporting-Dan/William Herf

• Auntie Alecto's Fantastic Black Umbrella/Principal-Sick Man/Quincy-Kern Johnson-NCSA

• White Moves First/Lead-White Man/Matthew Epp

Television -Role-Director

• Inexplicable: How Christianity Spread (TBN) -Abraham Lincoln-James Langteaux

• Limbo (Pilot)-Co-Star/Monsignor-Pat Dortch (Post production)

• Florida Man-Principal/Old Man-Donald Todd

• Married to Crazy-Episode One-Co-Star/John-Jeremy Carr-Patriot Saints Films

Awards
Best Actor @ Carolina Film Community  2023

Commercials-Role-Director/Film Company

• Aroga Home Health Care-Principal-Jeni Buckholt, Director/Haven Creative

• Interpoint Health-Principal-Michael Wise, Director/The Big Picture

• Supernatural Bible-Principal-Sid Roth

• Atrium Health-Principal-Picnic Table 

​Stage-Role-Theater                  

• The Zen Substitute-Head Chorus Leader-Hamline University

• Fools-Slovitch the Butcher-Orange Coast Comm. Theater

• Calvary Drama -Several short plays-Calvary Church, Charlotte

• Funny Money-Det. Sgt. Slater-Community Playhouse, Lancaster, SC

• The Wizard of Oz-Zeke and Ozian-Matthews Playhouse

• Midsummer Night’s Dream -Theseus-Community Playhouse, Lancaster, SC

• Greatest Christmas Pageant-Reverend Hopkins-Matthews Playhouse

• Becket-The Pope and four other-Central Piedmont Community College

• Shakespeare in Love-Condell/Sampson/other-Central Piedmont Community College    

• A Path Made Clear-Abraham Lincoln-The Museum of the Waxhaws

• Carpe Diem-Abraham Lincoln-Union Playmakers

• The Diary of Anne Frank-Otto Frank-Central Piedmont Community College 

• One-man Shows: 
  
  “Daybreak!” (John Wycliffe)
  “In Tyndale’s Tomb” (William Tyndale)
  “A Majority of One” and “The Last Days” (Andrew Jackson)
   
  Actor Training

• Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, Minor in speech and drama, William Kimes

• Orange County Community College, Costa Mesa Calif., Acting II

• Gideon Film Festival on cold reads, Bonnie Johnson

• Film Actor’s Studio: Subtext, Technique & Scene Study Lon Bumgarner & Marilyn Carter

• Helen Kearney Konen, Auditioning

• The Actor’s Lab, Scene and auditioning, Pat Dortch and J.D. Lewis

• Auditions and Business of Acting Workshop - Kevin Sizemore
  
  

Formal education:

• Hamline University, St. Paul MN, B.A Sociology

• St. Thomas University, M.A Teaching

• Bethel Theological Seminary, M.A. Theological Studies

• Four graduate semesters in linguistics (Universities of North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas-Arlington) 

• Public Relations studies at U.C. Irvine. 

Special skills
I speak some German and Tagalog and can do  Minnesota, German, Swedish, British, and Southern accents. Swimming and golf.
 
Past occupational experience:
Juvenile corrections, mental health work, language research and Bible translation, administration and public relations. Communications and media relations for print, T.V., Internet and radio; radio program production.  Lived outside the U.S. eleven years, nine years Philippines.