Reggie Bannister

Reggie Bannister
Reginald Horace "Reggie" Bannister (born September 29, 1945) is an American musician, actor, producer, writer, and activist. He is known for his role as Reggie in the Phantasm film series.
Biography
Bannister is known for playing the gun-toting, ex-ice cream man Reggie in the Phantasm film series. Bannister starred in the films, which were directed by Don Coscarelli, alongside A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Angus Scrimm.
Bannister has appeared in several films and worked with such notables as Ossie Davis, Bruce Campbell, Ella Joyce, Daniel Roebuck, Andy Griffith, Joe Estevez and Andrew Divoff, and many others. Bannister has played many roles from Reggie in the Phantasm series to Herb Tooklander in the latest Stephen King adaption of One for the Road.
Along with co-producer Tim Sullivan and writer/director Paul Ward, he has also co-produced and starred in the short sequel to Salem's Lot, entitled, One for the Road. This film stars Bannister as well as Adam Robitel as Booth and Audrey Walters as Janey Lumley.
In 2012, Bannister and his wife, Gigi, have collaborated with co-writer Shelby McIntyre and co-writer/director Vito Trabucco on the comedy horror film Bloody Bloody Bible Camp. After having worked with Sullivan on One for the Road, Bannister had even asked Sullivan to co-produce and star in the film as the main villain, Sister Mary Chopper, which Sullivan accepted.
Music career
Bannister composed the song "Have You Seen It" (used in Phantasm IV: Oblivion) and arranged "Sittin' Here at Midnight" with Bill Thornbury (used in Phantasm).
Personal life
Reggie Bannister is a United States Military Veteran who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Reggie states in an article "Getting back to the Vietnam thing. I was not for that war, I was against it, but there was this thing called the draft. I had friends who were going to Canada and I wasn't going to do that, I stand up to what's in front of me, and so just like anything else I just thought, 'Soldier? Really? You're gonna be a soldier? Okay, well then you're going to be the baddest-ass soldier that ever put on a uniform.' So I just took that attitude, Landon, and just went for it. I was a head radio operator for an automatic weapons specialty group." He was around .40-caliber weapons all the time, 40 and .50-caliber weapons and he's lost some of his hearing because of it. Reggie is a service connected disabled veteran because of it, on top of which he was exposed to Agent Orange." Reggie took his GI Bill from the military and he studied acting.
Bannister currently resides in Crestline, California, where he lives with his wife.
Filmography
Bonejangles (2017) – Edgar Sr.
The Obsidian Curse (2016) – Professor Reginald M. Sydow
Phantasm: Ravager (2016) – Reggie
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012) – Father Richard Cummings
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012) – King Clayton
Not Another B Movie (2011) – Umpire
Primitive (2011) – Dr. Stein
One for the Road (2011) – Herb Tooklander
Carnies (2009) – Detective Conrad Ellison
Walking Distance (2009) – Webber
Satan Hates You (2009) (post-production) – Mickey
Small Town Saturday Night (2008) – Victor
The Quiet Ones (2008) – Mr. Martino
Text (2008) – Reggie
The Rage (2007) – Uncle Ben
The Final Curtain (2007) – Gus
Fallen Angels (2006) – Radar
Last Rites (2006) – Mitchell
The Mangler Reborn (2005) – Rick
Journeyman (2005) – McFearson
Cemetery Gates (2004) – Belmont
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) – Care Home Administrator
Up Against Amanda (2000) – Lead Guitar Ted
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) – Reggie
Wishmaster (1997) – Pharmacist
The Demolitionist (1995) - Warden Thomas
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1993) – Reggie
That Little Monster (1994) – Twelvetrees
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990) – Eli
Survival Quest (1989) – Pilot
Phantasm II (1988) – Reggie
Phantasm (1979) – Reggie
Jim the World's Greatest (1976) – O.D. Silengsly
Kenny & Company (1976) – Donovan
Other work
POV: An Actor's Insight (2009)
Working with a Master: Don Coscarelli (2006)
Phantasmagoria (2005) Documentary on Phantasm (V)
Phantasmagorical Mystery Tour (2005) (V)
Making of 'Bubba Ho-tep' (2004)
References
External links
American male film actors
Male actors from Long Beach, California
1945 births
Living people
American male screenwriters
American male singers
American male composers
20th-century American composers
Musicians from Long Beach, California
Film directors from California
Singers from California
Guitarists from California
20th-century American guitarists
Screenwriters from California
American male guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
The Young Americans members