Bryan Kreutz

**Bryan Kreutz** is an American actor. Kreutz portrayed Brody Vanderschmidt on Pureflix series Up on High Ground.

Bryan Kreutz

## About

**Bryan Earl Kreutz** (born September 30, 1977) is an American actor, Television director,Television producer, and screenwriter.

His most recognizable acting roles have been as Larry Thrunkleman on the Tom Green comedy film **Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot** **(2019)** and Brody on the
television series Up on High Ground **(2014–2015)**, which he also directed and
produced.

## Production and Pilot television

Starting in September 2009 and in less than 4 months Kreutz began the concept of spearheading the launch of transitioning the long running,and since 2006 Crawford Broadcasting program "The Revolution
Radio" from radio into a Television format for a pilot.

Premiering in 2010 he directed and produced all 36 episodes of
the Christian television network affiliate TV program Revolution 618 in which he also played an integral part of creating the concept of the St.Louis based network show.

"On a roll" sets designed by Bryan Kreutz for the un-taped pilot of the U.S. version of the proposed game show.

During the 1st season of the Christian television network program Rescued Nation, producers Arlington Lane and Bryan Kreutz shopped a
number of other game show format TV pilots to production companies. Notably one was presented as an opportunity from KissMedia Limited Executive Producer Howard Huntridge with rights from FremantleMedia for pitching a version of
the unsold U.K. TV Pilot game show titled "On a Roll". The game-show was already recorded in July 2006 on the set of Joe Pasquale's
The Price is Right UK and featured English television presenter
Greg Scott. Ultimately the pilot had to be
sold and re-shot by a U.S. based production company, mainly because of the
climate in the U.K. while at the time, many of Britain's most popular TV game
shows were under fire and threatened to be forced off the air, after regulators
launched a probe into whether they constitute gambling, according to gambling
watchdog claims and timing for the pilot in 2012. The U.S. based On a Roll sets were fully constructed with designs
from Kreutz, but never materialized into a production deal. Kreutz, who like Huntridge, began producing the pilot TV
show art in the U.S.,inventing shows and selling them to the national networks,
would not succeed in this reverse style of a U.K. show selling in the U.S.

## Up on High Ground

Kreutz co-created the family and faith based TV series Up on High Ground, directing many of the episodes and playing the video gamer neighbor character Brody. Along with Brayden Patterson and Joe McGettigan, Kreutz produced the series and was a lead writer. The series ran on several The CW TV affiliates in syndication and Pure Flix Entertainment from 2014-2015. Upon the completion of the nine episode series run, Kreutz had directed over 60 TV episodes, including three TV talk shows, his first being Revolution 618, the latest airing in Summer 2021 titled "A Captain's Log". All 9 episodes of the Up on High Ground series were solely written or co-written by Kreutz, Lec Zorn, with the pilot episodes co-written by Joanna Ferbrache. Up on High Ground was nominated for best TV series on the 2020 Detaron TV Awards on Roku. The actress Rylee Cravens won best actress for her portrayal of Savannah Swanson at the same awards show.

## Personal life and career

Kreutz went to college in the late 1990's to be a broadcaster and that lead into full time acting and producing all of which were a childhood hobby.

After arriving at the CBS News Radio affiliate WKEI in 1998 as an on-air sports producer of radio talk shows, Kreutz played ice hockey, eventually breaking into semi-pro hockey in the late 2000's with the St. Louis Shock of Hockey North America.

(Center) Bryan Kreutz at the 3rd Annual LA's CelebrityWalk MS Kickoff Event in West Hollywood. (Left) John Haegele, (far right center) Jessalyn Wanlim, (Right) Billy Ingoldsby

### Location

West Hollywood California

Kreutz continued as an announcer for the St. Charles Cyclones in the North American Football League and eventually onto the Midwest radio station KJSL where
he did voice-overs and produced the two radio shows that led to TV talk shows. Most recently, with talent agency reps in both the Midwest and L.A., Kreutz landed a substantial speaking role as the TV host named Larry Thrunkleman, in the comedy film “Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot”. Larry and his talk show featuring the The Jerry Ford Band interview the supposed Big Foot himself who
is being pursued by Tom Green and “Survivorman” Les Stroud. The film was shot in Cape Girardeau, Missouri near where Kreutz was residing at the time.

Kreutz has voiced nearly 100 commercials and almost as many promos for radio stations. As an on screen actor his career has opened up television commercial spokesman opportunities front-lining him on national cable TV commercials for Fidelity Communications and Sono Bello TriSculpt.

Kreutz currently resides south of the Los Angeles, California area with his wife Tiffany and their three children.

## External links

* IMDb name|3840743

\*  Bryan Kreutz at TV.com