Reggie Bannister
Reginald Horace "Reggie" Bannister (born September 29, 1945) is an American musician, actor, producer, writer, and activist. Biography. Bannister is known for playing the shotgun-toting, ex-ice cream man Reggie, from film director Don Coscarelli's "Phantasm" series in which he starred 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". And most recently, Bannister and his wife, Gigi, have collaborated with co-writer Shelby McIntyre and co-writer/director Vito Trabucco on the comedy/horror extravaganza "Bloody Bloody Bible Camp". Also having a great experience working with Sullivan on "One for the Road", he had even asked Sullivan to co-produce and star in the film as the main villain, Sister Mary Chopper, which he accepted. 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. Music career. He 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. Reggie States in a 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.