Frank Comando


    After Graduating, from Pine Bush High School in 1959, I left Pine Bush and was off to New York City to start a new life.   I relocated in Brooklyn,  NY where I entered and completed 5 years of  night school at Charles Evens Hughes Vocational High School.   I graduated as a Master Electrician. I worked in construction days, studied in school on Tuesday and Thursday night's and I sang on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights in local NYC night clubs, also opening rock concerts that were broadcast live by WMCA radio. My singing can be heard on http://www.myspace.com/frankcomando  Met and married my first wife in 1967 when the party ended so did we. I got lucky in "69" when after appearing in a few locally produced N.Y. plays I acted in my first major film nothing big, but I did became a member of the Screen Actors Guild, bouncing around playing various bit parts and doing extra work  I  got a lucky break on my first major film, and was hired as an extra but was chosen as a stand-n double for Charles Bronson in Lola, directed by John Sturgis, I was also was in the Valachi Papers. I made great money, and Studied drama with Lee Strasburg. I became interested in writing while working in a film called Supercops ( I heard the money was in the millions if you wrote the screen play)  So I wrote my first an only film Montage, a mystery thriller about  murder and music.  I started a film company in '72 with Steven Chakiris, called Stefrac Productions LLC, and began directing by the seat of my pants, but differences in casting and the lack of  money it ended. After that and needing money to live I auditioned for Serpico, but old health problems came back again.  I had a seizure during the audition,  and I couldn't get arrested in the theatrical industry!   It caused a loss of my career.  I began to hitchhike  around and slept in the streets for two years until I met my second wife, Linda.  We married in 1975 and we have five children.   I went on disability for the next twenty-five years while she nursed me back to health. At age fifty I began to have good health, as a result of  Asian health help  and I was finally able to attend college and graduated in "97" at the age of fifty-four receiving an AS degree in communications. I began acting and singing again, now and then. I enjoy life- especially my wife Linda and our five children, and six grand children. Today we own and run a small weekly periodical newspaper. Linda is the editor and a fine artist.   She is just wonderful.  I am learning computer animation, and I am looking forward  to creating a show that I hope will be purchased by network TV. Our paper is called "Ye Olde Tri-Valley Townsman"  and you can read it on line at http://www.thetownsman.com
 and we distribute about one-thousand tabloid size papers, of sixteen pages each week.  If you have something informative to say,  send it to tvtownsman@yahoo.com  and we will consider it for publication, if space allows. My column psuedo name  is Knarf Odnamoc, Gnome, he's a very positive Gnome of 197 years young.  Hope all of our young thinking "old" classmates are well. Stay safe! Bye for now,  Frank    

Frank Comando

131 Peekamoose Road

Sundown, NY 12740

845-985-0501

 pinebushclass59@yahoo.com  

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