David Ashe has proven his brilliance as an actor in both comedy and drama, delivering unforgettable performances in everything from "Gods of Los Angeles" to "The Phantom Movie" and "Ghostbusted 2." As a dramatic actor playing Bruce Tree in "Gods of Los Angeles," you get into his head and feel the love he has for his girlfriend Rhonda, and the pain of how difficult their relationship is in spite of it all. The two are completely believable as a tortured couple. The very same summer, Dave turned in a completely idiotic adlibbed comedic performance in "Ghostbusted 2," as a man going slowly insane, a performance that never fails to make me laugh every time I see it. Every film I've made with him, he's completely stolen it away at some point, adlibbing up a storm as Merlin in "Excaliburger" and in a variety of roles in "The Phantom Movie," which he cowrote. Let's not forget his swordfights with Niket Doshi in both "Phantom Movie" and "Excaliburger" either.


"David Ashe is the best actor I've ever worked with, and a great friend. He never fails to make me laugh no matter what sort of mood I'm in, and he makes me look like a better director than I am, because he's just a great damn actor. I don't like making movies quite so much when he's not around. I wrote the early Freds, but most of the classic sketches were his idea, and his jokes, like 'Sugar Schlockins' and 'Kill.' And the Mucho Man. And 'A Big Fat Waste of Your Time.' We wrote and made 'Phantom Movie' together, and we both got to add our own idiosyncrasies to it in a team effort ... it became quite disturbing, which is why the movie is as funny as it is. Not to mention that he was there every day onset as producer and star, ringing my doorbell and waking me up most days. And he let me crash at his house and sap his life-strength and sanity for the 3 weeks we had to shoot 'Excaliburger.' Nobody shoots movies in the insanely short time-frame we did, it's just impossible. "Gods of Los Angeles" was even more impossible. But when I've got a David Ashe on my side, then I know it's gonna work out so I can let sanity just sort of fall by the wayside and it's more like, okay, let's just keep going, no matter what ... the warrior's strength, y'know, the Cimmerian blood in him. It's inspiring."

-- Garrett Gilchrist

Whether living out barbarian fantasies or unsuccessfully hitting on women, onscreen and off, David Ashe is the quintessential OCP actor. He is a veteran of the stage, having appeared in many local plays, working with Masuk Summer Theater. He is also an accomplished screenwriter. His first original screenplay, "Campus of Doom," about the attack of the forces of darkness on a college, was a fast-paced comic epic -- and when the words "comic" and "epic" are used to describe an Ashe script, you better believe it's comic, and epic! He is currently attending Florida State University, where he directed and starred in an original short film, "To Film School, or The Killer Machines Have My Car Keys," about an FSU student unable to get in their film program (much like Ashe himself), but desperate to complete a light-hearted musical comedy about killing machines sent from the future to enslave humanity. Unhappy with the short, Ashe didn't bother to release it.

Eventually, of course, he'd like to direct better.

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