John D. Leonard

Born John Daniel Leonard in Massillon, Ohio. He dropped out of school (later achieving his GED) to work full time in a chrome plating plant as he pursues a life in rock-n-roll as a drummer. Playing with local bands for many years up to the present day never connecting with a band with the same path ideas as him. Having two children, Brenna E. Leonard and Weston G. Leonard with former wife Brenda, Leonard then begins to rethink his goals. Realizing that he has been watching movies from a behind-the-camera perspective since he was a small child and loving the idea of creating films himself, Leonard opened a video store with goals of making films on the side. That began to happen when he befriended Kipp Speicher, a frequent video customer. They became film partners and created One Eye View Productions. With Speicher providing a digital camera, they experimented on and created numerous shorts and videos starting with "Dead Bodies"(2002) written and directed by Leonard. Then "Stranger Than" later that year. "Dead Bodies 2" & 3 followed shortly after. Never loosing sight of his goals and making many more video projects, Leonard meets and falls in love with Kelly Armstrong who quickly jumped on the movie making wagon with them. John and Kelly then started a second film company called Warped Vision Studios. With Kelly writing and John directing, they made short films like "Bad Day" and "Frozen Hustle". They made other small videos, promos and trailer trash leading up to a joint Warped Vision/One Eye View Production of "Werewolves of the Relic" and "Paranormal Exterminators" (a Ghost hunting spoof). Leonard has since wrote and directed shorts like "Paid to Kill", "The plains", "Cult of the Jester", and Control. After landing a small speaking roll in the Hollywood Blockbuster "Unstoppable", his acting and movie making path is striving for the next step up, with writing and directing his first full length feature film, "TV Dinners with the Cannibals".