C. Wayne Owens: Wikis

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C. Wayne Owens (born 1950) is an American actor, author, songwriter, aphorist and cartoonist.

Born in Oklahoma, C. Wayne Owens and his family moved to Los Angeles later the same year. By age five Wayne was working as an extra in movies and on TV. Shows he appeared on include: My Three Sons, Leave It To Beaver and Circus Boy. In 1979 Wayne's brother Albert Lewis Owens was murdered in California by Stanley "Tookie" Williams

When he left home in 1963 he worked full time, went to school and found time to do community theatre all around the country. He studied theatre at Southwest Missouri State College (where he created his first comic strip for the school newspaper Jerm: On The Microscope Slide) and the University of Missouri - Kansas City (whose newspaper also ran the strip). He co-wrote and performed in the longest running live show in Kansas City history, King Henry´s Feast. He also took the character ("Seymoure") from that show and toured many a Renaissance festival around the country for a decade. The character was the center of his first album, Seymoure Says. This character created the game (stolen, he says, by his brother Simon) called Seymoure Says, and has played it with great success all over the world. He also used it as a tool in his teaching of improvisation.

He was a contestant on Jeopardy! and toured Europe and the Middle East, headlining the first USO All Stand-Up Comedy Show, entertaining U.S. troops for the Department of Defense. He has appeared in a variety of films ranging from "The Day After," to "Linda Lovelace For President." He had been in TV Mini-series like "Gone In The Night" and "A Matter of Justice. "He can also be seen as "The Maniac" in the U2 video "The Last Night on Earth." Where you won´t see him is in the film "Mars Attacks!" where his scene was cut. But his name is in the credits under the title "Stranger #1" so he does still get residual checks ("What a country!")

He has recorded five comedy and music albums that have been sold around the world & his science fiction/comedy radio series "Rip Jarvis of the Space Cadets" has been in the works to be adapted into both a cartoon show and a feature film for some time. "Promises To Keep" was Wayne´s first attempt at a film on his own, although he did co-write and appear in Todd Norris´ award winning feature "The Paranormal."

He created his second comic strip character with Wendy Barsotti (daughter of [[Charlie_Barsotti_http://www.barsotti.com/main.html" href="/Charlie_Barsotti"_href="/[[Charlie_Barsotti">[[Charlie_Barsotti_http://www.barsotti.com/main.html">Charlie_Barsotti" href="/[[Charlie_Barsotti">[[Charlie Barsotti http://www.barsotti.com/main.html, who created "Sally Bananas") "Mike Fright: Stand Up!" and it ran in comedy club publications. He later revived the strip and does it by himself to this very day. He has written a number of books (most are Science Fiction) and they are to be found for order from most booksellers or on his publishing page. C. Wayne Owens lives in Olathe, Kansas with his wife Pamela (they married in 1971) and has a daughter, Robin, a granddaughter, Brianna, and a grandson Sean.