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Michael Q. Schmidt
Born	Michael Quentin Schmidt
Years active	2001 -
Website	MQSchmidt.com

Michael Quentin Schmidt (born April 20, 1953) is an American actor and fine arts model.

Career

Michael first began modeling in 1996 for Fullerton College. By the end of the year he was also working with artists at California State University, Fullerton, California. By 1998 he was modeling for most the major colleges and universities in Orange County and in 1999 began working for Pasadena's Art Center College of Design. In in early 2000 an art director from Sony contacted Artcenter searching for a specific physical type to be the basis for a character in an upcoming film and Michael was brought in to work on 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. He was converted by the CGI artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks Studios into the creature of The Mountain Troll. His continued work for Sony led to his working with artists at Disney Film, Disney Television, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon Studios, and the American Animation Guild.

He has been in over 200 film and television projects, garnering over 90 IMDB credits. His first featured role was in Cranium Candy Entertainment's "Naked Shadows", filmed in 2003 and released in 2006. Michael's next lead roles were in "Flesh Pit" (2004), "Skeletons in the Closet" (2005), and multiple roles in "The Three Trials" (2006) .

In June 2007 he appeared on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live as the model in a segment where Aunt Chippy and Uncle Frank learned to draw nude models . In 2003 he began an ongoing series of live appearances as a model for Let's Paint TV, an interactive call-in television show where host & artist John Kilduff instructs on painting while simultaneously running on a treadmill, preparing food or drink, and fielding uncensored phone calls. Michael poses (barely) costumed as the Devil, or a biblical Adam, or as Cupid, or as Nero, or as Bacchus. Most notable among his episodes of LPTV were the ones in November of 2006 when he posed artistically nude while Kilduff stuffed a chicken .

In August 2007, Michael performed at The Troubadour in Hollywood as part of a live performance called "Muscle's for Bones" which featured Weird Al Yankovic and which was hosted by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Michael reprised (this time totally uncensored) the "Raise My Roof" dance performance he originally shared on the April 8, 2007 "Hamburger" episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. In November 2007 he performed this dance at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as part of The Comedy Festival as part of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Live in Vegas .

Partial filmography

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
• Shmucks (2001)
• The Decay of Fiction (2002)
• Santa Clause Versus the Christmas Vixens (2002)
• Clean (2004)
• Streakers (2004)
• Flesh Pit (2004)
• Tears of a Clown (2005)
• A Happy Ending (2005)
• Skeletons in the Closet (2005)
• Axegrinder (2006)
• The Three Trials (2006)
• 18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
• Huge Naked Guy (2006)
• Naked Shadows (2006)
• S.C.R.E.W.D. (2006)
• A Study in the Orientation of Han Sum (2006)
• Souvenir (2005
• KwameWorld (2006)
• Margaret's Son (2006)
• Last Exit (2007)
• Because I Said So (2007)
• Piggies (2007)
• Sniper Patrol 420 (2007)
• Rebel Studz: The Uncensored Documentary (2007)
• R3tual (2007)
• Fear Ever After (2007)
• Yesterday Was a Lie (completed)
• Paris in Jail: The Music Video (2007)
• Dead Doornails (2007)
• Skid Marks (2007)
• Your Name Here (completed)
• Blind Ambition (post production)
• Cold Blood Canyon (2007)
• Accidents Happen (post production)
• Amhurst (post production)
• Mr. Sadman (post production)
• Carvaggio: The Search (filming)
• East of Fairfax (filming) Variety

Partial television

• National Lampoon Network's Master Debaters, episode #1.1 "Master Debators" (2003)
• Let's Paint TV, 10 episodes (2003-2007)
• Mysterious Worlds, "The Salida Massacre" (2004)
• Girls Behaving Badly, episode #3.3 "Type Dirty to Me" (2004)
• Distraction, 6 episodes (2005-2006)
• Tom Goes To The Mayor, 28 episodes (2004-2006)
• Showtime, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, episode #3.8 "Hair" (2005)
• Totally Busted, episode #3.4 "Megalor" (2005)
• North Mission Road, episode #3.3 "Hells Angels Mystery" (2005)
• Untold Stories of the E.R., 2 episodes (2005)
• Fresh Baked Video Games, episode #1.4 "Counterfire: Battlefront 2" (2006)
• Attack of the Show, "Tony Hale, XXL Games" (2006)
• José Luis sin censura, "Gorditos Sexy" (2007)
• Fear Files, episode #1.1 "Zombies" (2006)
• The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, episode 2.0 "Christmas with the Dickinsons" (2006)
• Designing Your Future], episode #1.17 "Art Models" (2007)

• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, 5 episodes (2007)
• Pants-Off Dance-Off (2006)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live, "Aunt Chippy and Uncle Frank Learn to Draw" (2007)
• Lindsay Fully Loaded (2007)
• Sunset Tan (to air 2008)
• Reno 911, (2 episodes to air 2008)
• Praise the Lord, "Carman's Reality Check" (2007)

Music videos

Featured in:

• Scramble (2003) for artist Nicotine (Nikata Kleverov) for album "The Nature of Addiction"

• Dictaphone's Lament (2005) for Tycho Music for album Sunrise Projector
• Isabelle (2005) for group Koufax for album Hard Times are in Fashion
• Beauty (2006) for artist Aria DeLacruz
• Florida Sunshine (2006) for group As Fast As for album Open Letter to the Damned
• Elevator Mash featuring I've Been (2006)] by group Waxapples for album House of Wax
• Hillbilly Witchcraft (2006) by artist Kennedy for album Special K
• Doctor Love (2007) for group Bumblebeez for album Don't Sweat It
• Potty Mouth Girl (2007) for artist Mark Tuura for film The Descendent
• Paris in Jail (2007) for Omovies
• Naked Pool Party (2007) for artist Christian Zonts
• Plaster Casts of Everything (2007) for group Liars for album Liars
• Lindsay Fully Loaded (2007) for Omovies
• What Do You Want From Me (2007) for group Cascada for album Perfect Day

References

1. modeling resume on actor's official website
2. Projects List on actor's official website
3. IMDB Filmography for Michael Q. Schmidt
4. Twitch Films: Update on Randy Greif's THE THREE TRIALS
5. Pulp Movies: Review of "The Three Trials"
6. Horror Movies Database: About The Three Trials
7. Pressbox.co.uk: Let's Paint TV celebrates 6th anniversary
8. Reuters: Multitasking artist shows how to do it all
9. LA Weekly: The joy of painting Saddam
10. MetaFilter: Let's Paint and Exercise TV
11. Meathous: Let’s Paint, Exercise, and Make Blended Drinks
12. Troubadour events for August 2007
13. Tim and Eric website
14. Let's Paint TV on IMDb
15. Miami Hearld, Changing Channels: "Lindsay Fully Loaded"
16. "Paris in Jail: The Music Video" on IMDb
17. Paris in Jail: The Music Video
18. MusikBitClix (German)
19. Liars: Plaster Casts of Everything
20. "Lindsay Fully Loaded" on IMDb

• 1953 births
• Living people
• American film actors
• American television actors
• People from California
• California actors
• People from the Greater Los Angeles Area
• Drawing
• Cartooning
• Music videos