Dan Davies

Davies hosted his own syndicated comedic radio show The Swami on which he played Achmed Benaben The Swami from 19982001 The show was syndicated throughout the Midwest From 2002 to 2004 he hosted two TV shows Just for the Health of it and Now Were Cooking that were aired throughout Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Illinois In late 2007 he started his own production company with Steve Russell DaviesRussell LLC is a fullservice TV and film production house One of their first productions was the Rex Piano directed Wienerfest 2009 Davies portrays the drunk yet musclebound and egotistical Hunter Rolph while Russell was the DP They also coproduced Mitakuye Oyasin 2009 In 20082010 DaviesRussell coproduced along with Blame Society Films the internet short comedy Thors Kitchen The 2010 Ed Gein the Musical which Davies written coproduced and acted as title character opened the door for the critically acclaimed film West of Thunder 2015 which Davies wrote the screenplay for along with Jody Marriott BarLev The creative advisors on the film included Lakota elders and Academy Award winner Michael Blake In it Davies plays the starring role of Henry Seed West of Thunder went on to win the Political Film Societys Best Film Peace and Best Film Human Rights becoming the first film in their almost 30 year existence to win both categories It was also awarded along with Django Unchained the Best Western at the Almeria Western Film Festival in Almeria Spain In honor of the 40th Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco CA it was chosen as a Top10 AllTime film among such classics as Dances with Wolves Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Last of the Mohicans