Background
Gantt grew up in Stockton, California, and comes from a law enforcement family. He drew upon those family experiences as part of the backstory for the title character in The Bannen Way.
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Mark Gantt
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Career
Gantt is best known for his role as Neal Bannen in the Streamy Award-winning web series, The Bannen Way. Early career
Mark got his start in the entertainment business working in the Art Department, Props and Production on features, television and commercial projects, while training as an actor and director at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under Milton Katselas. As an actor he has worked with Brad Pitt in Ocean"s Eleven and Burt Reynolds in The Hollywood Sign.
He has also worked in the television shows Alias, Without A Trace, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
The Bannen Way
"Since its January 6 premiere, the action web series The Bannen Way has raked in more than 13 million streams, making it the fastest growing property on Sony"s Crackle digital video network. Loaded with crime, gadgets, sexy cars, salacious scenarios and high production costs, the 16-episode series is intended as a vehicle for Crackle to reach a demographic of men 18-34 years old.
The Bannen Way also starred, Vanessa Marcil, Michael Ironside, Robert Forster, and Michael Lerner."
"We were tired of waiting for agents to give us a call," said Gantt. "The web allowed us to stretch the boundaries.
We got to create a cool show that we wanted to be in that could allow studios to recoup their money."
The Bannen Way was designed as both a 16 episode web series and feature film and has been distributed on VOD, Digital Video Disc, iTunes, Amazon and Internationally on Cinemax and Sony’s AXN Network.
= The Bannen Way Success The Bannen Way was number six in Mashable"s "The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series February 2010" by Visible Measures with 6,576,886 views. The series was nominated for 7 awards for the 2010 Streamy winning Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor (Mark Gantt) and Best Editing. Awarded Groundbreaker Award for The Bannen Way at the 2010 Los Angeles Webfest.
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Quotations: "We were tired of waiting for agents to give us a call,".
