- Owner and producer of SouthPaw Pictures
- Though 6' 1" tall, is cast mostly in women's roles, playing sassy agents, prostitutes or nefarious femme fatales.
- Won 'Best Editing' for his work on the The Tell Tale Heart segment for Tales of Poe (2014) at the 2011 Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival.
- Gained over 50lbs. to play Beefteena Bullion in The Blood Shed (2007).
- Family's ancestry dates back to early 16th Century and the Lenni Lenape Native American tribes from the Delaware Valley regions of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, who eventually mixed with Dutch settlers and Hungarian immigrants around the end of the 18th Century.
- Has co-authored a book with his mother, Charlotte Kelly, called "Wharton" (Arcadia Press), a historical biography on the small northwest New Jersey mining town where they were both born and raised.
- Inductee to the 2009 Dark Carnival Film Festival's Hall Of Fame.
- Won Best Actor for his performance in A Far Cry From Home / Gallery of Fear (2012) at the 2009 Terror Film Festival.
- Awarded the Jury Award at the 2009 Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival for Most Exciting New Filmmaker with his film A Far Cry From Home.
- Awarded Best Actor at the 2012 Macabre Faire Film Festival for his performance as aging screen star Peggy Lamarr in Bart Mastronardi's The Tell Tale Heart - part of Tales of Poe (2014)).
- First cousin to TV Stage manager Chris Kelly.
- Guest host and M.C. at the New York City Horror Film Festival from 2012 to 2018.
- Profiled in "Out in the Dark: Interviews with Gay Horror Filmmakers, Actors and Authors", Sean Abley, author. ( Lethe Press, 2013).
- Awarded Best Director with producing partner Bart Mastronardi for the film Tales Of Poe at the 2015 Killer Valley Horror Film Festival.
- Great grandfather, William Clarence Rowe, did extra work for the Kalem Moving Picture Company in silent films such as The Engineer's Daughter (1911) and The Peril of the Plains (1911) starring Alice Joyce.
- Named Best director and Best writer and Best Independent Feature for 2003 for his debut film I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002) by Next Tuesday Magazine.
- Voted 'Horror Homo of 2004' at 'The Peephole's Choice' Awards/Campblood.org
- Won Best Feature awards in 2002 for his debut film I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002) at the Telluride Indiefest, NY Independent Film & Video Festival, and the 2003 Key West Indie Fest.
- Won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Urbane in Bart Mastronardi's Vindication (2006) at the 2010 Terror Film Festival.
- Won Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 Dark Carnival Film Festival for his portrayal of Charity Betencourt in Psycho Street (2011) episode- Hypochondriac.
- Won Best Actor for his performance in Scott W. Perry's Something Just (2010) at the 2012 Terror Film Festival.
- Profiled in "Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint", Mike Watt, author. ( McFarland Press, 2013).
- Won Best Sound Design for Site 13 at the 2021 New York City Horror film Festival.
- Won Best Feature Film for The Blood Shed at the 2007 Dark Carnival Film Festival.
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