# Joe Zaso

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**Joseph Zaso** (born November 20, 1970) is an American actor and filmmaker.

He is a [b-movie](/source/B-movie) regular and has been involved in the low budget [science fiction](/source/Science_fiction) and [horror](/source/Horror_film) industry since 1990. Zaso, an avid [bodybuilder](/source/Bodybuilder), is usually cast as muscular villains.

## Career

Zaso was born in [Queens, New York City](/source/Queens). He formed his own film production company Cinema Image Productions in 1986 and since then he has primarily produced and acted in [horror films](/source/Horror_films).[1] Zaso broke into the film industry with the horror musical *It's Only a Movie* (1990), which he wrote, directed, and appeared in. He followed it up with several producing jobs, including the Italian [giallo](/source/Giallo)-inspired *Five Dead on the Crimson Canvas*.

He teamed up with [New York City](/source/New_York_City) director [Kevin Lindenmuth](/source/Kevin_Lindenmuth) on several pictures, including *Alien Agenda: Endangered Species* (1998), *Rage of the Werewolf* (1999), and *Addicted to Murder 3: Blood Lust* (2000). He also worked with German horror director [Andreas Schnaas](/source/Andreas_Schnaas) on both *[Demonium](/source/Demonium_(film))* (2001) and *[Nikos](/source/Nikos_(film))* (2003).

Zaso has also appeared as an extra in the film [Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story](/source/Dragon:_The_Bruce_Lee_Story) (1993) and on the popular [daytime TV series](/source/Soap_opera), [All My Children](/source/All_My_Children).

Zaso also appeared in the Martin Scorsese film, [The Wolf of Wall Street](/source/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)) and the HBO Feature film, [The Normal Heart.](/source/The_Normal_Heart.)

Zaso also appeared as real-life mobster Angelo Sepe in the Fox Nation docudrama [The Great American Heist](/source/The_Great_American_Heist) which concerned the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK airport.

## Filmography

- *Screambook* (1984)
- *Screambook II: The Next Issue* (1985)
- *Maligno* (1986)
- *It's Only a Movie!* (1990)
- *Frankenstein Reborn* (1993) - Short film
- *Five Dead on the Crimson Canvas* (1996)
- *Guilty Pleasures* (1997)
- *Creaturealm: From the Dead* (1998)
- *[Evil Streets](/source/Evil_Streets)* (1998)
- *Alien Agenda: Endangered Species* (1998)
- *Rage of the Werewolf* (1999)
- *Addicted to Murder 3: Blood Lust* (2000)
- *Date with a Vampire* (2001)
- *[Demonium](/source/Demonium_(film))* (2001)
- *[Nikos](/source/Nikos_(film))* (2003)
- *[The Adventures of Young Van Helsing: The Quest for the Lost Scepter](/source/The_Adventures_of_Young_Van_Helsing:_The_Quest_for_the_Lost_Scepter)* (2004)
- *And Then They Were Dead...* (2004)
- *Red Midnight* (2005)
- *Demon Resurrection* (2005)
- *Angel's Blade* (2006)
- *[Barricade](/source/Barricade_(2007_film))* (2007)
- *Darkness Surrounds Roberta* (2007)
- *Funland* (2008)
- *Timo Rose's Beast* (2008)
- *Virus X* (2010)
- *BearCity* (2010)
- *Perry St* (2010) - Short film
- *Braincell* (2010)
- *Revenge of the Egg* (2011) - Short film
- *CAFE HIMBO* (2011-2012) - Web-Series
- *Supernaturalz* (2012)
- *Animal Attraction* (2012) - Short film
- *Can You Survive a Horror Movie?* (2012) - TV Special
- *[The Wolf of Wall Street](/source/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film))* (2013)
- *Jack Attack* (2013) - Short film
- *The Normal Heart* (2014)
- *Tales of Poe* (2014)
- *Mauvaises Tetes* (2015) - Short film
- *Hotel Bleu* (2016)
- *The Great American Heist* (2022) - Docudrama

## References

1. [Cinema Image Productions](http://www.cinemaimages.net/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20051201093348/http://www.cinemaimages.net/) 2005-12-01 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

- [Joe Zaso](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953654/) at IMDb

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