
Ken Nordine
Acting
Biography
Ken Nordine was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers.
Known For

A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.
Fearless Frank

"KnitWits" chronicles a Saturday afternoon in a knitting store in New York City where a group of regulars gather weekly to swap stories, gossip, advice and the trends of the day.
Knitwits
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
Story of the Christmas Carol

"Command Z" asks what would it be like if you could "undo" in real life as easily as you can on a computer?
Command Z

Ken Nordine’s jazz spoken-word soundtrack was the inspiration for this work and a collection of body parts that Andrew Kötting had accumulated over the years of friends and family on super 8. "The true colour that flesh should be is the colour that flesh is".
Fleshfilm
"The NewTek Video Toaster was a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of standard-definition video in NTSC, PAL, and resolution independent formats on Commodore Amiga computers and subsequently on computers running the Windows operating system. It comprises various tools for video switching, chroma keying, character generation, animation, and image manipulation. The Video Toaster won the Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in 1993."
Revolution - A Demonstration of the Video Toaster

A collection of word jazz pieces set to abstract computer-generated visuals.
The Eye Is Never Filled

Promotional film on the use, application, and benefits of photography and film produced for the Eastman Kodak Company.
Worth How Many Words
No telling where your mind will go playing with numbers....