Former Morro Bay City Manager, Dave Cole, has officially gone Hollywood, as he has stepped up his long-time interest in show business, to land a supporting role in an upcoming Indie movie, “Capone,” by director and producer, Giovanni Tartaglia.
Cole stars as Big Al Capone’s (played by Louis Fasanaro) right-hand man, Johnny Torrio, a ruthless mobster who helped Capone corner the bootlegging markets in 1920s-30s Chicago.
The film, which has yet to start formal production, is planned to be shot at the Golden Oak Ranch Studio back lots in Santa Clarita, Calif. That studio has a variety of sets including business districts, suburban neighborhoods and homes. Among the sets for Capone, is an elegant speakeasy of the kind from the Roaring 20s where ordinary folks would rub elbows with the likes of gangsters such as Torrio and Capone.
Information about the movie including screen saver stills are available online at: https://caponethefilm.com, on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/caponethefilm and ion Instagram at: www.instagram.com/caponemovie.
Cole, who was the city manager in Glencoe, Ill., a Chicago suburb, before coming to Morro Bay, had in Glencoe assisted a production company with locations and planning and pretty much caught the movie biz bug.
Cole has had several parts on TV, including playing Gen. Zachary Taylor in a History Channel production, “The Mexican-American War.”
After leaving the City of Morro Bay, Cole has worked in the Indie film industry helping with productions, marketing, distribution and film festival strategizing. He was on the board of the SLO International Film Festival for several years and helped start two others in California. He now goes by the stage name, “David John Cole.”
