Photo courtesy
Ken Page in “ROBOCOP”
UNL theater grad
gets started in Dallas
By Bill Allen
Senior Editor
Ken Page has proven that actors
don’t have to be in Hollywood to make
it in the movies.
Right now he’s off to a pretty good
start in Dallas.
The 1985 University of Nebraska
Lincoln theater graduate had a part in
the recently released “ROBOCOP,” a
futuristic science fiction film dealing
with a half man-half machine police
man. Filmed in Dallas, the movie
transcended the usual hokeyness of
the genre by spoofing itself and con
temporary society.
Page plays Mr. Kinney, a character
with about two minutes total screen
time, who gets blown away by machine
gun fire.
But he looked good. And sometimes
that’s what counts.
"Sometimes you’re picked for a part
based on a lot of issues that don’t have
to do with talent or craft,” Page said.
He said he looks like a “yuppie,” and
that’s what a lot of filmmakers want
right now.
In "ROBOCOP,” Page plays a young
executive working for a m^jor corpora
tion. He has short, stylish brown hair
and wears a conservative suit.
Page also can lie seen in the season
opener of the TV series “Dallas,” where
he has a walk-on part. He can also be
heard in a soon-to-be-released national
radio advertisement for Oscar Meyer.
He is the voice of Superman’s Clark
Kent in the commercial.
Page said he is doing "anything I can
get hired for at this point. Right now
I’m just building up a resume and
experience.”
“Work generates work,” he said.
After graduating from UNL, Page,
the son of UNL psychology professor
Monte Page, attended graduate school
at Southern Methodist University, but
left to go to work as an actor.
"I had my fill of school,” he said.
Page said he has mixed feelings
about his years at UNL. He said the
theater program here was hurt by .
budget cuts.
“What I got out of UNL was an
education,” he said, “The theater train
ing was OK, but I think a good education
helped me with the things I have to
deal with in life. I think their theater
department needs more money,” he
said, "but it (being an actor) comes
down to the desire and being able to
use that.”
With the film resume he puts to
gether in Dallas, Page hopes to make
the journey to Los Angeles. He said
Christopher Darga and Chrystal Carson
are two other UNL theater graduates
who are working in films there. He said
Darga is doing well in commercials and
Carson had a small part in the new
Madonna movie, "Who’s That Girl." She
was one of the bridesmaids who spent
most of the movie tied up.
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