Biography

Tanner Beard is an Emmy nominated film and television actor, CEO of Silver Sail Entertainment, Co-Founder Mammoth Film Festival and has written and directed several motion pictures, series and documentaries over the last few decades.

Named after his father Ricky Neal Beard, Neal Tanner Beard was born September 16th 1984 in a Big Spring Hospital just outside his hometown of Snyder, Texas. Is of: Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, English, French, Cherokee and Choctaw Indian descent mostly from his mother Janice's side.

Beard attended the New York Film Academy in Hollywood, California shortly after finishing high school in his hometown of Snyder, Texas. This culminated with his first comedy television series "Valley Peaks," which Tanner produced, wrote, directed and starred in for over two seasons early on in his career.

Tanner has since split his time in various fields of motion pictures and television. As a director, he turned his Western short film, "Mouth of Caddo" into the feature film "Legend of Hell's Gate," which he also wrote, produced and starred in alongside Kevin Alejandro, Summer Glau, Henry Thomas and Glenn Morshower. His love of producing stories from the old west would continue with the European Western "6 Bullets To Hell." Shot on the same sets from famous Sergio Leoni and Clint Eastwood classics in Spain, the film features music by Ennio Morricone and is a painstaking recreation of the cult classic style from the 60s and 70s receiving several awards and most recently associate producer on Kevin Costner's epic tale "Horizon: An America Saga" Part II.

As an actor Tanner has had early roles in "The Letter," starring Winona Ryder and James Franco. Robert Rodriguez's "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" and SXSW darlings "Sylvio" and "Barracuda", starring "Fargo's" Allison Tolman. "We Summon The Darkness" where he got to work with legendary entertainer Johnny Knoxville, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", "Blood Behind Us" and so many more, continuing to impress as a presence on screen and off.

It's as a Producer, Tanner may be more know as he has quickly blazed a trail of big films and successes producing films starring Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, Cate Blanchette, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Antonio Banderas, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Val Kilmer and and so many more. Working with his family in films is said to be his favorite thing he's taken from this profession thus far and he's done over a dozen projects with cousin Russell Quinn.

As CEO of Silver Sail Entertainment and now an Emmy nominated creator, we can't wait to see what more will come from Mr. Beard.

- IMDb mini biography by: V. Day-Lewis