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Canadian-born J. Marshall Craig is best known for his critically acclaimed work as writer for Eric Burdon's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and The Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell's Between Rock and a Home Place and has been published in a half-dozen languages all over the world. His novel "Eh Mail" and World War I historical non-fiction book "You're Lucky If You're Killed" were also critical successes.

A longtime resident of Southern California, Craig divides his time between writing and directing music videos and feature films for his Lizard On A Stick Productions company and, with British-born director Michael Mileham, the Mileham.Craig Image Group., which is working on bringing two unproduced Monty Python-related films to the screen, as well as British comic Peter Cook's last film project, Rectitude." Craig's work also appears in various literary collections with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and others (The Outlaw Bible of American Literature); Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Che Guevara and others (She's A Bad Motorcycle) and CNN talk show host Larry King (Remember Me When I'm Gone). His latest projects include Guilty By Association, an exploratative biography of acclaimed hip-hop producer Damion "Damizza" Young and West Coast rap, and the environmental study "Smart, Strong and Sustainable," on the "greening" of America, with Chuck Leavell. He directed the music performance DVD "An Evening With Becca Solodon" and is a producer and second unit director of (and makes an appearance in) the upcoming major Australian feature film by Frank Howson, "Remembering Nigel," which so far has won Best Foreign Film and Best Musical Soundtrack awards at film festivals. Craig is also prominently featured in the documentary "The Nigel Diaries," which won Best Documentary at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in September, 2009. He co-directed, with Frank Howson, the Elijah Allan-Blitz music video "Don't Let Me Die In Hollywood," and has credits on a half-dozen other mid-2009 music videos. Craig recently launched the Karmic Brothers Productions film company in partnership with Frank Howson and in association with FHE Australia and BabyRee Media in the United States. He was also named, in mid-2010, a consultant to the British music competition company YouBloom with Damion Damizza Young, Bob Geldof and Nigel Grainge and Vicki Abelson.

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