Tony Beazley born and raised in Nashville Tennessee started his photography skills at the age of 7 polaroid swinger and 110 Kodak instamatics.
Tony took his first concert photo at the age of 9 of Elvis Presley in 1971. His interest continued through his teens using super 8 movie cameras and into high school working on the annual staff as still photographer.
From there Tony took photography classes at Nashville State Tech majoring in
Photography and Video Production, graduating with high honors and moving on to starting his own photography and video business in 1993 with a lot of help from family and his close friend Betsy.
Whenever asked about his career the first words out of his mouth is that he owes his photography eye to teacher John Chastain at Nashville Tech."There would be no photography department at Nashville Tech if it hadn't of been for John Chastain".
Working for the American Diabetes Foundation as staff still photographer for the mid-state region for 3 years was Tony's first professional job, moving over to video for the United Cerebral Palsy Telethons for an overlapping 3 years shooting documentaries and music videos for nation wide television.
He has also shot over 200 wedding videos in his videographer career as well as award winning documentaries ,in which he continues today. Award winning docs such as “Dixie Rose” , "The American Biker" ,"Glory Road" ,“The Mae Axton Story” and "Jukin' With Gene:Frynds of Mine" have given him notoriety in the film and video industry.
Tony also worked on the John Frankenheimer directed “Against the Wall” as an extra cast member and moving in to taken stills as unit still photographer for the NFVA.
“Letter From Death Row” starring Bret Michaels was a small independent feature Directed by Marvin Baker where
Tony did all the PR photography and production stills for Michaels and Ann Gillis Productions.
Tony was unit still photographer and 1st video camera on “Dixie Rose” “Iron Outlaws: The American Biker” and "Glory Road" which were all produced by Centaur Productions. "The American Biker” has spawned into four separately titled television documentaries for Lifetime , American History, Travel Channel, PBS and HBO stations .
These docs have been featured at film festival and won numerous awards through out the world. Check the links section for urls concerning these in my links section.
Planet Hollywood hired Tony as their PR videographer in 1997 .This gave him ample opportunities to meet Hollywood actors and a lot of the Nashville based country music artist.
He has compiled a very intensive stock library of those actors and country music artists up until Planet Hollywood closed their doors in 2001.
At the same time Tony was also working as chief photographer for Tennessee Monthly Magazine where he made front cover numerous times in those 3 years.
Tony Beazley is currently working on a documentary called "Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Anthology" which he is Director of Photography .
While filming this documentary with Director Rick Broyles they also filmed a two hour spin-off documentary/biography about Ronnie Van Zant lead singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd narrated by Gene Odom.
This video featured Gene Odom who was a long time friend of Ronnie Van Zant. They both grew up together and were even on the same little league baseball team. Special appearance by Coach Leonard Skinner.
This video is a marvelous piece of work. Titled "Jukin' With Gene:Frynds of Mine". Never has a video about Lynyrd Skynyrd been released to the public with so much information than this video right here. Stories that have never been made public are told by Gene himself on this DVD.You can read more about the video in detail at "Gene Odoms website "
and hear a few audio clips from the video "Gene Odom audio clips click here"
Extra note*
Wildlife has always been very interesting to Tony since being raised in rural ,woody environments from the age
of 4. He constantly shoots hummingbird and raptor video when time permits between jobs, collecting stock footage for a later date documentary.
This is just a brief intro of Tony Beazley's professional experience, you can view more about his work history and credits in his resume file.
Tony Beazleys new documentary click here
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