Carl Amari (born August 20, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and nationally syndicated radio host.
Early years
Amari was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the youngest of four children.
He holds a B.A. in Communications at Columbia College and trained at the Second City School of Improvisation in Chicago, Illinois.
Career
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As a young boy, Amari was fascinated with classic radio shows and collected them on CD and reel-to-reel tape. As he got older, he founded Radio Spirits, which eventually became the world’s largest marketer and distributor of classic radio programs. Amari spent 20 years licensing more than 60,000 original radio programs from the rightsholders, including George Burns, Milton Berle and Jerry Lewis. Amari created the nationally syndicated radio series "When Radio Was" started as a local program in Chicago, hosted by Amari. Former CBS Radio executive Dick Brescia heard an in-flight version of the program on an Eastern Airlines flight, and soon mounted a nationally syndicated version of the series, beginning January 1, 1990 with host, Art Fleming.
Amari was instrumental in developing the 24/7 “Radio Classics” channel for Sirius/XM. In 1998, Amari was featured on the cover of INC. 500 Magazine. He was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, Variety, The Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, The New York Post and other publications. Tribune Broadcasting named Amari one of “Chicago’s Very Own.”
In 1998, Amari sold Radio Spirits to the public company Audio Book Club and in 2001 formed Falcon Picture Group, to work on the family-friendly entertainment projects. Through Falcon Picture Group, Amari controls exclusive licensing rights to more than 10,000 classic television shows, including “Family Affair,” “Dangerous Assignment,” “Bozo’s Circus,” “Man With A Camera,” “Suspense,” and “Hopalong Cassidy” and others. In 2007, Amari created the “Word of Promise” audio Bible (published by Christian giant Thomas Nelson, Inc. The New Testament was released in October 2007 and quickly won the top Evangelical award and The Christian Book of the Year.
In October 2008, Amari produced a youth edition of the New Testament entitled “The Word of Promise: Next Generation.”. It won the 2009 Audie Award for Best Inspirational Audio Non-Fiction. In October 2009, Amari produced “The Word of Promise Old Testament” featuring several actors including, Jon Voight, Gary Sinise, Richard Dreyfuss, Max von Sydow, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Allen, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Astin, Marcia Gay Harden, Jesse McCartney and Stacy Keach. The Old Testament was combined with the New Testament and released as “The Word of Promise Complete audio Bible” in 2009 and has won awards, including 3 Audie Awards and the Christian Retailer's Choice Award. "The Word of Promise" was the #1 best-selling audio Bible in the world.
Amari also produced “The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible: New Testament,” a Catholic audio Bible from the RSV-CE translation released by the Zondervan Corporation, in November 2010. It is the #1 selling Catholic audio Bible in the world and has won numerous awards of excellence.
Radio
Amari is the host and producer of “Hollywood 360,” a 4-hour weekly nostalgia and showbiz radio show heard coast-to-coast on 100 + radio stations. On April 12, 2015, Amari began producing/hosting "The WGN Radio Theatre" Sunday nights on radio station AM 720 WGN.
Amari created and produced the nationally syndicated radio series “The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas”, hosted by Stacy Keach and won awards, including: The Audie Award, AFTRA’s American Scene Award and the XM Nation Award for Best Radio Drama. Launched in 2002, “The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas” features radio adaptations of Rod Serling’s Emmy-Award winning TV series and is licensed to Amari by CBS and The Rod Serling estate. Each hour-long radio drama features Hollywood celebrities in the title roles. The show is produced in Chicago and broadcast coast-to-coast each week on nearly 200 radio stations.
Amari has produced four dramatized, award-winning audio dramas, The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories, “Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories” and chill you and thrill you.
Film & Television
Amari has appeared as an actor in several motion picture and television projects, including "Madison," "The Package," "Next of Kin," "The 18th Angel," "Johnny & Clyde," and "Prison Break." Amari produced the action-drama “Madison” starring Jim Caviezel, Jake Lloyd, Mary McCormack, Bruce Dern and John Mellencamp. “Madison” was invited by Robert Redford to open the prestigious Sundance film festival in 2001 and was theatrically released by MGM to critical acclaim. Amari produced the romantic-comedy “Eden Court” starring Thomas Lennon (17 Again / Reno 911) and Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Father of the Bride / According to Jim). Amari is currently developing several TV series and movie projects in conjunction with Gulfstream Pictures and Warner Brothers.
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