Eric H. Heisner

Director · Cast · Writer

Eric H. Heisner is a Western Actor, Novelist and Filmmaker. He prides himself on being hired as the cowboy character who can ride a horse, shoot a gun, deliver his lines and not fall off. A Graduate of Columbia College Chicago he worked on the hit television show "ER" as Assistant Location Manager for two years while living at State & Rush Street on the Gold Coast of Chicago. Was formerly roommates with Cinematographer Dan Farnam and Actor Chad Curtiss who decades later are still working contemporaries in Los Angeles, CA. Between gigs for "ER" and the feature film "High Fidelity" Heisner was able to travel to Peru and hike Macchu Piccu, traveled down to the Florida Keys and live in his truck for an extended period and fine tune is skills as a furniture maker & finish carpenter. A move out to Los Angeles but him in a job for Dustin Hoffman as a script courier and then in minor roles for the History Channel and background in several feature films such as "Pirates of the Caribbean". Upon completion of the award-winning Western TV Pilot "Friend of the Devil" Heisner became known around town as the "Next Generation of Western Filmmakers". Attending the Algonquin Cowboy Lunch with such Western Stars as Ernest Borgnine, Bo Hopkins, Bruce Boxleitner and others serves as continuing education for an Actor, Writer & Filmmaker with a passion for the Western genre. His first novel, "West to Bravo" published in 2014 by a New York Publisher has put another notch on his storytelling resume that has been followed by several other Western and Adventure novels.