MBC Alumnus John Pancho Demmings My parents were not able to FEATURES THANK GOD FOR MY THAT DAY BEA SPEED- pay for our participation in The The Fugitive MOTHER’S INSTINCTS, HASSELMANN CLAIMED Metropolitan Boys Choir, but The Seat Filler ME AS ONE OF HER OWN, Bea would not turn us away, as The Shrink Is In In the new place my brothers and the rest they say is she never turned away any boy Very Bad Things James and Keith, my sister history….. because he lacked the means. Opposite of Sox Kitisha, and myself were the Shadows of Doubt first black children to attend She introduced me to a whole George of the Jungle an all white elementary new world, a fraternity that has It is your contributions that Progeny school. The transition would helped to mold and shape the have helped to tell my story, The Fence not be an easy one.The racial lives of thousands of young men and that will continue to tell Equinox tensions tested my mettle, for just like me. She has been an the stories of my many Humanoids We moved into our new the playground was the arena incredible support and mentor MBC brothers. TELEVISION house February of 1969, the where I would earn my my entire life. The singing, the 24 first black family in an all Thank you for your stripes one contest at a time. dancing, the discipline, the CSI NY white neighborhood. My Priceless Gift, The unfounded hatred aimed smiling embracing faces in the Bones mother's intuition was to at my skin's color worked to John Pancho Demmings NCIS move her children away from audiences of the Boys Choir shape some sharp edges in Alias the heat, away from the fire performances set my life on a me, and threaten to steal my The District in order to give us a chance at new course, for a flame was Director's note: innocence. I was the The Division greater things in life, kindled inside of me. Thank you to John for sharing his gladiator of my youth with an Chicago Hope something that seemed so story. Needless to say, I am so onslaught of willing Sabrina the Teenage Witch fleeting in the place we left REALIZING YOUR very proud of him and his behind. opponents all wanting to be 24 DREAMS accomplishments and humbled by the one take "Pancho" down. LA Doctors the personal credit given. What a Today I am an actor living in City Guys I REMEMBER…… My parent s’ faith and prayers fine and compassionate Hollywood who has worked with Fresh Prince of Bel-Air kept me framed in God's gentleman! It is so rewarding to I remember sitting on a the likes of Harrison Ford, Will The Norm Show grace. They kept me in hear what the power of music does windowsill in the attic of the Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Mark Beverly Hills 90210 church where I was a to help young boys develop old house the evening of Harmon, Keiffer Southerland, Rescue 77 member of my church choir. confidence, self esteem and April 4th, 1968, the night Dr. Gary Sinese, David McCallum, Louis and Clark However, their efforts didn’t discipline that stay with them for Martin Luther King Jr. was Dick Van Dyke, Courtney Cox, TELEVISION MOVIES keep me out of the principal’s life. Our many alumni, like John assassinated. My 6 year old David Arquette, Linda Hamilton Babylon 5 office, so this particular day have attested to this. Thank you eyes and ears absorbed the and many others. Another Woman’s Husband didn’t seem like any other. I for your part in making this all indelible images and riotous A Private Affair sounds reaching across the was greeted by a woman happen. Please read on to learn of My humble beginnings were On the Line whole of my neighborhood, a whose eyes seemed to know John's many accomplishments. facilitated by the generosity of THEATRE tumult of anger and despair, me, and whose calming voice What a talent!!! I am thankful for people like yourself. I was the 8th Othello the hope of a nation exploded reached a place in me. the privilege that I have been of 11 children, and my brother Six Degrees of Separation by an assassin’s bullet. given to work with the wonderful Keith was number 9. To Kill a Mockingbird young boys of the Metropolitan A Poster of the Cosmos EDUCATION: Economics & Buisiness B.A. Degree, Boys Choir and seeing them Master Harold & the Boys Macalester College, Religion Minor, Extensive Spanish grow into wonderfully Tambourines of Glory responsible men. Sincerely, TALENT & INTEREST: Basketball, Football, Baseball, Imaginary Invalid Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Tennis, Swimming, Tenor Voice, Bea Hasselmann Improv Comedy .