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'' and playing D.O.A. on the

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Modeling and acting

Bannon landed the cover of '' Advocate Men's'' October 1995 issue. He modeled for celebrated male nude photographer Jim French in 1995 under the name of ''Dusty Manning'', appearing in B+W Photoset J49 of ten images, and Color Photosets CP338 and CP339 of six images each. These and other contemporaneous photos were used subsequently in a number of high-quality Jim French and Colt Studio publications, including SPURS Magazine #25

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the Jim French Annual Man Calendar 1997, the Jim French Annual Man Desk Calendar 1997, Colt Leather Calendar 1997, Colt Leather Calendar 1998, Colt Leather Calendar 2000, Colt Studio Presents Magazine #21

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Colt Butt Beautiful Calendar 2002, and the second of the two Colt Studio 35th Anniversary Albums. He made his acting debut in the

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-directed

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''Behind the Barn Door'' playing the love interest of Bo Summers. Bannon then starred in independent

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film ''Kill Madonna'' and eventually landed roles in major motion pictures like ''

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'' and ''House of 1000 Corpses.'' Chad has also been mentioned numerous times on the

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podcast as the mystery cage fighter who was also the recipient of the 'Hungriest Butt Award'.

Martial arts

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's "Team Beast". He fought Rick Collup in 2002 at King of the Cage: 18 Sudden Impact, knocking him out in only 20 seconds. Bannon then fought Tatsufumi Tomihira at

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in Yamagata, Japan and lost in a

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Kickboxing record

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Mixed martial arts record

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Appearances

* ''Behind the Barn Door'' 1993 (Catalina Video) — Jack * ''Kill Madonna'' 1996 * ''White Men With Big Dicks'' 1996 (TLA Video) — Chad Anthony * '' Step By Step'' 1997 — Frankie * ''The Eddie Files'' 1997 — Burly Cop * ''Quick Study: Sex Ed 1 (1998)'' — Todd Marshall * ''

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'' 1998 — New Club Bouncer * '' Pacific Blue'' 1999 — Wall * '' V.I.P.'' 1999 — Beefy Guy * ''

'' 1999-2000, — D.O.A. * ''

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'' 2000 — various voices * ''

'' 2001 — Red Ape Soldier/Man Hunt Ape * ''

'' 2003 — Killer Karl * ''Bullets in the Gun'' (music video) by Toby Keith - Lightning

References

External links

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K-1 Sport profile
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