O.W. Tuthill

Oliver W. Tuthill is an award-winning composer, songwriter and screenplay writer. He was a member of the Recording Academy for many years. Oliver has written musical scores for numerous documentaries and two narrative feature films. He is the President of Blue Pony Trail Music, a BMI music publishing company. Tuthill wrote and produced rap songs for Native American Music Award winner Shadowyze on Shakespeare, Crazy Horse and Constantine The Great. He recorded with artists such as Steppenwolf and John Mayall and was a studio songwriter in Michigan when Mark Farner and Grand Funk Railroad recorded at the studio he worked for. He recorded and produced Kim Fowley's "Santa Ana Winds" which was released on GNP Crescendo in 1980, and he was the opening act for Styx for two years. His song "I Don't Like to Lose" has been released in Europe on over 19 CDs in the past 20 years. He had a top forty hit, "Light of Day" in the Mid-West in 1967 with Cecil Washington and the Group. He is also an award-winning Writer/Director/Producer who has won numerous Telly Awards and the Washington State Governor's Award in Media in 2002. As an actor he has worked with Jonathan Demme, Larry Cohen, Edward Hermann, Colby Chester, Andy Griffith, Jack Klugman, Dick O'Neil, Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Ridgely, Danny "Little Red" Lopez, Med Flory, Ed O'Herlihy, Bernie Casey and Blythe Danner. As a director he has worked with the late Russell Means, Academy Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actor, Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves), Jay Red Hawk, Tara Walker, Sugar Ray Seales and John Savage.