Warren Herbert Chaney (born November 3, 1942) is an American executive, author, filmmaker, behavioral scientist, entertainer, businessman and a pioneer in early television. In a career spanning four decades, Chaney wrote fifteen books, fourteen screenplays, and seventy-eight professional and nonprofessional magazine and journal articles. He wrote nine songs used in feature films and eight for theatrical productions. From 1978 to 1994, he wrote entries for Collier's Encyclopedia, considered by Kister's Best Encyclopedias, to be the best written of the commercial encyclopedias. Chaney produced ten motion pictures, wrote fourteen and directed nine. He is probably best known for his films America: A Call to Greatness starring Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, and Peter Graves; Behind the Mask (1992 film) starring Roy Alan Wilson and Deborah Winters; Aloha Summer starring Chris Makepeace, Don Michael Paul and Tia Carrere, and the pioneering 60s television series, Magic Mansion. He worked professionally as an entertainer during his college and young adult years eventually serving on the board of directors for Vent Haven Museum, the board of advisors for the International Ventriloquists' Association eventually receiving the Order of Merlin award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians.During a lengthy business and academic career, Chaney established the first University Health Services Administration program for the state of Texas, served on multiple boards of directors and advisory boards of public companies and is considered a leader in the field of self-directed neuroplastic development of cognitive functions.Chaney's film and television work won awards at the New York Film Festival, Houston World Fest and an Emmy for the production opening of his Y2K – World in Crisis miniseries. He won best director, producer, and screenplay awards at the CineCon, Critics' Choice and American Cinema Awards.Chaney retired from film and television in 2005 and served as CEO (Chief Executive Officer) for the Mind Technologies Institute until 2012 when he retired for a second time.
Jason Chaney, Lesley Chaney, Dominique Chaney, Leonora Chaney, Grayson Chaney
Parents
Izetta Chaney, Herbert Chaney
Movies
The Lamp, America
Star Sign
Scorpio
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You will never know where you are going if you forget where you have been!
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In you continue to have the same conversation tomorrow that you had yesterday and today, you will probably keep on having the same conversation ten years from now.
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Success always belongs to those who will do what others will not!
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Houston, Texas [September 2011]
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His Father-in-Law was Ralph Winters, head of television casting for Universal Studios for 28 years.
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