Scott H. Reiniger

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Scott Hale Reiniger , Prince of Ghor (born September 5, 1948 in White Plains , New York ) is an American director and actor . He grew up in New York and graduated from Rollins College with a degree in drama in 1971 .

He began his acting career with small theater productions. He became known to a wider public in 1978 through his leading role as Roger DeMarco in the horror film Zombie (English original title Dawn of the Dead ) by George A. Romero . In Romero's next film, Knightriders , he played a supporting role as the motorcycling knight Marhal.

Reiniger stopped working as an actor in the mid-1980s. Only in the remake of Dawn of the Dead , released in 2004, did he appear again in front of the camera for a cameo . Otherwise he has been working alternately as an author and director for television and for smaller theater productions and as a management consultant and communication trainer for several years.

In 2004, research by the British journalist Ben Macintyre revealed that Reiniger, the eldest great-great-great-grandson of the American adventurer Josiah Harlan, is the legal heir to the title of Prince of Ghor . Ghor is one of the provinces of Afghanistan . However, according to his own statement, Reiniger does not intend to officially claim the title and wants to pass it on to his younger brother.

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