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Nom de naissance Warren Herbert Chaney
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 3 novembre 1942 (81 ans) à Louisville (Etats-Unis)

Warren Herbert Chaney (born November 3, 1942) is an American author, filmmaker, behavioral scientist, and business executive. He is also an artist, entertainer and a pioneer in early television. In a career spanning four decades, Chaney wrote twenty-four books, seventeen screenplays, and one hundred eighty-six 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 seventeen 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 advisors for Vent Haven Museum, the board of advisors for the International Ventriloquists' Association and in June 2006, received 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 shortly afterwards, accepted a position as CEO (Chief Executive Officer) for the Mind Technologies Institute, a company specializing in behavioral research. He continued in that position until the company sold in 2012, and relocated to the Philadelphia area. He has since written seven books, one screenplay and twenty-eight magazine articles.

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Early life
Warren Chaney was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Herbert and Izetta Chaney. His father was a coal miner and later in life, a barber. His mother was an early 1900s' Nebraska and Kentucky schoolteacher and spent most of her adult life in public education. Chaney lived briefly in the small towns of St. Charles, Kentucky and Springfield, Tennessee but grew up from the age of five in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He carried newspapers for the Kentucky New Era from age 11 to 17 and credits the experience as valuable training for his adult life. Chaney became an accomplished ventriloquist, magician and entertainer at a young age and used his entertainment skills to work his way through college and years later to embark on a writing and directing career in film and television. Upon graduation he became a direct commission officer in the United States Army.

Education
Chaney earned a double major Bachelor of Science from Austin Peay State University, graduating in 1964 with degrees in Marketing and Speech and Theatre. In 1968 he received an MBA (Master of Business Administration) with a concentration in Finance and Management from St. Mary's University, Texas. He received a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) degree from the University of North Texas in 1974 in the fields of Management and Behavioral Science. Chaney became that University's "Outstanding Alumni Award Recipient" in 2009. and in 2014, Austin Peay State University also awarded Chaney its Outstanding Alumni Award.