Craig Campobasso,
CSA Casting Director

Fresh out of high school, California native Craig Campobasso found himself working behind the scenes for four years on Frank Herbert’s Dune. The father and daughter producing team, Dino and Raffaella De Laurentiis, and director David Lynch, were Craig’s mentors into the business of filmmaking. Raffaella later hired him on the popular Christmas movie Prancer, starring Sam Elliott, as a casting director after he apprenticed as a casting associate on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. Craig has been casting for more than two decades and was nominated for an Emmy for casting David E. Kelly’s Picket Fences.

A few other casting projects include:

• Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow starring Jude Law and Angelina Jolie
• Forget About it! starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch & Phyllis Diller
• Redline starring Eddie Griffin
• The Perfect Host starring David Hyde-Pierce
• The Operation Delta Force trilogy
• Hell & Mr. Fudge starring Mackenzie Astin and Keri Lynn Pratt