Troy Duffy
Birth Name:
Troy Duffy
Birth Place:
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Profession
Writer, Director, Actor, Producer, Soundtrack
Fast Facts
- Initially moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music with his band the Brood
- Was working as a bartender when he sold the script for "The Boondock Saints" to Harvey Weinstein in 1997
- The inspiration for "The Boondock Saints" came when he returned home from work one day to find a dead woman being wheeled out of a drug dealer's apartment
- Quote: "From watching ['Overnight'], you have no idea how I [got a movie and record deal]․ To suggest that that type of behavior got all these people to invest millions of dollars in my unproven talent․․․to me it stretches [credibility] quite a bit․"
- Quote: "(On "The Boondock Saints"): "[You] watch the news and [you] say, 'Whoever did that despicable thing should pay with their life․ You think - for maybe just a minute - that whoever did that should die․․․I was going to give everybody that sick fantasy․""
- Best known as the screenwriter and director who created "The Boondock Saints․"
- Two songs by his band the Brood were featured in "The Boondock Saints:" "Holy Fool" during a tavern shootout and "Pipes" during the credits
- Was the subject of the documentary film "Overnight," which was produced by Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith, the co-managers of his band the Brood