Dean Cameron (born Dean Eikleberry; December 25, 1962) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his role as Francis "Chainsaw" Gremp in the 1987 Mark Harmon comedy Summer School. He also played Dave Marshak in Ski School and Ski School II. Cameron along with comedian Victor Isaac tour in a 2-person show called The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam.

Life and career

Cameron was born in Morrison, Illinois, the son of Kay Elizabeth (Kytle) Huff and Burton Robert Eikleberry. He spent his childhood in Oklahoma and summers in Santa Barbara, California. He graduated from Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma.

Dean has starred in short-lived television series like Spencer (1984), Fast Times (1986, a spinoff of the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High), They Came from Outer Space (1990), and Mister Sterling (2003). He made guest appearances on many TV series, including The Facts of Life, ALF, My Sister Sam, Will & Grace, ER, Felicity, and Psych.

He is often hired to perform in a two-person show entitled The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam, in which he and actor Victor Isaac read from Cameron's 11 month correspondence with a Nigerian 419 Scammer. The show was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival in 2004 and 2005, the Just For Laughs festival and the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in 2006 and ran in Los Angeles from September 2004 to December 2004. The first professional show was at The Amaz!ng Meeting, TAM2 for the James Randi Educational Foundation in 2004.

Dean Cameron is an Australian inventor. He is known best for the inventing Biolytix a wastewater treatment technology.

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Dean L. Cameron (born January 20, 1961) is from Rupert, Idaho. He is a Republican member of the Idaho Senate, representing the 27th District consisting of all of Minidoka and Cassia Counties. Dean is married to Linda Lanovara and has three children: Carissa, Laci, and Nathan.

Early life and career

Cameron achieved his AA in Political Science at Ricks College, Brigham Young University-Idaho in 1984. In the past, he had worked as an insurance salesman at Rupert Abstract Company and currently it's co-Owner and employed at Cameron & Seamons, INC. Cameron has presently been in the Idaho State Senate since 1991. He was a Youth Committeeman of the Republican Party from 1984 to 1988. He was in the Precinct Committee of the Republican Party from 1988 to 1990.

Idaho Senate

In 1991, Senator Lynn Tominaga resigned to accept a position at the Idaho Water Users Association. The Legislative District 24 Central Committee met to fill the vacancy in Senate Seat B, sending three names in order of preference to Governor Cecil Andrus: Cameron, then Representative Ralph Peters of Jerome, and former Representative XXX of Jerome. Governor Andrus selected Cameron to fill the remainder of Senator Tominaga's term.