Joey Rocketshoes Dillon
Joey Rocketshoes Dillon is an expert handler and trick showman of Western firearms, historian, production consultant, and singer-songwriter. Notably he is a three time world champion gunslinger.
Early life
Born in Lake Forest near Chicago, Dillon's family moved to Lake Don Pedro, California where he states he had the Western influence around him with learning how to ride horses and shoot guns with his father. Performing tricks first came with cap guns. "When I was young, I had a wooden and metal pirate pistol from Disneyland," he said. "It was so easy to spin back and forth, I'd go to sleep at night twirling it around my hand. We're all blessed with certain talents -- I'm not good at everything, but this is something I can do well." Once he mastered these he moved on to unloaded real guns. After high school, he moved to Chicago in hopes of becoming a comedian and actor. He took classes with The Second City with a mind to someday be part of Saturday Night Live. While there he honed his comedic talents as a standup at open mic nights. In his early twenties Dillon relocated to Union, Illinois he happened to move next door to Donley's Wild West Town and presented to the management his unique ability as a gunslinger. He quickly landed a position as a part time entertainer, to which Dillon recalled: "I'd have a little portable stereo on a picnic table, I'd hit play on a Western-sounding song, and I'd sit there and spin guns."By the age of 22, he became a world champion gunslinger. Eventually moving to screen work.
Career
Dillon has worked as consultant and gun coach for Hollywood actors while also appearing himself as an actor in both movie and television series of typically a Western genre.Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | Hardin | Sheriff Stokes | |
| 2014 | Reach Me | Gangbanger | |
| 2011 | The Adventures of Loop & Rhett | Virgil | |
| 2005 | Dillon: World Champion Gunslinger | Marshal | |
| 2004 | The Last Shot | Adam Cartwright |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2017 | Godless | Posse Member | |
| 2016 | Westworld | Gunspinner | |
| 2010 | Saving Grace | Mechanical Bull operator | |
| 2004 | Biography | Johnny Ringo | |
| 2004-2008 | Deadwood | Gold Miner |