Born March 27, 1958 in Los Angeles
Brief synopsis
Father, Dirty John Foley, was a Los Angeles Policeman for
thirty years who owned a parking lot in downtown L.A... In In 1966 he and my mother bought a modest
cottage in West Newport Beach so from the age of eight P.S. Foley began
spending summers and weekends in West Newport until the family moved to the
cottage permanently in 1972.
Attended Newport Harbor High School graduating in 1976.
Attended Orange Coast College 1976 -1977
Matriculated to Stanford University and graduated in 1980
Political Science/Economics.
First job out of Stanford was for Sea Coast Security owned
by Jerry Wooters on whose life the movie Gangster Squad was based.
Next, I helped start a restaurant called The Golden Spike on
the Stanford campus. The restaurant’s theme was that of a train station and had
a large model train that brought drinks to your table.
From the restaurant I took a job as an errand boy for legendary
director film Peter Bogdanovich. Over the years I worked my up to Associate
Producer. During this time I worked on several movies including Mask, Illegally
Yours, Texasville, I also worked on creating Director’s cuts for the movies City
Girl, The Last Picture Show and They All Laughed.
I left Peter Bogdanovich for a short time to work on the
movie The Dark Wind which is based on a Tony Hillerman novel and was produced
by Robert Redford. I was an associate producer.
Returned to work with Peter Bogdanovich as an associate
producer on the movie The Thing Called Love.
During the time I was working on movies I was also investing
in Laundromats and apartments. My father, retired, ran these for me. Shortly
after, completing The Thing Called Love, my father was diagnosed with lung
cancer and I had to leave the movies to run the investments and though I
thought I might return one day, I never did.
Today, I run a real estate investment portfolio and in my
spare time I write.
Athletic Career
Newport Harbor High School – Football - All Sunset League, Team’s
MVP, Honorable mention All County – Orange County All Star Selectee. 1974 Sunset League Champion football and CIF
Large Schools CIF Playoffs Semifinalist.
Track Team at Newport Harbor High School - member of the Mile Relay
which holds the Newport Harbor record 39 years later, number seven all time in
Orange County History. 1975 Sunset
League Team Champion, 1975 California State Team Championship runner up in
California High School Track and Field.
1975 California State Track Meet second place team mile relay. Individual Sunset League champ 220 yard dash 1976.
Stanford – Football - Two year starter defensive back... Earned
Coach Recognition and official Game balls against Oregon State and
U.C.L.A. – played in the Bluebonnet Bowl
and the Hula Bowl All-Star Game.
Family
Married 24 years to Kathy Estocin-Foley. Daughters Storm, 21, Stanford, and Rowan,
18, Savannah School of Art and Design.
Met my wife on the movie Illegally Yours. She a
Film/Television hair stylist.
Writing
Have written two books Riding Godzilla and West Newport
Blues. Currently, working on Dirty John and Norma Jean – stories of my parents.
West Newport Blues came along when I heard about the death
of a teammate and I had moved from Orange County to Sonoma County. I just
started writing and a story began to take shape. I wrote the first draft in six
months and it took four and a half years to whittle it down. I wrote about the
place where I grew up and the people I knew.
I was first inspired to write in the third grade. A girl in my class was writing stories and
reading them to the class. I said to myself I want to do that but at the start
I wasn’t very good.
