Mike Schank

Mikel Joseph Schank (August 3, 1969 – October 13, 2022) was an American actor and musician. He was close friends with independent filmmaker Mark Borchardt and helped Borchardt make the 1997 short horror film Coven. He appeared with Borchardt in the 1999 documentary film American Movie, for which Schank also provided music. A resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Schank later appeared in the films Storytelling (2001) and Hamlet A.D.D. (2014), and made a cameo appearance as himself alongside Borchardt in a 2006 episode of Family Guy. As a musician, Schank recorded three homemade CDs, including Dreams I Know—Yesternight (2009), which features Schank playing acoustic guitar along with drum loops, samples, and spoken recollections of his dreams. Schank died on October 13, 2022, at the age of 53. Career Schank began learning how to play guitar at the age of six.