- Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. He is the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom are veteran comedians and actors themselves. Ben Stiller's most recent role was in the film "Night at the Museum" and his next upcoming film is "The Heartbreak Kid". - Frank McCarthy
Frank McCarthy (1912 - 1986) graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, Class of 1933. He worked as an executive producer for 20th Century Fox and Universal following retirement from the military. During his career in the army, McCarthy, a former reporter, press agent, and holder of a master's degree from the Virginia Military Institute, rose to the ranks to become a brigadier general. - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award. - Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902-December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor). Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Louise Torpin and Frank Zanuck, a hotelier; his last name is of Dutch origin, and his father had Dutch and German ancestry. - Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the "Blade" trilogy of movies. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. On April 24, 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor convictions for willful failure to file federal income tax returns. - Shawn Levy
Shawn Adam Levy (born 1967) is a Canadian American director and actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. Levy is the director of "Big Fat Liar", "Just Married", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "The Pink Panther", and "Night at the Museum". He has also directed many television shows, including "Cousin Skeeter", "The Famous Jett Jackson" and "Pepper Dennis". Levy has a production deal with 20th Century Fox. - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 - February 17, 1970) was a major American composer of music for films. His birth year is commonly mistakenly given as 1901. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. Between 1938 and 1957, he was nominated an incredible twenty years in a row. - Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 - April 23, 1986) was an Austrian actor and twice Oscar-nominated film director. Preminger was born in Vienna to a well-known family. Preminger's father Marc was once the Attorney General of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As their father, both Otto and his brother, Ingo Preminger, earned law degrees in Vienna. Preminger worked with Max Reinhardt before emigrating to America. At first he directed and acted for 20th Century Fox. - Alice Faye
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, remembered first for her stardom and then feud at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris. - John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. Although he is mostly known for his influential comedies, Landis has also done many horror related projects. - Betty Grable
Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 - July 2, 1973) was an American dancer, singer, and actress. Her sensational bathing-suit photo, with her head looking over her right shoulder, became the number-one pin-up girl of the WWII era. It was later included in "Life" 100 Photos that Changed the World. - Walter Lang
Walter Lang (born August 10, 1896 - died February 7, 1972) was an American film director. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, as a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking and eventually worked as an assistant director. - Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie (25 August1909-10 June1971) was an English film, television and stage actor best known for his starring role as the benevolent space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still". - Cesar Romero
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 - January 1, 1994) was a Cuban-American film and television actor, known for his portrayal of the Joker in the television series Batman. - Jay Roach
Jay Roach (born 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American film director and producer whose credits include the "Austin Powers" movies, and the hit comedies "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller. Jay Graduated In 1975 From [Eldorado High School] In Albuquerque New Mexico In 1994 he co-wrote with John Rice and Joe Batteer the film "Blown Away" starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. - Victor Mature
Victor Mature, an American film actor, was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean father, Marcellus George Mature, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Mature. He is often described as an early exemplar of the term "beefcake" due to his muscular physique and stolid onscreen manner. But unlike any of his contemporaries and his many successors, Mature always brought a sense of fragility, doubt and uncertainty to his characters. - Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood. Born in Montréal, Québec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. - Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh (born March 11, 1887 in New York City, died December 31, 1980 in Simi Valley) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ("AMPAS") and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. Walsh began his entertainment career as a stage actor in New York City, quickly progressing into film acting. - William Monahan
William Monahan (born November 3 1960) is an American novelist and screenwriter. After attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Monahan, already a professional writer while an undergraduate, as well as a musician in Northampton, Massachusetts, moved to New York City to pursue a career as a journalist, writer and critic. He wrote several scabrous pieces for the "New York Press", … - Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter was a film and television actor. He was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, and began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. He served stateside in the United States Navy in World War II, then studied drama at Northwestern University. In 1950, while a graduate student in radio at the University of California, … - Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman was born in New Haven, Connecticut on January 4, 1916. He was one of ten children, the youngest of seven boys, born to Russian immigrant Jewish parents. While the family had little money, the children's inheritance was truly rich, especially as embodied in their mother, Luba, a strong woman who shepherded them through childhood, motivating them towards real achievement, … - John Payne
John Payne (May 23 1912 - December 6 1989) was an American movie actor who is mainly remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox film musicals. Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia. Payne's mother had been a successful opera singer and encouraged her son to sing. Payne enrolled at Columbia University in the fall of 1930. He studied drama at Columbia and voice at Juilliard. To support himself, he took on a variety of odd jobs, including wrestling and singing in vaudeville. - Lawrence Gordon
Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) Grew up in Belzoni, Mississippi. He attended Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Is an American producer and motion picture executive. Gordon specializes in producing action oriented films. Some of his most popular productions include "Predator" (1987), Die Hard" (1988) and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). He served as President of 20th Century Fox from 1984 to 1986. - Richard Conte
Richard Conte was an American actor who appeared in films such as "I'll Cry Tomorrow" and "The Godfather". He was born Nicholas Conte of Italian ancestry in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of a barber. In 1935, Conte was spotted by Elia Kazan and John Garfield when he was working as an entertainer at a Connecticut resort, which led to Conte finding stage work. - John Dimaggio
John William DiMaggio (born September 4, 1968) is an American voice actor. A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, he is known primarily for voicing the robot Bender in the 20th Century Fox animated series "Futurama", as well as Dr. Drakken in the Disney Channel series "Kim Possible" and Marcus Fenix in the 2006 videogame "Gears of War". DiMaggio is confirmed to reprise his role of Bender for the new 2008 season of "Futurama". - Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. His best-known work is "The Phil Silvers Show", a 1950s sitcom set on a US Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko; the show was also often referred to by this name. The show's chief writer, Nat Hiken, was TV's first writer-producer, and Hiken helped set a high comic tone for the show through his inventive plots and snappy comedic repartee for the characters. - William Fox
William Fox (born Wilhelm Fuchs in January 1, 1879-May 8, 1952) founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. Although Fox sold his interest in these companies in a 1936 bankruptcy settlement, his name lives on as the namesake of the FOX Television Network and 20th Century Fox film studio. Wilhelm Fuchs was born to Jewish parents in Tolcsva, Hungary, then part of Austria-Hungary. - Jane Darwell
Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 - August 13, 1967) was an Academy Award-winning American theater and film actress. Darwell was born Patti Woodard in Palmyra, Missouri. She originally intended to become a circus performer, however her family objected and she compromised by becoming an actress. She began her acting career in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. - Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head a major studio. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. Her mother fled from Nazi Germany at age 17, and spoke no English when she arrived in the United States. Lansing attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and graduated in 1962. - Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler is a composer who has written, arranged, and conducted musical scores for film. His scores include the William Friedkin directed "The Hunted" and the 2005 supernatural action film "Constantine". He is also signed with Sony Music as a songwriter. He recently scored the film "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" and he is scoring "Bug" by William Friedkin and the Nicolas Cage starrer "Bangkok Dangerous" for a 2007 release. - Irving Cummings
Irving Cummings (October 9 1888 - April 18 1959), born Irving Camisky in New York City, New York was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer. Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway with the legendary Lillian Russell. He soon entered into movies in 1909 and quickly became a popular leading man. Around that time, he started direct making action movies and occasional comedys, … - Kellie Pickler
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music singer and songwriter who finished sixth on the fifth season of the Fox television series "American Idol". Despite being eliminated, Pickler signed a recording contract with the record company BNA Records, a country label owned by RCA Records and Sony BMG Music Entertainment in conjunction with "Idol" series creator Simon Fuller's 19 Recordings Limited. - Richard Egan
Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 - July 20, 1987) was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan. Born in San Francisco, California, Egan served in the United States Army as a judo instructor during World War II. A graduate of the University of San Francisco (B.A.) and Stanford University (M.A.), he studied and taught at Northwestern University for a time. - Danielle Panabaker
Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American film and television actress. - Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman (born April 14, 1930 in San Francisco, California) is a retired American film and television actor. Born to Dean and Josephine Dillman, he graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English Literature. Following this he served with the U.S. Marines in Korea (1951-1953) before focusing on acting as a profession. Studying with the Actor's Studio, he spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon, … - Philip Dunne
Philip Dunne was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director, and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940's-50's. He is best known for the films "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), … - Josh Friedman
Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of the 2005 adaptation of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". His most recent screenplay is an adaptation of James Ellroy's book about the Black Dahlia killing titled "The Black Dahlia". Friedman's spec screenplay "Orphan's Dawn", a science fiction epic, is in development at 20th Century Fox, and he is developing a television version of "The Terminator". - Neill Blomkamp
Neill Blomkamp is a South African born, Vancouver, BC-based director of short films and advertisements. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending seamlessly with naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated imagery effects. He was hired to direct the movie adaptation of the hit video game "Halo" - Lynn Bari
Lynn Bari, born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress (usually in B-movies) who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. Born in Roanoke, Virginia, most of her early films, before getting supporting parts, were uncredited roles usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. In the rare studio "A" films she appeared in, like many of the b's she was in, …
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