- Bryan Cranston
Bryan L. Cranston (born March 7 1956 in San Fernando Valley, California) is an Award-winning American actor, voice actor, writer and director, best known in his role as Hal, the father of the family in the Fox Network television situation comedy "Malcolm in the Middle." He also played Dr. Tim Whatley on "Seinfeld" and other roles in numerous movies and television programs.
- Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12 1951 or 1954) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor.
- Steve Guttenberg
Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24 1958) is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including "Cocoon" and "Three Men and a Baby".
- Herb Vigran
Herbert "Herb" Vigran (June 5, 1910, Cincinnati, Ohio - November 29, 1986, Los Angeles, California) was a well known character actor in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Vigran's family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where he grew up. He graduated with a law degree from Indiana University Law School but later chose to pursue acting. After starting out on Broadway, he soon moved to Hollywood and performed in radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, …
- Bernie Casey
Bernard Terry Casey (born June 8, 1939 in Wyco, West Virginia) was an American Football player during the 1960s who later became an actor. Some years later, in a piece for NFL Films, he expressed his disillusionment with the NFL and professional sports in general, feeling like his creativity and individuality were thwarted by conservative elements in the league and ownership hierarchy. He does not look back fondly on his pro football experience.
- Joey Travolta
Joey Travolta (born 14 October 1950) in Englewood, NJ is an American actor, singer, and director. Travolta graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey in 1969. Travolta began a singing career in 1978 as a recording artist on Casablanca Records. The following year he made his acting debut starring in the feature film "Sunnyside" for Filmways Productions. He is the elder brother of the Academy Award-nominated actor John Travolta.
- Mike Mazurki
Mike Mazurki (December 25, 1907 or 1909 - December 9, 1990) was an American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in over 100 movies. His towering 6' 6" presence and intimidating face usually got the actor movie roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters. He played a wrestler in "Night and the City" and a boxer in "The Harder They Fall".
- Ira Newborn
Ira Newborn (1949-) is an American musician and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks. Among the many movies Newborn has scored or for which he’s written songs are "Sixteen Candles", "Weird Science", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Uncle Buck", "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", the smoky jazz score for "Into the Night" for whom he wrote music for B.B. King, and "Ace Ventura, …
- Lou Jacobi
Lou Jacobi (born December 28, 1913) is a Canadian character actor. Jacobi was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jewish parents Fay and Joseph Jacobi. Slightly overweight and sporting a moustache, he appeared in several films and television commercials, particularly in the 1970s. Notable film roles include: Mr. Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank", "Irma La Douce", …
- Al Lohman
Al Lohman (b. January 15 1933, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa; d. October 14 2002, Rancho Mirage, California) was a Los Angeles, California radio personality who, along with Roger Barkley, had the top-rated morning drive "The Lohman and Barkley Show" on KFI Los Angeles through most of the 1970s and early 1980s. Their fame extended beyond the Los Angeles area as the duo were frequent guests on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and were hosts of two short-lived television shows.
- Raye Birk
Raye Birk (b. 1944) is an English film and television actor famous for playing the role of Papshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult". He has also starred in "Due South" and the "X-Files". In addition to these roles, he had a frequently occurring role as the principal on The Wonder Years, …
- Richard Miller
A native from the Bronx, New York, Richard "Dick" Miller served in the U.S. Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid 1950s where he was noticed by Roger Corman who cast him in most of his low budget horror films where he usually played unlikeable sorts beginning as a vacuum cleaning salesman in Not of This Earth. But his most memorable role is in a rare starring role in playing the mentally unstable, busboy/beatnik artist...
- Russell Albion Meyer
The son of a policeman and a nurse, Russ Meyer began winning prizes at 15 with his amateur films. He spent World War II in Europe as a combat cameraman. After the war, he became a professional photographer, shooting some of the earliest Playboy centerfolds. He made his film directorial debut with The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), the first nudie (softcore sex) film to make a profit over a million dollars, which led to a string of self-financed films that gradually became more bizarre,...
- Ed Jr
Attended Stella Niagara Education Park Cadet school in Lewiston, NY. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series "St. Elsewhere" (1982), for which he received an Emmy nomination during each viewing season. Son of Ed Begley. Involved in enviromental affairs, he was named to Environmental Affairs Commission in 1993, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in 1994. He used to appear on a US radio soap called 'Milford Haven' with fiance, Mara...
- Frank Collison
He played many diverse roles throughout college and at the American Conservatory Theatre, and is a founding member of the Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble, which is a winner of the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Continuous Achievement. He starred in the group's productions of The Beggar's Opera and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Frank Collison began his career when his actor father and director mother included him in their production at the Tent Theater at Denison University in...
- Edward J Knott
- Phillip Proctor
Member of the Firesign Theatre Is responsible for the troupe's running gag, "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?" Does most of the Firesign Theatre's female characters, including 'Nancy' in the Nick Danger plays, and he recently played 'Princess Goddess' with a sped up recording of himself on their album "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death". Father of Kristin Proctor.
- Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy, the veteran actor who was so well-liked and respected by his peers that he was the recipient of an honorary Oscar in 1987 for his contributions to the acting profession, was born on June 17, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois. He began his life as a player right out of high school in 1922, joining a traveling company that put on Shakespearean plays. For the next five years, he appeared with stock companies and repertory theaters associated with the Chautauqua Road Co., which...
- Robert Piccardo
Graduated from Yale University. Wanted to be an actor, but parents initially weren't supportive. This changed when in college he sang in Leonard Bernstein's Mass, and Bernstein himself saw Picardo and told him he should pursue being an actor. The young Picardo asked Bernstein to tell that to his parents, which the great composer did, thereby changing their minds. Picardo started as a noted stage actor, appearing in Gemini on Broadway, among others.
- Phil Hart-on-the-Stick Man
Philip Edward Hartmann was born on September 24, 1948, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. His surname was originally "Hartmann" but he later dropped the other "n" -- the reason of which is unknown. As one of the eight children of Rupert and Doris Hartmann, Phil was a very caring and sensitive person and was described as "very sweet and kind of quiet." Although he was born in Canada, the family left when Phil was young, and he spent the majority of his childhood in Connecticut and Southern...
- David Alan Griers
Tony nomination for playing Jackie Robinson in The First. [1981] He got off to a very fast start in show biz, moving from Yale Drama School right to a lead role in a Broadway musical "The First." A surprising begining in a serious, though musical role, considering his impressive comedic talent. Co-starred with Lonette McKee. MFA - Yale University, School of Drama (1981) Nominated for Broadway's 1982 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for playing Jackie Robinson in "The...
- Steve Forrest
Brother of actor Dana Andrews.
- Peter Horton
Peter Horton's father was in the shipping business. He was a ship captain. However, he died prior to a 1991 US Magazine article Peter himself wrote. He has a degree in Music composition from the Univerity of California. Peter also attended Principia College. He is also a musical composer. Peter plays the classical piano. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. [1991] Daughter Lily born in October 2000. Ex-brother-in-law of Dedee Pfeiffer and Lori...
- Ronny Cox
Superbly talented actor / singer / songwriter / musician who has been consistently active in Hollywood for over 35 years portraying a diverse range of characters. Born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Cox received positive reviews in his first film role for his portrayal of ill-fated businessman "Drew Ballinger" in the terrifying backwoods thriller Deliverance (1972) with Cox featuring in the entertaining "Duelling Banjos" sequence of the film. Following this promising start, Cox was regularly...
- Corey Gregg Weinberg
After recreating the late Paul Frees' "Ghost Host" for Disneyland's "Haunted Mansion Holiday" attraction, Corey was approached to record a new safety spiel for the begining of the ride. He only agreed to do it as long as it was an addition and didn't replace any of Paul Frees' original dialogue (of which he is a big fan). This was not the case so he declined. The spiel was instead recorded by voice actor Joe Leahy. To date this has not been popular with Haunted Mansion enthusiasts and...
- Don Sturdy
Howard Hesseman has been a leading counter-culture figure for nearly twenty years. He was a member of the improv group, "the Committee", for ten years in the sixties and seventies. He has been a character actor for many years on different television shows since the 1960s, and took small parts in "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960), "Dragnet 1967" (1967), "Soap" (1977) and "Sanford and Son" (1972). The role that brought him to prominence was Howard Johnson in...
- Archie Hahn
He is frequently cast in films by Joe Dante or Betty Thomas in a bit role, or minor character. Frequently mistaken for ventriloquist actor Jay Johnson, who portrayed Bob Campbell on "Soap" (1977). He was the first American to appear on the British improv series "Whose Line is it Anyway?" (1988).
- Mark McClure
Appeared as "Dave McFly" in Back to the Future Part II (1989), but his part was cut from the final release and left on the cutting room floor. He was in a scene where Marty encounters his drunken brother in front of Biff's Pleasure Paradise in the alternate 1985. Played Dave McFly in Back to the Future (1985) and Back to the Future Part III (1990). In both films, his screen sister Linda McFly was played by Wendie Jo Sperber. McClure and Sperber both co-starred in I Wanna Hold Your Hand...
- Philip Burns
He originally played Morty Seinfeld on the sitcom "Seinfeld" (1990) but was replaced by Barney Martin.
- Matt Adler
A close friend and former housemate of George Clooney
- Stanley Eis
Stanley Brock lived in the lower east side of Manhattan on E.14th St. In his earlier days he was doing a comedy routine with a girl. The name of the act was called Stan and Nan. They would perform one nighters in the Upstate NY area. He also augmented his living by doing clerical work for an Refrigeration and Air Cond.Co. in Manhattan. He would always try his Comedy routines on his fellow employees. The year was mid 60's to early 70's. He then went west to Hollywood and had fairly good...
- Andrew Clay Silverstein
His first wife is Kathleen Swanson, whom he wed in 1984 and divorced in 1986. He called his two years of matrimony a "horror show". His second wife is Kathleen Monica -- he calls her Trini, and he has been married to her since 1992. The two met while he was on location filming the Chicago episodes of "Crime Story" (1986)--she was his waitress in a restaurant where he ate regularly. He has two sons with her--Max, who was born in 1990 and, Dylan, who was born in 1994. His first...
- David E Harshbarger
1974: Completed film-TV-radio course, Foothill College, Los Altos, California. 1972: Youngest member of the Whitehouse Press Corp. 1975: Completed Broadcast Production and Performance Courses at Los Angeles Valley College.
- William Horace Marshall
Dynamic African American leading man and characters actor William Marshall trained both in Grand Opera, Broadway and Shakespeare. In films from the 50's and 60's including: Lyndia Baily (1952), Something of Value (1957), To Trap a Spy (1964) and finally known for being in The Boston Strangler (1968) with Tony Curtis (I). Marshall really didn't hit it big until the "blaxplotation" era of the 70's. He starred in the contemporary vampire melodrama Blacula (1972) and its sequel Scream...
- Donald Gibb
Massive and muscular 6'4" behemoth actor Donald Gibb was born on August 4, 1954 in New York City and raised in California. Gibb attended the University of New Mexico on a basketball scholarship. He then transferred to the University of San Diego, where he went to play football and was a member of the varsity basketball team. Donald had a roster spot on the San Diego Chargers prior to embarking on an acting career. With his brawny'n'bulky build, scraggly beard and mustache, deep, growly...
- Terry McGovern
Disk Jockey/Personality - KSFO Radio, San Francisco, CA (1960's thru 1970's) When he was doing voice-over work on THX 1138 (1971) for George Lucas, he made a blunder and exclaimed, "I think I ran over a wookiee back there". Lucas, confused, asked what he meant by the term. McGovern admitted that he didn't know and added that he simply made it up. Lucas never forgot the cute word and immortalised it years later in Star Wars (1977). In 1972, published a poetry booklet, "Rod McCroon's Look...
- Willard Pugh
Taught broadcasting and film classes at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California in the early 90s.
- John Ingle
Has 9 grandchildren Attended Occidental College Has blue eyes Retired from teaching in 1985 and launched an acting career. [1985] Taught drama at Beverly Hills High [1964-1984] Taught drama at Hollywood High School [1955-1964] Among the future stars he taught at Hollywood High School and Beverly Hills High School were Meredith Baxter, Richard Dreyfuss, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Laraine Newman, Mike Farrell, Linda Evans,
- Steve Cropper
If not the most influential guitarist in the Memphis soul music scene, Steve Cropper is definitely near the top. He was a member of Booker T and the MGs, wrote songs for and performed with Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and Sam & Dave (he's the Steve referred to when they say "Play it, Steve!" in "Soul Man"). Booker T's band, including Cropper, was enlisted as the backup band for Blues Brothers John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in both of the "Blues Brothes" movies.
- Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall (as a character named Chunky A) put out an album entitled "Large And In Charge." Paula Abdul, Wil Wheaton, and Ice-T are among the guests that appear on the album. He was a member of Ohio University's forensics (competitive speech) team. The team has also had Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) and Leon Harris (morning anchor, CNN) as members. He appeared in a TV commercial for Tab Cola in the mid-1980s. Graduated from Warrensville Heights High School, Warrensville...