- Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907-November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's Orchestra featured performers that included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, … - Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin (November 24 1912 - March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. Born in Rochester, New York, he is most notable for * his first film "A Man to Remember" (1938), listed as one of the best top ten films in 1938 by "The New York Times". * writing, in collaboration with his wife, actress Ruth Gordon (whom he married in 1942), the classic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn film comedies, … - Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 - January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City, famous less for his own artistic achievement than for his social influence. - Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian (born April 19, 1925) is an American actor. Born Hugh Charles Krampe in Rochester, New York, he is best known for his starring role as Wyatt Earp in the television series, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" that ran from 1955 to 1961. O'Brian also appeared regularly on other television programs in the 1960s. For example, he was a guest panelist on the popular Sunday Night CBS-TV program, … - Pete Duel
Pete Duel was an American actor, best known for his role in the television series, "Alias Smith and Jones". - Lou Gramm
Lou Gramm (born Louis Grammatico on May 2 1950 in Rochester, New York) is an American rock music vocalist and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist for the rock band Foreigner. He also had a successful solo career. - Kristen Wiig
Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, and impressionist. She is a member of The Groundlings whose most visible work is as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"). Wiig also appeared in the first season of Spike TV's "The Joe Schmo Show". - Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress. - Michael Kanin
Michael Kanin was an American director, producer, playwright and screenwriter who shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. in 1942 for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy "Woman of the Year". Born in Rochester, New York, his first job was writing and acting in Catskills resort shows with his brother Garson Kanin. In 1939 he was signed to a screenwriting contract at RKO. - Geoffrey Deuel
Geoffrey Jacob Deuel (born January 17, 1943) is an American actor. Deuel is best-known for playing Billy the Kid in the movie "Chisum" (1970). He has been in several movie and television productions through the years including "The Mod Squad", "Ironside", and "The Name of the Game". He was the brother of Pete Duel, who starred in "Love on a Rooftop" and "Alias Smith and Jones". - George Melford
George H. Melford was an American stage and film actor and film director. Born in Rochester, New York, as George Henry Knauff, son of German immigrant Henrietta Knauff, the name Melford was an adopted stage name. George Knauff Melford had four sisters: Mary Knauff (Mrs. Godfrey Willis Wainwright); Henrietta Knauff; Alice Irene Knauff (Mrs. Edmond Francois Bernoudy) - all of Los Angeles, CA and Mrs. Frederick Kells/Keils of Ottawa, Canada. - Savanna Samson
Savanna Samson (real name Natalie Oliveros in Rochester, New York) is an American pornographic actress. Her name sometimes leads to confusion with Savannah, the adult actress who committed suicide in 1994. - Josh Arieh
Josh Arieh is a prominent figure in the international poker scene, who has enjoyed success during the past decade. His winnings total over 3 million dollars, and his matches have been televised on such stations as ESPN, FSN, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel. - Geoffrey Giuliano
Geoffrey Giuliano (born September 11,1953) is an American author, radio personality and film actor, best known for his biographies of The Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, and of musician Pete Townshend. - Norman Kerry
Norman Kerry (June 16, 1894 - January 12, 1956) was an American actor whose career spanned over twenty-five years in the motion picture industry beginning in the silent era at the end of World War I. Born Arnold Kaiser in Rochester, New York of German parentage, he changed his decidedly German name to 'Norman Kerry' at the onset of World War I. Around 1916 he befriended Rudolph Valentino, then an exhibition dancer of some renown, in New York City. - Clem McCarthy
Clem McCarthy (9 September 1882 in Rochester, New York - 4 June, 1962 in New York City, New York) was an American sportscaster and public address announcer. He also lent his voice to Pathe News's RKO newsreels. He was known for his gravelly voice and dramatic style, a "whiskey tenor" as sports announcer and executive David J. Halberstam has called it. As Halberstam's book "Sports on New York Radio" notes, McCarthy is considered one of horse racing's great callers, … - Jeffrey Boam
Jeffrey Boam (November 30, 1946 - January 24, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA, he became one of Hollywood's most successful and highest paid writers during the 1980s and 1990s, working with such stars as Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Billy Zane and Sean Connery and filmmakers Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. In high school, Jeffrey was known for his talent as a cartoonist, … - Vincent Martella
Vincent Michael Martella (born October 15, 1992 in Rochester, New York) is an American actor. Martella stars in the new CW show, "Everybody Hates Chris". The series is humorously based on the childhood of comedian, Chris Rock. Rock narrates the show. Martella is an Italian American. He began dancing at the age of three, and delivered his first live performance in "The Nutcracker". - Aaron Lustig
Aaron Lustig (b. September 17, 1956, in Rochester, New York) is a film and television actor. He was nominated for an Emmy in 1997 for Best Supporting Actor as Tim Reid on The Young and the Restless, who he has also portrayed on The Bold and the Beautiful. - Suzanne Cryer
Suzanne Cryer (January 13, 1967 in Rochester, New York) is an American actress best known for her role as "Ashley" on the ABC sitcom "Two Guys and a Girl". Cryer attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in Literature. She then returned to receive a Masters Degree from the Yale School of Drama. During this time she spent a summer performing at the Utah Shakespeare Festival where her roles included Rosalind in "As You Like It", and Anne in "Richard III". - Chyna
WWF's Chyna, also known as Joanie Laurer , was born in 1971 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Laurer went to school at the University of Tampa, where she majored in Spanish and Literature. Laurer served in the Peace Corps after college, but her athleticism would take her in a different direction. In 1995, Joanie attended Killer Kowalski's Wrestling School where she met Triple H, her now ex-significant other. - Rudy Boesch
Rudy joined the Navy in April of 1945 and immediately volunteered for "secret and hazardous duty" with the Amphibious Scouts and Raiders, highly classified naval commando units. In 1951, six years after Scout and Raider training in Fort Pierce, Florida, Rudy completed UDT (Underwater Demolition Teams) training in Little Creek, Virginia, and was assigned to UDT-2 (redesigned as UDT-21 in 1953). He remained in UDT-21 for the next 11 years. - Philip Athans
Philip Athans was born in Rochester, New York, in 1964 but grew up in suburban Chicago, where he fed his imagination a steady diet of Starlog magazines, Marvel comic books, reruns of Star Trek , and the very real triumphs of the Space Race. He began writing "books" in second grade and eventually traded in his crayons for a typewriter, then traded in the typewriter for a computer, and has since traded in entirely too many computers for newer, smarter, more expensive computers. - Richard Rober
Richard Rober (May 14, 1910 - May 26, 1952) was a film actor known for his rugged roles in films. Born Richard Steven Rauber, Rober died in an auto accident in 1952 when the actor was 42 years old. He appeared many B-movies and film noir-type films including "Call Northside 777" (1948) (his first film), "Sierra" (1950), and "The Well" (1951). - Sabrina Gennarino
Sabrina Gennarino was born in Rochester, New York. She moved to New York City where she started a modeling career which ended quickly upon being forced into her first play, where she played two different roles after only two nights of rehearsal. She began to study with the incomparable Eric Loeb. He helped her find her voice and confidence. She booked her first full feature and then several independent shorts. Including her unbelievable role in H.R. Pukenshette, where she portrays the... - Aaron Goldschmidt
- Vivek Maddala
At age 26, won the Grand Prize in the 2000 Young Film Composers Competition; he has judged the competition every year since then. Studied jazz performance at the Berklee College of Music; earned degrees in electrical engineering and economics at Georgia Tech and applied physics and engineering at the Univ. of Washington. - Richard Powers
Not much is known about the early life of ruggedly handsome cowboy actor Tom Keene, born George Duryea in Rochester, New York. However, he arrived in Hollywood in the late 20s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made some impact as the lead of The Godless Girl (1929). Known for his sharp, pleasant looks and fitness, he was given the new name of Tom Keene and began appearing in a series of RKO "Poverty Row" westerns in the early 30s. Unlike other sagebrush... - Robert Foster
Robert Forster was born in Rochester, New York in 1941 and first become interested in acting while attending Rochester's Madison High School where he performed as a song-and-dance man in musical revues. After graduating in 1959, Forster attended Heidelberg College, Alfred University, and the University of Rochester on football scholarships and continued to perform in student theatrical revues. After earning a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Rochester in 1963, Forester took an... - John Lithgow
If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. Son of a retired actress and a father who was both a theatrical producer and director, he moved frequently as a child while his father founded and managed local and college theaters and Shakespeare festivals throughout the midwest of the United States. Not until he was 16, and his father became head of the McCarter Theater in Princeton New Jersey, did the family... - Robert M. Batscha
Former president of the Museum of Television and Radio for more than 20 years. President of the Museum of Television and Radio (1981- ) - Dan Didsbury
- Rachel Stuhler
- John Lund
Leading man in Hollywood offerings of the 1940's and 1950's; also writer and actor on radio, and Broadway actor. Retired to San Diego in 1963 After Edmond O'Brien left the show, Lund became the new Johnny Dollar on CBS Radio's "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar." He starred in the series from 1952 till 1954. Vice-president of the Screen Actor's Guild from 1950-1959. Wrote the book and lyrics for the Broadway revue "New Faces of 1943." A New York City advertiser at the time, he was asked by a... - Georgia Durante
Began career as a driver for the mob. - Frank Laloggia
Began making 8mm films in his teens. A later 16mm short movie called "Gabriel" tackled the subject of autism and schizophrenia. - Mike Babcock
1996 Graduate of the University Miami School of Music with majors in both Music Engineering, and Jazz Saxophone. Also received an electrical engineering minor that same year. Joining the re-recording mixing and sound editing union at the age of 21, first job he received after college was sound fx editing on "Melrose Place," "Beverly Hills 90210," and "Profiler." Recently, on Academy Award nominated sound crew of "War of the Worlds," Michael has also played on various film/TV scores as a... - Robert Wilcox
His father was a physician in Rochester, New York, who died when Wilcox was 16. He attended the University of Southern California but soon dropped out. A talent scout spotted him in a summer-stock production of "The Petrified Forest" and a series of "B" movies followed. In 1937 he married Florence Rice, daughter of sportswriter Grantland Rice. They divorced two years later. Wilcox left Hollywood at the start of World War II to serve in the Army, first as a private and eventually as a... - Peter Nye
Brother of Kristen J. Nye. Son of Ben Nye Jr. Grandson of Ben Nye. - George Riley
Vaudeville performer with his wife as Heller & Riley.
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