Tom Conway (September 15, 1904 - April 22, 1967) was an English actor. He was born to English parents as Thomas Charles Sanders in St. Petersburg, Russia; his brother was the actor George Sanders. The family eventually moved back to England, where both brothers were educated at Brighton College. According to the IMDB, Tom lost a coin toss with George to decide which of the two of them would change his last name to avoid any confusion with each other.

Broncho Billy Anderson (March 21, 1880 - January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.

Lionel Atwill (March 1, 1885 - April 22, 1946) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London. He began his career in theatre but was most famous for his horror roles in the 1930s. His two most memorable parts were as the crazed, disfigured sculptor in "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (Warner Brothers, 1933) -- a role also played by Vincent Price in the 1953 remake, "House of Wax" -- and as Inspector Krogh in "Son of Frankenstein" (1939), …

Thomas Mitchell (July 11, 1892 - December 17, 1962) was an Academy, Emmy, and Tony award winning American film actor as well as a screenplay writer. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history.

William Nigel Ernle Bruce (February 4, 1895 - October 8, 1953), usually credited as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor on stage and screen, best known as Dr. Watson in a series of films and a radioseries starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. The son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet (1856 - 1912) by his spouse Angelica (d. 1917), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery, he was born in Ensenada, …

Helen Chandler (February 1, 1906 - April 30, 1965) was an American film and theater actress. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Chandler began her acting career on Broadway in 1917. Within a few years she was playing Shakespearean roles opposite such highly regarded performers as John Barrymore. She made her film debut in 1927 in "The Music Master" and in 1930 joined Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., …

Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 - March 6, 1965) was an American comedic actress. Born Daisy Juliette Baker in Brooklyn, New York she adopted the stage name Margaret and/or Marguerite Dumont. She is remembered mostly for being the comic foil to Groucho Marx in seven of the Marx Brothers movies. Groucho called her practically the fifth Marx brother.

William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864, Chicago, Illinois - July 15, 1948, Los Angeles) is noted as a pioneer of the American motion picture industry. Selig was raised in Chicago. He worked as a vaudeville performer and produced a traveling minstrel show in San Francisco while still in his late teens. One of the actors was Bert Williams, who went on to become a leading African-American entertainer. In 1894 Selig saw Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope at an exhibition in Dallas, …

Edmund Gwenn (September 26 1877-September 6, 1959) was an English theatre and film actor. Born Edmund Kellaway in Wandsworth, London, Gwenn started his acting career in theatre in 1895. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, and cast him in the first production of "Man and Superman", and subsequently in five more of his plays.

George Palmer Putnam was an American publisher, author and explorer. Known for his marriage to Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.

Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, (b. February 2, 1905 in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. d. January 10, 1990 in Woodland Hills, California, USA), was an important American motion picture art director. Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer. In 1936 he was hired by David O. Selznick to work as a set designer for Selznick's motion picture production company.

Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein". Clive was born in St. Malo, France to a British colonel and attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor.

Thomas Neal (January 28, 1914 - August 7, 1972) was an American actor famous for appearing in the critically lauded film "Detour", a tryst with Barbara Payton and later committing manslaughter. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Tom Neal debuted on the Broadway stage in 1935. In 1938 he first appeared in film in "Out West with the Hardys", part of the Mickey Rooney "Hardy family" movie series. That same year, he received a law degree from Harvard University.

Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874-January 4, 1953) was an American film actor. Born in Georgetown, Colorado, Hoyt had large roles in silent films such as "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921), "Souls for Sale" (1923), and "The Lost World" (1925). He played smaller roles in sound films. In the 1940s, he worked as a member of Preston Sturges's unofficial company of moviemakers. Hoyt died in Woodland Hills, California on January 4, 1953.

Kathlyn Williams was an American actress.