William Golden is considered to be one of the pioneers of American graphic design. He is best known for his work at Columbia Broadcasting System, starting in the CBS Radio promotion department (before broadcast television existed) and culminating in his tenure as creative director of advertising and sales promotion for CBS Television Network. Golden gained a reputation of excellence by always striving for a perfect, simple solution to the problem at hand, …

Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, …

David Wayne Spade (born July 22 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a castmember on "Saturday Night Live". He currently stars as single man Russell on CBS's sitcom, "Rules of Engagement" and is also hosting the third season of his entertainment parody show, "The Showbiz Show with David Spade" on Comedy Central.

Robert Maxwell (born April 19, 1921) is a harpist and songwriter, who wrote the music for two well-known songs: "Ebb Tide" and "Shangri-La." He was born in New York City. Neither of his parents had been involved in music, but at age 10 he began playing the harp. In high school, he won a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music. At age 17, he became the youngest member of the National Symphony Orchestra. He also gave solo performances in both New York and Los Angeles.

Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, puppeteer and advertising creative director. The son of a Baptist minister, Stan Freberg grew up in Pasadena, California. His traditional upbringing is reflected both in the gentle sensitivity which underpins his work (despite his liberal use of biting satire and parody), …

Bill Bixby was a popular three-time Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series. His lead television roles were as Ray Walston's young reporter, Tim O'Hara, …

Brande Nicole Roderick (born June 13, 1974 in Novato, California) is an American model and actress. She is best known for her appearances in "Baywatch" and "Playboy". From 1998 to 1999, Roderick appeared in four erotic films. In 2000, Roderick starred as "Leigh Dyer" in "Baywatch". In April 2000, she appeared in "Playboy" magazine as Playmate of the Month. Brande was one of Hef's girlfriends. In 2001, Roderick became the Playmate of the Year, …

Edward Bowes (b. 14 June 1874, San Francisco; d. 14 June 1946, Rumson, New Jersey) was an American radio personality of the 1930s and 40s whose "Major Bowes' Amateur Hour" was the best-known amateur talent show in radio during its eighteen-year (1934-1952) run on NBC and CBS. Bowes (his nickname sprang from his earlier military rank, …

Robert Leland "Bob" Eubanks (born January 8 1938, Flint, Michigan, raised in California) is an American radio, game show host and television personality best known for hosting the game show "The Newlywed Game" on and off from 1966 to 2000, where he was known for using the catch-phrase, "Makin' Whoopee". He also hosted other short-lived game shows such as "Dream House", "The Diamond Head Game", and "Trivia Trap".

Michael Warren (born March 5, 1946 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series "Hill Street Blues". As a college basketball player, Warren was an All-American at UCLA, …

"Sonny Fox" (b. Irwin Fox, 1925, Brooklyn, New York) is an American television host, executive and broadcasting consultant, remembered best as the fourth full-time host of the children's television program, "Wonderama".

Eric Monte (born Kenneth Williams circa 1944) is an American television writer who has written for and created notable shows depicting 1970s African American culture. Born in Chicago and raised in the Cabrini-Green housing project, he dropped out of high school and hitchiked to Hollywood. Monte's first big break came five years later with a script written for and accepted by "All in the Family".

Jane Rosenthal (b. 1954) in Providence, Rhode Island is an American film producer. She attended both Brown and New York University. Early in her career she helped to develop and produce over 70 movies for television while working at CBS in Los Angeles, California. In 1989, Rosenthal co-founded the TriBeCa Productions film studio in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa with actor Robert De Niro.

David Weber (1913-2006) was an American classical clarinetist known for the beauty of his tone, his inspired playing, and his influential teaching of the clarinet. David Weber was born in Vilna in present-day Lithuania and came to the United States in 1921. His family settled in Detroit. His parents were not musical, but he liked the sound of clarinet and took it up at the age of 11. While in high school, he studied under Roy Schmidt and Alberto Luconi, …

John Serry, Sr. (January 29, 1915 - September 14, 2003) was a distinguished concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist and music educator who achieved prominence through his live performances on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) network.

Eugene Edward Wood (October 20, 1925 - May 21, 2004), was an American television personality and television announcer. He was best known as the announcer of over 20 game shows -- most of which were Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions -- from the late 1960s through the 1990s. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Wood majored in speech and theater at Emerson College. His early career included stand-up comedy, television commercials, …

Gervase Peterson (born November 2, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a contestant on "Survivor: Borneo", the first edition of the popular CBS reality television series "Survivor", which premiered in May 2000, and was the highest rated American series during the summer of that year. Peterson and tribemate Ramona Gray were "Survivor's" first two African American contestants (and its first two contestants of color).

Fred Cusick (b. November 7, 1918) is a former ice hockey broadcaster and served as the Boston Bruins play-by-play TV broadcaster from 1971 till 1997 on WSBK-TV (Channel 38) in Boston, and from 1984 until 1993 on NESN. A graduate of (and former hockey player at) Northeastern University in Boston, Cusick went into the United States Navy in World War II, …

Michael Joel Zaslow (November 1, 1942 - December 6, 1998) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's "Guiding Light", a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1997. He had earlier played Dick Hart on the CBS soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" and Dr. Peter Chernak on "Love is a Many Splendored Thing". He also played David Renaldi on ABC's "One Life to Live" from 1983 to 1986.

Corinne Bohrer (born October 18 1958 in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is an American movie and television actress. Bohrer's work has included a recurring role as Lianne Mars, the wayward mother of the title character in the CW television series "Veronica Mars". Previous roles were more comedic, including her role as a pediatric nurse who had a crush on Elliot Gould in the short-lived CBS situation comedy "E/R", …

Nicole Kassell (born in 1972) is an American film director. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she received her degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. While a student there, she made three short films, including "The Green Hour", which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. A year earlier, she had won the Slamdance Screenplay Competition for her first feature-length project, "The Woodsman", …

Theodore "Teddy" Wilson (December 10,1943 - July 21,1991) was an American character actor best known for his recurring role as Sweet Daddy Williams on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" from 1976 until 1979. Wilson also played the role of Al Dunbar in a popular two-part episode of the 1970s sitcom "What's Happening!!". In the conclusion of the two-parter, Wilson's character gets arrested for bootlegging a Doobie Brothers concert.

Robert Hupka was a recording engineer for RCA and later for Columbia Records and, until his retirement, a cameraman for CBS Television in New York. He was born in Vienna, and emigrated to the U.S. at the onset of World War II to escape the Nazi persecution which took his parents' lives. His grandfather was the composer Ignaz Brüll, who was a friend of Brahms. Hupka took thousands of photographs, secretly or not, …

Vickie Lynn Natale (born December 20, 1980 in Brooklyn, New York) is a finalist on the CBS version of "Star Search". Vickie's musical stylings are infused with contemporary R&B and pop, however, funk, jazz, and blues flow just as naturally from her voice. Vickie also writes, arrangers, composes, and produces her own music. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in a single parent home. Vickie literally sang her way through school.