- Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program "American Idol" in 2003. After placing second, RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album "Measure of a Man" was released in October 2003. - Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M. She is named after the actress Bette Davis although Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. - Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy "Murphy Brown", and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, "Boston Legal". - Josh Duhamel
Joshua David Duhamel (pronounced, born November 14, 1972) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor and former male fashion model, perhaps best known for his roles in both soap operas and television. He first achieved acting success as Leo du Pres on ABC's "All My Children", and later as James Caan's young security guard officer, Danny McCoy, on NBC's "Las Vegas". - Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy-Award winning Italian-American actor who is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on "The Sopranos". He also appears as Det. Ed Green's temporary replacement, Det. Nick Falco, in the popular TV drama series "Law & Order". In addition to his role on "The Sopranos", … - Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett (born 17 July, 1960) is a British television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the USA. "Survivor" is the most watched summer series since "Sonny and Cher". Burnett produced the USA version of the series "Survivor" and the "Eco-Challenge". His eponymous production company setup "The Apprentice", "The Restaurant", "The Casino", "Rock Star", "Combat Missions", … - Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, serving as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as "American Bandstand", five versions of the Pyramid game show, and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". Clark was long known for his signature closing catchphrase, "For Now, Dick Clark, … - Amy Brenneman
Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964) is a Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her roles in the television series "NYPD Blue" and "Judging Amy". - John Stossel
John F. Stossel (born 6 March 1947) is a consumer reporter, author and co-anchor for the ABC News show "20/20". His reports, a blend of commentary and reporting, reflect his libertarian political philosophy, his views on economics (largely consistent with those of the Chicago school), and his skepticism of conventional wisdom. In his decades as a reporter, Stossel has garnered 19 Emmy Awards and numerous other honors for his reports, … - Harvey Korman
Harvey Herschel Korman, professionally known as Harvey Korman is an American actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed in television and movie productions in the U.S. since 1960. His first big break was being a featured performer on "The Danny Kaye Show" (1963–1967), but he is probably best remembered for his performances on "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967–1978) and in the comedy films of Mel Brooks, … - Frances Conroy
Frances Conroy (born November 13, 1953) is an Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning American actress. Born in Monroe, Georgia of Irish and Latvian descent, Conroy studied drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School in New York City. During the 1970s, she performed regularly with regional and touring theatrical companies (most notably The Acting Company), … - Patricia Field
Patricia Field is a well known stylist and fashion designer from the United States. Born in New York City and raised in Astoria, Queens to Greek and Armenian parents, after they immigrated there from the island of Lesbos in Greece and Istanbul respectively.. She is the owner of Patricia Field boutique, located at 302 Bowery in New York City. Field met Sarah Jessica Parker during the filming of 1995's "Miami Rhapsody", which also starred Antonio Banderas. - Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt was born in South Carolina. There was no birth certificate recorded when she was born, she is not absolutely sure of the date she was born. Her mother died when she quite young. Her upbringing by different family members left her feeling unloved. She had to work very early on in the fields. Eartha knew sometimes that she was hungry and that her clothes were not the best. - Leslie Jordan
Leslie Allen Jordan (according to his biography born April 29, 1955) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor. Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee and at a height of just 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m), Jordan has become an instantly recognizable face in film and television. He is most well known for his television work - including guest appearances on "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman", "Star Trek: Voyager", "Reba", "Boston Public", … - Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace is an American journalist, currently the host of "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace". During his career he has interviewed numerous prominent people, including former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Senator Hillary Clinton, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. - Shelly Palmer
Shelton ("Shelly") Leigh Palmer is a New York City based composer who is well known for his music for television. He has composed many familiar themes, including the themes and underscore for "Live with Regis and Kelly", "Spin City", and MSNBC. In addition, he has composed several television news music packages, the most prolific among them is the Palmer News Package which was originally composed for WCBS-TV. - Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana is an American writer, producer born on 12 September 1951 in Buffalo, New York, USA He is the writer/producer for "Oz", "The Jury", "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "St. Elsewhere". Fontana was born on the west side of Buffalo, New York, and is the fourth of five children in an Italian-American family. He attended Cathedral School, Canisius High School, and Buffalo State College. - Lee Phillip Bell
Lee Phillip Bell is a former talk show host and soap opera creator. Lee Phillip Bell received a degree in microbiology from Northwestern University. While she worked part time in her family floral shop she accompanied her brother to the local television station where he worked on a local talk show demonstrating flower arrangement. - Eve Arden
Eve Arden was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning American actress, who established a lengthy career as a supporting and character actor but was best remembered for playing a sardonically engaging high school teacher in the radio and television classic "Our Miss Brooks". - Della Reese
Della Reese (born Delloreese Patricia Early on July 6, 1931), is a famous American Emmy nominated actor and Grammy nominated singer. She started her career in the late 1950s as a successful Jazz singer, best known for her 1959 hit single "Don't You Know". Later in her career, she became a successful actress, best known as playing Tess on the television show "Touched by an Angel". - Steve Smith
Steve Smith (born August 8, 1951) is best known to audiences as his clown character, "TJ Tatters." Steve began his career in clowning as a Graduate of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, Class of 1971. He then toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for six seasons before leaving the show and moving to Chicago, Illinois where he attended the Goodman School of Drama and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the institution, … - Josh Weinstein
Josh Weinstein (born May 5, 1966 in Maryland) is an American television writer, best known for his work on "The Simpsons". He attended Stanford University, where he was editor of the Stanford Chaparral. Along with his writing partner Bill Oakley, Weinstein was Executive Producer and Showrunner for seasons 7 & 8 of "The Simpsons". Together, the two wrote such episodes as "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", … - Rob Burnett
Rob Burnett (8 July 1962, North Caldwell, New Jersey) is an Emmy Award winning producer, director and writer, best known for being the executive producer of shows such as "Ed", "Late Show with David Letterman", and the new ABC comedy "The Knights of Prosperity". He is also the president and C.E.O. of Worldwide Pants. He was born in New Jersey in 1962. - Sherman Hemsley
Sherman Hemsley (born February 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award nominated and Image Award winning African American character actor most famous for his roles as George Jefferson, on the television shows "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" and as Deacon Ernest Frye on "Amen". He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield on the Jim Henson sitcom, "Dinosaurs". - Beah Richards
Beah Richards was an American actress with a long career on stage, screen and television. She was also a poet, playwright and author. Born Beulah Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister. In 1948, she graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans and two years later moved to New York City. - Bonnie Bartlett
Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, "Love of Life". She is best known for her 1980s Emmy Award-winning role as Ellen Craig on the popular medical drama series "St. Elsewhere". She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986, … - John Abineri
John Abineri (18 May 1928 - 29 June 2000) was a British actor. His extensive TV performances included a regular role in "Survivors" (as Hubert Goss) and four performances on "Doctor Who" - in "Fury from the Deep", "Death to the Daleks", "The Power of Kroll", and, most notably, as the misguided General Carrington in "The Ambassadors of Death". He also appeared in the "Blake's 7" episode Hostage, … - Tim Carvell
Tim Carvell is a writer for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", for which he won Emmy Awards in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He has also written for "Fortune Magazine", "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern", "The New York Times", "Modern Humorist", "Entertainment Weekly", and Slate.com. He is a 1995 graduate of Columbia University. - George Noory
While still a teenager, George joined NICAP, the UFO organization that was a precursor to today's MUFON. George immersed himself in the field, "so much so that I decided I wanted to go into broadcasting in order to do unusual stories in the paranormal and stories that the mainstream media didn't want to touch," he told After Dark. - Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (born November 24 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and playwright. Santiago-Hudson was born in Lackawanna, New York to Alean Hudson and Ruben Santiago, a railroadworker; his father was Puerto Rican and his mother was African American. He graduated from Binghamton University. He wrote "Lackawanna Blues", an autobiographical play in which he portrayed himself and some twenty different characters from his past, … - Susan Hampshire
Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born on 12 May 1937 in London) is an English actress best known for her many film and television roles. Her appeal has always been that of an "English rose". Hampshire first became famous after playing the lead in a 1962 BBC adaptation of "What Katy Did". Soon afterwards, she was taken up by Walt Disney, and starred in "The Three Lives of Thomasina" opposite Patrick McGoohan and "The Fighting Prince of Donegal". - Sonia Manzano
Sonia Manzano (born December 6, 1950) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Maria on "Sesame Street" since 1970. She also licenses her image to promote items of baby clothes and plates in Hispanic America. Manzano was born in the South Bronx, New York of Puerto Rican descent, and attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she began her acting career. Manzano attended the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a scholarship. - Nat Hiken
Nat Hiken (June 13, 1914 - December 7, 1968) was a pioneering American television writer, producer, and songwriter who rose to prominence in the 1950s. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hiken worked on a number of popular TV series during the 1950s and 1960s, including "Car 54, Where Are You?" and "The Phil Silvers Show," a sitcom set on a US Army post in which Silvers played Sergeant Ernie Bilko; the show was also often referred to by this name. - Will Vinton
Will Vinton (born 1948) is a director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio. - John Weidman
John Weidman is an American librettist. He is the son of librettist and novelist Jerome Weidman. Since 1986, John Weidman has been a staff writer for "Sesame Street", for which he has won numerous Emmy Awards. He is president of the Dramatists Guild of America. - Richard Sakai
Richard Sakai is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning producer best known for partnering with James L. Brooks and for his work on "The Simpsons". He began his career as a helper for James L. Brooks in 1977. In 1984, Brooks invited Sakai to become a producer in his new film production company Gracie Films. As a film producer, he has produced many of James L. Brooks’ later films, such as "Spanglish", … - Gerald Green
Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 - August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, producer and director. - David Doyle
David Doyle is an American television producer. Doyle has produced factual and entertainment television programs since 1995. Doyle has developed and produced original factual and entertainment projects with numerous broadcast and cable networks and was at the heart of the televised poker boom, … - Sylvia Fine
Sylvia Fine (1913, Brooklyn, New York - October 28, 1991, New York City) was an American lyricist and wife of the comedian Danny Kaye. She was an audition pianist when she remet a young Danny Kaye, whom she had not seen since they were at school together, nine years previously. After a whirlwind romance, they were married in 1940. She took a direct role in managing her husband's career and wrote many of his songs for him, both in film and recordings.
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