- Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois. His family later moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. He was something of a rebel, playing in bands but paying little attention to school. Gary and some friends tried out for "West Side Story" as a lark, but Gary was hooked on acting for life by closing night. Gary credits his love for theatre to his drama teacher, Barbara Patterson .
- Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment was born in Los Angeles, California and currently studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the film The Sixth Sense and starred in AI: Artificial Intelligence and Pay It Forward . He is the voice of Sora in the Kingdom Hearts series of games.
- Mykelti Williamson
Mykelti Williamson (born March 4 1960) is an American film and television actor.
- Michael Jace
Michael Jace (born July 13, 1970, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an African-American actor. He currently appears as LAPD Officer Julien Lowe in the FX drama "The Shield". In the earlier seasons, Officer Lowe, a deeply religious man, was conflicted about his sexuality and had a brief relationship with another man. Since then he has married. He was recently promoted to a spot on the Strike Team, working alongside Vic Mackey (series star Michael Chiklis).
- Joe Alaskey
Joe Alaskey (born May 26, 1949 in Watervliet, New York) is credited as one of the successors (including Billy West) of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons. His most frequent recurring Warner Bros. character roles have been those of Daffy Duck, Beaky Buzzard, Sylvester the Cat, and Tweety, but he has voiced many others. Some of his other Looney Tunes roles include Yosemite Sam, …
- Sonny Shroyer
Otis Burt "Sonny" Shroyer, Jr. (born August 28, 1935 in Valdosta, Georgia) is an American actor from Georgia who has appeared in various television and movie roles. He is best known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Enos Strate in the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard". He also starred in a spin-off called "Enos" based on his "Dukes of Hazzard" character. Shroyer is married and has two sons, Chris and Mark.
- Joe Stefanelli
Joseph Leonard Stefanelli (born September 11, 1960 in San Francisco, California) is an American musician and actor, of Italian descent, who is best known for performing the voice of John Lennon in the 1994 film "Forrest Gump". Stefanelli arrived into the world of entertainment in 1989, by a chance meeting through a mutual friend who asked him to sit in on some jam sessions with Duncan Faure, a former lead singer of the Bay City Rollers.
- John Volstad
Born in Norway but moved to the United States about months after birth. Most remembered for his appearence in the Bob Newhart Show. And in Stripes (1981) as Stillman's Aide.
- Tom Hanks
Born in California, Tom Hanks grew up in what he calls a 'fractured' family. His parents were pioneers in the development of marriage dissolution law in that state, and Tom moved around a lot, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no abuse, no alcoholism, just a confused childhood. He had no acting experience in college, and in fact credits the fact that he couldn't get cast in a college play with actually starting his career - he went downtown, auditioned for a...
- Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell landed a part in the Elvis Presley movie, It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) when he was 10 years old. In 1960, Walt Disney himself signed Russell to a 10 year contract. Once his stint as a child actor ended, he spent the early 1970's playing minor league baseball. In 1979, he gave a classic performance as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter's ABC-TV movie. He followed with roles in a string of well-received films: Used Cars (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing...
- Jim Boeke
Dallas Cowboys OT 1964-1967.
- Stephen W Bridgewater
Stephen Bridgewater was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. He attended high school in Buhler, Kansas; a predominately Amish-Mennonite community. He attended college at Hutchinson Community College and UCLA. Bridgewater began a professional career in radio broadcasting at age 14. From age 14 until age 30, Bridgewater was the top morning Disc Jockey in Atlanta, Georgia, Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee, along with Chicago, Illinois. While working as a broadcaster, Bridgewater acted and wrote in...
- Bryan Hanna
Saved a boy from drowning, in Huntington Beach as a teenage surfer.
- Derek Hoyle
Die-hard fan of Elvis Presley. Has shared two roles with Val Kilmer. Dobson played Elvis Presley in Forrest Gump, a role Kilmer played in True Romance. Dobson also played Chris Siherlis in L.A. Takedown, which was remade as Heat, with Kilmer in that role.
- David Brisbin
Son Cal, with Laura Innes, was born. [1990] April 2002 - David and Laura adopted a one-year old Chinese infant named Mia.
- Sam Anderson
During the early 70s, he taught drama at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California. He's a proud father of twins Graduated from the University of North Dakota in the late 1960s.
- Jed Gillin
Jed Gillin was born and raised in Kansas City. He is the son of well known character actor Hugh Gillin. Jed studied acting in New York with Stella Adler and then later at The Actor's Studio in New York.
- Don Striepke
Attended Santa Rosa High School, Santa Rosa, California. Has worked very closely with Tom Hanks since Dragnet (1987).
- Michael Burgess
Performed Jean Valjean in over 1000 performances of Les Miserables at Toronto's Royal Alexandra theatre and on the cross-Canada tour In the 10th anniversary special performance, in 1995, of Les Miserables, Michael Burgess represented Canada when they had Jean Valjeans from different nations sing part of 'Do you hear the people sing' in their native language.
- Harold Herthum
Insurance agency owner turned actor. U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Owned an insurance company and former owner of a radio station. Member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Kiwanis Club. Owner of Herthum and Associates Insurance and former owner and general manager of Baton Rouge-based WAIL Radio.
- Kirk "Kitchen" Ward
Born in Hollister California. Kirk began his acting career with El Teatro Campesino (Theatre of the Farmworker) under the artistic direction of Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit, La Bamba.) Kirk was a member of Tim Robbins' - Actors' Gang Theatre and is co-founder of the comedy hip-hop duo Supafloss.
- Tausau Ta'a
Used the name Alvin Ta'a in 1954, his freshman year in high school. Changed his surname to Harrington during his sophomore year (1952) in high school, after his stepfather, Roy Milbur Harrington.
- John Simpson Randall
Randall was born in New Orleans and lived there until moving to M andeville, Louisiana in 1987. He graduated from LSU and Tulane Unive rsity Law School and retired as an attorney for the state of Louisian a. He was first lieutenant and commanded an Army infantry unit in It aly during World War II. He was a member of the Louisiana state bar association and a deacon of his Baptist Church. Brought his grandchildren to the casting call for Forrest Gump wh en he was noticed and asked to read...
- Bob Penny
Professor of English Lit.; taught at University of Alabama in Birmingham.
- Jason McGuire
His film debut was Pet Sematary II (1992). Atteneded Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville, Georgia from 2004 to 2007. Graduated from Park View High School in Lilburn, Georgia in 1997. Some of his favorite movies are Sin City (2005), Braveheart (1995), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Godfather (1972).
- Robert Clinton Richardson
Born at 5:0am-EDT
- Rob Adams
Co-Director of The Actors Workshop in Laguna Hills, California. Played Quarterback for 15 years that included high school, college and professional football. The son of film actor/acting coach R.J. Adams.
- Steven Griffith
Native of Greenville, South Carolina. Degree in Theatre from Lander University in Greenwood. Given the Drama League of New York Playwrighting Award for "Tower". Worked as a Walt Disney Imagineer (1995-2005); built mock-ups and full scale prototypes for numerous rides including the first prototype for "Mission Space", full-scale mock-ups of the "Tower of Terror" vehicle and the "Soaring Over California" ride. Built "Animal Planet Live" at Universal as well as the giant sunken ship that...
- Edward Newton Davis
Principal of Southeast Bulloch Middle School in Brooklet, Georgia.
- Michael Conner Humphreys
Tom Hanks patterned his Forrest Gump accent after Humphrey, who actually talks that way.
- Afemo Omilami
- Matthew C Rebenkoff
- Daniel J Gillooly
- Jim Ent
- Geoffrey Ferrell
- Markus Alexander
- John William Galt
- Christopher Jones
- Mike Jolly
- Kevin Mangan