William Fox (born Wilhelm Fuchs in January 1, 1879-May 8, 1952) founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. Although Fox sold his interest in these companies in a 1936 bankruptcy settlement, his name lives on as the namesake of the FOX Television Network and 20th Century Fox film studio. Wilhelm Fuchs was born to Jewish parents in Tolcsva, Hungary, then part of Austria-Hungary.

Lamar Jefferson Trotti (October 18, 1900-August 28, 1952) was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive. In the silent film era, he was a reporter for the daily Atlanta Georgian, where he interviewed many show business people, such as Viola Dana. Later, Trotti became an executive at Fox Film Corporation in 1933 and after its 1935 merger with Twentieth Century Pictures to become 20th Century Fox, he remained with the company until his death.

Sol M. Wurtzel (September 12, 1881 - April 9, 1958) was an American motion picture producer. Born in New York City, New York, Sol M. Wurtzel worked as an executive assistant to William Fox, founding owner of the Fox Film Corporation. In 1917, Fox sent him to California to oversee the studio's West Coast productions.

Joseph Michael Schenck (December 25, 1878 - October 22, 1961) was a pioneer executive who played a key role in the development of the United States film industry. Born in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, he and his younger brother Nicholas emigrated to New York City in 1893 where they eventually got into the entertainment business operating concessions at New York's Fort George Amusement Park.

William Goetz was an American Hollywood film producer and studio executive. Born to a Jewish working class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Goetz was the youngest of eight children. His mother died when he was ten years old and shortly thereafter his father abandoned the family. Raised by older brothers, at the age of twenty-one he followed some of his brothers to Hollywood where he found work as a crew hand at one of the large studios.

J. Gordon Edwards (June 24 1867-December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's "St. Elmo". Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara's productions between 1916 to 1919.

El Brendel (March 25, 1890 - April 9, 1964) was a vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect schtick as a Swedish immigrant. His biggest role was as "Single-0" in the sci-fi musical "Just Imagine" (1930), produced by Fox Film Corporation. His screen name was pronounced "El Bren-DEL." Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to German immigrants, Elmer Goodfellow Brendle, unlike his stage and film character, was not Swedish, …

Arthur Charles Miller (July 8, 1895 - July 13, 1970) was an acclaimed American cinematographer and a three-time Academy Award winner. Born in Roslyn, New York, Arthur Miller began his career at the age of 13, working as an assistant to filmmaker Fred J. Balshofer. The two remained lifelong friends and in 1967 co-wrote the book about the early days of film titled "Two Reels and a Crank".

Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 - July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs, Werker directed his first film in 1925. He was brought in by Fox Film Corporation executives to re-shoot and re-edit Erich von Stroheim's film "Hello, Sister!" (1933), co-starring Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts. Most of Werker work is unremarkable, but a few were well received by critics.

Billy Gilbert (September 12, 1894 - September 23, 1971) was an American comedian and actor most known for his comic sneeze routines. Born William Gilbert Barron in Louisville, Kentucky, the child of singers with the Metropolitan Opera, he began working in vaudeville at the age of twelve and was 35 years old before he appeared in his first film for the Fox Film Corporation in 1929. Gilbert broke into comedy short subjects with producer Hal Roach, …

Ben Bard (26 January 1893, Milwaukee - 17 May 1974, Los Angeles) was a movie actor, stage actor, and acting teacher. With comedian Jack Pearl, Bard worked in a comedy duo in vaudeville. Bard ran a leading Hollywood acting school by the name of Ben Bard Drama. He married the serial film star Ruth Roland in 1929, and was married to Roland until her death in 1937. Bard was recruited to be a leading man at Fox Film Corporation, …

Howard Michael "Howie" Long (born January 6, 1960 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is a former American football player who played as a defensive end, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000. Long has been married since June 27, 1982, to the former Diane Addonizio and they have three sons, one of whom, Christopher, plays football at the University of Virginia. The family resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Rex Ingram (January 12, 1893 - July 21, 1950) was a film director, producer, writer and actor. Born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Saint Columba's College, near Rathfarnam, County Dublin. He spent most of his adolescent life living in the Old Rectory, Kinnity, Birr, County Offaly where his father was The Church of Ireland rector. He emigrated to the United States in 1911.

Elissa Landi was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing. Born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Landi was raised in Austria and educated in England. Her first ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty.

Mona Barrie (December 18, 1909 - June 27, 1964) was an English born actress in American theatre and motion pictures. Born Mona Smith in London, she was educated in Australia and began her acting career there in live theatre. In 1933 she emigrated to the United States, signing with Fox Film Corporation and making her film debut in 1934 using the stage name Mona Barrie. While her lack of a glamorous beauty resulted in her generally being cast in important but secondary roles, …

Freeman Harrison Owens (July 20, 1890 - December 9, 1979), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the only child of Charles H. Owens and Christabel Harrison. He attended Pine Bluff High School in Pine Bluff, but quit in his senior year to work at a local movie theatre as a projectionist. Owens constructed his own 35mm movie camera at the age of 16. He filmed early newsreels, such as the Chicago Union Stock Yards Fire in December 1910 and the Charleston, …

Virginia Pearson (1886-1958) was a stage actress and silent film star who was born in Anchorage, Kentucky, USA. After completing school Virginia worked for a brief time as an assistant in the public library in Louisville, Kentucky. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. Among her movies is "Blazing Love" (1916), "Wildness of Youth" (1922), "The Vital Question" (1916), "Sister Against Sister" (1917), …

Joseph Ruttenberg (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a photojournalist and Academy Award-winning cinematographer. Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joseph Ruttenberg was ten years old when his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston, Massachusetts. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe newspaper as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer.

Harry F. Millarde was a pioneer American silent film actor and director. Millarde was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began his acting in film in 1913 with Kalem Studios in New York City. In 1916, he directed the first of his thirty-two films the most notable of which was "If Winter Comes" for Fox Film Corporation in 1923 that was based on the best-selling book in the United States of 1922 by author A.S.M. Hutchinson.

Kenean J. Buel (c.1873 - November 5, 1948) was an American film director. Born in Kentucky, he became involved in theatre work and eventually made his way to New York City where he was hired by the Kalem Company in 1908 as a film director under the tutelage of Sidney Olcott. Buel was part of the pioneering Kalem team that filmed in Florida in the winter months and in the fall of 1910, the rapidly growing Kalem organization sent him to head up a filming unit in California.

Wendy Barrie was a Hong Kong-born actress who worked in British and Hollywood films. Her birth name was Marguerite Wendy Jenkins and she was born in Hong Kong to British parents. Her father was a successful lawyer who could afford to educate her at quality schools in England and Switzerland. While still in her teens, she began pursuing a career as an actress.

Frank E. Powell was a stage and silent film actor, screenwriter, and director in the United States. Frank Powell made his Broadway theatre debut in 1904 and began his career in film in 1909 as an actor and scriptwriter at Biograph Studios. There, he also co-directed his first film with D.W. Griffith and demonstrated an adeptness at directing Biograph-style comedies.

Helen Ferguson (23 July, 1900 {also said to be 190114 March, 1977) was an American actress later turned publicist. Born in Decatur, Illinois, she was a graduate of the Nicholas High School of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts. Ferguson was a newspaper reporter before entering the motion picture field. It is thought she made her debut in films in 1914, although her first recorded credits are in 1917. She soon starred in roles for Fox Film Corporation by 1920, …

Victoria Forde was an American silent film actress. Born in New York City, Victoria Forde was the daughter of Broadway actress Eugenie Forde who got her into films with Biograph at age 14. In 1912, at age 16, she signed with Nestor Studios to make comedy films under director Al Christie. That same year, her mother made her film debut, appearing with her daughter in "A Pair of Jacks".

Patricia "Boots" Mallory (October 22, 1913 - December 1, 1958) was an American film actress, dancer and model. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mallory joined an all-girl band at the age of twelve as a banjo player and by the age of sixteen was a vaudeville dancer. She eventually travelled to New York City where she made a strong impression in the Broadway production of the "Ziegfeld Follies of 1931".

Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 - December 25, 1940) was a silent film star in the 1920s. Born Agnes Hinkle in Carbondale, Illinois, she had planned to have a career in law, but in 1915 at the age of 17 she made her film debut at Essanay Studios in Chicago, and was signed by Fox Studios in 1919. Moving to New York, Agnes gained popularity after being cast in "Richard the Brazen" (1917), and was signed by Paramount Pictures in 1920.

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, …

Virginia Fox (1902-1982) was an American actress who starred in many silent films of the 1910s and 1920s. She was the daughter of William Fox, the founder of the Fox Film Corporation and married for over thirty years to the film producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with whom she had 3 children, including Richard Zanuck.

Valda Valkyrien was a Danish prima ballerina and a silent film actress. Born Adele Eleonore Freed in Reykjavík, Iceland, under the stage name Valda Valkyrien she was prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet. She married Danish nobleman and author, Baron Hrolf von Dewitz and in 1912 began appearing in motion pictures for Nordisk Film productions of Copenhagen. For them, she performed in at least six silent films including one feature-length production.

Jacquie Lyn (born Jaquelyn Dufton) (September 3, 1928 - March 21, 2002) was a British-born American child actress, who had a brief yet notable career in motion pictures. Lyn was born in London, England. After making her debut appearance in the 1931 Fox Film Corporation film "Wicked", Lyn was cast by producer Hal Roach into his "Our Gang" comedies. Lyn was featured prominently in two 1932 "Our Gang" shorts, …

Deanna J. Cremin (March 26, 1978 - March 30, 1995) was a 17-year-old American murder victim from Somerville, Massachusetts.

Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1880-1971) was a British novelist. Frequently referred to as A.S.M. Hutchinson, he wrote romance and family novels as well as short stories for publications such "The Sphere Magazine". His best-selling novel, "If Winter Comes"," was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide.

Vivian Martin (July 22 1893 - March 16 1987) was an American stage and silent film actress. She was born in Sparta, Michigan and began her career on the stage with comedian Lew Fields. Her early theatrical appearances included "Stop Thief", "Officer 666", "The Only Son" and with Richard Mansfield in "Cyrano de Bergerac". A winsome and pretty blonde, Martin entered the motion pictures industry in 1914.

Yolande Betbeze (born 1929 in Mobile, Alabama) was Miss America in 1951.