- Dawn Wells
Dawn Wells (born October 18, 1938 in Reno, Nevada) is an American actress, best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on the sitcom "Gilligan's Island", which ran on CBS from 1964 until 1967. Wells attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she majored in chemistry. She later transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle, where she graduated in 1960 with a degree in theatre. She was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. - Bob Denver
Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Willy "Gilligan" Gilligan on the television series "Gilligan's Island". Earlier, Denver had played beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the (1959-1963) TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", a characterization that was similar to Gilligan in many ways. - Tina Louise
Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, singer, and film and television actress, best known for her portrayal of Ginger Grant on television's "Gilligan's Island". - Sherwood Schwartz
Sherwood Charles Schwartz (born November 14 1916) is an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s and produced "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch". - Jim Backus
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio - July 3, 1989 In Los Angeles, California) was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's "I Married Joan", James Dean's father in "Rebel Without a Cause", … - Russell Johnson
Russell David Johnson (born November 10, 1924, in Ashley, Pennsylvania), is an American television and film actor best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom "Gilligan's Island". He is a graduate of Girard College, a private boarding school in Philadelphia, PA. - Alan Hale Jr.
Alan Hale Jr. (born Alan Hale Mackahan, March 8, 1921 - January 2, 1990) was an American movie and television actor, best known for his role as the Skipper, Jonas Grumby, on the popular sitcom "Gilligan's Island". - Natalie Schafer
Natalie Schafer was an American actress. Born to a Jewish family in Red Bank, New Jersey, Schafer began her career as an actress on Broadway before moving to Los Angeles in 1941 to work in films. She played several supporting roles during the 1940s (such as a "Mrs. Howell"-like wife of a German officer in the 1942 film "Reunion in France") and 1950s, … - John Rich
John Rich is a film and television director. He directed such television shows as "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "All in the Family", "The Jeffersons", "Maude", "Good Times", "Barney Miller", "Newhart", "Benson", "The Brady Bunch", and "Gilligan's Island". His feature film credits include "Wives and Lovers", "Boeing, Boeing", and "Roustabout" (starring Elvis Presley). - Jack Arnold
Jack Arnold (October 14 1916 - March 17, 1992) was an American television and film director. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He directed a number of movies starting in 1950. The best known of these, the science fiction films "It Came from Outer Space", "Tarantula", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man", are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and unusually sophisticated scripts. - George Wyle
George Wyle (22 March 1916 - 2 May 2003), born Bernard Weissman, was an American orchestra leader and composer best known for having written the theme song to 1960s television sitcom "Gilligan's Island". In the late 1940s and early 1950s his orchestra served as backup for a number of Columbia Records singers, including Doris Day. Some of the recordings (including "I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Pray'rs)" in 1949 and "I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, … - Jerry van Dyke
Jerry Van Dyke (born July 27, 1931, in Danville, Illinois) is an American comedian and actor. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dick Van Dyke, and made his acting debut on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother, Stacie. Van Dyke began his stand-up comedy career while still in high school in Danville, and was already a veteran of strip joints and nightclubs when he joined the Air Force Special Services in 1952. - Vito Scotti
Vito Scotti was a character actor who played many roles, primarily from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. He had minor roles in movies such as "The Godfather" and "Cactus Flower", and also appeared in television series such as "The Addams Family", "Gunsmoke", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and "Hogan's Heroes". He also played a stereotypical Japanese soldier on "Gilligan's Island". - Les Brown
Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the big band era of the late 1930s and now performs under the direction of his son Les Brown, Jr. 'Les Brown and the Band of Renown' brought Doris Day into prominence with their recording of "Sentimental Journey" in 1945. The release of "Sentimental Journey" coincided with the end of WWII in Europe and was the homecoming theme for many veterans. - Denny Miller
Denny Miller (b. April 25, 1934 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an U.S. actor, perhaps best known for his guest-starring roles on "Gilligan's Island" and as Tarzan in the late 1950s. Miller was a basketball star at UCLA, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with MGM. - William Froug
William Froug is an Emmy award-winning American television writer and producer. His producing credits include the series "The Twilight Zone", "Gilligan's Island", and "Bewitched". In addition he wrote teleplays for "The Dick Powell Show", "Charlie's Angels", and "The New Twilight Zone". He has written numerous books on screenwriting, including "Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade", "Zen and the Art of Screenwriting I and II, … - Alan Hale Sr.
Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan, February 10, 1892-January 22,1950) was an American movie actor and director, best known for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. He was the father of lookalike actor Alan Hale Jr., best known as "the Skipper" on television's "Gilligan's Island". He was born in Washington, D.C.. - Stanley Adams
Stanley Adams was an American actor and filmwriter. Born in New York City, he came to films permanently in 1952, when he played the bartender in the movie version of "Death of a Salesman," and another conniving barkeep in "The Gene Krupa Story." He is well-known for playing Cyrano Jones in the "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" which aired in 1967. - Charles Maxwell
Charles Burr Maxwell was a U.S. character actor who worked primarily in television. Maxwell frequently appeared as a guest star in Western Television series such as "Bonanza", "Gunsmoke", "Rawhide", and "The Rifleman", among others. He appeared on "Bonanza" eight different times as eight different characters. Maxwell appeared as “Virgil Earp” in the "Star Trek" episode “Spectre of the Gun” in 1968. - Booth Colman
Booth Colman (b. March 8, 1923) is a film, television and stage actor. The actor today usually plays older authority figures like doctors and lawyers in films. Colman has been appearing in films since 1952 when he appeared uncredited in "The Big Sky" directed by Howard Hawks. Colman was born in Portland, Oregon. As a child actor in local productions became active in local radio. He attended the Universities of Washington and Michigan. - Eric Allan Kramer
Eric Allan Kramer (born 1962) is an American actor best known as Little John in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and as Dave Rogers, the white neighbor in "The Hughleys. Kramer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and attended the BFA program at the University of Alberta at Edmonton, which led to acting in the theater and some television and movie roles, as well as fight choreography. He moved to Los Angeles at the urging of his friend Gary Sandy. - Ron Friedman
Ron Friedman is a productive screenwriter most famous for his work on such successful television shows as "G.I. Joe," "Gilligan's Island," and "The Transformers." - Phillip Johnson
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Hi!! I'm Tim Dodge. I'm 47 1/2 years old and my birthday's June 14, 1959. I have strawberry blonde hair, I'm bauld and I have blue eyes. I'm 5'6 1/2" tall and about 170 lbs. I have been married to Starla for 17 1/2 years now, ever since February 25, 1989. She's 45 years old and her birthday's August 13, 1961. We have 1 son, Nicholas Timothy Dodge. He's 15 1/2 years old and his birthday's April 13, 1991. He's in the 9th grade and Starla homeschools him. - Heather
I read the bible. I love Jesus, (the one from the bible.. not the one from the Mission district.. although I hear he makes a mean taco). I like plants that can sustain long periods of being overly dry. If they can go a good month/month and a half without being watered, then I know I've found myself a good plant. - Dana
I am interested in basketball, band, current news, books, movies, and some music. - Debbie Pietz
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Hi, I am 43 years of age 5'5" w/ brown hair and freckled skin w/a tan. Two wonderful kids named James and Jenifer. I love sports and the outdoors, very outgoing, great personality, love pets, have two border collies, love them to death! Names are Buster and Jr. I coach girls softball and I play. Also love camping, gardening, grow vegetables to preserve(canning). My father has taught me well on farming and arrigation. - Dr Ew Farkas
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Hi, My name is Jim. Almost 45yrs ago in a small town in southern Idaho I was born. My parents names are Jim & Helen. I am the oldest of six children and I share that honor with my twin brother John. I have had the great pleasure of being raised in a fabulous family. My mother did not work ouside the home and so I had the "perfect" upbringing. My Dad and twin brother are at the top of my Heroes list. - Jeannine
there is no real way to describe me. I'm a tom-boy still i guess. I don't wear make-up or do my hair up fancy because it takes way too much time. - Howard Harris
Howard Harris (b. February 15 1912, New York City - d. March 22 1986) was a comedy writer whose credits included "Copacabana" (1947) starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda, "The Jackie Gleason Show", "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx, "Gilligan's Island", "Petticoat Junction", and other popular television shows. Howard Harris attended Fordham University School of Law for two years which, according to his family, he hated. - James T. Aubrey Jr.
Aubrey, circa 1959.]]James Thomas Aubrey, Jr. (August 28, 1947) was an American television and film executive. President of the CBS television network during the early 1960s, he put some of television's most enduring series on the air, including "Gilligan's Island" and "The Beverly Hillbillies". Under Aubrey, CBS dominated American television the way General Motors and General Electric dominated their industries. - Robert Bootzin
Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin (August 19, 1914 - August 8, 2004) was an American fitness pioneer. He is credited with laying the foundation for the acceptance by mainstream America of "alternative" lifestyles such as yoga and organic food. Born in San Francisco as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Bootzin had "dropped out" as early as 1933. He, along with 10-15 other "tribesmen," lived off the land, slept in caves and trees, and bathed in waterfalls. - Alan Reed Junior
The son of the great character actor (and Errol Flynn sidekick) Alan Hale, Alan Hale Jr. (he dropped the Jr. after his father passed away) was literally born into the movies. Hale did his first movie as a baby and continued to act until his death. Unlike other child actors, Hale made a smooth transition in the movies and starred in several classics like Up Periscope (1959), The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958) and The West Point Story (1950), as well as many westerns. He did a lot of television... - Alan Jr
Alan Ladd Jr. is one of the industry's most respected executives. He started in the movies as an agent in 1963. In 1969, Ladd moved to London to produce, making nine films. He returned to the States in '73 to become Head of Creative Affairs at Fox. Within three very successful years Mr. Ladd was President of Twentieth Century Fox. Star Wars, Alien, and Young Frankenstein, were a few of the classics during his tenure. But in 1979 Ladd left his position as President at Fox to found his own... - Alan Jr
The son of the great character actor (and Errol Flynn sidekick) Alan Hale, Alan Hale Jr. (he dropped the Jr. after his father passed away) was literally born into the movies. Hale did his first movie as a baby and continued to act until his death. Unlike other child actors, Hale made a smooth transition in the movies and starred in several classics like Up Periscope (1959), The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958) and The West Point Story (1950), as well as many westerns. He did a lot of television... - Jim Backus
Jim Backus was one of the few actors to do it all: radio, Broadway, movies, television and cartoons. After attending prep school in his native Cleveland, Backus enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, to ply his trade. While waiting for parts, he did radio and became friends with such future notables as Garson Kanin and Keenan Wynn. Backus stuck it out and soon was doing motion pictures in addition to radio. He was typecast in roles as "rich types" but broke the mold when he... - Jack Arnold Waks
Jack Arnold reigns supreme as one of the great directors of 50s science fiction features. His films are distinguished by moody black and white cinematography, solid acting, smart, thoughtful scripts, snappy pacing, a genuine heartfelt enthusiasm for the genre, and plenty of eerie atmosphere. Arnold was born on October 14, 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut. Jack began his show business career as an actor in both on and off Broadway stage productions in the late 30s and early 40s; among the... - Russell D Johnson
Long before he was known as "The Professor" in the cult comedy classic "Gilligan's Island" (1964), Russell Johnson was a well-known character actor, starring in several Westerns and Sci-Fi classics as This Island Earth (1955) and It Came from Outer Space (1953). Johnson grew up in Pennsylvania and was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia with his brothers when his father died. Unlike his Professor character, Johnson said he was not a bright student and was in fact held back...
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