- Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper is born ( 1936 ). This Hollywood survivor has lent his eccentric persona to a number of genre Movies , including Space Truckers ( 1997 ), Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), Waterworld ( 1995 ), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ) and My Science Project ( 1985 ). He was born in Dodge City, Kansas, USA. - Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress. She was the first performer of African descent to ever win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). McDaniel was also a professional singer, stage actress, radio performer and television star. - Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and later continued in a spinoff series, "Lou Grant". He is currently a recurring guest star as Wilson White on the television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". - Annette Bening
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. - Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks (14 November 1906 - 8 August 1985) was an American dancer, showgirl, and silent film actress. She became, at the end of her life, a writer and critic of the silent film era. - Shirley Knight
Shirley Enola Knight (born July 5 1936, Goessel, Kansas) is an American actress who made her film debut in 1959. The following year she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs", and again, in 1962, for her role as Paul Newman's sweetheart in "Sweet Bird of Youth". She also appeared in Sidney Lumet's "The Group" (1966), … - Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Louise Alley (born January 12, 1951) is an American actress known for her role in the TV show "Cheers", where she played Rebecca Howe from 1987-1993, winning an Emmy as the "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" for 1991. A year later, she won a Golden Globe for her performance in "Cheers" as well. She won an Emmy in 1994 for her role in the TV-drama "David's Mother". - Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain"). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. - Don Johnson
Donald Wayne "Don" Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor well known for his fame in film and television. Johnson played the lead role of Sonny Crockett in the popular 1980s TV cop series, "Miami Vice". He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, "Nash Bridges". - Scott Foley
Scott Kellerman Foley (born July 15, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for his screen roles on "Felicity", "A.U.S.A.", "Scream 3", and "The Unit". - Paul Rudd
Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American film, television, and stage actor. - Shanna Reed
Shanna Reed (born October 30, 1956) is an American dancer and actress, best known for her roles on television and movies, including "Legs". Her credits include: "Texas", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Knight Rider", "Fantasy Island", "Cheers" and "Magnum, P.I.". Her most prominent role is Polly McGillis in "Major Dad". In 2006, Procter & Gamble began making several of its soaps available through AOL's video service, … - Milburn Stone
Milburn Stone was an Emmy Award—winning American television actor, who was the nephew of Broadway comedian, Fred Stone, and who was best known for his role as "Doc" (Doctor Galen Adams) on the Western television series "Gunsmoke". Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas. He began his screen career in the late 1930s, and was featured in Monogram Pictures' series of "Tailspin Tommy" adventures. - Aneta Corsaut
Aneta Corsaut (b. November 3 1933, Hutchinson, Kansas - d. November 6 1995, Studio City, California) was an American television actress. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on "The Andy Griffith Show". Corsaut also appeared in several episodes of "Matlock (television series)", a later show also starring Andy Griffith. She and Steve McQueen both had their film debuts in the 1958 film, … - Zasu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 - June 7, 1963) was an American movie actress. She was one of the more popular stars of the early motion picture era. A classic comedienne, ZaSu Pitts was known for her timid, forlorn blue eyes and trademark woebegone vocal pattern and fidgety hands. - R. Lee Ermey
Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a former U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and later Golden Globe-nominated actor, often playing the roles of authority figures, such as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket", Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film "Mississippi Burning" and Sheriff Hoyt in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". He currently hosts "Mail Call," a military history program on The History Channel, … - Del Close
Del Close, along with Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin, is considered one of the premier influences on modern improvisational theater. An actor, improviser, writer, and teacher, Close had a prolific career, appearing in a number of films and television shows. He was a co-author of the book "Truth in Comedy" along with partner Charna Halpern, … - Eric Stonestreet
Eric Stonestreet (born September 9, 1971) is an actor from Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1996 and spent two years doing plays and improv in Chicago, then moved to Los Angeles and began his professional acting career. Stonestreet is perhaps most notable for his role as Ronnie Litre on CSI (which he has portrayed 13 times as of February 10, 2005). He has also appeared on such television shows as Dharma & Greg, Malcolm in the Middle, Party of Five, … - Cassandra Peterson
Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1949) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror host persona "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark". She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of "Movie Macabre", a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance was offset by her comical character, quick-witted personality and Valley girl-type speech. - Lois Smith
Lois Smith born (November 3, 1930) is an American actress whose career in theatre, film, and television has spanned five decades. Born in Topeka, Kansas, Smith is a graduate of the University of Washington. She made her film debut in "East of Eden" in 1955. Additional film credits include "Five Easy Pieces", "Up the Sandbox", "Fatal Attraction", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "How to Make an American Quilt", "Dead Man Walking", … - Dee Wallace-Stone
Dee Wallace-Stone (born Deanna Bowers on December 14, 1948, in Kansas City, Kansas) is an U.S. motion picture and television actress. She is remembered for her roles in several popular films. These include the starring role as Elliot's divorced mother in the Steven Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), her widest seen role. - Laurel Goodwin
Laurel Goodwin (born August 11, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American actress. A child model, Goodwin made her screen debut as the love interest of Elvis Presley in the 1962 film, "Girls! Girls! Girls!". Between then and 1969, she appeared in only three more films and as a guest actor on several television series, the most notable of which was in the role of Yeoman J.M. Colt on "The Cage", the first "Star Trek" episode. - Dwight Frye
Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22 1899 - November 7 1943) was an American stage and screen actor. Frye was born in Salina, Kansas. Nicknamed "The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare," and "The Man of a Thousand Deaths," he specialized in the portrayal of mentally unbalanced characters, including his signature role, the madman Renfield in Tod Browning's 1931 version of "Dracula". - Rob Riggle
Rob Riggle , who joined The Daily Show's "News" bureau in 2006, has been performing sketch and improv comedy in New York and Los Angeles for the last 9 years as part of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is also a United States Marine Corps officer. Rob Riggle served in Liberia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has over 19 medals and ribbons as a result of his service, to include the Combat Action Ribbon. Rob Riggle is currently a Major in the Marine Corps Reserves. - Vivian Vance
Vivian Roberta Jones, known professionally as Vivian Vance, was an Emmy Award-winning American television actress, theater actress, and singer. Often referred to as "TV's most beloved second banana", she is best known for her role as sidekick Ethel Mertz on the landmark American television sitcom "I Love Lucy". - Hugh Beaumont
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor, television director, and ordained Methodist minister. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Ward Cleaver on the popular TV series "Leave It to Beaver" from 1957 to 1963. Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, a little over three months after the couple married. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, … - Kelie McIver
Kelie McIver is a Topeka, Kansas-born actress and singer who has played such classical stage roles as Viola in "Twelfth Night" for both Nevada Shakespeare in the Park and Shakespeare at Play, Kate in "Taming of the Shrew", Rosalind in "As You Like It", Angelique in "The Imaginary Invalid", Doll Common in Mark Ringer's production of "The Alchemist" and as both Puck and Titania in separate productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". - Lucinda Dickey
Lucinda Dickey was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. She is an American dancer and actress who is well known for her role as Kelly in the 1984 cult film "Breakin'" and the 1984 sequel "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo". Lucinda had a stint on the music show "Solid Gold" from 1982 to 1983. She had a short acting career. She is currently living in Los Angeles with her husband Craig Pilgian and their two children. - Cynthia Sikes
Cynthia Sikes (born January 2, 1954, in Coffeyville, Kansas) is an actress known for playing strong Mother roles. She played Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden's (played by John M. Jackson) love interest in JAG. Her breakthrough role was playing Dr. Annie Cavanero on the critically-acclaimed series St. Elsewhere. She was Miss Kansas 1972 and was a Top 10 finalist and preliminary swimsuit winner at the Miss America pageant. - Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle aka Fatty Arbuckle was an American silent film comedian. Arbuckle is noted as one of the most popular actors of his era, but he is best remembered for a heavily publicized criminal prosecution that halted his screen career. Although he was acquitted by a jury with a written apology, the trial's scandal ruined the actor, who would not appear on screen again for another 10 years. - Lila Leeds
Lila Leeds (born Lila Lee Wilkinson January 28, 1928 in Dodge City, Kansas, died September 15, 1999) was an American film actress. She was married to actor, composer, singer and conductor Jack Little. She gained notoriety for being arrested together with actor Robert Mitchum on charges of marijuana possession on September 1, 1948. She subsequently spent some months in jail. Her acting career never really recovered from that episode. - Phyllis Haver
Phyllis Haver was a popular American actress of the silent film era. - Kevin Schmidt
Kevin Schmidt (born August 16, 1988 in Andover, Kansas) is an American actor. - Louis Giambalvo
Louis Giambalvo (b. February 8, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor, frequently seen on television in guest roles. His TV credits include: "Barney Miller", "Hart to Hart", "St. Elsewhere", "Hill Street Blues", "The Love Boat", "Remington Steele", "Simon and Simon", "Fame", "Knots Landing", "Murder She Wrote", "Star Trek: Voyager", "Brooklyn South", "Ally McBeal", … - Robert Peters
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Oklahoma Has Potawatomi and Cherokee heritage on both sides of his family, along with Irish and Welsh His grandmother, Lucile Quinn Scovil, was an accomplished singer and taught at the Chicago Conservatory. His grandfather, Roy Scovil, was instrumental in founding the first Oklahoma chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous and contributed to its establishment nationwide, working directly with Bill W. His first directorial effort, Mutual Love Life... - Harry Northup
Harry E. Northup has made a living as an actor for thirty years, acting in thirty-seven films, including "Mean Streets," "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Taxi Driver" (1976 Palme d'Or winner at Cannes), "Fighting Mad" (starring role), "Citizens Band," "Blue Collar," "Over the Edge" (starring role), "Tom Horn," "Used Cars," "Kansas," "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991 Oscar winner for Best Picture), "Philadelphia," "Bad Girls," "Beloved," and a remake of "The Manchurian Candidate." Harry... - Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, until he was 15. He then moved to Bernardsville, and attended a prep school called the Pingry School, where he performed in plays and musicals and played basketball. At 18, he went to New York University as a theatre major and wound up as the lead in the 1983 film Class (1983). He also studied at the Circle in Square Theater School in New York. He has been in several on and off Broadway shows, such as 'Long Day's Journey', as well as over... - Alan Toy
Alan is a lifelong activist/organizer in the disability community, working to increase individual and community-based empowerment. He is a Project Director at the UCLA Policy Forum's Neighborhood Knowledge Research Center, in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, where he is the manager of several online projects that assist people with disabilities with their day-to-day independent living needs; coordinate disaster management volunteer trainings and opportunities; and map a... - Neil Moran
T Max Graham's broad range and distinctive voice have served him well over the years. His motion picture career began with David Lynch's cult classic Eraserhead and has continued through director Kevin Willmott's upcoming independent feature Bunker Hill, in which Max appears alongside James McDaniel (NYPD Blue) and Saeed Jaffrey (Gandhi). In between, Max has appeared in such films as Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil, Kansas and numerous television movies. Max has long been a favorite of... - James Lovlett
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