William Lyle Richardson (May 7, 1922 - February 25, 2006), who adopted the name Darren McGavin, was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker", and also his portrayal in the movie "A Christmas Story" of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his sons overhear.

Simon Oakland (28 August 1915 - 29 August 1983) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City.

Ruth McDevitt (September 13 1895 - May 27 1976) was an American film actress. She was born as "Ruth Thane Shoecraft" and was married to Patrick McDevitt. She has performed on Broadway, on radio, and is well known for her comedy in television and film. She was a familiar face on television during the 1960s and '70s, guest starring on such programs as "All in the Family", "Bewitched", …

R. Daniel Curtis (August 12 1928 - March 27 2006) was an American director and producer of television and film, probably best known for the afternoon TV series "Dark Shadows", which originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication for the last thirty years. He also did the 1991 remake of Dark Shadows, but was cancelled due to low ratings.

Larry Linville was an American actor. Larry Linville was born in Ojai, California, and is best known for his portrayal of obnoxious, self-important Major Frank Burns in the television series "M*A*S*H". In stark contrast to the belligerent, callous, mean-spirited, and selfish Frank, Larry Linville himself has often been described by the show's other cast members as a kind, friendly man who was very open-minded and courteous to those around him.

John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 - June 25, 2005) was an American voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television and radio. Slight, balding, and bespectacled, with a piping voice (reminiscent of actor Percy Helton), his career stretched forty years but he is perhaps best remembered for two roles: the voice of Piglet in Disney's many Winnie the Pooh productions and the role of Mr. Peterson, nervous patient on "The Bob Newhart Show".

Gil Melle (December 31, 1931 - October 28, 2004) was an artist, jazz musician and film composer. In the 1950s, Melle's paintings and sculptures were shown in New York galleries and he created the cover art for albums by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. Melle played the tenor and baritone saxophone with George Wallington, Max Roach, Tal Farlow, Oscar Pettiford, Ed Thigpen, Kenny Dorham and Zoot Sims.

Richard Dean Starr is an American editor and author of fiction whose work has featured characters including Hellboy, Zorro, The Phantom, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and The Avenger, among others. He is also a former journalist who has written for both newspapers and magazines. In addition to his fiction and non-fiction he is also a copywriter and authority on small-business marketing. Starr was born in Los Angeles but spent thirteen years in Florida.

Gordon Purcell is an American comic book artist, perhaps best known for his "Star Trek" work, in particular his photorealistic renditions of the actors who play that franchise’s characters, as well as those of similarly licensed books, such as "X-Files", "Xena", "Lost in Space", "Godzilla", "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles", "Barb Wire", and "The Terminator". Purcell grew up reading Marvel Comics and DC Comics, …

Dennis Calero (born January 2, 1972, Miami Beach, Florida) is an illustrator and comic book artist. Calero attended the New World School of the Arts conservatory high school in Miami, Florida, and New York's, Pratt Institute on a partial scholarship. His work includes Acclaim Comics' licensed-product titles "Sliders" and "Magic: The Gathering"; Moonstone Books' TV tie-in titles "Cisco Kid" and "Kolchak: The Night Stalker", …

Hal Mooney was an American composer and arranger, born Harold Mooney (under which name he was occasionally credited professionally) on 4 February 1911, in Brooklyn, New York. He died on 23 March 1995, in Los Angeles, California.

Ellen Weston (born Ellen R. Weinstein on April 19, 1939 in New York City) is an American actress, producer, and writer.

Barbara Luddy (25 May 1908 - 1 April 1979) was an American actress from Great Falls, Montana. Her film career began with silent pictures in the 1920s, during which time she was also a prolific radio performer. Barbara Luddy is perhaps best remembered for her voice work in Disney animated films such as "Lady and the Tramp" (in which she played the titular Lady), "Sleeping Beauty", "Robin Hood", and "101 Dalmatians".

Carlos Romero is an American actor, noted for his many appearances on television. His credits include: "Cheyenne", "Zorro", "Maverick", "77 Sunset Strip", "Rawhide", "Ben Casey", "I Spy", "Perry Mason", "The Virginian", "The Big Valley", "The Fugitive", "The Invaders", "The Wild Wild West", "Mannix", "The Mod Squad", "The High Chaparral", …

Stuart Nisbet (born 1934) is an American character actor. He guest-starred on the television shows "Murder, She Wrote", "L.A. Law", "Little House on the Prairie", "Quincy M.E.", "Three's Company", "McMillan & Wife", "Emergency!", "The Rockford Files", "Kolchak: The Night Stalker", "Happy Days", "Adam-12", "Columbo", "Cannon", "Mannix", "Night Gallery", "Bonanza", …

Keith Williams is an American comic book and comic strip artist. He is best known for illustrating The Phantom for over a decade together with George Olesen. Since Paul Ryan took over the Phantom strip, Keith has mainly worked in comic books, like Kolchak: The Night Stalker from Moonstone Books.

Kirk Jarvinen (born 1967 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American artist best known for his cartoon-style comic book art. Raised in Michigan, Jarvinen became a professional comic artist and worked for a number of major publishers including Northstar, Fantagraphics, Malibu, DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He gained attention as penciller for a four issue mini-series story for DC's "Aquaman", in collaboration with writer, Peter David.

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A remarkably seasoned actor of stage, screen and television, Darren McGavin has notched in excess of 200 performances; however, he is most fondly remembered by cult TV fans as heroic newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak in the classic but short-lived horror TV series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (1974). In a long and varied career, McGavin has often turned up as authority figures including policemen, military officers, stern-faced business executives or father figures; however, he is...

A three time Oscar nominee, Jerry Fielding was among the boldest and most experimental of all Hollywood film composers. His music typically utilized advanced compositional procedures, producing dense, often richly dissonant orchestral textures, sometimes flavoured with jazz. Fielding's film music career was marked by enduring and rewarding collaborations with Sam Peckinpah, Michael Winner and Clint Eastwood. Born Joshua Feldman in Pittsburgh in 1922 to migrant Russian parents, Jerry...

Born in Mt. Vernon, New York, and raised in New Jersey, David Chase (born David DeCesare) dreamed of being a star--a star drummer in a rock band! He spent many years playing drums and bass trying to be part of a successful rock band in the 1960s East Coast music scene. He also loved movies, such as The Public Enemy (1931) with James Cagney and TV shows like "The Untouchables" (1959) with Robert Stack. When not making music, he watched 1960s' Hollywood and foreign films avidly....

Delightfully daffy and an apple dumpling of a darling, wizened character actress Ruth McDevitt was born Ruth Shoecraft in Michigan but raised in Ohio where her father served as a county sheriff. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art with designs of becoming an actress but married a Florida widower soon after and put full focus on being a wife. Her husband died in 1934 and, at age 40+, Ruth decided to dabble again with community theater productions which reignited her passion....