- Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830 - May 8, 1904) was an English-born photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated celluloid film strip still used today. - Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an award-winning American playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and often absurd, as well as for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west. Shepard is also a respected actor of the stage and motion pictures. - Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine was an American film producer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, his Embassy Pictures Corporation was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as "The Carpetbaggers", "Harlow", "The Graduate" and "The Lion in Winter". Levine is famous in the industry for his massive advertising campaigns, starting with "Hercules" in 1959. He is also responsible for bringing the movie "Godzilla" to the US public. - Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes (born August 20, 1942, in Covington, Tennessee) is an American soul and funk singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, and actor. Hayes is best known as one of the creative forces behind Stax Records, for which he served as both an in-house songwriter/producer and a recording artist. In addition to his work in popular music, Hayes has also written scores for several motion pictures as well. - John Milius
John Milius (born April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. A former student at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, Milius started his movie career in a student film contest in 1967, for which he won first prize on his entry "Marcello I'm Bored". Milius wrote, co-wrote and/or directed popular and critically acclaimed films such as "Apocalypse Now", … - Flea
Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962 in Melbourne, Australia), better known by his nickname/stage name Flea, is an Australian-American bassist for the alternative rock/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and a frequent session musician for other music acts. He has also acted in a number of movies. - Jim Davis
Marlin "Jim" Davis (August 26, 1909 - April 26, 1981) was an American character actor who appeared in motion pictures from the 1940s to the 1980s. - Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri (b. May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in "The Usual Suspects", "A Bronx Tale" and "Mulholland Falls". - Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886-September 29, 1970) was an American character actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York to Isabella S. Diack and Edward Everett Horton. His mother was born in Matanzas, Cuba to Mary Orr and George Diack, immigrants from Scotland. - Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara (born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on August 28, 1930, in New York City) is an American actor in television and motion pictures. Born to Italian immigrants, Antonio Gazzara and Angela Consumano, Gazzara grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. He attended New York City's famed Stuyvesant High School. He found relief from his bleak surroundings by joining a theater company at a very young age. - Tom Skerritt
Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an Emmy Award-Winning American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes (half "Picket Fences"). - Andy Richter
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter (October 28, 1966) is best known for his former role as Conan O'Brien's sidekick on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". Richter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan as second of four children and was raised in Yorkville, Illinois, where he was elected Prom King. While attending Columbia College Chicago, he played in several Chicago improv groups, including the Annoyance Theatre, before catching his role on "Late Night". - Alexander Courage
Alexander Courage (born December 10, 1919) is a 20th century American orchestrator, arranger and composer of music, primarily for television and motion pictures. - Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas (born July 27, 1948) is an American actress and director in television and motion pictures. She was born Betty Thomas Nienhauser in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She worked as an artist and taught school in Chicago before deciding to pursue a career in show business. Thomas joined The Second City comedy group and appeared in the films "Tunnel Vision" (1975), … - Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Denise Quinlan (born November 19, 1954) is an Oscar nominated American actress, mostly seen on television and in motion pictures. - David Belasco
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 - May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, to which his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier. He eventually was given the opportunity to act and serve as a stage manager, learning the business inside out. - William Friese-Greene
William Friese-Greene (September 7, 1855-May 5, 1921) (born William Edward Green) was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography. - Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 - October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed Tony Award, Academy Award, Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actress, whose acclaim on stage and in motion pictures was probably eclipsed by her late-life popularity as television's sitcom maid "Hazel". She was born Marjory Ford in New York, New York, the daughter of Albert James Ford and Virginia Martha Wright. Her sister was Jean Valentine Ford (born 1914). - George Montgomery
George Montgomery (August 29, 1916 - December 12, 2000) was an American painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in western style film and television. Born George Montgomery Letz to Ukrainian immigrant parents in Brady, Montana, he was the youngest of fifteen children. He was raised on a large ranch where as a part of daily life he learned to ride horses and work cattle. - Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson (born December 1, 1955 in Florence, Alabama) is an American radio personality (disk jockey) and occasional actor, best known for the nationally-syndicated "Mark & Brian" morning show. After attending the University of North Alabama, Thompson worked as a disk jockey at several stations in the southern USA before meeting his partner Brian Phelps in Birmingham, Alabama in 1986. The next year the duo moved their show to KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, … - Scotty Moore
Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (born December 27, 1931 near Gadsden, Tennessee) is a legendary American guitarist and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years. Scotty Moore learned to play the guitar from family and friends at eight years of age. - Marian Seldes
Marian Hall Seldes (born August 23, 1928) is an award-winning American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. - Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding (July 23, 1912 - July 8, 1979) was an English actor. Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Wilding was a successful commercial artist when he joined the art department of a London movie studio in 1933. He soon embarked on an acting career. He appeared in numerous British motion pictures, often opposite Anna Neagle, but had a less productive career in Hollywood. Some of his most memorable screen performances are in "Sailors Three" (1940), … - Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), best known as Aaliyah, was an American singer, dancer, model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy Elliott & Timbaland and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Aaliyah soon joined Timbaland's R&B and hip hop collective, the Superfriends Clique. - Walter Donaldson
Walter Donaldson (February 15, 1893 - July 15, 1947) was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s. Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher. While still in school he wrote original music for school productions, and had his first professional songs published in 1915. The following year he had a hit with "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady". - Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch (April 11, 1916 - February 16, 2001) was an American director and producer of motion pictures and television. Born in New York City, he attended Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. He began his film career as an employee at Universal Studios office in New York then made his Hollywood filmmaking debut in 1947 as an assistant director. He worked as a producer for the first time in 1953 and a year later made his directing debut. - Henry Ian Cusick
Henry Ian Cusick (born April 17, 1967) is a Peruvian actor of stage, television, and motion pictures. - Boots Randolph
Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 - July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax", which was adopted by British comedian Benny Hill as a theme tune for his shows. Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career. - John McGiver
John Irwin McGiver (November 5 1913, New York City - d. September 9 1975, West Fulton, New York) was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. He was known for his performances as the religious fanatic Mr. O'Daniel in the film "Midnight Cowboy"; as the kindly Tiffany's salesman in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; as the ill-fated, … - Tony Walton
Tony Walton (born Anthony John Walton, 24 October, 1934) is an English Oscar, Tony and Emmy-winning set and costume designer. Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of "Conversation Piece". Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New York and London stage. - Michael Gibson
Michael Gibson (September 29, 1944 - July 15, 2005) was a musician and orchestrator nominated twice for the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award for Best Orchestrations. Best known for his work on the original motion picture version of "Grease" (1978) and the Broadway musical revivals of "Cabaret" (1998) and "Steel Pier" (1997), he frequently worked with the famous composer-lyricist partnership of John Kander and Fred Ebb. - Guy Finley
Guy Finley (b.1949) is an American writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher. He is also a retired profressional songwriter and musician. The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up in the Los Angeles area where many of his childhood friends were the children of celebrities. At a young age, he decided to pursue a music career. He became the first white soft rock artist signed to the Motown Records label. - Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith (May 26, 1883 - September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress, and appeared in several motion pictures late in her career. As a vaudeville singer she performed a number of styles including jazz and blues. She entered blues history by being the first African American to make vocal blues recordings in 1920. Smith was born Mamie Robinson in Cincinnati, Ohio. - Dudley Digges
Dudley Digges (June 9, 1879 - October 24, 1947) was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. Digges appeared in forty films between 1929 and 1946, and also worked as a director on Broadway. - Morton Downey
Morton Downey was a singer popular in the United States, enjoying his greatest success in the 1930s and 1940s. Downey was nicknamed the Irish Nightingale. - William Moritz
William Moritz (May 6, 1941-March 12, 2004), film historian, specialized in visual music and experimental animation. His principle published works concerned abstract filmmaker and painter Oskar Fischinger. He also wrote extensively on other visual music artists who worked with motion pictures, including James and John Whitney and Jordan Belson; Moritz also published on German cinema, Visual Music, color organs, experimental animation, … - Laurie Geltman
Laurie Geltman (born in Baltimore and raised in Boston), is an American rock singer/songwriter. She studied at the Berklee College of Music as a film score major, and began performing in the early 1990s with the experimental rock group Vasco da Gama. After that, she began her solo career. She released her first album, "Departure", herself, then her second album, "No Power Steering" on her own label. - Rona Barrett
Rona Barrett (born October 8, 1936) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. She currently runs the Rona Barrett Lavender Company in Santa Ynez, California. Born Rona Burstein to a Jewish family in New York, New York, she was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy at age 9. When she was 13, she became the nationwide coordinator of singer Eddie Fisher's fan clubs. Her date for the high school prom was singer Steve Lawrence. - A. I. Bezzerides
A.I. Bezzerides, (August 9, 1908 - January 1, 2007), was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known for writing Noir and Action motion pictures, especially several of Warners' "social conscience" films of the Forties. He was born Albert Isaac Bezzerides in Samsun, Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey), to a Greek-Armenian family who immigrated to America before he was two. He wrote the novel "The Long Haul" (1938), … - Norman Alden
Norman Alden (born September 13, 1924) is an American actor who has performed in dozens of television programs and motion pictures since first appearing on "The 20th Century Fox Hour" in 1957. As of 2005, Norman was still active as an actor, appearing as Judge Olividat in the TV movie "Detective". As of 2006 Norman Alden appeared in a "Capital One" commercial.
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