- John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2 1953 in Queens, USA) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Though not well-known to the general public, Zorn's recorded output is astonishingly prolific, with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer or producer. His work has touched on dozens of musical genres, … - Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz (b. 1955) is a composer, keyboardist and producer. Horvitz has led the groups The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, and the Four Plus One Ensemble. He has recorded or performed with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Elliott Sharp, Tucker Martine, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Philip Wilson, Michael Shrieve, Carla Bley, Tim Young, Bobby Previte, Skerik and others. He is perhaps most famous for being the keyboardist of the band Naked City. - Trevor Dunn
Trevor Dunn is an American musician. His primary instrument is bass and double bass. Dunn has a degree in music, learning double bass at college. Dunn prefers to play simple bass lines in other's compositions choosing to support song structures. - Paul Burke
Paul Burke (born July 21, 1926) is an American actor best known for his lead roles in the 1960s television programs Naked City and Twelve O'Clock High. Burke was born in New Orleans, the son of Marty Burke, a boxer who fought Gene Tunney and later owned a string of nightclubs in the New Orleans French Quarter. After training at the Pasadena Playhouse, Burke's film career began with a small role in the movie "Golden Girl". - Billy May
William E. May, better known as Billy May was an American composer, arranger and musician. He died of heart failure at the age of 87 in his home in San Juan Capistrano, California. One of May's most popular compositions was the theme music of the "Naked City" television series in the early 1960s, "Somewhere in the Night". Along with Nelson Riddle, he was also involved in scoring the television series, "Emergency!" - James Franciscus
James Grover Franciscus was a leading and supporting American actor. He was born in Clayton, Missouri. His first big role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the TV version of" The Naked City". Although he performed in many feature films and television programs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Franciscus is probably best known for his title roles in two TV series, "Mr. - Harry Bellaver
Harry Bellaver (February 12, 1905 to August 8, 1993) was a stage, film and television actor who appeared in many roles from the 1930s through the 1980s. Bellaver was born in Hillsboro, Illinois, the son of Italian immigrants working in the Hillsboro coal mines. He appeared in numerous Broadway plays over the years, with his Broadway debut in the 1931 Group Theatre production of the play "1931". He also appeared in the Elmer Rice play "We, The People" in 1933, … - Nancy Malone
Nancy Malone (born March 19, 1935) is an American television actress, principally in guest roles from the 1950s to 1970s, who moved into producing and directing in the 1980s and 1990s. She played "Libby" on the TV series "Naked City" from 1960 to 1963. During the same period, she played the character "Robin Lang Bowden Fletcher" on the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light". - Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett, was an American film director and writer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in WW I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathe and began to direct films in 1928. Among his films are "One Way Passage" (1932), "China Seas" (1935), "Eternally Yours" (1939), "Seven Sinners" (1940), "Cheers for Miss Bishop" (1941), … - Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Dale Silliphant (16 January 1918 - 26 April 1996) was a prolific American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and educated at the University of Southern California. He is probably best known for his Academy-award winning screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night". Other acclaimed features as screenwriter include Irwin Allen productions "The Towering Inferno" and "The Poseidon Adventure". - Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin (16 September 1919, New York City - 28 October 2002) was an American television director, character actor, and television screenwriter. In addition to his appearances on film and television, he was also a voice actor - first voicing characters in radio plays in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, then later appearing in the video game "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear". On June 24 1962 he married actress Joanna Barnes. - Frank Sutton
Frank Spencer Sutton (October 23, 1923 - June 28, 1974) was an American actor who is best remembered for his role as the loud, hard-nosed drill instructor Sergeant Vincent Carter on the CBS television series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." Sutton was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1923. When he was eight years old, his father took a position as a linotype operator at the "Nashville Tennessean" in Nashville. - Leonardo Cimino
Leonardo Cimino is an Italian film and television actor. Arguably, Leonardo's most well known role is in the 1983 NBC mini series "V" as Abraham Bernstein. Leonardo Cimino has made guest appearances on tv shows,some of those appearances range from "Naked City", "Kojak", "The Equalizer" and "Law & Order". - Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran (b. 5 April 1975) is a British broadcaster and columnist for "The Times". She is TV critic and current affairs columnist at "The Times". She also writes for "ELLE" magazine, "WORD" magazine, "Period Living", "Times Educational Supplement", "Radio Times" and "The Sunday Times Magazine". She began her career as a journalist on "Melody Maker", the weekly music publication, at the age of 16. - Shimon Wincelberg
Shimon Wincelberg was an American television writer and Broadway playwright. Born in Kiel, Germany, he wrote for many 1960s and 1970s television shows including "Naked City", "Mannix", "Police Woman", "Star Trek" ("The Galileo Seven" and "Dagger of the Mind"), "Gunsmoke", "Have Gun — Will Travel", "The Paper Chase" and "Lost in Space". He also wrote in the 1990s for "Law & Order". - Michael Strong
Michael Strong (August 17, 1924 - September 29, 1980) was an American film and television actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Among his film credits are "Point Blank", "Patton", and "The Great Santini". Strong also made many television appearances during his career on shows such as "Naked City", "The Fugitive", "I Spy", "Mission: Impossible", "The Streets of San Francisco", and "Hawaii Five-O". - Franklin Cover
Franklin Cover was an American actor most noted for starring on the sitcom "The Jeffersons". His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television. Cover was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His career started on the stage acting in "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Hamlet". He also appeared in "Forty Carats" with Julie Harris. - Arnold Manoff
Arnold Manoff was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. Manoff's first screenplay was made into a motion picture was released in 1944 with the title "Man from Frisco". Three more of his works were published until he was blacklisted. He moved to New York City in 1950 after his promising Hollywood career had been ruined but he was able to write for television under the pseudynom "Joel Carpenter". - George Rose
George Rose (February 19, 1920 - May 5, 1988) was a British actor. Born in Bicester in Oxfordshire, Rose studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After graduation he briefly worked as a farmer and secretary. After wartime service and studies at Oxford, he made his Old Vic stage debut in 1946. Rose made his Broadway debut in a 1946 production of "Henry IV, Part I" and remained in New York City for the remainder of the decade. - Gretchen Wyler
Gretchen Wyler (February 16, 1932 - May 27, 2007), was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as Gretchen Patricia Wienecke. She was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where her father was an engineer. She opened her own dancing school there before heading east to New York to pursue a professional career as an actress and dancer. - James Tolkan
James Tolkan (born June 20, 1931) is an American character actor. Tolkan is known for his role in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" as Hill Valley High School principal Mr. Strickland. He reprised the role in the 1989 sequel "Back to the Future Part II" and, in 1990, he played the part of Mr. Strickland's grandfather in "Back to the Future Part III". Other well known films include WarGames and the 1986 box office hit "Top Gun". - Fred J. Scollay
Fred J. Scollay (born March 19, 1923, in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American character actor with dozens of credits in daytime and primetime television. On daytime, Scollay was an original cast member of "The Doctors", playing hospital chaplain Rev. Sam Shafer (1963-1964). On "Another World" (1977-1980), he played Charley Hobson, the last husband of Ada Hobson (Constance Ford). He also had smaller roles on several other soap operas. - Graham Jarvis
Graham Jarvis, (August 25, 1930 - April 16, 2003) was a Canadian character actor in US films and TV from the 1960s. Born in Toronto, Jarvis attended Williams College before moving to New York to pursue a career in theater. Jarvis appeared on such TV programs as "Naked City", "Route 66", "N.Y.P.D.", "All in the Family", "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "M*A*S*H", "Starsky and Hutch", "Cagney and Lacey", "Fame", … - Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkat (born on April 18, 1989) is an American actress. Shawkat was born in Riverside, California of Iraqi Kurdish, Irish, and Norwegian heritage. Her maternal grandfather is actor Paul Burke, who appeared as Detective Adam Flint on the TV series "Naked City" (1959-1963). From 2001 to 2002, Shawkat starred as Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom "State of Grace", … - Eugenie Leontovich
Eugenie Leontovich (b. March 21 circa 1900, Moscow, Russian Empire - d. April 2 1993, New York City) was a Russian-born stage actress with a distinguished career in theatre, film and television. Leontovich made her Broadway debut in 1922 in "Revue Russe", appearing with her future husband, Gregory Ratoff. She also appeared in "Bitter Oleander" (1935), "Dark Eyes" (1943) which she co-wrote, and "Obsession" (1946). - James Luisi
James Luisi (November 11, 1928 - June 7, 2002) was an American television actor. In a career spanning nearly forty years, Luisi appeared in various TV programs such as "Naked City," "Adam-12," "Matt Houston", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and "Silk Stalkings," and on Broadway in the original 1966 production of "Sweet Charity." However, Luisi is perhaps best known for his role as Lt. - Marco St. John
Marco St. John (b. Mark S. Figueroa on May 7,1939, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role as the perverted truck driver in the 1991 hit film "Thelma and Louise". Marco is also well known in the horror fan community as Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning". - Frank R. Pierson
Frank R. Pierson (born 12 May 1925) is an American screenwriter and film director. Born in Chappaqua, New York, Pierson attended Harvard. He got his break in Hollywood when he penned a script for the television series "Naked City" in 1958. He went on to write or co-write several notable films, including the "Cat Ballou". He helped write "Cool Hand Luke" and "Dog Day Afternoon", which were both nominated for Academy Awards, … - Jeremiah Morris
Jeremiah Morris (b. Jerome Maurice Gomberg, April 4, 1929, Bronx, New York - March 5, 2006, Culver City, California) was an American actor and television and theater director. Morris, influential in Los Angeles theater, appeared in Broadway plays and on popular television series for close to 40 years and directed television and theater productions - Mark Beyer
Mark Beyer (born 1950) is a comic artist known for his bleak story lines, often featuring death, disfigurement, depression, and humiliation, which contrast with his childlike, geometric drawing style. Most of his stories are about the adventures of a co-dependent yet resentful couple named Amy and Jordan. His work was prominently featured in "RAW Magazine"; in fact, … - Tommy Norden
Tommy Norden (born September 25, 1952 in New York City) is an American actor. He is best known for his years playing Bud Ricks, the red-haired, younger brother of Sandy Ricks, on the television series Flipper. Other performances include a minor role in the film Five Miles to Midnight (1962), as well as roles on the TV series Naked City (1961) and Search for Tomorrow (1971-1973), where he played Dr. Gary Walton. Norden left acting in order to pursue the family business. - Ellen Holly
Ellen Holly (born January 16, 1931) is an African-American actress. She began her career on stage, but began making films and appearing on TV. She appeared on "In the Heat of the Night (TV series)" and "Naked City", but is best remembered by long-time soap fans as actress-turned-Judge Clara "Carla" Hall on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live", a role she played from 1968 to 1980, and again from 1983 to 1985. She came to the attention of Agnes Nixon, … - Geordie Hormel
George "Geordie" Hormel (17 July 1928 - 12 February 2006) was the son of Jay Catherwood Hormel and grandson of George A. Hormel. He was the inheritor of the Hormel Foods Corporation fortune and was also a musician and recording studio proprietor. In the 1950s and 1960s, Hormel composed music for numerous television shows including "The Fugitive", "Lassie", "Naked City" and "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin". - Yutaka Mafune
was a playwright in Showa period Japan. - Buddy Green
Actor, composer, songwriter, voiceover artist and author. He joined ASCAP in 1956, and his chief musical collaborators included Tony Romano, Ruby Raksin, Walter Gross, and Ed Brandt. His popular-song compositions include "Hollywood Soliloquy", "The Clown", "Drowning My Sorrow", and "Voice in the Wind". According to author Peter Guralnick (in "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley") Frees was also an undercover narcotics agent for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the... - Horace McMahon
Born in 1906, Connecticut-born character actor Horace McMahon fell easily into his career while pursuing a law career at Fordham University. A former news reporter, his dark, streetwise mug and attitude proved perfect for playing assorted New York characters -- thugs, cabbies, henchmen, bouncers -- in a slew of late 30s and 40s crime yarns, often with a Runyonesque feel to them. On Broadway from 1931, McMahon scored his best stage role in 1949 with "Detective Story" and was able to... - Paul Burke
Son of actor Martin Burke. Maternal grandfather of Alia Shawkat. - Alan Smithee
Father of Benjamin Rosenberg. His students included filmmakers: Darren Aronofsky, Todd Field, Mark Waters, Scott Silver, Doug Ellin and Rob Schmidt. Survived by his wife, Margot, and his son, Benjamin Rosenberg. Was a teacher at AFI in 1993. Father of assistant editor Benjamin Rosenberg, who worked with him on many of his movies. Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( - Henri Simoun
Father of writers Adam Rodman and Howard A. Rodman. - Milton Raskin
Was a swing jazz pianist who spent most his career working in movies and TV.
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