Ted Hartley has been a US Navy fighter pilot, an investment banker, an actor, producer, and is currently CEO of RKO Pictures. He is married to actress Dina Merrill.

Val Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. Lewton, originally named Vladimir Ivan Leventon, was born in what is now Yalta, Ukraine. He was a nephew of the actress Alla Nazimova. In 1909, he immigrated with his sister and mother to the USA (where his name was changed to Val Lewton). He was raised in suburban Port Chester, New York.

Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th Century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films, including "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Paths of Glory", "A Clockwork Orange", and "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".

Roy Webb was a film music composer. Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores. He is particularly identified with the films of Val Lewton Born in New York City, he orchestrated and conducted for the Broadway stage, before moving to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work as music director for Radio Pictures, …

Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle) (August 7, 1911-June 16, 1979) was an American film director. Coming from a radio background, Ray directed his first and only Broadway production, the Duke Ellington musical "Beggar's Holiday", in 1946. One year later, he directed his first film, "They Live By Night". It was released two years later due to the chaotic conditions surrounding Howard Hughes' takeover of RKO Pictures.

Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood. Born in Montréal, Québec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor.

Tom Conway (September 15, 1904 - April 22, 1967) was an English actor. He was born to English parents as Thomas Charles Sanders in St. Petersburg, Russia; his brother was the actor George Sanders. The family eventually moved back to England, where both brothers were educated at Brighton College. According to the IMDB, Tom lost a coin toss with George to decide which of the two of them would change his last name to avoid any confusion with each other.

Willis H. "O'Bie" O'Brien (March 2, 1886 - November 8, 1962) was a pioneering motion picture special effects artist who perfected and specialized in stop-motion animation. O'Brien was born in Oakland, California. He was a cartoonist for the "San Francisco Daily News", and a professional marble sculptor before he began working in film.

Richard O. Fleischer was an American film director. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the son and biographer (2005) of animator Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the classic "Betty Boop", "Popeye" and "Superman" series. His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO studio, directing shorts, documentaries, …

Philip Van Doren Stern was an author and Civil War historian whose 1943 story "The Greatest Gift" inspired the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), which in turn inspired "It Happened One Christmas". Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania into a family of humble means. His Pennsylvania-born father was a traveling merchant of Bavarian descent, who came to Wyalusing from West Virginia with his New Jersey-born wife.

Italian-born cinematographer "Nicholas Musuraca" (Riace Italy October 25, 1892 - Los Angeles September 3, 1975) began his film career as the chauffeur for silent-movie producer J. Stuart Blackton. He worked behind the scenes on numerous silent and B-movie action films before becoming one of "RKO Pictures"' prime directors of photography in the 1930s.

Isidore 'Dore' Schary (August 31, 1905, Newark, New Jersey - July 7, 1980, New York City) was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright. Schary worked in Hollywood, California and in 1938 won the Academy Award for Best Story as co-writer of the screenplay for the film, "Boys Town". He was with RKO Pictures when in 1948 he became chief of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and, …

Eric Blore (December 23, 1887 - March 2, 1959) was an English comic actor. Blore was born in London. He worked as an insurance agent for a time. He gained theater experience while touring Australia. Eventually he appeared in several shows and revues in England. In 1923 he went to the United States and began playing character roles on Broadway. After the death of his first wife, Violet Winter, he married Clara Mackin in 1926.

Ann Sothern (January 22, 1909 - March 15, 2001) was an American film actress with a career spanning six decades. Born Harriette Arlene Lake in Valley City, North Dakota, Sothern left home very young and began her film career as an extra in "Broadway Nights" (1927), aged 18. During 1929 and 1930, she appeared as a chorus girl in such films as "The Show of Shows" and "Whoopee!" (as one of the "Goldwyn Girls").

Noah Dietrich (February 28, 1889 - February 15, 1982) was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes empire from 1925 until 1957. Dietrich was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Lutheran minister John Dietrich and the former Sarah Peters. In 1910 he started out in Maxwell, New Mexico in business, and later moved to Los Angeles and New York City before moving back to Los Angeles. There he passed the CPA exam. In 1925, at the age of 36, Dietrich met Hughes, …

Walter Plunkett (June 2, 1902 - March 8, 1982) was a costume designer in the Hollywood movie industry. Born in Oakland, California, he studied law at the University of California where he was a member of the California-Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, but showed greater interest in the campus' theatrical group. He moved to New York in 1923 and began work as a stage actor, as well as a costume and set designer.

Lois Mae Green, known by her screen name Jean Parker, (August 11, 1915 - November 30, 2005), was an American movie actress born in Deer Lodge, Montana. She was once married to actor Robert Lowery (who played Batman in 1949). She appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966. She was discovered by Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, after she saw a poster featuring Parker portraying Father Time.

Alan Carney (Born David Boughal) (December 22, 1909, Brooklyn, New York - May 2, 1973, Van Nuys, California) was an American actor and comedian. Alan Carney has performed in vaudeville for years as a comic dialectican. After making his first film, 1941's "Convoy", Carney signed a contract at RKO Pictures, in choice supporting roles in such films as "Mr. Lucky". In 1943, Carney teamed up with Wally Brown as RKO's answer to Abbott and Costello.

Joseph F. Biroc (February 12, 1903 - September 7, 1996) was a highly successful film and television cinematographer. Biroc, born in New York City, began working in film at Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After working for about six years with that company, he moved to Los Angeles after working for Paramount's Long Island Studios. Once there he began working with RKO Pictures. During World War II, while serving with the Army Signal Corps, …

Bobby Breen (born November 4, 1927) was a Canadian-born singer and actor of the 1930s. His first major appearance was on Eddie Cantor's weekly radio show in 1936, and he soon became the leading child star at RKO Studios. His first film was "Let's Sing Again" (1936), followed by eight more, including "Rainbow on the River" (1936), "Make a Wish" (1937), and his last film, "Johnny Doughboy" (1942).

George Dolenz (originally George Dolentz) (5 January 1908 - 8 February 1963) was an American film actor born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy). He appeared in the 1956 ITC Entertainment series The Count of Monte Cristo as the title character. After appearing in small parts in minor movies, he became leading man under contract to RKO Pictures under Howard Hughes, but soon returned to smaller parts for other studios.

Rondo Hatton (April 22, 1894 - February 2, 1946) had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood, California B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features, due to his acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland.

Raymond Otis Whitley (b. 5 December 1901, Atlanta, Georgia. d. 21 February 1979.) Ray Whitley was a Country Music singer, Radio and Hollywood Movie Star. Whitley began his singing career in New York City in 1930. Whitley had traveled to New York where he was a construction worker on the Empire State Building. He formed The Range Ramblers and began to broadcast on WMCA. Ray Whitley traveled with the World Championship Rodeo Organisation, …

John "Jonathan" Gilmore (born July 5, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist and gonzo journalist.

Patricia "Pat" Kennedy (formerly Lawford was an American socialite, the sixth child of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. She was the younger sister of former president John F. Kennedy. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Considered the most sophisticated, yet also the most introverted, of her parents' five daughters, Pat since childhood had a fascination with travel and Hollywood. She in time would become a world traveler, …

Paul Gerard Smith (born September 14, 1894, in Omaha, Nebraska - died April 4, 1968 in San Diego, California) was a writer and contributor to the Vaudeville tradition. Smith started writing musical revues at the age of ten. He joined the Marines for World War I and while still in Germany wrote and directed the Sixth Marine Revue in the Rhine Occupation Area. He arrived back in the States in 1919 and started writing vaudeville acts.

Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977) is considered by some to be one of the most promising American jazz vocalists of her generation, and by others to be more of a cabaret/broadway style singer and not really a jazz singer at all. Jane Monheit was born in Oakdale, New York on Long Island. Monheit began singing professionally while attending Connetquot High School.

Paul "The Waiter" Ricca (1897-October 11, 1972) was an American Mafia figure based in Chicago. He was born Felice DeLucia in Naples, Italy. In 1915 DeLucia got his first real taste of lawlessness when he killed a man, receiving two years in prison for that crime. On August 10, 1920 DeLucia boarded a ship bound for New York City after having killed the man who testified against him at his trial. While in New York, a city he did not stay long in, …

Frederick Henry Prince (1859 - 3 February 1953) was an American stockbroker, investment banker and financier. He was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, the son of Frederick O. Prince, former Mayor of the city of Boston, and Helen Henry Prince. He studied at Harvard University but left in his sophomore year to get an early start in the business world.

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