Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation.

Elya Baskin (born 24 January 1951, Riga, Latvia) attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College. He won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. He has build a considerable career in TV and movies, and is often cast as russian, due to his ancestry and accent. He has ultimately become one of the most popular choices whenever a russian is needed in a TV-episode or a major movie production.

Michael Pataki (b. January 16, 1938, in Youngstown, Ohio, USA) is an American actor. He attended USC with a double major in Political Science and Drama. His career was launched at a summer stock festival in Edinburgh in 1966, with a review that read, "Michael Pataki went beyond the bounds of mere nationality in his tense and moving interpretation of "Jerry" in "Zoo Story". This was during the time Americans were not so well liked, but Mr.

Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s. First appeared in a few fairly forgettable roles both on TV and onscreen before cropping up in several well remembered films, including a courtroom police officer in What's Up, Doc? (1972), as the weird Dickie Dunn in Slap Shot (1977), and as a loony sniper hunting...

Founder of the Motion Picture Pilots Association.

Possessing one of TV's more identifiable mugs, Jewish-American character actor Milton Selzer was here, there and everywhere in the 1960s and 1970s, playing a host of usually unsympathetic mobsters, gamblers, and crooks with a sad, almost pathetic quality in about every popular crime story offered, notably "The Untouchables" (1959), "The Fugitive" (1963), "Hawaii Five-O" (1968) and "Mission: Impossible" (1966). Always in demand with his trademark glum face,...

Son of stage and film star Jason Robards Sr.. After receiving the Navy Cross (the second highest decoration in the U.S. Navy) for his service in World War II, he struggled as a small-part actor in local New York theatre, TV and radio before shooting to fame on the New York stage in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" as Hickey. He followed that with another masterful O'Neill portrayal, as the alcoholic Jamie Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on Broadway. He entered films in The...

Born in Arizona to a Welsh/American family he was raised both in the USA and the UK. He trained as an actor at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He spent the first ten years of his professional career in the theatre in Britain. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1972 to 1975. He played the leading man (Donald) in the musical, 'Irene', at London's Adelphi Theatre in 1978. He appeared in the London productions of The Curse Of The Starving Class (Royal Court...

Harvard-educated stage and screen actor Richard Jordan was born into a socially prominent family on July 19, 1938 in New York City, the grandson of Judge Learned Hand, the greatest American jurist never to have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Newbold Morris, his stepfather, was a member of the New York City Council during Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's administration. Young Richard was educated in private Manhattan schools and then at the exclusive Hotchkiss prep school in Lakeville,...

Studied acting at the American Theatre Wing in New York. Began his career at age 17 working in numerous theater productions in his hometown of New Orleans.

Has 2 sons, Benjamin and Daniel ("Danny") (b. 1983) Had a role in Innerspace (1987) and a small part in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) two years later, both films having to do with miniaturized people.

Actor David Selby, highly regarded for his villainous work on both daytime and nighttime soap classics, was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia University and graduated with both B.S. and M.A. degrees from West Virginia University, then earned a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Following many years on the stock stage (from 1961), David finally attracted infamous attention when he signed on as Quentin Collins, a werewolf, on the gothic...

Was a long-time faculty member of the Catholic University Drama Department. Died in a Jersey City hospital of complications from renal failure, diabetes and sepsis. Attended Stanford University as well as Catholic University, where he earned his master's degree in theater in 1962. Acting in several productions at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage from 1973 to 1991, he also appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and played King Creon to Diana Rigg's "Medea" on...

Best known as Dennis Weaver s NYPD chief on the "McCloud" (1970) series in the 1970s. Idaho-born character actor known for his gruff, bossy roles especially on 70s TV. Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts Served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Retired in 1991 following an appearance on "Law & Order" (1990). Died only one day before Stephen Elliott who he appeared with in the "Law & Order" (1990) episode "The Secret Sharers". Wore a toupee in...

Son of 1940 band leader Frankie Kaye and former nationally known radio personality during the 60s during Top-40 radio era under the names "Lee Vaunce" at KGFJ in Los Angeles and "Mike Sheppard" at both San Francisco's KDIA and New York's WWRL. While a DJ at KPOI in Honolulu, Gwynne broke the Guinness Book of Records for nonstop drumming (92 hours) at the 1965 "Drum-A-Thon". He went on to sit in at the drums with many R&B bands of that era. Arriving in Hollywood in 1969 to visit a friend,...

Worked with his wife, Marianne McAndrew, on the movie The Bat People (1974).

Probably one of the greatest adventure novelists of our time. When his novel "Raise the Titanic" was bought for $840,000 by Viking Publishing in 1976, it put him on the map after 11 years of hard work. Before his success with RTT, he previously had written "Pacific Vortex", which wasn't published until after his successes, "The Mediterranean Caper" and "Iceberg". Originally in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation's...