- Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space. - Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. - Mark Horowitz
Mark Horowitz Director of Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University , Yahoo Founder's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . Mark Horowitz received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. Since 1984 he has been a professor at Stanford working in the area of digital integrated circuit design. - Dante Spinotti
Dante Spinotti (born August 22nd, 1943 in Tolmezzo, Italy) is a well respected Academy Award nominated cinematographer. Some of the more notable films he has worked include "The Last of the Mohicans", "Heat", and "L.A. Confidential". Spinotti has also been the cinematographer for Brett Ratner's films, such as "Red Dragon" (2002), "After the Sunset" (2004), and more recently "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006). - Budd Boetticher
Budd Boetticher (July 29, 1916 - November 29, 2001) was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott. Known for their sparse style, dramatic rocky locations near Lone Pine, California, and recurring stories of a lone man seeking vengeance amidst a brutal and abstract landscape, the films have, decades after their release, … - Vondie Curtis-Hall
Vondie Curtis-Hall (born September 30, 1956) is an American actor and film director. Curtis-Hall was born in Detroit, Michigan to Angeline, a nurse, and Curtis, who owned a construction company. Initially a stage actor, Curtis-Hall was a member of the original cast of the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls". He originated the role of Marty, James "Thunder" Early's original manager. Curtis-Hall has appeared in numerous films including Sugar Hill, Crooklyn, and Drop Squad. - Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1904 - January 4, 1999) was an actor born in Gueydan, Louisiana. He was born Espera De Corti, the son of Sicilian immigrants Francesca Salpietra and Antonio De Corti. He was not born a Native American, but he claimed to be part Cherokee and part Cree. Cody and his wife Bertha Parker adopted children that were Native American. Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death. - Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930, Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film, "Le Beau Serge" (1958) for his chilling tales of murder, including "Le Boucher" (1970). He was a member of the French New Wave cinema group. Chabrol and Éric Rohmer wrote "Hitchcock" (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957) a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film "The Wrong Man" (1957). - Sonny Grosso
Sonny Grosso is a movie and television producer and former New York City Police Department detective, noted for his role in the case immortalized in the book and movie versions of "The French Connection". Grosso and his partner Eddie Egan, and other NYPD detectives, broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 and seized 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. - Steve Jablonsky
Steve Jablonsky is a music composer for film, television and video games. He has composed the soundtracks to the movies "The Island" (2005), "Steamboy", and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003), was a contributor on Team America World Police (2004) among many others. In addition, he helped compose some of the music to the video game "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty", … - Mick Gould
Michael "Mick" Gould served 10 years in the British Special Air Service. He retired then later became a technical advisor on many films involving weapons and fight sequences, including "Miami Vice", "Collateral", "The Score", "Ronin", "The Replacement Killers", "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and "Heat". He often works alongside Michael Mann and Robert De Niro. - Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1896 - May 24, 1986) was an American actor and stuntman in Hollywood movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was born Enos Edward Canutt in the Snake River Hills, near Colfax, Washington. As a young man, he gained fame as a very successful rodeo rider. He got his nickname when he was caught fraternizing with several rival rodeo performers from Yakima, Washington. His friends never let him forget and the name stuck. - John Scarne
Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia (March 4, 1903 - July 7, 1985) was born in Steubenville, Ohio and at some point anglicized his name to John Scarne (International Phonetic AlphabetHe moved to Fairview, New Jersey as a child. Leaving school after the eighth grade, he learned as a teenager from his father how to perform card tricks like Three-card Monte and to gamble using cards and dice. - Mike Mazurki
Mike Mazurki (December 25, 1907 or 1909 - December 9, 1990) was an American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in over 100 movies. His towering 6' 6" presence and intimidating face usually got the actor movie roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters. He played a wrestler in "Night and the City" and a boxer in "The Harder They Fall". - Mike Stokey
Mike Stokey (b. September 14, 1918, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, d. September 7, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, was an American game show host and producer, best known for Pantomime Quiz and its later incarnation, Stump the Stars. - Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, in Ladysmith, Wisconsin and grew up in Massapequa, New York. His autobiography, Born on the Fourth of July, was adapted as an Academy Award winning film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. Academy Award winning Actress Jane Fonda has stated that Ron Kovic 's story was the inspiration for her film Coming Home. - Rodd Redwing
Rodd Redwing (Roderic/Rodric Redwing, was a Native American actor, noted for being the "world’s greatest quick-draw artist" with six-guns. He holds the record with two-tenths of a second, reaching for his six-gun, pulling it out of the holster, and firing. - Robert J. Groden
Robert J. Groden (born 1945) is an American author and photographer, and a self-proclaimed and widely acknowledged expert on the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. His books include "JFK: The Case for Conspiracy", "The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination", and "The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record". - Benny Urquidez
Benny Urquidez (born June 20, 1952) is an American kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Nicknamed The Jet, Urquidez was a non-contact karate competitor who later pioneered full-contact fighting in the USA. He made the transition from point to full-contact karate in 1974 - the year of its inception in the US - frequently fighting in bouts where the rules were ambiguous and contrasts in styles were dramatic. - Mushy Callahan
Mushy Callahan was the ring name of Vincent Morris Scheer, a boxer and a champion in the light welterweight division. Callahan was born on November 3, 1904, in New York City. He took the ring name of Mushy Callahan and began boxing in 1924. On September 21, 1926, Callahan fought Pinky Mitchell for Mitchell's light welterweight championship. Mitchell was the first champion of this weight class, which had been created in 1922. - Robert Graysmith
Robert Graysmith (born September 17, 1942) is a true-crime author of the books "Zodiac"; "Zodiac Unmasked: the Identity of America's Most Exclusive Serial Killer"; "Unabomber: a Desire to Kill"; "The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?"; "The Bell Tower:The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved" and "Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer". - Franklin Adreon
Franklin "Pete" Adreon (18 November 1902-10 September 1979) was a movie director/producer for many movies and commercials in the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's. As Marine reserve during the 30s, he was part of the United States Marine Corps in World War II. He worked with serial director William Witney at Republic Pictures, who was also in a Marines unit in the war. - Rick Sternbach
Richard Michael Sternbach (born in 1951 in Bridgeport Connecticut) is an illustrator who is best known for his space illustrations and his work on the Star Trek television series. - Zale Parry
Zale Parry is a pioneer scuba diver and underwater photographer who is well known to TV audiences in the United States as an actress. Zale started diving in the 1940s as a young girl. She was raised on a Wisconsin, USA lake and learned to swim and love the water at an early age. As a young woman, she became involved in pioneering diving and scientific work. In 1953 she became a tester of underwater equipment for Scientific Underwater Research Enterprises. - Robby Krieger
Robby Krieger (born Robert Alan Krieger, January 8 1946) is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. He was the guitarist in the rock band The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me" and "Love Her Madly". He is number 91 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. - Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard is a French cinematographer who has contributed to over seventy five films. He is particularly associated with the nouvelle vague directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, and he helped to create the visual style of such seminal films as "À bout de souffle", " Vivre sa vie", "Pierrot le Fou", "Prénom Carmen", "Tirez sur le Pianiste" and "Jules et Jim". - Bob Bondurant
Robert Bondurant (born 27 April 1933 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American former racecar driver who raced for the Ferrari and Eagle teams in Formula One. During his teens, Bondurant raced an Indian motorcycle on dirt ovals. In 1956 he began sports car racing with Morgan and started to attract attention when he won the West Coast "B" production Championship, in a Chevrolet Corvette. In 1963 he became a member of Carroll Shelby's Ford Cobra team, … - Nando Parrado
Fernando Seler "Nando" Parrado (December 9, 1949 -) is one of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a ten day period to find help. His efforts, supported in various ways by the entire group, … - Martin Caidin
Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927-March 24,1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including "Samurai!", "Black Thursday", "Zero!", "The Ragged, Rugged Warriors", and many other classic works of military history. He wrote more than 1,000 magazine articles. Caidin established his own company to promote aeronautic subjects for a young audience and began writing fiction in 1957. - Franco Columbu
Franco Columbu (August 7, 1941, Ollolai, Sardinia) is an Italian actor and bodybuilder. Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning the title of Mr. Olympia in 1976 and 1981. At one time he was considered to be one of the world's strongest men and held a number of powerlifting and weightlifting world records. At 5 feet and 5 inches in height, … - Keiichi Tsuchiya
is a professional racing driver. He is also known as the "Drift King" otherwise as Dorikin (ドリキン) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events, and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving. The car that he uses to drive has become one of the most popular sports cars these days, … - Ib Melchior
Ib Jørgen Melchior is a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget U.S. science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures. Melchior's novels include "Code Name: Grand Guignol", "Eva", "The Haigerloch Project", "The Marcus Device", "Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves", "Sleeper Agent", "The Tombstone Cipher" and "The Watchdogs of Abaddon". - Vittorio Nino Novarese
Vittorio Nino Novarese (born May 15, 1907, Rome, Italy, died October 17, 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Italian costume designer who found great success in Hollywood after decamping there in 1949. In his first year there he scored an Oscar nomination for his work on the film "Prince of Foxes", winning the Academy Award 14 years later for the grandiose epic "Cleopatra". - Donald F. Glut
Donald F. Glut is an American writer, motion picture director, screenwriter and actor. He is perhaps best known for writing the novelization of the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back. - Peter Bonerz
Born: August 6, 1938 in Portsmouth, NH Occupation: Actor, Director Biography: Born in New Hampshire, Peter Bonerz was raised in Milwaukee, where he attended Marquette High School. Afflicted with a stammer in his teen years, Bonerz was encouraged by one of his teachers to enter an elocution contest. In doing so, he began to develop confidence in his speaking skills; by the... Read More Current News: Sequels, prequels, remakes lead 2009 pack - Tommy Ivo
Tommy Ivo (born April 18, 1936 in Denver, Colorado), also known as "TV Tommy," is an actor and drag racer, who was active in the 1960s racing community. In the late 1950's, Ivo raced a twin (side by side) Buick engined dragster. It was unique in appearance and won numerous races. Later he designed a four-engine dragster, but the National Hot Rod Association ruled it the first "exhibition" dragster, so he was unable to race it. - Claude Mandil
Claude Mandil is the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He has born in 1942 in Lyon, France. He is graduated from the France’s École Polytechnique and École des Mines. From 1967 until 1981, he occupied different positions at the French civil service related to the engineering and territorial planning. In 1981-1982, he served as a technical advisor in the French Prime Minister’s cabinet, responsible for industry, energy and research. - Arvo Ojala
Arvo Ojala (born January 21, 1920 in Seattle, Washington; died July 1, 2005 in Gresham, Oregon) was a Hollywood advisor and expert quickdraw artist, frequently credited as a "technical director" but also working as an actor. He appeared in the weekly opening sequences of Gunsmoke for over 18 years being gunned down by Marshall Dillon. Ojala taught himself marksmanship and how to quick-draw a handgun while living on his father's ranch near Yakima, Washington, … - Howard Teten
Howard Teten is a former FBI instructor at the FBI Academy who taught applied criminology and pioneered offender profiling with Patrick Mullany. - Chris Kanyon
Christopher Klucsarits (born January 4, 1970) is a former American professional wrestler, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as Chris Kanyon.
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