- John Madden
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006. - John Madden
John Earl Madden is a former American National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006. - Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. - Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Carrot Top
Carrot Top, born Scott Thompson on February 25, 1965 (though he has claimed in interviews to be born in 1967 and 1969) in Los Angeles, California is an American prop comedian famous for his red hair. According to his official site Carrot Top spends fifteen weeks a year doing live performances in Las Vegas (currently performing at the Luxor Hotel) and does over 100 shows a year on tour. His comedy routine is most known for his comedic use of props. - Anya Major
Anya Major is an athlete and model who starred in Apple Computer's famous "1984" commercial. In 1983, the Chiat/Day advertising agency held a casting call in London, on behalf of their client, Apple Computer, for what would prove to be a landmark television commercial. The vision of the agency and director Ridley Scott stipulated an actress capable of running up to a large video screen, swinging a sledgehammer in a wide spin, and releasing it at the video screen. - Gus van Sant
Gus Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Academy Award nominated film director, photographer, musician, and author. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. Openly gay, he has dealt unflinchingly with homosexual and other marginalized subcultures without being particularly concerned about providing positive role models. - Hal Riney
Hal Riney (born 1932) is an American advertising executive and founder of Publicis & Hal Riney. Riney was named number 30 on the "Advertising Age" 100 people of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001. Riney grew up in Longview, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1954. After serving two years in the United States Army doing public relations in Italy, he joined BBDO San Francisco, … - Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE, (born February 14,1944) is an English film director, producer, writer, and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood. He is a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain. Born into a working class family in Stockton, Teesside, Parker started out as a copywriter for advertising agencies in the 1960s and 1970s and later began to write his own television commercial scripts. - Mr. Scruff
Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy (born in 1972 in Macclesfield, England), a British DJ and artist. He is a native of Manchester, England and studied Fine Art at the Sheffield College of Art. His DJ name was inspired by his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide in the United Kingdom. He is known for DJing in marathon sets (often exceeding six hours), … - Adrian Lyne
Adrian Lyne (born 4 March, 1941 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his films focusing on sexually charged characters, and sultry, eroticized atmospheres which he visually creates in his films by use of filming techniques such as making use of natural light and using a fog machine to create a soft focus. He got his start in directing television commercials. - Peter Cullen
Peter Cullen, born in Montreal, Canada in 1956, is a voice actor who is best known for providing the voices for Optimus Prime, Ironhide, and Slugslinger in the various "Transformers" television series and the narrator in both American "Voltron" series. In addition, he has played Coran and King Alfor in the Lion "Voltron" series, the transforming spaceship/robot of the Saber Riders in the 80s anime series "Saber Rider And The Star Sheriffs", … - Ellen Feiss
Ellen Feiss (born circa 1987) became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-14-year-old American high school student complained that her father's Windows PC had broken. Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, … - Overseer
Rob Overseer (who publishes his music under just his last name) is a English DJ/producer, born in Leeds whose works have been included in soundtracks for "Animatrix", "Snatch" and "Any Given Sunday", as well as video games like "Need for Speed: Underground" and "Stuntman", among others. - Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen is an artist and kinetic sculptor living and working in Holland. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. In a BMW television commercial, Jansen says "The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds." Jansen is dedicated to creating artificial life through the use of genetic algorithms. - Anita Bryant
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer who made a series of television commercials for Florida orange juice. A member of the Southern Baptist Convention, she is best remembered today for campaigning in the mid-1970s to repeal a local ordinance in Miami, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. - Donna Feldman
Donna Feldman (born on April 28, 1982 in Calabasas, California) is an American model and actress of Israeli descent, who appeared in several fashion shows, including the Mercedes-Benz fashion week in Los Angeles and the Macy's Passport fashion show. She did print campaigns for Rampage, Jaguar, Fila, Wella, Zanetti for Italy, Diesel and Tornado in Israel, Panasonic in Japan, and Platini Jeans in North and South America. - Sherri Shepherd
Sherri Evonne Shepherd (born on April 22, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American comedian and actress. Shepherd is perhaps best known for her roles on the TV shows "Less Than Perfect" and "Everybody Loves Raymond", as well as her extensive work in television commercials. - Dick Wilson
Dick Wilson is an American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. (George) Whipple in Charmin toilet paper television commercials (1965–1989, 1999). Wilson was born in England to an Spanish-Scottish father, Randolph Wilson (who was fighting in World War I) and an English mother, Victoria Wilson. In late 1916, his father brought him and his mother back to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where he was raised. - Jan Miner
Jan Miner (October 15, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts - February 15, 2004, Bethel, Connecticut) was an American actress who became an icon to TV viewers as Madge, the wisecracking manicurist in commercials for Palmolive Dishwashing Detergent. Miner played Madge for 27 years, and made the commercials in French, German, Danish and Italian. She was married to actor Richard Merrell until his death in 1998, and often appeared with him on the stage. - Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Bekmambetov (born 25 June 1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (present Atyrau, Kazakhstan)) is an Russian-Kazakh film and advertisement director living in Russia. He was one of the authors of the popular "World History" advertisement series for Bank Imperial between 1992 and 1997. He was the director of the 2004 film "Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)", a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko, and its sequel, … - Daniel Kleinman
Daniel Kleinman is a British television commercial and music video director who is also the current title sequence designer for the James Bond series of films, starting with 1995's "GoldenEye" and including the latest, 2006's "Casino Royale". Prior to "Bond", Kleinman had directed music videos for artists such as Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Paula Abdul, Wang Chung and many others. - Matthew Lesko
Matthew Lesko (born 1943) is an American author and late-night television personality who has authored reference books telling people about how to get "free" money from the United States Government. He is popularly known as "that question mark guy" for the Riddler-like suit that he wears in his television commercials, infomercials, interviews, and in everyday use. Lesko lives in Washington, D.C. with his third wife Wendy Schaetzel Lesko and their two sons, Max and Morgan. - Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 - May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and singer with a deep, booming voice. For 53 years, he was best-known as the voice of Tony the Tiger in more than 500 television commercials for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (also known as Frosties). After his death, Lee Marshall replaced him as the voice of Tony the Tiger in the Kellogg's commercials. Ravenscroft was the vocalist of the song "You're A Mean One, Mr. - Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk on March 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, although the year is still subject to question), is an American film and TV actor and director. He is primarily known for the 1965-1969 television series "The Wild Wild West", in which he played the title character, James West. The movie remake starring Will Smith was based on this series, and Conrad was openly critical of the film. - Ann B. Davis
Ann Bradford Davis (b. May 3 1926) is an Emmy Award-winning American television actress. Her first success was as "Schultzy" (aka Charmaine Schultz) in "The Bob Cummings Show", and she won two Emmy Awards out of four nominations for this role. For a period in the 1960s & 1970s, Davis was known for her appearances in television Commercials for the Ford Motor Company, particularly for the mid-sized Ford Fairlane models. - Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director. He was born in New York City to a Jewish family, and has known writer Dan Futterman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman since their childhood. He and Futterman were classmates at Mamaroneck High School, where both participated in the PACE performing arts program. Miller is the director of the feature biopic "Capote" (2005) and the documentary film "The Cruise" (1998). - Norika Fujiwara
Norika Fujiwara is a Japanese beauty queen, model and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in various commercials and TV series and a number of films in Japan. - Martha Quinn
Martha Quinn (born May 11, 1959 in Albany, New York) is best known as one of the original video jockeys on MTV (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson). Prior to joining MTV, Quinn graduated from Ossining High School in 1977 and NYU in 1981. She got the MTV job even though her prior on-camera experience had been limited to a few television commercials. "Rolling Stone" magazine readers selected her as "MTV's Best-Ever VJ" years later. - Ronn Moss
Ronn Montague Moss (born March 4, 1952 in Los Angeles) is an American Actor, singer and songwriter and is most well-known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" since 1987. - Julia Murney
Julia Murney is an American actress and singer, primarily featured in theatre and television commercial voice-overs. Murney's off-Broadway theatrical credits include Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party" as "Queenie" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, opposite Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She was also seen in "The Vagina Monologues", "Crimes of the Heart", "A Class Act", … - Vern Fonk
Vern Fonk (ca. 1931 - May 22, 2006) is a Seattle entrepreneur best known for founding Vern Fonk Insurance, a high-risk auto insurance agency with offices in Washington and Oregon. Vern Fonk Insurance is locally famous for its humorous and often off-color television commercials, which generally appear on local late night television and have run since around 1994. The commercials, which typically parody movies and TV shows as well as other Northwest personalities, … - Terence Donovan
Terence Donovan, was a celebrated photographer and film director, perhaps best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s, or for the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". He was born in Stepney in the East End of London, and took his first photo at the age of 15. The bomb-damaged industrial landscape of his home town became the backdrop of much of his fashion photography, … - Inger Stevens
Inger Stevens was a Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated Swedish-American movie and TV actress. Stevens, born Inger Stensland, in Stockholm, Sweden, was an insecure and often ill child. Her parents divorced while living in Sweden and she moved with her father to the United States. She attended high school in Manhattan, Kansas. At 16 she left home and started to work in New York City as a showgirl in low-budget performances. - Aaron Ruell
Aaron Ruell (born June 23, 1976) is an American actor who grew up in Clovis, California, and is most noted for his performance as Kipland Ronald Dynamite (or Kip) in the indie movie "Napoleon Dynamite". He also shot all of the promotional photography for the film as well as designing the opening title sequence to the film. Ruell stars in, "On the Road With Judas," premiering in the Dramatic Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, … - Shamus Culhane
James "Shamus" Culhane (1908 - 1996) was an American animator, film director, and film producer, often regarded as one of the greatest animators of all time. He worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and the Walter Lantz studio. While at the Disney studio, he was a lead animator on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", … - Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (born Karolina Piekarski on May 28, 1931) is a Golden Globe Award winning and Oscar nominated American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, a movie sex symbol. Despite being cast in a wide range of roles during her heyday, Baker's beautiful features, blonde hair, and distinctive drawl made her particularly memorable in roles as a brash, flamboyant woman. - Julius Sumner Miller
Professor Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 - April 14, 1987), was an American science populariser. He is best known for his work on children's television programs. From 1962 to 1964, he was Disney's "Professor Wonderful" on new introductions, filmed at Disneyland, to the syndicated reruns of "The Mickey Mouse Club". He is best known in Canada for his "mad professor" work on the 1971 TV series "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein". - Carson Williams
Carson Williams from Mason, Ohio, is noted for his homemade light shows using Christmas lights fixed around and on top of his house. The lights are programmed to turn on and off in synchronism with music using a computer application and set of modules known as Light-O-Rama. For each minute of animation synchronized to music, he spent approximately one hour to sequence 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights. - Joe Sedelmaier
Joe Sedelmaier is a director and producer of television commercials. Sedelmaier is recognized as the director of some of television’s best known, and most honored commercials through humourous spots like Fed Ex’s "Fast Talking Man" and Wendy’s "Where's the beef?". "Beginning in the 1970s, Sedelmaier a former art director at J. Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam, gained notice for fundamentally changing the way television spots were cast and filmed.
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