Shakara Ledard is a model and actress originally from The Bahamas, now residing in New York. She has posed for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue as well as for Maxim Magazine. Ledard has been featured in music videos for Justin Timberlake, Usher, and Babyface. Ledard has also appeared in the movies "After the Sunset" and "The Defender".

Caroline Lee-Johnson is a British actress. She is most famous for her starring roles in Chef! as Janice Blackstock and The Knock as Diane Ralston. Her work has been primarily in television, but she has also had roles in films including The Defender.

E. G. Marshall (June 18 1914 - August 24 1998) was a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor who co-starred in the 1957 movie "12 Angry Men". Two of his better known TV roles are those of lawyer, Lawrence Preston on "The Defenders" in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon, Dr. David Craig on "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" in the 1970s.

Robert Reed was an American stage and television actor. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, and christened John Robert Rietz, Jr., Reed spent much of his childhood in Oklahoma and later studied Shakespeare in college, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Howard Antony (born 19 April 1963, in Paddington, London, England) is a British actor, best known for playing the role of Alan Jackson, in the BBC soap opera "Eastenders" from 1993 - 1997. Antony made his acting debut in 1987, playing a very minor role in the Stanley Kubrick film "Full Metal Jacket", which was being filmed on location in East London.

Klaus Janson (born 1952, Coburg) is an American comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. While he is best-known as an inker, Janson has frequently worked as a penciller and colorist. Janson immigrated from Germany as a young boy and grew up in Connecticut, where in his teens he met and began working as an assistant to Dick Giordano. He first came to prominence as the inker over Sal Buscema's pencils on "The Defenders" in the mid-1970s, …

Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor. Klugman began acting after serving in the United States Army during World War II. A struggling actor in New York City, Klugman was a roommate of another starving actor, Charles Bronson, before the two went onto bigger and better things.

Marie Severin (born 21 August, 1929 in Oceanside, New York) is an American comic book artist and colorist. In the latter capacity for the celebrated EC Comics in the 1950s, she would sometimes give especially gruesome panels a single color in order to tone-down otherwise graphic scenes of gore (Geissman 2005: 239). After the Collapse of EC, Severin went to work for Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, where she remained until the mid-1990s, …

Stephen Low (b. about 1951 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter who works extensively in the IMAX film format. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Low has directed numerous film documentaries including the first IMAX film, "Tiger Child", "Titanica" (1992), "Beavers" (1988), "The Last Buffalo" (1990),"Across the Sea of Time", "Super Speedway", "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" (2003) and most recently, …

Peter B. Gillis is a comic book writer who was quite prolific at Marvel Comics and First Comics in the mid-1980s. Comics which he has contributed to include numerous issues of "What If...? Vol.1" (1980 - 1984), "The Defenders Vol.1" (1984 - 1986), "Micronauts: The New Voyages" (1984 - 1986), "Eternals Vol.2" (1985 - 1986) and "Strange Tales Vol.2" (1987 - 1988).

Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920 - July 2, 1989) was an American film director. The son of missionaries, Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in that country. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama.

Joe Sinnott (born October 16, 1926, Saugerties, New York, United States) is an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best-known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' "The Fantastic Four", from 1965 to 1981 (with a brief return in the late 1980s), initially over the pencils of industry legend Jack Kirby. Years before, he'd inked Kirby's "Fantastic Four" #5, the issue introducing Dr. Doom, …

Lois Smith born (November 3, 1930) is an American actress whose career in theatre, film, and television has spanned five decades. Born in Topeka, Kansas, Smith is a graduate of the University of Washington. She made her film debut in "East of Eden" in 1955. Additional film credits include "Five Easy Pieces", "Up the Sandbox", "Fatal Attraction", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "How to Make an American Quilt", "Dead Man Walking", …

Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu on April 24, 1928) is an American character actor. Though he has been a working actor since the 1950s, Kirby is most familiar to "Columbo" fans as the gullible Sergeant Kramer. A notable recent appearance was as Pop Ryan, father of Officer John Ryan (played by Matt Dillon) in the 2004 film "Crash".

Lou Antonio (born January 23, 1934 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA) is an actor and TV director. Two of the most notable movies he has acted in are "Cool Hand Luke" and "America, America". He also starred in two short-lived TV series, "Dog and Cat", and "Makin' It". Antonio's only recurring TV guest role character was on "Here Come the Brides", …

Anne Jackson (born September 3, 1926) is an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Jackson trained at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse and The Actor's Studio. She made her Broadway debut in 1945. Her theatre credits include "Summer and Smoke", "Arms and the Man", "Luv", "The Waltz of the Toreadors", and "Lost in Yonkers".

Larry Gates (born September 24, 1915 in St. Paul, Minnesota; died December 12, 1996 in Sharon, Connecticut) was an American actor probably best known for his role as H.B. Lewis on daytime's "Guiding Light". He played the role from 1983 to 1996 and received the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 1985 awards. Gates had a long career in film, television, and theater. He appeared in the Broadway productions of "Bell, …

Don Perlin is a comic book artist born August 27, 1929 in New York City. He is best known for Marvel Comics' "Werewolf by Night", "The Defenders", second series of Ghost Rider and "G.I. Joe". He has also drawn a few stories featuring "The Phantom". At 14, Perlin began studying art under Burne Hogarth, who taught small private classes prior to co-founding the Cartoonists and Illustrators School.

Ed Hannigan has been a writer, artist and editor of comic books for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. His most notable writing credits include work on The Defenders during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He pencilled the covers on Batman in a lengthy run that spanned the majority of 1983-1985 (with Don Newton providing the interior art). It is also worth noting that he both wrote and illustrated the three issue prestige format series, Skull & Bones for DC Comics in 1992.

Dolph Sweet (July 18, 1920 - May 8, 1985) was born in New York, New York and was credited with nearly 60 television and film roles as well as several roles in stage productions before his death from cancer in 1985. Born Adolphus Jean Sweet, his father was an auto mechanic and his first ambition was playing football. In 1939 he attended the University of Alabama; however, …

Joel Crothers was an American actor. He was born Joel Anthony Crothers in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was raised in New York where he graduated from Birch Wathen School in 1958. He was an exceptionally successful and popular soap-opera actor who, in 1981, was noted by popular columnist Liz Smith to so strongly resemble Tom Selleck that they could be twin brothers. His passion for performing emerged at the early age of nine.

Gerald Burton Winrod (March 7, 1900 - November 11, 1957) was an evangelist, author, and political activist.

Kermit Murdock was a television and radio actor born 20 march 1908 died 11 February 1981. He was in episodes of X Minus One including "Hostess" by Isaac Asimov. He was in The Mysterious Traveler episode "Survival of the fittest" with Everett Sloane. Also a radio series "Adventure Ahead". Later on tv shows including Kung Fu (TV series), The Mod Squad, The Defenders (TV series) etc.

Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2 1914 - April 7 2001) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning American theatre, film, and television actress. Born in Old Westbury, New York, she was the daughter of investment banker Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney.

Robert Drivas (November 21, 1938 - June 29, 1986) was an American actor and theatre director. Born Robert Choromokos Drivas in Chicago, Illinois, Drivas studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Miami. After further training at the Greek Playhouse in Athens, Greece and with the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami Beach, he made his New York City debut in the role of Rameses in 1958 in the play "The Firstborn", starring Anthony Quayle as Moses.

Neva Patterson (born February 10, 1922 in Nevada, Iowa, USA) is an American character actress who has starred in movies and on television. Neva Patterson starred in the TV series "Nichols" as Ma Ketcham from 1971-1972. She also starred in the TV series "Doc Elliot" as Margaret 'Mags' Brimble, and on the TV series "The Governor and J.J." as Maggie McLeod.

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".

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.