June Taylor (14 Dec 1917-17 May2004) was an American choreographer. Born in Chicago, Taylor was a nightclub dancer until she developed tuberculosis at age 20. She took up choreography, founding, in 1942, her own troupe of dancers, the "June Taylor Dancers", and took them on the road. She met Jackie Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub in 1946, and made her television debut in 1948, on "The Toast of the Town" starring Ed Sullivan, …

Audrey Cotter Six, known professionally as Audrey Meadows, born Audrey Cotter, was an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing the deadpan housewife, Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, "The Honeymooners". According to the Social Security Death Index, Audrey Six (her married name) was born in 1922. Her sister, Jayne Meadows, long claimed to have been born in 1926, …

John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 - October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer, most notable for announcing 32 game shows from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions, from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. Born in Windom, Minnesota, while landing jobs at WIBA and KGDA in and nearby Madison, Wisconsin after 1928, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, …

Jane Kean (born April 10, 1924) is an American actress. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Kean and her sister Betty formed a comedy duo that worked the nightclub circuit throughout the 1940s and '50s, and the two appeared on Broadway as sisters in the short-lived 1955 musical "Ankles Aweigh". Kean studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Additional theatre credits include "Call Me Mister" and "Carnival!".

Sheila MacRae (born Sheila Margaret Stephens on 24 September, 1924, in London, England) is an actress and author.

Franklin Cover was an American actor most noted for starring on the sitcom "The Jeffersons". His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television. Cover was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His career started on the stage acting in "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Hamlet". He also appeared in "Forty Carats" with Julie Harris.

Elizabeth Allen was an American actress. Born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease in Jersey City, New Jersey, she got her start as the “Away we go!” girl on "The Jackie Gleason Show" in the 1950s. Elizabeth made numerous television appearances in guest starring roles and as a regular cast member. Her television career spanned three decades.

George Kirby (June 8, 1923 - September 30, 1995) was an American comedian, singer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the first African-American comedians to begin to appeal to white as well as black audiences during the height of the Civil Rights era, appearing between 1966 and 1972 on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In", and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson".

Howard Harris (b. February 15 1912, New York City - d. March 22 1986) was a comedy writer whose credits included "Copacabana" (1947) starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda, "The Jackie Gleason Show", "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx, "Gilligan's Island", "Petticoat Junction", and other popular television shows. Howard Harris attended Fordham University School of Law for two years which, according to his family, he hated.

Robert Middleton (born Samuel G. Messer; May 13, 1911 - June 14, 1977) was an American film and television actor known for his large size and beetle-like brow. Middleton, with a deep, booming voice, trained for a musical career at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Tech. He worked steadily as a radio announcer and actor. After appearing on the Broadway stage and live television, Middleton began appearing in films in 1954.

Les Roberts began his career as a contemporary American mystery novelist after twenty-four years in Hollywood, having written and/or produced more than 2500 half-hours of network and syndicated television. He was the first producer and head writer of "The Hollywood Squares", and has written for "The Lucy Show", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", among others.

Gary Lockwood (born John Gary Yusolfsky on February 21, 1937 in Van Nuys, California) is an American actor who is probably best known for his role as astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). A very familiar face to movie and television audiences for nearly fifty years, Lockwood was a movie stuntman and stand-in for Anthony Perkins prior to his film acting debut in an uncredited bit role in 1959's "Warlock".

Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American film and television actor. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1988 to 1995. Gordon's career began as a child star, with his million-selling hit record "Nuttin' for Christmas" in the '50s, which continues to be a holiday favorite. His TV debut came at three years old on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. He also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show and Star Time with Benny Goodman.

Arthur "Art" Saaf (December 4, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York - April 21, 2007) was an American comic book artist from the Golden Age of Comics who also worked in television. He commonly went by Art or Artie. Saaf developed his art skills working at McFadden Publishing in 1938 and built his first art table using schematics from "Mechanics Illustrated". He then majored in pictorial illustration at Pratt Institute from 1941 to 1942, …

Don Morrow (born January 29, 1927) is an American actor and announcer. He started his broadcast career while a student at Syracuse University on the GI Bill shortly after World War II. His first job was with Syracuse's first TV station W H E N as newscaster and announcer. He heard of greener fields in Texas and in the late summer of '49 signed Dallas's 2nd TV station on the air as KBTV which 3 months later was sold to The Dallas Morning News and became WFAA-TV.

Spent his "off-time" in a rural West Virginia town named Lewisburg. Prolific American television game show announcer almost exclusively with Mark Goodson Productions. Was the announcer for "The New Price Is Right" (1972) from 1972 to 1985. He developed the catch phrase words, "Come on Down!", for the longest-running game show "The New Price Is Right" (1972).