Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (born on July 6, 1925, in San Mateo, California) is an American talk show host, entertainer, pianist, television personality and executive. He began his career as a singer and also appeared in movies and on Broadway; he later became host of his own TV show, "The Merv Griffin Show", and an entertainment business magnate.

Arthur Veary Treacher (July 23, 1894 - December 14, 1975) was an actor born in Brighton, East Sussex, England. He was a veteran of World War I. After the war he established a stage career and in 1928 he went to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called "Great Temptations". He began his film career in the 1930s, which included a role in two different Shirley Temple films: "Heidi" and "The Little Princess".

David Soul (born August 28, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor and British citizen and singer best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police detective Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (opposite co-star and long-time friend Paul Michael Glaser) in the cult television program "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79). Originally David Richard Solberg, he was born the son of a Lutheran minister.

Ron Carey (December 11 1935 - January 16 2007) was an American film and television actor. Born Ronald Joseph Cicenia in Newark, New Jersey, the 5ft 4in actor was best known for playing cocky Officer Carl Levitt on TV's "Barney Miller", in which he was almost always surrounded by male actors (and sometimes female guest stars) who stood at least 4" taller. The series' stars (Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass) all stand well over six feet.

Jim Fowler (born April 9 1930 in Albany, Georgia) is a professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". Fowler first served as the co-host of Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, and then later became the main host. While Fowler was serving as host of "Wild Kingdom", he received four separate Emmy awards and an endorsement by the National PTA for family viewing.

Ray Richmond (born October 19, 1957) is a globally syndicated critic and entertainment/media columnist. A longtime fixture on the Los Angeles journalism scene, he is best known for his years with The Hollywood Reporter. Richmond's long-running weekly column in The Hollywood Reporter is called "The Pulse" which is syndicated by Reuters. Richmond has also worked variously as a feature and entertainment writer, …

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor, who was especially popular in the late 1960s and early 1970's as a regular guest on "The Merv Griffin Show" and other talk shows. He had originally received a scholarship to study medicine but opted for an acting career instead. Memorable film roles include "Watermelon Man", where he plays the lead character, …

Brother Theodore was a monologuist and comedian known for rambling, stream of consciousness dialogues which he called "stand up tragedy." He was born Theodore Gottlieb into a wealthy family in Düsseldorf, Germany, where his father was a magazine publisher. Theodore attended the University of Cologne. Under Nazi rule, he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for one Reichsmark.

Judy Zebra Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton on March 16, 1946, in Roswell, New Mexico) is a self-proclaimed spiritual medium as well as the CEO of JZK, Inc., parent company of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Knight says that on February 7, 1977, an entity called Ramtha, The Enlightened One, appeared to her and her husband in the kitchen of her Tacoma, Washington trailer. She further says Ramtha prepared her for out-of-body experiences.

Lillian Miller (1898-1990), better known as Miss Miller, was a regular audience member of various American variety shows from the 1950s to the 1980s. Miller was first a regular audience member of "The Tonight Show" throughout Steve Allen's and Jack Paar's tenures as host. Miss Miller was even brought along when the New York City-based show would go on location to places such as Havana, Cuba, Hollywood, California, and Niagara Falls.

Betty Walker was a Jewish-American comic who performed primarily during the 1950s and 1960s. She was born Edith Seeman in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Latvian immigrants. Over the course of her career, she appeared numerous times on television, including guest appearances on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, "The Merv Griffin Show" and "The Steve Allen Show", on the radio, and in film, most notably in "Exodus" in 1960.

John Baxter Browning Bryant (January 24, 1957) is a singer-songwriter whose greatest commercial popularity was before and during his early teens. Known professionally as Browning Bryant, he is the only progeny of Maud and Ray Bryant, and a long-time resident of Pickens, South Carolina. He attained success singing folk-pop that was uncharacteristically mature and introspective for a pre-teen heartthrob.

Paul Clinton was CNN.com's longtime movie critic for 20 years. He was the co-founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). Clinton attended Ohio State University and then moved to New York, where he became a page at NBC. He produced for the "The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder and then moved to Los Angeles to work on "The Merv Griffin Show". Later he moved to KCBS as an entertainment news producer.

George Willig (aka "the human fly" or "the spiderman") is a mountain-climber from Queens, New York, United States, who climbed the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center on 26 May, 1977. At the time, it was the third tallest building in the world (behind 1 WTC and the Sears Tower). It took him 3.5 hours to scale the tower. New York City Mayor Abraham Beame fined him $1.10, one cent for each of the skyscraper's 110 stories. Before the stunt, Willig was a toymaker.

John Twomey was a manualist who most famously appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson in 1974. He is credited with bringing manualism to the public stage, as his performance of "Stars and Stripes Forever" was seen by millions of people and was included in the "Best of Johnny Carson" collection. Twomey also coined the term "manualism," as he introduced himself as a "manualist" in the show.

Lucille LeSueur's parents separated before she was born. By age 16 she had known three fathers, one of whom (a vaudeville theater manager) had given her the name Billie Cassin. By 1915 she and her mother lived in Kansas City and Billie worked in a laundry and also as a menial to pay school tuition. Winning an amateur dance contest in 1923 led to chorus work in Chicago, Detroit and New York. On New Year's Day of 1925 she left for Hollywood. Before her second picture, a "Photoplay" contest...