- Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1924 – April 5, 2008[1][2]) was an American Academy Award-winning film actor. In a long career, Heston was known for playing heroic roles, such as Harry Steele in Secret of the Incas , Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. - Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Hollywood actor. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" on the stage and on the screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film "The Ten Commandments" and as Chris Adams in "The Magnificent Seven". - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (pronounced "Bern-steen") (April 4, 1922 - August 18, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. Bernstein was born in New York City. During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor and won several prizes for his painting. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, … - John Carradine
John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was a Daytime Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns. Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). He also portrayed the Biblical hero Aaron in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). - John Derek
John Derek was an American actor, director and photographer most famous for the gorgeous women to whom he was married. Born Derek Delevan Harris in Hollywood, California, he was first married to actress Pati Behrs (1922-2004), grand-niece of Leo Tolstoy and mother of his two children, Russell & Sean. His matinee-idol good looks quickly got him supporting roles, most notably as Broderick Crawford's son in "All the Kings Men" (1949), … - Cedric Hardwicke
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (February 19, 1893 - August 6, 1964) was an English actor. He was born in the village of Lye, in Worcestershire. He trained at RADA, and, after service in World War I, he joined a repertory company in Birmingham, and played many classical roles on stage before beginning a film career which included both British and Hollywood films. He made his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, … - Debra Paget
Debra Paget is an American actress and entertainer who made a name for herself in the 1950s and early-1960s in a variety of feature films including Cecil B. DeMille's epic "The Ten Commandments" and "Love Me Tender", the film début of Elvis Presley. - Nina Foch
Nina Foch (b. April 20, 1924 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s films. Her mother was an American actress who returned to the U.S. after her marriage collapsed. Her movie fame was during the height of the 1940s in which she played cool, aloof and often foreign women of sophistication. She has been featured in over 80 feature films and hundreds of television shows, … - Martha Scott
Martha Scott was an American actress. Born in Jamesport, Missouri, she became interested in acting in high school, but failed to earn a degree from the University of Michigan before pursuing her acting dream. She got her start acting in shortened Shakespeare productions at the Century of Progress world's fair in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 - 1934. Scott eventually went to New York City, where she was cast as the original Emily in the Broadway production of "Our Town". - Fraser Clarke Heston
Fraser Clarke Heston is an is an American film writer, producer, and director. The son of actor Charlton Heston and actress Lydia Clarke, Heston was born on February 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California. Of the nine films Fraser Heston wrote, directed or produced, only one, 1993’s "Needful Things", has not featured his father. Heston's filmography also includes "Alaska" and "Treasure Island". - Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi (b. 1970) is a New York-based Indian-American supermodel, actress, talk show host and award-winning cookbook author. She was born in Chennai, India and is fluent in five languages - English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil. Her name literally means the "lotus goddess" in Sanskrit. - Henry Wilcoxon
Harry Frederick Wilcoxon, known as Henry Wilcoxon or Harry Wilcoxon, (September 8, 1905 - March 6, 1984) was an actor born in Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films. ---- His first major film role was starring in Cecil B. de Mille's "Cleopatra" (1934) with Claudette Colbert; he played Marc Antony, … - H. B. Warner
H. B. Warner (26 October 1875 - 21 December 1958) was a British actor. He was born Harry Byron Warner in St John's Wood, London in 1875. His father was an actor, and, although young Harry had initially thought to study medicine, he eventually followed in his father's footsteps and performed on the stage. Warner began his film career in silent films in 1914, when he debuted in "The Lost Paradise". - Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American motion picture actor. - Clint Walker
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (born May 30, 1927) is an American actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the TV Western series, "Cheyenne". Walker was born in Hartford, Illinois. He left school to work at a factory and on a river boat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at 17 during the tail end of World War II. After leaving the Merchant Marines, he worked at odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas, Long Beach, California, and Las Vegas, … - Arnold Friberg
Arnold Friberg is an American artist born on December 21, 1913 in Winnetka, Illinois, son of a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother. Perhaps his most famous and popular patriotic work is his 1975 painting "The Prayer at Valley Forge", a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge, the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777 - 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. - Woody Strode
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (born July 28, 1914, Los Angeles, California; died December 31, 1994) was a decathlete and football star at UCLA before becoming a pioneering African-American film actor. Strode and fellow UCLA alumnus Kenny Washington were two of the first African-Americans to play in the National Football League, playing for the Los Angeles Rams in 1946. In 1948 and 1949, he played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. - Estelle Taylor
Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894-April 15, 1958) was an American Hollywood actress whose career was most prominent during the silent film era of the 1920s. Born Estelle Boylan in Wilmington, Delaware, Taylor married a banker while still a teenager. After relocating to Hollywood, she began taking bit parts in films. Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama "Monte Cristo" opposite John Gilbert, … - Ian Keith
Ian Keith was an American actor. ---- Born Keith Ross in Boston, Massachusetts. After the death of Lon Chaney, he was one of the actors originally considered for the title role in the film version of "Dracula" (1931). The role finally went to the actor playing the role on stage, Bela Lugosi. He appeared in "The Ten Commandments" (1956) as Ramses I. - Anne Bauchens
Anne Bauchens (1882 - 1967) was a film editor who worked almost exclusively for Cecil B. deMille, editing all of his films over a period of about 40 years, beginning with 1915's "Carmen" and ending with "The Ten Commandments" in 1956. She won an Academy Award for film editing in 1940, for "North West Mounted Police", and was nominated for three more; for "Cleopatra" in 1934, … - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Dorothy Clarke Wilson (1904-2003) was an American author and playwright. Dorothy Clarke was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1904. She attended Bates College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1925 and married classmate, Elwin L. Wilson. After Elwin attended Seminary, they returned to Maine and were both engaged in various Methodist activities. Clarke's first play that she sold was written for a church. Her best known book was, "Prince of Egypt", … - Henry Corden
Henry Corden (January 6, 1920 - May 19, 2005) was an American actor and voice artist best-known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone on "The Flintstones" after Alan Reed died in 1977. His debut as Fred's new voice was on the syndicated "Fred Flintstone and Friends" in 1977. (He also provided the singing voice for Reed in the 1966 theatrical film, "The Man Called Flintstone"). Corden gave his voice to a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, … - Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American spiritual teacher and meditation instructor, and a radio personality on KPFK in Los Angeles from the 1960s until his death in 1985. As a young man, in the 1950s, Jack Gariss attended University of Southern California and worked for Cecil B. DeMille. Most notably, he has a co-writing credit on DeMille's "The Ten Commandments". - Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman (October 8 1863 - October 15 1948), was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the "Charity Ball". Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of "The Light Eternal" in 1907. The play was a romantic drama of early Rome which was supported by a cast of approximately 100 people. Mrs. - Phil Mulloy
Phil Mulloy is a British award winning animator. He was born in Wallasey, in Merseyside in the UK. His earliest work was made in 1978 with an animation called In the Forest. He also created a mini-series called The Ten Commandments, which ran from 1994 through to 1996, and the ten episodes each featured one of the ten commandments. His son is the critically acclaimed young director Daniel Mulloy and his daughter, the Oscar Nominated director Lucy Mulloy. - Dathan
Dathan is a character in the Old Testament of the Bible. He was a Reubenite and was killed along with his brother Abiram and with Korah. The Bible states in the book of Numbers that "the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses..." This refers to Dathan and his conspirators Korah and Abiram. There is also an account that they were killed by heavenly fire. This is probably a reference to Korah's group (but not Korah). - Dorothy Jeakins
Dorothy Jeakins (1914 - 1995) was a three-time Academy Award-winning costume designer. She got her start working on WPA projects and as a Disney artist in the 1930s. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was spotted by director Victor Fleming. Hired as a sketch artist for "Joan of Arc" (1948), Jeakins worked on the costumes along with Barbara Karinska and shared an Oscar with her. This was the first Oscar ever awarded for costumes. - Mike Connors
Mike Connors (born August 15, 1925) is an American actor of Armenian descent. He is best known for playing Joe Mannix in the long-running detective television series, "Mannix". Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in the television series "Tightrope". Born Kreker Ohanian in Fresno, California, he graduated from UCLA where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. - Agnes Ayres
Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 - December 25, 1940) was a silent film star in the 1920s. Born Agnes Hinkle in Carbondale, Illinois, she had planned to have a career in law, but in 1915 at the age of 17 she made her film debut at Essanay Studios in Chicago, and was signed by Fox Studios in 1919. Moving to New York, Agnes gained popularity after being cast in "Richard the Brazen" (1917), and was signed by Paramount Pictures in 1920. - Archie Stout
Archie Stout was a second unit photographer whose career spanned from 1921 to 1954. In a career largely confined to B movies, he provided cinematography assistance on such films as the original version of "The Ten Commandments" (1923) and several Hopalong Cassidy and Tarzan films. He enjoyed a long and fruitful association with John Ford, working on "Fort Apache" (1948), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) and "The Quiet Man" (1952), … - Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St. Joseph's Medical Center, Burbank, California. After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as "Farewell, My Lovely", "The Ten Commandments", "Houseboat", … - Michael D. Moore
Michael D. Moore, born October 16, 1914, is a Canadian-born American film actor and director. Born Michael Sheffield in Victoria, British Columbia, both he and his brother Patrick were Hollywood child actors. At the age of five he appeared in his first film under the stage name "Mickey Moore." Between then and the time he reached the age of thirteen in 1927, he performed in two dozen children's roles on film. - Dawn Richard
Dawn Richard (born March 5, 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is an American model and actress. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and David Sutton. Richard posed for several other men's magazines during the Fifties. Her most prominent film role was as one of Pharaoh's daughters in 1956's "The Ten Commandments", opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. - Lucien Cailliet
Lucien Cailliet was an American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist. Born in France, Cailliet studied at the Conservatory in Dijon before immigrating to the United States in 1918. Cailliet worked as staff arranger for the Philadelphia Orchestra. During this time, he founded the Cherry Hill Wind Symphony, which would later become the Wind Symphony of Southern New Jersey. - Charles Edward Bennett
Charles Edward Bennett was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida from 1949 to 1993. He was a Democrat. He was born in Canton, New York and moved to Jacksonville, Florida by the end of his childhood. Bennett is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. - Alex
Not sure what it is I ought to say here, just a 30 year old dude schlepping his way through life, and not doing a very good job at it. Seems someone or something just always enjoys getting in my way. Surprise surprise, it's myself. - Juan
Ah the great summation of a man in just a few paragraphs. it just can be done. That lead one to believe that I had no depth, that you could perceive all there is about me at a mere glance. But chu caint. I live life and love my peoples. Those two things come only short of God. Other than that I am an Airman in the United States Air Force and proudly defending my family and friends rights to call the ground they call home. - Monica Anderson
God is good all the time and all the time God is good. I'm a college graduate from Saint Mary's College of California with a B.S. in Accounting and I love to read, write poetry, sing, and just have a good time. I love spending time with my wonderful friends. I'm blessed to have wonderful friends and family. I love all the people in my life and friends and the people God blessed me to meet through the organizations I have joined. - Jonathan McCarty
Whever I try to fill these "about me" things out, I always try to put some philosophical thought into it. I guess I've never been the typical person who can write a simple "I was born, I grew up, and one day I shall die" type of autobiographical paragraph about my life. I don't think its possible to sum up someone in a paragraph, really. We're not that simple as humans. - Matthew Rocca
Hello, all! Matthew Rocca's the name, and filmmaking's my game. In these past few months, I have graduated high school, and finished my first full-length movie, "Drowning Phoenix" both of which were four-year labors of love (and labors of, well...labor). :) The point is, they're finally done, and I feel very accomplished. Please, come see the movie.
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