- Irwin Allen
Irwin Allen was a television and film producer nicknamed "The Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. He was also notable for creating a number of memorable and popular television series. Allen was born in New York City. In 1952, he won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for "The Sea Around Us". Allen's film credits include "The Animal World" (1956), the critically-panned "The Story of Mankind" (1957), … - Robert Colbert
Robert Colbert (born July 26, 1931, in Long Beach, California) is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the TV series "The Time Tunnel" and his two appearances as Brent Maverick in "Maverick" in 1961, forced by the studio to dress exactly as lookalike James Garner had in Garner's earlier role of Bret Maverick. (Thinking of the inevitable comparisons to Garner that were bound to ensue, … - Lee Meriwether
Lee Meriwether was born May 27, 1935 in Los Angeles, California. Related to Meriwether Lewis , the 19th century explorer, Lee laid claim to a number of beauty pageant titles including Miss San Francisco, Miss California and Miss America of 1955. She also became the first women's editor with Dave Garroway on the original TODAY SHOW in the 1950s. - Whit Bissell
Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor. Born in New York City, Bissell was trained in the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had a number of roles in Broadway theatre, including the Air Force show "Winged Victory", when he was a private. In a career that began in 1943 with the film "Holy Matrimony", … - Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie (25 August1909-10 June1971) was an English film, television and stage actor best known for his starring role as the benevolent space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still". - Sam Groom
Sam Groom (born 1939) is an actor. He portrayed Dr. Simon Locke in the Canadian television series "Police Surgeon" (1971) and Joseph Orsini in the soap opera "All My Children" in 1993. He also made guest appearances in "Law & Order", "Murder, She Wrote", "The Love Boat", "Hill Street Blues", "Quincy M.E.", and "The Time Tunnel" (as Jerry). He currently teaches acting in New York. - Dick Tufeld
Dick Tufeld (born 1927) is an American actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the 1950s onward. He is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the TV series "Lost in Space". He has also provided voice work for the animated Fantastic Four (1978 TV series) and the Lost in Space feature film as the Robot, again. Apart from Lost in Space, Tufeld provided the narration voiceover for many other Irwin Allen productions. - Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975) was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American science fiction and alternate history writer. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia. During World War I, he served with the Committee of Public Information and the United States Army (1917-1918). Following the war, Leinster became a free-lance writer. In 1921, he married Mary Mandola. They had four daughters. - Heather Young
Heather Young was an actress who is best known for playing the character Betty Hamilton on the television series "Land of the Giants". Young was born Patricia Kay Petersen on in Bremerton, Washington. She began her entertainment career as a singer at Disneyland. In 1967 she had a number of small roles in shows such as the "Batman" television series and the courtroom series "Judd for the Defence". - Vitina Marcus
Vitina Marcus (born in 1940 in New York City, New York) is an American actress who appeared in two episodes of "Lost in Space" as Athena, Dr. Smith's most persistent and verdant admirer. She also appeared in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" including second season's "Return of the Phantom", and "The Time Tunnel". She also appeared in Irwin Allen's "The Lost World". Ms. Marcus appeared in numerous television shows throughout the 1950's and 60's. - Ford Rainey
Ford Rainey was an American movie, stage and television actor. Rainey was a familiar face in motion pictures, including his film debut "White Heat" (1949), "The Sand Pebbles" with Steve McQueen and "Two Rode Together" with James Stewart. He also appeared many times on television shows, guest starring on "Bonanza", "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason", "The Bionic Woman" and "The Untouchables". - Lawrence Montaigne
Lawrence Montaigne (b. February 26, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, writer, dancer, and occasional stuntman. As an actor, he is best known for his appearances on many 1960s-era television shows. Born in New York, but raised in Rome, Italy, Montaigne speaks several languages, a skill he used to his advantage in securing roles in international productions. - Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Daugherty (born October 27, 1910 in Indiana; died March 5, 1993 in Encinitas, California), was an American actor and director during the 1950s to mid 1970s. He has directed various episodes of popular television shows such as "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955), "Wagon Train" (1957), "Rawhide" (1959), "Bonanza" (1959), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964), "Star Trek" (1966), … - Rhodes Reason
Rhodes Reason (born April 19 1930 in Glendale, California) is an American actor. He is the younger brother of actor Rex Reason ("This Island Earth"). Reason made his acting start at age 18 in "Romeo and Juliet", directed by Charles Laughton. He has appeared in over 230 roles in television, movies and stage works. Notable starring roles were in the series "White Hunter" (1958), and as Sheriff Will Mayberry in the TV series "Bus Stop" (1961). - Ronald Long
Ronald Long (January 30, 1911-October 23, 1986), was a British actor who appeared principally in American television shows of the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in London and performed at the Old Vic Theatre there before coming to America in the late 1940s. His longest-running role was as the character "Evans Baker" on the CBS daytime soap opera "Love of Life" from 1951 to 1957. He had roles in various Broadway shows, including the Police Inspector in the drama, … - Joe Maross
Joe Maross (born February 7, 1923 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who appeared in movies and made guest appearances on many television series from the 1950's to the 1980's. Among the movies he appeared in were "Run Silent, Run Deep" and "Elmer Gantry". The many television series he guest-starred in included "Mission: Impossible", "The Fugitive", "The Outer Limits", "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason", … - Winton Hoch
Winton Hoch was originally a lab technician who contributed to the development of Technicolor before becoming a cinematographer in 1936. His understanding of the colour process quickly led to him being hailed as one of Hollywood's premier colour cinematographers. He won a Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1940 for his contributions to the development of new improved Process Projection Equipment. - Kam Tong
Kam Tong was a Chinese American actor best known for his role as Hey Boy on the television series "Have Gun — Will Travel". He appeared in many movies, often as an uncredited oriental, Chinese, Japanese, or Filipino. He appeared in many television shows including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Time Tunnel", and "I Spy". - Lyn Murray
Lyn Murray was a composer, conductor, and arranger of music for radio, film and television. Born Lionel Breeze in London, he arrived on American shores to found the Lyn Murray Singers, who became well-known throughout the United States as the featured group on CBS radio’s "Your Hit Parade". Murray worked as a conductor, arranger and producer for CBS (with such artists as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Burl Ives) prior to switching networks in 1947 to NBC. - Herman Stein
Composer, arranger and pianist, he was a child prodigy who was already a keyboard artist at three and a concert performer at six. A self-taught orchestrator, he learned musical theory in the local public library, and soon was arranging music for popular bandleaders including Count Basie and Fred Waring. Coming to Hollywood in 1948, he studied composition theory with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and by 1951 he was on the staff of the Universal-International music department, where he... - Walter M Scott
- Lionel Newman
Brother of composer Alfred Newman; 3 daughters: producer Carroll Newman, Deborah Sharpe and dancer Jenifer Newman; nephews: composer/songwriter Randy Newman, composer Thomas Newman & composer David Newman; grandson: composer Joey Newman, grand daughters: actresses Sarah Maria Newman and Jessica Frank; son-in-law: actor Gary Frank. - Irwin Allen
A graduate of New York's Columbia School of Journalism, Irwin Allen was a magazine editor, the producer/director of a radio show and the owner of an advertising agency before entering film production in the 1950s. His documentary, The Sea Around Us (1952), won an Academy Award. A successful TV series producer ("The Time Tunnel" (1966), "Lost in Space" (1965)), Allen was nicknamed "The Master of Disaster" in the 1970s due to the tremendous success of his two special... - John Zaremba
After being actor, John Zaremba worked as a newspaper reporter for "The Grand Rapids Press" and "The Chicago Tribune". In 1949 he moved to Hollywood and began his acting career with small roles in movies and television. - James William Ercolani
Tall, good-looking James Darren was a student of acting coach Stella Adler and made his name in the 1950s in a series of teenage-themed films. A better actor than most of his contemporary teenage heartthrobs, he nevertheless found it difficult to escape the teen-idol image he got in pictures like Gidget (1959) and Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961). He also gained fame in the early and mid-1960s as a singer, with several hits to his credit, including "Goodbye Cruel World" and "Her Royal... - Don Hall
Founding member of Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE). - Lenwood Ballard Abbott
He became the head of the Special Effects Department at 20th Century Fox in 1957. He bagan his career in the business as a cameraman at the age of 18. His father was a cinematographer on silent films. He became a Director of Photography in 1943 and was placed in charge of the Special Effects Camera Department at 20th Century Fox, under the supervision of Fred Sersen. He was the director of special effects for all 20th Century Fox television productions from 1953 until his retirement... - Robert Lewis Colbert
While serving in the Army in Okinawa Colbert took a job as a disc jockey at radio station KSBK in Suri. - Benjamin Emmet Nye
Father of Ben Nye Jr. Grandfather of Peter Nye and Kristen J. Nye. Father of makeup artists Ben Nye Jr. and Dana Nye. Brother of actor Carroll Nye. Created the whiskers worn by his brother Carroll Nye when he played Frank Kennedy in Gone with the Wind (1939). In fact, the whiskers helped him to get the part; producer David O. Selznick had originally thought him too young for it. Member o - Sobey Martin
Had a reputation for shouting "Action!" and then falling asleep in his director's chair. - William Self
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