Ken Howard (born March 28, 1944) is a Tony Award and Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor known for his role in the television show "The White Shadow" as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player, Ken Reeves. He also had a role in Seesaw and as Thomas Jefferson in "1776" (both the Broadway musical and the 1972 film).

Television and film producer Bruce Paltrow was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the late 1960s he began directing stage productions in New York City, where he met actress Blythe Danner, whom he married in 1970. He is probably best known as the producer of the television series "The White Shadow" and "St. Elsewhere". He also worked on the critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street".

Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in "Sounder" and "The White Shadow". He directed Wesley Snipes in "Passenger 57". Currently Hooks is working as a director and producer on "Prison Break". His father, Robert Hooks, is also an actor who starred in many films from the 1970s.

Jason Bernard (May 17 1938 - October 16, 1996) was an American actor who starred in movies and on television. Bernard was born in Chicago, Illinois. His first starring role was in the television series "The White Shadow" as Jim Willis in the pilot episode, his other well known tv role was in the 1980s TV series "Cagney & Lacey" as Inspector Marquette from 1982-1983, "Days of Our Lives" as Preston Wade in 1982.

Nathan Cook (born April 9, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died June 11, 1988, in Santa Monica, California) was an African-American actor. He was known for roles on two television series. He played Milton Reese, one of the high school basketball players, on "The White Shadow" (1978-1980). He also played security head Billy Griffin on "Hotel" (1983-1988). He also made frequent appearances as a celebrity guest on the game shows "Body Language", …

Tim Van Patten (born June 10, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film director. As a director, Van Patten has directed episodes of "The Sopranos", "Sex and the City", "Deadwood", "The Wire" and "Ed". Van Patten also did some acting earlier in his career, playing the character "Salami" on "The White Shadow", the villainous teenager Peter Stegman in "Class of 1984" & Max Keller on the TV series "The Master".

Peter Horton (born August 20, 1953) is an American actor and director. Born in Bellevue, Washington, he is best known for his role as Prof. Gary Shepherd on the popular television series "thirtysomething". During that time, in 1991, "People" magazine named him one of the "50 Most Beautiful People". He left the series in 1991 to pursue an interest in directing. As an actor, Horton appeared in a number of television shows including "St.

Randy Brooks (Randolph Frederick Brooks) is an African-American television and film actor, born in New York City, New York. He is best known for his role as a L.A.P.D. Detective Holdaway in the 1992 hit cult film "Reservoir Dogs". People often mistake him in this role for Samuel L. Jackson as his speech patterns and candice are similar to Jackson in Pulp Fiction which was also directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Renée Jones is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Lexie Carver on the daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives", a part she played from from 1993 to 2007. She has been nominated five times for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series for the role. It has been confirmed that she will return to "Days of our Lives" in the summer of 2007. Born into a large family of five siblings, …

Nicholas Mele is an actor who has starred in many movies and on television. His first movie role was in the 1976 movie "The Ritz". Other movie roles include "Some Kind of Hero" (1982) and "Young Doctors in Love" (1982). His most well-known film role was in the 1988 hit horror movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" as Dennis Johnson.

Randee Heller (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television and film actress. Her most notable roles were in the film "The Karate Kid" and its sequels, as Daniel Larusso's mother, and on the 1970s serial sitcom "Soap" as Jodie Dallas' roommate Alice, one of the first lesbian characters in television history. She also had a starring role as Carol in the 1979 made-for-TV movie "Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze".

Charles S. Robinson (born April 13, 1945, in Houston, Texas) is a television actor who has been performing since the 1960s. Robinson's credits include appearances in "The White Shadow", "Flamingo Road", "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", "Touched by an Angel", and "Antwone Fisher". Robinson was cast in the role on Newdell in the NBC comedy "Buffalo Bill". Not the smash hit it was expected to be, …

Rebecca Trust Olkowski (born December 16, 1953 in Denver, CO), better known by her maiden name, Rebecca Forstadt, is a voice actor who is best known for playing anime girls with sweet voices. She is also known as Reba West and Becky Olkowski. After studying theater at Orange Coast College, in Costa Mesa, CA, Ms. Forstadt began her acting career by working at Knott's Berry Farm's Bird Cage Theater, performing melodramas, …

Ken Howard recently completed shooting the feature film Michael Clayton (2007) for Warner Bros. starring George Clooney. He recently guest-starred on "Conviction" (2006), "Ghost Whisperer" (2005), "The Office" (2005), "George Lopez" (2002), and Showtime's "Huff" (2004) recurring opposite his good friend Blythe Danner. He starred as world-wise retried Detective Lieutenant Max Cavanaugh on NBC's "Crossing Jordan" (2001), and is perhaps best...

Half-uncle of Vincent Van Patten, James Van Patten, Nels Van Patten and Talia Balsam. Half-brother of Dick Van Patten, and Joyce Van Patten. Ex-half-brother-in-law of Martin Balsam. When "The White Shadow" debuted in 1978, he was 19 years old. This made him the only "true teenager" on the Carver High basketball team. The rest of the "players" were in their 20's.

Nathan had two children - one born in 1984 and the other in 1986.

Son of Lincoln Kilpatrick. Brother of Lincoln Kilpatrick Jr.. His sister is DaCarla Kilpatrick (editor, director, actor).

Lovely Harlem-born leading lady of 70s TV who met and eventually married series regular Teddy Wilson on the set of "That's My Mama" (1974) after she replaced Lynne Moody as Clifton Davis' sister Tracy in 1975. The mother of two, her husband died of AIDS-related complications in 1991.

Played for the ABA's Kentucky Colonels, the NBA's Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, and Boston Celtics. Played his college basketball at the University of Jacksonville.