- Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American television writer and producer who produced such popular sitcoms as "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "Good Times" and "Maude". - Carroll O'Connor
John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 - June 21, 2001) was an American actor, most famous for his portrayal of the character Archie Bunker in the television sitcoms "All in the Family" (1971-1979) and "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979-1983). O'Connor later starred in the television series "In the Heat of the Night" as Police Chief Bill Gillespie from 1988 to 1994. - Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Carroll O'Connor's and Jean Stapleton's son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, on "All in the Family" in a role which earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s. As director, the Directors Guild of America recognized him with nominations for his work on "Stand By Me", "When Harry Met Sally...", … - Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray on January 19, 1923 in New York City) is an American actress of stage, television and film. She is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor) and mother of Gloria Bunker Stivic (played by Sally Struthers), … - Sally Struthers
Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948, Portland, Oregon) is an American actress and spokesperson, best known for playing Gloria Stivic; the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker on "All in the Family". - Isabel Sanford
Isabel Sanford (August 29, 1917, New York City- July 9, 2004, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an African-American actress most famous for her role as Louise "Weezie" Jefferson on the CBS television sitcoms "All in the Family" (1971-1975) and "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). Sanford played the role of Louise Jefferson for a total of 14 years. Born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford in New York City, … - Sherman Hemsley
Sherman Hemsley (born February 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award nominated and Image Award winning African American character actor most famous for his roles as George Jefferson, on the television shows "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" and as Deacon Ernest Frye on "Amen". He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield on the Jim Henson sitcom, "Dinosaurs". - Mike Evans
Michael Jonas Evans (usually credited as Mike Evans), was an American actor and co-creator of the show "Good Times" with Eric Monte (Ralph Carter's character Michael Evans was named after him). Evans was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. His father, Theodore Evans Sr., was a dentist, and his mother, Annie Sue Evans, was a school teacher. His family later moved to Los Angeles, where he graduated from Los Angeles High School. - John Rich
John Rich is a film and television director. He directed such television shows as "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "All in the Family", "The Jeffersons", "Maude", "Good Times", "Barney Miller", "Newhart", "Benson", "The Brady Bunch", and "Gilligan's Island". His feature film credits include "Wives and Lovers", "Boeing, Boeing", and "Roustabout" (starring Elvis Presley). - Danielle Brisebois
Danielle Brisebois (born June 28 1969) was a child actress in the 1970s, most recognized for her role as Stephanie Mills on the sitcoms "All in the Family" and its spin-off/continuation "Archie Bunker's Place". In the 1990s she quit acting and began a career in music, recorded two solo albums and was a member of the New Radicals. She currently works as a producer and songwriter for artists such as Kelly Clarkson and Natasha Bedingfield. - Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919, St. Joseph, Missouri) is an American actress and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. However, she is probably best known for a pair of roles in two prominent 1970s sitcoms. In late 1973, she joined the cast of "All in the Family", playing Archie Bunker's socially liberal next-door neighbor, Irene Lorenzo, a role she would remain in until her character was phased out in late 1975. - Bud Yorkin
Bud Yorkin (born in Washington, Pennsylvania on February 22, 1926 as Alan David Yorkin) is an American film producer, director, writer and actor. He directed and produced the innovative 1958 TV special "An Evening With Fred Astaire", which won nine Emmy Awards. Yorkin earned a degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In the 1970s, Yorkin teamed up with Norman Lear to form Tandem Productions, … - Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian-American Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning stage, film, and television actor. Gardenia was born Vincenzo Scognamiglio in Naples, Italy to Elisa and Gennaro Gardenia Scognamiglio. After emigrating to the United States as a child, he lived most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. - Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937 in New York City) is an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at CBS, ABC and NBC and was at least partly responsible for bringing to television such programs as "Scooby-Doo" (1969-1986), "All in the Family" (1971 - 1979), "The Waltons" (1972 - 1981), "Roots" (1977), and "Charlie's Angels" (1976 - 1981). - Demond Wilson
Grady Demond Wilson (born October 13, 1946) is an American actor, best known for his role as Redd Foxx's long-suffering son, Lamont Sanford in the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son". Wilson was born in Valdosta, Georgia..Upon returning from service in Vietnam, in the early 1960s, … - Bill Macy
Bill Macy (born Wolf Marvin Garber, May 18 1922, Revere, Massachusetts) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Walter Findlay, Bea Arthur's long-suffering husband on the 1970s television sitcom "Maude". Macy, before his success in "Maude", was something of an entertainment journeyman, performing in comedy clubs, playing bit parts in movies as well as television shows, … - Bill Quinn
Bill Quinn (Born May 6, 1912. Died April 29, 1994) was an American actor. Quinn appeared in more than 150 acting roles starting in the 20's in silent films and ending in the digital age in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier". He is best remembered as Archie's blind friend, Mr. Van Ranseleer, (whose name Archie could never get right) featured in "All in the Family" and later as a regular in the spin-off "Archie Bunker's Place". - Jason Wingreen
Jason Wingreen (born October 9, 1919 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American actor. He lent his voice to Boba Fett in the original and 1997 theatrical versions of "The Empire Strikes Back". - Susan Harris
Susan Harris (born Susan Spivak on October 28, 1940 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a television comedy writer and producer. She created the series "Soap", "Benson", "The Golden Girls", "Empty Nest", "Nurses", and "The Golden Palace". She also wrote or co-wrote all of the episodes of the first 4 seasons of "Soap" and appeared on two episodes as the hooker Babette. - Larry Storch
Larry Storch (born January 8, 1923) is an American actor best known for his comedic television roles, including voiceover work for cartoons, and his live-action role the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on "F Troop". He has also made guest appearances on dozens of different television shows, including "Get Smart", "Bewitched", "That Girl", "I Dream of Jeannie", "All in the Family", "Married... with Children", … - Lee Adams
Lee Adams (born August 14, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse. Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a Master's from Columbia University. Adams won Tony Awards in 1961 for "Bye Bye Birdie" and in 1970 for "Applause". In addition, he wrote the lyrics for "All American", "Golden Boy", … - Eric Monte
Eric Monte (born Kenneth Williams circa 1944) is an American television writer who has written for and created notable shows depicting 1970s African American culture. Born in Chicago and raised in the Cabrini-Green housing project, he dropped out of high school and hitchiked to Hollywood. Monte's first big break came five years later with a script written for and accepted by "All in the Family". - Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place (b. September 23 1947, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress and singer. After graduating from the University of Tulsa with a Speech Degree, Placee moved to Hollywood with aspirations of becoming an actress and writer. She was hired for "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour" in the 1970s as a production assistant to both Conway and producer Norman Lear. It was Conway who gave her her first on-camera break, … - Bob Hastings
Robert Hastings (born April 18, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film and television character actor. Hastings got his show business start in radio on Coast-to-Coast on a Bus (NBC) and after the Second World War as the voice of Archie Andrews in a program based on the popular Archie comic book series on the Mutual Broadcasting System. - Norman Campbell
Norman Kenneth Campbell (February 4 1924 - April 12 2004) was a Canadian composer, television producer, and television director best known for co-writing Anne of Green Gables - The Musical. Born in Los Angeles, California, he joined CBC Vancouver as a radio producer in 1948. In 1952, he went to Toronto to produce the early CBC Television broadcasts. He produced and directed hundreds of television programs between the 1950s and 1990s. - Bobby Sherman
Bobby Sherman (born Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr., 22 July 1943, Santa Monica, California) is an American singer and actor, who became a very popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He first became famous as a house singer on the television series "Shindig!" from 1964 to 1966. For several years, he tried to record singles and break out into the music industry, but he did not have much luck until he earned a role as a bashful, … - Billy Halop
Billy Halop. He was born in New York City and was an American actor. He came from a theatrical family; his mother was a dancer, and his sister Florence Halop was a radio actress. After several years as a well-paid radio juvenile, Billy was cast as Tommy Gordon in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" in 1935, where he was accorded star status. - Gregory Sierra
Gregory Sierra (born January 25, 1941) is an American actor known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Chano Amenguale on "Barney Miller" and Julio Fuentes, the Puerto Rican neighbor on "Sanford and Son", where his character was often the brunt of racist insults and jokes via the show's main character, Fred G. Sanford (portrayed by Redd Foxx). Sierra was born in New York City. He also starred as a Jewish radical on the controversial series All in the Family, … - Mel Stewart
Mel Stewart (b. September 19, 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, d. February 24, 2002 in Pacifica, California) was an American character actor who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. He is best known for playing Henry Jefferson on the popular TV series "All in the Family". He also appeared in the following Broadway Productions: Purlie Victorious Sep 28, 1961 - May 12, 1962 [Original, Play, … - Sorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke was a Jewish American actor who performed on stage, screen and television. He is best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show "The Dukes of Hazzard". Born in Buffalo, New York, and fluent in five languages including Japanese, Sorrell Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. - Roger Kellaway
Roger Kellaway (born November 1, 1939) is an American composer, arranger, and pianist. Born in Waban, Massachusetts, he is an alumnus of the New England Conservatory. Kellaway has composed commissioned works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and jazz big band, as well as for film, TV, ballet and stage productions. As a composer/arranger, he has received two prestigious honors - a 1976 Oscar nomination for Best Adaptation Score for the film "A Star Is Born", … - David Dukes
David Dukes was an American character actor. Dukes was born in San Francisco, California. He had a long career in films, appearing in 35; and as a television guest star, notably as the man who attempted to rape Edith Bunker on "All in the Family," and during the 1980s in the miniseries "The Winds of War". - Milt Josefsberg
Milt Josefsberg (29 June, 1911 - 14 December, 1987) was a radio writer for Jack Benny and later for many television sitcoms, such as "Archie Bunker's Place", "All in the Family", "Here's Lucy", "The Lucy Show", and "The Jack Benny Show". He authored books on the Jack Benny Show and comedy writing - Graham Jarvis
Graham Jarvis, (August 25, 1930 - April 16, 2003) was a Canadian character actor in US films and TV from the 1960s. Born in Toronto, Jarvis attended Williams College before moving to New York to pursue a career in theater. Jarvis appeared on such TV programs as "Naked City", "Route 66", "N.Y.P.D.", "All in the Family", "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "M*A*S*H", "Starsky and Hutch", "Cagney and Lacey", "Fame", … - Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad (October 16 1925, New York, USA - November 22 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American television actor. Conrad won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in "Hill Street Blues" in 1981 and 1982. Conrad had a long acting career in television, from 1950s to 1980s. Conrad was best known for his portrayal of Phil Esterhaus on the hit NBC police drama "Hill Street Blues". - Ruth McDevitt
Ruth McDevitt (September 13 1895 - May 27 1976) was an American film actress. She was born as "Ruth Thane Shoecraft" and was married to Patrick McDevitt. She has performed on Broadway, on radio, and is well known for her comedy in television and film. She was a familiar face on television during the 1960s and '70s, guest starring on such programs as "All in the Family", "Bewitched", … - Marcia Rodd
Marcia Rodd (born July 8, 1940) is an American actress. Rodd was born in Lyons, Kansas and studied drama at Northwestern University. In the 1950s, she moved to New York City and performed on stage. Rodd spent the 1960s appearing on Broadway in such plays as Neil Simon's "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers", and starred in 1971's black comedy film "Little Murders", opposite Elliott Gould. - Holly Near
Holly Near (born June 6, 1949 in Ukiah, CA) is an American singer-songwriter, teacher and social change activist. After starting high school in 1963, Near began singing with the "Freedom Singers", a folk group modeled on "The Weavers". In 1968, she enrolled in the Theatre Arts program at UCLA; that year she attended her first Vietnam War peace vigil and joined Another Mother for Peace. - H. Wesley Kenney
H. Wesley Kenney is an American producer and director of several television series. He is best known for his work on soap operas, producing and directing "Days of our Lives" from 1968 until 1979, and then becoming co-executive producer of "The Young and the Restless", a spot he held from 1980 until about 1984. He also became known for directing several episodes of the sitcom "All in the Family" in 1974 and 1975. - Scott Brady
Scott Brady was an American film actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the younger brother to a fellow actor, Lawrence Tierney, Brady began his film career after taking drama classes after World War II (where he was a Navy boxing champ). The actor specialized in tough-guy roles in films like "He Walked by Night" and "Johnny Guitar". He appeared regularly on the 1970s cop show, "Police Story".
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