- Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a storyteller whose films have grossed billions and have earned their producer the acclaim and respect of the entertainment industry and moviegoers throughout the world. Bruckheimer has always been a storyteller. He began his career on Madison Avenue producing award-winning commercials including a parody of Bonnie and Clyde, which he created for Pontiac. - Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. Spelling currently holds the world record as the world's most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits. - Joel Silver
Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American Hollywood film producer. Silver grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey where he is credited as helping invent the sport of Ultimate Frisbee (now known as just "Ultimate"). In 1970, he entered Lafayette College, where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate team. He finished his undergraduate studies at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. - Helen Mirren
From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set. - Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12 1951 or 1954) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor. - Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor. - Tony Plana
Tony Plana (born April 19, 1954) is a Cuban-American actor. - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (September 17 1928 - October 3 1998) was a British actor. - Seymour Cassel
Seymour Joseph Cassel (born January 22, 1935 or 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American character actor. Cassel was born in Detroit, Michigan to Pancretia Ann Kearney and Seymour Joseph Cassel. Cassel's early career was tied to fellow actor John Cassavetes. He made his movie debut in Cassavetes' first film, "Shadows", on which he also served as associate producer. - John Rhys-Davies
Actor John Rhys-Davies joined The Planetary Society's Advisory Council in 2004, but first began working with the Society in 1998 when he appeared on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse in the benefit performance, "An Evening on Mars with Ray Bradbury." Rhys-Davies appeared as the dwarf warrior Gimli in all three films of Peter Jackson 's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy. - Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis (September 14, 1898 - October 5, 1986) was an American motion picture producer. Born Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923. Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. - Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Dean Bernsen (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor, known for his work on television. His greatest fame came from his role of Arnold Becker on "L.A. Law" during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though he has appeared regularly as a cast member or guest on other shows, including "General Hospital", "Cuts", and "Psych". - Cary Elwes
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, known for his performances in "The Princess Bride", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "Saw". - Mira Sorvino
Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September 28, 1967 in Tenafly, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. - Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian-Armenian film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Stylistically, Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. - Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902-December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor). Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Louise Torpin and Frank Zanuck, a hotelier; his last name is of Dutch origin, and his father had Dutch and German ancestry. - Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. In 2007, Sedgwick won Best Actress for lead role in a dramatic TV series at the Golden Globes for her role in "The Closer". - Beverly D'Angelo
Beverly D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. - Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (January 20 1920 - October 31 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century. - Paul Dini
Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including "Star Wars: Ewoks", "Tiny Toon Adventures", "Batman: The Animated Series", "Superman: The Animated Series", "The New Batman/Superman Adventures", "Batman Beyond" and "Duck Dodgers". - Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer of Jewish descent. Freed began his career in vaudeville, and he appeared with the Marx Brothers. He soon began to write songs, and was eventually hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For years, he wrote lyrics for numerous films, many set to music by Nacio Herb Brown. - Bill Cobbs
William Francisco "Bill" Cobbs (born June 16, 1935) is an American film actor. Bill Cobbs was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where his mother was a cleaning lady and his father was a construction worker. As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, he starred in the Ossie Davis play "Purlie Victorious". Cobbs was an Air Force radar technician for eight years; he also worked in office products at IBM and sold cars in Cleveland. - Robert H. Justman
Robert H. Justman (born 1926) has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, production manager, assistant director, and production assistant since the early 1950s. He has worked on many television series including "Lassie", "The Life of Riley", "Adventures of Superman", "The Outer Limits", "Then Came Bronson", "Mission: Impossible" and many others. He was one of the pioneers behind "Star Trek", … - Jeannot Szwarc
Jeannot Szwarc (born 21 November, 1939) is a French film director. He began working as a director in US television during the 1960s, in particular on Ironside. He is also associated with The Rockford Files. His feature films include "Bug" (1975), "Jaws 2" (1978), "Somewhere in Time" (1980), "Supergirl" (1984), and "Santa Claus: The Movie" (1985). In 2003, Szwarc joined the crew of The WB television series "Smallville" as a director. - Lauren Shuler Donner
Lauren Shuler Donner (born Cleveland, Ohio on June 23, 1949) is a movie producer who specializes in mainstream in youth and family-oriented entertainment. Shuler Donner, married to Richard Donner, entered the entertainment industry as one of the first women members in Hollywood Electronic Camera Union (Local IA 659). She worked as a camera operator on a number of TV projects before graduating to associate producer of "ABC's World Wide of Entertainment" in 1973, … - Kal Penn
Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977) is an American actor, known by his stage name, Kal Penn. He is known for his starring roles in "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" and the recently released "The Namesake" (2007). - Lawrence Pressman
Lawrence Pressman (born July 10, 1939 in Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA) is an actor, probably best known for roles on "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "Ladies Man", a recurring role on "Profiler", and as the titular character on "Mulligan's Stew". His first role was on the soap opera "The Edge of Night", and one of his first movie starring roles was in "Shaft". In addition to Doogie, Pressman has often portrayed a doctor, … - David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902-June 22, 1965), was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster "Gone with the Wind" (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Not only did "Gone with the Wind" gross the highest amount of money at the box office of any film ever (adjusted for inflation), but it also won seven additional Oscars and two special awards. - Pat Hingle
Pat Hingle (born July 19, 1924) is an American actor, born Martin Patterson Hingle in Denver, Colorado. Pat Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, Dropping out of the University of Texas. He Served on the Destroyer USS Marshall during WWII While he is probably best known for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film "Batman" and its three sequels, Hingle has a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. - Dennis Muren
The only living human being to have won 8 Oscars, Dennis Muren is an innovator in the visual effects industry, responsible for overseeing work on hits such as Jurassic Park, Star Wars, War of the Worlds and The Hulk. In this interview, Dennis talks about breaking into Hollywood as an artist, and how to reach the pinnacle of success as he has. - Jack Giarraputo
Jack Giarraputo is a prolific film producer have been involved in the creation of more than 30 films in a little over a decade. Most of his work has been with comedy films. Two of his films have been nominated for Razzies. - Marina Sirtis
Marina Sirtis (born March 29 1955) is a British actress who is most noted for playing the half-human half-Betazoid Counselor Deanna Troi on the television and film series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". She also provided the voice of Demona in the animated series, "Gargoyles". She is also noted for appearing in the Oscar winning movie "Crash" as well as a semi regular on "Girlfriends". - Army Archerd
Armand "Army" Archerd (b. January 13, 1922 in Bronx, NY) was a gossip columnist for "Variety" for over fifty years before retiring his "Just for Variety" column in September 2005. In November 2005 Archerd began blogging for "Variety" and he is currently at work on his memoirs. In 1984, he was given a star on the Hollywood's Walk of Fame, in front of Mann's Chinese Theater, where he has emceed dozens of movie premieres. - Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary. - Carol Mendelsohn
Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951) is an American TV writer, notable for her work on the crime drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Mendelsohn grew up in Chicago. She went to Smith College, but later transferred and in 1973 graduated from Cornell University. She then went to the George Washington University Law School and practiced at the Washington, D.C., office of the prominent Los Angeles-based firm Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, & Kuchel. - Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Her name is in honor of her country of origin (Italia). Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York; she is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. - Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye (Born March 3 1939), often referred to as Bob Shaye, is an American businessman, film producer, director and actor. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he is the Co-founder of the film production and distribution company New Line Cinema with Michael Lynne, where he currently holds the position of Co-chairman and Co-CEO. He is also the brother of actress Lin Shaye. - Dougray Scott
Dougray Scott (born Stephen Scott on November 25, 1965) is a Scottish television and film actor best known in America for playing Ian Hainsworth in Desperate Housewives. Sometimes Scott is referred to as "Young Sean Connery", and a similarity in acting style is also noted between Scott and Steve McQueen. He is most known for his roles as the villain in "Mission: Impossible 2" as well as Ian in the US dramedy "Desperate Housewives". - Claire Forlani
Claire Forlani (born December 17, 1972) is an English actress. She is well known for the roles played in "Meet Joe Black", "Police Academy" and "Boys and Girls".
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