Lana Clarkson (April 5, 1962 - February 3, 2003) was an American actress. She was born in Long Beach, California. Clarkson is best known for her film work with Roger Corman, appearing first in his fantasy epic "Deathstalker" (1983). Her work as a sword weilding vixen led to her being offered the title role in Corman's next film, the cult classic "Barbarian Queen" (1985), …

Richard Long (December 17, 1927 - December 21, 1974) was an American actor best known for his leading roles in the TV series "The Big Valley" and "Nanny and the Professor" as well as several appearances as "Gentleman Jack Darby" in TV's "Maverick". Long also played private detective Rex Randolph as a series lead in both "Bourbon Street Beat" and "77 Sunset Strip", …

William Katt (born February 16 1951) is an American film and television actor. Katt was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Bill Williams (formerly "Katt") and actress Barbara Hale. He attended Orange Coast College, before pursuing a career as a musician. He then started acting, appearing in summer stock and in small television roles. His earlier film credits include the role of a jock in Brian DePalma's 1976 cult film "Carrie", …

Betsy Russell is an actress who made a name for herself in sexy leading roles in B films in the 1980s. She acted in school projects in high school in San Diego, California, and successfully auditioned for a Pepsi commercial that was taped locally. After graduating from Mission Bay High School in 1981, Betsy Russell moved to Los Angeles to audition for acting parts.

Bob Steele was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in 1907 in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family. After years of touring, the family settled down in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father, Robert N. Bradbury, soon found work in the movies, first as an actor, later as a director, and by 1920, he hired Bob and his twin brother Bill as juvenile leads for a series of adventure movies entitled "The Adventures of Bob and Bill".

Michael Berryman (born September 4, 1948) is an American character actor. He is famous for having a unique physical appearance, the result of "hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia", a rare genetic condition which caused him to fail to develop hair, sweat glands, fingernails or teeth. He has appeared in several horror movies and other B movies.

Zachary Wolfe Galligan (born February 14, 1964) is an American actor. Galligan was born in New York City to Carol Jean Wolfe, a psychologist, and Arthur John Galligan, a lawyer who was a founding partner of the Dickstein, Shapiro & Galligan law firm. He has a sister, Jessica, and attended Columbia University. Galligan's breakthrough role was as the lead actor in the "Gremlins" movies with co-star Phoebe Cates. Those movies were his closest brush with stardom, …

William Frawley was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Having acted in over one hundred films, he achieved greater fame playing landlord Fred Mertz on the landmark American television sitcom "I Love Lucy".

Boaz Davidson (born 11 August 1943) is a film director, producer and scriptwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London. He directed the television show "Lool" (1969) and the movie "Shablul" (1971). Later he directed Israeli cult films such as "Charlie Ve'hetzi" (1974) and "Hagiga B'Snuker" (1975). In 1974 he directed the film "Mishpahat Tzan'ani".

James Ellison (May 4, 1910 - December 23, 1993) was an actor, born James Ellison Smith in Guthrie Center, Iowa, son of Edward James Smith and Ona Mary Ellis. Ellison appeared in nearly seventy films between 1932 and 1962. Despite his rugged good looks, Ellison's limited range and somewhat wooden screen presence kept him from the first (or even second) ranks of stardom. He spent much of his career in Westerns, …

Nico Mastorakis (born 28 April 1941 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer. He was essential in the creation of ANTENNA TV and later Star TV in Greece. He is most famous, however, for his B movies wherein he employs blatant nudity and off-the-wall cinematography in order to captivate lowbrow audiences. Several of his films have since become certified cult classics.

Sondra Currie is the daughter of actress Marie Harmon who made several movies in the 1940s. She is also the sister of the twin singers Cherie Currie and Marie Currie. She began her actress career in several B movies. Her first role was in the 1970 western movie Rio Lobo, even though she was not credited for it. She got her first major role as Lacy Bond in 1974's action movie Policewomen. Tired of being labelled as a tough B-movie actress, …

Phil Tucker (22 May 1927 - November 30, 1985) was an American film director, writer and producer. While Tucker directed his first six feature films in the span of 2 years (while still in his mid-twenties), he is best known for his first film, the science fiction B movie "Robot Monster", often considered an example of "so bad it's good" filmmaking in the Ed Wood vein, and for the Lenny Bruce movie "Dance Hall Racket".

Jalal Mehri is a Canadian film action producer of Lebanese origin. He started his film career by selling his jewelery business to start a film production company. He has produced and acted in numerous action films that can be considered martial arts B movies. Because of this he is knows as "Beirut's Steven Segal."

Jackie Moran (January 261923-September 201990) was an American movie actor who, between 1936 and 1946, appeared in over thirty films, primarily in teenage roles.

June Lang (May 5, 1915 - May 16, 2005) was a film actress. Born Winifred June Vlasek in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she originally trained as a dancer. She made her film debut in 1932 and gradually began to secure second lead roles in mostly "B movies". Noted for her fragile and demure appearance, she was usually cast as the little sister or the heroine's best friend in light comedies and adventure films.

Kirby Grant, (born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., in Butte, Montana, November 24 1911 - October 30 1985), was a long-time B-movie and television actor. He is remembered mostly for playing the title role in the television series "Sky King". Grant, a child-prodigy violinist, continued to pursue music and became a professional singer and bandleader.. In 1939 the "Gateway to Hollywood" talent-search contest awarded him a movie contract.

Tiffany Helm (b. May 12,1964) is an American actress who has starred in film and television. Her well known film role is in the 1985 horror film "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning" as Violet. She also starred in the 1985 film "The Zoo Gang" and in the 1986 B movie "Reform School Girls". Tiffany has made guest appearances on tv shows like "Bare Essence", "You Again?", "21 Jump Street",and "Freddy's Nightmares".

Michael Preston (born 1938 in Hackney, London, England) is an international film and television actor, sometimes credited as Mike Preston. Preston had been a boxer before switching to a singing career. He had three Top 30 hits in the UK Singles Chart, before emigrating to Australia where he performed as a nightclub singer. He then became a host on television, and then an actor.

Jack Cummings (1900 - 1989) was an American film producer and director. He was married to Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern. Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, MGM, where he began work in the early 1920s. Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks. Cummings became a staff producer at MGM in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years.

Damon Packard (b. May 4, 1967) is an underground American film director. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Packard's mother, Akron actress Frances Pollock, was the daughter of long-time trade union leader Sam Pollock. She died in 1968 when Damon was a year old. Packard began to become seriously involved with film began at the age of 11. His biggest inspiration was director Steven Spielberg.

Evan C. Kim is an American actor. He is best known for playing Loo in the 1977 comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie's "A Fistful of Yen" segment, the interpreter Cowboy in the 1978 Vietnam War film Go Tell the Spartans, the erudite caveman Nook in the cult 1981 comedy "Caveman", Suki in the 1982 B movie "Megaforce", Tony in the 1983 miniseries "V", and Harry Callahan's partner Inspector Al Quan in the fifth "Dirty Harry" film "The Dead Pool" (1988), …

Emil Newman (January 20, 1911-August 30, 1984) was an American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941). A native of Connecticut, Emil Newman entered films in 1940 as the musical director on thirteen films. He received credit on twenty-five films in 1941 and twenty-eight films in 1942, one of which, "Whispering Ghosts", …

Natalie Kingston was an American actress.

Ralph E. Winters (June 17 1909 - February 26 2004), born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors. After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 40s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first "big" film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller "Gaslight" in 1944.

Chester Novell Turner is an exceptionally low budget B movie creator credited with film director, screenwriter, film producer, composer, and film editor. He is best known among bad movie fans for the 1984 film Black Devil Doll From Hell. His second film, Tales From the Quadead Zone (1987) is his last known attempt at film making and he hasn't been heard from since. The films are notable for their exceptionally bad Casio keyboard music, low production values, …

Betty Francisco (September 26, 1900 - November 25, 1950) was an American silent-film actress, appearing mainly in dramatic/romantic films. Born Elizabeth Barton (or Bartman) in Little Rock, Arkansas, Betty acted in many credited roles from the period between 1920 and 1934, after which it appears she left the movies for good. Her first film credit was in the 1920 film "The Broadway Cowboy".

Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood (1922 - March 14, 1992), usually called "C.V." or "Woody", was an American designer of amusement parks and planned communities. He is most noted as the chief designer of Disneyland. Wood, who had earlier been Director of Industrial Engineering for an aircraft manufacturer in his native Texas, was hired away from his position at the Stanford Research Institute by Walt Disney to become Vice President and General Manager of Disney's nascent project, …

Son of bassist Jay Leonhart & singer Donna Leonhart. Brother of singer Carolyn Leonhart. Toured with Lenny Kravitz. When he was 17, he won the Grammy for Best High School Musician in the U.S. He & his sister toured with Steely Dan.