- Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster (born March 18 1975) is a Tony Award- winning American actress, singer, and dancer. Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia and raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age of fifteen, she was a contestant on the television show "Star Search" and also auditioned for the cast of "The Mickey Mouse Club". She left Troy High School, where she had been active in the Troy Theatre Ensemble, … - Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski (née Krajkowski, born October 11, 1968 in Parsippany, New Jersey) is a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Elaine Vassal on "Ally McBeal" and Jenna Maroney on "30 Rock". Krakowski attended Parsippany High School. - Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet (born June 25 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed "12 Angry Men" (1957), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), "Network" (1976) and "The Verdict" (1982), all of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director. He won an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, for his "brilliant services to screenwriters, … - Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons (born October 4 ,1957 in Queens, New York), is an African American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm. Russell Simmons is the younger brother of Daniel "Danny" Simmons, Jr and he is the older brother of Rev. Joseph Simmons, better known as "Run" of Run-DMC, and son of Daniel Simmons, Sr, … - Carolee Carmello
Carolee Carmello is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals. She made her Broadway debut in "City of Angels"; she recently starred in "Lestat" and "Parade". She is currently starring in "Saving Aimee". She is married to fellow Broadway actor Gregg Edelman; they have two children, Zoe and Ethan. - 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. - Kenny Leon
Kenny Leon is an African-American director notable for his work on Broadway and in regional theater. His success on Broadway has made him one of its foremost African-American directors. He gained prominance in 1988 when he became one of the few African-Americans to head a notable nonprofit theater company as the artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company. During Leon's tenure, the company staged premieres of Pearl Cleage's "Blues for an Alabama Sky", … - Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor. McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey before moving to Bernardsville, New Jersey and attending The Pingry School. He began acting at the age of 15. He attended New York University as a theater major. His first film role was the lead in the 1983 film "Class". His better known films include the Brat Pack films "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Pretty in Pink". - Jeff Conaway
Jeff Conaway (born October 5 1950, New York, New York, USA) is an American actor, known for his role as Kenickie in the 1978 motion picture musical "Grease." He began acting on Broadway at the age of two. Conaway is also known for his role as Bobby Wheeler on the television series "Taxi" (1978-1982) and Sgt. Zach Allan (later Security Chief) on "Babylon 5" (1994 - 1998). - William Eythe
William Eythe (April 7, 1918 - January 26, 1957) was an American actor of film, radio, television and stage. Born in Mars, Pennsylvania, a small town located about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, he was interested in acting from a young age. He attended Carnegie Tech University and studied acting and he began writing his own plays. "Lend An Ear," was one of his early plays and proved to be a theatrical success, later going on to have a Broadway run. - Van Heflin
Van Heflin (December 13, 1910 - July 23, 1971) was an Academy Award-winning American film and theater actor. - Ray Middleton
Raymond Earl Middleton, Jr., known and billed as Ray Middleton, was an American character actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Middleton was the first actor to play Superman in public, which he did at the 1939 World's Fair. During the early 1940s, he appeared in the movies "Gangs of Chicago", the original "Hurricane Smith" (playing the title role), and "Lady for a Night", which starred Joan Blondell and John Wayne. - John Carradine
John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was a Daytime Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns. Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). He also portrayed the Biblical hero Aaron in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). - Edie Adams
Edie Adams (born Elizabeth Edith Enke) is an American singer and light comedienne who was born on April 16, 1927, in Kingston, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of both the Juilliard School of Music and the Columbia School of Drama. She was "Miss U.S. Television" in 1950. In those early television days, she was known as Edith Adams. She began her career in television working with comedian Ernie Kovacs. - Brock Peters
Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 - August 23, 2005), born George Fisher in New York City, was an African American actor probably best known for the role in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird" of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. Born of African and West Indian parentage in New York City, Brock Peters set his sights on a show business career early on, at age ten. A product of NYC's famed Music and Arts High School, … - David Garrison
David Garrison (born June 30, 1952 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American actor, who played the character Steve Rhoades on the television show, "Married... with Children" from 1987 to 1990. Before this role, he had starred with Jason Bateman on the sitcom "It's Your Move" (1984 - 1985). Although he is most widely known for his television roles and he continues to be seen frequently in guest starring roles on television today, … - Florence Rice
Florence Rice (February 14, 1911 - February 23, 1974) was an American film actress. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Rice became an actress during the early 1930s and after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood. Blonde, pretty, and wholesome, Rice was cast as the reliable girlfriend in several MGM films, and during the 1930s, MGM gradually provided her with more substantial roles, occasionally in prestige productions. - Matthew Sklar
Matthew Sklar (October 7, 1973) is a Broadway composer, he was nominated for the 2006 Tony Awards under the category of Best Original Score (music and / or lyrics) for the new musical "The Wedding Singer" for which he wrote the music, and Chad Beguelin wrote the lyrics. He is also the co-producer of the show's original Broadway cast album, which is available as of June 6, 2006. - Constance Cummings
Constance Cummings, CBE (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005) was an American-born British actress, known for her work on both screen and stage. Born Constance Halverstadt in Seattle, Washington to Dallas Halverstadt and Kate Cummings, she began as a stage actress, landing her first Broadway show by the age of eighteen. While appearing on Broadway, she was discovered by Sam Goldwyn, who brought her to Hollywood in 1931. - David Burns
David Burns American Broadway theater and motion picture character actor and singer. Born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in "Face the Music" in 1932, Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant" (1936) was his London debut, and he appeared in many comedies and musicals over an almost 50 year career. He won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, … - Jeff Fahey
Jeffrey David Fahey (born November 29, 1952) is an American film and television actor. Fahey was born in Olean, New York, one of thirteen siblings. He was raised in Buffalo, New York from the age of ten. Fahey left home at the age of seventeen, subsequently hitchhiking to Alaska, backpacking through Europe and working in an Israeli kibbutz. - Charles Marowitz
Charles Marowitz (born 1932) is an American writer, playwright and theatre director best known for the 1987 Broadway play "Sherlock's Last Case" starring Frank Langella. He was the lead critic on the "Los Angeles Herald-Examiner" until they ceased publication. Marowitz also authored "Murdering Marlowe", about an imagined rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards of 2002. - Bert Kalmar
Bert Kalmar (February 10, 1884 - September 18, 1947) was an American lyricist. He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business. He earned enough money as a vaudeville performer to start a music publishing company, Kalmar and Puck. He hired Harry Ruby as a song plugger, … - Jack Norworth
Jack Norworth (5 January, 1879 - 1 September, 1959) was a U.S. songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Norworth is credited as co-writer of a number of Tin Pan Alley hits. He wrote the lyrics of the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in 1908, his most long lasting hit. His "Shine On, Harvest Moon" was an even bigger hit at the time. There is some disagreement about Norworth's involvement in the latter. - Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch (1 January 1880, Kutno - 10 July 1957, London) was a Polish-born American novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language. Asch was born in Kutno, Poland, of Jewish heritage. He was one of ten children of a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, and received a traditional Jewish education; as a young man he followed that with a more liberal education obtained at Wloclawek, … - Linda Kozlowski
Linda Kozlowski (born January 7, 1958 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American actress. Trained at the Juilliard School as an opera singer, soon after graduating she debuted in the 1981-1982 off-Broadway production, "How It All Began". From there, she played "Miss Forsythe" on Broadway in "Death of a Salesman" in 1984, and took the same role in the film version of 1985. - Gilbert Seldes
Gilbert Vivian Seldes (January 3, 1893 - September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. He was editor and drama critic of "The Dial". He is most famous for his 1924 book, "The Seven Lively Arts". Born in Alliance, New Jersey, he attended Harvard University and was the New York correspondent for T. S. Eliot's "The Criterion". In the 1930s, Seldes adapted "Lysistrata" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Broadway. - Jim True-Frost
Jim True-Frost, a.k.a. Jim True, (born July 31, 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American stage, television and screen actor. He is most notable for his portrayal of Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski for four seasons on the HBO program "The Wire". A New York-based actor, True-Frost has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago since 1989. Prior to that, he was a member of Remains Theater, … - Richard Mulligan
Richard Mulligan (November 13 1932 - September 26 2000) was an American television and film actor whose career spanned 34 years. He was born in New York City, the brother of director Robert Mulligan. After attending Columbia University, Mulligan began working in theatre, making his debut as a stage manager and performer on Broadway in "All the Way Home" in 1960. Additional theatre credits include "A Thousand Clowns", "Never Too Late", … - Ketti Frings
Ketti Frings (February 28, 1909<sup>1</sup> or 1915<sup>2</sup> - February 11, 1981) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Born Katherine Herbert in Columbus, Ohio, Ketti attended Principia College, began her career as a copywriter, and went on to work as a feature writer for United Press International. She married Kurt Frings in 1938. In 1941 her novel "Hold Back the Dawn" was adapted for the screen. - Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Ouspenskaya was an Oscar-nominated Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia to a lawyer father. She studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow and performed extensively in Russian theater. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre, Ouspenskaya was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his method. - Sebastian Stan
Sebastian Stan (born August 13th, 1983 in Constanta, Romania) is a Romanian-born actor who is known for playing "Chase Collins" in the Sony Screen Gems supernatural thriller, "The Covenant". A graduate of Rutgers University's BFA Drama program, he has starred in several independent films and has appeared on Broadway in the revival of Eric Bogosian's play, "Talk Radio" as "Kent," a drugged-up teen who is invited to sit in on the main character's radio show. - Peter Hermann
Peter Hermann (born 15 August 1967 in Germany) is an American actor and writer. A German native who moved to Greenwich, Connecticut at the age of 10, Hermann attended Brunswick School in Greenwich through secondary school, where he was active in student drama productions. He then went on to Yale University, graduating in 1990. - Harold Lang
Harold Lang was an American dancer and actor. Lang began his professional career as a ballet dancer, making his professional debut with the San Francisco Ballet and then going on to perform with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and American Ballet Theater (then Ballet Theater). While at ABT, he originated roles in Jerome Robbins' "Fancy Free" and "Interplay", in addition to performing in ballets by George Balanchine, David Lichine, Léonide Massine, … - Herbert Rudley
Herbert Rudley, (March 22 1910 - September 9 2006), was a prolific character actor who appeared on stage, in films and on television. Rudley was born in 1910 (some sources say 1911) in Philadelphia, and attended Temple University. He left Temple after winning a scholarship to Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. He began appearing on stage in 1926. His Broadway debut was in Did I Say No in 1931. He also appeared in stage productions of The Threepenny Opera, … - Warren Berlinger
Warren Berlinger (born August 31, 1937) is an American character actor, with both Broadway runs and over a thousand television appearances to his credit. - Bob Carroll
Bob Carroll (June 18, 1918-November 19, 1994) was a big band singer and stage, film, and television actor. As a singer, he sang with a number of famous orchestras, including Charlie Barnet, Jimmy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller in the 1940s and Gordon Jenkins (for whom he recorded the hit "Charmaine" in 1951) in the 1950s. In the 1960s he turned to acting. His stage career peaked th the 1960s and 1960s, but his best-known film was "The Prowler" in 1981. - Caitlin Clarke
Caitlin Clarke (May 3 1952 - September 9 2004) was an American theater and film actress. She may have been best-known for her role as "Valerian" in the 1981 fantasy film "Dragonslayer" or for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical "Titanic". - Martha Sleeper
Martha Sleeper (1907 "-" 1983) was a silent film comedian of the 1920s and Broadway actress of the 1940s. - Vivian Beaumont Allen
Vivian Beaumont Allen (March 22,1885 October 10, 1962), patroness of theatre in New York City, she funded construction of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, which was completed after her death. Her father, J.E. Beaumont, founded the May Company department stores to which she was heiress
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