- Sharon Gless
Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American actress, who's primarily on soap operas, movies and television. She is best known for her role as Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series "Cagney & Lacey", which aired on the CBS television network (1982-1988), and for which she won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Gless is also known for her roles as Eddie Albert's and Robert Wagner's young secretary, … - Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly , who has won five Emmy Awards and been nominated for nine, is one of the industry's most acclaimed and respected actors. She received four Emmys as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the long-running CBS series Cagney & Lacey . She received a fifth Emmy, for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, for her performance in Christy , also on CBS. - Al Waxman
Albert Samuel Waxman, C.M., O.Ont (March 2, 1935 - January 18, 2001) was a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles on the television series "King of Kensington" (CBC) and "Cagney & Lacey" (CBS). - Barney Rosenzweig
Barney Rosenzweig (born December 23, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winning television producer. He is best known for producing the 1980s television series Cagney & Lacey. In 1991 he married Sharon Gless, Cagney & Lacey lead and multi-Emmy Award winning actress. - Carl Lumbly
Carl Lumbly (born August 14, 1952 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American film, stage, and television actor. Lumbly graduated from South High School in Minneapolis and Macalester College in St. Paul. At one time he was a journalist in Minnesota, when he got an acting job while on assignment for a story about a workshop theatre and stayed with the improvisational company for two years (along with then-unknown Danny Glover). - Martin Kove
Martin Kove (March 6 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor who has appeared in both feature films and television series. His most well known role was on the 1980's hit TV series "Cagney & Lacey" as Det. Victor Isbecki and in the 1984 hit film "The Karate Kid" as Cobra Kai Sensei John Kreese. He reprised his role as Kreese in the 1986 hit sequel "The Karate Kid, Part II" and the 1989 sequel "The Karate Kid, Part III". - Lois Nettleton
Lois Nettleton (born August 6, 1929 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an actress and voice artist mostly known for her work in television. Her career stretches all the way back to the early '50s and such shows as "Captain Video", and since then she has done literally dozens of guest starring roles on shows ranging from the original "Twilight Zone", where she starred in the classic 1961 episode "The Midnight Sun" about the earth spinning out of orbit, … - Harvey Atkin
Harvey Atkin (born December 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor who has worked in feature films and television. He has also done voice-overs, and has voiced animations. From an early age he was exposed to many things that would shape his view of life. His grandfather, an immigrant from Russia, steeped his young grandson in the old country's ways, which included the Yiddish language. - Bill Conti
Bill Conti (born April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a film musical director. Bill Conti is a graduate of Louisiana State University. Conti was an orchestra director by age fifteen. In 1974, he began as a film music director. His big break into celebrity came in 1976, however, when he was hired to compose the music for the movie that also made Sylvester Stallone famous: "Rocky". Conti was credited on the cover of the movie's soundtrack album. - Robert Crais
Robert Crais (born 1953) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as "Hill Street Blues", "Cagney & Lacey", "Quincy", "Miami Vice" and "L.A. Law". He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais lives in California's Santa Monica mountains with his family. - Robert Hegyes
Robert Hegyes (b. May 7, 1951) is an American born actor, best known for his portrayal of 'Epstein' in the 1970s television series "Welcome Back, Kotter". - Paul Mantee
Paul Mantee (born January 9, 1931 in San Francisco, California), born Paul Marianetti, is a TV and movie actor. He made a great number of guest appearances in well-know television shows and starred in a handful of films, including a cult classic, "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". He is married to actress Ann Newman-Mantee. - David Paymer
David Paymer (born August 30 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American character actor, seen in such films as "City Slickers", "The In-Laws", "Crazy People", "State and Main", "Payback", "Get Shorty", "The American President", "Amistad", "Carpool", "City Hall", and "Into the West". Paymer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for "Mr. - Stephen Macht
Stephen Macht (born May 1, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Macht was raised in Brooklyn Heights, NY, until his father's death. At age nine, he moved with his mother and older brother to live with his maternal grandfather, a haberdasher, in Mystic, CT. After graduating from Dartmouth College (where he roomed with future actor Michael Moriarty), … - Karen Arthur
Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a film director, producer, and actress. She has directed two feature films, "Lady Beware" (1987) and "The Mafu Cage (1978)", but the majority of her work has been in television, where she has had a long and prolific career directing television movies and series. She was one of the first and best directors to master what is known as the "long take", especially in a series like "Cagney & Lacey", … - Dan Shor
Daniel Shor is a veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years. Shor was born and raised in New York City on November 16, 1956. He graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School in June 1974, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois before returning to New York where his attentions were aimed towards the theater. He landed the lead role of Alan Strang in the first national company of "Equus". His acting career had begun. - Michael Piller
Michael Piller (May 30 1948 - November 1 2005) was a television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Piller was born in New York. With parents who were both involved in writing, his father as a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother as a songwriter, he planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age. - Jason Bernard
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. - Shawnee Smith
Shawnee Smith (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress. As well as the many films and television shows in which she has appeared, Smith was a lead singer for a band called "Fydolla Ho", with which she toured the USA and the UK. Smith was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina to Jim Smith, a financial planner and Air Force pilot, and Patricia, an oncology nurse. Her first appearance in a feature film was in the 1982 film adaptation of the play "Annie". - Troy Slaten
Troy Slaten (born Troy William Slaten, February 21,1975 in Los Angels, California) is an actor. Slaten starred in a couple of television series in supporting roles during the 1980s and the 1990s. He was on the 1980s NBC series "Cagney & Lacey" as Michael Lacey and in the series "Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad" as Amp. His most memorable role was on the Fox series "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" as Jerry Steiner. - Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948 in Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American gospel singer. She provided a number of back-up vocal tracks to songs recorded by major performing artists during the 1960s. Her first name was given because she was born on Christmas day. She was married to jazz artist Curtis Amy until his death in 2002. She dueted with Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter" on their "Let It Bleed" release. - Molly Orr
Molly Elisabeth Orr (born on January 15, 1986) is American actress. She started her career making two guest appearances on television series "Charles in Charge". She then went on guest-star on "7th Heaven", "Even Stevens", "Full House", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Sister, Sister" and "Walker, Texas Ranger". - Amanda Wyss
Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American actress. She was born in Manhattan Beach, California. Discovered by an agent as a teen while starring in the play "The Bad Seed" at a local Los Angeles theatre, she went on to work in commercials and landed her first television role, recurring on Universal's "When the Whistle Blows" (1980) as Dolph Sweet's daughter. - Paul Lieber
Paul Lieber is an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for playing Eric Dorsey in the television series "Barney Miller" in 1980. He also appeared in other television series including "St. Elsewhere", "Night Court", "Hill Street Blues", "Who's the Boss?", "Cagney & Lacey", "Dallas", "Saturday Night with Connie Chung" (as Abbie Hoffman), "Tales from the Crypt", "Murder, She Wrote", … - Alan Fudge
Alan Fudge (born February 27, 1944) is an American actor known for being part of the cast of four television programs: "Man from Atlantis", "Eischied", "Paper Dolls", and "Bodies of Evidence", along with a recurring role (eighteen appearances over eight years, as of 2005) on "7th Heaven". Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He has scores of credits, including appearances on many of the top-rated shows in the US, such as "Banacek", … - Eddie Velez
Edwin "Eddie" Velez (June 4, 1958 in New York City) is a Hispanic-American actor who stars in films and on television. Velez began acting while in the United States Air Force, when he was stationed in Sunnyvale, California at the Sunnyvale Air Force base. In 1981, he was honorably discharged from the service and later on moved to Los Angeles to pursue his TV and film acting career. In 1983, his first TV role was in the 1983 TV movie "For Love and Honor", but in 1984, … - Robert Costanzo
Robert Costanzo is an American actor. He has an acting career spanning 30 years and is often found playing surly New York types such as crooks or low level workers, and mixes both drama and comedy roles. Costanzo was born in Brooklyn, New York-born, the son of actor Carmine Costanzo. His first role seems to be in the 1975 movie "Dog Day Afternoon" playing a cop, although that was an uncredited part. - Paul Ben-Victor
Paul Ben-Victor (born Paul Friedman on July 24, 1965) is an American actor. Ben-Victor was born in Brooklyn, New York to Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman. Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the made-for-TV movie "Blood Vows of a Mafia Wife" and on an episode of "Cagney & Lacey". Fifteen years after beginning his television career with bit parts, … - Carolyn Seymour
Carolyn Seymour (born November 6 1947 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is an English actress, best associated with portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series "Survivors" in 1975. Her birth name was Carolyn von Beckdendorf, as a result of her mixed ancestry (her father was Russian and her mother was Irish.) In 1972 she appeared as Zita in the film "Steptoe and Son" alongside Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell. - Liz Sheridan
Liz Sheridan (born Elizabeth Sheridan on April 10, 1929, in Westchester County, New York) is an American actress. She began her career as a dancer working in New York City in nightclubs and musicals. There, she met the then-unknown James Dean. Sheridan claims that that she and Dean became engaged and had a short-lived romance. However, after he was cast in a play which looked to be successful, … - Fredric Lehne
Fredric Lehne also known as Fredric Lane is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 films, mini-series, and television shows as well as many stage productions including works by Shakespeare, Moliere and Ibsen on Broadway. He is perhaps best known for his role as US Marshal Edward Mars in ABC’s "Lost" and as INS agent Janus in the film "Men in Black". - James Stephens
James Stephens (born May 18, 1951) in Mt. Kisko, New York, is an American television and film actor best known for his role as idealistic Minnesota-born law student James T. Hart in the television series "The Paper Chase" (1978-1986), taking on the role originated by Timothy Bottoms in the movie of the same name. He is also known for his role in the television series "Father Dowling Mysteries" (1989) in which he played the part of Father Philip Prestwick. - Milt Kogan
Milt Kogan (born 1936 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the desk sergeant, Officer Kogan, on the television series "Barney Miller" in 1975. He also made guest appearances on the television series "It Takes a Thief", "Mission: Impossible", "Ironside", "Sanford and Son", "Mannix", "The Law", "Cannon", "Police Story", "Kojak", "Eight Is Enough", … - Joe Unger
Joe Unger (born in Lake County, Tennessee) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television.He is best known for his role in the 1984 horror hit film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" as Sgt. Garcia. His first feature movie was in the 1978 movie "Go Tell the Spartans". His other films include "Escape from New York" (1981), "Mask" (1985), "Road House" (1989), "Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" (1990), … - Lee Sheldon
Lee Sheldon is a game designer, book author, and television producer and scriptwriter. He is the author of the mystery novel "Impossible Bliss", a non-fiction book "Character Development and Storytelling for Games" and the designer of the Agatha Christie video game series published by The Adventure Company ("And Then There Were None", "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Evil under the Sun"). - Leslie Ackerman
Leslie Ackerman was born in 1956 in New Jersey. She is well known to Star Trek fans for her role as the attractive waitress in the popular "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" 1996 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Early in her career, Ackerman starred in the short-lived series 1980 series Skag. One of her co-stars in that series, Craig Wasson, also guest starred in "Deep Space Nine." She has guest starred in many popular television shows, … - Harvey Vernon
Harvey Vernon (30 June 1927 - 9 October 1996) was an American actor from Flint, Michigan. Perhaps his most famous role was Jasper DeWitt in the television series "Carter Country". He also appeared in motion pictures as diverse as "MacArthur", "Teen Wolf" and "Someone to Watch Over Me". Vernon's earliest guest starring roles include appearances in "The Rockford Files", "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Cagney & Lacey". - Reza Badiyi
Reza Sayed Badiyi was born on April 17, 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He immigrated to the United States in the 1960s to work in the entertainment industry. [1] Badiyi has directed episodes of nearly sixty television series [2] , including episodes of Mission: Impossible (13 episodes between 1969 - 1972), The Incredible Hulk (8 episodes between 1978 - 1980), Falcon Crest (34 episodes between 1984 - 1990), and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (5 episodes between 1994 - 1996). - Vanessa De La Rocha
Vanessa Ament was born in Glendale, California and raised in the central coast county of San Luis Obispo. She grew up the granddaughter of the early film pioneer Earl L. McMurtrie. Vanessa was a singer and dancer in her youth and performed in many plays and cabaret shows. At Whittier College, she earned a B.A. in Theatre, and after graduation, worked for the Glendale Regional Arts Council as an "Artist-in-the-Schools" in the field of theatre. She "fell" into the work of a Foley Artist by... - Dick O'Neill
In the last decade of his life, he served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Screening Committee. A charter member of the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Grey-haired support actor from the New York stage who played middle-class 'working man' types on film and TV.
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