- Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, … - David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations, for his direction of "The Elephant Man" (1980), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. - Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January, 1974) is a Welsh-born, English method actor who is known for his roles in the films "American Psycho", "Equilibrium", "Batman Begins" and "The Prestige", among others. Bale is also known for his versatility as an actor, including mimicking nearly any English-language-based accent, … - Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000. Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument. - Ani Difranco
Ani DiFranco (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist (having released at least one album every year since 1990, with the exception of 2000) and is seen by many as a women's rights and feminist icon. - Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980 as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal) is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age eleven, and his short career has seen performances in diverse roles. He has received an Academy Award nomination and won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award. - H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts, entities, or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and is noted as creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, … - Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre. One of rock and roll's most famous cult figures, Erickson is perhaps as well-known for his mental illness (and subsequent recovery) as for his musical talents. - Bettie Page
Betty Mae Page (she prefers "Bettie") born April 22, 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee, is a former American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. While she faded into obscurity in the 1960s, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s and now has a loyal cult following. - Wesley Willis
Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 - August 21, 2003) was a musician and artist from Chicago. A diagnosed schizophrenic, he gained a sizable cult following in the 1990s after releasing several hundred songs of unique but simple music, with emphasis on his humorous stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Most of his exposure came as an internet phenomenon during the early days of peer-to-peer file sharing (via Napster). - Alex Proyas
Alex Proyas (born September 23 1963) is an Australian film director, writer, and producer. He was born to Greek parents in Egypt but moved to Sydney when he was 3 years of age. The director of numerous music videos and commercials frequently works with production designer Patrick Tatopoulos. His first movie directorial project was a movie adaptation of the comic book "The Crow" starring Brandon Lee. Tragically, Lee was killed in an accident during filming, … - Edward D. Wood Jr.
Edward Davis Wood, Jr. was an American motion picture director, screenwriter, actor and producer. In the 1950s, Wood made a run of independently produced, extremely low-budget horror, science fiction and cowboy films, now celebrated for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his productions at least a modicum of commercial success. - Clint Mansell
Clint Mansell (born Clinton Darryl Mansell, 7 January 1963, in Coventry, England) is a Golden Globe nominated musician and composer. - John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus". - Barry Bostwick
Barry Knapp Bostwick (February 24, 1945) is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Brad Majors in the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and has also had considerable fame in musical theatre. - Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez (born September 1, 1974), also known by his pseudonyms Mr. Scolex and Chancre Scolex, is a cartoonist living in San Jose, California. He is the creator of a number of alternative comics published by Slave Labor Graphics including "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" and "Squee!", as well as the creator of the animated television series "Invader Zim". Many of his works have developed cult followings. - David Thomas
David Lynn Thomas (born 1953 in Miami, Florida) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs (1974-1975) and of post-punk group Pere Ubu (1975 - present, intermittently). He has also released several solo albums. Though primarily a singer, he sometimes plays melodeon, trombone, guitar or other instruments. Thomas has described his artistic focus as being the "gestalt of culture, … - Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson, born Tor Johansson, (October 19, 1903 - May 12, 1971) was a professional wrestler known as The Super Swedish Angel, and occasional actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his roles in a number of B-movies, including police detective turned zombie "Inspector Dan Clay" in "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Since his death he has amassed a huge cult following, thanks to a Halloween mask made in his image, … - Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9 1942) is an American actor and former male fashion model famous for portraying John Shaft in the film "Shaft" (1971) and in its two sequels, "Shaft's Big Score" (1972) and "Shaft in Africa" (1973). Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, New York to Kathryn, a nurse and housekeeper, and John Roundtree, a caterer and garbage collector. He attended Southern Illinois University. - Larry Levan
Larry Levan (born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 - died November 8, 1992) stands at the crossroads of disco, house and garage. He was the legendary DJ who for more than 10 years held court at the New York City night club Paradise Garage. The club has been described as the prototype of the modern dance club, because it was entirely focused on dancing, and was the first to put the DJ at the center of attention. - Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn (born September 22 1979 in Malibu, California) is a singer and violinist, currently living in Chicago. She is known for her theatrical performance style. - Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American author. He is the son of Polish avant-garde film director Tad Danielewski and the brother of singer and songwriter Annie Decatur Danielewski, a.k.a. Poe. Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale. He was rejected from every writing seminar he applied for, but completed undergraduate studies there. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, … - Peter Crouch
Peter James Crouch (born January 30 1981 in Macclesfield, Cheshire) is an English international football player. He currently plays for the English club Liverpool as a striker. His height of 2.01 m / 6 ft 7 in makes him the tallest man ever to play for either Liverpool or the England national team, as well as the tallest player currently in the Premiership. He is also known for his robotic dancing goal celebration, … - Everett McGill
Everett McGill (b. Charles Everett McGill on October 21, 1945) is an American actor, born in Miami Beach, Florida. He graduated from Rosedale High School, Rosedale, Kansas, in 1963. McGill has a relatively short filmography, but has managed to garner some level of fame by appearing in films and television series, including a stint as Chad Richards on the soap opera "The Guiding Light" in 1975 and 1976, with cult followings. - Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene (b 22 February 1951) is a singer and actress. Greene has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actor and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musicals, as well as having performed in numerous films and television programs. - Phil Alvin
Phil Alvin (born March 6, 1953 in Downey, California) is an American singer and guitarist. He is known primarily as the frontman of the roots-rock band The Blasters Alvin grew up in Downey, California in a music-loving family where he and his younger brother Dave were exposed to blues,rockabilly, and country. Inspired and influenced by the music they grew up with, … - Eddie Deezen
Eddie Deezen (born March 6, 1958) is an American actor and voice actor, primarily known for playing nerd roles in movies throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. He's mainly known by younger generations for his voice acting work, most notably the character of Mandark on the Cartoon Network series "Dexter's Laboratory". His unique style of acting has garnered him a small but devoted cult following. - Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett (born 18 October, 1955, Marple, Cheshire, England) is a TV presenter and broadcaster who achieved cult status in the UK during the 1980s on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and then later on TV-am. Mallett is most notable for his striking visual style, involving loud shirts, comedy glasses and the giant pink foam mallet, labeled "Mallett's Mallet" that he carried with him, sometimes bonking children on their heads with it, … - Keiko Matsui
Keiko Matsui, born in Tokyo as Keiko Doi on July 26, 1961, is a Japanese smooth jazz/new age pianist and composer whose career spans three decades, during which time she has released twenty CDs (in addition to various compilations) and has received international acclaim. Keiko and her husband Kazu Matsui (b. June 5, 1954) have two daughters, Maya (b. ca. 1988) and Mako (b. Sep 12, 1995). - Sonny Clark
Conrad Yeatis (Sonny) Clark (July 21, 1931 in Herminie, Pennsylvania - January 13, 1963 in New York City) was an American hard bop pianist. An underappreciated jazz artist during his time, Sonny Clark's works have become much more famous after his death. Strongly influenced by Bud Powell, Sonny Clark is known for his unique touch, sense of melody and complex, hard-swinging style. - Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti (b. July 9 1953, Detroit, Michigan) is a writer of horror stories. Something of a cult figure, Ligotti is rather little known, but has seen high praise as one of the most effective and unique horror writers of recent decades: "The Washington Post" called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction"; another critic declared "It's a skilled writer indeed who can suggest a horror so shocking that one is grateful it was kept offstage" - George Furth
George Furth (born December 14, 1932) is a Tony Award-winning American librettist, playwright, and actor. Born George Schweinfurth in Chicago, Illinois, Furth majored in Drama & Theatre at Northwestern University and received his Master's degree from Columbia. He made his Broadway debut as an actor in the 1961 play "A Cook for Mr. General", followed by the musical "Hot Spot" two years later, … - Cathy Davey
Cathy Davey is a Irish musician and songwriter. She released her first album called "Something Ilk" in 2004. It had mixed commercial success, though it did lead to a notable and diverse cult following. Her second album (possibly titled "silversleeve") is due for release in the summer 2007. It will be produced by Liam Howe of Sneaker Pimps signaling a more electronic sound by Cathy. - Erin Brown
Erin Brown (b. Erin DeWright on October 16, 1979) is a horror film actress, model, filmmaker, and former softcore pornographic actress. Brown has starred in over fifty low-budget films. - Ray Austin
Ray Austin (December 5 1932-) is a British television director. He has worked on episodes as a director for some 50 different television series between 1968 and 1998. He started his career as a stunt man and stunt coordinator between 1965 and 1967 most notably for 50 episodes of "The Avengers" in 1965, but became gradually involved as a director for TV then film. Perhaps due to his background as a stuntman, … - Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener (born March 22, 1960, in New York City) is a film and television director. Holofcener grew up around show business with her actor father and set decorator mother. With the help of her stepfather, film producer Charles Joffe, she started as an assistant to editor Susan E. Morse, a frequent collaborator of Woody Allen. After studying film at Columbia University, she made a short titled "Angry" in 1991. - Al Leong
Al Leong (born Albert Leong, aka Al 'Ka Bong') is an Asian American stuntman and actor. Characterised by impressive martial arts skills, long wavy hair, and a prominent Fu Manchu moustache, he has had a number of small but memorable roles as the token long-haired Asian henchman in popular action films, that usually ended in his character's death. Among action movie fans Leong has a cult following. - Ronn Moss
Ronn Montague Moss (born March 4, 1952 in Los Angeles) is an American Actor, singer and songwriter and is most well-known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" since 1987. - Brandon Bird
Brandon Bird is an artist. He was born in 1980 in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento. He attended University of California, Santa Cruz and was an artist-in-residence from 2004-2006 at Risley Residential College at Cornell University. His most common medium is oil paints on canvas, but he has shown the ability to work with a multiplicity of artistic genres. - Ferenc Fricsay
Ferenc Fricsay was a Hungarian conductor. Fricsay was born in Budapest in 1914 and studied music under Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Ernst von Dohnányi, and Leo Weiner. Fricsay had a meteoric rise to fame, making his first appearance as a conductor at age 15. He became music director of the then newly formed RIAS Symphony Orchestra in Germany in 1949. He was musical director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1954.
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