- Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. - Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 - 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. - Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades. - R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American Urban R&B singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and occasional rapper. He first appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of Public Announcement whose smooth mixture of hip-hop beats, soul, and funk propelled the group's 1992 debut album "Born Into the '90s" to platinum status. - Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She was known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, … - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is a motion picture and stage, Academy Award-winning actress, widely considered to be the most popular Italian performer. - Sid Ganis
Sidney Ganis (born January 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo", "Big Daddy", "Mr. Deeds", "The Master of Disguise" and "Akeelah and the Bee". On August 23, 2005 he was elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ganis began his film career in marketing and publicity at several studios, … - William Wyler
William Wyler was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. He was known to require tens of takes for every shot in his films and for demanding control over the story, location and crew of each production, yet his exacting nature and attention to detail paid off in the form of both popular and critical success. - Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American motion picture producer and theatre producer known for his award-winning films and Broadway plays and also for his legendary temper. - Mae West
Mae West (August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become renowned as a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. - George Stevens
George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American motion picture director, producer, writer and cinematographer. Born in Oakland, California, Stevens broke into the movie business as a cameraman, working on many Laurel and Hardy shorts. His first feature film was "The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble" in 1933. In 1934 he got his first directing job, the slapstick "Kentucky Kernels". - Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy was an American motion picture actress. Perhaps her most famous role was as Nora Charles, wife of detective Nick Charles (William Powell), in "The Thin Man" series. - Russ Meyer
Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 - September 18, 2004), was an American motion picture director and photographer. - Michael White
Michael White (b. 24 May 1933) is an American jazz violinist. White was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was nine years old. He first became known in 1965 when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and recorded three albums with Handy. White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, … - John Knoll
John Knoll is an Academy-award winning motion picture visual effects specialist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas), he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the "Star Wars" prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy. - Mary Astor
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. - April March
April March (real name Elinor Blake, born in California, April 20, 1965) is an American indie pop singer/songwriter who sings in English and French and is popular in France. She has also been a cartoon animator, including a stint as a principal animator for the Ren and Stimpy show. She lives in Ohio and is married to Warren Zanes, musician and Vice-President of Education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909-February 5, 1993) was an American screenwriter, director and producer. - Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott was an American motion picture actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. - Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948, St Catherine, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician, best known among mainstream audiences for songs like "Sittin' in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want It" and "Many Rivers to Cross" from "The Harder They Come", a film soundtrack which helped popularise reggae across the world. - Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson Jr. was an American motion picture actor, mainly in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher. Born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, of Osage and Irish ancestry to Ben Sr. and Ollie (Workman) Johnson. Ben Johnson Sr. was a rancher in Osage County and also a rodeo champion. As a young man, Ben Johnson Jr. was a ranch hand, would travel with his father on the rodeo circuit, and become a star before becoming involved in the movies. - Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964) was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. He was nominated six times for the Academy Award, winning twice, in 1929 and in 1936. - Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein was an accomplished, and award-winning motion picture director. He is known for directing "Two Arabian Knights" (1927), "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), "The General Died at Dawn" (1936)"Of Mice and Men" (1940), "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962). Milestone was born in Kishinev (Bessarabia, Imperial Russia, now — Chişinău, Moldova), … - Adolph Zukor
Adolf Cukor (Adolph Zukor) (January 7, 1873-June 10, 1976) was the founder of Paramount Pictures, and one of the greatest film moguls of all time. He was born to a Jewish family in Ricse, Hungary, which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and emigrated to America in 1889, at the age of 16. Like most immigrants, he began modestly. When he first landed in New York, he stayed with his family and worked in an upholstery shop. - Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935 in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American actor, best known for playing the character Alex Reiger on the acclaimed television comedy series "Taxi". For his performance in "Taxi", in 1981 and again in 1983, Judd Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In a Comedy Series. - Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour was an American motion picture actress. - Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 - August 20, 2001) was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress. She was born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico. She was a drama major at the University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few motion picture roles. She was singled out by the "New York Times" critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. - Saul Bass
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. - Harold Faltermeyer
Harold Faltermeyer (a.k.a. Harold Faltmeier & Harold Faltermeier) (born October 5, 1952 in Munich) is a German musician, keyboardist, composer and record producer. He is recognized as one of the composers/producers who best captured the zeitgeist of 1980s synth-pop in film scores. Best known for the "Axel F" electronic theme for "Beverly Hills Cop" and the "Top Gun" Anthem from the soundtrack for "Top Gun" - both often imitated, … - 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. - John Martin
John Galloway King Martin (born 27 October 1958, in Edinburgh) is a retired Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Airdrieonians for around twenty years and later played for Cowdenbeath. He has appeared in two Scottish Cup finals and one motion picture (A Shot at Glory). He often swung on the crossbar during games at the behest of supporters. - Norma Talmadge
Norma Talmadge was one of the handful of true superstars of the silent screen. She was a major box office draw for more than a decade. A specialist in melodrama, her films are seldom revived today, and the often haughty look of her still pictures give little hint of her animated face and sparkling personality. Norma Talmadge was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, probably in 1893 (though she said 1895 and finally 1897). - Dan O'Bannon
Dan O'Bannon (born Daniel Thomas O'Bannon on September 30, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA) is a motion picture screenwriter and director, usually in the science fiction genre. - Monica
Monica Denise Arnold (born October 24 1980), professionally known as Monica, is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, composer and occasional actress. She debuted in 1995 under the guidance of Rowdy Records head Dallas Austin and became the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S. "Billboard" Top R&B Singles chart. Following a major success with "The Boy Is Mine", a duet with singer Brandy, … - Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent (born in 1927 in Pennsylvania) is a multiple award-winning American screenwriter. Sargent graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1945. As of 2006, he is one of 35 alums to be on Upper Darby High School's Wall of Fame Sargent began writing for television in 1953 and through the 1960s he scripted episodes for various series such as "Route 66", "Ben Casey" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" amongst others. - Robert Mulligan
Robert Mulligan (born August 23, 1925 in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television director. Mulligan studied at Fordham University before serving with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At war's end, he obtained work in the editorial department of the New York Times newspaper but left to pursue a career in television. Employed by the CBS network, Mulligan began his television career at the bottom of the ladder, working as a messenger boy. - Harpo Marx
Adolph Arthur Marx, popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 - September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville and Broadway theatre entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry. He was well known by his trademarks: he played the harp; he never talked during performances, although he often blew a horn or whistled to communicate with people; and he frequently used props. - Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe (May 21, 1901 - January 10, 2000) was, at different points in his career in the motion picture industry, an agent, a producer and a studio executive. Jaffe began as an office boy for Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Company where he worked his way up through the ranks to become the executive in charge of production. In the early 1930s he worked at Columbia Pictures briefly before leaving to start his own talent agency. - Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings (June 10, 1908 - December 2, 1990), also known as Bob Cummings, was an American motion picture and television actor noted for his fresh faced youthful look which lasted long after he was young. Cummings chiefly performed in comic roles but was effective in his few dramas, especially two Alfred Hitchcock films, "Saboteur" and "Dial M for Murder". Cummings was born in Joplin, Missouri.
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