- Grace Metalious
Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 - February 25, 1964) was an American author, best known for the controversial novel "Peyton Place". She was born into poverty and a broken home as Marie Grace de Repentigny in the mill town of Manchester, New Hampshire. Blessed with the gift of imagination, she was driven to write from an early age. After graduating from Manchester High School Central, she married George Metalious in 1943, … - Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood. Born in Montréal, Québec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. - Hope Lange
Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was born into a theatrical family in Redding Ridge, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange, was the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and a conductor for Henry Cohen. Her mother, Minnette Lange, was an actress before becoming a restaurant owner. In 1943, Lange made her Broadway debut in "The Patriots". - Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn (born Russell Irving Tamblyn on December 30, 1934) is an American actor and former dancer. - Barbara Parkins
Barbara Parkins (born on May 22, 1942) is a Canadian television and film actress. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the age of sixteen Parkins and her mother moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at Hollywood High School and began to study acting. Her earliest employment was as a backup singer and dancer in the nightclub acts of major stars, including comedian George Burns. She made her film debut in a low-budget crime caper, "20,000 Eyes", in 1961, … - Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone (born January 30 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Malone was born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago, Illinois. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in Grade-B Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in "The Big Sleep", with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946. - Lee Philips
Lee Philips (January 10, 1927 - March 3, 1999) was a prolific actor and director. Philips acting career started on Broadway, and peaked with a starring role as Michael Rossi in the film adaptation of "Peyton Place" opposite Lana Turner. In the 1950s his career shifted towards directing, with credits ranging from the television series of Peyton Place to the Dick Van Dyke Show. After again directing Dick Van Dyke on Diagnosis: Murder, … - Diane Varsi
Diane Marie Varsi (February 23, 1938 - November 19, 1992) was an American film and television actor. Born in San Mateo, California, Varsi made her screen debut in "Peyton Place" (1957), and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The same year, she shared a Golden Globe as "Most Promising Newcomer" with Sandra Dee and Carolyn Jones. - Betty Field
Betty Field (February 8, 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts - September 13, 1973 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American film and stage actress. Field began her acting career on the London stage in Howard Lindsay's farce, "She Loves Me Not". Following its run she returned to the United States and appeared in several stage successes, before making her film debut in 1939. Her role as Mae, the only female character, … - Lorne Greene
Lorne Hyman Greene O.C., LL.D. (February 12, 1915 - September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, best known in the United States for his roles on two American television programs: the long-running western "Bonanza" and the shorter-lived cult classic science fiction program "Battlestar Galactica". - Ed Nelson
Edwin Stafford Nelson (born December 21, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor. Nelson has appeared in numerous television shows, more 50 motion pictures, and hundreds of stage productions. Until 2005, he was teaching acting and screenwriting in his native New Orleans at two local universities there. The advent of Hurricane Katrina put an end to that but he is reportedly still living in the area. - David Canary
David Canary (born August 25, 1938 in Elwood, Indiana) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, who starred in both soap operas and prime time television. He is best known for his roles as the ranch foreman, Candy Canaday on "Bonanza" (a role he played from 1967-1970; 1972-1973) and Adam & Stuart Chandler on "All My Children" (1983-present). - Leon Ames
Leon Ames (b. January 20 1902, Portland, Indiana - d. October 12 1993, Los Angeles, California), born Leon Wycoff to a Russian family, was an American film and television actor. He is most widely remembered for playing a number of fatherly figures in such titles as "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "Little Women" (1949), and the 1950s sitcom "Life with Father", but also appeared in notable roles in "Quick Millions" (1931), … - Jerry Wald
Jerry Wald, born Jerome Irving Wald (16 September 1911 - 13 July 1962), was a producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his brother and sons have all been active in the business. Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1940s and 1960s including "Sons and Lovers, The Sound and the Fury, In Love and War, Peyton Place, An Affair to Remember, Two Tickets to Broadway, The Glass Menagerie, … - Leigh Taylor-Young
Leigh Taylor-Young (born January 25, 1945 in Washington, D.C., as simply Leigh Taylor) is an American actress. Her sister is actress Dey Young and her brother is director Lance Young. Taylor-Young was the daughter of a U.S. diplomat, Carl Taylor, who was stationed in Washington. She was raised in Michigan when her divorced mother, Pauline, remarried an advertising executive, Ronald Young. A 1962 graduate of Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan, … - John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes (born May 11, 1919 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American screenwriter. - Christopher Connelly
Christopher Connelly (born September 8, 1941, Wichita, Kansas; died December 7, 1988, Burbank, California) was an American actor best known for his role as Norman Harrington in the primetime soap opera "Peyton Place". He stayed with the series during its entire five-year run (1964-1969). Connelly's other series venture was not as successful. In 1974 he starred in the series "Paper Moon", with a young Jodie Foster playing his daughter. - Tim O'Connor
Tim O'Connor (born July 3, 1927, Chicago, Illinois) is a noted American character actor best known for his prolific work in television, although he has made only a few appearances since the early 1990s. O'Connor specialized in playing officials, military men, and police officers. Some of his best-known roles include: Dr. Elias Huer in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", Jack Boland in "General Hospital", and Elliot Carson in "Peyton Place". - Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927 in Denver, Colorado) is an American stage, film, and television actress. A student at the University of California, Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in the 1951 movie " The Goldbergs" and went on to star opposite the likes of James Mason, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, and Kirk Douglas. - Lana Wood
Svetlana Smedley, better known as Lana Wood, is an American actress and producer born to Russian emigré parents, Nikolai and Maria Zakharenko. Lana Wood's parents were Russian, but they grew up far from their homeland: her father lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, while her mother grew up in a Chinese province. After marriage, they settled in Santa Monica, California, where Lana was born. - Kasey Rogers
Kasey Rogers (December 15 1925 - July 6 2006) was an American actress. Rogers was born Imogene Rogers in Morehouse, Missouri. She moved with her family to California at the age of two. As a child, her prowess at the game of baseball lead her friends to nickname her Casey (after the famous poem "Casey at the Bat"). - Mariette Hartley
Mariette Hartley (born Mary Loretta Hartley on June 21, 1940, in Weston, Connecticut) is a prolific American character actress. She began her career in her teens as a stage actress, coached and mentored by the noted Eva Le Gallienne. Her film career began with "Ride the High Country", a classic western with actors Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; and directed by Sam Peckinpah. She has worked with Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry, … - Kent Smith
Kent Smith (March 19, 1907 - April 23, 1985) was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theater and television. Born Frank Kent Smith in New York, New York, Smith made his acting debut on Broadway in 1932 in "Men Must Fight" and after spending a few years there, moved to Hollywood, California where he made his film debut in "The Garden Murder Case". Initially he was groomed to play leading roles in "B" pictures, … - Diana Hyland
Diana Hyland (January 25, 1936 - March 27, 1977) was an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her TV appearances and occasional films. Born Diana Gentner in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Hyland made her acting debut in 1955 in an episode of "Robert Montgomery Presents". Over the next decade she played numerous guest and supporting roles in various television series, including "The Twilight Zone", … - Frank Ferguson
Frank Ferguson (born December 25, 1899 in Ferndale, California; died September 12, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) was an American character actor with hundreds of appearances in both film and television. He played three different characters on "The Andy Griffith Show", two different characters on "Petticoat Junction", four different characters on "Bonanza", four different characters on "Perry Mason", … - Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson (born Bebe Anderson, April 3, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama) was a film and television actress. Many times confused with the stage actress of the same name who died in 1940, Mary Anderson appeared in a number of films in the 1940s. In 1939, when she was sixteen, Anderson made her first screen appearance as Maybelle Meriweather in "Gone With the Wind". Ending her film career in the early 1950s, she occasionally acted on television, … - James Douglas
James Douglas (actor) (born in 1933 in Los Angeles) is an American actor probably best known for his role as Grant Colman on "As the World Turns" (1974-81, with return appearances in 1986 and 1989). His first major role came in 1964 when he joined the cast of the primetime soap "Peyton Place", playing the role of Steven Cord. He stayed with the series until it left the air in 1969. - Joyce Jillson
Joyce Jillson was a syndicated astrologer. At the time of her death, her column was syndicated to over 200 publications. Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Jillson originally pursued a career in the performing arts. She attended Boston University on an opera scholarship. After graduation, she moved to New York to act. - Irna Phillips
Irna Phillips was an American writer who created and scripted many of the first American soap operas. She is considered by many to be the "mother" of the genre. Phillips is best known for creating radio and TV soap operas. She created or co-created the following series: * "Another World" (1964-1999) * "As the World Turns" (1956-present) * "The Brighter Day" (1948-1956 on radio and 1954-1962 on television) * "Guiding Light" (1937-1956 on radio, … - William Smithers
William Smithers (born 10 July 1927 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American actor, probably best known for his recurring role in the television series "Dallas" as Jeremy Wendell. He appeared in the series from 1984 to 1989. He attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and Catholic University in Washington, D.C. After his freshman year, he was chosen to play the leading role of Thomas Jefferson in Paul Green's "The Common Glory," presented in Williamsburg, VA. - William C. Mellor
William C. Mellor was a cinematographer who worked at Paramount, MGM and 20th Century Fox during a career that spanned three decades. After earning his stripes on a string of B-movies in the 1930s, he first started making serious inroads as a leading cinematographer in 1940 when he worked for Preston Sturges on "The Great McGinty". Mellor did his best work with directors George Stevens (winning Oscars for two of his films, … - Heather Angel
Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British actress. - Kimberly Beck
Kimberly Beck (born January 9, 1956 in Glendale, California) is an American actress. Beck has starred in such movies as "Massacre at Central High", "Roller Boogie", and "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter". Among her notable television credits are "Capitol" (as Kimberly Beck-Hilton), "Fantasy Island", "Westwind", "Dynasty", "Lucas Tanner" and "Peyton Place". - Joan Blackman
Joan Blackman (born May 18, 1938 in San Francisco, California) is an American actress. Blackman made her screen acting debut as a guest performer on a 1957 television series and then in a motion picture in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films: 1961's "Blue Hawaii" and the following year in "Kid Galahad". She also appeared with Jerry Lewis in 1960's "Visit to a Small Planet" and with Dean Martin in "Career" (1959). - Jack Martin Smith
Jack Martin Smith (1911 - 1993) was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars. He made his debut in 1937 and two years later found himself working as a production designer on "The Wizard of Oz". Smith spent most of his working life at MGM where he worked on such films as "Easter Parade" (1948),"On the Town" (1949), … - Ted Post
Ted Post (31 March 1918-) is an American TV and film director. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his career in show business in 1938 working as a usher at Loew's Pitkin Theater. He abandoned plans to become an actor after training with Tamara Daykarhanova, and turned to directing summer theater. Success in the theater led to work in television from the early 1950's. Post directed episodes of many well-known series including "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason", … - Gail Kobe
Gail Kobe (born March 19, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress and producer. During the 1950s and 1960s, she made dozens of guest appearances on such television programs as "The Twilight Zone", "Dr. Kildare", "Felony Squad", "Gunsmoke", "Daniel Boone", and "Mannix". She had a short role as Doris Schuster on "Peyton Place". She also appeared on daytime's "Bright Promise" as Ann Boyd Jones (1970-1972). - Florida Friebus
Florida Friebus (b. 10 October 1909, Auburndale, Massachusetts - d. 27 May 1988, Laguna Niguel, California) was an American writer and actress of stage and television. She was most famous for playing the mother of Dobie Gillis on the CBS sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", and Mrs. Lillian Bakerman, the cheerful patient who was usually seen knitting while she interacted with other members of Dr. Robert Hartley's therapy group on "The Bob Newhart Show". - David Bretherton
David Bretherton (February 29 1924 - May 11 2000) was a notable American film editor throughout much of the latter half of the 20th century, most notably in the 1960s and 70s. The most famous movies that he edited include "Peyton Place", "Westworld", and "Silver Streak". He was born in Los Angeles, California and died there of pneumonia. Bretherton was the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton. - Thomas W. Moore
Thomas Waldrop "Tom" Moore was an American television executive who headed ABC in the 1960s. Moore was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi State University and graduated from University of Missouri, then served in the United States Navy as a pilot through World War II. After the war, he took a job as spokesman for Los Angeles-based Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries.
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