- Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent (born 22 July 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably "MacArthur", "Nightmares" and "Jaws: The Revenge". He has won four Emmy Awards. Sargent began his career as an actor. He switched to directing in the mid 1950s, … - Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith August 20, 1943) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who" from 1987 to 1989 and in the 1996 "Doctor Who" television movie. He is sometimes credited as Sylveste McCoy. - Gary Coleman
Gary Wayne Coleman (born February 8, 1968) is an American actor. Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois, with a congenital kidney disease causing nephritis (an autoimmune destruction of the kidney), which halted his growth at an early age, leading to a small stature (4 ft 8 in; 1.42 m) which, along with his cherubic face and comedic timing, was among his most distinguishing features. He has undergone two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984, … - Frank Vincent
Frank Vincent (born Frank Vincent Gattuso on August 4, 1939) is an Italian-American actor. He was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, but was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father was also called Frank. Frank has two brothers: Nick and Jimmy. Frank's father was one of six children, all born in the United States to Sicilian immigrants Nicolo Gattuso and Francesca di Peri. He is Sicilian and Neapolitan. - George Eads
George Coleman Eads III (born March 1, 1967) is an American actor, best known for his role as Nick Stokes on the CBS crime drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". George was born in Fort Worth, Texas and grew up in Belton, Texas, 130 miles south of Fort Worth. His father is Arthur Coleman "Cappy" Eads, and his mother is Vivian Baker. George's stepfather, Dudley Baker, is a gynecologist. - Liz Murray
Liz Murray (born September 231980) is an American inspirational speaker who is best known as having been homeless in her youth, and as having overcome her hardship to achieve success. - Cary Elwes
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, known for his performances in "The Princess Bride", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "Saw". - Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz (born October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. - Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the "Hollywood Madam", is a former American madam. She was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous famous and wealthy clients. She was sentenced to 37 months in prison for tax evasion, (pandering charges were dropped) but served just 21. Her father, Doctor Paul M. Fleiss is a famous Intactivist (one who opposes circumcision). - Susan Clark
Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian actress, best known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV sitcom "Webster". She is married to her "Webster" co-star Alex Karras. They met when they costarred in the TV movie, "Babe", in which she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and he played her husband, professional wrestler George Zaharias. Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham in the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project", … - Carol Lynley
Carol Lynley (born Carole Ann Jones on February 13, 1942 in New York City) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model under the name "Carolyn Lee", and when she started acting (after appearing on the cover of Life magazine at 15), she discovered that another actress had already registered the name, so she modified it. Early on, … - John Debney
John Debney (born Burbank, California, 18 August 1956) is an award-winning prolific American film composer who received an Oscar nomination for his score for Mel Gibson`s "The Passion of the Christ". - Yvette Mimieux
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (born January 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an actress with a French father and a Mexican mother. In 1960, she appeared in the hugely popular teen movie "Where The Boys Are" as well as George Pal's 1960 motion picture version of H.G. Wells' classic 1895 novel, "The Time Machine", co-starring Rod Taylor. This was followed by "The Light in the Piazza" (1962) with Olivia de Havilland. - Catherine Hicks
Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 61951 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is a Emmy Award-nominated American actress. After attending Saint Mary's College (Indiana), across the street from the University of Notre Dame, where she studied theology, Hicks won an acting fellowship to Cornell University. Ms Hicks remains a devout Roman Catholic. After appearing on Broadway in the stage version of "Tribute", she first rose to prominence as Dr. - Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City, USA) is a film writer, producer, director and novelist best known for his involvement in the "Star Trek" films. He is also well known as the director for the landmark 1983 TV-Movie "The Day After", for which he was nominated for a Best Director Emmy Award. In 1977, Meyer was nominated for an Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for adapting his own 1974 novel, "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution", … - Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkat (born on April 18, 1989) is an American actress. Shawkat was born in Riverside, California of Iraqi Kurdish, Irish, and Norwegian heritage. Her maternal grandfather is actor Paul Burke, who appeared as Detective Adam Flint on the TV series "Naked City" (1959-1963). From 2001 to 2002, Shawkat starred as Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom "State of Grace", … - John Irvin
John Irvin is an English film director. Among his films are 2003's "The Boys from County Clare", the 1979 miniseries version of John le Carré's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", and the the television movies "Noah's Ark" (1999), and "Robin Hood" (1991) starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. - Wayne Rogers
Wayne M. Rogers (born April 7 1933, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the role of 'Trapper John' McIntyre in the long-running U.S. television series, "M*A*S*H". He succeeded Elliott Gould, who had played the character in the movie, and was succeeded later by Pernell Roberts on the "M*A*S*H" spin-off "Trapper John, M.D.". Rogers is a graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. - Tobin Bell
Tobin Bell (born August 7 1942) is an American film and television actor. Bell was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Eileen Bell, is an English-born actress. - Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans (born October 11, 1962 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author. Evans graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children. Unable to find a publisher or an agent, he self-published the work in 1993 as a paperback novella entitled "The Christmas Box". He distributed it to book stores in his community. - Geoffrey Sax
Geoffrey Sax (sometimes credited as Geoff Sax) is a British film and television director, who has worked on a variety of critically-acclaimed and popular drama productions in both the UK and the United States. He began his directing career in the late 1970s, initially working in comedy, directing episodes of a number of sketch shows such as "Cannon and Ball" and "End of Part One". He made the move into directing drama in the early 1980s, … - Willa Ford
Amanda Lee Williford, known professionally as Willa Ford (born January 22, 1981) is an American dance-pop singer-songwriter, producer, and occasional actress, television personality and host. She became known in 2001 as the self-proclaimed "Bad Girl of Pop", when she released her debut album, "Willa Was Here". Aside from her music career, Ford has hosted several reality television shows, posed for Playboy, … - Paul Smith
Paul Smith (born 1968 in Sydney) is an Australian actor, most known for his role as the original Simon in the TV sitcom "Hey Dad...!", and as Steve in children's series "The Henderson Kids". His last major role was in the Australian television movie "The Private War of Lucinda Smith" in 1990. After disappearing from the acting scene, he moved to Hobart, and managed a computer company called DAP Computers. - Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel "Foreign Affairs". Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books. Her first novel was "Love and Friendship" (1962), followed by "The Nowhere City" in 1965 (about Los Angeles, California, where Lurie lived from 1957 to 1961). - Richard Beymer
Richard Beymer (born February 20, 1938, in Avoca, Iowa) is an American actor. Beymer and his family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1940 where he began his acting career in 1949 in television. In the 1950s he began appearing in films and achieved success in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959) and "West Side Story" (1961) before sharing a 1962 Golden Globe award as "Most Promising Newcomer" with Bobby Darin and Warren Beatty. - Frank von Zerneck
Frank von Zerneck (born 1940 in New York City) is an American television producer. Zerneck's career began as a theater producer in Los Angeles, but moved to television in 1975 in a collaboration with Robert Greenwald, which resulted in the Emmy nominated docudrama "21 Hours at Munich". In 1987 Zerneck and fellow producer Robert M. Sertner created von Zerneck/Sertner Films, a long-term venture which has resulted in nearly a hundred television movies. - Richard Grieco
Richard Grieco (born March 23, 1965) is an American actor and former male fashion model. Born in Watertown, New York, Grieco played football for Central Connecticut State University. After working as a model, he studied acting. He played Rick Gardner on "One Life to Live" from 1985 to 1987. In 1988, Grieco began appearing as Detective Dennis Booker on the shows "21 Jump Street" and its spinoff "Booker". - Cyrus Nowrasteh
Cyrus Nowrasteh, born September 19, 1956, is an American screenwriter and director of theatrical films, television shows, and made-for-TV movies. He is best known for his involvement in the controversial docudrama "The Path to 9/11". - Obba Babatunde
Obba Babatundé is an American actor of both stage and screen. He is known for an Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie "Miss Evers' Boys", a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge", and a Tony Award-nominated role for his Broadway performance in the original cast of "Dreamgirls". His TV roles have often portrayed authority figures, … - Waris Hussein
Waris Hussein (born December 9 1938 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television. He moved to the UK with his parents at the age of nine. He is particularly remembered for having directed the first ever "Doctor Who" serial, "An Unearthly Child", in 1963. In 1964 he returned to the series to direct the fourth serial, "Marco Polo". - Harvey Stephens
Harvey Spencer Stephens (born 12 November 1970) is an English actor who played the role of Damien Thorn in "The Omen". Stephens was born in Putney, London, England. He was four years old when picked for the part, which required him to have his blonde hair dyed jet black. According to "Omen" director Richard Donner, during an interview with AMC, Stephens got the part after he beat up Donner and punched him in the testicles, at Donner's urging. - Finola Hughes
Finola Hughes (born 29 October, 1960 in London) is an English actress of Irish and Italian extraction who is best known for her portrayal of Anna Devane on the soap operas "General Hospital" and "All My Children", and her portrayal of Anna Devane's identical twin sister, Dr. Alexandra Devane Marick, on "All My Children". In 1980, she originated the role of Victoria The White Cat in the 1980 London cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's production Cats (musical). - Victor J. Kemper
Victor J. Kemper (born April 14, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey, USA) is an American cinematographer who has worked on over fifty films. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and was its president twice, from 1993 to 1996, and from 1999 to 2001. Kemper won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for his work on the 1987 television movie, "Kojak: The Price of Justice". - Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid (born August 11, 1944) is a Tony Award-winning Scottish actor. He has had a successful career in theatre; he has been cast in many plays, while occasionally directing others. Although McDiarmid has appeared mostly in theatrical productions, he has also accepted roles in theatrical films and TV movies. Worldwide, he is most famous for his role as Palpatine in both the original and prequel "Star Wars" trilogies. - Christopher Pike
Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden (born November, 1955), an American writer. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction who specializes in the thriller genre. McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programmed computers before becoming a recognized author. - Nolan Miller
Nolan Miller is a television costume designer best known for his work on the long-running 1980s series "Dynasty", its spin-off series "The Colbys" and the 1991 miniseries "Dynasty: The Reunion". He has collaborated on many projects with television producers Aaron Spelling and Douglas S. Cramer. - Jake Thomas
Jake Thomas (born January 30, 1990) is an American actor and singer known for his role in the television show "Lizzie McGuire", in which he plays Lizzie's younger brother, Matt McGuire. Thomas was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to Simms Thomas, a television reporter and actress, and Bob Thomas, a radio personality. He has a brother, Chad, and a sister, Brooke. - David Tom
David Tom (born March 23, 1978 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is an Emmy-winning American actor. In 1993, Tom was nominated for two Young Artist Awards for his roles in "Stepfather III" and "Stay Tuned". In 1994, he was again nominated for "Outstanding Youth Ensemble in a Motion Picture" for "Swing Kids", alongside co-stars Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale and Frank Whaley. He previously played Billy Abbott on the CBS soap opera, … - Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE (born May 10, 1933) is an English novelist Her 1979 debut, A Woman of Substance ranks as one of the top-ten bestselling novels in history, with more than 30 million copies in print. She is also the first author in publishing history to record 22 consecutive bestselling novels in both the US and the UK. Bradford was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire as the only child of Freda and Winston Taylor. - Lawrence Pressman
Lawrence Pressman (born July 10, 1939 in Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA) is an actor, probably best known for roles on "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "Ladies Man", a recurring role on "Profiler", and as the titular character on "Mulligan's Stew". His first role was on the soap opera "The Edge of Night", and one of his first movie starring roles was in "Shaft". In addition to Doogie, Pressman has often portrayed a doctor, …
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