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Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon. - Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 - July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and his frequent collaborations with fellow "Odd Couple" star Jack Lemmon. - Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor. Klugman began acting after serving in the United States Army during World War II. A struggling actor in New York City, Klugman was a roommate of another starving actor, Charles Bronson, before the two went onto bigger and better things. - Gene Saks
Gene Saks (born November 8, 1921) is a Tony Award-winning American stage and film director. Born in New York City, Saks studied at Cornell University and trained at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research. Saks has shared a long-term professional relationship with playwright/comedy writer Neil Simon, directing his plays "Biloxi Blues", "Brighton Beach Memoirs", "Jake's Women", "Rumors", "Lost in Yonkers", … - John Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 - June 25, 2005) was an American voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television and radio. Slight, balding, and bespectacled, with a piping voice (reminiscent of actor Percy Helton), his career stretched forty years but he is perhaps best remembered for two roles: the voice of Piglet in Disney's many Winnie the Pooh productions and the role of Mr. Peterson, nervous patient on "The Bob Newhart Show". - Neal Hefti
Neal Hefti (born October 29, 1922 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He's considered one of the greatest in the field. He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles. - Carole Shelley
Carole Shelley (born August 16, 1939) is a Tony Award-winning actress from London, England. On the stage, Ms. Shelley made her Broadway debut in the original 1965 production of "The Odd Couple", playing Gwendolyn Pigeon (she would reprise the role for the film version and for the first season of the subsequent television series). She appeared in several plays throughout the 1970s and 1980s, … - Al Molinaro
Al Molinaro (born June 24, 1919 in Kenosha, Wisconsin), is an actor in television and films, most notably as Al Delvecchio, the owner of Arnold's on "Happy Days" and its spin-off show "Joanie Loves Chachi", Murray the Cop on "The Odd Couple" television series, as well as starring in many commercials for On-Cor frozen dinners. He also starred in a short-lived 1982 situation comedy called the "Ugly Family." Molinaro was one of ten children in his family. - Elinor Donahue
Elinor Donahue (born April 19, 1937, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American actress. She was born Mary Eleanor Donahue. Her mother, a theatrical costumer, moonlighted as a department store saleswoman in order to pay for her daughter's dancing lessons. Appearing in dancing-chorus film roles from the age of five, Donahue was at one point a ballet-school classmate of future Fred Astaire partner Barrie Chase. - Monica Evans
Monica Evans (born 1944) is a British actress best known for her portrayal of Cecily Pigeon in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple". She was in the original Broadway cast for its entire run, then appeared in the film version in 1968, and finally appeared in some episodes of the television series based on the play. She also did voices for some animated films in the 1970s such as Robin Hood. - Larry Haines
Larry Haines (born Larry Hecht on August 3, 1918 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an American actor. He first became known in the 1930s as a voice actor on the radio crime series "Gangbusters". Four decades later, he would return to radio, starring in many episodes of the "CBS Radio Mystery Theater". His most famous role is that of next-door neighbor Stu Bergman on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow". - Pamelyn Ferdin
Pamelyn Ferdin (born February 4, 1959) is an American animal rights activist and former child actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Felix Unger's daughter, Edna, on the TV sitcom "The Odd Couple", as well as in fantasy and science fiction movies and television series. These roles included Mary Janowski in the "Star Trek" episode "And the Children Shall Lead", Laura Gentry in "Space Academy", … - Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan, December 3, 1931) is a retired popular American singer and game show panelist. - Lowell Ganz
Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel. Ganz grew up in Queens, New York. He dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career writing for sitcoms, starting with "The Odd Couple". - Ann Roth
Ann Roth (born October 30, 1931 in Hanover, Pennsylvania) is a prolific Academy Award-winning American costume designer for films and theater. She won a Best Costume Oscar for the film "The English Patient" and was nominated for "Places in the Heart", "The Talented Mr. Ripley", and "The Hours". Her more than one hundred screen credits include "Midnight Cowboy", "Klute", "The Day of the Locust" (for which she won a BAFTA), … - Danny Simon
Danny Simon (December 12, 1918, New York City - July 26, 2005, Portland, Oregon) was an American television writer and comedy teacher. He was also older brother to acclaimed American playwright Neil Simon. The elder Simon wrote for television shows including Your Show of Shows, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Phil Silvers Show, Make Room for Daddy, My Three Sons, The Carol Burnett Show, The Kraft Music Hall, Diff'rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life. - Marilyn Horne
The American opera singer Marilyn Horne (b. January 16 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania) is a mezzo-soprano who is particularly associated with the music of Rossini and Handel. Horne was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, but moved with her parents to Long Beach, California when she was 11. She studied voice at the University of Southern California and participated in Lotte Lehmann's vocal classes. Horne's first major professional engagement was in 1954, … - Allen Ludden
Allen Ludden was an American television presenter and game show host. He was born Allen Packard Ellsworth in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. The surname Ludden was his stepfather's. Ludden hosted many game shows, including the "GE College Bowl," but he was most famous for hosting both the daytime and primetime versions of "Password" on CBS and ABC between 1961 and 1975. He started hosting an updated version of the game, … - Janis Hansen
Janis Hansen (born June 14, 1940 in Celoron, New York) is an American actress. A former Playboy bunny, Hansen is probably best known for her recurring role as Gloria Unger, ex-wife of Felix Unger in the television version of The Odd Couple. - Loretta Swit
Loretta Swit (born November 4 1937) is an American stage and television actress best known for her two-time Emmy-winning portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on "M*A*S*H". Swit was born in Passaic, New Jersey, USA, to Polish immigrants. She studied with Gene Frankel in Manhattan and considered him her acting coach. She regularly returned to his studio to speak with aspiring actors throughout her career. - Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner (born June 22, 1941) is an Academy-Award nominated American character actor. Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York of Romanian Jewish descent. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Lerner began participating in a number plays in San Francisco. - Richard Stahl
Richard Stahl was an American actor who mostly appeared in film and TV comedies. Born in Detroit, he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. In the 50's he was appearing in Off-Broadway productions, where he met his wife to be Kathryn. In the 1960s, he relocated to San Francisco and became a member of an improvisational comedy group, The Committee. Some of Stahl's best known film credits include "Five Easy Pieces", "High Anxiety", … - Barney Martin
Barney Martin (March 3 1923 - March 21 2005) was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, he returned to his native New York City and served as a police officer. He got his start as a comedian while still a police officer, writing jokes for his deputy commissioners' speeches. Entering show business in the 1950s as a writer for Steve Allen, he was discovered by Mel Brooks in 1968, who cast him in "The Producers". - Eddie Bracken
Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken (February 7 1915 - November 14 2002) was an American actor. Born in Astoria, New York, he performed in vaudeville at the age of nine, and gained fame on Broadway in the musical "Too Many Girls" in a role he reprised in the film version in 1940. He had performed in a short film series called "The Kiddie Troupers" (one of many "Our Gang"-like series) prior to that, but this film was his big break. - Jack Soo
Jack Soo (born Goro Suzuki, October 28, 1917 - January 11, 1979) was a Japanese American actor. Born and raised in Oakland, California, Soo was caught in the Japanese American internment during World War II and sent to Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Fellow internees recalled him as a "camp favorite" entertainer, singing at dances and numerous events. - Joyce van Patten
Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American actress who has appeared on TV ("As The World Turns", "The Odd Couple"), in movies ("The Bad News Bears", and on Broadway ("Rumors"). Van Patten was born in New York City, New York to Josephine Rose Acerno, an Italian American, and Richard Byron Van Patten, who had distant Dutch ancestry from a great-grandfather. She is the younger sister of actor Dick Van Patten, … - Bill Quinn
Bill Quinn (Born May 6, 1912. Died April 29, 1994) was an American actor. Quinn appeared in more than 150 acting roles starting in the 20's in silent films and ending in the digital age in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier". He is best remembered as Archie's blind friend, Mr. Van Ranseleer, (whose name Archie could never get right) featured in "All in the Family" and later as a regular in the spin-off "Archie Bunker's Place". - Carl Gottlieb
Carl Gottlieb (born 18 March 1938 in New York City) is an American screenwriter, actor, comedian and executive. He is probably best known for co-writing the screenplay for "Jaws", as well as directing the 1981 low-budget cult film "Caveman". After studying drama at Syracuse University, he became a member, in the 1960s, of the San Francisco improvisational comedy troupe "The Committee". They made one feature film: "A Session with the Committee". - Billie Bird
Billie Bird, was an American actor and comedian born Berneice Bird in Pocatello, Idaho. Bird was orphaned young and made a career as an entertainer, first in vaudeville, and later in theater/cabaret, television, and movies. She is credited on the Internet Movie Database with an appearance in a 1921 movie, but it is not clear if this is accurate. Otherwise, she broke into movies in 1950. - Mel Ferber
Mel Ferber (1922-2003) was an Emmy-nominated TV director and producer, who oversaw the landmark live two-hour TV presentation of "Wonderful Town" and the pilot for "60 Minutes" as well as many other shows and was an executive producer of "Good Morning America". He was a long-standing and active member of the Directors Guild of America. Ferber was born on October 2, 1922. - Ben Sprecher
Ben Sprecher is a Broadway producer and theater owner. Ben Sprecher President and CEO, The Sprecher Organization(The Sprecher Organization produces and general manages Plays and Musicals, acts as General Manager and/or Executive Producer for other producers and provides integrated production and marketing services through on-site staff, subsidiaries or affiliated providers). - Douglas S. Cramer
Douglas S. Cramer is an American television producer. Cramer began his career in advertising, serving as a broadcast supervisor on Lever Brothers and General Foods programs at Ogilvy & Mather in New York City. In 1962, he became Director of Program Planning at ABC Television. In 1966, he became vice president of television program development at 20th Century Fox; he later became executive vice president in charge of production for Paramount Television, … - Andy Gray
Andy Gray is a Scottish actor and comedy writer. He co-wrote and co-starred in the BBC Radio Scotland sketch show "Naked Radio", and its later television counterpart "Naked Video", before becoming well known as the appropriately named "Chancer", best friend and source of problems to Willie Melvin (Gerard Kelly) in the 1987 sitcom "City Lights". He is well known for pantomime, usually co-writing the script and appearing as the dame, … - Jerry
Everything you need to know about me is here. I'm a pretty open book. What you see is what you get. - Marc
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found this. - Ines
There's not much to say about me: I'm a terribly boring person obsessed with the thought of being "different", music fanatic, sparetime psycho, anti-hero-lover, vegetarian, geek and there is absolutely nothing in life I couldn't get over with a bit of sarcasm and Loverboy. - Thorsten
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