Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD.

John Guillermin (born on November 11, 1925) is a British film director, writer, and producer who was most active in big budget, action adventure movies throughout his lengthy career. He was born in London. Guillermin's more famous films include "I Was Monty's Double" (1958), "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959), "Tarzan Goes to India" (1962), "The Waltz of the Toreadors" (1962), "The Blue Max" (1966), "The Bridge at Remagen" (1969), …

Susan Blakely (born September 7, 1952), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, is an American movie actress who has mainly played supporting roles. As the daughter of a career Army officer, Blakely was born in Germany. Her first career break came while she was living in El Paso, Texas, where her father was stationed at Ft. Bliss. Around 1967, a photograph of Blakely posed poolside in a stylish black and white "op art" swimsuit was used by a local TV station, KELP-TV, …

Stirling Dale Silliphant (16 January 1918 - 26 April 1996) was a prolific American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and educated at the University of Southern California. He is probably best known for his Academy-award winning screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night". Other acclaimed features as screenwriter include Irwin Allen productions "The Towering Inferno" and "The Poseidon Adventure".

Joel Hirschhorn, was an American songwriter. During a vastly successful career, he won the Academy Award for Best Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of prominent musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison (the combined sales of albums to which he contributed is over 90 million). Hirschhorn was born in the Bronx, New York City and attended the LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in Manhattan.

Susan Flannery (born July 31, 1939 in New York, New York) is an acclaimed Golden Globe and four time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actress. She is known for playing Dr. Laura Spencer Horton on "Days of Our Lives" from 1966 until 1975 where she met writer and daytime legend William J. Bell. She appeared in the 1974 film "The Towering Inferno".

Al Kasha (born 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn-born multi-talented composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He has won two Oscars for Best Song, "The Morning After" from "The Poseidon Adventure" in 1972 and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from "The Towering Inferno" in 1974. He has also received two Tony nominations for "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and the musical of Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield", …

Richard Martin Stern (born March 17, 1915 in Fresno, California; died October 31, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American novelist. Stern began his writing career in the 1950's with mystery tales of private investigators, winning a 1959 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for "The Bright Road to Fear". He was most notable for his 1973 novel "The Tower", in which a fire engulfs a new metal-and-glass frame skyrise.

Frank M. Robinson (born 1926) is a science fiction and techno-thriller writer. Three of his novels have been made into movies. "The Power" (1956) was a supernatural science fiction and government conspiracy novel about people with superhuman skills, filmed in 1968 as "The Power". The technothriller "The Glass Inferno" was combined with Richard Martin Stern's "The Tower" to produce the 1974 movie "The Towering Inferno".

Thomas Nicholas Scortia (August 29, 1926 - April 29, 1986) was a science fiction author. He worked in the American aerospace industry until the late 60s/early 70s. He collaborated on several works with fellow author Frank M. Robinson. He sometimes used the pseudonyms "Scott Nichols", "Gerald MacDow", and "Arthur R. Kurtz."

Mike Lookinland (b. December 19, 1960) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as youngest brother Bobby Brady on "The Brady Bunch" from 1969 until 1974. Lookinland was a TV commercial actor prior to being cast in "The Brady Bunch", having done around thirty commercials. The actor has natural sandy colored hair, which had to be dyed black, …

Elizabeth Rogers (May 18, 1934 - November 6, 2004) was an American actress. Born Betty Jayne Rogers in Austin, Texas she is famous for being the relief communications officer for Lt. Uhura in some episodes of the 1960s television series "Star Trek". During the 1970s she also appeared in a string of Irwin Allen produced disaster films including "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" as she was a good friend of Allen.

Lightning Bear (born 7th October 1947 is an American actor, co-director and stunt man who has worked in film and tv. He is most famous for his stunt roles in Star Wars and The Towering Inferno.

Gonzalo Gaviria (1925 - January 9, 2005) was a Mexican movie sound technician. He formed part of the team that won an Oscar for the movie "The Exorcist" in 1973. He worked on more than 60 other films, including the disaster movie "The Towering Inferno" and western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

I am a graduate of Sam Houston State University (with Masters and Bachelors degrees in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement) who has been co-writing movie screenplays for 7 years with a couple of longtime friends. My personal favorite of our scripts is "Dorm Room Psycho", a thriller/comedy about a college student accused of a bizarre series of murders.

I'm from Chicago's Southwest Side. Born and raised in Lawndale (aka La Villita). Die Hard Sox and Bears fan. I now live in Middleton, WI where I am a volunteer firefighter (Squad 1). Our department site is http://www.mifd.net and our company (volunteer non-profit) organization site is http://www.middletonfirecompany1.org.

My name is Curlee. I am happily married to my husband of 30 1/2 years. We have five children. Two girls and three boys. Although they are all grown up and on their own now, we miss them, but enjoy any time that we are able to get together. We have six Grandchildren. Five "Grand"daughters and one terrific "Grand"son! They are the the frosting on the cake!! One thing about me that stands out, is my love for children.

Frank Courtney Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St. Joseph's Medical Center, Burbank, California. After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as "Farewell, My Lovely", "The Ten Commandments", "Houseboat", …

Theodore "Ted" Keep was a co-founder of Liberty Records. In his role as chief of engineering at the label and afterward, Keep introduced a number of innovations to commercial sound recording. During the 1950s, Keep provided the synchronization process that allowed Ross Bagdasarian to combine his speed-doubled voice technique with full orchestration on "The Witch Doctor" and the series of Chipmunks recordings. For the latter, Keep received Grammy Awards in 1959 and 1960.