- Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction anthology television series, "The Twilight Zone". - Steve Cochran
Film actor Steve Cochran (May 25, 1917 - June 15, 1965) was born Robert Alexander Cochran in Eureka, California. The son of a California lumberman, he was a graduate of the University of Wyoming in 1939. After a stint working as a cowpuncher, Cochran developed his acting skills in local theater and gradually progressed onto Broadway. From 1949 to 1952, he worked for Warner Brothers (mostly supporting roles, … - Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage. - Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont was a prolific U.S. author of speculative fiction and horror short stories, beginning in 1951. He frequently wrote for "The Twilight Zone" TV series, as well as the screenplay for "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" and "The Masque of the Red Death". - 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. - Marc Scott Zicree
Marc Scott Zicree (born 1955) is an American science fiction author, television writer, and screenwriter. He is also the author of "The Twilight Zone Companion", a detailed history of Rod Serling's series The Twilight Zone. He currently has an extensive science fiction novel on the shelves, the three-novel Magic Time series. This series is a collaborative effort between Zicree and three other science fiction authors. - 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. - George Clayton Johnson
George Clayton Johnson (born July 10, 1929 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is a science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel "Logan's Run" with William F. Nolan. He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek". Born in a barn, he had to repeat the sixth grade and dropped out of school entirely in the eighth. - Bill Mumy
Charles William Mumy, Jr., (MOO-mee), (born February 1, 1954 in San Gabriel, California) is an American actor, musician, guitarist, voice-over actor and a figure in the science fiction community, who is known primarily for his roles in movies and television. He came to prominence in the 1960s as Guy Williams's youngest TV son and Jonathan Harris's closest friend, Will Robinson, in the cult 1960s TV series, "Lost In Space". - Anne Francis
Anne Francis (born September 16 1930, in Ossining, New York) is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic "Forbidden Planet" (1956) and as private detective Honey West in the television series "Honey West" (1965-1966). For her role in "Honey West", Ms. Francis won the Golden Globe award as best actress in a TV series, and she was nominated for an Emmy award for the same role. - Dick York
Dick York (September 4, 1928 - February 20, 1992) was an American actor in radio, Broadway stage, and television. Born Richard Allen York in Fort Wayne, Indiana, York grew up in Chicago, where a Catholic nun first recognized his vocal promise. He began his career at age 15 as the star of the CBS radio program "That Brewster Boy". He also appeared in hundreds of other radio shows and instructional films before heading to New York City, … - Buck Houghton
Buck Houghton (4 May 1915 - 14 May 1999) was a television producer for the first three seasons of "The Twilight Zone", as well as many other television programs from the 1950s through the 1990s. - John Anderson
John Anderson (October 20, 1922 - August 7, 1992) was an American actor and director born in Clayton, Illinois. He was known for several roles, including his recurring role in "MacGyver" as Harry Jackson, the title character's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western series, including several episodes of "Gunsmoke" in various roles, and "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" as Virgil Earp. - Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman (born Anthony Earl Numkena on September 11, 1928, in Delhi, Louisiana) is an American film and television actor. He first appeared in film in 1953 and three years later won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his performance in the 1956 film, "The Rainmaker". Amongst his other notable film appearances were in "Giant", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", "Forbidden Planet", … - William Windom
William Windom, (born September 28, 1923, New York, New York), great-grandson of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, of the same name, is an American actor, best known for his work on television, including several episodes of "The Twilight Zone"; playing the character of Glen Morley (a congressman from Minnesota like his own great-grandfather and namesake) in The Farmer's Daughter; the character of John Monroe on the sitcom "My World and Welcome to It", … - Don Siegel
Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 - April 20, 1991) was an influential American film director and producer. His name appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel. Born in Chicago. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge and found work in Warner Bros. film library, rising to become head of the Montage Department. - Claude Akins
Claude Marion Akins was an American actor (born May 25, 1926, in Nelson, Georgia - died January 27, 1994, in Altadena, California). Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series "B.J. and the Bear", and later "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo", a spinoff series. - William Asher
William Asher (born 8 August 1921) is an American producer, director and writer. Born in New York City, his mother was actress Lillian Bonner and his father was Jewish American producer E.M. Asher (who produced films for Mack Sennett). His more famous works includes directing episodes of The "Colgate Comedy Hour" (1950), "I Love Lucy" (1951), "Our Miss Brooks" (1952), "General Electric Theater" (1953), "Make Room for Daddy" (1953), … - Fritz Weaver
Fritz Weaver (born January 19, 1926) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and voice actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Weaver attended Peabody High School. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, breaking into acting in the early 1950s. His first television role came in 1956 on an episode of "The United States Steel Hour". He would continue to appear on television during the next four decades, … - William F. Nolan
William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who writes mostly in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for coauthoring the novel "Logan's Run", with George Clayton Johnson. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film "Burnt Offerings" which starred Karen Black and Bette Davis. Nolan was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute. He worked at Hallmark Cards, Inc. - Ross Martin
Ross Martin, culminating with a role in "The Great Race," as the smoothly villainous Baron Rolfe Von Stuppe. After his performance in "The Great Race", CBS cast him in what was to become his most famous part, Secret Service agent Artemus Gordon in "The Wild Wild West", opposite Robert Conrad. His character, a master gadgeteer and disguise artist, fit Martin perfectly. - James Best
James Best (born July 26, 1926, in Powderly, Kentucky) is an American character actor best known for his role as bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard". He has two daughters, Janeen and Jojami, as well as a son named Gary. Best was born Jewel Guy in Powderly, Kentucky in 1926. After his mother died in 1929, he was sent to live in an orphanage. - Inger Stevens
Inger Stevens was a Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated Swedish-American movie and TV actress. Stevens, born Inger Stensland, in Stockholm, Sweden, was an insecure and often ill child. Her parents divorced while living in Sweden and she moved with her father to the United States. She attended high school in Manhattan, Kansas. At 16 she left home and started to work in New York City as a showgirl in low-budget performances. - Alan Brennert
Alan Brennert (born 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American TV producer and scriptwriter. He has lived in Southern California since 1973 and did graduate work in screenwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won an Emmy Award as a producer and writer for L.A. Law in 1991. For science and fantasy readers he might be best known as a writer for The New Twilight Zone and the revival of The Outer Limits. - John Dehner
John Dehner (November 23, 1915 - February 4, 1992) was an American actor in radio, television and films, playing countless roles, usually as a mildly comical villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and TV shows. - Marc Singer
Marc Singer is a Canadian actor known for his roles in science fiction films and television. - Jack Weston
Jack Weston was an American stage, film, and television actor. Weston usually played comic roles, in films such as "Cactus Flower" and "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker who, along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna, attempts to terrorize and rob a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film "Wait Until Dark". - Jesse White
Jesse White, born Jesse Weidenfeld (January 4, 1917 - January 9, 1997), was an American character actor who played many roles in television, film and on stage. He was also recognizable from television commercials as the Maytag repairman, a role he played from 1967 to 1988. White's typical character was a kind of hotheaded, fast-talking, cut-to-the-chase kind of guy. - Robert Lansing
Robert Lansing was an American stage, film, and television actor. Born Robert Howell Brown in San Diego, California, Lansing borrowed his stage name from the state capital of Michigan. As a young actor in New York City, he was hired to join a stock company in Michigan but was told he would first have to join Actors Equity Association. Equity would not allow him to join as "Robert Brown" since there was already another actor using that name. - Jerry Sohl
Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. (December 2, 1913 - November 4, 2002) was a scriptwriter for "The Twilight Zone" (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Outer Limits", "Star Trek" and other shows. He also wrote novels, feature film scripts, and the nonfiction works "Underhanded Chess" and "Underhanded Bridge" in 1973. - 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, … - 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", … - June Foray
June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an American voice actress who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s. Foray was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years of age; by age 15 she was doing regular radio voice work. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles, California, and soon became a popular voice actress on radio there, … - 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". - John Hoyt
John Hoyt was an American film, theatre, and television actor. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, the Yale graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even as a nightclub comedian. Under his birth name (John Hoysradt), Hoyt began his performing career in a nightclub act doing impressions of famous entertainers. - Ira Steven Behr
Ira Steven Behr is a veteran of episodic television. He studied with Edward Albee at Lehman College and was offered a playwriting scholarship to Brandeis University. Instead he elected to move to the West Coast upon graduation to pursue a career in film and television. Though his passion was comedy, ironically it was in hour-long dramas that Behr first made his mark, penning for such shows as "Fame," "The Bronx Zoo" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." - Dylan Walsh
Dylan Walsh is an American actor, best known as Dr. Sean McNamara in the FX television series "Nip/Tuck" He was born Charles Hunter Walsh in Los Angeles, California on November 17, 1963. His parents worked for the Foreign Service, and Walsh lived in East Africa, India and Indonesia before the age of 10. His family returned to the United States and settled in Virginia, where Walsh began acting in high school. - Jack Carson
Jack Carson (October 27 1910 - January 3 1963) was a Canadian-born U.S.-based film actor. Jack Carson was one of the most popular character actors during the golden age of Hollywood, with a film career which spanned the 30's, 40s and 50s. Primarily employed for comic relief, his work in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" proved he could also master dramatic material. During his career, he worked at RKO, MGM (cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in "Love Crazy"), … - Boris Sagal
Boris Sagal (October 18, 1917 - May 22, 1981) was an American television and film director. Born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Sagal emigrated to the United States where he attended the Yale School of Drama. Probably best known for directing the cult classic film "The Omega Man", Sagal had a long and relatively undistinguished career in Hollywood as a television director. His many TV credits include episodes of "The Twilight Zone", … - Danny Cooksey
Danny Cooksey (born November 27, 1975 in Moore, Oklahoma) is a musician, actor and voice actor. He has been in show business since he was very young and is remembered for playing "Sam McKinney" on the last years of the TV show "Diff'rent Strokes". Other famous roles include the voice of Montana Max in the cartoon "Tiny Toon Adventures" and as John Connor's friend, Tim, in the movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".
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