Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only major work to date.

Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award.

Robert Mulligan (born August 23, 1925 in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television director. Mulligan studied at Fordham University before serving with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At war's end, he obtained work in the editorial department of the New York Times newspaper but left to pursue a career in television. Employed by the CBS network, Mulligan began his television career at the bottom of the ladder, working as a messenger boy.

Elmer Bernstein (pronounced "Bern-steen") (April 4, 1922 - August 18, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. Bernstein was born in New York City. During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor and won several prizes for his painting. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, …

Mary Badham (born October 7, 1952, Birmingham, Alabama), was an American child actress best known for her portrayal of Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which she was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award. The sister of director John Badham, Badham had no prior film acting experience before being cast in "Mockingbird". She did not win the Academy Award, which went to another child actress, Patty Duke, …

Horton Foote (born March 14,1916 in Wharton, Texas), is a two-time Academy Award and one-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated American author and playwright. Perhaps his best known work is his screenplay for "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 - August 23, 2005), born George Fisher in New York City, was an African American actor probably best known for the role in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird" of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. Born of African and West Indian parentage in New York City, Brock Peters set his sights on a show business career early on, at age ten. A product of NYC's famed Music and Arts High School, …

John Megna (November 9, 1952 - September 5, 1995) was an American actor whose Broadway success at the age of seven in 1960's "All the Way Home" led to his being cast as Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris, the toothy young summer visitor in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird". According to "Mockingbird" author, Harper Lee, the character was based on her childhood friend, writer Truman Capote.

Rosemary Murphy is a German-born American actress of stage, film, and television. She was born on January 13, 1925 (some sources cite 1927), in Munich, Germany to a U.S. diplomat and his wife, who left Germany at the beginning of World War II. She attended Manhattanville College and acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio before beginning her career on stage. She made her stage debut in Germany, in a 1949 production of Peer Gynt.

Alan Jay Pakula was an American film producer, writer and director noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre. Pakula was born in New York to Polish Jewish parents and was educated at Yale University, where he majored in drama. He started his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures. In 1962, he produced "To Kill a Mockingbird", …

Philip Alford (born September 11, 1948, in Gadsden, Alabama) an American actor best known for his role as Jeremy "Jem" Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird". Alford appeared in three productions with Birmingham's Town and Gown Civic Theater, whose director called up Alford's mother to see if her son was interested in auditioning for the part of Jem in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Alice Ghostley (born August 14, 1926 in Vernon County, Missouri), is a Tony Award-winning American actress, best known for playing the characters Bernice Clifton on "Designing Women" (Emmy Nomination, Best Supporting Actress; 1992), Esmerelda on "Bewitched", and Cousin Alice on "Mayberry R.F.D.".

Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut. Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa. After graduating from Venice High School (where he now has a building named for him) in California, Cunningham joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and began flight training in 1952. He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956. Cunningham received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in respectively 1960 and 1961, …

Paul Fix (b. March 13 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York - d. October 14 1983, Los Angeles) was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in westerns. Fix appeared in over a hundred movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career spanning from 1925 to 1981. Fix worked in early films such as "Lucky Star" (1929),and became a regular performer for the film's director, Frank Borzage,on a further eight occasions.

James Anderson was an American supporting actor. He was best known as Bob Ewell, the distraught, mean-spirited father of the "alleged rape victim" in "To Kill a Mockingbird". He died of a heart attack in 1969.

Lloyd Henry Bumstead (March 17 1915 - May 24 2006) was an American cinematic art director and production designer. In a career that spanned over fifty-five years he won two Academy Awards: the first for "To Kill a Mockingbird", and the second for "The Sting". In addition, he was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven".

Estelle Evans (1906-1985) was a Bahamian actress. She was born in 1906 in the Bahamas. After playing Calpurnia in the 1962 version of "To Kill a Mockingbird" she went on act in several other movies and television shows until her death in 1985.

Russell B. Harlan (September 16, 1903 - February 28, 1974) was an American cinematographer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Russell Harlan witnessed the city's development from the construction of its first film studio to being the center for motion picture production in the United States. Harlan embarked on a career in film as an actor and stuntman but by the early 1930s was pursuing his interest behind the camera as an assistant.

John Badham (born August 25, 1939, UK) is a film director. Though born in the UK (in Luton, Bedfordshire), John Badham was raised in the state of Alabama in the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen at the age of seven. He attended Indian Springs School in Alabama and college at Yale University. He had worked for television for years before his breakthrough with "Saturday Night Fever" in 1977.

Bruce Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.

Emma Louise Niblett (born 29 September 1973) is an English singer and songwriter, known by the pseudonym Scout Niblett. Her music is frequently minimalist in style, many of her songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which she mostly plays herself. Niblett's music is often compared to that of Cat Power and PJ Harvey and she is known for her intimate live shows and her blond wig while performing.

Martin Arnold (born 1959 in Vienna, Austria) is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive reworkings of found footage. He is also a founding member of the Austrian film distributor Sixpack Film. Arnold studied psychology and art history at the University of Vienna. He has taught filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt, the Kansas City Art Institute, Bard College and recently, …

Cameron Watson is an American actor, screenwriter, and director, best known for playing Bart Fallmont in the TV miniseries "Dynasty: The Reunion". Watson wrote and directed his first feature film, "Our Very Own", in 2005. The film stars Allison Janney, Keith Carradine, Jason Ritter, Cheryl Hines, Hilarie Burton and Mary Badham (Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird") in her first screen role in 40 years.

Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974) is an American television and film actress.

Bud Westmore (13 January 1918 - 24 June 1973) was a make-up artist in Hollywood. He was born and raised in Canterbury, England, son of George Westmore, a member of the Westmore family prominent in Hollywood make-up. Known as "The Handsome Westmore", he worked on over 450 movies and television shows, including "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Man of a Thousand Faces", "The Andromeda Strain" and "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actress. Her father was a United States Air Force doctor. Day was home-schooled throughout her childhood and teenage years as her family moved from place to place throughout the South. Felicia's acting career began at the early age of 7 when she starred as Scout in a local production of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Russell Hornsby was born in Oakland, California. From the beginning, he was interested in Theatre and acting. So he attended Boston University with advice from his highschool drama teacher. After graduation, he studied at Oxford University's British Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then moved to New York City and won leading roles in "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Joe Louis Blues", and "Six Degrees of Separation".

Jean Marc Perret (born 1975) is a English-born actor who is most notable for his role as Prince Caspian in the 1989 BBC adaptation of the film with the character's name, when he was 13 years old. In 1990, he re-appeared as a young Caspian in Aslan's country after the elderly King Caspian in Narnia had died.

Lesley Waters is an English celebrity chef. She regularly appears on such cookery programmes as Ready Steady Cook, and is currently one of the featured chefs on This Morning. London born, she studied French Cuisine at Ealing College for three years, before cooking in top hotels, and winning awards including a scholarship to the Hotel Intercontinental in Dusseldorf. She then joined Prue Leith's restaurant, where she was promoted to senior chef.

Liz Light runs a youth theatre called Stage2 in Birmingham, England. She is the sister of actor John Light, is a third cousin of the poet Laurie Lee and the film director Jack Lee. Her father John Light Senior is a retired headmaster and is currently the acting Chairman of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. Since setting up her first theatre company at the age of 16 Liz has directed over 100 productions, the majority with casts of over 100.

Nora Gal, full name Eleonora Yakovlevna Galperina was a Soviet translator, literary critic and translation theorist. She was born on April 27, 1912 in Odessa. Her father was a medical doctor. As a child, she moved to Moscow with her family. After several unsuccessful attempts she was admitted to the Lenin Pedagogical Institute, where she graduated.