- John Moore
John Moore (1970-) is a film director, producer, and writer. Born in Dundalk, Ireland, he went from directing commercials to making the $40 million motion picture "Behind Enemy Lines." In 2006 he directed a remake of Richard Donner's "The Omen", the film received mixed critical feedback. He attended a technical college in Dublin were he learned the tricks of his trade, he says. - Joe Roth
Joe Roth is an American Entertainment executive, producer and film director. Roth co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of Twentieth Century Fox (1989–1993), Caravan Pictures (1993–1994), and Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000. Over the course of his career, he has produced over 40 films, and has directed four to date, … - Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges, originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for one of Sturges' actors to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene. - Marvin Davis
Marvin Davis (August 31, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey - September 25, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California) was the billionaire former owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach, the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Denver Broncos NFL team. Davis built and twice sold the Century Plaza complex in Century City, California. The buildings became famous as the Nakatomi buildings in the original "Die Hard" film. - Erwin Stoff
Erwin Stoff (b. 26 April 1951) is a movie producer. He is best known for being the agent of Keanu Reeves and a producing credit for The Matrix. - Aron Warner
Aron Warner is an actor and producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as a producer of the animated blockbuster "Shrek", in which he also voices Big Bad Wolf. - Alex Winter
Alex Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an actor, director, and film writer, English-born but raised in the USA. Born in London, England, Alex Winter trained as a dancer as a child, that being the profession of his parents. His family then relocated to Missouri. He moved to New York in 1984 and began attending New York University (NYU). While at college, he starred in a number of plays and met a future friend and co-star Keanu Reeves. - Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for "Con Air". He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's "The Lion King" (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. - Spyros Skouras
Spyros P. Skouras was an American movie executive who was the chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962 effective September 30. An immigrant to America from Greece, his accent was so pronounced that Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week." Spyros oversaw the production of such epics as "Cleopatra" with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the creation of Century City. - Pierfrancesco Favino
Pierfrancesco Favino (born 24 August 1971) is an actor from Rome, Italy. He has appeared in 35 films and television series' since the early 1990s. Favino received the Donatello award in 2006 for his role in the film "Romanzo Criminale". The Donatello is the Italian equivalent of the Oscar. In 2006 he also portrayed Christopher Columbus in Twentieth Century Fox's Night at the Museum. - Rob Schmidt
Rob Schmidt, is an American film director and writer. His film credits include Wrong Turn, a 2003 horror film, Crime + Punishment in Suburbia and Saturn. He also created a pilot called American Town for Twentieth Century Fox. Rob has been lauded by Darren Aronofsky, Jonathan Demme and Stephen King. He is in post-production on a Masters of Horror episode called Right to Die and in pre-production on a thriller called Alphabet Killer. - Raymond Griffith
Raymond Griffith (January 23 1895 - November 25 1957) was one of the great silent movie comedians. Griffith was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He lost his voice at an early age, causing him to speak for the rest of his life in a hoarse whisper. Griffith claimed that it was the result of his having to scream at the top of his lungs every night in a stage melodrama as a child actor -- others have stated that a childhood disease was more likely the cause. - Edward Anhalt
After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt (March 28, 1914 - September 3, 2000) teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, nee Richards, during World War II to write pulp fiction. (Edna was one of his five wives.) During World War II, Anhalt served with the Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California as a scenarist for training films. After the war, the Anhalts graduated to writing screenplays for thrillers, … - James Ellison
James Ellison (May 4, 1910 - December 23, 1993) was an actor, born James Ellison Smith in Guthrie Center, Iowa, son of Edward James Smith and Ona Mary Ellis. Ellison appeared in nearly seventy films between 1932 and 1962. Despite his rugged good looks, Ellison's limited range and somewhat wooden screen presence kept him from the first (or even second) ranks of stardom. He spent much of his career in Westerns, … - Anne Fine
Anne Fine (born December 7, 1947) is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She was married to the philosopher Kit Fine. She also writes for adults (six books to date - 1 April 2005). She was appointed the second Children's Laureate, in succession to Quentin Blake, holding the position from 2001 to 2003. She was born in Leicester, England, and currently lives in County Durham, England. - Otto Lang
Otto Lang, born in Tešanj, Austria-Hungary, was a skier and pioneer ski instructor in the United States. He founded ski schools on Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Mount Hood beginning in the 1930s, and as the director of the ski school at Sun Valley became "the" ski instructor for Hollywood stars. Later he became a movie director and producer, primarily due to his contacts at Sun Valley. - Joachim Roenning
Joachim Roenning is a Norwegian film director who usually works in a team with Espen Sandberg - both natives of Sandefjord, Norway. As a directing team, they go under the name of Roenberg (their last names put together). They co-own one of Scandinavia's largest production companies for commercials called Motion Blur. In 2006 their feature film debut, Bandidas, starring Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek, was released worldwide through EuropaCorp and Twentieth Century Fox. - Allison Lyon Segan
Allison Lyon Segan is a film producer. Her feature films have garnered eight Academy Awards out of eleven nominations. Most recently, she produced "Shark Tale", an animated feature for Dreamworks that features Will Smith, Renee Zellweger, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese. Her thriller "Swimfan", starring Erika Christiansen and Jesse Bradford, … - El Brendel
El Brendel (March 25, 1890 - April 9, 1964) was a vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect schtick as a Swedish immigrant. His biggest role was as "Single-0" in the sci-fi musical "Just Imagine" (1930), produced by Fox Film Corporation. His screen name was pronounced "El Bren-DEL." Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to German immigrants, Elmer Goodfellow Brendle, unlike his stage and film character, was not Swedish, … - Lenny von Dohlen
Lenny Von Dohlen is an American film and stage actor, best known for his performance as Harold Smith in "Twin Peaks" and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me". Lenny Von Dohlen’s film debut was in the Academy Award-winning "Tender Mercies", starring Robert Duvall, written by Horton Foote and directed by Bruce Beresford. From that performance, Mr. Von Dohlen was given the leading role in MGM/UA’s "Electric Dreams". - Gene Markey
Eugene "Gene" Lawrence Markey, Jr. (Dec. 11, 1895 - May 1, 1980) was an American author, producer, screenwriter, and highly decorated naval officer. Markey was born in Jackson, MI on December 11, 1895. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1918. With the entry of the United States into World War I, Markey became a lieutenant in the infantry and saw action at the Battle of Belleau Wood. He was a skilled sketch artist, which gained him entry, after the war, … - Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox (born December 14, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress and the daughter of United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. She studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion in Manhattan then embarked on a career in fashion design. Her good looks enabled her to model some of her own creations for "Vogue" magazine that led to a contract offer from Twentieth Century Fox film studio in 1937. - Herbert Mundin
Herbert Mundin was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowelled features and cheerful Cockney disposition. He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), on 21 August, 1898. His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. - Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld (born May 5 1963) is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction and young adult literature. He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and now lives in Sydney, Australia and New York City. His book "Evolution's Darling" was a New York Times Notable Book (2000), and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. "The Risen Empire" and "The Killing of Worlds" are parts one and two of the same book, … - Ben Bard
Ben Bard (26 January 1893, Milwaukee - 17 May 1974, Los Angeles) was a movie actor, stage actor, and acting teacher. With comedian Jack Pearl, Bard worked in a comedy duo in vaudeville. Bard ran a leading Hollywood acting school by the name of Ben Bard Drama. He married the serial film star Ruth Roland in 1929, and was married to Roland until her death in 1937. Bard was recruited to be a leading man at Fox Film Corporation, … - Charles Skouras
Charles P. Skouras (born 1889 - 1954) in Skourohorion, Greece, was an American movie executive and president of Fox Coast West. He and his two brothers, George Skouras and Spyros Skouras, came from Greece as poor sons of a sheep herder who rose to become top movie executives. - Thomas Rothman
Thomas Rothman, a.k.a. Tom Rothman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment, the parent company of Twentieth Century Fox. He shares his position with Jim Gianopilos. Tom Rothman was born on November 21, 1954. He is father of two girls, and married to former actress Jessica Harper. - Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande (1893-1948) was a well respected writer and editor in New York. She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago (later merged with Armour Institute of Technology to become Illinois Institute of Technology), and the University of Michigan. Her book "Becoming a Writer", published in 1934, is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. - Drew McWeeny
Drew McWeeny, also known by his pseudonym Moriarty, is a film critic, screenwriter, and the west coast editor of the Ain't It Cool News website. He attended, but did not graduate from, Florida State University, instead choosing to focus on a career in entertainment in Los Angeles. He has one son, Toshiro Lucas McWeeny, born in 2005. - Álvaro Mutis
Álvaro Mutis is a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. Before returning to Colombia in his adolescence, he lived in Brussels, where his father held a post as a diplomat. He has lived in Mexico City since 1956. Though critically acclaimed in the United States, his works are most widely read in Latin America and Europe, and have been translated into many languages. He is best known for his novellas featuring Maqroll el Gaviero (Maqroll the Lookout), … - Felix Slatkin
Felix Slatkin was an American violinist and conductor. Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri and began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman. He began working professionally at the age of ten and won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute, where he studied violin with Efrem Zimbalist and conducting with Fritz Reiner. At age 17 he joined the St. Louis Symphony and formed a chamber orchestra of young musicians. - Gardner McKay
George Cadogan Gardner McKay (Manhattan, New York, USA, June 19 1932 - Hawaii Kai, Hawaii, USA, November 21, 2001) was an American actor and writer. McKay became a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1950s and 1960s. His rugged good looks, 6'5" (1.96 m) 200 pound (91 kg) frame, and his affinity for sailing helped him land him the leading role in the TV series "Adventures in Paradise", based loosely on the writings of James Michener. - Doris Burn
Doris "Doe" Burn is a children's book author and illustrator who lives on Guemes Island in the San Juan Archipelago, part of the U.S. state of Washington. She is most famous for the classic story "Andrew Henry's Meadow," inspired by her son Mark. It was published in 1965 while she was living and working on Waldron Island in the same archipelago. - Adam Jennings
"Adam Jennings" (born March 17, 1978) is a British actor, producer and film director best known for his theatre work. He was born in Rochford, England. Originally trained as an actor he has also turned his hand to combining the Internet with entertainment. In 1996 he set up a digital entertainment agency, The Red Box Group (now RED BOX NEW MEDIA), which provides support for entertainment based companies and charities. - Robert Hudson Walker
Robert Hudson Walker (October 13, 1918 - August 28, 1951) was an American actor. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Zella (McQuarrie) and Horace Walker, he was the youngest of four sons. An interest in acting led his maternal aunt Hortense (McQuarrie) Odlum to offer to pay for his enrollment in 1937 at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She was the president of Bonwit Teller and he stayed in her home his first year in the city. - Michael Leshing
Michael S. Leshing was an American citizen and the Superintendent of Twentieth Century Fox film laboratories in the 1940s. He was awarded an Oscar in 1945 for Technical Achievement for his work in color film processing. Leshing was also linked to a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence during World War II. In 1943, … - Eleanor Aller
Eleanor Aller (Slatkin) was a world-renowned cellist and founding member, with her husband, Felix Slatkin, of the Hollywood String Quartet. Born in New York City, she was the daughter of cellist Gregory Aller (né Grisha Altschuler). Eleanor Aller was principal cellist in the Twentieth Century Fox Studio Orchestra in 1939 when she met and married Slatkin. Shortly after their marriage, the couple founded the Hollywood String Quartet. - Mahonri Young
Mahonri Macintosh Young (August 9, 1877 - November 2, 1957) was an American sculptor and artist. Although he lived most of his life in New York City, Young is most remembered in Utah as being the grandson of Brigham Young who sculpted the This Is The Place Monument and the Seagull Monument in Salt Lake City. Young is one of the best-known artists from Utah. - Gary Burghoff
Gary Burghoff was the only actor in Twentieth Century Fox's hit film M*A*S*H who was asked to reprise his character for the extremely successful television series. Burghoff's performance as the naive, but omniscient Radar O'Reilly was rewarded with an Emmy as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1977... - Jean Peters
Elizabeth Jean Peters was an American actress. " After competing in a beauty contest in 1946, the Canton, Ohio native went to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. Her first film, 1947's "Captain from Castile" with Tyrone Power was a hit, and Leonard Maltin writes that afterwards Peters spent the new decade playing "sexy spitfires, …
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