- Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew and the other Warners characters, including the memorable "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), … - Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. - Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 - August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwball Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy into regular cartoon characters. - George Brent
George Brent (March 15 1899 - May 26 1979) was an actor in American cinema. Born George Brendan Nolan in Shannonbridge, County Offaly, Ireland, to a family with a history of British Army service. However, during the Anglo-Irish War (1919-1922), he was part of an IRA Active Service Unit as early as 1920 carrying out IRA directives. He fled with a price on his head by the British, … - Sam Warner
Samuel Warner was a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Brothers film company. The other Warner brothers were Harry Warner (1881–1958), Albert Warner (1883–1967), and Jack L. Warner (1892–1978). Samuel Eichelbaum was born in Baltimore, Maryland, not long after the arrival of his Polish-Jewish parents in the US. In the early 1900s he worked as a movie projectionist at an amusement park and convinced Harry Warner of the new medium's possibilities. - Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902-December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor). Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Louise Torpin and Frank Zanuck, a hotelier; his last name is of Dutch origin, and his father had Dutch and German ancestry. - Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy, wisecracking, blonde she was a pre–Hays Code (meaning, simply, before the adoption of the Motion Picture Association's guidlines for film production) staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. - Mervyn Leroy
Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. - Neil Simon
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. - David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC, LL.D. (born November 1, 1949 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a 14-time Grammy Award winning musician, producer, composer and arranger. From an early age, it was apparent that he would make his mark in the music industry and he began taking piano lessons at the age of 5. As a keyboardist, he established himself in the early 1970s as a sought-after session musician. - Alan J. Pakula
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", … - Rin Tin Tin
Rin Tin Tin was the name given to several German Shepherd Dogs in film and television. The first of the line (c. September 10, 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a shell-shocked pup found by American serviceman Lee Duncan in a bombed-out dog kennel in Lorraine, France, less than two months before the end of World War I. Named for a puppet called Rintintin that French children gave to the American soldiers for good luck. - 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"), … - Michael Barrier
"Michael Barrier" may refer to either of these two persons: *American actor, best known for appearances as Lieutenant DeSalle on "Star Trek: The Original Series". He appeared in at least three episodes: "The Squire of Gothos", "This Side of Paradise" and "Catspaw". *Famous and well-respected animation historian, who spent over twenty-five years of his life researching animation, … - Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886-September 29, 1970) was an American character actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York to Isabella S. Diack and Edward Everett Horton. His mother was born in Matanzas, Cuba to Mary Orr and George Diack, immigrants from Scotland. - Alan F. Horn
Alan F. Horn is the President & COO of Warner Brothers Entertainment. Prior to Warner Bros., Horn served in various positions at 20th Century Fox and at Norman Lear's television production company, Tandem Productions. Horn sits on the board of directors of Univision. Horn, his wife, and two daughters currently reside in Bel-Air, California. They donated $25,000 to the DNC in 2004. - Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens (born August 8, 1938) is an American actress and singer. - Michael Wadleigh
Michael Wadleigh (born September 24, 1941) is an American movie director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. A native of Akron, Ohio, Wadleigh entered films in his early 20s as a cinematographer on independently-produced low-budget films "David Holtzman's Diary" and "I Call First" (both 1967) and "My Girlfriend's Wedding" (1969). - Ken Annakin
Ken Annakin (born August 10, 1914 in Beverley, Yorkshire) is an English film director. His career in films followed his work experience in documentaries. He made his directing debut in 1947 at the Rank Organisation, although the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to helm three films about the Huggetts, a working class family living in suburban England. - Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900-July 18, 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter. Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently settled there. - Arthur Q. Bryan
Arthur Q. Bryan was a United States comedian and voice actor. Bryan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up with a deep desire to go into show business, he stumbled through the industry for several years before finding steady if unsatisfying work as a bit player and occasional film narrator in Hollywood. Bryan first came to prominence in his late 30s as the voice of Egghead and Elmer Fudd at Warner Brothers animation unit, headed by Leon Schlesinger. - Kid Capri
Kid Capri (real name David Anthony Love) is an American hip hop DJ. He was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is of African-American/Italian-American descent. In the 1970s, Kid Capri began to attend block parties, starting his DJ career at the age of 8. He eventually garnered widespread attention at Studio 54 and began selling his sets with his partner at the time Starchild. Kid Capri has deejayed for seven seasons of Def Comedy Jam. - Kerri Chandler
Kerri Chandler is a well respected house music producer. He was brought up in a small community of East Orange, New Jersey, USA. Kerri got involved in music at the age of 9. He has produced and remixed for labels such as East and West, RCA, BMG, Movin, King Street, Nite Grooves, Strictly Rhythm, Warner Brothers, Madhouse. - Van Williams
Van (Van Zandt) Williams is a former American actor (born February 27, 1934, in Fort Worth, Texas) best known for his brief yet world famous television role as "Britt Reid" "aka" "The Green Hornet" with the late Bruce Lee as his sidekick Kato, in the 1966-1967 ABC "The Green Hornet" television series, and for his earlier leading role as Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. - Philip G. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" that became the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film "Casablanca" (1942). Epstein was born in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father was a livery stable owner in the days when horses were still common on the streets of the city. - Gig Young
Gig Young (November 4, 1913 - October 19, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. - Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 - December 30, 1996) was an American actor. Born Lewis Frederick Ayre III in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California, Ayres began acting in bit player roles in films in 1927. Lew Ayres was discovered in 1927 playing banjo in the Henry Halstead Orchestra as Halstead was recording one of the earliest Vitaphone movie shorts called "Carnival Night in Paris" (Warner Brothers, 1927). - Diane McBain
Diane McBain (born May 181941) is an American actress who, as a Warner Brothers contract player, reached a brief peak of popularity during the early 1960s. She is best known for playing an adventurous socialite in the 1960-62 TV series "Surfside 6" and as one of Elvis Presley's leading ladies in 1966's "Spinout". - Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly was the professional name of John Orry Kelly (December 31, 1897 - February 27, 1964), a prolific Hollywood costume designer. Born in Kiama, New South Wales in Australia, he grew up to study art there, becoming a tailor's apprentice and window dresser in Sydney. He journeyed to New York to pursue an acting career. He shared an apartment there with Charlie Spangles and Cary Grant. - Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. One of his first voice roles was that of Snap, one of the Rice Krispies elf mascots Snap, Crackle and Pop. His first major success, however, came in the mid-1940s at MGM. Tex Avery hired Butler to provide narration work for several of his cartoons. - Joy Page
Joy Page is an American actress best known for her role as the Bulgarian bride Annina Brandel in the film "Casablanca". Of the fourteen billed actors, only she and Madeleine LeBeau (who is one year older) are still alive (as of 2006). Born Joy Ann (or Joyce) Paige, she was the daughter of Mexican-American silent film star Don Alvarado (José Paige) and Ann Boyar, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. - Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation - in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others —- of the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" that became the screenplay for the film "Casablanca" (1942), for which its team of writers won an Academy Award. Following his brother's death in 1952, he continued writing, garnering two more Oscar nominations and, in 1998, … - Irving Asher
Irving Asher (1903 - 1985) was an Producer. He worked as a managing director for Warner Brothers in England in the 1930s, working on Alexander Korda's classic epic, "The Four Feathers". Later he returned to Hollywood to work as a producer for MGM, where he earned his only Academy Award nomination for the 1941 Greer Garson film "Blossoms in the Dust". Late in his career Asher worked for 20th Century Fox Television. - Murray Burnett
Murray Burnett (1911 - September 23, 1997) was a high school teacher and playwright from New York City. Burnett and Joan Alison wrote the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's", which was the basis for the movie "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In the summer of 1938, while on vacation from his job as English teacher at a vocational school, Murray and his wife Frances travelled to occupied Vienna to help Jewish relatives there, … - Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf (b. 25 August 1908, Haverstraw, New York - d. 2 February, 1980 Tarzana, California) was a songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger who was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards between 1943 and 1969; he won three. He composed and/or arranged and conducted music exclusively for Warner Brothers films for nearly forty years. Heindorf was a friend and admirer of legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum. - Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American actress. After finishing high school she went to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. However, a chance meeting with entertainner Ken Murray in a Hollywood restaurant resulted in her working in his vaudeville show as a chorus girl. She later performed as one of Earl Carroll's showgirls at his Earl Carroll Theatre. - 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, … - Glenda Farrell
Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 - May 1, 1971) was an American film actress. Born in Enid, Oklahoma, Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era. She was 5'3" with naturally brown hair and brown eyes. Farrell began her career with a theatrical company at the age of 7. She played "Little Eva" in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". She paused at times to continue her education but appeared with a number of theatrical companies and in several Broadway productions. - Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak (August 2, 1912 - December 10, 1979) was an American film actress. Born Anna McKim in New York, New York, Dvorak was the daughter of silent actress Anna Lehr and the actor/director, Samuel McKim, and as a child appeared in several films. She began working for MGM in the late 1920s as a dance instructor and gradually began to appear on film in small musical roles. - Elisabeth Fraser
Elisabeth Fraser (January 8, 1920 - May 5, 2005), was a television, film and stage actress, best known for playing brassy blondes. Born Elisabeth Fraser Jonker in Brooklyn, New York, Fraser began her acting career six weeks after graduating high school; she was cast as the ingenue in the Broadway production of "There Shall Be No Night", which won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1940-1941 season. Fraser obtained a contract with Warner Brothers studios.
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