- William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the "USS Enterprise" in the television show "Star Trek" from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek". He also played the title role as veteran police sergeant "T.J. Hooker", from 1982 to 1986. - Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 or 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC dramedy, "Soap", and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes "When Harry Met Sally..." and "City Slickers". - Larry David
Larry David, born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. David was co-creator, head writer and executive producer (as well as the voice of New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner) for the television series "Seinfeld". He also created and stars in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. - Bob Saget
Bob Saget (born Robert Lane Saget on May 17, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director, producer, and game show host. He is well known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom "Full House" from 1987 to 1995 and as host of "America's Funniest Home Videos" from 1989 to 1997 and "1 vs. 100" since 2006. - Jack Bender
Jack Bender is an American film and television director and also an actor. Currently Bender is a producer and lead director on the ABC television series, "Lost". Bender has also directed on other popular shows such as "The Sopranos", "Carnivàle", "Alias" and "Boston Public". As an actor, Bender has guest starred on "All in the Family", "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". - Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues as homelessness (e.g., "Cathy Come Home") and poverty (e.g., "Riff-Raff"). - Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott (born July 19 1961 in Wise, Virginia) is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. He is a son of the late actors George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. He has a brother, Alexander Scott. As an actor, Scott co-starred in the movie "Dying Young" (in which his mother also appeared) alongside Julia Roberts. He also appeared in the movie "Singles". In 1996, he teamed up with Stanley Tucci to direct the film "Big Night". - Ian Ziering
Ian Ziering (born March 30, 1964) is an American actor best known for playing Steve Sanders on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210". Ian (pronounced EYE-an) was born in Newark, New Jersey to Mickie and Paul Ziering. He grew up in West Orange, New Jersey and has two brothers, Jeff and Barry, both of whom are more than 10 years older. His father jokes: "Ian is the best mistake I ever made." Ian's mother died 9 years ago, … - Tony Plana
Tony Plana (born April 19, 1954) is a Cuban-American actor. - Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby was a popular three-time Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series. His lead television roles were as Ray Walston's young reporter, Tim O'Hara, … - Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13 1931 - May 25 2007) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show "Match Game". - Dick Ebersol
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American radio and TV manager. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989. In May 2004, Dick Ebersol was named chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. - Laura Prepon
Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox television series "That '70s Show" and Hannah Daniels on the ABC television series "October Road". Prepon was born and raised in Watchung, New Jersey, the youngest of four children in a family of Jewish and Irish Catholic descent. She is 5 feet 10 inches tall. Her acting experience was limited prior to her audition for "That '70's Show". - Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams is a Canadian film and television director. Williams has directed several modern day television programs including work as a regular director on the ABC drama series, "Lost", where he is also a producer. In addition to "Lost", Williams has been a director on "Crossing Jordan", "1-800-Missing", "Soul Food: The Series" and "21 Jump Street". - Esai Morales
Esai Morales (born October 1, 1962) is an actor who was most recently cast to portray a priest in The Virgin of Juarez and as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on the long-running ABC television police drama "NYPD Blue". He also appeared in the PBS drama "American Family", which was rejected as a series by CBS and later picked up by KCET and PBS and the Showtime series "Resurrection Blvd.". - Charles Burnett
Charles Burnett (b. April 13 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker, educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. Burnett's style is rarely violent and his most original work concentrates on the lives of the African American middle class. His first feature, "Killer of Sheep" (1977), was made while he was a graduate student at UCLA. - David Grossman
David Grossman is an American film and television director known most notably for his work on the ABC series, "Desperate Housewives" which he also serves as co-executive producer. In the past, Grossman has directed numerous television programs which include "Lost", "Weird Science", "MadTV", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "Dead Like Me", … - Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a writer and also serves as a Producer on the Sci-Fi Channel series " The Chronicle ." Mr. Grillo- Marxauch was Primetime Series executive at NBC, where he was involved with current and development series including " Law & Order ," " The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ," " SeaQuest DSV " and " Earth 2 ." - David Silverman
David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series "The Simpsons", where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all of the original Simpsons "Tracey Ullman shorts". Started his education at the University of Maryland, College Park for two years, focusing on art. - Larry Shaw
Larry Shaw is an American film and television director. He is currently a regular director on the ABC television series, "Desperate Housewives", where he also serves as a co-executive producer for the show. In the past, Shaw has directed numerous television programs which include "21 Jump Street", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "The X-Files", "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and "Lizzie McGuire". - Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac (born December 11, 1958 in Falls Church, Virginia) is an American comedian, producer, director and writer. He is mostly famous for his partnership with the comedian actor Jim Carrey. - Paul Michael Glaser
Paul Michael Glaser (born March 25, 1943) is an American actor and director. Originally Paul Manfred Glaser, he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. His parents were Dorothy and Samuel Glaser. Glaser attended Tulane University, where he was roommates with film director Bruce Paltrow, and earned a Master's degree in English and theater in 1966. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. - Jeffrey Ross
Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (born September 13, 1965) is a stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor & director who currently provides the voice for the beagle Buddy in the MTV2 Sic'emation animated satire program that he created "Where My Dogs At?" As a stand-up comic, Ross has appeared TV shows like "The Late Show with David Letterman", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", … - Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch (born May 12, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of "The Kids in the Hall", a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for "Saturday Night Live". McCulloch has also appeared on series such as "Twitch City" and "Gilmore Girls". He directed the films "Dog Park", "Stealing Harvard" and "Superstar". - Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary. - Brian T
Brian T is an American entertainer/producer and filmmaker based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known for his independently produced pop songs, "Show Me..." and "Please Don't Leave". He also acts, sings, dances, and writes original songs. Capitalizing on the emergence of the boy band phenomenon and teen pop explosion in the 90s, he wrote and produced songs of a similar style to the music that was dominating the airwaves at the time. - Greg Germann
Greg Germann (born February 26, 1958) is an actor from Houston, Texas, USA. He is best known for his role as Richard Fish in the television series "Ally McBeal". Germann was raised on Lookout Mountain outside of Golden, Colorado and became a theater major at the University of Northern Colorado. He began acting in Broadway plays including "Assassins", "The Person I Once Was" (opposite Holly Hunter) and "War Games". - Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw (born August 9 1976 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American actress best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the ABC legal drama "The Practice". Capshaw is the daughter of Robert Capshaw and actress Kate Capshaw, and step-daughter of director Steven Spielberg. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994 and Brown University in 1998 with an English degree. - Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer (born Clayton Johnson Heermance, Jr., June 18, 1908 - September 8 1969) was an American radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. Collyer was born in New York City to Clayton Johnson Heermance and Caroline Collyer. He originally sought a career in the law and worked his way through Fordham University by acting in radio. Though he became a law clerk after his graduation, … - Martin Spanjers
Martin Ryan Spanjers (born February 2, 1987 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American actor who is best known for his role as the son, Rory Joseph Hennessy in the ABC television sitcom "8 Simple Rules". He has an older brother, Matt. - Mehcad Brooks
Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks (born October 25 1980 in Austin, Texas) is an American actor and former male fashion model. He has modeled since the age of fifteen. Brooks attended the L.C. Anderson High School in Austin, Texas where he also grew up. After he graduated high school, he attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. - Jenny Bicks
Jenny Bicks is an American television producer and screenwriter, most notable for her work as a television writer on the HBO series, "Sex and the City" and as the creator and writer of the ABC series, "Men in Trees". Bicks was also a writer on the shortlived series, "Leap of Faith" and wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film, "What a Girl Wants". Bicks made her directorial debut with the short film, "Gnome". - Melanie Mayron
Melanie Mayron (born October 20, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and director best known for playing photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama "thirtysomething", which ran from 1987 to 1991. She currently appears as a judge in the reality show "Looking for Stars" on the Starz channel. Mayron trained as an actress at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has been active as a director for a number of years. - Charles McDougall
Charles McDougall is a British director. McDougall has directed for popular television series which include the pilot episode of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" (which includes the unaired pilot as well). McDougall has also directed episodes of "Queer as Folk" on Showtime and "Sex and the City" on HBO. - Don Ohlmeyer
Don Ohlmeyer (born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer, Jr., February 3, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American television producer and former president of the NBC network's West Coast division. He grew up in the Chicago-area and attended Glenbrook North High School. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1967, with a B.A. in communications. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Sports Broadcasting from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2007. - Ivan Sergei
Ivan Sergei (born Ivan Sergei Gaudio on May 7, 1972 in Hawthorne, New Jersey) is an American actor best known for his work in television. Sergei first became well known when he starred in John Woo's 1996 film "Once a Thief", and then returned along with the rest of the cast for the 1997 television series, which only lasted one season. His next series was starring with Amanda Peet in "Jack & Jill" which ran from 1999 to 2001, … - Leah Purcell
Leah Purcell (born 14 August 1970) is an Australian actress from Murgon in the Kingaroy district of Queensland. She is an accomplished film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright. She is the youngest of six children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent. Her father was a boxing trainer. After a difficult adolescence, looking after her sick mother who died while Leah was in her late teens, she had turned to drink and had her own child, … - Arlene Sanford
Arlene Sanford is an American film and television director. Sanford has directed for several present-day network television series and several motion picture and television movies which include "A Very Brady Sequel", "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Welcome Home". More recently, Sanford has directed episodes of ABC's popular soap drama, "Desperate Housewives" and also two episodes of "Boston Legal".
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