- Stan Winston
Stan Winston (born April 7, 1946, in Richmond, Virginia), is an Academy Award winning special effects and makeup artist, and film director. He is best known for his work in the "Terminator" series, the "Jurassic Park" series, "Aliens", the "Predator" series, and "Edward Scissorhands". Winston, a frequent collaborator with James Cameron, owns more than one effects studio, including Stan Winston Digital. - Syd Mead
Syd Mead (born July 18, 1933 in St. Paul, MN) is an industrial designer best known for his vehicle designs in science-fiction films such as "Blade Runner", "Aliens", and "Tron". In much of his film work, he is billed as a "visual futurist" or "conceptual designer". - Bill Paxton
William Paxton (born May 17, 1955) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. - Michael Biehn
Michael Connell Biehn (born July 31, 1956) is an American actor known for his roles in "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), "The Abyss" (1989), "Tombstone" (1993), "The Rock" (1996), and "Grindhouse" (2007). He also played Officer Randall Buttman on the Emmy-Award winning television series, "Hill Street Blues". - Travis Walton
Travis Walton is a United States forest ranger who claims to have been abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working on a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton could not be found, but reappeared after five days of intensive searches. The Walton case received considerable mainstream publicity, and remains one of the best-known instances of alleged alien abduction. - Carrie Henn
Caroline Marie Henn (born on May 7, 1976 in Panama City, Florida, USA) is a former actress who became famous as Newt, the little girl brought under the protection of Sigourney Weaver's character Lt. Ellen Ripley in the movie Aliens, the second installment of the Alien series. "Aliens" was in fact Henn's only film role, and she has repeatedly stated that she has no plans to return to acting. - David Lloyd
David Lloyd (born 1950) is a British comics artist best known as the illustrator of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta", written by Alan Moore. He started working in comics in the late 1970s, drawing for "Halls of Horror", "TV Comic" and a number of Marvel UK titles. With writer Steve Parkhouse, he created the pulp adventure character Night Raven. When former Marvel UK editor Dez Skinn set up "Warrior" magazine in 1982, … - Gale Anne Hurd
Gale Anne Hurd (born October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hollywood film producer. Hurd is the daughter of a wealthy Los Angeles businessman and grew up in Palm Springs, California. She formed her own production company, "Pacific Western Productions", in 1982. Hurd has produced many movies including "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), "The Abyss" (1989), and "Armageddon" (1998). - William Hope
William Hope is a Canadian movie actor, born in 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is brother of actor Barclay Hope. He appears in "Aliens" (1986) as Lt. Gorman. The film, which went on to be a huge success, landed him a chance to play a supporting role in the brutal "Hellbound: Hellraiser 2" (1988), the sequel to Clive Barker's huge hit "Hellraiser" (1987). Hope played the love interest for the main character, … - Jenette Goldstein
Jenette Goldstein (born February 4, 1960 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She first appeared in James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986), playing the role of Private J. Vasquez. She also appeared as the vampire Diamondback in "Near Dark" (1987), Officer Meagan Shapiro in "Lethal Weapon 2" (1989), Janelle Voight in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), the "Enterprise-B" science officer in "Star Trek: Generations" (1994), … - Kenneth Johnson
Kenneth Johnson (born 26 October 1942) is an American screenwriter, producer and director best known as the creator of the series V. His creative efforts are almost entirely concentrated in the area of television science fiction. A native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Johnson is a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His early TV work includes "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman" and "The Incredible Hulk". - Neal Asher
Neal Asher (born 1961 in Billericay, Essex, England) is an English science fiction writer. Neal Asher's work encompasses many classic science fiction tropes including world-ruling artificial intelligences, androids, hive minds, aliens and time travel. His novels are characterised by fast paced action and violent encounters. While his work is frequently epic in scope and thus nominally space opera, its graphic and aggressive tone is more akin to cyberpunk. - Mark Verheiden
Mark Verheiden is an American television, movie, and comic book writer. He currently writes for the "Battlestar Galactica "TV-series, as well as a new project with Bruce Campbell called "My Name is Bruce". Verheiden has also contributed to scripts for "The Mask", "Timecop" and the "Smallville" television-show. He is also the executive producer of the latter. He is also a well-respected comic book writer, … - Mark Rolston
Mark Rolston (December 7, 1956) is an American actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He played as Private M. Drake in "Aliens" (1986), Hans in "Lethal Weapon 2" (1989), Stef in "RoboCop 2" (1990), Bogs Diamond in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), J. Scar in "Eraser" (1996), Chief Dennis Wilson in "Daylight" (1996), and Special Agent in Charge Warren Russ in "Rush Hour" (1998). - Frank Welker
Franklin W. Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, noises, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures. As of May 2007, he is listed as number one "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office." His work in over 90 films has put him ahead of Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson. - Al Matthews
Al Matthews (born on 21 November 1942) is a UK-based American actor and singer, perhaps best known as Sergeant Apone in the 1986 movie "Aliens". Matthews was born in Brooklyn, New York. Over the course of his career, he has played various movie roles, including a fire chief in "Superman III" (1983), General Tudor in "The Fifth Element" (1997), and Master Sergeant #3 in "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997). - James Remar
William James Remar (born December 31 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in 98 different media projects, either movies, video games or TV shows. He is perhaps most familiar as Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in "Sex and the City". Remar was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Largely due to his somewhat intimidating physical appearance Remar has spent the majority of his film career playing villains. - Sam Kieth
Sam Kieth (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and film director, best known as the co-creator of "The Sandman" and the creator of "The Maxx" and "Zero Girl". He first came to prominence in 1983 as the inker of Matt Wagner's "Mage", his delicate brushwork adding fluidity and texture to the broad strokes of Wagner's rather stiff early work. - Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) is an American author. She was born in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military; her father was a Marine Corps drill sergeant, and her mother was a Navy nurse. - Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson is a specialist for television and movie special effects. He is best known for his special effects work on "Thunderbirds", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Space: 1999", "Alien", and "Aliens". He has won Academy Award for Visual Effects for "Alien" and "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back". He was nominated for an Academy award for Dragonslayer. - Ricco Ross
Ricco Ross (born April 16, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. He played Private Frost in "Aliens", and also appeared in the films "Mission Impossible" and "Fierce Creatures". During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, leading to guest appearances on "Doctor Who" ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy") and "Jeeves and Wooster". Ross also co-starred as Nate in the film Nate and the Colonel. - Daniel Kash
Daniel Kash is a Canadian actor and director. He is the son of world famous Canadian opera singer Maureen Forrester and violinist/conductor Eugene Kash. He studied at the Drama Center in London, England and has appeared in dozens of feature film and television series. His first feature was in "Aliens" as Private Spunkmeyer. He has directed three successful short films, "Germgirl", "Flip Phone" and "For Lease" (releasing 2007). He is married to Hayley Tyson. - Tip Tipping
Timothy Tipping (February 13, 1958 - February 5, 1993), better known as Tip Tipping, was a British movie stuntman and was at one time a SAS soldier and British Royal Marine commando. He appeared in television series including "Doctor Who" and "The Bill", and films including "Never Say Never Again" (1983), "Batman" (1989), … - Colette Hiller
Colette Hiller is an American actress who starred on film, theatre and television, best known for her role as Cpl. Ferro in "Aliens". She attended the Performing Arts Academy in New York as a teenager. She was also in the original musical play of Annie, and in other films & plays such as "The Lonely Lady", "Ragtime", "Strong Medicine" and "Birth of the Beatles". She has two teenage children, Corin and Jordan Ryda. - Riley Martin
Riley L. Martin was born May 9, 1946, in Mississippi to a family of sharecroppers of African American and Native American descent. He claims he was first abducted by aliens while living in Arkansas in November of 1953. Martin is the author of the book "The Coming of Tan", which describes his life and his alleged abduction by aliens. He is also the host of "The Riley Martin Show" on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel Howard 101. - Adrian Biddle
Adrian Biddle, (born on 20 July 1952 in Woolwich, London - 7 December 2005 in London), was an English cinematographer. - Lana Lane
Lana Lane is a North American rock singer. She sings lead in her eponymous band, and has sung backing vocals for the band Rocket Scientists and guest sung on Ayreon and Erik Norlander albums. She is married to music producer Erik Norlander, who co-produces her albums with her at their own studio, Think Tank Media in Woodland Hills, California. Her first album "Love is an Illusion" was released in 1995 and obtained a fair amount of success in Japan, … - Peter Lamont
Dr. Peter Lamont (November 12, 1929, England, UK) is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only three Bonds that he didn't work on are Dr No, From Russia With Love and Tomorrow Never Dies. Throughout his near 60-year career, Lamont has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), … - Henry Flint
Henry Flint is a British comic book artist who has worked mainly for British sci-fi comic 2000AD, Flint has established a cult following for his hyper-detailed and wildly inventive work on series such as "Judge Dredd", "ABC Warriors", "Shakara" and "Aliens". His current project is drawing a 6 issue mini-series of the "Omega Men" written by Andersen Gabrych, which will start in October 2006. - Mac McDonald
Mac McDonald (born 18 June 1949 in Long Island, New York, USA) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series "Red Dwarf" and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows. He has also had many movie roles in films such as "Aliens", "Batman" and "The Fifth Element" - Trevor Steedman
Trevor Steedman is a stunt actor. He has acted in four roles, and has stunt acted in fourteen. His first role was that of Private Wierzbowski in the film "Aliens" where he dies off screen. His latest project is being stunt coordinator on the upcoming movie, Alpha Male. Curiously, there is a website dedicated to his role as Private Wierzbowski, named Wierzbowski Hunters. - David A. McIntee
David A. McIntee is a British writer. He has written many spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", as well as one each based on "Final Destination" and "Space: 1999". He has also written a non-fiction book on "Star Trek: Voyager" and one jointly on the "Aliens" and "Predator" movie franchises. - Alibe Parsons
Alibe Parsons is an actress who has worked extensively in both film and television. On television, she is best known for her regular role in the 1970s BBC drama "Gangsters" as Sarah Gant. She also had a recurring role in the science fiction series "Space 1999" and will be remembered by fans of "Doctor Who" for her appearance in the 1986 serial "Mindwarp". - Wade MacNeil
Wade MacNeil (born May 5 1984 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is one of the guitarists, vocalists and one of the founding members of the Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. His lead guitar, possibly inspired by older punk rock and straight forward rock and roll, is somewhat simpler on the second Alexisonfire album "Watch Out!". Wade and George Pettit (lead vocalist of Alexisonfire) were also in a side project, named The Black Lungs, … - Bill Ellis
Bill Ellis (born January 3, 1950) is an American folklorist. Educated at the University of Virginia (BA, 1972) and at Ohio State University (MA, 1973, Ph.D, 1978), he is currently professor of English and American studies at Penn State Hazleton. He was the president of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research and the American Folklore Society's Folk Narrative section. He is also a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. - Eddie Powell
Eddie Powell (1927-2000) was a British stuntman. He was best-known for his work for Hammer Studios, during which time he was the regular stunt double for Christopher Lee. His most memorable moments were as Dracula in the icy climax of "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" (1965) and as the Mummy (a role all his own) in "The Mummy's Shroud" (1967). Other film appearances over the years included several Bond films, "Aliens" (1986), … - Barbara Coles
Barbara Coles is a British actress perversly noted for her role as the "Cocooned Woman" in James Cameron's "Aliens". - Charlie Wiederhold
Charlie Wiederhold (also known as wieder) is an American video game developer known for his involvement in the first person shooter industry and community. He is currently an associate producer at Gearbox Software working on an untitled "Aliens" FPS, but has also done level design and programming. Charlie worked for Ritual Entertainment where he did level design and scripting on Sin and helped with early design on FAKK2. - Marike Groot
Marike Groot is a Dutch singer. She started her career in the mid eighties as the singer for punk band The Grabbits, with whom she recorded the EP "Aliens". From 1989 to 1992 she was the vocalist of Little Mary Big. She later joined The Gathering, and she sang on their first album "Always...", released in 1992. She was soon replaced by Martine van Loon. During the 90's and 00's, Marike Groot remained active in music, both as a singer and a guitar player, … - Brinsley Le Poer Trench 8th Earl of Clancarty
William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench was 8th Earl of Clancarty (an earldom in the Peerage of Ireland), Marquess van Heusden in the peerage of the Netherlands, as well as a prominent ufologist. He was the fifth son of the 5th Earl of Clancarty and Mary Gwatkin Ellis. He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne. Clancarty was a firm believer in flying saucers, and in particular, the Hollow Earth theory.
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