- Cargo Cult
Cargo Cult is the stage name of Allan Vilhan, who produces music in the genre of electronica. The work is a blend of ambient and beat-driven with subtle transitions from track to track. He is signed with the online music label Magnatune. As of 2004, he has produced two albums: "Alchemy" and "Vibrant". - Sam Raimi
Samuel Marshall Raimi (born October 23, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing the classic cult-horror film "The Evil Dead" and the blockbuster "Spider-Man films". - Rick Ross
Rick Alan Ross (born 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, as Ricky Allan Ross) is a consultant and lecturer in the area of cults. He describes himself as a "cult intervention specialist", a term he coined to describe his way of doing exit counseling. He maintains a website with a listing of articles about "destructive cults", controversial groups and movements, and related writings on mind control theories. He also publishes the "Cultnews.com" blog. - Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American character actor. Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky to Ersel and Sheridan Harry Stanton, who divorced when Stanton was in high school; they later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. - Townes van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt (March 7 1944 - January 1 1997) was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Although Van Zandt was not widely known before his death, he has since slowly gained a cult status. His songs have been covered by such notable musicians as Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, John Prine, Gillian Welch, Devendra Banhart, The Meat Puppets, GG Allin, Johnny Dowd, … - Lyndon Larouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire) is an American political activist and founder of several political organizations in the United States and elsewhere, jointly referred to as the LaRouche movement. He is known as a perennial candidate for President of the United States, having run in eight elections since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. - Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (born March 19, 1928) is an actor born in the United States (although raised in Ireland and the United Kingdom) who rose to fame in the British film and TV industry by starring in the 1960s television series "Danger Man" (renamed "Secret Agent" when exported to the US) and cult classic "The Prisoner". McGoohan wrote several episodes of "The Prisoner" himself, … - Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien (born Richard Timothy Smith on March 25 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical "The Rocky Horror Show" and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze. - Calum Best
Calum Milan Best is a British former fashion model turned celebrity, and television personality. He is best known for being the son of Northern Ireland football legend George Best from his father's marriage to Angela MacDonald-James. His personal life is frequently featured in tabloid newspapers and celebrity based magazines in the UK. He has the middle name Milan, after his godfather, Milan Mandarić, his father's lifelong friend, … - Adrian Pasdar
Naked Photos of Adrian Pasdar are available at MaleStars.com . They currently feature over 65,000 Nude Pics, Biographies, Video Clips, Articles, and Movie Reviews of famous stars. - Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest. - Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory. In 2006, Lifton appeared in a documentary on cults on the History Channel: "Decoding the Past", along with fellow psychiatrist Peter A. Olsson - Clint Mansell
Clint Mansell (born Clinton Darryl Mansell, 7 January 1963, in Coventry, England) is a Golden Globe nominated musician and composer. - Love Israel
Love Israel (birth name Paul Erdman) is the leader of the hippie commune commonly known as the Love Family, a spiritual intentional community that was considered a cult by its critics. The Love Family had its beginnings on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. In later years its center was on its 260-acre ranch in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains near Arlington, Washington. The group is currently located in Bothell, Washington. - Barry Bostwick
Barry Knapp Bostwick (February 24, 1945) is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Brad Majors in the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and has also had considerable fame in musical theatre. - Tony Alamo
Tony Alamo (born Bernie LaZar Hoffman, September 20, 1934 in Joplin, Missouri), is a controversial American preacher, singer, entrepreneur, and religious evangelist. He and his then-wife Susan are best known as the founders of a fundamentalist organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and based in and around Texarkana, United States, and frequently referred to as a cult. - Steven Hassan
Steven Alan Hassan (born 1954) is a licensed mental health counselor and an exit counselor. Hassan was an early advocate of exit counseling, and is the author of two books on the subject of "cults", and what he describes as their use of mind control, thought reform, and the psychology of influence in order to recruit and retain members. Himself a former member of the Unification Church, after spending one year assisting with involuntary deprogrammings, … - David Arnold
David Arnold (born January 23, 1962 in Luton in Bedfordshire, England) is a Grammy Award-winning British film composer, best known for scoring four James Bond films and cult television show Little Britain. - Monte Hellman
Monte Hellman was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles . He received a degree in drama from Stanford University and did graduate work in film at UCLA. After an early career as a portrait photographer and stage director, he began directing films in 1960. - Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9 1942) is an American actor and former male fashion model famous for portraying John Shaft in the film "Shaft" (1971) and in its two sequels, "Shaft's Big Score" (1972) and "Shaft in Africa" (1973). Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, New York to Kathryn, a nurse and housekeeper, and John Roundtree, a caterer and garbage collector. He attended Southern Illinois University. - Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn on February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award nominated American actress and filmmaker, best known for playing Audrey Horne on the cult TV series "Twin Peaks", for her roles in "Ruby", "Of Mice and Men", "Boxing Helena" and "Rude Awakening", and for portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in "Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story". - Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lee (born April 22 1967 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany) is an American actress, best known for playing Laura Palmer and Madeleine Ferguson on the cult TV series "Twin Peaks" and its prequel "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me", for her roles in "Vampires" and "Kingpin", and for portraying photographer Astrid Kirchherr in "Backbeat". - Bob Larson
Bob Larson (born 1944 in McCook, Nebraska) is a radio and television evangelist, currently based in Colorado. Larson has authored numerous books on the subjects of rock music, cults, and Satanism, written from a Christian perspective. He has an active following in the Usenet community at alt.fan.bob-larson. Larson plays guitar; he has claimed his early experiences as a musician led to his concerns about occult and destructive influences in rock music. - James Marshall
James Marshall (born James David Greenblatt, 2 January 1967 in Queens, New York) is an American actor, best known for playing James Hurley on the cult TV series "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991) and its 1992 prequel film "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me". He has appeared in many film and television roles including James Hurley in "Twin Peaks" (1990) and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992), Tommy Riley in "Gladiator" (1992), … - Margaret Singer
Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr. Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing and coercive persuasion. Singer performed research at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, … - Benjamin
Ben Miller is an American rock and avant garde guitarist formerly based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and now based in Jersey City, New Jersey, who has formerly been a member of such Detroit/Ann Arbor bands as Destroy All Monsters, Sproton Layer, M3 and Nonfiction. Destroy All Monsters, in particular, still a cult favorite, was a big part of the Proto-Punk, Punk, and Post-Punk Detroit rock scene, featuring such bands as the MC5, the Stooges, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, and Up. - Julee Cruise
Julee Cruise (born 1 December 1956, in Creston, Iowa) is an American dream pop singer, and actress, best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme for the cult television series "Twin Peaks". Until recently, she was a frequent collaborator with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch, who produced and wrote the lyrics for most of her songs. More recently, she has appeared as a guest vocalist on "Sarcast While", … - Freddie Francis
Frederick William (Freddie) Francis (22 December 1917 - 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director. He died at age 89 as the result of the lingering effects of a stroke, after a long and distinguished career in the cinema. He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for "Sons and Lovers" and "Glory". - Seaweed
Seaweed is a rock musician from North Carolina, United States. He was a longtime feature in the cult punk band Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 with Wednesday 13. Seaweed went on to play in another horror punk band The Graveyard Boulevard in which he was the vocalist and bassist. Currently Seaweed is involved in a solo Industrial rock project under the name "needleHole". - Raffaella Carrà
Raffaella Roberta Pelloni, better known by her artistic name Raffaella Carrà (in Italy often simply as "Raffaella"), is an Italian TV hostess, singer and actress. She is especially popular in her native country and in Spain and Latin America where during the past decades she has conducted numerous popular TV shows, mainly in the Italian (RAI) and Spanish (TVE) national TV channels. - Laura Gemser
Laura Gemser (born October 5 1950, Java, Indonesia) is an actress of Indo descent and is generally accepted as one of the 1970s most famous erotic icons. She is sometimes credited as Moira Chen, Laura M. Gemser or Laurette Marcia Gemser. After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films. - Marshall Herff Applewhite
Applewhite was known for his musical and dramatic talents. He sang opera and was a good public speaker, impressing people with his strong baritone voice and good diction. In the early 1960s, he tried for a while to make it as an actor in New York City, but he failed, according to an article in The New York Times. He then became an assistant professor of voice at the University of Alabama where served as choirmaster for several groups. - Hank Hanegraaff
Hendrik "Hank" Hanegraaff is an American author, radio talk-show host and advocate of evangelical Christianity. He is an outspoken figure within the Christian countercult movement where he has established a reputation for his criticisms of non-Christian religions, new religious movements or cults and perceived heresies within conservative Christianity. He is also an apologist on doctrinal and cultural issues. - Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett (born 18 October, 1955, Marple, Cheshire, England) is a TV presenter and broadcaster who achieved cult status in the UK during the 1980s on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and then later on TV-am. Mallett is most notable for his striking visual style, involving loud shirts, comedy glasses and the giant pink foam mallet, labeled "Mallett's Mallet" that he carried with him, sometimes bonking children on their heads with it, … - Billy MacKenzie
William MacArthur MacKenzie, known as Billy MacKenzie was a Scottish singer, notable for his powerful voice and vast vocal range. Born in Dundee, he led a peripatetic lifestyle, which included decamping to New Zealand at the age of 16, and travelling across America aged 17. Here, to avoid deportation, he married Chloe Dummar. Her brother, Melvin Dummar, claimed to be the "one sixteenth" beneficiary of the estate of Howard Hughes, … - Ron Underwood
Ronald Brian Underwood, (born November 6 1953), is an American film director. Despite early cult success with "Tremors" and commercial success with "City Slickers", perhaps his best known films, "Mighty Joe Young" and "The Adventures of Pluto Nash", were both box-office disasters. Underwood was born in Glendale, California but spent some of his teenage years living as an exchange student in Sri Lanka. - William Campbell
William Campbell (b. October 30, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting roles in major film productions, but also starred in several low-budget b-movies, including two cult horror films. His movie career began in 1950, with a small part in the John Garfield film, "The Breaking Point". After several years of similar supporting performances in a variety of titles, … - Ted V. Mikels
Ted V. Mikels (born 29 April 1929) is an American filmmaker of independent cult films. His work is very campy and sometimes outrageous. - Walter Burkert
Walter Burkert (born Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, February 2, 1931), a scholar of Greek mythology and cult, is an emeritus professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and also has taught in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has influenced generations of students of religion since the 1960s, combining in the modern way the findings of archaeology and epigraphy with the work of poets, historians, and philosophers. - Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene (b 22 February 1951) is a singer and actress. Greene has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actor and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musicals, as well as having performed in numerous films and television programs.
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