- Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. - John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Hook", "Memoirs of a Geisha", and "Harry Potter". - Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932 in Orange, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. - Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006) was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation. The success of the book led to publishers commissioning books about mutant rats, rabid dogs and the like threatening communities. The subsequent film directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Benchley is generally acknowledged as the first summer blockbuster. - Richard Kiel
Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his role as Jaws in the James Bond movies "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979) as well as the video game "Everything or Nothing", Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore and his considerable height. - Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary (born August 16, 1937 in New York City) is an actress best known for her role as Ellen Brody in "Jaws", "Jaws 2", and "Jaws: The Revenge". She also appeared in "1941" and "Car Wash". She is married to Sidney Sheinberg. - Carl Gottlieb
Carl Gottlieb (born 18 March 1938 in New York City) is an American screenwriter, actor, comedian and executive. He is probably best known for co-writing the screenplay for "Jaws", as well as directing the 1981 low-budget cult film "Caveman". After studying drama at Syracuse University, he became a member, in the 1960s, of the San Francisco improvisational comedy troupe "The Committee". They made one feature film: "A Session with the Committee". - David Brown
David Brown (born July 28, 1916) is an American movie producer. Born in New York City, he is best known as the producing partner of Richard D. Zanuck. They were jointly awarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990 for their achievements in producing. Among their films were two of Steven Spielberg's early films, "The Sugarland Express" (1974) and "Jaws" (1975), … - Joe Alves
Joe Alves (born 21 May 1936, San Leandro, California) is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on the "Jaws" films. He directed "Jaws 3-D. Alves has designed three feature for Steven Spielberg, firstly for "The Sugarland Express". He supervised the construction of the three mechanical sharks for "Jaws" (1975) with special effects artist Bob Mattey. - Jeffrey Kramer
Jeffrey Kramer (b. June 9, 1945 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA) is an American actor who starred in films and on television. Jeffrey is best known for his role in the 1975 hit movie "Jaws" as Deputy Hendricks. He reprised his role in the 1978 sequel "Jaws 2". His other horror movie is the 1981 horror movie "Halloween II". His most recent film was the 1989 movie "The 'burbs". Jeffrey's television role was in the series "Struck by Lightning". - David Yates
David Yates is an English film and television director. He has worked extensively in British television, mainly for the BBC, helming high-profile drama projects such as "When I Was a Girl" (1991), "The Sins" (2000), "The Way We Live Now" (2001), Paul Abbott's "State of Play" (2003), "The Young Visiters" (2003), "Sex Traffic" (2004) and Richard Curtis's "The Girl in the Café" (2005). - 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. - Richard D. Zanuck
Richard Darryl Zanuck (born December 13, 1934) is an American film producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of Darryl Zanuck, the famed head of Twentieth-Century Fox studios. While studying at Stanford University, Richard began his career in the film industry working for the Twentieth-Century Fox story department. In 1959, Zanuck got his first shot at producing when his father installed him as the producer of the film Compulsion. - Colin Lloyd
Colin Lloyd (born August 17, 1973 in Colchester, Essex), nicknamed "Jaws", is a darts player on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit. He is currently ranked the World number 3 in the PDC rankings. A former builder, Lloyd broke onto the scene in 1999, making his TV debut the same year, thrashing Alan Warriner 13-2 in the second round of the World Matchplay. His major breakthrough was in the 2002 PDC World Championship, … - Dickie Goodman
Dickie Goodman (April 19 1934 - November 6 1989) is considered one of the earliest proponents of sampling in music, through a series of "break-in" records he created from 1956 to 1986. His first song, "The Flying Saucer," was co-written with partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a description of a news-covered invasion of earth from a Martian space ship. While Goodman asked questions of pedestrians, scientists, and even the Martian himself, … - Verna Fields
Verna Fields (21 March 1918 - 30 November 1982) was an American film editor and executive. Although she worked on many films, including "American Graffiti" and "The Sugarland Express", she is probably best known for her work as film editor on "Jaws". Due to the production problems with the malfunctioning shark, some have credited Fields for saving the film (though others point out that there must have been something to 'save' in the first place). - Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938 in Rome, as Enzo Girolami) is an Italian film director. He is the son of director Marino Girolami, aka Franco Martinelli. He made a name for himself during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as "Go Kill and Come Back", "Seven Winchesters for a Massacre" and "Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone". His films exhibited a flair for violent action and gunfights, … - Tommy Johnson
John Thomas Johnson (January 7 1935 - October 16 2006) was an American orchestral tuba player. He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' "Jaws" score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark. - Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown (b. February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas), is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine for 32 years. Brown's father died in an accident when she was young, and her sister was a polio victim. She was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. From 1939 to 1941 she attended Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College. After a stint in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency, … - Frank Mundus
Frank Mundus (born 1925) is a sport fisherman at Montauk, New York who is said to be the inspiration for Quint in the movie and book Jaws. In fact to this day, he charters out his boat "Cricket2" for those seeking the thrill of big game fishing. In many respects, "Cricket2" resembles the Orca as depicted in Jaws the film. - Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Benchley was an American author. Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley (1889-1945), the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and, with Dorothy Parker, one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City. - Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman (b. New York City, November 21, 1935) is an acclaimed American cinematographer whose prominence owes most to his innovative work of the 1970s and 1980s. He began his career as a camera operator, distinguishing himself on Steven Spielberg's "Jaws". As a cinematographer, he became famous for his two collaborations with Martin Scorsese, "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull". - Ted Henter
Ted Henter is an American computer programmer. He studied engineering, but learned computer programming and started his own business after becoming blind in a car accident in 1978, which put an end to his promising career as an international motorcycle racer. In 1987, he teamed up with friend and businessman Bill Joyce, who together founded Henter-Joyce. In this partnership, they produced JAWS, a screen reader for DOS, and later Windows. - Hunter Scott
Hunter Alan Scott (born June 9 1985) is best known for the research he did regarding the USS "Indianapolis". He is studying economics and physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Naval ROTC scholarship, with graduation expected in May 2007. Scott is originally from Pensacola, Florida and is an alumnus of Pensacola High School. When he was age 12, he had to do a National History Day project. - Blanche Ravalec
Blanche Ravalec is a diminutive French actress most recognized for her role as Dolly, Jaws' girlfriend in the James Bond film "Moonraker". She started her career in 1978 with the movie "Holiday Hotel". Besides movies she has also starred in numerous TV productions. - Dwight Twilley
Dwight Twilley (born June 6, 1951, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for his band's 1975 hit single "I'm on Fire." Twilley and Phil Seymour met in 1967 at a theater where they had gone to see The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, and soon began writing and recording together. - Derrick Plourde
Derrick Plourde was a drummer. Born in Goleta, California, he was a former member of Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, Jaws, The Ataris, Rich Kids on LSD and others. Diagnosed as bipolar early in life and battling drug addiction, Derrick committed suicide by gunshot on March 30, 2005. His former band, Lagwagon, produced a tribute album titled Resolve in his honor. He is also mentioned in the NOFX song "Doornails", off the Wolves in Wolves' Clothing album. - George Roberts
George Roberts (known as "Mr. Bass Trombone") is an American trombonist. Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, George began his career after service in the US Navy with the Ray Robbins Band, and then quit to join Gene Krupa in 1947, where he was in the same section with Urbie Green. It was Urbie's lyric tenor trombone playing that inspired George to be an "Urbie" one octave lower. When the Krupa band broke up in 1949, … - Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg (born 1935, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American entertainment executive. He is married to actress Lorraine Gary. Currently, he runs the Bubble Factory Studios, an independent production company of film projects. Prior to his work with The Bubble Factory, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at MCA under Lew Wasserman. Sheinberg is credited with discovering director Steven Spielberg, … - Alan Mayer
Alan Mayer, a native of Islip, New York is a retired soccer goalkeeper from the United States. After graduating from West Islip High School high school, Mayer attended James Madison University (JMU) where he played collegiate soccer for four seasons. He was the JMU soccer team MVP all four years while setting school records for career and season shutouts. After graduating in 1974, he was drafted by the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League (NASL). - Edward L. Montoro
Edward L. Montoro was an American film producer and distributor known for releasing exploitation films and B-movies during the 1970s and 1980s through his company Film Ventures International. Montoro became notorious for producing and promoting films such as "Beyond the Door" (1974) and "Grizzly" (1976) which were highly derivative of the 1970's blockbuster hits "The Exorcist" and "Jaws". - Tim Kelleher
Tim Kelleher (born in the Bronx, New York, USA) is an actor. He grew up in New York, where he studied acting, and founded with some friends a theatre company called, The Colony Theatre. Tim Kelleher's career includes many guest appearances on TV shows, and a recurring role in "Dark Skies" (1996). Furthermore, Tim played in more than two dozen movies, including "Independence Day" (1996), "The Negotiator" (1998), "Thirteen Days" (2000), … - Tommy Tedesco
Thomas J. Tedesco (July 3 1930 - November 10 1997) was an American master session musician and renowned jazz fusion and bebop guitarist. Born in Niagara Falls, New York, Tedesco made his way to the U.S. West Coast where he became one of the most-sought-after studio guitarists between the 1960s and 1980s. Although Tedesco was primarily a guitar player, he was also qualified on the mandolin, ukulele, … - Nat Benchley
Nathaniel Robert "Nat" Benchley is a writer and actor who has performed on stage, television, and film. He is the grandson of humorist Robert Benchley, the son of author Nathaniel G. Benchley, and the brother of late author Peter Benchley, who wrote "Jaws". Since 1997 Nat Benchley been performing "Benchley Despite Himself", "a compilation of Robert Benchley's best monologues, short films, radio rantings and pithy pieces as recalled, edited, … - Ovidio G. Assonitis
Ovidio Assonitis was born on January 18, 1943 in Alexandria, Egypt is an independent film producer and businessman with over 35 years of experience in the Entertainment Industry. Catering to the South East Asia market, Assonitis began an extensive distribution network company in the mid-1960's and in the 10-year period distributed more than 900 films from offices in Thailand, Honk Kong, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia. - Theodore Keep
Theodore "Ted" Keep was a co-founder of Liberty Records. In his role as chief of engineering at the label and afterward, Keep introduced a number of innovations to commercial sound recording. During the 1950s, Keep provided the synchronization process that allowed Ross Bagdasarian to combine his speed-doubled voice technique with full orchestration on "The Witch Doctor" and the series of Chipmunks recordings. For the latter, Keep received Grammy Awards in 1959 and 1960. - Myles Jeffrey
At Ten years old Myles has already been acting half his young life. In these few short years he has earned numerous film and television credits along with awards for his efforts. His voice is very unique and has also been part of his work. ... Myles has been involved in numerous feature films. Watch for the just released "Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire" . Also recently released on the Disney Channel is "Stepsister from Planet Weird" . - Daniel Inouye
Daniel Inouye is the eldest son of Japanese immigrants who worked on the Hawaiian sugar plantations where Daniel was born and raised. He lived in what he described as a Japanese-American ghetto. He went to the local Hawaiian school, at which the student body was 90% ethnic Japanese. As a young boy, Daniel accidentally fell and broke his left arm in a terrible compound fracture. The local doctor, an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, set the arm. It mended, but not well. - Aaron Duran
I am the founder and head writer of GeekintheCity.com, a website devoted to the latest in movies, comics, tabletop games, digital pastimes, and all things Geek. My fascination with comics, film, music, and obscure trivia has transformed into a lifelong pursuit of pop culture knowledge. - Stewart Jordan
I am MD of PBC Ltd. We operate in a number of business areas, including working in the arena of sports promotion. This means negotiating with sponsors, suppliers, merchandising and developing exciting promotion opportunities. We provide sponsorship and brand awareness consultation as well as individual athlete management, appearances at corporate events and event promotion. I am also General Manager of a recruitment company and IT services organisation based in London
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