- Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 26, 1940) is an Academy Award- Golden Globe, AFI, Bafta, Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor played such iconic roles as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Trilogy" and Tony Montana in the 1983 film "Scarface". - Scarface
Branden Terrell Jordan, better known by his stage name Scarface (born November 9, 1970 in New Jersey) is an American rapper raised in the Sunny Side neighborhood of Houston, Texas. - Big Mike
Michael Banks, better known by his stage name Big Mike, is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was originally a member of Convicts with Houston rapper Mr. 3-2. Their album would be the first of many releases Mike would put out on Houston based Rap-A-Lot Records. He made his next major appearances with the Geto Boys on the 1993 album Till Death Do Us Part. He was brought on to replace Willie D, who had left the group. - Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and internationally known American actress. In a career spanning more than 25 years, Pfeiffer has appeared in films such as "Scarface", "The Fabulous Baker Boys" and "Batman Returns". - Steven Bauer
Steven Bauer (born Esteban Echevarria y Bauer on December 2, 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is a Golden Globe nominated Cuban-American actor. He is best known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 movie "Scarface" and his role on the bilingual PBS show Que Pasa USA. His brother is political aide Nick Bauer. - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born November 17, 1958 in Lombard, Illinois) is an American actress and singer of Italian descent. Mastrantonio's first credited screen appearance was in Brian DePalma's "Scarface" as Gina Montana, sister of Al Pacino's Tony Montana. She achieved prominence in her Academy Award nominated role in "The Color of Money", opposite Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. Her other featured roles of the 1980s include "Slam Dance", … - Fat Pat
Fat Pat (born Patrick Lamont Hawkins, February 21, 1970 - February 3, 1998) was a rapper from Houston, Texas and an original member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click. Also known as Mr. Fat Pat and P-A-T, he was most prolific in the mid-1990s alongside his brother Big Hawk and longtime friend Lil' Keke. Fat Pat was signed to Wreckshop Records. - Yukmouth
Yukmouth (born Jerold Dwight Ellis, II October 18, 1974 in Oakland, California), is a rapper from East Oakland, California. He is a member of the platinum-selling rap duo Luniz along with Numskull. The Luniz recorded the successful weed anthem, "I Got 5 on It" which helped propel their album to platinum certification. He went on to sign a solo record deal at J-Prince's Rap-A-Lot Records, releasing three albums, … - 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. - Harris Yulin
Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937 in) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of Hollywood films and television movies. He first emerged in the Brian De Palma film "Scarface" (1983) as a crooked "cop" who double-crosses Al Pacino's character. Since then, Yulin has appeared in many popular films, including "Ghostbusters II", "Final Analysis", and "Clear and Present Danger". - Big Mello
Big Mello (August 7 1968 - June 15 2002), born Curtis Donnell Davis, was a rapper who was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He debuted as Big Mello in 1992 with the album "Bone Hard Zaggin'" on the Rap-A-Lot Records label. "Wegonefunkwichamind" appeared three years later without any of the usual Rap-A-Lot guest stars. Those who encountered Big Mello's deep Texas sound compared him to favorably to Scarface or Z-Ro, … - Mike Dean
Mike Dean is best known for pioneering the "Dirty South" sound with his production, innovation and style. Mike has most notably worked alongside Scarface, of the Geto Boys, Kanye West, Tupac Shakur, Do or Die, Tha Dogg Pound, Yukmouth of the Luniz, The Outlawz, C-Bo, Nate Dogg, Nevski, Tech N9ne, UGK, Z-Ro, and countless others, producing, mixing and mastering many hits and multi-platinum albums. - John Layman
John Declan Layman (born August 2, 1969) is an American comic book writer and erstwhile letterer. John Layman is a comic book and video game writer. Once an editor for Wildstorm, a branch of DC Comics, Layman turned to writing comics full-time in 2002. He mainly writes for Marvel Comics, and recent books include a solo Gambit series, House of M: Fantastic Four, and Sentinel Squad O*N*E*. Layman also has written a creator-owned graphic novel called Puffed, … - Paul Shenar
Paul Shenar (February 12, 1936 - October 11, 1989) was an American actor. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Shenar gained attention playing larger-than-life entertainment legends on 1970s television. He portrayed Orson Welles in the TV movie "The Night That Panicked America" (1975) (TV) and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in "Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women" (1978) (TV). - Karen Morley
Karen Morley (December 12, 1909 - March 8, 2003) was an American film actress. - Pepe Serna
Pepe Serna (born July 23, 1944) is an American film actor and artist. Raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, Serna came to Hollywood in 1969 after the Mexican premiere of the Broadway musical "Hair" was shut down by Mexican officials after one performance. The day after he arrived in Hollywood he met his future wife Diane, and they have been married ever since. Pepe's first break in movies came in 1970 on the Roger Corman directed film "Student Nurses". - Paul Engemann
Paul Engemann is a 1980s pop musician best-known for his 1983 song "Scarface (Push It to the Limit)". The song featured prominently in the film "Scarface", which was released in the same year. As Engemann had no further hits or other released material, he is considered to be a one-hit wonder. Together with Giorgio Moroder he landed a number one hit in Germany (81 in USA) with "Reach Out" that became the official song to the XXIIIrd Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles. - John A. Alonzo
John Alonzo (born June 12 1934 in Dallas, Texas, died March 13 2001) was an American cinematographer who pioneered hand held work, lighting techniques and HD development during his career. He has an impressive list of films, but will probably be remembered mainly for "Chinatown" (1974) and "Scarface" (1983) - Dmg
DMG ("DetriMental Ganxta") is a rapper from St. Paul, Minnesota, but based his career out of Houston, Texas on Rap-A-Lot Records. He is best known for his collaborations with Geto Boys in the 1990s. DMG was also a member of Scarface's side project, Facemob. - Mark Margolis
Mark Margolis is an American actor, who has been making movies since 1976. Margolis is perhaps most famous for his supporting roles in Scarface and in three films by Darren Aronofsky: "π", "Requiem for a Dream", and "The Fountain". Aronofsky wrote the role of Father Avila in "The Fountain" specifically for Margolis. He has had recurring roles on numerous TV shows, including "The Equalizer", HBO's "Oz", … - Cj Mac
CJ Mac (born in the Slauson Avenue of South Central Los Angeles), is an African American rap artist. He released his debut album, "True Game", on Rap-A-Lot Records in 1995 as Mad CJ Mac. He was originally going to release the album through Ruthless Records. In 1999 CJ Mac released "Platinum Game" on Mack 10's Hoo-Bangin' Records. It featured Mack 10, WC, Too Short, and TQ. He insulted Dr. Dre on one of the album's interludes. - John Lee Mahin
John Lee Mahin (b. August 23 1902, Evanston, Illinois - d. April 18 1984, Los Angeles) was a prolific screenwriter and producer. He worked from the 1930s to the 1970s. He worked on such films as "Scarface" and "The Wizard of Oz", but his name does not appear on the credits to the latter film. - Osgood Perkins
Osgood Perkins (May 16, 1892 - September 21, 1937) was an American actor. Perkins was born James Osgood Ripley Perkins in Boston, Massachusetts to Helen Virginia Anthony and Henry Phelps Perkins. Perkins made his Broadway debut in 1924 in the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play "Beggar on Horseback". Within the next dozen years he would appear in twenty-four productions, including "The Front Page" and "Uncle Vanya". - Emcee T
Shaun Tai (born March 26, 1980 in Oakland, California), best known by his stage name Emcee T is a Bay Area rapper and music producer. Emcee T has increased recognition of his hometown of Santa Rosa, California and surrounding cities including Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco and San Jose in Asian American / Chinese-American hip hop music. He currently lives in the East Bay, California. - Buddy Joe Hooker
Buddy Joe Hooker is a Hollywood actor, Second unit director, Stunt man and Stunt coordinator. He is most famous for his expertise in designing and performing vehicle stunts for movies and television. His film credits show involvement in over 150 productions. Some of his projects include: "Blazing Saddles", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Hooper", "Sharky's Machine", "Rambo: First Blood", "Octopussy", "The Right Stuff", … - William R. Burnett
William Riley Burnett, often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio. He left his civil service job there to move to Chicago when he was 28, by which time he had written over a hundred short stories and five novels, all unpublished. In Chicago he found a job as a night-clerk in a seedy hotel. - Michael Thevis
Michael George Thevis (born 1932) is an American gangster dubbed by tabloids "The Scarface of Porn" due to his rise and fall in marketing illegal pornography, multiple murders of his business associates, and eventual placement on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Starting out selling black market pornography at a corner newstand in Atlanta, Georgia, he became affiliated with a number of small-time gangsters who helped him start up his enterprise, … - Scarface Charley
Scarface Charley (1851? - December 3, 1896) was a chief of the Modoc tribe of Native Americans. He took part in the Modoc War of 1872-73 in California, and is considered to have fired the first shot at the Battle of Lost River. After the execution of Kintpuash and three of his warriors for the murder of Major General Edward Canby and Rev. - Joe Napolitano
Joe Napolitano (born March 3, 1948 in Udine, [[Italy]) is a film and television director. Denoted a New York Times Critic's Pick 1997 Contagious Director. His work includes: *Director, Earth Angel (1991) *First Assistant Director, Parenthood (1989) * First Assistant Director / Second Unit Director, Last Rites (1988) *First Assistant Director, The Untouchables (1987) *First Assistant Director, Throw Momma From the Train (1987) *First Assistant Director, … - Bryan Bracey
Bryan Bracey (born August 5 1978, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American basketball player. He played his college basketball at the University of Oregon and was a first team All-Pac-10 selection in 2001. He was chosen in the second round (58th pick overall) of the 2001 NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs who released him in 2002 - Angela Aames
Angela Aames (born February 27, 1956 in Pierre, South Dakota; died November 27, 1988 in West Hills, California) was an American actress with an able screen presence, and a promising career that was cut short. - Harry Oliver
Harry Oliver (April 4 1888 - July 4 1973) was an American humorist, artist, and Academy Award nominated art director of films from the 1920s and 1930s. Besides his outstanding work in Hollywood, he is now best remembered for his humorous writings about the American Southwest, and his publication (1946-1964) of the Desert Rat Scrap Book, an irregular broadsheet devoted to the Southwest. He was born in Hastings, Minnesota and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. - Nicolas Ghesquière
Nicolas Ghesquière is a globally recognized fashion designer and is currently creative director for the house of Balenciaga owned by the Gucci Group (Pinault-Printemps-Redoute). He was the son of a Francophone Belgian golf-course owner and manager in the 9,000 inhabitants "Poitevine" town of Loudun and a French mother who enjoyed fashion. From a young age Ghesquière enjoyed and practised sports (horse riding, … - Mr. Mr. 3-2
"Mr. 3-2" (born Chris Barriere) is a rapper based out of Houston, Texas. While signed to Rap-A-Lot Records he was involved with two groups, The Convicts and Blac Monks, and released one solo album. After leaving Rap-A-Lot, 3-2 released albums on N'yo Face and Street Game Records. He has collaborated on tracks with UGK, Scarface, 8 Ball & MJG, Lil Keke & Too Short. - Ilka Tanya Payán
Ilka Tanya Payán was a Dominican actress and attorney who later became a prominent AIDS/HIV activist in the United States. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she immigrated to the United States at the age of thirteen, settling permanently in New York City. She became widely recognized for her role in the Spanish-language telenovela "Angelica, Mi Vida" ("Angelica, My Life"). - Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement. - Greg Raymer
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, born in Minot, North Dakota and raised in Lansing, Michigan, followed a traditional path with his schooling - attending law school and becoming a licensed patent attorney. But his life took a decidedly different turn when Greg tried to use his knowledge and skills to make history. In 2004, Greg won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Championship and collected the largest purse ever paid to a winner of a poker tournament: $5 million. - Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, … - Sean Avery
By C. Fraser What struck me first and foremost about his comment is his disrespect towards women. If you are not familiar with Avery, he is an NHL player with some noteriety. He has dated several actresses including Elisha Cuthbert, who is currently dating Dion Phanuef of the Calgary Flames, and who w... - Dennis O'Keefe
Dennis O'Keefe (March 29 1908 - August 31, 1968) was an American actor. Born Edward Flanagan ("Bud"), he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States. As a small child he joined his parents' act, and later wrote skits for the stage. O'Keefe started in films as an extra in the early 1930s, and appeared in numerous films under the name "Bud Flanagan". After a small but impressive role in "Saratoga" (1937), …
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