- Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. - Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle, born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios. Laemmle produced or was otherwise involved in over four hundred films. Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Laemmle was born on the Radstrasse just outside the former Jewish quarter of Laupheim, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, … - W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century-a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women. - Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman started out as a booking agent for the Music Corporation of America (MCA) under its founder Dr. Jules Stein. - Colin Clive
Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein". Clive was born in St. Malo, France to a British colonel and attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor. - Deanna Durbin
Deanna Durbin (born Edna Mae Durbin on December 4, 1921, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to English immigrant parents) is a popular singer and actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. Changing her name to Deanna Durbin at the commencement of her career, Durbin signed a contract with MGM in 1935 and made her first film appearance in a short subject "Every Sunday" with another contractee, Judy Garland. - Edward van Sloan
Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881-6 March 1964) was a film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. His best-remembered roles were in the Universal horror films of the early 1930s, including "Dracula" (1931), "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Mummy" (1932). In the first of these, he played Abraham van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter, … - Glenn Strange
Glenn Strange (August 16 1899 - September 20 1973) was an American actor. Most of his film appearances were in Western movies.He also appeared in "The Mad Monster" which he did for Producers Releasing Corporation. Strange made that film in 1942. He is also known for his appearances as Universal Studios' "Frankenstein's Monster" (the role created by Boris Karloff in 1931's "Frankenstein"), which he began in 1944, … - Randal Kleiser
Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director and producer. Randal Kleiser has directed several feature films, including "Grease" (1978), Other features include "The Blue Lagoon" (1980) with Brooke Shields, "Summer Lovers" (1982) with Daryl Hannah, "Grandview, U.S.A." (1984) with Jamie Lee Curtis, "Flight of the Navigator" (1986), featuring the first use of digital morphing in a film, … - Joey Travolta
Joey Travolta (born 14 October 1950) in Englewood, NJ is an American actor, singer, and director. Travolta graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey in 1969. Travolta began a singing career in 1978 as a recording artist on Casablanca Records. The following year he made his acting debut starring in the feature film "Sunnyside" for Filmways Productions. He is the elder brother of the Academy Award-nominated actor John Travolta. - Adam Herz
Adam Herz (b. September 10 1972, New York City) is an American screenwriter and producer. He founded the production company Terra Firma Films in 2003 with a first-look deal at Universal Studios. - Mae Clarke
Mae Clarke (August 16, 1910 - April 29, 1992) was an American film actress. Mae Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started her career as a dancer and subsequently starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original "The Front Page" (1931) and the first sound version of "Frankenstein" (1931) with Boris Karloff. Clarke played the role of Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee in "Frankenstein", … - Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American actress. Born Rosetta Jacobs to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles when she was young. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan (whom she dated a couple of times before his marriage to Nancy Davis) in "Louisa". - Mike Medavoy
Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures, former chairman of TriStar Pictures and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures. Born in the Shanghai ghetto to Holocaust survivors, he started out in the Universal Studios mailroom in 1964. He was promoted to casting director at Universal and then became an agent in 1965 at General Artist Corporation, … - Angelica Bridges
Angelica Bridges is an American actress, model and singer. She is married to NHL defenceman Sheldon Souray of the Edmonton Oilers. She stands 5' 8½". Her measurements are 35-24-35. She and her daughter Valentina Raine Souray, born on September 22, 2003 live in Los Angeles, USA after her separation from Sheldon last year. She was discovered by the president of Elite Model Management when she was singing at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. - Corey Burton
Corey Burton (born August 3, 1955), is an animation voice actor. Burton began his voice career at age 17, doing a sound-alike for Disney as Hans Conreid. He studied radio acting with the legendary Daws Butler "Time for Beany," "Merrie Melodies," "Yogi Bear" for several years, and went on to work with nearly all of the original Hollywood radio actors in classic style radio dramas. - Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent (April 19, 1930 - July 8, 1994) was born Richard Stanford Cox in Carmel, California. He was an American actor probably best remembered as "the second Darrin Stephens" on the hit television series "Bewitched", although Sargent had been appearing in films since his debut in 1956. When Dick York was forced to leave "Bewitched" series due to health problems, Sargent stepped into the role. - Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born May 1, 1917 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France) is a French singer and actress. - Henry Bumstead
Lloyd Henry Bumstead (March 17 1915 - May 24 2006) was an American cinematic art director and production designer. In a career that spanned over fifty-five years he won two Academy Awards: the first for "To Kill a Mockingbird", and the second for "The Sting". In addition, he was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". - Bobby Jordan
Bobby Jordan (April 1 1923 - September 10 1965) was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York. He was a talented toddler and by the time he was 6 years old he could sing, tap dance and play the saxophone. At the age of four, he was working in a Christmas Carol film. His mother took him to talent shows in and around Harrison, New York. He also modelled for newspaper and magazine advertisements, and appeared in short films and radio programs. - Rex Reason
Rex Reason (born in Berlin, Germany on November 30, 1928) is an American actor. Reason was born in Berlin while his parents were there on business. Reason appeared in several films and television shows throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He started his career at Universal Studios under the name "Bart Roberts", and is perhaps best remembered for his role as a scientist Cal Meachum in the 1950's sci-fi cult classic "This Island Earth". - Mary Philbin
Mary Philbin was a notable film actress of the silent film era. Philbin is probably best remembered for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film "The Phantom of the Opera " opposite screen legend Lon Chaney and Dea in "The Man Who Laughs". Both of these roles cast her as the beauty in a Beauty and the Beast-type story. Born in Chicago, Illinois into a middle-class Irish American Catholic family, … - Barbara Payton
Barbara Payton was an American movie actress. Born in Cloquet, Minnesota, the daughter of restaurateurs, and raised in Odessa, Texas, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in movies at the age of nineteen in 1948, and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she began appearing in movie bit parts. After being discovered by James Cagney and his producer brother William, Payton starred in Cagney’s "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" in 1950. - Susan Cabot
Susan Cabot (born July 9, 1927; died December 10, 1986) was an American actress. Born Harriet Shapiro to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her education in New York, New York, and found employment as an illustrator. She supplemented her income by working as a singer, and also worked in theater. - William Reynolds
William Reynolds is a retired American television and movie actor. He is best known for TV roles in the 1960s and 1970s. Reynolds’ mother died when he was five years old, and he was sent to boarding schools. He eventually attended Pasadena City College and worked in their radio department. After a talent agent spotted the handsome, capable actor in some minor theatrical roles, … - Rupert Julian
Rupert Julian (January 25, 1879 - December 27, 1943) was a cinema actor, director, writer and producer. Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Rupert Julian performed on stage and in film in his native New Zealand and Australia before emigrating to the United States in 1911, starting his career as an actor in Universal silent movies. He turned to directing in 1915, often directing his wife Elsie Jane Wilson, … - Stephen Macht
Stephen Macht (born May 1, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Macht was raised in Brooklyn Heights, NY, until his father's death. At age nine, he moved with his mother and older brother to live with his maternal grandfather, a haberdasher, in Mystic, CT. After graduating from Dartmouth College (where he roomed with future actor Michael Moriarty), … - Albert Zugsmith
Albert Zugsmith (1910 - 1993) was an American film producer and director who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in journalism, Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, … - Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton (April 22, 1894 - February 2, 1946) had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood, California B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features, due to his acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland. - Lois Weber
Lois Weber (June 13 1881 - November 13 1939) was an American silent film actor, producer and director, and was the first woman to direct a full-length feature film when she directed "The Merchant of Venice" in 1914. Weber was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhood), where she was apparently an excellent pianist. She ran away from home hoping to pursue a singing career in New York City. - Jordan Kerner
Jordan Kerner is an American producer. He studied film and political science at Stanford University in Stanford, California. He received his MBA and his JD at University of California in Berkeley and San Francisco, respectively. Kerner started off his career at CBS-TV. In 1978, he switched to Universal and NBC, taking the position of director of program development. Two years later, he also took on the task of developing QM Productions. - Helen Parrish
Helen Parrish (March 23, 1924 in Columbus, Georgia – Hollywood, California) was a movie actress. The daughter of stage and bit film actress Laura Parrish, she started in movies at the age of five, getting her first part playing Babe Ruth's daughter in the silent film, Babe Come Home in 1927. She was then featured in "Our Gang" comedy shorts and sometimes played the lead character as a child co-starring some of the great femme stars of the day. - Constance Moore
Constance Moore (January 18, 1920 - September 16, 2005 in Los Angeles, California) was a singer and actress. Her most noted work was in wartime musicals such as "Show Business" and "Atlantic City" and the classic 1939 movie serial "Buck Rogers", in which she played Wilma Deering, the only female character in the serial. Moore was born in Sioux City, Iowa but spent most of her formative years in Dallas, Texas. - James McEachin
James McEachin (b. May 20, 1930) is an African-American actor and award-winning author most notably noted for his role as the first black man to have his own show on NBC called TENAFLY, and for his many character roles such as portraying police lieutenant Brock in the Perry Mason television movie series. As a young man, James McEachin served in the U.S. Army before, and then during the Korean War. - Barbara Kent
Barbara Kent (born December 16, 1906 in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada) was a popular actor in silent movies. Along with Anita Page and Dorothy Janis, she is among the last of the surviving players from the silent film period. Born Barbara Klowtmann, She won the Miss Hollywood Pageant in 1925. Kent began her Hollywood career in 1925 in a small role for Universal Studios. A vivacious brunette, less than five feet tall, … - Lois Wilson
Lois Wilson (June 28, 1894 - March 3, 1988) was an American actress best known for her work during the silent film era. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilson's family moved to Alabama when she was still very young. After becoming a schoolteacher, Wilson moved to California when she won a beauty contest put on by Universal Studios in 1915. Upon arriving in Hollywood Lois secured a small part in "The Dumb Girl of Portici" which starred the ballerina Anna Pavlova. - Josephine Hutchinson
Josephine Hutchinson (November 10 1903 - June 4 1998) was an American actress. She was born in Seattle, Washington, and made her film debut at the age of thirteen. She later attended the Cornish School of Music and Drama, in Seattle, and then moved to New York City where she began acting in theater. She was pretty, confident, and by the late 1920s was one of the few who could make the transition from silent movies to talkies. - Del Lord
Del Lord (October 7, 1894 - March 23, 1970) was a film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films. Lord was born in the small town of Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Interested in the theatre, he traveled to New York City then when fellow Canadian, Mack Sennett offered him a job at his new Keystone Studios, Lord went on to work in Hollywood, California. There, he played the driver of the Keystone Kops police van, … - Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw, born Peter Pullen, (June 24 1918 - January 22, 2003) was an actor/producer and a longtime husband of actress Angela Lansbury. Born in Reading, England, he began his career in front of the screen following World War II, and later found success as a studio executive at MGM. Shaw served in the British army during the second World War. He was signed to an MGM contract by the Charles Feldman Agency in the late '40s. - Micheline Presle
Micheline Presle in Paris, France is an actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle. Born Micheline Nicole Julia Emilienne Chassagne, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of "La Fessée". In 1938 she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema.
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