- Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the "Blade" trilogy of movies. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. On April 24, 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor convictions for willful failure to file federal income tax returns.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Bekmambetov (born 25 June 1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (present Atyrau, Kazakhstan)) is an Russian-Kazakh film and advertisement director living in Russia. He was one of the authors of the popular "World History" advertisement series for Bank Imperial between 1992 and 1997. He was the director of the 2004 film "Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)", a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko, and its sequel, …
- Scott Weinger
Scott Eric Weinger (born October 5 1975) is an American actor and screenwriter best known as the speaking voice of Aladdin in Walt Disney's eponymous feature film. Weinger would reprise the role in two direct-to-video sequels and for the Disney Channel television series.
- Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun (born 1954) is a Hawaiian film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs.
- Mary Kay Bergman
Mary Kay Bergman (June 5, 1961 - November 11, 1999) was an American voice actress with numerous roles and bit parts in television, movies, direct-to-video animation, and advertising. She is best known for voicing many characters in "South Park".
- Eddie Kaye Thomas
Eddie Kaye Thomas (born October 31, 1980) is an American film, television, and stage actor who rose to prominence in 1999 as Paul Finch in "American Pie", a film that spawned two sequels and two direct-to-video spin-offs. Thomas stars in the sitcom "'Til Death". Thomas was born in New York City. His acting career began when he won his first stage role at age seven.
- Heather North
Heather North Kenney (born on December 13, 1950 in Pasadena, California) is an American actress and voice artist. She is most notable as having performed the voice of Daphne Blake in all incarnations of Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo" Saturday morning cartoon series from 1970 to 1979, and from 1983 to 1985. North was the second actress to voice Daphne; Stefanianna Christopherson voiced the character during the first season of "Scooby-Doo, Where are You!" in 1969.
- Mindy Cohn
While she has tried her hand at other roles, including the voice of Velma Dinkley in Cartoon Network Studios ' What's New Scooby-Doo and its direct-to-video feature spinoffs, she has not approached the success she enjoyed with The Facts of Life . She has come to peace with that, although she had said on an E! True Hollywood Story that she hated being "everybody's chubby best friend."
- Harriet Owen
Harriet Owen is an english actress who does the voices of Wendy's daughter Jane and young Wendy in the 2002 Disney direct-to-video animated film "Return to Never Land". In addition, she appeared in several movies and television series as well, including "Relative Strangers", "Animal Ark", "Castles", "Gallowglass". She will also be in Peter Pan III as Moira Bentman (Jane Bentman's daughter)
- Nicole Jaffe
Nicole Jaffe is an American actress, best known as the original voice of Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo" Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1974. Before "Scooby-Doo" began production, Jaffe had appeared in "The Trouble with Girls" with Elvis Presley (and future "Scooby-Doo" co-star Frank Welker) and in Disney's "The Love Bug". Velma was Jaffe's only voice role.
- Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. (born 1949) is an American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist. He is the son of the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise creator and renaissance man Ross Bagdasarian (a.k.a. David Seville). Bagdasarian succeeded his father as the main owner-figure of the Chipmunks franchise, which had fallen into obscurity after significant success in the late-1950s and early-1960s, …
- Jonathan Bennett
Jonathan D. Bennett (born June 10, 1981) is an American actor. Bennett was born in Toledo, Ohio. His first try at acting was in a play in the seventh grade while living in North Carolina. Shortly after that, he moved to Rossford, Ohio, where he attended Rossford High School. He graduated in 1999 and went to Otterbein College, where he was a student of the theatre program. After dropping out of college he moved to New York to pursue acting.
- Brian Trenchard-Smith
Brian Trenchard-Smith (b. 1946) is an English film and television director, producer, writer, consultant and actor. Most of his work has been in television, and the majority of his films have been direct-to-video releases. He generally works in the drama, action and horror genres. He has directed 42 movies and TV series.
- Keith Ferguson
Keith James Ferguson (born February 26, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is an American voice actor best known as the voice of "Blooregard Q. Kazoo" (or "Bloo" for short) on the Cartoon Network animated series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends". In the year 2002, he provided the voice of Peter from the anime "Mirmo!" A graduate of the University of the Pacific, Ferguson worked behind the scenes in television before becoming a voice actor, …
- Megan Ward
Megan Marie Ward (born September 24, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress best known for her numerous credits in science fiction and horror movies and television series. Ward was the youngest of four siblings, and her parents were both professional actors and drama coaches. When Ward was four years old, the family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. At the age of nine, she began doing commercials for local department stores.
- Bradley Pierce
Bradley Pierce (born October 23, 1982) is an American voice-over artist and character actor with numerous roles and bit parts in television, movies, direct-to-video animation, advertising, and video games. He played the role of Andrew Shawn Donovan IV on Days of our Lives for about a year. He is perhaps most famous for his roles as Chip in "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) and as Peter in "Jumanji" (1995).
- Geraint Wyn Davies
Geraint Wyn Davies (b. April 20 1957, Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian actor. The son of a Welsh Congregationalist preacher, he moved with his family to Canada at the age of seven, where he attended Upper Canada College. His most famous role is that of vampire turned police detective Nick Knight on the television series "Forever Knight". Previous to this role, he had also played a vampire in "Dracula: The Series".
- Cathy Cavadini
Catherine "Cathy" Cavadini (born 1961) is an American voice actress. She has done a number of voice acting roles. She does voice work for the popular Final Fantasy video game series, voices Blossom on Cartoon Network's animated television series, "The Powerpuff Girls", voices the character of Glitter on "Kidd Video" in the early 1980s, and later Jennifer Parker in "Back to the Future: the Animated Series". Also voices Mrs.
- Zoe Leader
Zoe Ann Leader (born 1949) is a voice actress who provided the voice of Sarafina in the 1994 Disney animated film "The Lion King" and its 1998 direct-to-video sequel "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride". She only had one line in each film. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles with her spouse Steve Leader.
- Matt Weinberg
Matthew Phillip Weinberg (born July 13, 1990) is an American actor. Weinberg was born in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish American family of Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish descent. His younger brother is Mike Weinberg, who is also an actor. Weinberg started acting in the late 1990s, appearing mostly on television. He had a minor role in the 2000 film, "X-Men", appeared in the 2002 comedy, "The Hot Chick", …
- Jason Dolley
Jason Scott Dolley (born July 5, 1991 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. At the age of eleven, he got the lead role in the award winning short film entitled "Chasing Daylight", where he plays a boy, who is attempting to cope with the loss of his best friend. He currently plays the role of rock-n-roll fanatic Newt Livingston on the Disney Channel series "Cory in the House".
- Stephen J. Anderson
Stephen John Anderson is a Disney storyboard artist and director of some noted Disney direct-to-video sequels. His first theatrical directorial debut came with the animated film Meet the Robinsons. Being adopted himself, Steve felt a powerful connection with the story, which is about a 12 year-old orphan named Lewis who realizes that it is best to move forward into the future rather than to dwell on the past.
- Dan Haggerty
Dan Haggerty (b. November 19, 1941 in Hollywood, California) was the burly, bearded star of TV's "Grizzly Adams". He was born in Hollywood, growing up amidst the Southern California bodybuilding lifestyle. He had early roles in "Muscle Beach Party" and the Elvis Presley film "Girl Happy". His ease in working with animals got him work as a trainer and handler for Walt Disney films, and he found steady work as a stuntman on the Ron Ely's TV show "Tarzan".
- Greg Travis
Greg Travis is an actor and stand-up comedian based in the U.S.. He created the character of "David Sleaze, The Punk Magician", in which he puts on a punk rock-style wig and does a variety of bad magic tricks using audience participation. Part of the gimmick is that the trick inevitably fails, leading his character to exclaim, "Fuck you! It's magic!". He has made appearances on several late night television shows.
- Jonathan Potts
Jonathan Potts is an actor whose career began in the late 1980s. His earliest work was as the voice of Troy Jeffries in the animated television series "Beverly Hills Teens". He is best known for providing the voice of Link from "The Legend of Zelda" animated series. He also voiced Link in the cartoon "Captain N: The Game Master". Although Potts is perhaps best known for his voice acting in video game-themed cartoons, …
- Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, comedy performer and comic-book writer. For an "Entertainment Weekly" article on direct-to-video movies passing themselves off as theatrical releases, he produced the first — and, after the article's publication, only — home video to obtain an MPAA rating.
- Lauren C. Mayhew
Lauren C. Mayhew is an American singer and actress. She was a member of the pop-quartet PYT. More recently she has made a guest appearance on CSI and appeared in the direct-to-video movie American Pie Presents: Band Camp.
- Christine Tucci
Christine Tucci (born January 19, 1967 in Katonah, New York) is an American actress. Tucci had a semi-regular role on the television series "MDs" (2002) and played Amanda Cory on the soap opera " Another World" from 1993 to 1995. She played Sergeant Welles in the movie "K-911", released direct-to-video in 1999; in 2000, she made an appearance as Dr. Kiera Behrle on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". She is sometimes credited as 'Christina Tucci'.
- Jon Keeyes
Jon Keeyes (born April 5, 1969) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for his low-budget, direct-to-video slasher films. He is a co-founder and principal of Texas-based independent film company Highland Myst Entertainment.
- John Cafiero
John Cafiero is an American punk rock musician and film director, film producer, best known as the frontman for the punk supergroup Osaka Popstar, whose debut album was released the summer 2006. The full album lineup toured the UK in September of 2006, followed by a tour of the United States and Canada with the legendary punk band The Misfits in Fiend Fest '06.
- Kevin Lindenmuth
Kevin Lindenmuth (born 1965) is a low-budget horror and documentary filmmaker, having co-produced/co-directed six documentaries since 1998 through GL Productions, as well as numerous direct-to-video sci-fi and horror movies under Brimstone Media Productions, LLC. Lindenmuth began his career with 1994's "Vampires and Other Stereotypes" and followed it with the successful vampire film "Addicted to Murder" (1995) - which spawned sequels in 1998 and 2000.
- Rick Kosick
Rick Kosick is a photographer and crew member and supporting cast member of the "Jackass TV series" and the two "Jackass" movies. Kosick started out as a freelance photographer for "Poweredge" and "Slap" skateboarding magazines and built up fame as a skateboard photographer. Kosick's photography also caught the attention of the rock band The Deftones who contracted Kosick to shoot the cover art to their Gold-selling album "Around the Fur".
- Churchill Films
Churchill Films is a producer of direct-to-video films. They have produced "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" and other award-winning children's films.
- Manabu Suzuki
Manabu Suzuki is a former racing driver, journalist, sport announcer and radio and TV presenter for the automotive industry. He is a Japanese citizen and is nicknamed Mana-P (マナＰ in katakana). Suzuki competed in the Formula Toyota and Saurus Cup until the mid nineties. When he left circuit racing behind, he became well known for working with "Option" as a writer and presenter for the magazine's offshoot video magazine, …
- José Bénazéraf
José Bénazéraf is a French filmmaker and producer, born January 8 1922 in Casablanca, Morocco. After having finished his studies in political sciences, he started his career by producing "Les lavandières du Portugal" in 1958, a film of Pierre Gaspard-Huit. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with "L'éternité pour nous". At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market.
- Mimis Theiopoulos
Mimis Theiopoulos is a veteran Greek actor, lyricist and screenwriter. Traditionally a character actor, he is mostly known from his work in Greek straight to video cinema; however, he has numerous appearances both in Greek television and stage and he has contributed to scripts of various comedies. A lesser known fact about him is his status as a lyricist of many immensely popular "laika" greek songs, including collaborations with Tolis Voskopoulos, Christos Nikolopoulos, …
- Colom Keating
Colom L. Keating is an American actor, author, comedy writer, and creator of the radio personality Mr. Manly. He has appeared in three films. In 1985 he played a detective in Confessions of a Serial Killer, in 1994 he played a cop in the movie Blank Check, and he played a fireman in the 1998 direct-to-video release One Hell of a Guy. He is the author of the book The Official Manly Manual.
- Kevin Eastman
Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962, Springvale, Maine) is an American comic book artist. He is best known as the co-creator, (in association with Peter Laird), of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eastman is the current owner, editor and publisher of the magazine "Heavy Metal". Eastman is the founder of the Words and Pictures Museum, a museum dedicated exclusively to comic book art in his hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts in 1992.
- Alexander Gould
Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American child and voice actor.
- Massimiliano Cerchi
Massimiliano Cerchi (b. May 26, 1972) is a film director and producer. In 1995, he opened his own film production company, Rounds Entertainment, which primary produces horror movies for a direct to video market.