- Jack Webb
John Randolph "Jack" Webb (April 2 1920 - December 23 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director and writer who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series "Dragnet". He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Productions. - Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsburg on April 10, 1915 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American television actor of Norwegian extraction. He graduated from Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan. He is perhaps best known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on "M*A*S*H", "Pete" on "Pete and Gladys" and "December Bride", and Detective Bill Gannon on "Dragnet". - Tom Mankiewicz
Tom Mankiewicz (born June 1, 1942) is an American screenwriter and director. A graduate of Yale University, he is the son of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the nephew of Herman J. Mankiewicz. Tom Mankiewicz wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for "Mother Jugs and Speed", "The Cassandra Crossing" and "The Eagle Has Landed". He also wrote the book for the short-lived 1970 Broadway musical "Georgy". - Ray Anthony
Ray Anthony (born Raymond Antonioni, January 20 1922, in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. As a child Anthony moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began studying the trumpet with his father. He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940-1941 before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he formed his own group. The Ray Anthony Orchestra became very popular in the early 1950s, … - Desmond Harrington
Desmond Harrington (born October 19, 1976 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor, who gained fame through movies like "The Hole", "Wrong Turn" and "Ghost Ship". - Alexandra Paul
Alexandra Paul (born July 29, 1963 in New York City) is an American actress. She is probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series "Baywatch" from 1992 to 1997. She has appeared in over 50 movies and television programs. Apart from "Baywatch", Paul is also known for her roles in movies like "Christine" (1983), the sleeper "American Flyers" (1985), … - Barton Yarborough
Barton Yarborough (October 2 1900, Goldthwaite, Texas - December 19 1951, Pasadena, California) was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama. As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s. In 1932 he began a long run as Clifford Barbour "One Man's Family", continuing in the role throughout his life. While on this series in the late 1930s, … - Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry (born June 13, 1978) is an American actor. Embry was born in Huntington Beach, California to Karen (Daugherty) and Charles Rendall. He started acting in 1991, at age 13. Embry changed his last name to Embry in 1996. He married Amelinda Smith on 14 November 1998. They had one child together, Cogeian Sky Embry, born 10 December 1999. Embry and Smith divorced in 2002. Ethan was engaged to actress Katharine Towne. - Kent McCord
Kent McCord (born September 26, 1942) is an American actor. McCord was born Kent Franklin McWhirter in Los Angeles, California. Using the stage name Kent McCord, he first appeared on television in 1962 as a guest on "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet". He became a close friend of Ricky Nelson and made several more appearances on the show over the next few years, as well as landing small parts in three Elvis Presley films. - Virginia Gregg
Virginia Gregg Burket (March 6, 1916 - September 15, 1986) was an American actress. Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, Gregg was a prolific radio actor, in addition to her work in film and television. She is best known for her voice acting in the role of Norman Bates' mother in the movie "Psycho". She died from lung cancer in Encino, California. Virginia Gregg was one of the core of a dozen actors and actresses in the "Dragnet" company, … - George Fenneman
George Watt Fenneman was a radio and television announcer. He was born in Beijing, China and grew up in San Francisco, California. He graduated from San Francisco State College in 1942 and worked as a radio correspondent during World War II. His career began as a radio announcer for commercials. His most famous role was as the announcer on the Groucho Marx quiz show, "You Bet Your Life". - Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin (April 26, 1916 - July 4, 1989) was an American actor and voice artist. He is best remembered as the "Control Voice" in the original version of the TV series "The Outer Limits" (1963 - 1965). During the 1940s and 1950s, Perrin was a regular performer on old-time radio, appearing in many shows. He was a regular guest star on the radio version of Gunsmoke and wrote at least one script for that show. - Harry Bartell
Harry Bartell (November 28, 1913 - February 26, 2004) was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s. Bartell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Houston, where he got his start at station KRPC. - Parley Baer
Parley Baer (5 August 1914 - 22 November 2002) was an American character actor in film, television, and radio. - Olan Soule
Olan Soule (February 29, 1909 - February 1, 1994) was an American radio and television actor. As a voice actor, he did the voice of Batman/Bruce Wayne in the "Super Friends" cartoons of the early-1970s before giving the role over to Adam West in 1983. Born in La Harpe, Illinois to Elbert and Ann Williams Soule (descendants of three Mayflower passengers), Olan left Illinois at the age of seven in favor of Des Moines, Iowa. - John Stephenson
John Stephenson (born August 9, 1923 in Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American voice actor. He has also been credited as "John Stevenson." For several decades, Stephenson worked for Hanna-Barbera Productions, providing supporting voices for many of its 1960s and 1970s animated television series, including "Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy", "Top Cat", "Scooby-Doo", "The Jetsons", and "Jonny Quest", among many others. - William Boyett
William Boyett (1927 - December 29, 2004) was an American actor best known for his work as the low-key but authoritative Sgt. Macdonald on the police drama "Adam 12". "Adam 12" producer Jack Webb recommended him for the role after his performance in an episode of Webb's "Dragnet", and Boyett stayed with the series for its entire 1968-1975 run. Boyett appeared in a number of TV shows, such as "Highway Patrol", "Perry Mason", … - Sam Edwards
Sam Edwards (born May 26, 1915 in Macon, Georgia; died July 28, 2004 in Durango, Colorado) was an American actor. His most famous role on TV was as the banker in the TV series "Little House on the Prairie". Born into a showbusiness family, his first role was as a baby in his mother's arms. He appeared on radio in the 1930s in the "Adventures of Sonny and Buddy" one of the first radio serials ever syndicated, and later in "The Edwards Family", … - Barry Williams
Barry William Blenkhorn (born September 30, 1954), known professionally as Barry Williams, is an American actor best known for his role as Greg Brady in the ABC television series "The Brady Bunch". Williams was born in Santa Monica, California to Doris May Moore and Canadian-born Frank Millar Blenkhorn. He decided as a very young child that he wanted to be an actor, and in 1967 he made his television debut in an episode of "Dragnet". - Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweibel (born 1950) is a producer and writer on such productions as "Saturday Night Live", PBS' "Great Performances", and "It's Garry Shandling's Show". Born in Brooklyn, Alan Zweibel grew up in Wantagh and Woodmere, New York and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1968 and The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1972. He co-wrote the movie "Dragnet" and articles for magazines such as "Mad", … - Jack Kruschen
Jack Kruschen (March 20, 1922 - April 2, 2002) was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in American film, television, and radio. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kruschen began his career in the 1940s as staple of West Coast radio drama. He had regular or recurring roles on "Broadway Is My Beat" (as Sgt. Muggavan), and "Pete Kelly's Blues" (as Red, the bass player), as well as frequent episodic roles on anthology series, Westerns, and crime dramas. - Zachary Quinto
Zachary J. Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor who is most famously known for his roles as Adam Kaufman on "24", Sasan on "So NoTORIous" and Gabriel "Sylar" Gray on NBC's "Heroes". - Herb Vigran
Herbert "Herb" Vigran (June 5, 1910, Cincinnati, Ohio - November 29, 1986, Los Angeles, California) was a well known character actor in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Vigran's family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where he grew up. He graduated with a law degree from Indiana University Law School but later chose to pursue acting. After starting out on Broadway, he soon moved to Hollywood and performed in radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, … - Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes (born November 13, 1919 - died August 27, 1995) was an American film actress. Born in Alton, Illinois, she became an actress as a child, Hughes was offered a movie contract in 1938 which began her film career. She was married to actor Ted North from 1943 until their divorce in 1947. In the early sixties she entertained as a nightclub singer after briefly leaving show business. - Jack Sheldon
Jack Sheldon (born November 30, 1931) is an American bebop and West Coast jazz trumpeter, singer, and actor. Sheldon was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He originally became known through his participation in the West Coast jazz movement of the 1950s, performing and recording with such figures as Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan, and Curtis Counce. In the 1960s Sheldon starred in his own TV series "Run Buddy Run", and played trumpet, … - Shaaron Claridge
Shaaron Claridge, now retired, was a second-shift "radiotelephone operator" or police radio dispatcher at the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Women were primarily desired as police radio dispatchers because LAPD Psychologists thought that women's voices would have a more soothing and calming effect over the airway. The idea was that should an officer (male) have been pinned down by gunfire and/or wounded, yet was still within radio contact, … - Dick Cathcart
Charles Richard Cathcart (born November 6, 1924 - died November 8, 1993) was an American Dixieland trumpet player. Born and raised in Michigan City, Indiana; Cathcart was best known as a member of the Lawrence Welk orchestra, in which he appeared on the Maestro's television program from 1962 to 1968. Before that, he played with bands led by Ray Noble and Ben Pollack and had stints with Bob Crosby and Alvino Rey. - 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, … - William H. Parker
William H. Parker (June 21, 1902 - July 16, 1966) was a police chief of the Los Angeles, California Police Department. The headquarters for the LAPD, the Parker Center, was named after him. He was the longest reigning police chief and served on the force 39 years (starting on August 8, 1927). Parker was originally born in South Dakota. He became police chief on August 9, 1950 and is credited with transforming the LAPD into a world renowned law enforcement agency. - Henry Corden
Henry Corden (January 6, 1920 - May 19, 2005) was an American actor and voice artist best-known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone on "The Flintstones" after Alan Reed died in 1977. His debut as Fred's new voice was on the syndicated "Fred Flintstone and Friends" in 1977. (He also provided the singing voice for Reed in the 1966 theatrical film, "The Man Called Flintstone"). Corden gave his voice to a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, … - Richard Crane
Richard Crane was a veteran character actor whose career spanned three decades in films and television. His early career included many uncredited performances in feature films. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the title role in the tv science fiction series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger", which ran for one season in 1954. He also appeared in the outer-space adventure serial "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" in 1953, … - Donna Deitch
Donna Deitch is an American film director best known for her 1986 film 'Desert Hearts'. The film was groundbreaking as one of the first releases to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream, albeit art house, vein but with positive and respectful themes. Deitch also directed the mini series The Women of Brewster Place (1989 television). Her partner is writer Terri Jentz. - Allene Roberts
Allene Roberts (born September 1, 1928) was born in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. She starred in twelve movies between 1947 and 1954 and appeared on TV in "Four Star Theater", "Adventures of Superman" and "Dragnet". She now resides in Huntsville, Alabama. - Kevin Hagen
Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928, Chicago, Illinois - July 9, 2005) was an American actor. Born to professional ballroom dancers, Hagen was raised by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. He worked for the US State Department in Germany, and had spent a year in law school at UCLA after attending Oregon State University and the University of Southern California before he decided to try acting at the age of 27. - Nicole Dehuff
Nicole Renee DeHuff (January 6, 1975 in Antlers, Oklahoma - February 16, 2005 in Los Angeles) was an American actress. DeHuff earned a bachelor's degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. She was married to director Ari Palitz, also from Carnegie Mellon. In "Meet the Parents", Ben Stiller's character accidentally breaks her nose during a volleyball game. She had a regular role in the 2002 TV series "The Court" and appeared in "CSI: Miami", … - Peter Jankowski
Peter Jankowski is an Executive Producer of Law & Order and a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross. Mr. Jankowski also holds Executive Producer credits from TV shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Conviction, Dragnet, Crime and Punishment, Deadline ,D.C., Arrest & Trial, Always Roses, and How Else and I Supposed to Live. Outside links: - Peter Aykroyd
Peter Hugh Aykroyd was born to Lorraine and Peter Aykroyd in Canada. He is the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd. Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The two were also on the popular NBC sketch show "Saturday Night Live". Peter was a cast member and writer from 1979-1980, the fifth season. He is also a song writer and performer. - Bernie Brillstein
Bernie Brillstein (b. April 26, 1931, in New York City, New York) is a film and television producer and executive producer. A nephew of the pioneering radio comic Jack Pearl, Brillstein had an early start in show business in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency (WMA) in New York. He worked his way up to talent agent and by the 1960s he was a manager-producer of television programming for the company. - Josh Cooke
Josh Cooke (born November 22, 1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who played the lead role of Nate Solomon in NBC's 2005 sitcom "Committed." Cooke has also appeared in guest roles in "Without a Trace", "Century City", Once and Again, 10-8 and "Dragnet". In 2006, Cooke starred in NBC's new primetime sitcom, "Four Kings", and the ABC sitcom "Big Day", both of which failed. - Lyn Murray
Lyn Murray was a composer, conductor, and arranger of music for radio, film and television. Born Lionel Breeze in London, he arrived on American shores to found the Lyn Murray Singers, who became well-known throughout the United States as the featured group on CBS radio’s "Your Hit Parade". Murray worked as a conductor, arranger and producer for CBS (with such artists as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Burl Ives) prior to switching networks in 1947 to NBC.
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