- R.J. Reynolds
Richard Joshua "R.J." Reynolds (1850-1918) was an American businessman and founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolds was born in 1850 in Patrick County, Virginia. The son of a tobacco farmer, he sold his share of the family business in 1874 and moved south to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to start his own tobacco company. Reynolds was a savvy business man and a hard worker, and he quickly became one of the wealthiest citizens of Winston-Salem. - Sue Gunter
Sue Gunter (May 22, 1939, Walnut Grove, Mississippi, USA - August 4,2005) was a women's college basketball coach. She is best known as the head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team. In Gunter's 22 years as the head coach at LSU (1982-2004), the Lady Tigers played in 14 NCAA Tournaments and two WNITs. Gunter led LSU to one Final Four in 2004 and to the Elite Eight in 1986, 2000 and 2003. - Bobby Helms
Bobby Helms was an American singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957. - David McLean
David McLean (May 19, 1922 - October 12 1995) was an American film and television actor, best-known for appearing in many Marlboro television and print advertisements, starting in the early 1960s. McLean also starred as the title character in the short-lived 1960 western "Tate", and appeared in numerous television series' and feature films in the '60s and '70s. A lifelong smoker, McLean started suffering from emphysema in 1985, and had a tumour removed in 1994. - Lois Wilson
Lois Wilson née Burnham was the founder of Al-Anon, a support group for the friends and family of alcoholics. She was the wife of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill W. She was born into affluence in Brooklyn Heights with her father being a prominent surgeon and gynecologist. Abraham Lincoln's grandchildren were playmates of her siblings when they were young and they attended prestigious schools. - Doris Troy
Doris Troy was an R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul." She was born Doris Payne in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir. She was working as an usherette at the Apollo where she was discovered by the 'Godfather of Soul', James Brown. Troy worked with Solomon Burke, The Drifters, Cissy Houston, … - Freddie Garrity
Freddie Garrity (14 November 1936, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK – 19 May 2006, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK) was the singer, frontman and comical element in the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers. In the early years of the band, Garrity's official birthdate was given as 14 November 1940 to make him appear younger and therefore more appealing to the youth market who bought the majority of records sold in England at the time. - Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 - June 18, 2000) was an American actress. Born in Buffalo, New York, Marchand was perhaps best known for her Emmy Award-nominated role of acerbic family matriarch Livia Soprano, mother of Tony Soprano, on the HBO series, "The Sopranos". She created the role of Hester Crane, mother of Frasier Crane, on "Cheers", … - Dave Swarbrick
David Cyril Eric 'Dave' Swarbrick (born 5 April 1941 in New Malden) is an English folk musician. He plays violin, viola, mandolin, and guitar, and sings. - John Agar
John G. Agar was a Hollywood actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He starred alongside John Wayne in the films "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", but was later relegated to B-Movies, such as "Tarantula", "The Mole People", "The Brain from Planet Arous" and "Hand of Death". Agar was educated at Harvard School for Boys and Lake Forest Academy in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Pawling Prep in Pawling, New York, … - James Franciscus
James Grover Franciscus was a leading and supporting American actor. He was born in Clayton, Missouri. His first big role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the TV version of" The Naked City". Although he performed in many feature films and television programs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Franciscus is probably best known for his title roles in two TV series, "Mr. - Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey (born Irving Lee Dorsey, December 24 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana - died December 1 1986 in New Orleans) was an Afro-American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his best work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by The Meters. Born in New Orleans, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. - William Hickey
William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 - June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He was known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film "Prizzi's Honor". Hickey was born in Brooklyn to Nora and Edward Hickey, who were of Irish descent. He had an older sister, Dorothy Finn. Hickey began acting in radio in 1938. Hickey enjoyed a long and successful career in film, television and theater. In addition to his work as an actor, … - John Cipollina
John Cipollina was a lead guitarist best known for his work with the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. He pronounced his surname with the Italian "C" (Chipollina). Born in Berkeley, California, he attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California (as did his brother, Mario Cipollina, who at age 15 joined his brother in a band called 'Copperhead.' Mario later played with Huey Lewis). He showed great promise as a classical pianist in his youth, … - Bill Kennedy
Willard "Bill" Kennedy was an American actor, voice artist, and host of the long-running Detroit based television show "Bill Kennedy at the Movies." Kennedy's voice is heard doing the opening narration of the television series "Adventures of Superman." Kennedy had been a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1940s and appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies from 1941 through 1955. He was often cast as a police officer or detective. - Don Cornell
Don Cornell was a popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s. Born in New York City, Cornell got his start with trumpeter Red Nichols and bandleader Sammy Kaye before going solo. He sold over 50 million records. Among his hits were "It Isn't Fair," "I'm Yours," "I'll Walk Alone," and "Hold My Hand." In 1993, he was inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame. Cornell died in Aventura, Florida from emphysema and diabetes at the age of 84. - John McIntire
John McIntire was an American character actor. The craggly-faced film actor was born in Spokane, Washington and raised in Montana, growing up with ranchers and cowboys which would eventually inspire his performances in dozens of westerns later in life. The USC graduate began his acting career in radio and on stage. McIntire began his long movie career in 1947 often playing roles as police chiefs, judges and sometimes crazy coots. - Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland was a manager at Lord & Taylor, a fashion editor at "Vogue" and the only fashion editor at "LIFE" for 25 years. Born Sarah Phinney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, she was the daughter of Col. Robert Phinney. She had one brother Robert Phinney, Jr., who was a Vice President of Braniff. She married Frederic McMichael Kirkland, the son of a wealthy main line Philadelphia family. They were the parents of actress Sally Kirkland. - Harry Brown
Harry Peter McNab Brown, Jr. was a novelist and screenwriter. Born in Portland, Maine, he was educated at Harvard University, where he was friends with American poet, Robert Lowell. He wrote the novel "A Walk in the Sun", which was made into a film in 1945. As a screenwriter, Brown worked on films including "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), and "Ocean's Eleven" (1960). - Margaret Scott
Margaret Scott (1934 - August 29, 2005) was a Tasmanian author and poet. Margaret and her family migrated to Tasmania from Bristol in 1959. In 1978 she received her PhD from the University of Tasmania, and was head of the English department at the University until 1989. Her publications include four books of poetry, two novels, a libretto and numerous articles. She became well know in Australia in the 1990s as a regular guest on the television show "Good News Week". - Harry Carey
Harry Carey (January 16, 1878 - September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars. - Jack Finney
Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers. Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was given the name John Finney. After his father died when he was three years old, he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honor of his father, but continued to be known as "Jack" throughout his life. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He married Marguerite Guest and they had two children, Kenneth and Marguerite. - Brad Dexter
Brad Dexter in Goldfield, Nevada of Serbian parentage. Burly, dark and handsome, Brad Dexter was usually given supporting roles of a rugged character. Early in his acting career, he went by the name of Barry Mitchell. After having a stint as an amateur boxer, Dexter attended the Pasadena Playhouse where he studied theatre. During World War II he was enlisted for military service. His career in Hollywood spanned over four decades. - J. Carrol Naish
Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (21 January 1897 - 24 January 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's "Life with Luigi", topping Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings. Naish appeared on stage for several years before he began his film career. He began as a member of Gus Edwards's vaudeville troupe of child performers. - Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen was an American actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. At war's end, he went to Los Angeles where he found work as an unskilled laborer. By a stroke of pure luck, he was given an opportunity to act, appearing at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies. - Elizabeth Dawn
Elizabeth Dawn MBE (aka Liz Dawn, born Sylvia Butterfield on November 8, 1939 in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough) is an English actress, best known for her role as Vera Duckworth in the long running British soap opera, "Coronation Street". First starting on the serial in 1974, she had more of a recurring role as a factory worker until her husband, Jack, … - Paul Avery
Paul Avery (1934 - December 10, 2000) was an American journalist best known for his involvement in the Zodiac Killer and Patricia Hearst cases. He was born in Honolulu, the son of U.S. Navy officer. He was raised and educated in Honolulu, Oakland, California, and Washington, D.C.. He started his career in journalism in 1955 working at a variety of newspapers before joining the "San Francisco Chronicle" in 1959. - Takashi Shimura
was one of the great Japanese actors of the last century. Born in Ikuno, Japan, one of his earliest film roles was in Kenji Mizoguchi's "Osaka Elegy" (1936). After Toshiro Mifune, Shimura was probably the next most closely associated actor with Akira Kurosawa. Shimura appeared in many of Kurosawa's most important movies - as well as many lesser known ones - in such roles as the lead samurai in "Seven Samurai", the woodcutter in "Rashomon", … - Gail Fisher
Gail Fisher (born August 18, 1935 in Orange, New Jersey; died December 2, 2000 in Culver City, California) was an African American actress, best known for her role as secretary "Peggy Fair" on the television detective series "Mannix", which she played from 1968 through 1975. In 1970, Fisher became the first black performer to win an Emmy Award when she won the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. - Stan Richards
Stanley "Stan" Richards (8 December, 1930 - 11 February, 2005) was a British television actor, best known for his portrayal of the lovable rogue and ex-gamekeeper, Seth Armstrong, in popular ITV soap serial "Emmerdale" (formerly "Emmerdale Farm"). - Charmion King
Charmion King (July 251925 - January 6 2007) was one of Canada's leading actresses. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Charmion King was part of the country's burgeoning theatre and television scene in the decade of the 1950s. Fresh out of the University of Toronto's Hart House, she quickly became known for her fresh beauty and roles at the new Crest Theatre and their Straw Hat Players summer circuit in the Muskoka Lake district. - Ted Weems
Wilfred Theodore (Ted) Weems (originally Wemyes) (26 September, 1901 - 6 May, 1963) was a United States bandleader and musician. Born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, Weems learned to play the violin and trombone. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he and his brother Art organized a small dance band. Going professional in 1923, Weems toured for the MCA Corporation, recording for several years on Victor Records. - Oliver Smith
Oliver Smith was one of the most distinguished and prolific Tony Award-winning scenic designers in American theatre history. Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Carson McCullers, and Agnes de Mille. - Joseph Green
Joseph Green, born Yoysef Grinberg, a.k.a. Josef Grünberg, Joseph Greenberg and Joseph Greene, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish theater and one of the few directors of Yiddish language films; he made four films including "A brivele der mamen" ("A Letter to Mother") and "Yidl mitn fidl" ("Yiddle and his Fiddle") both of which he also wrote. - Esther Wong
Esther Wong was born August 13, 1917 in Shanghai, China, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She was a punk rock and New Wave music promoter. She got started as the owner of "Madame Wong's" clubs, and when Polynesian bands weren't filling her restaurants, she decided to try booking rock bands in 1978. Notable bands that she showcased included a "Who's who" of rock music. They included The Knack, The Police, The Motels, The Go-Gos, Oingo Boingo, The Kempsters and The Ramones. - Walter Burke
Walter Burke (August 25, 1908-August 4,1984) was an Irish-American television actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died of emphysema in California. Walter Burke began his career in films of the late 1940s, but quickly moved to television roles, where he was frequently seen until the late 1970s. He appeared in the Oscar-winning film All the King's Men (1949). - Arthur English
Arthur English (May 9 1919 - April 16 1995) was an English comedian from the music hall tradition. English was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. After serving in the army in World War II, reaching the rank of Sergeant, English worked as a painter and decorator in his native town. He polished up his comedy routines at this time and eventually appeared at the Windmill Theatre in London and did much other stage work. - Pat Coombs
Pat Coombs was an English actress. Coombs was one of Britain's great character actresses, specialising in the portrayal of the eternal downtrodden female — comically under the thumb of stronger personalities. She was known for many roles on radio, film and television sitcoms. She died aged 75 from complications arising from emphysema at Denville Hall actors' home, Northwood. - John Junkin
John Francis Junkin (January 29, 1930, Ealing, London - March 7, 2006, Aylesbury) was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of "Sparrows Can't Sing". A few years later he joined the Royal Court Theatre company and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of his last work for British television. - Jim Siedow
Jim Siedow (June 12, 1920 - November 20, 2003) was an American actor, best known for his role in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre". Siedow was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He began acting in his high school drama class, and later on, moved to New York City, New York, where he started appearing in theatre productions. During World War II, Siedow served with the Army Air Corps, and after the war, Siedow moved to Chicago, Illinois and started doing radio work.
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