- Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand-Australian actor. Crowe is a recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 2000's Gladiator.
- Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, County Durham) is a English film director and producer.
- Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is an Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe award-winning film score composer from Germany.
- Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who gained international renown as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with Irish former partner Brendan Perry. Her career spans from 1981 to the present, and she has been involved in a wide range of projects. Gerrard received a Golden Globe award and her score for the 2000 film "Gladiator" received an Academy Award nomination.
- Oliver Reed
Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 - May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. His major films include "Oliver!", "Women in Love", "The Devils", "The Three Musketeers", "Tommy," "Castaway", "Lion of the Desert", and "Gladiator".
- Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated African actor, dancer and fashion model.
- John Logan
John David Gynn Logan (b. 24 September 1961) is a American screenwriter. Logan grew up between New Jersey, Mississippi and California. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1983. He worked as a playwright in Chicago before turning to screenwriting. One of his plays, "Never the Sinner", tells the story of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Logan's screenplays include "Bats", "Any Given Sunday", "RKO 281", …
- Klaus Badelt
Klaus Badelt Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1968 is a German composer, best known for composing film scores. Badelt started his musical career composing many very successful movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Klaus to come work at Media Ventures in Santa Monica, his studio co-owned by Jay Rifkin.
- David Franzoni
David Harold Franzoni (b. 4 March 1947) is an American screenwriter. His most well known movie scripts include: "King Arthur", "Gladiator", "Amistad", and "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
- Rita Faltoyano
Rita Faltoyano (born Rita Gacs on August 5, 1978 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born porn star. She grew up on a farm outside of Budapest with her godparents. It was there that she learned to ride horses and eventually began riding at competition level. In addition to being a champion equestrian she is also a gymnast and swimmer.
- Spencer Treat Clark
Spencer Treat Clark (born September 24 1987) is an American actor who has appeared in several films, including "Gladiator", "Mystic River", and "Unbreakable". Clark was born in New York City. He began his career in 1995, appearing on the television show "Another World". His film debut was in "Arlington Road" as Grant Farday. He has also appeared in "Law & Order" and "Double Jeopardy".
- Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American movie producer whose work includes producing the 5 Academy Award-winning 2000 film "Gladiator", "Stuart Little", and the 3 Academy Award-winning "Memoirs of a Geisha".
- Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan (born July 3, 1965) is a Scottish actor who has had roles in numerous movies. Flanagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the middle of five children. At the age of six, his father abandoned his mother. He grew up in a very rough area and admits to getting into some trouble, but that his mother Betty always kept him in line. In his early years Flanagan worked as a painter, decorator and disc jockey.
- Spartacus
Spartacus (ca. 120 BC – ca. 70 BC, at the end of the Third Servile War), according to Roman historians, was a gladiator-slave who became the alleged leader of an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Little is known about Spartacus beyond the events of the Third Servile War, and the historical accounts that survive of the war are sketchy and often contradictory.
- David Schofield
David Schofield (born 1951 in Manchester) is an English actor. He was one of ten children in a working-class family. His first acting experience was at Manchester boy's school at the age of 12. In 1967 he was accepted as student assistant stage manager at a local repertory theatre. He started on the lowest step of the ladder and worked in every department as a prop-maker, sound-man, writer, stage sweeper, waiter and tea-maker, putting in 14-hour days, six days a week.
- James Marshall
James Marshall (born James David Greenblatt, 2 January 1967 in Queens, New York) is an American actor, best known for playing James Hurley on the cult TV series "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991) and its 1992 prequel film "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me". He has appeared in many film and television roles including James Hurley in "Twin Peaks" (1990) and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992), Tommy Riley in "Gladiator" (1992), …
- Branko Lustig
Branko Lustig (born June 10, 1932) is a prominent film producer. He is the only Croatian person to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Croatia) to a Jewish family. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He received his first Oscar in 1993 for the production of "Schindler's List", a film based on the novel of Thomas Keneally (which is, in turn, …
- Ralf Möller
Ralf Möller is a German actor and former competitive bodybuilder. Möller was born in Recklinghausen, Germany as "Ralf Rudolf Möller". began bodybuilding at age 17 and was the German Champion by 1984. He competed in the 1988 Mr. Olympia alongside Lee Haney, Shawn Ray and other notable champions. He is the tallest bodybuilding champion to date standing at 6 ft 6 in (198 cm). Ralf began a film career in 1989 with the film "Cyborg".
- Sven-Ole Thorsen
Sven-Ole Thorsen (born September 24, 1944) is a Danish actor, stuntman, and athlete. Most of his characters are either strong silent types or foreigners, because of Thorsen's thick Danish accent, which has in some cases (like "Hard Target") led to his voice being dubbed.
- Laurie MacDonald
Laurie MacDonald is a film producer. She is married to Walter F. Parkes and is a production executive of DreamWorks SKG. Her credits include: *"The Ring" *"The Terminal" *"Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events *"The Ring Two" *"Just Like Heaven" *"Sweeney Todd" *"Men In Black" *"The Kite Runner" *"Gladiator (executive producer)
- Walter F. Parkes
Walter F. Parkes, born Walter Fishman, is a film producer. After graduating from Yale, he made the documentary "The California Reich" with partner Keith Critchlow, about the Nazi party in America. It was nominated for an oscar. Later, he wrote many notable films, such as Sneakers and Wargames, with partner, Lawrence Lasker. He married Laurie MacDonald and they became the production executives at DreamWorks. Together they have worked on many notable films, …
- Mark Smith
Mark Smith (born 30 September 1970, in Acton, London) is an English body builder who competed as "Rhino" on the popular ITV show, "Gladiators".
- Heitor Pereira
Heitor Teixeira Pereira, or Heitor TP is a Brazilian musician, who played with Simply Red and several famous musicias, like Elton John, Rod Stewart, K.D. Lang and Jack Johnson; and is currently working as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio. In 1994 he released a solo album in the UK called "Heitor" which featured guest appearance from Mick Hucknall on the track "Manchester". Heitor left Simply Red to concentrate on his solo career.
- Narcissus
Narcissus was a Roman athlete, likely a wrestler, from the 2nd century AD. He was employed by emperor Commodus as his wrestling partner and personal trainer in order to train him for his appearances in the Colosseum as a gladiator. In the year 192 AD he was recruited by several senators, led by Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, to assassinate the emperor.
- Gavin Greenaway
Gavin Greenaway (born June 15, 1964 in England) is a music composer and conductor. He conducted the scores for the films "Gladiator" and "Pearl Harbor", both composed by Hans Zimmer. In addition, he was commissioned by Disney to compose the score for their fireworks show IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth and a parade called Tapestry of Nations at Epcot. The resulting pieces, of music from the fireworks show and parade have been used by Disney since 1999.
- Charles de Lauzirika
Charles de Lauzirika is a leading American documentary filmmaker and DVD producer. Lauzirika created award-winning documentaries and supplemental content for such releases as the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy, the 4-disc Kingdom of Heaven (film) Director's Cut and the 3-disc editions of Gladiator (2000 film) and Black Hawk Down. Although his work has long been associated with the films of Ridley Scott, …
- Charles McGraw
Born Charles Butters in Ohio May 10, 1914, square-jawed Charles McGraw grew up to become an actor and eventually made his first movie in 1942. At first it seemed as though McGraw would spend his movie career playing bit parts as movie tough guys and gangsters, but the actor later developed into an unconventional but appealing leading man.
- Lentulus Batiatus
Lentulus Batiatus was the owner of the Roman gladiatorial school in Capua (near Mount Vesuvius) who owned Spartacus, the leader of the slave rebellion during the Third Servile War. He was played by Peter Ustinov in the film based on the revolt, for which Ustinov won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- Crixus
Crixus (d. 72 BCE) was a leader of the slave rebellion in the Third Servile War, along with Spartacus and Oenomaus. He was a Gaul (his name means "one with curly hair" in Gaulish), and had been a slave for several years before the revolt. Crixus had fought for the Allobroges against the Romans and had been captured. Like his companions, Crixus had trained as a gladiator in Capua.
- Giannina Facio
Giannina Facio (born September 10 1955) is a Costa Rica actress, who found success appearing in a number of Film Roles including, "Gladiator", Black Hawk Down
- Edwin Forrest
Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806 - December 12, 1872), American actor, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Scottish and German descent and was an unusual actor.
- Priscus
Priscus was a Roman gladiator of Celtic origins. His combat with his friend Verus was the highlight of the opening day of the games conducted by Titus to inaugurate the Flavian Amphitheatre in AD 80, and was recorded in a laudatory poem by Martial — the only detailed description of a gladiatorial fight that has survived to the present day. Both gladiators were declared victors of the combat, and were awarded their freedom by the Emperor in a unique outcome.
- Bob Beemer
Bob Beemer, (AKA Robert Joseph Beemer; Bobby Beemerino) was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California. Graduating from Loyola High School (Los Angeles) in 1973, he studied Communication Arts and English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, earning a bachelors degree in 1977 with a double major in those two fields. Always fascinated by sound, he became an expert in remixing for movies.
- Draba
Draba was an Ethiopian, who was enslaved by the Romans, and sent to the great and popular Gladitorial School of Capua, and a friend of Spartacus, Crixus and numerous other famed gladiators. When Marcus Licinius Crassus came with his friend Lucius and his wife Helena to see a private game, but payed handsomely for a fight to the death. That day, David, the only Jew in the camp, fought and won against a Thracian.
- Philip Gordon Wylie
Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 - October 25, 1971) was a U.S. author. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when he was five years old. His family moved to Montclair, New Jersey and he later attended Princeton University during 1920-1923.
- Maurice Murphy
Maurice Murphy is a British musician, and Principal Trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 2007. He was born in Hammersmith in 1935. He grew up playing in brass bands in Yorkshire, and notably was Principal Cornet of the world famous Black Dyke Mills Band from 1956 to 1961. His transition from brass bands to orchestral work was helped with stints with the Halle Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic and La Mer Orchestra.
- Segestes
Segestes was a noble of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci involved in the events surrounding the Roman attempts to conquer northern Germany during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus. Arminius, the Cheruscan noble and military leader, had married Thusnelda, Segestes' daughter, against her father's will. Segestes, who favored Roman overlordship, bore Arminius a lifelong grudge and eventually found ways to exact his revenge.
- Thusnelda
Thusnelda (c. 10 BC - 17 AD in Rome?) was the daughter of the Cheruscan prince Segestes. Her father had intended her for someone else, but Arminius, who subsequently led a coalition of Germanic tribes to victory over Publius Quinctilius Varus and his legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., eloped with her and married her instead. The war between the Roman Empire and the northern German tribes continued, …
- Eugen Sandow
Eugen Sandow (April 2 1867 - October 14 1925), born Friederich Wilhelm Mueller, was a pioneering bodybuilder of the Victorian era and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding".
- Nymphidius Sabinus
Nymphidius Sabinus (c. 35 - 68) was the son of an imperial freedwoman, Nymphidia. Some speculate that his father was a gladiator named Martianus, but there are also claims he was the illegitimate son of the former Roman Emperor Caligula. After the Pisonian conspiracy against his alleged first cousin Nero in 65 A.D., executions created the opportunity for many to rise in Rome into positions of power.