- Hercules
Hercules (1975 - February 4, 2000) was a trained wrestling bear from Scotland who appeared in a number of cameo roles for various television productions, reaching the height of his popularity in the 1980s. He was owned by wrestler Andy Robin and his wife, who originally bought him from a wildlife park in Aviemore as a baby cub. - Kevin Sorbo
Kevin Sorbo (born September 24, 1958) is an American actor probably best known for the role of Hercules on "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". - Reg Park
Reg Park (born Roy Park June 7, 1928) from Yorkshire, England, is a former bodybuilder, businessman, and film actor. - Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hercules", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", … - Ron Clements
Ron Clements (born April 25, 1953 in Sioux City, Iowa) is an American animation Director. He is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with John Musker. Clements began his career as an animator for Hanna-Barbera. After a few months there, he was accepted into Disney's Talent Development Program, an animator training ground and workshop. After that, he served a two year apprenticeship with famed animator Frank Thomas, … - John Musker
John Musker (born November 8 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American animation director. Musker is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with Ron Clements. He first met Clements during the production of "The Fox and the Hound" (1981), where he worked as a character animator under Clements. Musker later worked with Clements again on the ambitious animated flop "The Black Cauldron" (1985). - Lou Ferrigno
Louis Jude Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951) is an American bodybuilder and actor. Ferrigno has appeared in such television shows and movies as "The Incredible Hulk", "Pumping Iron" (with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu), "Sinbad of the Seven Seas", and, in the title role, "Hercules" in 1983. He is more recently known for playing a minor role in the sitcom King of Queens. - Susan Egan
Susan Egan (b. February 18, 1970) is an American actress and singer best known for her work on the Broadway stage. An unknown at the time, she won the coveted role of Belle in the original Broadway cast of "Beauty and the Beast (musical)". Also on stage, she has won high praise for her portrayal of Maria in regional productions of "The Sound of Music". - Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born on September 29 1962) is an American actor. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, grew up in New Jersey, Bart made his Broadway debut in "Big River" as Tom Sawyer in 1987. Additional theatre credits include Jonathan in the Alan Menken/Tim Rice musical "King David", Harlequin in "Triumph of Love", Snoopy in the Broadway revival of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" (for which he won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony), … - Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott (August 3, 1926 - April 30, 2007) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Tarzan in five films (and one compilation of three made-as-a-pilot television episodes) from 1955 to 1960. - Paul Roma
Paul Roma (born Paul Centopani April 29, 1960) is a professional wrestler who is most known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling primarily as a tag-team wrestler alongside such partners as Jim Powers, Hercules, Arn Anderson and Paul Orndorff. - Sylva Koscina
Sylva Koscina, born as "Silva Košćina", was a Croatian actress best remembered as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in "Hercules" (1958) and "Hercules Unchained" (1960). She moved to Italy at a young age and had an extensive film career there. Sylva appeared in "Deadlier Than the Male" (1966), in which she and Elke Sommer portray sophisticated professional killers dueling with Bulldog Drummond. - Pietro Francisci
Pietro Francisci (Sept 9 1906, Rome - 1977) was an Italian film director, best remembered for the film "Hercules" (1958) which inspired the sword and sandal boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His career took a distinct turn for the worse after he helmed the science-fiction film "2+5 Missione Hydra", released in the U.S. in 1977 as "Star Pilot" Other films: Attila (1954 film), Hercules and the Queen of Lydia - David Zippel
David Zippel (born May 17,1954 in Easton, Pennsylvania)is a Tony Award-winning American Musical theatre lyricist. Zippel attended Harvard Law School but, according to his official biography, "he is delighted not to practice law." His theatrical credits include: *"Going Hollywood" (1981), an unproduced adaptation of "Once in a Lifetime" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; book by Zippel and Joe Leonardo, music by Jonathan Sheffer. - Paul Telfer
Paul Telfer (born October 30, 1979, Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish-born actor, who has lived and worked in England and Canada. He has appeared in episodes of two Sky One series: "Is Harry on the Boat?" (as Matt, a handsome airline ground crew member who is tragically untalented on the dancefloor) and "Mile High" (as Rory, a male stripper). - Mark Texeira
Mark Texeira is a comic book artist. He often signs his work "TEX." Titles he has contributed to include "Psi-Force" (1986 - 1987), "Punisher War Journal" (1990), "Ghost Rider" vol. 2 (1990 - 1992), "Wolverine" vol. 2 (1993), "Sabretooth" (1993), "Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil" (1996), "Black Panther Vol.3" (1998), "Moon Knight" vol. - Eric Goldberg
Eric Goldberg (born in 1955) is an American animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Feature Animation, animating notable characters such as the Genie in "Aladdin" and "Phil" in "Hercules". Goldberg is also the co-director of Disney's 1995 feature "Pocahontas". He attended Pratt Institute, where he majored in illustration. - French Stewart
Milton French Stewart (born on February 20, 1964) is an American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun". Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Stewart studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and toured in regional theatre for seven years before breaking into television with the role of Razor Dee, a spaced-out DJ on the final season of "The New WKRP in Cincinnati" in 1992. - Diagoras
Diagoras the Atheist of Melos was a Greek poet and sophist of the 5th century BC. He became an atheist after an incident that happened against him went unpunished by the gods. He spoke out against the orthodox religions, and criticized the Eleusinian Mysteries. He once threw a wooden image of a god into a fire, remarking that the deity should perform another miracle and save itself. Diagoras has been called a student of Democritus, … - Dan Vadis
Dan Vadis was born Constantine Daniel Vafiadis in Shanghai, China on January 3, 1938. This former U.S. Navy sailor and Member of the Mae West Muscleman Revue in the late 1950s, a brawny, durable 6'4" man with curly brown hair, bluish green eyes and an affable demeanor, was just one of many muscle men to take a stab at fame and fortune with the Italian sword and sandal films of the 1960s. His most notable was "The Triumph of Hercules" (1964), … - William Berger
William Berger (b. Wilhelm Thomas Berger, January 20, 1928 in Innsbruck, Austria; d. October 2, 1993 in Los Angeles, of prostate cancer, USA) was a European actor, mostly associated with Euro or spaghetti westerns and travel documentaries. His earliest work was in Broadway theater, but while visiting Italy, he was cast in his first western, "Break Up" in 1965. A series of westerns followed, including "Faccia a faccia" (1967), … - Henry Victor
Henry Victor (born October 2, 1892 in London - died March 15, 1945 in Hollywood) was a character actor raised in Germany. Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film "Freaks". Later in his career, he mostly portrayed Nazis in both American and British films. - Savanna
Savanna are a Japanese comedy duo consisting of and. Both attended Ritsumeikan University High School and created the manzai team as a joke during their years at Ritsumeikan University, having first met in the school's judo club. They then decided to join Yoshimoto Kogyo as a professional kombi. Their act is heavily based on observational humor, and Yagi frequently being confused as the boke of the group. - Andreas Deja
Andreas Deja is a Polish-born German character animator for The Walt Disney Company. He lived since 1958 in Dinslaken/Germany and studies Graphic-Design at the Folkwang-Schule in Essen/Germany. A lifelong fan of Disney animated films, he started with the studio in 1980. The first film on which he worked was "The Black Cauldron," during which time he shared a cubicle with Tim Burton. - Sergio Ciani
Sergio Ciani was born in Italy, but went by the apt stage moniker Alan Steel for most of his movies while playing various mythological he-men, including Hercules, throughout the course of his career. He also went occasionally by his birth name and the names Alan Scott (the name of the original comic book Green Lantern superhero) and John Wyler in films. - Nigel Green
Nigel Green (b. 15 October, 1924 in Pretoria, South Africa, d. 15 May, 1972 in Brighton, England) was a British character actor. The son of a professor, Green attended King's College School, Wimbledon and London University followed by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and appeared on stage at the Old Vic before making his first forays into British films in the mid-1950s. Early film roles included "Reach for the Sky" (1956), … - Alex Baroni
Alessandro Baroni, nicknamed Alex, (Milan, 22 december 1966 - Rome, 13 april 2002) was an Italian pop singer. He begins his career singing in Milan clubs during the 90s. He sung the backing vocals for, amongst others, Eros Ramazzotti, Ivana Spagna and Rossana Casale. - Jay Maynard
Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminiscent Tron Guy costume. He became an Internet phenomenon when his costume inspired by the movie "TRON" spread across the net from postings on Slashdot and Fark. Jay's overweight physique and skintight costume was the subject of much derision on the net. - Irene Mecchi
Irene Mecchi is an American writer for television, movies, newspapers, and Broadway. Originally from San Francisco, she started her work with Disney in March 1992, when she wrote Recycle Rex, an animated short film which won the 1994 Environmental Media Award. Irene has worked on Herb Caen's books and is a co-writer of Disney's movies such as "The Lion King", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and "Hercules". - Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika parish in Dalarna. The surname Stiernhielm, literally "Star Helmet", was taken in later life when he was raised into the Swedish nobility. He grew up in the Bergslagen region where his father worked with the mining industry. - Diphilus
Diphilus, of Sinope, was a poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander (342-291 BC). Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna. He was on intimate terms with the famous courtesan Gnathaena (Athenaeus xiii. pp. 579, 583). He is said to have written 100 comedies, the titles of fifty of which are preserved. He sometimes acted himself. - Gidon Saks
Bass-baritone Gidon Saks was born in Israel and spent his youth in South Africa, before moving to the UK to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since his debut with the Canadian Opera Company, he has sung at Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco, the Berlin Staatsoper, Houston, Madrid, New York City Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, New Israeli Opera, … - Caleb Ross
Caleb Ross (born 10 December 1981, in Whangarei, New Zealand) is a New Zealand actor best known for his role as Lex in the science fiction television series The Tribe. In 1998, he played Logan Patterson on Shortland Street. Throughout the years, he has appeared in Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Mercy Peak and Revelations - The Initial Journey. He is also an enthusiastic musician and owns several guitars. - Ray Fernandez
Raymond Fernandez (May 7, 1957 - March 6, 2004) was a professional wrestler who primarily wrestled in Florida and Texas before joining the World Wrestling Federation. He was best known by the ring name Hercules or variations thereof. Fernandez was also a featured bodybuilder, appearing in several muscle magazines. - Nik Ranieri
Nik Ranieri is a Canadian animator who animated several well-known Disney characters including Kuzco ("The Emperor's New Groove"), Meeko ("Pocahontas"), Hades ("Hercules"), and Lumiere ("Beauty and the Beast"). - Sam Glanzman
Sam J. Glanzman (born 1924) is an American comic-book artist, best known for his Charlton Comics series "Hercules", about the mythological Greek demigod, and the "Fightin' Army" feature "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz", a Vietnam-era serial about a German-American U.S. Army captain during World War II. - Jamie Croft
Jamie Croft (born 4 August 1981 in New South Wales) is an Australian actor. He began his career in the television soap opera "A Country Practice". Subsequent credits include: "Police Rescue", "Water Rats", "Above the Law", "Sun on the Stubble" (aka "The Valley Between") and "Farscape". He has also appeared in many movies and mini-series including, "That Eye, The Sky", "Joey", "The Real Macaw", … - Milo Of Croton
Milo or Milon of Croton (late 6th century BC) was the most famous of Greek athletes in Antiquity. He was born in the Greek colony of Croton in Southern Italy. He was a six time Olympic victor; once for Boys Wrestling in 540 BC at the 60th Olympics, and five time wrestling champion at the 62nd through 66th Olympiads. Milo kept on competing, even well after what would have been considered a normal Olympic Athlete's prime: by the 67th Olympiad, … - Frans Floris
Frans Floris, or more correctly Frans de Vriendt, called Floris (1517 - October 1, 1570), Flemish painter, was one of a large family trained to the study of art in Flanders. Son of the stonecutter Cornelis I de Vriendt, who died at Antwerp in 1538, he began life as a student of sculpture, but afterwards gave up carving for painting. His brother, Cornelis II de Vriendt (c. 1513/14-1575), was an architect and sculptor. - Bias Of Priene
Bias (Greek: "Βίας ο Πρηνεύς"), the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a Greek philosopher. Satyrus puts him as the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece. One of the examples of his goodness is the legend that says that he paid a ransom for some women who had been taken prisoner. After educating them as his own daughters, he sent them back to Messina, their homeland, and to their fathers.
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