- Col Needham
Colin 'Col' Needham (born 26 January 1967 in Manchester, England) was the founder of, and currently is the managing director of, the Internet Movie Database. His background for this position was by education - as a computer programmer - and secondarily, by hobby - a contemporary movie buff. In 1999, he collected two Webby Awards for the Internet Movie Database. Since 1989, he has been married to Karen Needham; the couple have two children and live in Bristol, England. - Heath Ledger
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including The Patriot, Monster's Ball and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of The Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was found dead in a New York City apartment on January 22, 2008. - Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series "Your Show of Shows", and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in "Grease" and "Grease 2". - Rachel Bilson
Rachel Sarah Bilson (born August 25, 1981) is an American actress. After growing up in a California show business family, she made her television debut in 2003 and subsequently became well-known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time dramedy series "The O.C." Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film "The Last Kiss" and will star in the 2008 thriller "Jumper". - Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr. (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy. - Sherman Hemsley
Sherman Hemsley (born February 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award nominated and Image Award winning African American character actor most famous for his roles as George Jefferson, on the television shows "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" and as Deacon Ernest Frye on "Amen". He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield on the Jim Henson sitcom, "Dinosaurs". - Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit. - Ali Larter
Alison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter (born February 28, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her screen roles aimed at teenage audiences. Her best known television series is "Heroes". Her famous Hollywood films were "Varsity Blues", "House on Haunted Hill", "Final Destination", "Legally Blonde", and finally Resident Evil: Extinction' - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18 1912 - May 12 2001) was an American crooner. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. He sold millions of records for RCA and also pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. - Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". - Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his splendid, virile looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year," "Favorite Leading Man," or any number of similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. - Brenda Song
Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress. She currently co-stars in the Disney Channel Original Series, "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" as London Tipton. She has also made appearances in other Disney Channel original series and films. - Gary Coleman
Gary Wayne Coleman (born February 8, 1968) is an American actor. Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois, with a congenital kidney disease causing nephritis (an autoimmune destruction of the kidney), which halted his growth at an early age, leading to a small stature (4 ft 8 in; 1.42 m) which, along with his cherubic face and comedic timing, was among his most distinguishing features. He has undergone two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984, … - Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925) is an American film actor. Famous for his thick black wavy hair, good looks, flashing long eyelashes and trademark New York accent, he was most popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is best known for his light comic roles, especially his musician on the run from gangsters in "Some Like It Hot" (1959). He has also essayed a number of more serious dramatic roles over the years, … - Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American character actor. - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (b. Harlean Harlow Carpenter, March 3, 1911 - June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" for her famous hair, Harlow starred in several films mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence before transitioning to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to MGM. Known as "The Baby" to family and close friends, … - Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality. - Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper "The Independent". He was married to the American journalist Lara Marlowe. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years. - Antonio Gates
Antonio Gates (born June 18, 1980 in Detroit, Michigan) is a football tight end for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL. He's listed as 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and 260 pounds. Gates wears the number 85. - Bam Margera
Bam Margera (born Brandon Cole Margera on September 28, 1979, name legally changed to "Bam") is a professional skateboarder and television personality. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's "Jackass" crew. He has since appeared in MTV's "Viva La Bam" and "Bam's Unholy Union", both "Jackass" movies, and "Haggard", which he co-wrote and directed. - Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith (born October 26, 1947) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. She is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series "Charlie's Angels" (1976-1981). Smith was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. For two decades, Smith has held the unofficial title of "Queen of TV Movies and Mini-series." She has appeared in over two dozen television movies and miniseries. - Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux OBE (born 5 May 1959 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known "God games" "Populous" and "Black & White", among others, as well as "Business Strategy" games such as "Theme Park" and most recently, "The Movies". In August 1997 Peter left Bullfrog Productions to establish a new development team, Lionhead Studios. - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 - February 17, 1970) was a major American composer of music for films. His birth year is commonly mistakenly given as 1901. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. Between 1938 and 1957, he was nominated an incredible twenty years in a row. - David Huddleston
David William Huddleston (born September 17, 1930) is an American actor. - Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. With a stage show that featured guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood and boa constrictors, Cooper drew equally from heavy metal, horror movies and vaudeville to create a theatrical brand of rock music that would come to be known as Shock rock. - Griffin Dunne
Thomas Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955 in New York, New York) is an American actor and film director. He is the son of producer/writer Dominick Dunne, brother of deceased actress Dominique Dunne, and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. He was married (1989) and divorced (1995) from the American actress Carey Lowell with whom he has one daughter, named Hannah Dunne. As of 2004 he has appeared as an actor in nearly 40 films and TV movies, … - Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937 in Birkenhead) is an English actor. She's best known as the scream queen of Italian gothic horror movies of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's "Black Sunday" (1960). It's now hailed as a masterpiece of the Italian gothic horror film. Steele starred in a string of horror classics including: "The Horrible Dr. Hichcock" (1962), "The Ghost" directed by Riccardo Freda, … - Dred Scott
Dred Scott is a Homosexual Pornographic Actor who appeared in pornographic movies and is currently exclusive talent towards the pornographic film company Titan Media Productions. Dred Scott received his first big break in the Porn Industry in his first film "Carny". Sea Men: Fallen Angel IV is another one of his films that won him an GayVN award for "Best Sex Scene" with fellow co-star Adriano Marquez. - Rob Zombie
Robert Bartleh Cummings (born), better known as Rob Zombie, is an American heavy metal, groove metal and industrial rock musician, director, and writer. His dreadlocks, gruff vocal style and fascination with horror movies have helped him become a distinctive element in American heavy metal. He is best known as founder, lead singer and songwriter for White Zombie. - Puri Jagannadh
Puri Jagannadh, born September 28, 1966, is a Tollywood film director and producer. His directorial debut was "Badri", with Pawan Kalyan in the lead role and Renu Desai, Prakash Raj, and Bollywood actress Amisha Patel in the supporting roles. He started his own film production house Vaishno Academy. His production house went on to produce hit films such as "Idiot", "Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi", "Shivamani 9848022338", … - Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 - December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), "The Three Musketeers" (1921), "Robin Hood" (1922), "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) and "The Black Pirate" (1926). - Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo (born in Buffalo, New York on April 11, 1961) is an American movie actor and director, producer, screenwriter, and musician. Although he has had small roles in mainstream films such as "Goodfellas", he is most associated with independent movies. "Buffalo '66", which he wrote, directed, and starred in, is considered his most notable film. In the 1980s, Gallo worked as a figurative painter in New York City, … - Mark Crispin Miller
Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University and the author of the book: "Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections". He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include "Boxed In: The Culture of TV," "Seeing Through Movies," and "Mad Scientists," a study of war propaganda. - J. Neil Schulman
Joseph Neil Schulman (born April 16, 1953 in Forest Hills, New York, USA) is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, radio personality, filmmaker, composer, and actor. His works include the novels "Alongside Night" and "The Rainbow Cadenza", both of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel, and the anthology "Nasty, Brutish, And Short Stories". - George S. Kaufman
George Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. Born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kaufman added the middle initial to his name to lend it balance and rhythm. He was known as "The Great Collaborator" because he wrote very few plays alone. His most successful solo script was "The Butter and Egg Man" in 1925. - Pooja Kumar
Pooja Kumar is an American actress, model and television hostess. She was named Miss India-USA in 1995, has been an MTV veejay, a newsreader on the show "Namaste America" and has starred in such feature films as "Night of Henna" and "Flavors". Miss Kumar was recently hostess for the ImaginAsian show "Movies for the ImaginAsian", and is currently pursing an acting career in Hollywood. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. He is the author of many books on film, including "Film: The Front Line 1983" (1983), "Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism" (1995), "Moving Places: A Life at the Movies" (1980; reprint 1995), "Movies as Politics" (1997) and "Essential Cinema" (2004). His most popular work is "Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See" (2002). - Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is a well-known publisher and editor of mystery fiction in the United States and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives. It is one of the oldest mystery specialist bookstores in America. Penzler wrote "101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense" (2000). At this time he writes "The Crime Scene", a weekly column in the New York Sun newspaper.
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