- William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the "USS Enterprise" in the television show "Star Trek" from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek". He also played the title role as veteran police sergeant "T.J. Hooker", from 1982 to 1986. - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - Marie Osmond
Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American actress, singer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's band, she gained success as a country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is the 1973 country pop ballad "Paper Roses". Starting in 1976, Marie Osmond hosted a show with her brother called "Donny & Marie", which they both became best-known for. - Josh Duhamel
Joshua David Duhamel (pronounced, born November 14, 1972) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor and former male fashion model, perhaps best known for his roles in both soap operas and television. He first achieved acting success as Leo du Pres on ABC's "All My Children", and later as James Caan's young security guard officer, Danny McCoy, on NBC's "Las Vegas". - Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, … - Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy "Murphy Brown", and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, "Boston Legal". - Dana Delany
Dana Welles Delany is an American film, stage, and television actress. Known especially for her two-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show "China Beach" (1988–91), Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s. Delany was born in New York City. After growing up in Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, then Wesleyan University. - Rodney Carrington
Rodney Carrington (October 19, 1968 in Longview, Texas) is an American stand-up comic and comic country musician. He was the star of the ABC television sitcom "Rodney". Rodney Carrington is a frequent guest on the Bob and Tom show. Some may know him for his song featured on the Bob & Tom show called "Titties and Beer", and "When My Wife Met My Girlfriend". His numerous albums and stand-up performances are often formatted for adult content. - Tom Petty
Thomas "Tom" Earl Petty (born October 20,1950) is a singer and guitarist. A prolific songwriter, he has also produced numerous hit singles, such as "American Girl", "The Waiting", "Free Fallin'", "I Won't Back Down", "Into the Great Wide Open", and "Mary Jane's Last Dance", most of which remain heavily played on mainstream radio. - Don Ho
Don Ho, born Donald Tai Loy Ho, (August 13 1930 - April 14 2007) was a Hawaiian musician and entertainer. - Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette (born January 31 1937 in New York City) is an American actress, best known as "Emily Hartley" on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the '70s. Born to Eugene Pleshette, manager of the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York and dancer Geraldine Kaplan, she is a cousin of "Knots Landing" actor John Pleshette. Pleshette graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. She then attended Syracuse University. - Camryn Manheim
Camryn Manheim is an Emmy Award-winning American movie and television actress born on March 8, 1961 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Her interest in acting was spurred on after she participated in a Renaissance fair during high school. She graduated from the University of California with a BFA degree, and then later went on to earn a Master's degree in Fine Arts from New York University. Before she pursued her acting career, she worked as a sign language interpreter for hospitals. - Laura Prepon
Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox television series "That '70s Show" and Hannah Daniels on the ABC television series "October Road". Prepon was born and raised in Watchung, New Jersey, the youngest of four children in a family of Jewish and Irish Catholic descent. She is 5 feet 10 inches tall. Her acting experience was limited prior to her audition for "That '70's Show". - David Palmer
David Palmer, drummer featured on ABC's first album The Lexicon of Love. After ABC's first album, David pursued session drumming, notably appearing as second drummer for Japanese electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra on their farewell tour in 1983. Palmer then returned to recording sessions on ABC's second album, only to leave shortly thereafter to embark on a successful career playing for artists such as The The& Rod Stewart. - Paul Hardcastle
Paul Hardcastle (born December 10 1957, in London) is an English composer and musician specializing in the synthesizer. In the early 1980s he played keyboards on several singles on the Oval label by the dance music groups Direct Drive and First Light, before going solo. He achieved some acclaim for his early singles, notably the popular instrumental "Rainforest" 1984, but came to greater prominence in 1985 with the groundbreaking "19", … - Porter Wagoner
Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927, in West Plains, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains) is an American country music singer. Famous for his flashy Nudie suits and blonde pompadour, Wagoner introduced a young Dolly Parton to his long-running television show. Together, "Porter and Dolly" were a well-known duet team for many years. After they split, Parton wrote the song "I Will Always Love You" about him. - Don Costa
Don Costa was an American pop music arranger and record producer best known for his work with Frank Sinatra. Costa was born Dominick P. Costa in Boston to an Italian American family. As a child, he took a keen interest in learning the guitar, and he became a member of the CBS Radio Orchestra by the time he was in his teens. In the late 1940s, Costa moved to New York City to further his career by becoming a session musician. - Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Alcott Pinchot is an American actor. Pinchot was raised in southern California but after graduating from South Pasadena High School found his way back East to attend Yale University by way of a scholarship. He began college studying painting but became interested in acting. - Billy Dean
Billy Dean (born April 2, 1962 in Quincy, Florida) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Dean first became known to fans in the early 1990s with his appearance on "Star Search." He later earned a recording contract with Capitol Records and rose to national stardom with a string of Top 10 hits on Billboard magazine's country singles chart. His debut song, 1991's "Only Here For a Little While," rose into the Top 5, while the follow up, … - Sherry Stringfield
Sherry Lea Stringfield (born June 24, 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Dr. Susan Lewis on the hit medical television drama "ER"; a role for which she has received three Emmy Award nominations. Stringfield was one of "ER's" original cast, but she sensationally quit the show during its third season, despite being contractually tied to appear in five. - Bob Dorough
Bob Dorough (born 12 December 1923) is an American bebop and cool jazz pianist, composer and vocalese singer. He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers. He is perhaps best known as a voice and primary composer of many of the songs used in "Schoolhouse Rock!", … - Tim Ferguson
Tim Ferguson (born Timothy Dorcen Langbene Ferguson on 16 November 1963 in Sydney, NSW) is an Australian comedian and television presenter. His first major appearance was as the "handsome" member of the Doug Anthony All Stars, along with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler, on the ABC television show, "The Big Gig", where they quickly gained a following. This was soon followed by their own show, … - Holly Throsby
Holly Throsby is an Australian musician from Sydney, New South Wales. She is the daughter of ABC Classic FM radio presenter Margaret Throsby. - Noah Gray-Cabey
Noah Gray-Cabey (born November 16, 1995) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Franklin Aloyisious Mumford on the ABC sitcom "My Wife and Kids", and as Micah Sanders in the NBC science-fiction drama "Heroes". Gray-Cabey was born in Newry, Maine to Whitney Gray and Shawn Cabey. He started playing the piano when he was eighteen months old. At age four, he performed in several venues throughout New England and Washington, … - Johnny Crawford
John Ernest Crawford (born March 26, 1946) in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, singer and musician. An original Mousketeer in 1955, Crawford has been an actor on stage, films and television. He received an Emmy Award nomination at the age of 13 for his role as "Mark McCain," the son of Chuck Connors on the television series "The Rifleman," which originally aired from 1958-1963 on the ABC network. - Russell Morris
Russell Morris (born July 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter, who had five Australian top ten singles throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. - Freddy Cannon
Freddy Cannon (born Frederick Anthony Picariello, December 4 1940, in the North Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American rock and roll singer. He learned to play guitar as a boy and in high school formed a band. Singing vocals, he emulated the hard-driving style of singing star Little Richard. Picariello eventually signed with Swan Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a recording studio in which master music promoter Dick Clark had an interest, … - Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley (born) is an English orchestral composer and pop musician, and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the seminal members of the synthpop band, Art of Noise. - Rob Thomas
Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American pop-rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Carlos Santana triple-platinum hit "Smooth," on the album "Supernatural" in 1999. - Kaci Brown
Kaci Deanne Brown (born July 7, 1988) is an American pop/R&B singer. Brown was born in Sulphur Springs, Texas to James Michael Brown, Jr. and Annette Marie Thomas. Before attaining a record contract, at the age of 13, Brown signed her first publishing contract with Still Working Music, the company owned and run by Roy Orbison's widow, Barbara. Brown performed every weekend at venues across the state, honing her skills, … - Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (born November 3, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz double bassist. After completely disappearing from the jazz music scene in 1965, he was rediscovered over 30 years later in 2002. Grimes trained at The Juilliard School, and established a reputation as a versatile bassist in the mid 1950s. He recorded or performed with Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Benny Goodman and many others. - Freddie Perren
Frederick "Freddie" Perren (May 15, 1943 - December 16 2004) was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor. He is notable for being a member of The Corporation, a hitmaking production team which included Fonce Mizell, Deke Richards and Berry Gordy that wrote and produced The Jackson 5's early hits, including "I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save", "Mama's Pearl", and "Maybe Tomorrow". - William Schallert
William Schallert (born July 6, 1922 in Los Angeles, California), is an actor who has appeared in many movies and television series such as "The Smurfs", "The Rat Patrol", "Gunsmoke", and "Get Smart". He is best known as patriarch Martin Lane on "The Patty Duke Show" and as teacher Leander Pomfritt on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". - Joe Purdy
Joe Purdy is a North American based folk singer-songwriter. He has released eight albums to date, "Stompingrounds", "Julie Blue", "Only Four Seasons", "You Can Tell Georgia," "Paris In The Morning" and "Canyon Joe". His first two albums, "Joe Purdy" and "Sessions from Motor Ave." were not released for public sale. His song, 'Wash Away (Reprise)', was featured on the hit ABC TV series, "Lost", … - Deke Richards
Deke Richards, also known as Dennis Lussier, is a songwriter and record producer, one of many white musicians/songwriters who were affiliated with Motown. He is notable for being a member of The Corporation™, a hitmaking production team that wrote and produced The Jackson 5's early hits, including "I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save", "Mama's Pearl", and "Maybe Tomorrow". Deke also wrote and produced for The Supremes, Martha & The Vandellas, … - Tempestt Bledsoe
Bledsoe graduated from New York University with a degree in finance. She is still involved in acting, performing in several off-Broadway productions and in the TV movies The Expendables and 2002's Fire and Ice . She has had a recurring role on The Practice, as well as guest starring on The Parkers and The Jenny McCarthy Show . - Marc Cohn
Marc Cohn (born July 5, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album "Marc Cohn". He has issued two other studio albums to date, "The Rainy Season" (1993) and "Burning the Daze" (1998), both on Atlantic Records. A self-released live compilation, "Live 04-05" (2005), is being sold at concerts on his current tour. - David Helfgott
David Helfgott (born May 19, 1947) is a controversial Australian pianist. He is as well-known for having schizoaffective disorder as for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film "Shine", directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor as Helfgott at different periods of his life. - Pete Fountain
Pete Fountain was born in New Orleans and started playing clarinet heavily influenced by Irving Fazola. Early on he played with the bands of Monk Hazel and Al Hirt. With his long time friend, trumpeter George Girard, Fountain founded The Basin Street Six in 1950. After this band broke up 4 years later Fountain was hired to join the Lawrence Welk band, and became well known for the many solos he took on Welk's national television show, "The Lawrence Welk Show". - George S. Clinton
George S. Clinton (b. 17 June 1947 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is a professional songwriter, arranger, composer, and session musician, not to be confused with funk musician George Clinton. Clinton began his musical career in Nashville while earning degrees in music, drama and mathematics at Middle Tennessee State University. After graduation, Clinton moved to Los Angeles and became a staff writer for Warner Brothers Music, while also arranging and performing session work.
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