- Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, … - Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe (February 7, 1908 - April 23, 1983) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s. - Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by "Time" magazine as one of the most influential people of the century. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premieres of his works. - Kirk Alyn
Kirk Alyn (October 8, 1910 - March 14, 1999) was an American actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman on screen, in the 1948 film serial "Superman", and its 1950 sequel "Atom Man Vs. Superman". - Barry Watson
Michael Barrett "Barry" Watson (born April 23, 1974 in Traverse City, Michigan) is an American actor, best known for his roles of Matt Camden on "7th Heaven" and Brian Davis in "What About Brian". - Ian Smith
Ian Smith (born June 19 1938) is an Australian soap opera character actor and television scriptwriter, best known today for his long-running role as the caring, kindly coffee shop owner Harold Bishop in Network Ten's long running serial "Neighbours". Smith had previously acted in guest roles in drama series such as the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police", … - Tom Tyler
Tom Tyler (nee Vincent Markowski) (August 9 1903 - May 1 1954) was an American actor. He was born into a Polish-American family. Tyler had a long career in film, stretching from the 1920s to the 1950s, and appeared in many films, most of them westerns such as John Ford's "Stagecoach" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". He occasionally took "civilian" roles in feature films (he's the boxing referee in Abbott and Costello''s "Buck Privates"), … - Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong (born 1968) is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works. She has published seven fantasy novels to date, all set in the "Women of the Otherworld" series. Armstrong has confirmed contracts with her American, British and Canadian publishers for novels seven through ten in this series. The seventh novel in this series was published May 1, 2007. Meanwhile, Armstrong's first crime novel was released in July 2007. - Rex
Rex, also known as Rex the Wonder Horse and King of the Wild Horses, was a 16 hands (64 in; 1.63 m) Morgan stallion who starred in films and film serials in the 1920s and 30s. His trainer was Jack "Swede" Lindell, who found him in a boy's school in Flagstaff, Arizona. He found that Rex had the unusual behaviour of trying to bite a whip when it was cracked. - Ralph Byrd
Ralph Byrd (22 April 1909 - 18 August 1952) was an American actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in serials, movies and television. Byrd was a good, all-purpose actor with a gift for delivering dialogue in a natural, ingratiating way. Once established in Republic Pictures' Dick Tracy serials (beginning in 1937), he was usually cast in action features (as a truck driver, lumberjack, cowboy, … - Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City. A key figure in modern music, Feldman's compositions went through several phases. He was a pioneer of aleatoric music and indeterminate music, and in requiring improvisation. His compositions are characterized by their quietness, slowness, and often by their extreme length, especially in his later music. - Louis Feuillade
Louis Feuillade (February 19 1873 - February 25 1925) was a French film director from the silent era. Louis Feuillade was born in Lunel (Herault, France) to a family of modest wine merchants. Just beyond adolescence, he showed a deep interest in literature and created numerous drama and vaudeville projects. His excessively academic poems were occasionally published in local newspapers, and he acquired a reputation for his articles devoted to bullfighting. - Martin Mull
Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own TV sitcom and acted in prominent films. He is also a comedian, painter and recording artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in North Ridgeville, Ohio from age 2 to 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he attended and graduated from public high school. - Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (born May 10, 1916) is an American composer. He is particularly noted for his pioneering serial and electronic music. - Roy Barcroft
Roy Barcroft (7 September 1902 - 28 November 1969) was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres. Roy was born Howard Ravenscroft, to a farming family in Nebraska in 1902. In 1917 be joined up with the United States Army to fight in France inWorld War I, where he was wounded in action. After leaving the army he drifted through several jobs (including ranch hand, roughneck, … - Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss (born October 15 1983) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of first daughter Zoey Bartlet on the television serial drama "The West Wing". She had the role of Christina on the television serial drama "Invasion". Moss has also appeared in several commercials, including an ad for Secret brand deodorant and one for Excedrin Migraine. Moss is a member of the Church of Scientology. - Victor Jory
Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 - February 12, 1982) was a Canadian actor. He was born in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. He was the boxing and wrestling champion of the Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique. He toured with theater troupes and appeared on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in 1930. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast as the villain. He made over 150 films and dozens of TV episodes, … - Sam Katzman
Sam Katzman was an American film producer. Born in New York, New York, to a poor Jewish family, at the age of thirteen he went to work as a stage laborer in the fledgling East Coast film industry. He would learn all aspects of filmmaking and become a highly successful Hollywood producer for more than forty years. Sam Katzman never made great film classics, instead he produced cost-effective productions that made money for the studios and the financial backers. - An Unearthly Child
"An Unearthly Child" (also known as "100,000 BC", among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December, 1963. It is the first serial of the series and introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright and William Russell as Ian Chesterton - Second Viennese School
The Second Viennese School is the term generally used in English-speaking countries to denote the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils and close associates in early 20th century Vienna, where, with breaks, he lived and taught between 1903 and 1925. Their music was initially characterized by post-romantic expanded tonality and later, following Schoenberg’s own evolution, … - Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. "Julius Knipl" has been published in several book collections including "Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay" and "The Beauty Supply District". - Eriq La Salle
Eriq Ki La Salle (born July 23 1962) is an American actor and director, known for his portrayals of Darryl in the 1988 comedy film "Coming to America" and Dr. Peter Benton during the first eight seasons of the NBC drama series "ER". - Frank Shannon
Frank Connolly Shannon (July 27 1874 - February 1 1959) was an actor and writer. He was born in Ireland. A stage actor and silent film pioneer, Shannon made his screen debut in 1913's "The Artist's Joke". He later appeared in dozens of films through the mid-1920s, including "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1913) and "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1924). - Pete Smith
Pete Smith (born Peter Schmidt September 4, 1892, New York City - January 12, 1979, Santa Monica, California) was a film producer and narrator of "short subject" films from 1931 to 1955. Smith was a publicist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who was recruited to overdub the actions of trained dogs in the studio's "Dogville" comedies. Smith's speaking voice was distinctively nasal, and he would go on to narrate the studio's sports reels. - Tom Steele
Tom Steele (12 June 1909-30 October 1990) was a stunt man and actor, best remembered for appearing in serials, especially those produced by Republic Pictures, in both capacities. - Tom Neal
Thomas Neal (January 28, 1914 - August 7, 1972) was an American actor famous for appearing in the critically lauded film "Detour", a tryst with Barbara Payton and later committing manslaughter. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Tom Neal debuted on the Broadway stage in 1935. In 1938 he first appeared in film in "Out West with the Hardys", part of the Mickey Rooney "Hardy family" movie series. That same year, he received a law degree from Harvard University. - Michael Barry
Michael Barry (born May 15 1910 - died June 1988) was a British television producer and executive, who was an important early influence on BBC television drama. He was one of the first producers to work in the field of drama for the BBC, producing and directing several plays for the fledgling BBC Television Service in the 1930s, before it was placed on hiatus for the duration of the Second World War in 1939. - Peter Bonerz
Born: August 6, 1938 in Portsmouth, NH Occupation: Actor, Director Biography: Born in New Hampshire, Peter Bonerz was raised in Milwaukee, where he attended Marquette High School. Afflicted with a stammer in his teen years, Bonerz was encouraged by one of his teachers to enter an elocution contest. In doing so, he began to develop confidence in his speaking skills; by the... Read More Current News: Sequels, prequels, remakes lead 2009 pack - Judd Holdren
Judd Holdren (Oct. 16, 1915- Mar. 11, 1974) was an American film actor best known for his starring roles in the serials "Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere", "Zombies of the Stratosphere", "The Lost Planet" and the semi-serial "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" during 1951 - 1953. He was born near Villisca, Iowa on October 16, 1915, one of 10 children in a farming family, and showed early interest in an acting career, … - Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece "Time's Encomium". He is also the author of "Simple Composition", ISBN 0-938856-06-5, … - Warren Hull
John Warren Hull (January 7 1903 - September 14 1974) was an actor and TV personality, active from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was one of the most popular serial actors in the action-adventure field. A native of Gasport, New York, Hull attended New York University. Later, he left college to study voice and pursue a career in operas and operettas. He also worked frequently as a radio announcer. The handsome Hull made his screen debut in 1934 for Educational Pictures, … - Ruth Roman
Ruth Roman was an American actress. She was born Norma Roman in the Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts and as a young girl pursued her desire to become an actress by enrolling in the prestigious Bishop Lee Dramatic School in Boston. Following completion of her studies Roman headed to Hollywood where she obtained bit parts in several films before being cast in the title role in the 1945 thirteen episode serial "Jungle Queen". - Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer (July 13, 1895 - October 6, 1973) was an American actor. Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina, As a young man in his late teens, he went to New York City looking for acting work in the theater. While there, he took jobs at various film studios at the then motion picture capital, Fort Lee, New Jersey, including a bit part in the highly popular 1914 serial, "The Perils of Pauline". - George B. Seitz
George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 - July 8, 1944) was a playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director who is known for his screenplays for action serials, including: *"The Perils of Pauline" (1914), *"The Exploits of Elaine" (1914), *"The Iron Claw" (1916), and *"The Last of the Mohicans" (1936) Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, but started work in Hollywood in 1913. - Liu Yifei
Liu Yifei is a Chinese actress and singer. Although she is often credited as "Liu Yi Fei", her legal name is "Liu Xi Mei Zi" (her name 茜 is from German movie "Sissi" whose chinese translation is 茜茜公主 thus the pronunciation is Xi not Qian. And her mother calls her Xixi.). At the age of 15, Liu Yifei's role as "Wang Yuyan" in the television serial, "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" propelled her to fame in China. - Erik Palladino
Erik Palladino (born May 10, 1968) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Dr. Dave Malucci in the NBC drama series "ER". - William Bradley
William H. Bradley (10 July, 1868 to 1962), illustrator and artist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His main style was Art Nouveau, somewhat like that of Aubrey Beardsley. Bradley obtained an apprenticeship in printing and worked in Chicago, Illinois. He became a leading artist in American posters in the 1890s and also worked for a time as an art teacher at a university in or around Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Alexandre Dumas, Père
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers", and "The Man in the Iron Mask" were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. - Jack Perrin
Jack Perrin was an American actor specializing in westerns. He was born Lyman Wakefield Perrin in Three Rivers, Michigan; his father worked in real estate and relocated the family to Los Angeles, California shortly after the turn of the century. Perrin served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Following the war, he returned to Los Angeles and started acting for Universal Studios. Initially Perrin did bit parts and supporting roles, … - John Elliot
John Elliot (1918-1997), British literary artist capable of delivering gripping novels and highly entertaining and popular television scripts. Between 1954 and 1960 he scripted a succession of one-off television plays including War In The Air and A Man From The Sun. In 1961 he joined with Fred Hoyle (to ensure scientific authenticity) to write the ground-breaking science fiction serial A for Andromeda which set the tone for all which was to follow in its stead.
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