Celebs I've met
by darlene-soze | created - 08 Oct 2011 | updated - 09 Oct 2019 | PublicThis is a list of celebrities I've met, in no particular order
1. James Le Gros
Actor | Drugstore Cowboy
It isn't hard to make James Le Gros bust a gut laughing. Just call him Brad Pitt. Okay, so he doesn't get $6 million a film or have his photo air-kissed by legions of swooning schoolgirls during recess. But if you've caught Le Gros' quirky personality, you may wonder why he's still toiling away. ...
Met on the set of Common Ground
2. Edward Asner
Actor | Up
Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...
Met on the set of Common Ground in September 1999
3. Tom Savini
Actor | From Dusk Till Dawn
Actor/SFX wizard/stuntman/director Tom Savini was born in Pittsburgh. Inspired by the film Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), a young Savini became fascinated with the magic and illusion of film. He spent his youth in his room creating characters by tirelessly practicing make-up. Later, as a combat ...
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990
4. Kane Hodder
Stunts | Se7en
Kane Hodder was born on April 8, 1955 in Auburn, California. He is best known for his role as horror icon Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Jason Goes to Hell (1993), and Jason X (2001). He is also known for his role as...
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990
5. Eric Stoltz
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Eric Hamilton Stoltz is a theater-trained actor and producer who has starred in both independent and studio films. He was born on September 30, 1961 in Whittier, California, to Evelyn Vawter, a violinist and schoolteacher, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher. He has English, German and ...
Met on the set of Common Ground in September 1999
6. Harvey Fierstein
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, screenwriter and playwright who has been in several stage productions, films, shows and games. He voiced Yao in Mulan and Huaca in Kingdom of the Sun (prototype for The Emperor's New Groove). He also acted in Hairspray, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bros, ...
Met on the set of Common Ground in September 1999
7. Beau Bridges
Actor | The Fabulous Baker Boys
Beau Bridges was born in Hollywood, and is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, who was his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Bridges. Born just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbour, he was delivered by candlelight because of a power blackout. Named Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, his ...
Met on the set of Common Ground in September 1999. He was there just for the day and I was the only one to get a photo with him. Stoopid me didn't get an autograph
8. Linnea Quigley
Actress | The Return of the Living Dead
Barbara Linnea Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, on May 27, 1958 to Heath and Dorothy Quigley. Her Mother was a housewife and her Father a noted Chiropractor and psychologist. After moving with her family to Los Angeles in the late 1970s, the short, petite Linnea began working at a Jack Lalanne ...
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990
9. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Director | This Stuff'll Kill Ya!
Only one film-maker can claim the title "Godfather of Gore." That peculiar but apt identification seems to be the exclusive property of Herschell Gordon Lewis. With an unusual background that included teaching English Literature to college students, producing and directing television commercials, ...
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990
10. Mimi Rogers
Actress | Ginger Snaps
It's fair to say that after 20 years and over 50 film appearances, Mimi Rogers should be praised for her variety of roles and acting capabilities, not for a brief marriage to a Hollywood star. In the early 1980s she began to carve a niche for herself in Hollywood, appearing on television and in ...
Met on the set of Common Ground in September 1999
11. Bob Izumi
Actor | Juliana & the Medicine Fish
Bob Izumi is known for Juliana & the Medicine Fish (2017), Bob Izumi's Real Fishing (1983) and Sports Planet (2011).
12. Anthony Timpone
Producer | White Knuckle
Anthony Timpone is known for White Knuckle, The Changed (2021) and Wormhole. He is married to Marguerite.
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990
13. Mike Jittlov
Actor | The Wizard of Speed and Time
Mike Jittlov was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988), Ghost (1990) and The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979).
been good friends with him for 10 years now. He rocks!
14. Patton Oswalt
Actor | Young Adult
Patton Oswalt has been headlining at comedy clubs all over the United States since 1996, as well as appearing in his own standup specials on Comedy Central and HBO. He was chosen as Entertainment Weekly's "It" comedian in 2002. He is a regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993). His other ...
15. Bruce Campbell
Actor | Bubba Ho-Tep
In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead (1981), in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling ...
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990 and I did a phone interview with him in 2001
16. Stacy Keach
Actor | Escape from L.A.
Stacy Keach has played to grand success a constellation of the classic and contemporary stage's greatest roles, and he is considered a pre-eminent American interpreter of Shakespeare. His SRO run as "King Lear" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. received the best reviews any ...
17. Michael Lennick
Visual_effects | The Dead Zone
Michael Lennick was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of Canadian actors Sylvia Lennick and Ben Lennick. He and his siblings, David and Julie, were raised in the wings of numerous Canadian stages and film sets following their peripatetic parents' careers. Michael read a ridiculous amount of classic ...
met at Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in 1990
18. Julian Richings
Actor | Man of Steel
Julian Richings was born and raised in Oxford, England, and is one of three boys. All pursued careers in professional theatre: his older brother is a set designer, and his younger brother is a lighting designer. After graduating from the University of Exeter Drama Department in 1977, he performed ...
19. Ted Raimi
Actor | The Quarry
Theodore (Ted) Raimi is an American Character Actor who was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Ted Raimi started his career at the early age of 17 and now owns 40 years of experience in his business. Raimi is known for appearing in horror shows, movies, series, and his most recent work; a ...
20. Tim Curry
Actor | Congo
Timothy James Curry was born on April 19, 1946 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England. His mother, Maura Patricia (Langmead), was a school secretary, and his father, James Curry, was a Methodist Royal Navy chaplain. Curry studied Drama and English at Birmingham University, from which he graduated with ...
21. Mitch Pileggi
Actor | Basic Instinct
Mitch Pileggi was born on April 5, 1952 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is an actor, known for Basic Instinct (1992), The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) and The X-Files (1993). He has been married to Arlene Warren since January 1, 1997. They have one child. He was previously married to Debbie ...
22. Denise Crosby
Actress | Pet Sematary
Denise Michelle Crosby was born on November 24, 1957 in Hollywood, California. Denise graduated from Hollywood High School in 1975 and attended Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz where she enrolled in the Drama Department. Forming part of the extensive Crosby family dynasty, this striking leading ...
23. David Newell
Actor | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
David Newell was born on November 24, 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968), My Tale of Two Cities (2008) and Christmastime with Mister Rogers (1977). He has been married to Nan Wheelock since February 6, 1976. They have two...
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