Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 premiere
by MikeSeravello-233-985397 | created - 13 Dec 2018 | updated - 13 Dec 2018 | PublicTuesday May 26th, Beverly Theater 206 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
1. James Franciscus
Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes
James Grover Franciscus graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1957 with a B.A. in English and theater. His father, John Allen Franciscus, was a pilot killed in action during WWII. His mother was named Loraine (nee Grover) and he had one sibling, a brother named John. Mr. Franciscus is ...
2. Natalie Trundy
Actress | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Fair, freckled and quite lovely, actress Natalie Trundy, of Italian and Irish heritage, had quite a promising career approaching adulthood in the late 1950s until a serious car accident put a serious halt to things. As Natalie Campagna, she was born in Boston on August 5, 1940, the elder of two ...
3. Paul Richards
Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Paul Richards was born on November 23, 1924 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Monkey on My Back (1957) and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). He was married to Monica Keating. He died on December 10, 1974 in Culver City, ...
4. James Gregory
Actor | The Manchurian Candidate
New York-born James Gregory gave up a career as a stockbroker for one as an actor, and began on the Broadway stage. He made his film debut in 1948. Gregory specialized in playing loud, brash, tough cops or businessmen. One of his better roles was as the detective out to get Capone in Al Capone (...
5. David Watson
Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes
David Watson was born on March 10, 1940 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), The Time Tunnel (1966) and The Legend of Robin Hood (1968). He died on October 5, 2014 in New York, USA.
6. Arthur P. Jacobs
Producer | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Arthur P. Jacobs is best known for producing the "Planet of the Apes" series. He bought the rights to Pierre Boulle's novel Monkey Planet in 1963. Many film studios passed on the project, stating that the concept was unfilmable. Jacobs persevered, and the film was released in 1968 to wide popular ...
7. Mort Abrahams
Producer | Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Mort Abrahams was born on March 26, 1916 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Planet of the Apes (1968) and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950). He was married to Dorothy Bernstein. He died on May 28, 2009 in Sherman...
8. Ted Post
Director | Magnum Force
Ted Post first began thinking about a career in show business in 1938, when he was working as a weekend usher at the Loew's Pitkin Theater in Brooklyn, New York, and getting so caught up in the movies that he would sometimes forget to escort the patrons to their seats. He received some acting ...
9. Jack Albertson
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
A former song-and-dance man and veteran of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway, Jack Albertson is best known to audiences as "The Man" in the TV series Chico and the Man (1974), for which he won an Emmy. In 1968 Albertson, the brother of actress Mabel Albertson, won the Oscar for Best Supporting ...
10. Frank Aletter
Actor | Tora! Tora! Tora!
For someone who goes only to movie theaters, Frank Aletter is a total stranger. It is true that the actor appeared in no more than a handful of theatrical films (Gerhart in Mister Roberts (1955), a commanding officer in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Leigh Jensen in Private School (1983)...). But for a ...
11. Steve Allen
Actor | Casino
Steve Allen was born on December 26, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Casino (1995), The Player (1992) and College Confidential (1960). He was married to Jayne Meadows and Dorothy Goodman. He died on October 30, 2000 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA.
12. Leslie Bricusse
Soundtrack | Doctor Dolittle
Leslie Bricusse was born on January 29, 1931 in Southfields, London, England, UK. He was a writer and composer, known for Doctor Dolittle (1967), Scrooge (1970) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He was married to Yvonne Romain. He died on October 19, 2021 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, ...
13. Michael Blodgett
Writer | Turner & Hooch
The handsome, well-built and engaging Michael Blodgett was born on September 26, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Blodgett attended the University of Minnesota and began his acting career in his hometown of Minneapolis. Michael earned a pre-law degree in political science from Cal State Los Angeles ...
14. James Brolin
Actor | Traffic
James Brolin is an American actor. Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin.
He is best known for his TV roles such as Stephen Kiley on Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969-1976), Peter McDermott on ...
15. Jackie Cooper
Actor | Superman
Jackie Cooper was born John Cooper in Los Angeles, California, to Mabel Leonard, an Italian-American stage pianist, and John Cooper. Through his mother, he was the nephew of actress Julie Leonard, screenwriter Jack Leonard, and (by marriage) director Norman Taurog. Jackie served with the Navy in ...
16. Diahann Carroll
Actress | Julia
One of television's premier African-American series stars, elegant actress, singer and recording artist Diahann Carroll was born Carol Diann (or Diahann) Johnson on July 17, 1935, in the Bronx, New York. The first child of John Johnson, a subway conductor, and Mabel Faulk Johnson, a nurse; music ...
17. Jack Carter
Actor | History of the World: Part I
Jack Carter was born on June 24, 1922 in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for History of the World: Part I (1981), Alligator (1980) and Amazing Stories (1985). He was married to Roxanne Wander, Paula Stewart and Joan Mann. He died on June ...
18. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
19. Sam Elliott
Actor | A Star Is Born
Tall, thin, wiry Sam Elliott is the classic picture of the American cowboy. Elliott began his acting career on the stage and his film debut was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Although his future wife, Katharine Ross co-starred in the film, the two did not meet until they filmed The ...
20. Fabian
Actor | The Longest Day
Swinging teen idol Fabiano Anthony Forte, better known to his fans as Fabian, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, to a police officer. His father took ill and died when Fabian was young and the boy was forced to find work to help pay the family bills. With no experience but looks to die...
21. Farrah Fawcett
Actress | Saturn 3
Farrah Fawcett is a true Hollywood success story. Born in Texas, she was the daughter of Pauline Fawcett (Pauline Alice Evans), a homemaker, and James Fawcett, an oil field contractor. She was a natural athlete, something that her father encouraged, and she attended a high school with a strong arts...
22. M.J. Frankovich
Producer | The Shootist
M.J. Frankovich was born on September 29, 1909 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Shootist (1976), Cactus Flower (1969) and The Looking Glass War (1970). He was married to Binnie Barnes and Georgiana Feagans. He died on January 1, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, ...
23. Roosevelt Grier
Soundtrack | Half Nelson
Former star player with the Los Angeles Rams during the 1960s, this impressively built African-American athlete broke into acting via appearances in TV shows including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), The Wild Wild West (1965) and I Dream of Jeannie (1965).
Grier received positive reviews for his ...
24. David Gerber
Producer | Police Story
David Gerber was born on July 25, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Police Story (1973), The Lost Battalion (2001) and Riker (1981). He was married to Laraine Stephens. He died on January 2, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
25. Tippi Hedren
Actress | The Birds
From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (née Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedren, who ran a general store, and is of Swedish, ...
26. Peter Haskell
Actor | Child's Play 3
Peter Haskell was born on October 15, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Child's Play 3 (1991), Child's Play 2 (1990) and Bracken's World (1969). He was married to Dianne Tolmich and Annie Compton. He died on April 12, 2010 in Northridge, California, USA.
27. Roger Herren
Actor | Myra Breckinridge
Roger Herren was a handsome young U.S. actor of brief acclaim in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Blessed with good looks and southern charm, Herren appeared to be headed for stardom, yet he is known to have had only one credited film role and one credited stage role.
Born in Baxter, Tennessee, in ...
28. Lloyd Haynes
Actor | Room 222
Lloyd Haynes was born on October 19, 1934 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Room 222 (1969), Star Trek (1966) and Good Guys Wear Black (1978). He was married to Carolyn Yvonne Giorella, Saundra Lee Madariaga and Alice Elizabeth Ellis. He died on December 31, 1986 in...
29. Rafer Johnson
Actor | Licence to Kill
A distinguished American athlete and occasional actor with many other strings to his bow, Rafer Johnson was a UCLA basketball star who went on to become Pan American decathlon champion in 1955, a two time decathlon silver medallist at the Melbourne Olympics (despite injuries) and winner of gold ...
30. Karen Jensen
Actress | Emergency!
Karen Jensen was born on August 18, 1944 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Emergency! (1972), The Salzburg Connection (1972) and Mannix (1967). She has been married to Brendon Boone since January 30, 1999. She was previously married to John Neilson and Michael Stroka.
31. Shirley Jones
Actress | The Music Man
Named after child star Shirley Temple, Shirley Jones started singing at the age of six. She started formal training at the age of 12 and would dream of singing with her idol, Gordon MacRae. Upon graduating from high school, Shirley went to New York to audition for the casting director of Rodgers & ...
32. Peter Lupus
Actor | Mission: Impossible
Peter Lupus was born on June 17, 1932 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Challenge of the Gladiator (1965) and Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (1965). He has been married to Sharon M. Hildebrand since November 27, 1960. They have ...
33. Deanna Lund
Actress | Elves
Deanna Lund is best known for her role as "Valerie Scott" in the two-season cult series of the 1960s: Land of the Giants (1968), produced by Irwin Allen.
Irwin Allen cast Lund in the series, when he saw her in a recently made motion picture. Lund started out as the bad girl of the series, getting ...
34. Janet Leigh
Actress | Psycho
Janet Leigh was the only child of a couple who often moved from town to town. Living in apartments, Janet was a bright child who skipped several grades and finished high school when she was 15. A lonely child, she would spend much of her time at movie theaters. She was a student, studying music and...
35. Sue Ane Langdon
Actress | UHF
Perky American actress with a sexy style and a flair for comedy. Born in New Jersey, she was raised by her singer mother in New York, Michigan, and Oregon. She began acting as a child, in school and local productions. After college at North Texas State and the University of Idaho, she went to New ...
36. Walter Matthau
Actor | The Odd Couple
Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars.
He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York...
37. Karl Malden
Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire
Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...
38. Don Matheson
Actor | Land of the Giants
Don Matheson was born on August 5, 1929 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Land of the Giants (1968), Lost in Space (1965) and Murph the Surf (1975). He was married to Deanna Lund and Maxine Arnold. He died on June 29, 2014 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
39. Cynthia Myers
Actress | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Gorgeous and voluptuous 5'3" brunette knockout Cynthia Jeanette Myers was born on September 12, 1950, in Toledo, Ohio. She was raised by her mother Mary, her grandparents and various aunts and uncles after her father was killed in a car accident when she was four years old. She had two siblings, ...
40. Lee Majors
Actor | The Six Million Dollar Man
Lee Majors was born on April 23, 1939 in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Fall Guy (1981) and Scrooged (1988). He has been married to Faith Majors since November 9, 2002. He was previously married to Karen Velez, Farrah Fawcett ...
41. Vera Miles
Actress | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she ...
42. Don Marshall
Actor | Terminal Island
Don Marshall's heyday was on the small screen in the 60's and 70's. The athletic and clean cut actor is best remembered as first officer and co-pilot Dan Erickson in Irwin Allen's ground-breaking science-fiction series Land of the Giants (1968). Having excelled at football, pole vaulting and other ...
43. Noel Marshall
Producer | Roar
Noel Marshall was born on April 18, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Roar (1981), The Exorcist (1973) and Mister Kingstreet's War (1971). He was married to Paula Marshall Doss, Tippi Hedren and Jaye Joseph. He died on June 27, 2010 in Santa Monica, ...
44. Russ Meyer
Director | Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
Russell Albion Meyer was born in San Leandro, California, to Lydia Lucinda (Hauck), a nurse, and William Arthur Meyer, a police officer, who divorced during his childhood. His parents were both of German descent. Meyer began winning prizes at 15 with his amateur films. He spent World War II in ...
45. Doug McClure
Actor | The Virginian
Douglas Osborne McClure was born on May 11, 1935 in Glendale, California. Educated at UCLA, this blond leading man long made a career of apparent agelessness. He played one young sidekick after another through numerous movies and one television series after another, playing 20ish roles into his ...
46. Lee Meriwether
Actress | Batman: The Movie
Today, sexy Lee Meriwether is best remembered for her roles in a few science fiction/fantasy cult productions made between 1966 and 1969. Batman: The Movie (1966), Star Trek (1966), The Time Tunnel (1966) and Land of the Giants (1968).
Firstly Batman: The Movie (1966), in which she played both evil ...
47. Jayne Meadows
Actress | City Slickers
One of four children (two older brothers, one younger sister) born to American missionaries, Jayne Meadows (née Jane Cotter) was born September 27, 1919, in China. The family returned to the US in the early 1930s wherein Jayne was forced to learn the English language, speaking Chinese and other ...
48. Roger Miller
Soundtrack | Robin Hood
Roger Miller was born on January 2, 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Robin Hood (1973), Superman III (1983) and Into the Wild (2007). He was married to Mary Miller, Leah Kendrick and Barbara Louise Crow. He died on October 25, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, ...
49. Frank McCarthy
Producer | Patton
Frank McCarthy was born on June 8, 1912 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a producer, known for Patton (1970), Decision Before Dawn (1951) and Sailor of the King (1953). He died on December 1, 1986 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
50. Melissa Newman
Actress | Robotech
Melissa Newman is known for Robotech (1985), The Undefeated (1969) and One Dark Night (1982).
51. Ed Nelson
Actor | Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Ed Nelson was aiming for a career in the legal profession until he caught the acting bug during his second year of college. In 1952, he headed off to New York City, where he studied direction and production at the School of Radio Technique. He returned to his native New Orleans where he worked as ...
52. Mike Nichols
Director | The Graduate
He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company. They used the games taught to them by fellow cast mate, Paul Sills 's mother, Viola Spolin. He later ...
53. Jean Simmons
Actress | Guys and Dolls
Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944). She had a small part as a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (...
54. Bobby Sherman
Soundtrack | Shindig!
Bobby started in the hit television program Shindig as the house singer from 1964 to 1966. After it was canceled, he did guest appearances in shows like The Monkees, Honey West and The FBI before starring in his breakout role in Here Come The Brides from 1968 to 1970. He also performed in an ...
55. Susan Stafford
Actress | Police Story
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Susan grew up in Missouri, started winning beauty contests as a teenager in Kansas City where her modeling career began. Susan moved to California and enjoyed success in co-starring roles in major television series and a couple of motion pictures. Susan is best known as...
56. Laraine Stephens
Actress | Police Woman
Laraine Stephens was born on July 24, 1941 in Oakland, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Police Woman (1974), Hellfighters (1968) and Mission: Impossible (1966). She was previously married to David Gerber.
57. Terry Kingsley-Smith
Writer | Daniel Boone
Terry Kingsley-Smith is known for Daniel Boone (1964), Molly and Lawless John (1972) and The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980).
58. Edy Williams
Actress | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
When we think of the term "worse for wear," somehow provocative images of 39-26-37 Edwina Beth Williams (better known as Edy Williams) and her outrageous apparel at film festivals and award shows instantly stand out in one's mind. You have to admit that this wild child, who has now come into her ...
59. William A. Wellman
Director | A Star Is Born
William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937), was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.
A leap-year baby born in 1896 on the 29th...
60. Natalie Wood
Actress | Rebel Without a Cause
Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.
Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...
61. Army Archerd
Actor | Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Army Archerd was born on January 13, 1922 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Burke's Law (1963) and Gable and Lombard (1976). He was married to Selma Archerd and Joan Carol Paul. He died on September 8, 2009 in ...
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