Wild America 1997 premiere

1. Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Jonathan Taylor Thomas was born Jonathan Taylor Weiss on September 8, 1981 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to Claudine (Gonsalves) and Stephen Weiss. He has an older brother, Joel, and has Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and Portuguese ancestry. Growing up, he liked the music group Boyz II Men, and his ...

2. Randy Travis

Soundtrack | Deep Impact

Randy Travis was born on May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Deep Impact (1998), The Rainmaker (1997) and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007). He has been married to Mary Davis Travis since March 21, 2015. He was previously married to ...

3. Jon Voight

Actor | Midnight Cowboy

Jon Voight is an American actor of German and Slovak descent. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978). He has also been nominated for the same award other two times. He was first ...

4. Tamera Mowry-Housley

Actress | Sister, Sister

Tamera Darvette Mowry was born on July 6, 1978, two minutes before her twin sister, Tia Mowry, in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany, to Darlene Mowry and Tim Mowry, who was serving in the U.S. Army at the time of her birth and later became a custody officer/jailer with the City of Glendale Police ...

5. Tia Mowry

Actress | Sister, Sister

Tia Mowry was born on July 6, 1978 in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Sister, Sister (1994), The Hot Chick (2002) and The Game (2006). She was previously married to Cory Hardrict.

6. Tahj Mowry

Actor | Smart Guy

Tahj Mowry, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, is known for playing the young prodigy on the Disney sitcom, Smart Guy (1997). He is the son of Darlene Renee (Flowers), who eventually ended up managing the siblings' early career, and Timothy John Mowry, a police officer and a veteran of the war. His ...

7. Steve Tisch

Producer | Forrest Gump

Steve Tisch is an American film and television producer and sports employee that was born on February 14, 1949 on Lakewood Township, New Jersey.

After he attended Tuffs University, he was a producer for Columbia Pictures. He was production assistant on two 1971 movies Cry Uncle (1971) for Troma and ...

8. Mark Marshall

Actor | The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial

Mark Marshall is known for The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial (1976).

9. Marty Stouffer

Director | Bighorn!

Marty Stouffer is known for Bighorn! (1972), The Predators (1976) and Fantastic Follies (1996). He has been married to Diane since 1979. They have one child.

10. Frances Fisher

Actress | Titanic

Frances Fisher began by apprenticing at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. She spent 14 years based in New York City, playing leads in over 30 productions of plays by such noted writers as John Arden, Noël Coward, Emily Mann, Joe Orton, Sam Shepard, William Shakespeare, Jean-Claude van ...

11. Devon Sawa

Actor | Final Destination

Devon started his career as a young actor in Vancouver, Canada. First in the theater, and then moving onto smaller roles on TV. His breakout role was the title character in the Universal motion picture, Casper. He went on to star in many more films during his teens such as Now and Then, Little ...

12. Jamey Sheridan

Actor | Spotlight

Virile, fair-haired, set-jawed actor Jamey Sheridan was born (on July 12, 1951) and raised in Pasadena, California. He turned to acting after a knee injury ended his pursuit of a dancing career.

Beginning professionally on stage in 1978, he gained some momentum into the next decade and eventually ...

13. Scott Bairstow

Actor | The Postman

Scott Bairstow was born on April 23, 1970 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. He is an actor, known for The Postman (1997), Tuck Everlasting (2002) and Wild America (1997). He was previously married to Marty Rich.

14. Francesca Eastwood

Actress | Queen of the Ring

Francesca Eastwood was born on August 7, 1993 in Redding, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Queen of the Ring, Old (2021) and M.F.A. (2017).

15. Tina Majorino

Actress | Napoleon Dynamite

Tina Majorino has been charming audiences on the silver screen from a young age. In 1994, she made her feature film debut in Touchstone's When A Man Loves a Woman playing Meg Ryan & Andy Garcia's daughter, followed quickly that same year by New Line's Corrina, Corinna (opposite Whoopi Goldberg and ...

16. William Dear

Director | Harry and the Hendersons

William Dear was born on November 30, 1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for Harry and the Hendersons (1987), The Rocketeer (1991) and Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982).

17. Deborah Kara Unger

Actress | The Game

Deborah Kara Unger was the first Canadian accepted into the prestigious Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. She made her feature film debut in Blood Oath (1990), followed by roles in Christopher Crowe's Whispers in the Dark (1992), Till There Was You (1991), and Highlander: The Final ...

18. Larisa Oleynik

Actress | 10 Things I Hate About You

Larisa Oleynik was born in Santa Clara County, California, to Lorraine (Allen), a nurse, and Roman Oleynik, an anesthesiologist. Her father is of Ukrainian and Rusyn descent.

Larisa's big break came when she was eight. She had gotten the part of young Cosette in a production of "Les Misérables". Her...

19. Lisa Canning

Actress | Scream

Lisa Canning is one of television's most popular and admired on-air personalities. Best known to viewers around the world for her work as an on-air correspondent for Entertainment Tonight from 1996-1999, she is also a talented actress who has appeared in a number of series and feature films. Most ...

20. Kandeyce Jorden

Director | Girl

Kandeyce Jorden was born in Berlin, Germany and grew up riding horses in Northern California. She worked as an executive recruiter in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She landed the lead role in Miguel Arteta's Star Maps (1997), which earned critical acclaim at...

21. Colette Kilroy

Actress | Me and You and Everyone We Know

Colette Kilroy was born on February 4, 1960 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), The Ice Storm (1997) and Matchbox Circus Train (1997). She has been married to Jamey Sheridan since August 15, 1992. They have three children.

22. Lucky Vanous

Actor | 18 Wheels of Justice

Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Lucky joined the Army at 18 and was selected to join the 1st Ranger Battalion (Black Berets), the elite anti-terrorist and anti-guerilla response team. In the Rangers he traveled extensively and was trained in many military skills including demolitions, scuba ...

23. Jennifer Elise Cox

Actress | The Back-up Plan

Jennifer Elise Cox combines a glowing personality with outlandish humor to invent her own comedic style. Jennifer burst on the scene in 1995 with her excellent yet underrated performance as middle child "Jan Brady" in "The Brady Bunch" movies. Growing up in New York City's lower East Side, Jennifer...

24. Stuart Stone

Actor | Donnie Darko

Stuart Stone was born on November 17, 1980 in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Donnie Darko (2001), Vandits (2022) and Faking A Murderer (2020).

25. Ed McMahon

Soundtrack | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Ed McMahon's first appearance before a microphone was as a 15-year-old "caller" at a bingo game in Maine. After that, he spent the next three years touring the state fair and carnival circuit. A Marine fighter pilot during World War II, McMahon sold vegetable slicers on Atlantic City's boardwalk to...

26. Danielle Fishel

Actress | Boy Meets World

Danielle Christine Fishel was born on May 5, 1981, in Mesa, Arizona. She began acting professionally at the age of ten, during which she made many TV guest appearances and commercials. She was originally a guest star on the show Boy Meets World (1993), but Danielle added a spark that the show ...

27. Tracey Walter

Actor | Repo Man

Tracey Walter was born on November 25, 1947 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Repo Man (1984), Batman (1989) and Conan the Destroyer (1984).

28. Zack Ward

Actor | Freddy vs. Jason

Zack Ward was born in 1970. He wanted to act, but his mom, an actress herself, wanted her son to be normal, and would not let him. Finally, his brother intervened, allowing Zack the chance to act. After a year of the small stuff, he got his first big audition for the '80s classic A Christmas Story ...

29. Danny Glover

Actor | Lethal Weapon

Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 35 years.

Glover was born in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover, postal workers who were also active in civil rights. Glover trained at the Black ...

30. Gary Barber

Producer | The Lookout

Gary Barber was born in 1957 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a producer and executive, known for The Lookout (2007), Unbreakable (2000) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

31. James G. Robinson

Producer | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

James G. Robinson was born on December 16, 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer and executive, known for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Major League II (1994) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).

32. Irby Smith

Assistant_director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Irby Smith is known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Major League (1989) and Young Guns (1988).

33. Mark Stouffer

Director | Rocky Mountain Reunion

Winner of 3 Emmy Awards (including Outstanding Achievement in Directing), 9 Emmy Award Nominations, a Directors Guild of America - Best Director Nomination, and over 75 international awards.

Mark Stouffer's productions include 7 feature motion pictures, 18 network specials, 120 episodes of series ...

34. Bill Todman Jr.

Producer | X-Men

Bill Todman Jr. was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for X-Men (2000), Hard to Kill (1990) and Wild Wild West (1999).

35. David Michael Wieger

Writer | Wild America

David Michael Wieger is known for Wild America (1997) and Major.

36. Joel McNeely

Music_department | Air Force One

Joel McNeely was born on March 28, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is a composer, known for Air Force One (1997), The Avengers (1998) and Soldier (1998).

37. David Burr

Cinematographer | The Phantom

David got his start at Cinesound Productions in Sydney, Australia as assistant cameraman to Ross Blake and Kevin Roche. Initially he worked mostly on news stories, but was also getting much-valued experience by assisting on TV commercials and documentaries for highly regarded cinematographers Ron ...

38. O. Nicholas Brown

Editor | Sleeper

O. Nicholas Brown was born on June 19, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an editor and actor, known for Sleeper (1973), Rambo III (1988) and The Phantom (1996).