Ragtime 1981 premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 17 Dec 2019 | updated - 17 Dec 2019 | PublicWednesday November 18th, Eugene O'Neill Theatre 230 W 49th St, New York, NY 10019
1. James Cagney
Actor | Angels with Dirty Faces
One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur ...
2. Pat O'Brien
Actor | Some Like It Hot
Although he came to be called "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence"--and, along with good friends James Cagney, Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh and a few others were called "The Irish Mafia"--and he often played Irish immigrants, Pat O'Brien was US-born and -bred. As a young boy the devoutly Roman ...
3. Norman Mailer
Writer | Tough Guys Don't Dance
Norman Mailer, the Brooklyn-born and -bred writer who fought for what he characterized as the "heavyweight championship" of American letters after the 1961 death of Ernest Hemingway, never came close to his dream of writing the Great American novel, but he was a colossus of American culture and ...
4. Mary Steenburgen
Actress | Last Vegas
Mary Steenburgen is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
She was born in Newport, Arkansas, USA. Her mother, Nellie May (Wall) Steenburgen, was a school-board secretary, and her father, Maurice H. Steenburgen, was a freight-train conductor. Her surname comes from distant Dutch ancestry, and ...
5. Elizabeth McGovern
Actress | Ordinary People
Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). She began acting in school plays at North Hollywood High, graduated from The Oakwood School and then continued her stage ...
6. Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Actor | Ragtime
Howard E. Rollins Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1950. He was the youngest of four children born to Howard E. Rollins Sr. (steelworker) and Ruth R. Rollins (domestic worker). Rollins graduated from Towson State College, where he studied theater. His first break into acting came when a ...
7. Mandy Patinkin
Actor | Homeland
Mandy Patinkin was born Mandel Bruce Patinkin in Chicago, Illinois, to Doris "Doralee" (Sinton), a homemaker and cookbook writer, and Lester Patinkin, who operated two scrap metal plants. He is of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent. Growing up, he began singing in synagogue choirs at the age...
8. Dino De Laurentiis
Producer | Le notti di Cabiria
Dino De Laurentiis left home at age 17 to enrol in film school, supporting himself as an actor, extra, propman, or any other job he could get in the film industry. His persistence paid off, and by the time he reached his 20th birthday he already had one produced film under his belt. After serving ...
9. Milos Forman
Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...
10. Michael Weller
Writer | Hair
Michael Weller was born on September 26, 1942. He is a producer and writer, known for Hair (1979), Ragtime (1981) and Safe Haven.
11. E.L. Doctorow
Writer | Daniel
E.L. Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Daniel (1983), Wakefield (2016) and Billy Bathgate (1991). He was married to Helen Setzer. He died on July 21, 2015 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
12. Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp was born on July 1, 1941 in Portland, Indiana, USA. She is a director and actress, known for Amadeus (1984), Hair (1979) and Great Performances: Dance in America (1976).
13. 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 ...
14. Annabel Davis-Goff
Script_department | Walkabout
Annabel Davis-Goff was born on February 19, 1942 in Ireland. She is a writer and producer, known for Walkabout (1971), The Great Gatsby (1974) and The Last of Sheila (1973). She was previously married to Mike Nichols.
15. Max Nichols
Director | Two Night Stand
Max Nichols was born on December 9, 1973 in the USA. He is a director and actor, known for Two Night Stand (2014), Day 5 (2016) and Chemistry Lessons. He has been married to Rachel Nichols since May 25, 2001.
16. Jenny Nichols
Actress | Crimes and Misdemeanors
Jenny Nichols is known for Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), New York Stories (1989) and Ragtime (1981).
17. Ed Koch
Actor | We Own the Night
Ed Koch was born on December 12, 1924 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for We Own the Night (2007), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) and The First Wives Club (1996). He died on February 1, 2013 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
18. Debbie Allen
Producer | Fame
Deborah Kaye Allen was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Debbie, her older brother, Andrew (called Tex), and her older sister, actress Phylicia Rashad, lived in Mexico to ...
19. Schuyler G. Chapin
Schuyler G. Chapin was born on February 13, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Great Performances (1971), Bernstein in London: Verdi's Requiem (1970) and Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna (1970). He was married to Elizabeth Steinway. He died on March 7,...
20. Jonathan Demme
Director | The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993). He was married to Joanne Howard and Evelyn Purcell. He died on April 26, 2017 in ...
21. Brad Dourif
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, ...
22. Kathryn Grody
Actress | My Bodyguard
Kathryn Grody was born on November 6, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for My Bodyguard (1980), The Lemon Sisters (1989) and Life with Mikey (1993). She has been married to Mandy Patinkin since June 15, 1980. They have two children.
23. Kathy Talbert
Casting_department | Reds
Kathy Talbert is known for Reds (1981), Neighbors (1981) and Soup for One (1982).
24. Marge Zimmerman
Marge Zimmerman is known for Ragtime (1981) and Terrible Joe Moran (1984).
25. Jack Weston
Actor | Dirty Dancing
In a 40-year stage, film, and television career, Weston played sleazy villains to hapless men going through midlife crises to clumsy comics. He was one of the bad guys who victimize a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 cult classic Wait Until Dark (1967) but meets his end at the hands of the number ...
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