Private Benjamin 1980 premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 16 Dec 2019 | updated - 16 Dec 2019 | PublicWednesday October 8th, Ziegfeld Ballroom 141 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019
1. Goldie Hawn
Actress | Private Benjamin
Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland to Laura Hawn, a jewelry shop/dance school owner & Rut Hawn, a band musician. She has a sister, Patti Hawn, and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth. She was raised in the Jewish...
2. Eileen Brennan
Actress | Clue
A supremely gifted, versatile player who could reach dramatic depths, as exemplified in her weary-eyed, good-hearted waitress in The Last Picture Show (1971), or comedy heights, as in her sadistic drill captain in Private Benjamin (1980), Eileen Brennan managed to transition from lovely Broadway ...
3. Armand Assante
Actor | Gotti
Known as an Actor's Actor, the Four time Golden Globe Nominee, Emmy Award Winning Actor ( Gotti 1996 ) Assante has received acclaim for his work for close to Five decades. Internationally he has been the recipient of Twelve Lifetime Achievement Awards in the past ten years.
Full Biography at ...
4. Robert Webber
Actor | The Dirty Dozen
Over his 40-year career as one of Hollywood's veteran character actors, Robert Webber always marked his spot by playing all types of roles and was not stereotyped into playing just one kind of character. Sometimes he even got to play a leading role (see Hysteria (1965)). Webber first started out in...
5. Richard Herd
Actor | All the President's Men
Utilitarian character actor Richard Herd was one of those stern familiar faces you saw countless times on film and TV but couldn't quite place the name. The stage-trained actor, who shared a striking resemblance to actor Karl Malden, never found the one role that would make him a household name, ...
6. Sam Wanamaker
Actor | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Actor and director Sam Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Molly (Babell) and Maurice Wattenmaker, a tailor. He studied at Drake University, IA, then trained at Goodman Theatre, Chicago, worked with summer stock companies in Chicago as an actor and director, and...
7. Barbara Barrie
Actress | Breaking Away
After endless stage and television work, Barrie received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the ground-breaking racial drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964), as Julie, a young, white mother who marries a black man after she and her daughter are abandoned by her ...
8. Gretchen Wyler
Actress | Private Benjamin
Lovely, sparkling blonde musical actress and dancer Gretchen Wyler was born Gretchen Patricia Weinecke on February 16, 1932, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the daughter of Louis Gustave Weinecke, a gasoline engineer, and Peggy (nee Highley) Weinecke. She graduated from her home town high school and ...
9. Mary Kay Place
Actress | Being John Malkovich
Mary Kay Place (born September 23, 1947) is an American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter. She is known for portraying Loretta Haggers on the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a role that won her the 1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series....
10. Harry Dean Stanton
Actor | Lucky
Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Ersel (Moberly), a cook, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a barber and tobacco farmer. He lived in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Lafayette Senior High School with the class of 1944. Drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during ...
11. Hal Williams
Actor | Guess Who
A veteran professional actor who has co-starred as a television series regular in NINE, prime time, HIT series, and has established himself solidly in both the areas of comedy and drama. Hal's latest projects include Disney Family Channel's Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008) and Hallmark's Generation Gap ...
12. P.J. Soles
Actress | Halloween
P.J. (Pamela Jayne) Soles was born on July 17, 1950 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her father came from Holland and her mother from New Jersey. Because her father was working for an international insurance company, the family moved all over the world. P.J. lived in Casablanca, Morocco, and Maracaibo, ...
13. Craig T. Nelson
Actor | Coach
Craig T. Nelson was born on April 4, 1944 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Coach (1989), The Incredibles (2004) and The Family Stone (2005). He has been married to Doria Cook-Nelson since 1987. He was previously married to Robin McCarthy.
14. Albert Brooks
Actor | Drive
Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Drive (2011), Broadcast News (1987) and Defending Your Life (1991). He has been married to Kimberly Shlain since March 15, 1997. They have two children.
15. Alan Oppenheimer
Actor | Westworld
Alan Oppenheimer is an American actor from New York City, who started his career in the 1950s. By the 1970s, Oppenheimer started performing voice acting roles. He eventually emerged as one of the most prolific voice actors in the United States, with roles in numerous series and films. His better ...
16. Toni Kalem
Actress | The Wanderers
Director, writer and character actress Toni Kalem was born in the suburbs of New Jersey. She began her acting career in the late 70s, and her first prominent part was in The Wanderers (1979), as Despie. She's also done soap opera and TV work, and is best known for her excellent performance as Angie...
17. Damita Jo Freeman
Actress | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Damita Jo Freeman was born on February 26, 1953 in Palestine, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), Private Benjamin (1980) and The Man with One Red Shoe (1985).
18. Alston Ahern
Actress | The Jerk
Alston Ahern is known for The Jerk (1979), The Day After (1983) and Private Benjamin (1980).
19. Lee Wallace
Actor | Batman
Lee Wallace was born on July 15, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Batman (1989), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and Private Benjamin (1980). He was married to Marilyn Chris. He died on December 20, 2020 in New York, New York, USA.
20. Danny Wells
Actor | Magnolia
Danny Wells was born on April 7, 1941 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and composer, known for Magnolia (1999), The Last Kiss (2006) and Private Benjamin (1980). He died on November 28, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
21. Howard Zieff
Director | The Main Event
Howard Zieff was born on October 21, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Main Event (1979), My Girl (1991) and Private Benjamin (1980). He was married to Ronda Gomez-Quinones. He died on February 21, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
22. Nancy Meyers
Writer | It's Complicated
Nancy Jane Meyers is an American filmmaker. She has written, produced, and directed many critically and commercially successful films including Private Benjamin (1980), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), The Parent ...
23. Harvey Miller
Producer | Private Benjamin
Harvey was born as Harvey Skolnik. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. Harvey started his career in New York City as comedian Sandy Baron's manager. Harvey furthered his career by working with his close longtime friends: Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall, Albert Brooks, James L. Brooks and Jerry ...
24. Charles Shyer
Writer | Private Benjamin
Charles Shyer was born in Los Angeles, California, USA as Charles Richard Shyer. He is a director, producer and writer, known for Private Benjamin (1980), The Parent Trap (1998), Alfie (2004) and Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995) and The Noel Diary (2022). He was ...
25. Bill Conti
Soundtrack | Rocky
Bill Conti was born on April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Rocky (1976), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). He is married to Shelby Cox. They have two children.
26. Barry De Vorzon
Soundtrack | The Warriors
Barry De Vorzon was born on July 31, 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer and producer, known for The Warriors (1979), Event Horizon (1997) and S.W.A.T. (2003).
27. David M. Walsh
Cinematographer | Murder by Death
Cinematographer David M Walsh was born on July 23, 1931 to Dionysus and Angela Walsh. Brought up in Cumberland, Maryland, he began his career as an assistant to Lucien Ballard at the Disney studios on the likes of 'The Parent Trap' and during the 1960s also worked as a camera operator on several ...
28. Sheldon Kahn
Editor | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sheldon Kahn was born on March 21, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Out of Africa (1985) and Ghostbusters II (1989).
29. Christopher Reeve
Actor | Superman
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City, to journalist Barbara Johnson (née Barbara Pitney Lamb) and writer/professor F.D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve). He came from an upper-class family; his paternal grandfather was CEO of Prudential Financial, and one of his ...
30. Dennis Kucinich
Self | GMO OMG
Dennis Kucinich was born on October 8, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He has been married to Elizabeth Kucinich since August 21, 2005. He was previously married to Sandra Lee McCarthy and Helen.
31. Shirley MacLaine
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...
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