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1. Dolly Parton

Soundtrack | The Porter Wagoner Show

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in Pittman Center, Tennessee and raised in Sevierville, Tennessee to Avie Lee Parton, a housewife & Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer. At 12, she was appearing on Knoxville TV and at 13, she was already recording on a small label and appearing at ...

2. Burt Reynolds

Actor | Boogie Nights

Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a ...

3. Jim Nabors

Actor | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Tall, spade-jawed, hopelessly genial balladeer/actor Jim Nabors was born in James Thurston Nabors on June 12, 1930 in Sylacauga, Alabama and raised there, graduating from the University of Alabama. A typing clerk at the United Nations in his salad days, he eventually moved to Los Angeles, ...

4. Dom DeLuise

Actor | The Cannonball Run

As might be said for the late and great comedians Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn, it seems that Mel Brooks was the only director on the planet who knew how to best utilize this funnyman's talents on film. Brooks once remarked that, whenever he cast Dom in one of his films he'd add an extra two ...

5. Carole McClellan

Actress | Roadie

Carole McClellan was born on September 13, 1939 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Roadie (1980).

6. Tanya Tucker

Soundtrack | Tremors

Tanya Tucker was born on October 10, 1958 in Seminole, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Tremors (1990), Christine (1983) and Palmer (2021).

7. Don Reid

Soundtrack | People Are Funny

Don Reid was born on June 5, 1945. He is an actor and writer, known for People Are Funny (1946), The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973) and Drive-In (1976).

8. Harold Reid

Soundtrack | Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus

Harold Reid was born on August 21, 1939 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973), Drive-In (1976) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980). He was married to Brenda. He died on April 24, 2020 in Staunton, Virginia, USA.

9. Lew DeWitt

Soundtrack | Pulp Fiction

Lew DeWitt was born on March 12, 1938 in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and Dolly (1976). He was married to Joyce Anne Arehart, Glenda Kay Simmers and Judy Fitzgerald Wells. He died on August 15, 1990 in Waynesboro, Virginia, ...

10. Jimmy Fortune

Music_department | Earl Hamner Storyteller

Jimmy Fortune is known for Earl Hamner Storyteller (2015), The Statler Brothers: Whatever (1982) and The Statler Brothers: My Only Love (1984).

11. Mel Tillis

Actor | The Cannonball Run

Mel Tillis was born on August 8, 1932 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for The Cannonball Run (1981), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and Every Which Way But Loose (1978). He was married to Julia Ann Edwards and Doris Yvonne Duckworth. He died on November 19, 2017 in Ocala, ...

12. Jerry Reed

Soundtrack | Smokey and the Bandit

Tall, blond haired country & western singer / songwriter from Atlanta Georgia, who usually appears in films portraying good humored Southern type characters. Reed was already writing and singing music in high school, and was signed by Capitol Records to a three-year contract in 1955. However, in ...

13. James Fawcett

Self | Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer

James Fawcett was born on October 14, 1917 in Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States. He was married to Rosenda Sofia Carbajol and Pauline Fawcett. He died on August 23, 2010 in Houston, Texas, USA.

14. Pauline Fawcett

Self | Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes: Fitness for Silver Citizens

Pauline Fawcett was born on January 30, 1914 in Henryetta, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes: Fitness for Silver Citizens (1986). She was married to James Fawcett. She died on March 4, 2005 in Houston, Texas, USA.

15. Charles Durning

Actor | Dog Day Afternoon

WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. The stockily built Charles Durning was one of Hollywood's most ...

16. Cathy Lee Crosby

Actress | The Player

Cathy Lee Crosby, Founder & CEO of CLC Entertainment Studios, is an internationally recognized star, multi-talented actress, entertainer, writer and producer. Her diverse career includes: representing the U.S. in international tennis competition (she attained a career high ranking of #7 in singles ...

17. Kenneth Sims

Self | NFL Monday Night Football

18. Amanda Blake

Actress | Gunsmoke

Amanda Blake was born in Buffalo, NY, of English and Scottish descent. She and her parents moved to Claremont, California, while Amanda was still in high school, and she graduated from Claremont High. She enrolled at Pomona College but, due to her avid participation in community and theater ...

19. Richard 'Cactus' Pryor

Actor | Hellfighters

Richard 'Cactus' Pryor was born on January 7, 1923 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Hellfighters (1968), The Green Berets (1968) and Trespasses (1986). He died on August 30, 2011 in Austin, Texas, USA.

20. Edward K. Milkis

Producer | Star Trek

Edward K. Milkis was born on July 16, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Edward K. was a producer and production manager, known for Star Trek (1966), Silver Streak (1976) and Foul Play (1978). Edward K. died on December 14, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21. Colin Higgins

Writer | Nine to Five

Colin Higgins was born on July 28, 1941 in Nouméa, New Caledonia, France. He was a writer and director, known for Nine to Five (1980), Foul Play (1978) and Harold and Maude (1971). He died on August 5, 1988 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

22. William P. Clements Jr.

Self | 30 for 30

William P. Clements Jr. was born on April 17, 1917 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was married to Rita Joan Crocker and Pauline Allen Gill. He died on May 29, 2011 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

23. Neal Spelce

Producer | An American Moment

Neal Spelce is known for An American Moment (1997), Tower (2016) and A Crime to Remember (2013).

24. Fred Miller

Producer | For All Mankind

Fred Miller is known for For All Mankind (1989), Angels Sing (2013) and When We Last Spoke (2019).

25. Carol Fowler

Self | Who Is Alvin Greene?

26. Geraldine Buckley

Alamo Bay

Geraldine Buckley is known for Alamo Bay (1985).