Streets of Fire 1984 premiere
by thatgalaredcarpeteventguy | created - 23 May 2021 | updated - 23 May 2021 | PublicTuesday May 29th, Samuel Goldwyn Theater 8949 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
1. Michael Paré
Actor | The Virgin Suicides
Michael Kevin Paré was born on October 9, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Joan (Moroney) and Francis Paré, who owned print shops. His father died of leukemia when Paré was five, leaving his mother to raise their large family of children. Paré was working as a chef in New York City when an agent...
2. Diane Lane
Actress | Unfaithful
Diane Lane was born on January 22, 1965, in New York. She is the daughter of acting coach Burton Eugene "Burt" Lane and nightclub singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington. Her parents' families were both from the state of Georgia. Diane was acting from a very young age and made her stage debut at the ...
3. Amy Madigan
Actress | Field of Dreams
In the 1960s, Amy attended St. Philip Neri grammar school and Aquinas High School, both in Chicago, where she performed in school plays and was known as the school tomboy. In the early 1970s, Amy was featured in Playboy Magazine wearing only jelly, to promote her music band, Jelly. Amy is the ...
4. Rick Moranis
Actor | Parenthood
Rick began his career as a radio DJ while he was still at high school which led to him writing, producing and being on air in his own show. He joined the Canadian TV series, SCTV (1976), winning an Emmy for writing and portraying the character, Bob McKenzie, which became the basis for the film, ...
5. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
6. Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Actress | The Warriors
Deborah Gaye Van Valkenburgh is a Schenectady, New York-born Los Angeles-based actress, singer, artist, and writer working in all manner of media. She graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with a BFA in Painting & Drawing. As a teen in Upstate New York she performed in coffee houses...
7. Richard Lawson
Actor | For Colored Girls
Richard Lawson was born on March 7, 1947 in Loma Linda, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for For Colored Girls (2010), Poltergeist (1982) and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998). He has been married to Tina Knowles since April 12, 2015. He was previously married to Denise Gordy.
8. Rick Rossovich
Actor | Top Gun
Rick Rossovich, considered one of the nicest people to work with, is also a devoted family man. He and his wife Eva have two kids, Roy and Isabel. For three months each year, the family lives at their home in Sweden, where Eva is from, so that the kids can have both sides of their parents' ...
9. Bill Paxton
Actor | Aliens
Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World ...
10. Lee Ving
Actor | Flashdance
Lee Ving was born on April 10, 1950 in Philadelphia, PA as Lee James Jude Capallero. He is best known as the frontman for the seminal L.A. hardcore punk band Fear. His film appearances include Flashdance (1983), Streets Of Fire (1984) and Clue (1985). He was also one of the principal subjects ...
11. Stoney Jackson
Actor | Angels in the Outfield
Stoney Jackson moved to California in 1976 with his family. His parents started a Family Practice Medical Clinic in Riverside. It was then Stoney got an agent and started doing television commercials and eventually moved to the theatrical side of the industry. Stoney has appeared in over 40 films ...
12. Grand L. Bush
Actor | Licence to Kill
Grand L. Bush was born on December 24, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Licence to Kill (1989), Die Hard (1988) and Street Fighter: The Movie (1995). He has been married to Sharon Dahlonega since December 7, 1994. They have four children. He was previously married to ...
13. Robert Townsend
Producer | Hollywood Shuffle
Robert Townsend transcends any medium he touches whether he's performing stand up, acting, writing, directing, producing, or running a television network. A Chicago native, Townsend is often referred to as one of the "Godfathers" of the Independent Film World." With over 30 years in the business, ...
14. Mykelti Williamson
Actor | Forrest Gump
Perhaps best remembered for his touching performance as "Bubba" opposite Tom Hanks in the Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump (1994), Mykelti Williamson is one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, who has been steadily honing his craft since he first began acting professionally at the age ...
15. Elizabeth Daily
Actress | Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Elizabeth EG Daily is an American actress, singer, and one of the top talents in the world of voiceover. You might know her in the classics as Dottie from "Peewee's Big Adventure" to "Valley Girl," or the classic "Smelly Cat" episode of Friends. Maybe Candy from The Devil's Rejects.
EG is said to be...
16. Ed Begley Jr.
Actor | A Mighty Wind
Ed Begley Jr. was born on September 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Mighty Wind (2003), Pineapple Express (2008) and Whatever Works (2009). He has been married to Rachelle Carson-Begley since August 23, 2000. They have one child. He was previously ...
17. John Dennis Johnston
Actor | 48 Hrs.
John Dennis Johnston was born on May 14, 1950 in Elmwood, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for 48 Hrs. (1982), Wyatt Earp (1994) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
18. Lynne Thigpen
Actress | The Warriors
Multi-talented actress Lynne Thigpen was born Cherlynne Thigpen in Joliet, Illinois, on December 22, 1948. She performed in community theater and university theater productions while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Following graduation, she taught high-school English for a...
19. Walter Hill
Writer | 48 Hrs.
Hill was born in Long Beach, California and educated at Mexico City College and Michigan State University. He worked in oil drilling and construction in the 60s before becoming a 2nd assistant director in 1967. He has written and co-written screenplays, including several uncredited works. He has ...
20. Lawrence Gordon
Producer | Prey
Lawrence Gordon (Producer) has been one of the entertainment industry's most prolific and successful producers in a career spanning six decades. He has been behind such timeless films as the drama "Field of Dreams," for which Gordon received a Best Picture Oscar nomination; the landmark action film...
21. Joel Silver
Producer | The Nice Guys
As flamboyant as any character in his movies, Joel Silver can be credited along with Jerry Bruckheimer as practically reinventing the action film genre in the 1980s. Born in New Jersey, he attended the New York University Film School. After college, he worked at Lawrence Gordon Pictures, earning ...
22. Larry Gross
Writer | 48 Hrs.
Larry Gross was born in 1953. He is a writer and producer, known for 48 Hrs. (1982), Another 48 Hrs. (1990) and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004). He has been married to Rose Kuo since 1999. They have one child.
23. Ry Cooder
Soundtrack | Primary Colors
Born in Santa Monica, Ca., Ry Cooder, at the age of four had an accident which left him blind in one eye. He became a bit secluded and began playing the guitar. His biggest influences include Blind Willie Johnson, Arthur "Blind" Blake, Joseph Spence and Curtis Mayfield. Cooder has played on several...
24. Andrew Laszlo
Cinematographer | Innerspace
Cinematographer Andrew Laszlo was born on January 12, 1926 in Papa, Hungary. Laszlo started out as a camera apprentice at the Motion Picture Studios of Budapest when World War II began. Andrew and his family were sent to a Nazi concentration camp; he was the sole member of his family to survive ...
25. James Coblentz
Editor | The One
James Coblentz is known for The One (2001), The X-Files (1993) and The People Under the Stairs (1991).
26. Freeman A. Davies
Editor | The Horse Whisperer
Freeman A. Davies was born on July 11, 1945 in California, USA. He is an editor, known for The Horse Whisperer (1998), Logan's Run (1976) and 48 Hrs. (1982).
27. Michael Ripps
Editorial_department | WarGames
Michael Ripps is known for WarGames (1983), Stakeout (1987) and Brewster's Millions (1985).
28. Jim Steinman
Soundtrack | Footloose
Jim Steinman was born on November 1, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and producer, known for Footloose (1984), The Mask of Zorro (1998) and Anastasia (1997). He died on April 19, 2021 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
29. Laurie Sargent
Soundtrack | Streets of Fire
Sargent was lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Face to Face who hit the Top 40 in 1984 with the song "10-9-8".
Face to Face, which formed in the late '70's, broke up in 1988.
Sargent, along with Dana Colley and Billy Conway formerly of Morphine, formed the band Twineman in 2001.
30. Rory Dodd
Soundtrack | Shining Time Station
Rory Dodd is known for Shining Time Station (1989), Streets of Fire (1984) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985).
31. Holly Sherwood
Soundtrack | Streets of Fire
Holly Sherwood is known for Streets of Fire (1984), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) and Fire Inc.: Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young (1984).
32. Eric Troyer
Actor | Chicago
Eric Troyer is known for Chicago (2002), Road Trip America and Absolute Killers (2011).
33. Roy Bittan
Music_department | Bonnie Tyler: If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)
Roy Bittan was born on July 2, 1949 in Rockaway Beach, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Bonnie Tyler: If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) (1986), Barbra Streisand: Left in the Dark (1984) and David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes (1980).
34. Dave Johnstone
Music_department | Fire Inc.: Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young
Dave Johnstone is known for Fire Inc.: Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young (1984), Fire Inc.: Nowhere Fast (1984) and Dan Finnerty & the Dan Band: I Am Woman (2005).
35. Michael Landau
Music_department | The Secret of My Succe$s
Michael Landau was born on June 1, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a composer, known for The Secret of My Success (1987), Smokin' Aces (2006) and The Bourne Legacy (2012).
36. Steve Buslowe
Music_department | Bonnie Tyler: If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)
Steve Buslowe is known for Bonnie Tyler: If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) (1986), Dead Ringer (1982) and Barbra Streisand: Left in the Dark (1984).
37. Larry Fast
Music_department | Birdy
Larry Fast was born on December 10, 1951 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Birdy (1984), Conflict of Interest (1993) and The Jupiter Menace (1982).
38. Max Weinberg
Soundtrack | Bewitched
Max Weinberg is the drummer of E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen's major band. His snare drum from the "Born In The USA" tour, "The Big Beat", is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in NYC. Max started up his own record label and production company in 1990 called Hard Ticket Entertainment. He produced ...
39. Jimmy Bralower
Soundtrack | Contraband
Jimmy Bralower is known for Contraband (2012), My Blueberry Nights (2007) and The Goonies (1985).
40. Stevie Nicks
Soundtrack | Sweet November
Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona. From an early age, she showed a love and aptitude for music, singing country and western duets with her grandfather when she was 4 years old. After moving to San Francisco, she began songwriting and performing at Menlo-Atherton High School, where she met ...
41. Marilyn Martin
Soundtrack | The Strangers: Prey at Night
Marilyn Martin was born on May 4, 1954 in the USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), Quicksilver (1986) and In the Heat of the Night (1988).
42. Cy Curnin
Soundtrack | Gone Girl
Cy Curnin is known for Gone Girl (2014), Better Off Dead (1985) and Sky High (2005).
43. Adam Woods
Soundtrack | Sky High
Adam Woods was born in 1981. He is an actor and composer, known for Sky High (2005), Ingrid Goes West (2017) and Streets of Fire (1984).
44. Rupert Greenall
Soundtrack | Ingrid Goes West
Rupert Greenall is known for Ingrid Goes West (2017), Streets of Fire (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).
45. Jamie West-Oram
Soundtrack | Ingrid Goes West
Jamie West-Oram is known for Ingrid Goes West (2017), Streets of Fire (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).
46. Dan K. Brown
Actor | The Fixx: Less Cities, More Moving People
Dan K. Brown is known for The Fixx: Less Cities, More Moving People (1984), The Fixx: Sunshine in the Shade (1984) and The Fixx: Are We Ourselves? (1984).
47. Kenny Vance
Soundtrack | Cobra
Kenny Vance was born on December 9, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Cobra (1986), The Warriors (1979) and Husbands and Wives (1992).
48. Marty Kupersmith
Soundtrack | Kick-Ass
Marty Kupersmith is known for Kick-Ass (2010), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Call Me by Your Name (2017).
49. Greg Phillinganes
Soundtrack | Weird Science
Greg Phillinganes was born on May 12, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a composer and producer, known for Weird Science (1985), Bulworth (1998) and The Color Purple (1985).
50. Jerry Leiber
Soundtrack | Love and Monsters
Half of the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, Jerry Leiber wrote many hit songs with his partner Mike Stoller, including many for Elvis Presley and The Coasters. Leiber was born on April 25, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Jerome Leiber. He was married to Gaby Rodgers. He died on August ...
51. Mike Stoller
Soundtrack | Love and Monsters
Half of the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, Mike Stoller wrote many hit songs with his partner Jerry Leiber, including many for Elvis Presley and The Coasters. Stoller was born on March 13, 1933 in Belle Harbor, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He has been married to Corky Hale since ...
52. Philip Alvin
Actor | Streets of Fire
Philip Alvin is known for Streets of Fire (1984), Jeff Beck: Ambitious (1985) and The Blasters: Go, Go, Go (1982).
54. Dave Alvin
Soundtrack | Cry-Baby
Dave Alvin was born on November 11, 1955 in Downey, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Cry-Baby (1990), Wall Street (1987) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
55. William Bateman
Actor | Streets of Fire
William Bateman is known for Streets of Fire (1984), The Blasters: Go, Go, Go (1982) and The Blasters: Red Rose (1983).
56. John Bazz
Actor | Streets of Fire
John Bazz is known for Streets of Fire (1984), The Blasters: Go, Go, Go (1982) and The Blasters: Red Rose (1983).
57. Steve Berlin
Soundtrack | Miss Congeniality
Steve Berlin was born on September 14, 1955. He is an actor and writer, known for Miss Congeniality (2000), Wall Street (1987) and La Bamba (1987).
59. Tom Petty
Actor | The Postman
Thomas Earl Petty was an American musician and actor who was the lead vocalist and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch, was a member of the late 1980s super-group the Traveling Wilburys, and had success as a solo artist.
Petty had many ...
60. Benmont Tench
Music_department | Joy
Benmont Tench was born on September 7, 1954 in Gainesville, Florida, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Joy (2015), Streets of Fire (1984) and Serving Sara (2002).
61. Maria McKee
Soundtrack | Road House
Maria McKee was born on August 17, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Road House (1989), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Days of Thunder (1990). She is married to Jim Akin.
62. Dan Hartman
Soundtrack | Oliver & Company
Dan Hartman was born on December 8, 1950 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Oliver & Company (1988), Scrooged (1988) and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995). He died on March 22, 1994 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.
63. Jim Dickinson
Music_department | Black Snake Moan
Jim Dickinson was born on November 21, 1941 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Black Snake Moan (2006), Streets of Fire (1984) and Southern Comfort (1981). He was married to Mary Lindsay Dickinson. He died on August 15, 2009 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
64. Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress | Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading...
65. Drew Barrymore
Producer | Charlie's Angels
Since melting audiences' hearts at the age of just six in E.T. (1982), Drew Barrymore has emerged as one of the most beloved and singularly gifted actresses of her generation. Born in Culver City, California to John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore, the clutches of fame were near inescapable for ...
66. Corey Feldman
Actor | Stand by Me
Corey Scott Feldman began his career at the age of three, starring in a Clio Award-winning McDonald's commercial and has sustained a career for nearly 50 years as a steadily working actor, with more than 80 films under his belt. Corey began his career in guest-starring roles on television series ...
67. Tony Curtis
Actor | Some Like It Hot
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only ...
68. 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...
69. Richard Pryor
Actor | Superman III
Highly influential, and always controversial, African-American actor/comedian who was equally well known for his colorful language during his live comedy shows, as for his fast paced life, multiple marriages and battles with drug addiction. He has been acknowledged by many modern comic artist's as ...
70. Alana Stewart
Actress | Delivered
Alana Stewart was born on May 18, 1945 in San Diego, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Delivered (2011), Wasted in Babylon (1999) and Evel Knievel (1971). She was previously married to Rod Stewart and George Hamilton.
71. Michelle Johnson
Actress | Blame It on Rio
Michelle Johnson was born in Anchorage, Alaska, USA on September 9, 1965, her family eventually moved to Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Alhambra High School one semester early in January 1984. At the age of 17, only two months out of high school in Phoenix, Arizona, Michelle was signed up by ...
72. James Woods
Actor | Vampires
James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...
73. Ann Turkel
Actress | Humanoids from the Deep
Ann Kathryn Turkel was born in 1946, and raised in Manhattan, the daughter of Thelma L. (Friedricks) and Melvin A. Turkel. She is of Austrian Jewish and Russian Jewish descent. Ann took acting, dance and voice lessons from an early age. By the time she reached 16, Ann had studied at the Musical ...
74. Hans Buhringer
Actor | Die Hard
Hans Buhringer was born on May 10, 1958 in Vienna, Austria. He is a director and actor, known for Die Hard (1988) and Contract Online (2008).
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