Remembering Stars
by merchotrod | created - 17 Jun 2022 | updated - 14 Oct 2022 | PublicStars in movies/TV shows I liked and wanted to remember their names & characters
1. Edgar Buchanan
Actor | Shane
At the age of seven, he and his family moved to Oregon. After studying at the University of Oregon, he followed in his father's footsteps and became a dentist, graduating from North Pacific Dental College. From 1929 to 1937, he practiced oral surgery in Eugene, Oregon. He then moved his practice to...
Petticoat Junction as Uncle Joe Carson
2. Bea Benaderet
Actress | Petticoat Junction
Bea Benaderet had a remarkable career in radio and television. In the earlier days of radio, before television, she provided the voice for numerous names of characters on the radio, on shows like "Fibber McGee and Molly," "My Favorite Husband" with Lucille Ball & "The Jack Benny Show. She was born ...
Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley
3. Lori Saunders
Actress | Petticoat Junction
Striking brunette Lori Saunders managed to capitalize on her sunny, daisy-fresh appeal during CBS-TV's famous 1960s "rural age," an era in which the network churned out a connected trio of bucolic hit shows -- The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965). As the ...
Petticoat Junction as Bobbie Jo Bradley 65-70
4. Meredith MacRae
Actress | Bikini Beach
Meredith Lynn MacRae was born on May 30, 1944, in Houston, Texas. She was born on a military base where her father was stationed.
Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)...
Petticoat Junction as Billie Jo Bradley 66-70
5. Linda Henning
Actress | Petticoat Junction
The daughter of veteran writer and TV producer Paul Henning and Ruth Henning, Linda originally studied to be a dancer before going into acting. After appearing in an uncredited role as one of the dancers in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), she landed the role of Betty Jo on Petticoat Junction (1963), on ...
Petticoat Junction as Betty Jo Bradley
6. Frank Cady
Actor | Rear Window
Although Frank Cady's most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965) and Petticoat Junction (1963), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. Cady also appeared on ...
Petticoat Junction as Sam Drucker
7. Rufe Davis
Actor | Saddlemates
Perhaps best remembered today for the '60s sitcom Petticoat Junction (1963), Rufe Davis had a long and varied career in show business, winding from an Oklahoma farm to the bright lights of New York and ultimately to Hollywood, including stops around the world.
Rufus Eldon Davidson was born in Vinson...
Petticoat Junction as Floyd Smoot
8. Mike Minor
Actor | Petticoat Junction
The son of television producer Don Fedderson, Mike Minor was raised in San Francisco and educated at the University High School in Los Angeles and Brown Military Academy in San Diego. At 14, Mike was taking voice lessons when he got his first professional singing gig at the "Ye Little Club in ...
Petticoat Junction as Steve Elliott
9. Jeannine Riley
Actress | Electra Glide in Blue
Blonde bombshell Jeannine Brooke Riley was born in Madera, California on October 1, 1940 and started her movie and TV career in 1962 with an unbilled movie part in the Rosalind Russell drama Five Finger Exercise (1962) and roles on the TV shows "Father of the Bride" and "Route 66," not to mention ...
Petticoat Junction as Billie Jo Bradley 63-65
10. June Lockhart
Actress | Lost in Space
Born in New York City on June 25, 1925, the daughter of actors Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart made her professional debut at age eight in a Metropolitan Opera production of "Peter Ibbetson", playing Mimsey in the dream sequence. In the mid-1930s, the Lockharts relocated to ...
Petticoat Junction as Dr. Janet Craig
11. Pat Woodell
Actress | The Roommates
Pat Woodell was born on July 12, 1944 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Roommates (1973), Petticoat Junction (1963) and The Big Doll House (1971). She was married to Robert Vern McDade and Gary Clarke. She died on September 29, 2015 in Fallbrook, California, USA.
Petticoat Junction as Bobbie Jo Bradley 63-65
12. Gunilla Hutton
Actress | Fantasy Island
Gunilla Hutton was born on May 15, 1944 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for Fantasy Island (1977), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Burke's Law (1963).
Petticoat Junction as Billie Jo Bradley 65-66
13. Charles Lane
Actor | You Can't Take It with You
Mean, miserly and miserable-looking, they didn't come packaged with a more annoying and irksome bow than Charles Lane. Glimpsing even a bent smile from this unending sourpuss was extremely rare, unless one perhaps caught him in a moment of insidious glee after carrying out one of his many nefarious...
Petticoat Junction as Homer Bedloe
14. Rhonda Shear
Writer | USA Up All Night
Rhonda Shear has been breaking the mold from her beginnings as a New Orleans beauty queen and politician to her years in Hollywood as an actress to her time touring as a professional stand-up comedienne to becoming the mogul behind one of the most popular intimate apparel brands to creating the ...
USA Network B-movie hostess
15. Edward Asner
Actor | Up
Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...
Mary Tyler Moore show as Lou Grant
16. Avery Schreiber
Actor | Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Avery Schreiber's 1960s and 1970s partner on the comedy stage was Jack Burns, the slimmer, chatty, clean-cut, better-looking dunderhead. Avery Schreiber was the Oliver Hardy counterpart who bore the brunt of Burns' verbal drone. This rumpled, gap-toothed, hefty-sized master of the slow boil stood ...
My Mother the Car; Don't Drink the Water; Love, American Style; Caveman
17. Dorothy Stratten
Actress | Galaxina
Dorothy Stratten's story was brief, glorious and tragic. She was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 28, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She grew up in a rough neighborhood in Vancouver, but kept out of trouble and went through the motions of school. While not a beauty as a child...
Playmate 1980; Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; Galaxina
18. Stephen Macht
Actor | The Monster Squad
Trained professionally at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, a graduate of Dartmouth College, a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature from Indiana University and, during his teaching days, a tenured Associate Professor, Stephen Macht is one of the best-educated working actors in America, today.
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19. John Byner
Actor | The Black Cauldron
The proud owner of tons of dialects and hundreds of uncanny impersonations, the short (5'7"), slight, deadpan, rubber-faced, fair-haired funnyman John Byner is the forerunner to such latter day gifted comic impressionists as Dana Carvey, Frank Caliendo and Jim Carrey. Byner's spot-on impressions ...
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; The Pink Panther cartoon
20. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
Blazing Saddles; The 2000 Year Old Man; High Anxiety; History of the World: Part I; Spaceballs; Life Stinks
21. John Candy
Actor | Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells but Candy always rebounded.
Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in ...
Stripes; National Lampoon's Vacation; Splash; Brewster's Millions; Summer Rental; Armed and Dangerous; Spaceballs; Planes, Trains & Automobiles; Who's Harry Crumb?; Uncle Buck; Delirious; Canadian Bacon
22. Bill Pullman
Actor | Independence Day
William James Pullman was born in Hornell, New York, one of seven children of Johanna (Blaas), a nurse, and James Pullman, a doctor. He is of Dutch (mother) and English, Northern Irish, and Scottish (father) descent. After high school, Bill went into a building construction program at SUNY Delhi in...
Spaceballs; Sleepless in Seattle; While You Were Sleeping[ Casper; Independence Day; Lake Placid
23. 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, ...
Strange Brew; Ghostbusters; Brewster's Millionsl Little Shop of Horrors; Spaceballs; Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Parenthood; My Blue Heaven; The Flintstones
24. Daphne Zuniga
Actress | One Tree Hill
Zuniga was born in San Francisco, California to Agnes A. Zuniga (née Janawicz) and Joaquin Alberto Zuniga Mazariegos. Her mother is a Unitarian minister, of Polish and Finnish descent, and her father, originally from Guatemala, was an emeritus professor of philosophy at California State University,...
25. Dick Van Patten
Actor | Spaceballs
Dick Van Patten began acting as a child. He made his first of 27 Broadway appearances at age seven in "Tapestry in Grey." After, he appeared in numerous films, including Freaky Friday (1976), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Spaceballs (1987). His television credits include his best-known role...
26. George Wyner
Actor | Spaceballs
A native of Boston and graduate of Syracuse University, George has worked extensively in TV and film since 1972. Notable film work includes the Coen Brothers' best-picture nominee A Serious Man (2009) as Rabbi Nachtner, Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987) as Colonel Sandurz, and his To Be or Not to Be (...
27. Michael Winslow
Actor | Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Michael Winslow was born on September 6, 1958 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987), Spaceballs (1987) and Police Academy (1984). He was previously married to Sharon Larrieu, Angela Baytops and Belinda Church.
28. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
29. Sal Viscuso
Actor | Law & Order True Crime
The dedication of Sal Viscuso to the craft of acting can be dated to a singular evening in 1967. A college freshman, he happened upon a teleplay of Ronald Ribman's CBS Playhouse: The Final War of Olly Winter (1967) and was so inspired by Ivan Dixon's Emmy-winning rendition of the title role that he...
30. Jim J. Bullock
Actor | Spaceballs
Jim J. Bullock was born on February 9, 1955 in Casper, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for Spaceballs (1987), Too Close for Comfort (1980) and Ron and Laura Take Back America (2014).
31. Ronny Graham
Actor | Spaceballs
Composer, songwriter, actor, comedian, director and author. He was a night-club comic throughout the USA, and wrote songs for Broadway revues including "New Faces" (1952, 1956, and 1962) and also for Jules Monk's night-club revues (he appeared in "Take Five") and on television, and he had a part in...
32. Karen Black
Actress | Five Easy Pieces
Karen entered Northwestern University at 18 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York and worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. She made a critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom". Her first big film role was in You're a Big Boy Now (1966), ...
Easy Rider; Airport 1975; Trilogy of Terror; Invaders from Mars; Plan 10 from Outer Space
33. Frank Stallone
Soundtrack | Rambo: First Blood Part II
Grammy and Golden Globe nominated artist Frank Stallone is one of the most versatile actors, singers and musicians in the business. His explosive voice and his range from comedy to drama and rock to blues to big band, leaves audiences entertained and captivated.
Frank has garnered three Platinum ...
Hudson Hawk; Fred Claus
34. Linnea Quigley
Actress | The Return of the Living Dead
Barbara Linnea Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, on May 27, 1958 to Heath and Dorothy Quigley. Her Mother was a housewife and her Father a noted Chiropractor and psychologist. After moving with her family to Los Angeles in the late 1970s, the short, petite Linnea began working at a Jack Lalanne ...
35. Arte Johnson
Actor | Laugh-In
Arte Johnson was born on January 20, 1929 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Laugh-In (1967), Love at First Bite (1979) and Baggy Pants & the Nitwits (1977). He was married to Gisela Johnson and Texie Waterman. He died on July 3, 2019 in Los Angeles, ...
36. Tane McClure
Actress | Legally Blonde
Tane McClure is a lifelong film, television and music professional with over 60-plus Film Festival Awards and 20 nominations as well as earning the coveted LA Press Club - National Journalism Award. She has worked on both sides of the camera and microphone as an actress, producer, writer, director,...
37. Burt Ward
Actor | Batman
From Caped Crusader to Canine Crusader
Little did aspiring actor Burt Ward know that learning martial arts in addition to his mental and athletic prowess would change his life forever. As a teen-age, Burt had all the makings of a true boy wonder. As an all around athlete, strong in martial arts, ...
Batman tv as Robin; Beach Babes from Beyond
38. Mary Woronov
Actress | Eating Raoul
Mary Woronov was born on December 8, 1943, at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A surgeon's stepdaughter, she was raised in Brooklyn Heights and attended Cornell University as a sculpting major. After a class trip to Andy Warhol 's Silver Factory, she joined Warhol's entourage and starred ...
Death Race 2000; Cannonball; Angel of H.E.A.T.
39. Pat Morita
Actor | The Karate Kid
Abundantly busy and much-loved Asian-American actor who became an on-screen hero to millions of adults and kids alike as the wise and wonderful Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid (1984), the sparkling Noriyuki Morita was back again dishing out Eastern philosophy and martial arts lessons for The Karate ...
The Shakiest Gun in the West; Sanford and Son; Happy Days; The Karate Kid
40. Adam West
Actor | Batman
Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington, to parents Otto West Anderson, a farmer, and his wife Audrey V. (Speer), an opera singer. At age 10, in 1938, West had a cache of comic books; and starting in 1939, Batman, who appeared in Detective Comics, ...
Batman tv Batman
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