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Matthew George "Matt" Reeves was born April 27, 1966 in Rockville Center, New York, USA and is a writer, director and producer. Reeves began making movies at age eight, directing friends and using a wind-up camera. He befriended filmmaker J.J. Abrams when both were 13 years old and a public-access television cable channel, Z Channel, aired their short films. When Reeves and Abrams were 15 or 16 years old, Steven Spielberg hired them to transfer some of his own Super 8 films to videotape. Reeves attended the University of Southern California and there, between 1991 and 1992, he produced an award-winning student film, Mr. Petrified Forest, which helped him acquire an agent. He also co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). After graduating, he co-wrote The Pallbearer (1996), which became his directorial debut.
Reeves and J.J. Abrams co-created the TV series Felicity (1998), for which Reeves directed several episodes, including the pilot. He has also helmed occasional episodes of other television series. He co-wrote The Yards (2000) with director James Gray, which he also co-produced. In 2008, Reeves directed the monster science fiction film Cloverfield (2008), which Abrams produced. Reeves later served as an executive producer on 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He wrote and directed the fantasy-horror film Let Me In (2010), a remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In (2008). Reeves directed the science fiction films Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and later the sequel, War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). He served as an executive producer on the Amazon original series Tales from the Loop (2020).- Actress
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Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact with her father for several years as a result.
Her parents' background and her own early taste of the movie-making world soon convinced the young Dern to pursue acting herself. Like so many young actors, her decision may have been influenced by social awkwardness -- the child of 1960s counterculture parents, she was steeped in Eastern mysticism and political radicalism, and was seen as an oddball by her more conservative classmates. Even before her teens, she had achieved most of her impressive 5' 10" height and was rail-skinny with a slouching posture.. Perhaps the nine-year-old Dern found refuge by studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
The first success for the young Dern came in 1980, with a role in Adrian Lyne's Foxes (1980), a teen movie starring Jodie Foster. She followed this with several small parts, or parts in small movies, such as Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) and Teachers (1984), as a student who has an affair with a teacher. (Her mother objected to her active presence on movie sets at age thirteen, which required Dern to sue for emancipation so she could play her role in "The Fabulous Stains"). Her next roles, as the blind girl who befriends the deformed boy in Mask (1985), and as a teen-aged girl whose sexual awakening collides with a mysterious older man in Smooth Talk (1985), gave her career an important boost. Dern appeared to have made it with a leading role in David Lynch's acclaimed Blue Velvet (1986), but it was four years before her next notable film, and this was the bizarre Wild at Heart (1990), also directed by Lynch.
The following year, Dern starred in Rambling Rose (1991), which would become her signature performance, as a sexually-precocious, free-spirited young housemaid in the South in the 1930s. Dern earned an Oscar nomination for her performance, and so did her mother and co-star, Diane Ladd. Dern continues to win prominent roles on the big screen, often in smaller, highly-regarded human dramas such as October Sky (1999), I Am Sam (2001) and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), although she is perhaps most widely known for her repeat role as Ellie Sattler in the summer adventure movies Jurassic Park (1993) and Jurassic Park III (2001), or for her guest performance on Ellen (1994), as the woman to whom Ellen finally comes out as a lesbian.
Dern's pre-teen gawkiness matured into lithe beauty, but this doesn't prevent Dern from fearlessly throwing herself into a wide variety of roles which are sometimes unflattering, an excellent example being her unflinchingly comic portrayal of an intensely annoying loser whose pregnancy becomes a social and political football in Citizen Ruth (1996). This results in Dern being one of the most interesting actors working in Hollywood today.
Having previously dated such Hollywood talent as Treat Williams, Renny Harlin, Kyle MacLachlan, Jeff Goldblum and Billy Bob Thornton, Dern eventually married musician Ben Harper in 2005. Early in her career, Dern was roommate to Marianne Williamson, the spirituality guru. Dern attended two days of college at UCLA and one semester at USC.- Music Artist
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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 the Grand Ole Opry. After graduating from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville to launch her country-singing career. She fell in love with Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt-paving business; they married on May 30, 1966 and are still together. In 1967 her singing caught the attention of Porter Wagoner, who hired her to appear on his program, The Porter Wagoner Show (1961). She stayed with the show for 7 years, their duets became famous, and she appeared with his group at the Grand Ole Opry; she also toured and sold records. By the time her hit "Joshua" reached #1 in 1970, her fame had overshadowed his, and she struck out on her own, though still recording duets with him. She left him for good to become a solo artist in 1974. Dolly gained immense popularity as a singer/songwriter. Dolly won numerous Country Music Association awards (1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976). This petite (5'0") beauty was a natural for television, and by the mid-1970s she was appearing frequently on TV specials and talk shows before getting her own, Dolly (1976). In 1977, Dolly got her first Grammy award: Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her song "Here You Come Again." Dolly's movie debut was in 9 to 5 (1980), where she got an Oscar nomination for writing the title tune, and also Grammy awards 2 and 3: Best Country Song, and Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song "Nine to Five." She got more fame for appearing in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and in Rhinestone (1984) with the song "Tennessee Homesick Blues". She is the head of Dolly Parton Enterprises, a $100 million media empire, and in 1986 she founded Dollywood, a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, celebrating her Smoky-Mountain upbringing. She appeared as herself in the Dolly (1987) TV series. In 1988, she won another Grammy: Best Country Performance Duo or Group with Vocals, for "Trio". Dolly was in the acclaimed picture Steel Magnolias (1989) with Julia Roberts, and went on to appear in 15 movies and TV-movies for the 1990s, and garnered more more Country Music Association awards. In 2000, Dolly received her 5th Grammy award: Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. She also released a Bluegrass Album. Dolly is known for beautiful songs such as "Coat of Many Colors," "Jolene," and "I Will Always Love You". Dolly said in an interview, "My music is what took me everywhere I've been and everywhere I will go. It's my greatest love. I can't abandon it. I'll always keep making records."- Actress
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Amy Hargreaves (born January 27, 1970) is an American actress who has worked in film, television and theater. She has a recurring role on Homeland as Maggie Mathison. In 1994, she starred in Brainscan with Edward Furlong. In 2012 she made an appearance as Dr. Karen Folson in the 2nd season episode "Leap of Faith" on the CBS show Blue Bloods. In 2017 she portrayed the role of Lainie Jensen, mother of protagonist Clay Jensen, in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
Actress known for her role as Maggie Mathison on Homeland. She was also cast as Lainie Jensen on the show 13 Reasons Why and was in the movies Blue Ruin and The Preppie Connection.- Actor
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Handsome American leading man Guy Madison stumbled into a film career and became a television star and hero to the Baby Boom generation. As a young man he worked as a telephone lineman, but entered the Coast Guard at the beginning of the Second World War. While on liberty one weekend in Hollywood, he attended a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast and was spotted in the audience by an assistant to Henry Willson, an executive for David O. Selznick. Selznick wanted an unknown sailor to play a small but prominent part in Since You Went Away (1944), and promptly signed Robert Moseley to a contract. Selznick and Willson concocted the screen name Guy Madison (the "guy" girls would like to meet, and Madison from a passing Dolly Madison cake wagon). Madison filmed his one scene on a weekend pass and returned to duty. The film's release brought thousands of fan letters for Madison's lonely, strikingly handsome young sailor, and at war's end he returned to find himself a star-in-the-making. Despite an initial amateurishness to his acting, Madison grew as a performer, studying and working in theatre. He played leads in a series of programmers before being cast as legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok in the TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). He played Hickok on TV and radio for much of the 1950s, and many of the TV episodes were strung together and released as feature films. Madison managed to squeeze in some more adult-oriented roles during his off-time from the series, but much of this work was also in westerns. After the Hickok series ended Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and traveled to Europe, where he became a popular star of Italian westerns and German adventure films. In the 1970s he returned to the U.S., but appeared mainly in cameo roles. Physical ailments limited his work in later years, and he died from emphysema in 1996. His first wife was actress Gail Russell.- Conlan Carter was born in Center Ridge, Arkansas and raised on a farm near Matthews, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State College for two years on an athletic scholarship. Carter served in the Air Force for two years before moving to San Francisco to study with 'Mara Alexander' Gilbert, head of the Bay City Actor's Lab. For three years, he concentrated on musical comedy and appeared in over 10 productions before feeling that he was ready for Hollywood. Carter arrived in Hollywood in 1959 and within two months, he became a regular on The Law and Mr. Jones (1960). In 1963, he got his big break when he landed the role of "Doc" on ABC-TV's hit series, Combat! (1962). In 1964, Conlan garnered his first movie role in the comedy, Quick, Before It Melts (1964). He played a hillbilly radio operator in the Antarctic. Conlan Carter's post-Combat! (1962) career included appearances in a few TV series and the feature film, White Lightning (1973). After acquiring his commercial pilot's license, he abandoned his acting career. At last report, he was earning a living flying businessmen around the U.S. on their own private aircraft. The Law and Mr. Jones (1960) (1960-62) [C.E. Curruthers], Combat! (1962) (1963-67) [Doc], Quick, Before It Melts (1964), White Lightning (1973).
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Roscoe Arbuckle, the youngest of nine children, reportedly weighed 16 pounds at birth in Smith Center, Kansas on March 24, 1887. His family moved to California when he was one year old. At age 8 he first appeared on the stage. His first part was with the Webster-Brown stock company. From then until 1913, Roscoe was on the stage, performing as an acrobat, a clown, and a singer. His first real professional engagement was in 1904, singing illustrated songs for Sid Grauman at the Unique Theater in San Jose, California at $17.50 a week. He later worked in the Morosco Burbank stock company and traveled through China and Japan with Ferris Hartman. His last appearance on the stage was with Hartman in Yokahama, Japan in 1913, where he played the Mikado.
Back in Hollywood, Arbuckle went to work at Mack Sennett's Keystone film studio at $40 a week. For the next 3-1/2 years he never starred or even featured, but appeared in hundreds of one-reel comedies. He would play mostly policemen, usually with the Keystone Kops, but he also played different parts. He would work with Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Charles Chaplin, among others, and would learn about the process of making movies from Henry Lehrman, who directed all but two of his pictures. Roscoe was a gentle and genteel man off screen and always believed that Sennett never thought that he was funny.
Roscoe never used his weight to get a laugh. He would never be found stuck in a chair or doorway. He was remarkably agile for his size and used that agility to find humor in situations. By 1914 he had begun to direct some of his one-reels. The next year he moved up to two-reels, which meant that he would need to sustain the comedy to be successful; as it turned out, he was. Among his films were Fatty Again (1914), Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915), Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915), Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915), Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915), and many more. For "Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco", Keystone took the actors to the real World's Fair to use as background; the studio's cost was negligible, while the San Francisco backgrounds made the picture look expensive.
By 1917 Roscoe formed a partnership with Joseph M. Schenck, a powerful producer who was also the husband of Norma Talmadge. The company they formed was called Comique and the films that Roscoe made were released through Famous Players on a percentage basis, and soon Arbuckle was making over $1,000 a week. With his own company Roscoe had complete creative control over his productions. He also hired a young performer he met in New York by the name of Buster Keaton. Keaton's film career would start with Roscoe in The Butcher Boy (1917). Roscoe wrote his own stories first, tried them out and then devised funny twists to generate the laughs. His comedy star was second only to Charles Chaplin. With the success of Comique, Paramount asked Roscoe to move from two-reel shorts to full-length features in 1919. Roscoe's first feature was The Round-up (1920) and it was successful. It was soon followed by other features, including Brewster's Millions (1921) and Gasoline Gus (1921).
Ufortunately, tragedy struck on Labor Day on September 5, 1921 with the arrest and trial of Roscoe Arbuckle on manslaughter charges. Roscoe with friends Lowell Sherman and Fred Fishback drove to San Francisco where they checked into the St Francis Hotel threw a party and which was crashed by a "starlet" named Virginia Rappe, who fell seriously ill and died three days later from a ruptured bladder. Rappe had accused Arbuckle of raping her prior to passing away, but Rappe had a history of accusing men of rape. The newspapers, led by William Randolph Hearst, used this incident to generate Hollywood's first major scandal. Roscoe was tried not once but three times for the criminal charges; the trials began in November 1921 and lasted until April 1922; the first two ended with hung juries (the mistrial decision in the second trial was reached on February 3, 1922, the day after Arbuckle's friend and fellow Paramount director William Desmond Taylor was found murdered, and Arbuckle was visibly affected by the news). At his third and final trial in April of 1922, the jury not only returned a "not guilty" verdict but excoriated the prosecution for pursuing a flimsy case with no evidence of Arbuckle having committed any crime; it was at this final trial that the jury went further, writing a personal letter of sympathy and apology to Arbuckle for putting him through this ordeal. He kept it as a treasured memento for the rest of his life.
However, Arbuckle's acquittal marked the end of his comedic acting career. Unable to return to the screen, he later found work as a comedy director for Al St. John, Buster Keaton and others under the pseudonym "William Goodrich" (he was inspired to use this pseudonym by Keaton, who suggested Arbuckle use the name "Will B. Good"). In 1932 producer Samuel Sax signed Roscoe to appear in his very first sound comic short films for Warner Brothers, starting with Hey, Pop! (1932). He completed six shorts and showed the magic and youthful spirit that he had a decade before. With the success of the shorts, Warner Brothers signed Roscoe to a feature film contract, but he died in his sleep on June 29, 1933 , at age 46, the night after he signed the contract.- Actor
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David Mooney was born on 26 August 1941 in Center, Texas, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Chaplin (1992), Esoteric (2004) and Limited Edition (2003). He died on 1 April 2019 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Actor
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John Carter was born on 26 November 1927 in Center Ridge, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Andromeda Strain (1971), Celebrity (1998) and Badlands (1973). He was married to Kendall Thompson Friede (Fewel) and Barbara Jane Williams. He died on 23 May 2015 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Bridget Flanery was born in Guthrie Center, Iowa, USA. Bridget is an actor and writer, known for Pearl (1996), Babylon 5 (1993) and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997). Bridget has been married to Brandon Christy since 8 August 2009.- Producer
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Ted is a television writer and producer.
He has also directed videos for both the 2008 Democratic National Convention and for the environmental political group Global Green USA, as well as commercials for Johnson & Johnson, USA Network, Saab, Pontiac and Holiday Inn Express.
Ted is a former adjunct professor of screen writing at his alma mater, the University of Southern California Film School.- Actress
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Gail Youngs was born on 9 October 1952 in Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Stone Boy (1984), Hunter (1984) and Cop Rock (1990). She was previously married to Robert Duvall.- Director
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Dennie Gordon has been a trailblazing female director her entire career; spanning the worlds of feature films, television series, mini-series and branded content. Her range of genre busting entertainment spans an unusual spectrum of comedy and drama. After being one of the first women to graduate from Yale's School of Drama with an MFA in Directing, Gordon first gained recognition when "A Hard Rain" was chosen by Showtime's Discovery Program. Thanks to Steven Spielberg, a rough cut of her film attracted the attention of George Lucas who donated the film's mix at Skywalker Ranch. "A Hard Rain" , which Gordon also wrote, went on to win dramatic awards at the British Short Film Festival and the Hampton's Film Festival. This film also caught the eye of David E. Kelley who enlisted Gordon to helm multiple episodes of his television series including "Goliath", (where she was Co EP) "Picket Fences", "Chicago Hope", "Ally McBeal", and "The Practice". Gordon has directed over 100 hours of network television including such critically acclaimed series as "Legion", which was on many critic's lists as a top 10 show of 2017, with the "astounding direction of Dennie Gordon and her twisted visionary imagery taking the X-Men universe to a whole new level". Her other work includes "Bloodline", "Rectify Empire", "Kingdom", "Power", "Hell on Wheels", "Grace & Frankie", "The Office", "30 Rock", Aaron Sorkin's "Sports Night", and HBO's "Tracey Takes On", for which Gordon won the DGA Comedy Award. Gordon recently completed the mini-series "Waco", "Jack Ryan" Season 2 and "The Hunt" starring Al Pacino. Gordon directed the comedy cult hit "Joe Dirt" starring David Spade, and Christopher Walken, and "What A Girl Wants" starring Oscar Winner Colin Firth, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Jonathan Pryce. Gordon was the first American woman to direct a film for the domestic Chinese market, called "My Lucky Star". The 2013 film starred Oscar nominee Zhang Ziyi and Wang Leehom and was filmed in China and Singapore in the summer of 2012. "My Lucky Star" was the number one film in China for 4 weeks on 5000 screens.
Gordon is a sought after commercial director having completed campaigns for Honda, Toyota, Tsingtao beer and Xcel Energy as well as campaigns with Jimmy Fallon, Betty White, Adam Devine and Don Cheadle. She recently completed a short dramatic film for Huawei, which was shot in Prague. She is represented by CAA.- Actor
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American light leading man, primarily of Westerns, James Ellison was born James Ellison Smith in Guthrie Center, Iowa, in 1910. He grew up on a ranch in Valier, Montana, where he learned the skills that would stand him in good stead as a movie cowboy. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was a young man, and it was there that he first became interested in the theatre. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse briefly, traveled to New York (and by some accounts played some minor roles in productions of the visiting Moscow Art Theatre, probably as a supernumerary), then returned to California where he was spotted by a Warner Bros. talent scout at a production of the Beverly Hills Theatre. He played a number of small parts for Warners and MGM before landing the plum part of Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, "Johnny Nelson", in Paramount's wildly successful series. Ellison played Nelson in eight films between the years 1935 and 1937, also playing in other films in-between. Although he was a supporting player in the Hopalong films, his name was strangely billed in the same size and format as veteran actor and matinee idol William Boyd's. Although not confirmed, the reason for this oddity is thought to be because the character Johnny Nelson was very prominent in the Hopalong Cassidy book series. There were also rumors around Hollywood that Ellison was destined to become "the next Gary Cooper" - a prediction that would fall short, as Ellison never achieved stand-alone stardom. In 1936, just before his exit from the Hopalong Cassidy films, Ellison was plucked by Cecil B. DeMille for the role of Buffalo Bill Cody in De Mille's epic Western, The Plainsman (1936), opposite Gary Cooper. De Mille reportedly hated Ellison's performance and wanted to ensure that Ellison never had as good a part in quite as good a film ever again. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Ellison did follow up with quite a number of romantic leads in a wide variety of films, from musicals and light mysteries, with such co-stars as Maureen O'Hara (They Met in Argentina (1941)), Lucille Ball (Next Time I Marry (1938)), James Stewart and Ginger Rogers (Vivacious Lady (1938)) to the cult horror classic, I Walked with a Zombie (1943). In 1950, Ellison returned to westerns, this time as the lead (along with his Hopalong replacement and longtime friend Russell Hayden) in a series of 11 westerns featuring them as two frontier lawmen, Lucky (Hayden) and Shamrock (Ellison). Of all his roles, however, he is perhaps best remembered for being Hopalong Cassidy's first and most dominant sidekick. In the late 1950s, Ellison retired from movies and became a successful real estate broker. He died in 1993, as the result of a fall in which he broke his neck, at the age of 83. Ellison was married twice, first to Gertrude Durkin, whom he took as his wife in 1937. They had two children, Durk and Trudy. After Gertrude's death in 1970, Ellison married Lois Bretherton on June 25, 1972, and remained married to her until his death.- Producer
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Matthew Hastings was born on 21 October 1967 in Rockville Center, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Spinning Out (2020) and Shadowhunters (2016).- David Carroll was born on 30 July 1950 in Rockville Center, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Abduction (1975), Rockabye (1986) and The Rockford Files (1974). He died on 11 March 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Tex Driscoll was born on 7 September 1889 in Center, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922), The Squaw Man (1914) and The Country Boy (1915). He died on 1 June 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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In the two decades he has worked in Hollywood, Dave has created, produced, written, and directed nearly a half billion dollars worth of entertainment. He has collaborated with some of Hollywood's top names (including teaming up with Steven Spielberg to Co-Create and Executive Produce DreamWorks premier television production - the ABC hit drama, "High Incident") and has created product for virtually every major entertainment company including Disney, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, MGM, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and many others.
Dave recently directed and co-produced a movie and has several TV projects in development at two different networks. He most recently wrote and executive produced the Hallmark Movie Channel film "Christmas With Tucker," which was the most watched HMC Original Premiere in network history. He also recently executive produced the feature film "October Baby," which was the number one Independent Movie at the box office in its release - finishing in the top ten box office of all movies in its first weekend.- Gabriel Rutledge was born on 26 December 1973 in Bay Center, Washington, USA. He has been married to Kristine Ann Strathdee since 19 June 1997. They have three children.
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Alison Whitney was born and raised in Rockville Center, New York. Alison played her first lead as Bunny Sue in a kindergarten stage production of the play "Get Hoppin'." Whitney not only continued performing all the way through high school, but also pursued singing and dancing lessons as well. She graduated from high school with the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma with a concentration in Theatre. Alison then attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she trained at the Stella Adler Acting Studio. Following the completion of her college education by earning a BFA in January, 2006, Whitney has gone on to act in films, plays, TV shows, and TV commercials. She's a member of the Old Vic New Voices Company directed by Kevin Spacey. Moreover, Alison resides in New York City and continues to pursue her acting career on a regular basis.- Jackson Roloff was born on 12 May 2017 in Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Leona Roberts was born on 26 July 1879 in Monroe Center, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Blue Bird (1940). She was married to Walter Beck and Charles James Hutchinson. She died on 29 January 1954 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Matt K. Miller was born in Rockville Center, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Tenchi the Movie - Tenchi Muyo in Love (1996), Princess Mononoke (1997) and Final Fantasy X-2 (2003). He has been married to Katherine Pappa since 7 May 2006. They have one child.
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Jim Mulholland was born in Rockville Center, New York, USA. He is known for Oscar (1991), Bad Boys (1995) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993).- Writer
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Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most famous architects who introduced his concept of "Organic architecture" and designed such landmarks as the Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum of Art.
He was born Frank Lincoln Wright on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA, into a family of Welsh descent. (Wright changed his middle name when he became an adult.) His father, William Cary Wright, was a music teacher and a Baptist minister. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones Wright, was a teacher. His father played the music of Johann Sebastian Bach which Wright later credit as a source of his sense of harmony in music and architecture. His mother involved him in playing with Froebel's geometric blocks, which formed his 3D vision, and later helped him develop architectural style marked with geometrical clarity. Wright studied engineering at University of Wisconsin for two years, but dropped out without graduating. He moved to Chicago and worked for several architecture firms, including his six years working directly with the "father of modernism" and leader of the Chicago School, Louis Henry Sullivan, who was Wright's mentor from 1888-1893.
In 1889 he married his first of three wives, Catherine Lee Clark Tobin. He and Catherine raised six children together. He also borrowed $5,000 from his then employer, Louis Sullivan, to buy a lot in Oak Park, Illinois and build his first house. That same house he used also as an architectural laboratory by making many changes and additions while developing his original design for the Prarie style of architecture. In 1893 Wright was fired by Sullivan himself, amidst the dispute over Wright's acceptance of a growing number of independent commissions. Then he established his own office in Oak Parc. During the 1890s he originated the style of "Prarie Houses" and designed many private homes in the Prarie School style across the Midwestern United States. At the same time he was commissioned to design several corporate and public buildings in communities in and around Chicago and Buffalo. He had his offices established in the Steinway Piano Building, then later had his office in Orchestra Hall in Chicago.
In 1904 Wright fell in love with Martha(Mamah)Borthwick Cheney, the wife of one of his clients. However, neither of them could get divorced from their marriages, so they eloped to Europe in 1909. In 1910, in Berlin, Wright published his first collection of architectural designs, known as the "Wasmouth Portfolio" and created the first exposure of his work in Europe, which later had influenced such movements as Bauhaus and Constructivism. During his two years in Europe, Wright lived mainly in Italy and became influenced by the Mediterranean architecture. In 1911, back in the USA, he settled with Mamah and her two children in his new home named Taliesin, which means "shining brow" in Welsh, the language of his ancestors. He wanted to marry Mamah, but his first wife was still not giving him a divorce. In August 1914, one of his male servants set fire in the house and murdered Mamah and her two children, as well as several other servants. Wright, was on a business trip and survived the disaster, was devastated and buried himself in work. At that time he was approached by a self-proclaimed sculptor, named Miriam Noel, who offered her condolences and claimed that she could understand him. Soon Wright asked her to move into Taliesin with him, although he was still married to his first wife, Catherine. From 1916 - 1922 Wright worked in Tokyo, Japan where he completed Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which survived the earthquake of 1923 and found praise after the majority of Tolyo was left in rubble. In 1922 his first wife gave him a divorce that he had been waiting for since 1909. In 1923 he married Miriam Noel, but they separated in less that a year because of her drug addiction, albeit she did not give him a divorce until their legal battle ended in 1927.
In 1924 he met Olga (Olgivanna) Milanoff Hinzenburg, a ballerina with Russian Ballet in Chicago. Olgivanna was a daughter of Montenegro's Chief Justice and a granddaughter of Duke Marko Milanoff. In 1925 Wright invited Olgivanna and Svetlana, her daughter from her previous marriage, to move into his home, Taliesin. In December of 1925, daughter Ivanna was born to Wright and Olgivanna. In 1926 Olgivanna's ex-husband, Valdemar Hinzenburg, sought custody of Olga's daughter, and tried to have them arrested, but the charges were dropped in 1926. Olgivanna and Wright married in 1928. As his personal life had finally came to harmony, Wright's creativity evolved to the new level. In 1932 he and his wife, Olgivanna, established the Taliesin Fellowship School for architects which became a great success with 30 students, and a waiting list of 27 more. In 1934 Wright and Olgivanna were visited by Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann Sr., the owner of Kaufmann Department Store, beginning one of history's great patron - artist relationships. For the Kaufmanns Wright created his masterpiece, the Fallingwater. It was organically designed above a waterfall to preserve a living harmony with nature, where house and a stream created an interplay through the confluence of falling water and geometrical clarity of architecture. Completed between 1935 and 1937, the Fallingwater became a landmark and one of the most famous private residences in the world. It was used as a family home from 1937 - 1963, then was restored and opened for the public as a museum.
Kaufmann also gave substantial financial backing to other projects by Wright, such as Broadacre City, which was later showcased in Kaufmann's store. Wright also created architectural design for middle class family homes known as Usonian Style, which was caused by the shift of society and answered to the growing demand. In 1937 he designed his third home, Taliesin West, which he completed after purchase of 800 acres of land in Scottsdale, Arizona. There he lived and worked for the rest of his life, he taught a Taliesin Fellowship School of architecture and designed many of his most famous buildings, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and many other buildings. From 1943 until 1959 Wright worked on the design and construction of the Guggenheim Museum, "I want a temple of spirit, a monument!" requested Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim. Wright created an outstanding design in a shape of an inverted ziggurat, a winding pyramidal temple, or an ascending spiral alluding to such organic form as a nautilus shell. "It was to make the building and the painting an uninterrupted, beautiful symphony such as never existed in the World of Art before," wrote Wright. He created a temple of art, albeit he did not live to see the completion of the Guggenheim Museum, it stands today as a testimony to Wright's architectural genius.
Frank Lloyd Wright died five days after having an intestinal surgery, on April 9, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona, and was laid to rest near his mother and Mamah Borthwick Cheney in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Then his Fellowship was managed by his widow, Olgivanna until her death in 1985. According to her dying wish in 1985, the ashes of her and her husband were laid to rest in memorial garden of their Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona.- Neil Haskell was born in Clarence Center, New York. He began his formal training at the David DeMarie Dance Studio in Clarence, New York. He also trained at the American Academy of Ballet in Williamsville, New York. In addition, as a teenager, from the age of 14 to 16, he underwent intensive ballet training at the Chautauqua Institution. After graduating from high school, Neil attended Point Park University, majoring in dance, for only a year.
In 2005, he was awarded the title of "Male Dancer of the Year" at the American Dance Awards.
He gained Broadway experience performing in "The Times They Are A-Changin'," a Twyla Tharp Broadway show, as well as in Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's performances "Grease," "42nd Street," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," and "Beauty & The Beast." In 2008, he performed in the off-Broadway musical "Alter Boyz" as Luke.
Also in 2008, Neil played a role in MTV's made-for-television musical "The American Mall."
Neil's claim to national fame came on FOX television's dance competition series "So You Think You Can Dance," where he came in third. - Actor
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Lee Bonnell was born on 24 November 1918 in Royal Center, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Men Against the Sky (1940), Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947) and Lady Scarface (1941). He was married to Gale Storm. He died on 12 May 1986 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Eric P. Robinson was born on 19 June 1972 in Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for I Am Legend (2007), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and All Good Things (2010). He has been married to Lisa Chavez since 23 December 2005.- X Æ A-Xii Musk was born on 4 May 2020 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Thomas R. Rondinella is an award winning independent film maker. He has edited fifteen feature films (including A Fool and his Money starring Oscar winner Sandra Bullock), written three produced feature films (All's Fair starring George Segal and Sally Kellerman, Blades and A Girls' Guide), directed three feature films (Blades, Scrappers: How the Heartland Won WWII And A Girls' Guide) and produced seven feature films (Against the Spread, Charming Billy, Unholy starring Adrienne Barbeau and Nicholas Brendon, Morris County, Scrappers: How the Heartland Won WWII, Good Day for It starring Oscar nominee Hal Holbrook.) and Sankofa: The Untold Story of Harry Herbert Pace. His films have had national theatrical release, played in the major United States and international film festivals (including American Film Institute-Los Angeles; RioFan, Rio De Janeiro; Edinboro; Northhampton; Belfast, Ireland; Chicago International and Ft. Lauderdale) and aired on Cinemax, HBO, PBS, USA Network, Netflix, FearNet.com, Starz, and the Independent Film Channel. In addition, Thomas is president of Catfish Studios which specializes in corporate video and independent film. He produced and directed the web cooking series, Cooking with Nonna and NJ Today with John McKeon.
Thomas is also Professor of Media Production at Seton Hall University since 1996.- Writer
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Gary R. Johnson was born on 1 March 1947 in Buffalo Center, Iowa, USA. Gary R. was a writer and producer, known for Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002), The Client (1995) and Hope Island (1999). Gary R. was married to Joan Considine Johnson. Gary R. died on 18 June 2017 in Moorpark, California, USA.- Birth name: Alan Howard Snyder (changed in order to avoid confusion with director Alan Schneider) Alan appeared as a child in off-Broadway productions and in summer (and winter) stock, and as a young comedian in various locales in upstate New York and neighboring states.
- Bob LeMond was born on 11 April 1913 in Hale Center, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Meet Millie (1952), The Name of the Game (1968) and The F.B.I. (1965). He was married to Barbara Brewster and Helen Virginia Taylor. He died on 6 January 2008 in Bonsall, California, USA.
- Nik Hagler was born on 31 May 1943 in Center, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for UHF (1989), The Big Easy (1986) and A Perfect World (1993). He died on 6 April 2021 in Pearland, Texas, USA.
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Brad Norman (born Brad DeMink Norman) was raised just north of Detroit in Center Line, Michigan USA and is the oldest of two brothers. He attended Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and later, The Second City Chicago Conservatory. Upon graduation from WMU, Brad moved to Chicago, Illinois and began his career in television commercials. He worked throughout the theater scene performing in Shakespeare for youth audiences, long-running family musicals, and rowdy late night improv comedy. Brad's 12 years in Chicago also earned him an established career in national commercial campaigns. In 2011, Brad moved to Los Angeles where he continued to work in commercials while pursuing roles in voice-over, television and feature films. In 2016, Brad was cast as the voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2018).- John Louis Fischer was born on 16 August 1963 in Rockville Center, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Jacob's Ladder (1990), It Could Happen to You (1994) and Major Payne (1995).
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Paul Francis Sullivan was born on 14 May 1972 in Mansfield Center, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and director, known for I'll Believe You (2006), Thugs (2000) and Checkmate (2009). He has been married to Lisa Zambetti since 4 October 2003. They have two children.- Shirley Mason was born on 25 January 1923 in Dodge Center, Minnesota, USA. She died on 26 February 1998 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
- Bryan Hitt was born on 5 January 1954 in Center, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Ozark (2017), REO Speedwagon: Live in the Heartland (2011) and Out of Nowhere (2012). He has been married to Cindi since 1985. They have two children.
- Controversial former army general Edwin A. Walker was born in Center Point, Texas, on November 10, 1909. He attended the New Mexico Military Academy, graduating in 1927, and then attended West Point Military Academy from 1927-1931.
After World War II broke out he was placed in command of a combined Canadian-US commando unit, the First Special Service Force--a predecessor of the more widely known Green Berets--in Italy. After the war ended he was posted as a liaison to Greek government forces fighting a Communist-led revolt (which they eventually crushed). In 1951, now a colonel, he was assigned to an artillery unit and saw combat in the Korean War.
After he was transferred back to the US he received a reserve assignment placing him in command of the Arkansas Military District, headquartered in Little Rock. When state and local authorities in Arkansas refused to implement the court-ordered integration of the Little Rock school system in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard in order to enforce the decision. Walker, who by this time was a devoted member of the ultra-right-wing John Birch Society--which was rabidly anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and anti-integration--strongly disagreed with the decision to integrate the school system, but as commander of the National Guard he had no choice but to comply with the President's orders.
In October of 1959 he was named Division Commander of the 24th Infantry Division, headquartered in Augsburg, West Germany. In 1961 it was discovered that he was using training sessions to indoctrinate his troops in the extreme-right-wing views of the John Birch Society and other ultra-rightist political organizations, by, among other things, using the groups' literature as instructional materials and reading assignments for the troops. Walker was relieved of his command by Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara pending a Defense Department investigation. The resulting investigation concluded that Walker did indeed attempt such political indoctrination of his troops and, in addition, deliberately disobeyed orders by his superiors to stop it. With the approval of President John F. Kennedy, Walker was officially reprimanded by the army for his willful disobedience of orders. Now a major general, Walker resigned his commission, left the army and became heavily involved in far-right-wing politics. His dismissal became a cause célèbre for conservatives who claimed that the Kennedy administration was "soft on Communism" and muzzling the free-speech rights of military officers, and by liberals who saw Walker's activities as a direct and dangerous challenge to civilian control of the military. In 1962 Walker, now a civilian, announced his candidacy for Texas governor. Although he received support from some big-name conservatives, such as Barry Goldwater and John Tower, he finished last in the race.
In September of that year Walker was back on the front pages when he traveled to Oxford, Mississippi, to help organize protests by the Ku Klux Klan and other white-supremacist groups against the enrollment of African-American student James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Walker's organizing activities, his fiery and vitriolic speeches railing against integration of the university and his exhorting his followers to "take action!" were believed to have contributed to violent riots instigated by the Klan and its allies in which two people were killed and a half-dozen federal marshals were shot. An arrest warrant was issued against him by the federal government on charges of sedition, conspiracy and incitement to insurrection and rebellion. He was arrested and imprisoned for five days
On April 10, 1963, Walker was sitting at his desk in his Dallas home when someone fired a shot at him through his window, the bullet missing him by only a few inches. It was later discovered that the would-be assassin was none other than Lee Harvey Oswald, later suspected of assassinating President Kennedy.
Walker eventually faded from the right-wing political scene. In 1976 he was arrested in a public park in Dallas, Texas, on charges of fondling the genitals of a male undercover vice cop. He was arrested again in Dallas on the same charges the next year. He pleased "no contest"--equivalent to a guilty plea but without actually admitting guilt--and was given a fine and a suspended sentence.
Edwin Walker died of lung cancer in Dallas in 1993. Author Fletcher Knebel said that Walker was the model for the right-wing army general who attempts to organize a coup against what he perceives to be an administration that is "weak" and "soft on Communism" in the novel "Seven Days in May". Burt Lancaster played the part in the film version of the book, Seven Days in May (1964). - Red Rowe - Radio Announcer KFWB Talk Radio, Television Host "Panorama Pacific," CBS channel 2 "Video Village", The Red Rowe Show, Juke Box Jury. Guitarist/Songwriter/ASCAP.
Born July 1, 1922, died August, 2004. Came from his hometown of Dallas Center, Iowa with guitar in hand......Red Rowe arrived in California in the fall of 1945 after a successful Radio Career in the East and Middle West. January, 1946, started "Free Speech Mike" on KMPC Radio. Also during 1946 he was Host-Announcer on NBC "Guiding Light". and CBS "Right to Happiness". Continued these shows until 1953. During the same time (1947 - 1950) did "The Red Rowe Show" on KMPC.
In 1947 started on the "Stuart Hamblen Show" on KFWB which later evolved into "The Red Rowe Rancho" on KFWB until 1955. In 1952 he switched into television and began the "Panorama Pacific" show on CBS-Television, which stayed on for 14 years. He has logged over 12,000 hours of Television Broadcasting. Also, while at CBS he did "The Red Rowe Show"on the CBS Network, and hosted a panel show "Face the Facts", he was the movie host on KTTV, then did did a country-western music show on KFI radio. From 1972 - 1974 he was on NBC Television in San Diego - KCST.
Red Rowe has been the recipient of service awards by numerous Community and National organizations. During the years on radio and television, Red Rowe was host to a multitude of personalities, including authors, artists, politicians, actors, actresses, motion picture producers, directors, etc. - every prominent personality on the local and national scene. - Director
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Brooklyn born director JR Heffelfinger is an artist and filmmaker working in New York City, Puerto Rico and Los Angles. He began his career with his debut feature film "Niji No Shita Ni", which was filmed in Tokyo, Japan and had it's world premiere at the 28th Mill Valley Film Festival. The film was reviewed as "being touched by the spirits of Kurosawa and Imamura and resonating with the resilient glow of life" and JR was noted in Variety as "an emerging talent". As a documentary filmmaker, he quickly garnering a reputation for embedding himself in some of the most dangerous places in the world, giving voice to the voiceless and making the invisible, visible. As a commercial director he was honored with a 2013 Webby Award for his success creating viral video content that has garnered over 250 Million views to date. Known for unveiling truths about the human condition and capturing unique and powerful moments, his narrative, documentary and commercial work have earned him an indelible reputation as a filmmaker. JR Heffelfinger has collaborated with Disney, Al Jazeera America, Sephora, Amazon Aid, Hope to Haiti and Avenues The World School.- Jade McCall was born on 13 September 1941 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Salvage 1 (1979), Barnaby Jones (1973) and Days of Our Lives (1965). He died on 10 March 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Phoebe Foster was born on 9 July 1895 in Center Harbor, New Hampshire, USA. She was an actress, known for Anna Karenina (1935), Dinner at Eight (1933) and Our Betters (1933). She was married to Harold LeRoy Whitney. She died in June 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Kim Morton is a Dallas based actor, director, musician, producer, and audio engineer, originally from the far superior city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has a Bachelors of Science in Music Engineering from the University of Miami and works on all sorts of stuff as the Lead Audio Engineer at Starman Studios. He's neat I guess.- Gertrude Mudge was born on 5 September 1878 in Wales Center, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Poppin' the Cork (1933), Cinders (1916) and Object Not Matrimony (1935). She died in May 1969 in Goodells Michigan,USA.
- Thomas Hollister was born on 3 February 1949 in Trinity Center, California, USA. He is known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).
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Sherman Sanders was born on 2 April 1903 in Clay Center, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Queen of the Amazons (1946), Four Star Playhouse (1952) and Dragnet (1951). He died on 27 January 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Edward J. Ruppelt was born on 17 July 1923 in Grundy Center, Iowa, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Ann Clay. He died on 15 September 1960 in Long Beach, California, USA.
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Dan Sartain was born on 13 August 1981 in Center Point, Alabama, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Sunset Overdrive (2014), 10 Cent Pistol (2014) and Dan Sartain: Replacement Man (2006). He died on 20 March 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.