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The pre-eminent American photojournalist of sub-Saharan descent. An acclaimed photographer for Life magazine from the late 40s through late 60s, he turned to directing films, his second of which, the blaxploitation movie Shaft (1971), achieved success at the box office. In 1989 his first film effort, The Learning Tree (1969), was selected among the first 25 films so honored, by the U.S. Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Registry for all time.- Writer
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Richard Christy was born on 1 April 1974 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) and Supertwink (2006).- Additional Crew
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Melvin Lawrence Koontz was born on December 1, 1910 in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was one of nine children and a fraternal twin. Mel Koontz and his family moved out to Los Angeles when he was a teenager, and he went to work at fourteen as a popcorn and peanut vendor at the old Selig Zoo in Los Angeles. By the time he was eighteen, he worked himself up to "cage cleaner", according to the 1930 Federal Census. From that humble start, he began to work more and more with wild animals until he became known as one of the premier animal trainers of Hollywood's "Golden Age". Koontz was known as the trainer of "Jackie", the MGM lion, and, by his estimation, he had worked in six hundred movies, and appeared in more than three hundred of them, including doubling for 'Maurice Schwartz' in Slaves of Babylon and Mae West in I'm No Angel. In 1939, he went to New York where he had an animal act in Frank Buck's Jungleland that was one of the major events of the World's Fair. After the fair ended, he returned to California and boarded his big cats and performed at Bird Wonderland until 1946, when he became Chief Trainer of Jungleland, in Thousand Oaks, California, a position he held until he retired, due to failing eyesight, in 1964. A lifetime member of the Loyal Order of Moose, he worked as club steward for Moose Lodge No. 1919 in Thousand Oaks before returning to his birthplace of Fort Scott, Kansas in 1975.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Gary Armstrong was born on 2 June 1934 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Cliffhanger (1993), Mirror Mirror (2012) and Breakfast of Aliens (1993). He died on 15 June 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Clark Clifford was born on 25 December 1906 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He was married to Margery Pepperel Kimball. He died on 10 October 1998 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Tom Hanlon was born on 7 November 1907 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Romance in the Rain (1934), Cracked Nuts (1941) and Hold That Line (1952). He died on 29 September 1970 in Northridge, California, USA.
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Claude Lapham was born on 10 November 1890 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. Claude was a composer. Claude died on 11 May 1957 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Walter Smiley Weatherwax was born on May 31, 1867, in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, to William C. Weatherwax and his wife Elizabeth Mary Smiley. His siblings included: William E. Weatherwax (1858-1859); Grace Ball Weatherwax (1865-1938); and twin brothers Fred Van Allen Weatherwax (1870-1881) and Albert Weatherwax (1870-1870). Walter was just eight years old when financial and legal problems forced his parents to move to Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado, on July 14, 1875. Parents William C. Weatherwax and Elizabeth Mary Smiley separated shortly thereafter, and were divorced in Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado on March 27, 1878. By 1880, Walter was living with his father William C. Weatherwax in Durrango, Rio La Plata County, Colorado. His mother, Elizabeth Mary Smiley had died, and his younger sibling Fred Van Allen Weatherwax was in an orphanage in San Francisco, California. When his father died on January 21, 1884, in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, 16 year old Walter found work with the cattle drives in Texas. In 1895, Walter C. Weatherwax met Anna L. Wallis, while enroute to Deming, Luna County, New Mexico Territory. They were married on September 1, 1896, by the Rev. N. W. Haukenupet in Deming, Luna County, New Mexico Territory. While living in New Mexico, Walter filed for patents on several of his inventions. During the spring of 1913, Walter Smiley Weatherwax moved his wife Anna and their seven children [Judd Wallis Weatherwax; DoraNeil Weatherwax; Frank Thrall Weatherwax; William McAlister Weatherwax; Ruddel Bird Weatherwax; Jack Nathan Weatherwax; and Marguerite Peggy Weatherwax] to Los Angeles, California. The kids found work in silent pictures. In 1920, the family was living at 1439 Cahuenga Avenue in North Hollywood. Walter trained horses and dogs, and had a bear which he kept in a cage in the back yard. Walter died on January 19, 1943, at his home on St. Clair Avenue, in North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, and is buried in Valhalla Cemetery.
- John Canaday was born on 1 February 1907 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He was married to Katherine Sarah Hoover. He died on 19 July 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Antony Liberato was born on 3 March 1974 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Sleepy Hollow High (2000).
- Clarence Redd was born on 3 June 1888 in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for A Daughter of the Congo (1930). He died on 25 August 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.