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Born in Indiana and educated at a Chicago arts school, Jordan first attracted attention and launched a thousand pin-ups when his video for "The Right Kind of Love" aired on Fox's popular teen series Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1992. Though the TV exposure powered his 1993 CD "Try My Love" to gold status, Jordan opted mainly for non-musical performing instead. After appearing in several TV films, including _Boys Will Be Boys (1994) (TV)_ and Twisted Desire (1996), as well as in a bit part in Mike Figgis Oscar- winning drama Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Jordan bolstered his big- screen resume with a role in Gregg Araki's Nowhere (1997). The last film in Araki's "teen apocalypse trilogy", Nowhere enabled Jordan to play off his teen pop star roots as a gay, drug-addicted musician in Los Angeles' youth underground.
Though Jordan continued to hone his indie sensibility with a starring role in the Hollywood satire Dreamers (1999), he also appeared in the hit Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed (1999) and the TV film Stephen King's Storm of the Century (1999).- Actress
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A blue-eyed blonde with a bubbly personality, aptly dubbed 'the Champagne Girl' by studio publicists, she was born Cynthia Robichaux, one of five siblings, in Hammond, Louisiana. Her father was Louis Robichaux. Her mother ran a dancing school in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Cynthia began dancing in public under her mum's tutelage at the age of five, occasionally taking part in entertaining American soldiers who were stationed in the area. During her school years, she switched to acting in amateur dramatics.
At the age of eleven, Cynthia performed on Ken Murray's 'Blackouts' variety show in Los Angeles. At that time, she began to adopt the name 'Cindy Robbins' as her stage moniker. Several years later, the acclaimed character actress Shirley Booth saw potential in her and picked Cynthia for a part in her 1954 Broadway show 'By the Beautiful Sea', set on early 1900s Coney Island. The play was a hit and ran for 270 performances. On the strength of this success, Booth took Cynthia back to California to be cast in the lead role of another play, 'The Vacant Lot', at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. Soon after, Universal-International signed her under contract.
Cynthia made her screen debut as a Native American girl in the early western series Brave Eagle (1955). Credited as Cindy Robbins, she went on to play supporting roles in a few second features, including in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), and one A-grader, the big budget melodrama This Earth Is Mine (1959), starring Rock Hudson. The studio publicity machine reinforced her 'champagne girl' image with fanzine articles about Cynthia using champagne as a supplement to shampoo. She was also said to own a champagne-coloured toy poodle named Chu-Chu. In interviews, Cynthia named her favorite activities as being tennis, riding, surfing and skin diving.
For all the hype, Cynthia never progressed beyond the status of starlet. She guest-starred in many TV sitcoms (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), Leave It to Beaver (1957), McHale's Navy (1962)), occasional westerns (Wagon Train (1957), Outlaws (1960), The Tall Man (1960)) and crime dramas (Dragnet (1951), Markham (1959), Tightrope (1959), Perry Mason (1957)). Her most popular role was as the star's eldest daughter (Carol Porter) in the comedy series The Tom Ewell Show (1960) (Cynthia, then 23, playing a 15 year-old). The main storyline revolved around a maladroit realtor, struggling to cope with life in a household dominated entirely by females.
Long after her retirement from screen acting, Cynthia penned several teleplays for a TV youth anthology series, for which she also received associate producer credit. She had a daughter (Kimberly Beck) by her first husband William Howard Beck. Her second husband was singer-songwriter Tommy Leonetti , with whom she resided in Sydney, Australia, for many years until his death in 1979. Her third husband (whose surname she adopted in her later credits) was the producer, director and writer Robert Chenault who died in 2009.- Actor
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Funk has strong wrestling bloodlines. His dad, Dory Funk Sr., was a well-known grappler from the 1940s to the 1970s, and his brother, Dory Funk Jr., wrestled from 1963 until the early 90s, and won the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) world heavyweight championship in 1969. Funk, himself, became NWA champion and thus the Funks have the distinction of being the only brothers to win the NWA championship. Funk made his film debut as (what else?) a wrestler in Sylvester Stallone's (a noted wrestling fan) movie Paradise Alley (1978). Funk then did double-duty as a pro wrestler and actor/stunt man (he was prominent in Patrick Swayze's movie, Road House (1989)). Not technically a great wrestler, Funk was more known for his brawling tactics, and had some great feuds during his career with "Handsome" Harley Race, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes and others. After maintaining a low profile in wrestling, Funk resurfaced in the 90s in the new Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) series and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), this time in his new persona as "Chainsaw Charlie".- Actress
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Jonetta Kaiser was born in Hammond, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Vampire Academy (2022), Root Letter (2022) and A Party to Die For (2022).- Kathleen Burke was born on 5 September 1913 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Last Outpost (1935), Good Dame (1934) and The Lion Man (1936). She was married to Jose Fernandez, Glen Nelson Rardin and Forrest Lloyd Smith. She died on 9 April 1980 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Charles Bryant Pierce was an independent filmmaker from Arkansas whose movies have become cult classics. Films that he wrote, directed and/or produced were not only made in Arkansas with local actors but also drew their inspiration from Arkansas themes. He is believed to be the source of one of the most famous lines in American film history from the 1983 film 'Sudden Impact': "Go ahead, make my day."
Charles B. Pierce was born in Hammond, IN, on June 16, 1938, the son of Mack McKenny Pierce and Mayven Bryant Pierce. When he was a few months old the family moved to Hampton, Calhoun County, in the south-central part of Arkansas. Living in Hampton, Pierce grew up next door to Harry Thomason, who later became successful as a producer and director of such projects as TV's "Designing Women" (1986).
According to Pierce's family, one of his chores growing up was mowing the lawn. His father came home one day at lunchtime and asked if the boy planned to mow the yard anytime soon, adding, "When I come home tonight and the yard has not been mowed, you're gonna make my day." Later in life, Pierce would use the admonition to great advantage.
In the mid-1960s, Pierce was working as an art director at KTAL-TV in Shreveport, LA, and later became a weatherman and hosted a children's cartoon program at the small independent-owned TV station. Returning to Arkansas, he started an advertising business on State Line Avenue in Texarkana, Miller County, in addition to playing a character called Mayor Chuckles on a local television show.
In 1971, there were local headlines about a Sasquatch-like creature sighted in the wetlands vicinity around the nearby town of Fouke in Miller County. The "Fouke Monster" was reportedly seen in the Boggy Creek area and was suspected of attacking dogs and livestock as well as a local family. In mid 1972, while still working in advertising, Pierce created a semi-documentary film originally titled "Tracking the Fouke Monster"--later renamed 'The Legend of Boggy Creek.' Pierce shot the movie with a 16mm camera he assembled himself at home. Much of the movie was filmed in Fouke and Texarkana with local residents and students as actors and/or crew. Estimates place the cost of making the film at about $165,000. Becoming popular as a drive-in horror feature around the country, it became one of the top ten highest-grossing movies of the year, earning over $20 million.
Earning several hundred thousand dollars in residuals from the film, Pierce used his new found wealth to write and direct several other films, which included the crime comedy-drama Bootleggers (1974), the westerns Winterhawk (1975) and The Winds of Autumn (1976), the true-life horror flick The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976), the western Grayeagle (1977), the viking adventure The Norseman (1978), another true-life thriller The Evictors (1979), the western Sacred Ground (1983), a sequel to "Boggy Creek" titled Boggy Creek II (1985), the violent western Hawken's Breed (1987), the family drama Renfroe's Christmas (1997) and Chasing the Wind (1998). His earlier films in particular were shot in Arkansas and/or featured Arkansas themes and local residents in their production.
After moving to California in the early 1980s to further his career, he became friends with actor/director Clint Eastwood while living in Carmel, where Eastwood was elected mayor in 1986. After sharing a story treatment that Eastwood liked, Pierce became a writer for the fourth in the Dirty Harry series, Sudden Impact (1983), which Eastwood directed. Its most famous line, "Go ahead, make my day," has been ranked in the top ten of the American Film Institute's top movie quotes of all time.
Returning to his own independent;y produced films, Pierce was the star, writer, director and co-producer of The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II, (1985), a sequel to "Boggy Creek" that was eventually re-titled Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985). The movie also contains footage of a University of Arkansas (UA) Razorback football game in Fayetteville, Washington County), complete with hog-hatted fans.
Pierce acquired the nickname "Sparkplug" due to his energy; he was always thinking about his next project while completing another. Pierce was married to Florence Lyons, a Tennessee native, for ten years and they had three children, one of whom was Charles Pierce Jr. They eventually divorced. Pierce's second wife was Cindy Butler; they also later divorced. While filming "Hawken's Breed" in 1987 with Peter Fonda (I) in the area around Dover, TN, Pierce met his third wife Beth Pulley; they married the following year.
Along with starring and directing Boggy Creek II, Pierce acted in several of his films, in small roles; these included "Bootleggers," "The Winds of Autumn," and "The Town that Dreaded Sundown." Pierce directed a number of noted character actors, such as Slim Pickens (I), Jack Elam, Kathleen Freeman (I), Woody Strode and L.Q. Jones, along with lead actors including Jaclyn Smith (I), Dawn Wells (I), Andrew Prine, Lee Majors (I), Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer (I), Vic Morrow, Michael Parks (I) and Academy Award winner Ben Johnson (I).
Suffering from poor health later in life, Charles B. Pierce died on March 5, 2010, at the Signature Care nursing home in Dover, TN, at age 71, where he had been living for the past seven years. He is buried at Stewart Memorial Gardens near his home in Dover. Two years before his death, the frail-looking Pierce attended and was spotlighted by the Little Rock Film Festival in 2008 with a retrospective, received the Arkansas Arts Council's Judges Special Recognition award in 2009, honored annually by the Little Rock Film Festival through the Charles B. Pierce Award for Best Film Made in Arkansas. He was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in 2010.- Actor
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Mitch Jayne lived in the south central Missouri Ozarks near Salem, Mo. It was there that he taught in a couple of one-room schools (before consolidation), and then worked as a disk jockey at KSMO Radio. In his later years he traveled throughout Missouri giving humorous talks about the Ozark language and its connection with Middle English.
Jayne played bass with The Dillards, which included brothers Rodney and Doug Dillard,(whom he met while at KSMO), and Dean Webb. The band left its native Missouri hills and moved to California in the early 1960s, where almost immediately the group landed a spot, along with Denver Pyle and Maggie Peterson Mancuso, as as the Darling family on the Andy Griffith television show.
During his lifetime Jayne was a writer and published author: "Forest in the Wind", "Old Fish Hawk", "Home Grown Stories & Home Fried Lies", and his final work, "Fiddler's Ghost" won Missouri's Humanitarian Award. For nearly 30 years he wrote humor columns for various publications throughout Missouri.
The Dillards were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association's "Hall of Fame" in September 2009.- Actress
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Alyssa Carson (born March 10, 2001), also known by the call sign Blueberry, is an American student with the goal of training as an astronaut and being selected for future human spaceflight to Mars. She was inspired at age 3 by the Nickelodeon series The Backyardigans (2004) and went on to attend U.S. Space Camp in 2008. She has also attended other space camps in Laval, Quebec and in Izmir, Turkey. In 2013, she was recognized by NASA as the first to visit all 14 NASA Visitor Centers in the United States. In 2019 she enrolled at Florida Institute of Technology studying Astrobiology and has also previously attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.- Rob Boltin was born in March 1969 in Hammond, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Flypaper (2011), Re-Kill (2015) and Wild Card (2011).
- John Petlock was born on 26 August 1934 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Dallas (1978), Lou Grant (1977) and Remington Steele (1982). He died on 16 November 2020.
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Kyle Clements was born in Hammond, LA. He attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School where he was a standout athlete in both football and baseball. His football career continued in college where he was a wide receiver at Southeastern Louisiana University. During his freshman season he began nurturing his aspirations of a career in film and television. Kyle built a strong résumé throughout his collegiate and graduate school years, appearing in such films as 12 Rounds, and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Upon graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University with a Masters degree, Kyle began acting full time. He continues to build a solid career in the industry.- Jamie Watson was born on 29 May 1982 in Hammond, Louisiana, USA. He has been married to Jamie Lynn Spears since 14 March 2014. They have one child.
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Growing up in Abita Springs, LA, Tyler developed his passion for creation and performance through songwriting at a young age. Tyler has been seen in a wide range of movies and television as an actor. Combining his skills in music and film, Tyler is a writer, producer, director, cinematographer, and composer. Tyler is based in Los Angeles, CA.- Actress
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Amanda Jelks began performing at an early age, singing and dancing. When she was 9, she was offered an acting part in a local musical production, then she was hooked. She played the lead in several productions in school and community Theatre (Penny - "You Can't Take It With You," Mrs. Hoopway - "Beauty Pageant,"Etc.), then auditioned for the prestigious New Orleans Center of the Creative Arts, where she was offered a full scholarship. She studied Drama and Musical Theatre at NOCCA, while attending Hammond High School. She is the daughter of Melissa Miller and Rodney Jelks. She has two sisters, Jessica (older) and Abigail (younger) and one brother, Jamie (younger). After Hurricane Katrina, Amanda attended two years at The University of New Orleans' Drama Program. She recently filmed Cabin Fever 2 and is auditioning for NYU's Stella Adler Conservitory.- Actor
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Shon Lange grew up in a South suburb of Chicago.
Joined the military at 21 years old, 6'4" 148lbs. Left the military 4 years later at 245lbs.
Spoke in front of 30,000 people at the RBC Center in NC.
Attended The Second City in Chicago after the military.
Trains here in Los Angeles under the brilliant guidance of Benjamin Byron Davis.
He has made appearances in several TV shows and films, from NCIS: Los Angeles and Marvels: Agents of Shield to Scandal, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and American Crime Story - Impeachment. He continues to train and put in the work to help break the mold of the stereotypical size of a Hollywood actor.- Art Director
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Johnny White was born on 20 September 1966 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. He is an art director and production designer, known for The Relic (1997), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and Home Alone 3 (1997).- Composer
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Michael Galasso was born on 5 April 1949 in Hammond, Louisiana, USA. He was a composer, known for In the Mood for Love (2000), Chungking Express (1994) and Seraphine (2008). He died on 9 September 2009 in Paris, France.- Actress
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Kasia Trepagnier is an African-American actress and executive producer who is known for her roles in Mood, The Burial, Heart of Champions, The Purge, Master Gardener, and NCIS: New Orleans. She produced Know That I Know and Mood. She was born in Metairie, Louisiana. She spent most of her years in the Tangipahoa area.- Actress
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Suzette Lange was born on 14 August 1967 in Hammond, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for The Burial (2023), Nickel Boys (2024) and Carry On (2024).- George Paulsin was born on 12 July 1949 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Simon, King of the Witches (1971), The Bat People (1974) and The F.B.I. (1965).
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Jake Wyatt was born on 4 February 1985 in Hammond, Louisiana, USA. Jake is a producer and writer, known for My Adventures with Superman (2023), Steven Universe (2013) and Pantheon (2022).- Writer
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Aaron Keene was born on 24 May 1984 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Can't Seem to Make You Mine (2023), Panopticon (2015) and Bunny Bunny (2017).- Josh Lomberger was born on 25 November 1980 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for WWE Saturday Morning Slam (2012), WWE Velocity (2002) and WWE Smackdown! (1999). He has been married to Ashley Simmons since August 2015. He was previously married to Rue DeBona.
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Born July 5, 1979 in Hammond, Indiana, Tim moved to Michigan as a young child and still lives there, Tim McKinney began acting and making his own productions in 1996. His first major production was The Variety Show in 1996 that aired on GRTV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Then in 2006 Tim teamed up with friend Andrew Nelson and they hosted the show Always A Critic. The show aired on a few Television stations around the United States. (GRTV, Grand Rapids, SPNN, Saint Paul,) In 1996 Tim also formed the production company, Cubed Five Productions. Through the company Tim has worked on other projects. In 2019 Tim was in his first feature film. Jack London's Son of the wolf. Tim continues to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.- Producer
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Bob Wilkins was born on 11 April 1932 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Captain Cosmic and 2T2 (1977), Creature Features (1971) and Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo (2001). He was married to Sally Wilkins. He died on 7 January 2009 in Reno, Nevada, USA.