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Douglas Spencer was born on 10 February 1910 in Princeton, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Thing from Another World (1951), This Island Earth (1955) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He died on 6 October 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Nell Craig was born on 13 June 1891 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for 3 Men in White (1944), Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) and Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942). She was married to Fred E. Wright. She died on 5 January 1965 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Mack V. Wright was born on 9 March 1894 in Princeton, Indiana, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936), Somewhere in Sonora (1933) and The Sea Hound (1947). He died on 14 August 1965 in Boulder City, Nevada, USA.- Eight-time All-Star Gil Hodges was an outstanding first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who, when he retired in early 1963 after being a charter member of the hapless New York Mets (who lost a record 120 games in their inaugural season of 1962), was #10 all-time on the career home run list with 370 circuit clouts. Though a worthy candidate, he has perpetually fallen short of enshrinement in the baseball Hall of Fame, despite serving in the Marine Corps during World War II, which . Hodges perhaps is best known as the manager of the "Miracle Mets" who beat the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles to win the 1969 World Series.
Hodges was the top first baseman in the National League during the 1950s, winning three Gold Gloves as a fielder and batting in 100 or more runs seven times. He appeared on seven pennant winning teams with the Dodgers from 1947 to 1959, winning two World Series (in 1955, when the team was in Brooklyn, and in 1959, when the team was in Los Angeles). Named to eight All-Star teams, he played in six. His 1960 and '61 production lagged behind his career averages due to knee problems, which made him consider retirement until the Mets selected him in the expansion draft.
Hodges slugged the first home run ever hit by a Met. Plagued by injuries, he played only 11 games with the Mets in the 1963 season, during which he was traded to the new, expansion Washington Senators for outfielder Jimmy Piersall (if Fear Strikes Out (1957) fame) in order to serve as the Senator's new manager. After the trade, Hodges announced his retirement as a player to concentrate on managing.
Replaced as Senators manager after the 1967 season, he was hired by Joan Payson to manager her Mets, leading them to a 73-89 record that was the best since joining the National League. It was the first year that Mets, in a 10-team league, had finished out of the cellar, in ninth place. In 1969, when both leagues expanded by two teams and split into two divisions each, Hodges led the "Miracle Mets" to the World Series championship in five games. Hodges' Mets were the first expansion team to win the World Series, and Gil was named Manager of the Year by "The Sporting News".
While playing golf with Mets coach Yogi Berra and other members of the coaching staff on an off-day during spring training, he dropped dead from a heart attack in West Palm Beach, Florida on April 2, 1972. Hodges died two days shy of his 48th birthday. He has had a great deal of support for enshrinement in the baseball Hall of Fame, but fell one vote shy of being elected by the Veterans Committee in 1993. - Actor
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This handsome, eloquent and highly charismatic actor became one of the foremost interpreters of Eugene O'Neill's plays and one of the most treasured names in song during the first half of the twentieth century. He also courted disdain and public controversy for most of his career as a staunch Cold War-era advocate for human rights, as well as his very vocal support for Joseph Stalin and the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. While the backlash of his civil rights activities and left-wing ideology left him embittered and practically ruined his career, he remains today a durable symbol of racial pride and consciousness.
Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson and his four siblings (William, Benjamin, Reeve, Marian) lost their mother, a schoolteacher, in a fire while quite young (Paul was only six). Paul's father, a humble Presbyterian minister and former slave, raised the family singlehandedly and the young, impressionable boy grew up singing spirituals in his father's church. Paul was a natural athlete and the tall (6'3"), strapping high school fullback had no trouble earning a scholarship to prestigious Rutgers University in 1915 at age 17 -- becoming only the third member of his race to be admitted at the time. He excelled in football, baseball, basketball, and track and field, graduating as a four-letter man. He was also the holder of a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year and was a selected member of their honorary society, Cap and Skull. Moreover, he was the class valedictorian and in his speech was already preaching idealism.
Paul subsequently played professional football to earn money while attending Columbia University's law school, and also took part in amateur dramatics. During this time he met and married Eslanda Cardozo Goode in 1921. She eventually became his personal assistant. Despite the fact that he was admitted to the New York bar, Paul's future as an actor was destined and he never did practice law. His wife persuaded him to play a role in "Simon the Cyrenian" at the Harlem YMCA in 1921. This was followed by his Broadway debut the following year in the short-lived play "Taboo", a drama set in Africa, which also went to London. As a result, he was asked to join the Provincetown Players, a Greenwich Village theater group that included in its membership playwright Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill personally asked Paul to star in his plays "All God's Chillun Got Wings" and "The Emperor Jones" in 1924. The reaction from both critics and audiences alike was electrifying...an actor was born.
In 1925 Paul delivered his first singing recital and also made his film debut starring in Body and Soul (1925), a rather murky melodrama that nevertheless was ahead of its time in its depictions of black characters. Although Robeson played a scurrilous, corrupt clergyman who takes advantage of his own people, his dynamic personality managed to shine through. Radio and recordings helped spread his name across foreign waters. His resonant bass was a major highlight in the London production of "Show Boat" particularly with his powerful rendition of "Ol' Man River." He remained in London to play the role of Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1930 (at the time no U.S. company would hire him), and was again significant in a highly controversial production. Paul caused a slight stir by co-starring opposite a white actress, Peggy Ashcroft, who played Desdemona. Around this time Paul starred in the landmark British film Borderline (1930), a silent film that dealt strongly with racial themes, and then returned to the stage in the O'Neill play "The Hairy Ape" in 1931. The following year he appeared in a Broadway revival of "Show Boat" again as Joe. In the same production, the noted chanteuse Helen Morgan repeated her original 1927 performance as the half-caste role of Julie, but the white actress Tess Gardella played the role of Queenie in her customary blackface opposite Robeson.
Robeson spent most of his time singing and performing in England throughout the 1930s. He also was given the opportunity to recapture two of his greatest stage successes on film: The Emperor Jones (1933) and Show Boat (1936). In Britain he continued to film sporadically with Sanders of the River (1935), Song of Freedom (1936), King Solomon's Mines (1937), Dark Sands (1937) and The Tunnel (1940) in important roles that resisted demeaning stereotypes.
During the 1930s he also gravitated strongly towards economics and politics with a burgeoning interest in social activism. In 1934 he made the first of several trips to the Soviet Union and outwardly extolled the Soviet way of life and his belief that it lacked racial bias, despite the Holodomor and the later Rootless Cosmopolitan Campaign. He was a popular figure in Wales where he became personally involved in their civil rights affairs, notably the Welsh miners. Developing a marked leftist ideology, he continued to criticize the blatant discrimination he found so prevalent in America.
The 1940s was a mixture of performance triumphs and poignant, political upheavals. While his title run in the musical drama "John Henry" (1940), was short-lived, he earned widespread acclaim for his Broadway "Othello" in 1943 opposite José Ferrer as Iago and Uta Hagen as Desdemona. By this time, however, Robeson was being reviled by much of white America for his outspoken civil rights speeches against segregation and lynchings, particularly in the South. A founder of the Progressive Party, an independent political party, his outdoor concerts sometimes ignited violence and he was now a full-blown target for "Red Menace" agitators. In 1946 he denied under oath being a member of the Communist Party, but steadfastly refused to refute the accusations under subsequent probes. As a result, his passport was withdrawn and he became engaged in legal battles for nearly a decade in order to retrieve it. Adding fuel to the fire was his only son's (Paul Jr.) marriage to a white woman in 1949 and his being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952 (he was unable to receive it until 1958 when his passport was returned to him).
Essentially blacklisted, tainted press statements continued to hound him. He began performing less and less in America. Despite his growing scorn towards America, he never gave up his American citizenship although the anguish of it all led to a couple of suicide attempts, nervous breakdowns and a dependency on drugs. Europe was a different story. The people continued to hold him in high regard as an artist/concertist above reproach. He had a command of about 20 languages and wound up giving his last acting performance in "Othello" on foreign shores -- at Stratford-on-Avon in 1959.
While still performing in the 1960s, his health suddenly took a turn for the worse and he finally returned to the United States in 1963. His poet/wife Eslanda Robeson died of cancer two years later. Paul remained in poor health for pretty much the rest of his life. His last years were spent in Harlem in near-total isolation, denying all interviews and public correspondence, although he was honored for speaking out against apartheid in South Africa in 1978.
Paul died at age 77 of complications from a stroke. Among his many honors: he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995; he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998; was honored with a postage stamp during the "Black Heritage" series; and both a Cultural Center at Penn State University and a high school in Brooklyn bear his name. In 1995 his autobiography "Here I Stand" was published in England in 1958; his son, Paul Robeson Jr., also chronicled a book about his father, "Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey" in 2001.- Lynetta Putnam was born on 16 April 1902 in Princeton, Indiana, USA. She was married to James Thurman Jones. She died on 10 December 1977 in Jonestown, Guyana.
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Virgil Fox was born on 3 May 1912 in Princeton, Illinois, USA. He died on 25 October 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.- Actor
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"87% of Criswell's predictions have come true!" -- The ones he reminds you of. Whereas it is true Criswell made an amazing forecast on The Jack Paar Program (1962) on March 10, 1963: "I predict that President Kennedy will not run for reelection in 1964, because of something that will happen to him in November 1963." Criswell also predicted the destruction of Denver, shifting polar caps, Castro's assassination and the end of the world. To start at the beginning, the world's most famous predictor was born Jerome King Criswell on Sunday, August 18th, 1907 in Princeton, Indiana. Criswell went to high school, and did some newspaper work for the local paper. Later he attended the University of Cincinnati, studying at their Conservatory of Music. After college, Criswell returned to newspaper work, making more and more predictions and having his forecasts printed in more and more papers. Over the years, an ever-increasing number of people followed his syndicated column. Criswell married a former speak-easy dancer who went by the name of Halo Meadows. She appeared on an episode of You Bet Your Life (1950) with Groucho Marx. She spent a great deal of time sunbathing and had a poodle named Buttercup that she was convinced was the reincarnation of her cousin Thomas. Criswell was almost 50 when he became associated with Edward D. Wood Jr., however this did little to further his reputation contrary to what some believe. Criswell played himself in Wood's movie Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) providing predictions at the beginning and end of the movie. Although the movie was filmed in 1956, it wasn't released until 1959. His next venture fared even worse, even though Criswell had a more substantial part. In Night of the Ghouls (1959), Wood was so broke he couldn't pay the lab to develop the film. It wasn't until 1983, after both Criswell and Wood were dead, that entrepreneur Wade Williams paid the 24-year-old lab bill, and the movie was finally released. Criswell's third movie with Wood, Orgy of the Dead (1965), provided Criswell with the most screen time, and the film was actually released. As Criswell's fame grew, he appeared a number of times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)'s and on December 31, 1965, Criswell predicted that Ronald Reagan would be California's next governor. In 1969, Criswell wrote a book, Criswell Predicts: From Now To The Year 2000! This book was Criswell's journal of the future--his only book of prophecy. It contained hundreds of predictions covering the following thirty years. Readers were asked to keep score on the accuracy of his predictions until, as Criswell predicted, August 1999--- after which it will not matter, thanks to doomsday. Whereas the end of the world did not occur in August of 1999 as he had predicted, Criswell had already departed our world on Monday, October 4, 1982.- Helene Jesmer was born on 9 March 1899 in Princeton, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for A Regular Patsy (1918). She was married to Donald Newmeyer. She died on 11 April 1984 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
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William McCrow was born on 10 November 1912 in Princeton, Ontario, Canada. He was a production designer and art director, known for The Plouffe Family (1981), Mindwarp (1991) and The Capture of Bigfoot (1979). He died on 27 April 1995 in Ontario, Canada.- Script and Continuity Department
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Joan Eremin was born on 4 September 1915 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Joan is known for Daredevils of the Clouds (1948), Zero Hour! (1957) and Harbor of Missing Men (1950). Joan died on 1 December 1995 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Diane Whipple was born on 21 January 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. She died on 26 January 2001 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Daniel Pearl was born on 10 October 1963 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Mariane Pearl. He died on 31 January 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan.
- Deb Hollermann was born on 8 September 1960 in Princeton, Minnesota, USA. She died on 22 March 2002 in Wyanett, Minnesota, USA.
- Tanny McDonald was born on 13 February 1936 in Princeton, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Hercules in New York (1970), All My Children (1970) and Kennedy (1983). She died on 25 January 2004 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
- She grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where her father, a physicist, and her mother, a microbiologist, taught at the University of Illinois. Ms. Chang received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Illinois in 1989. After working briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press and The Chicago Tribune, she earned a master's degree from the writing program of Johns Hopkins University in 1991.
- Buck Nolan was born on 5 February 1936 in Princeton, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Wilder Napalm (1993). He died on 9 November 2004 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
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Maurice Oldham was born on 30 December 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) and A Guy Walks Into a Bar (1997). He was married to Kimberly Elise. He died on 21 May 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Hadley, a native of Manlius, Ill., began his career in regional companies around the country. In the late 1970s, he was noticed by the late Beverly Sills, then general director of the New York City Opera, and was hired.
His career included creating the title role in composer John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" and playing the main role in the 1989 production of Leonard Bernstein's musical, "Candide."- Dave Niehaus was born on 19 February 1935 in Princeton, Indiana, USA. He was a director and actor, known for PlayByPlayMen and the Art of the Perfect Call (2007), My Oh My! (1996) and Sweet 116: The 2001 Seattle Mariners History Making Season (2001). He was married to Marilyn Story. He died on 10 November 2010 in Bellevue, Washington, USA.
- Harold Phox was born on 19 February 1939 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Harold was an editor, known for A Day in the Death of Donny B. (1969). Harold died on 21 April 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Charles Alvin Lisanby was born January 22, 1924 in Princeton, Kentucky. Primarily establishing himself in live television production in New York City as a Scenic Designer, a member of the New York Scenic and Designer's IATSE #829 Union. With television production moving West, Lisanby transferred to Hollywood in the early 60's, accepting projects on both coasts. Lisanby joined the West Coast Motion Picture and Television Art Directors IATSE #876 Union, since he was designing within the union's jurisdiction.
Upon retiring on the West Coast, he remained in his Spanish Mediterranean villa overlooking Franklin Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard. Charles' neighbor was Raymond Burr (Ironside (1967)). Charles fell, injuring his shoulder, becoming complicated with medical treatment, during the early August, 2013, summer. The complications caused his demise on August 23, 2013.- George Dement was born on 23 January 1922 in Princeton, Louisiana, USA. George was married to Sunshine Norris Dement. George died on 12 January 2014 in Frierson, Louisiana, USA.
- Sarah Kershaw was born on 12 January 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. She was married to William Paul Norton. She died on 22 February 2016 in Sosúa, Dominican Republic.
- Lee Taylor was born on 24 December 1927 in Princeton, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Viper (1994), Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996) and Quarantine (1989). He died on 11 October 2016 in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.
- Lee Taylor was born on 24 December 1927 in Princeton, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Cariboo Country (1960) and Spectrum (1958). He was married to Sonja Jakobsen. He died on 11 October 2016 in British Columbia, Canada.
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Curly Putman was born on 20 November 1930 in Princeton, Alabama, USA. He was a composer, known for Brokeback Mountain (2005), Nebraska (2013) and Five Easy Pieces (1970). He was married to Bernice Soon. He died on 30 October 2016 in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA.- Judith Moore was born on 12 February 1944 in Princeton, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for American Playhouse (1980). She died on 3 December 2017.
- Nadine Taub was born on 21 January 1943 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. She died on 15 June 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- John Pomfret was born on 30 January 1928 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Margaret Elizabeth Haas. He died on 24 February 2021 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Julia Reichert has been called a godmother of the US independent film movement and is a three time Oscar-nominee. Her film Growing Up Female was the first feature documentary of the modern Women's Movement. It was recently chosen for inclusion on the National Film Registry.
Her films Union Maids and Seeing Red (with Jim Klein) were both nominated for Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary, as was The Last Truck, as a short. Her film A Lion in the House (with Steven Bognar) premiered at Sundance, screened nationally on PBS, was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award, and won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. She co-wrote and directed the feature film Emma and Elvis, produced the feature The Dream Catcher directed by Ed Radtke.
Her film Sparkle (with Steven Bognar) won the Audience Award for Best Short at Silverdocs 2012, and was broadcast nationally on PBS.
She delved into the world of web-based interactive projects, co-creating an interactive non-fiction site, Reinvention Stories, about how citizens of Dayton, Ohio, are recovering from the economic downturn.
Raises Not Roses: The Story of the 9to5 Movement is a film about 9to5, an organization that brought rights, respect and raises to white collar workers. 9to5 is a little known intersection of the women's movement and the labor movement. It brought awareness of ideas such as the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, equal pay for equal work and the Family Medical Leave Act.
Julia is co-founder of New Day Films, the social issue film distribution co-op, which is now 42 years old. She is author of "Doing It Yourself," the first book on self-distribution in independent film, and articles for The Independent, a publication of AIVF. Reichert is Professor Emeritus of Motion Pictures at Wright State University in Ohio, a graduate of Antioch College, a mother, and a grandma.
She is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a member of the advisory board of the Independent Feature Project.
Julia is the 2018 recipient of International Documentary Associations Career Achievement Award.- Shelley Smith was born on 25 October 1952 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), For Love and Honor (1983) and Simon & Simon (1981). She was married to Michael Maguire, Reid Nathan and Jonathan Axelrod. She died on 8 August 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jessica Hecht is an American actress and singer who played Gretchen Schwartz on Breaking Bad, Susan Bunch on Friends, and Carol on The Boys. She has also made numerous Broadway appearances. Hecht was born in Princeton, New Jersey. When she was three, she moved with her parents and sister to Bloomfield, Connecticut. After her parents divorced, her mother married psychiatrist Howard Iger, and they raised Jessica and her sister Elizabeth. Hecht attended Connecticut College for a year and a half before graduating from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.- Actor
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Jon Tenney was born on 16 December 1961 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Closer (2005), Scandal (2012) and You Can Count on Me (2000). He has been married to Leslie Urdang since 16 June 2012. He was previously married to Teri Hatcher.- Writer
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Christopher McQuarrie is an acclaimed producer, director and an Academy Award® winning writer. McQuarrie grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey and in lieu of college, he spent the first five years out of school traveling and working at a detective agency. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film.
In 1995, his screenplay for The Usual Suspects, directed by childhood pal, Bryan Singer, garnered him the Academy Award® and the BAFTA Award for "Best Original Screenplay". McQuarrie also went on to win the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Independent Spirit Award. The Usual Suspects has been named one of the greatest screenplays of all time by the Writer's Guild of America.
In the years following, McQuarrie directed The Way of the Gun, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro and James Caan. In 2008, he collaborate with Singer once again to produce and co-write Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise. This film would lead to many more McQuarrie-Cruise collaborations. McQuarrie re-teamed with Cruise in 2012 for his sophomore directorial outing, Jack Reacher Within hours of completing the film, he was at work with Cruise again, this time re-writing the script for Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow. It was while working together on the sci-fi action film that Cruise suggested McQuarrie direct what would become Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. The highly anticipated fifth installment of the Ethan Hunt saga, written also by McQuarrie, garnered the biggest opening in the history of the Mission: Impossible franchise, was the highest-grossing 2D Hollywood film ever at the Chinese box office, earning $124 million, and garnered over $680 million worldwide. McQuarrie is confirmed to write and direct the sixth chapter in the franchise, making him the first repeat director in the film's two-decade history.- Actor
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Josh grew up in NYC's infamous Alphabet City, 7th Street between C&D. His father was a theoretical physicist who worked with Einstein, his mother a poet and painter. His first lead in a movie was playing Raphael in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
After going through a traditional actor training Josh knew there was more. This led him on a journey to explore the elements that bring about spontaneity with consistency. He trained with teachers and directors form all over the world. Years later he brought it all together and became the founder of Committed Impulse.
Often referred to as, "That guy," Josh has worked in a multitude of movies and TV shows. He is known for his many recurring roles including Showtimes' Ray Donovan as Stu Feldman, Netflix's Maniac, HBO's Mrs. Fletcher with Kathryn Hahn, Younger, Law and Order as Hank Abraham, as well as such shows as High Maintenance, The Good Wife, Damages, Star Trek Deep: Space Nine, The Sopranos, and early on as a Modelizer on Sex and The City.
Josh is well known for his stand out performances in independent and mainstream films. Recent films include Joker with Joaquin Phoenix, Motherless Brooklyn directed by Edward Norton and Nicole Holofcener's Land of Steady Habits.- Writer
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Michael Showalter is a director, writer, and producer who most recently directed the 2017 hit The Big Sick. Previously he directed and co-wrote the 2016 film Hello, My Name Is Doris starring Sally Field. Michael's first film was the The Baxter (2005) starring Michelle Williams and Justin Theroux. Michael is a co-creator of the critically acclaimed television show Search Party on TBS. He also co-created the TV mini-series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later on Netflix.
As a writer and producer, Michael's other film credits include Wet Hot American Summer and They Came Together. Michael is a founding member of the comedy groups The State and Stella. He's also written two books: Mr. Funny Pants and Guys Can Be Cat Ladies Too.- Actor
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Armed with a Burt Reynolds-like laid-back grin, virility and swagger, handsome soap actor Josh Taylor was first noticed tending bar near the popular Burbank Studios, where Days of Our Lives (1965) was being cast. He won the role of working-class "Chris Kositchek" (a bartender, natch) and, for four seasons, won the hearts of many a lady fan, from 1977-1981, returning to the role again in 1982 for another five years.
Born Tommy Tim Taylor in Princeton, Illinois. When he was two-years-old, his family moved to nearby Chillicothe, Illinois. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth University. Despite his good-ol'-boy reputation, he managed to buckle down and holds a Juris Doctorate in Law. Following his daytime fame in the mid-80s, Josh was successful in crossing over to prime-time TV with the sitcom, Valerie (1986), as series star Valerie Harper's husband, "Michael Hogan". In 1988, squabbles between the title star and the network led to Harper's abrupt dismissal. Instead of the expected cancellation, a surprise change showed up in the form of Sandy Duncan, who came to the rescue as Valerie's sister and household help, changing the name of the show to "The Hogan Family" (1988). The program went on for another three seasons.
Brief forays into mini-movies and episodics (Murder, She Wrote (1984) and Matlock (1986)) and a recurring role as Luke Perry's ne'er-do-well father on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) failed to keep up a steady pace, so Josh returned to the daytime fold in the mid-1990s with brief stints on The Young and the Restless (1973) and Guiding Light (1952). In 1997, he came home to NBC and "Days..." as "Roman Brady" this time, and stayed with the show until 2004 when his character (and many others in a studio cost-cutting measure) fell victim to a serial killer. Later, it was discovered his character managed to survive after all. Josh continues to live a "nine lives" cat-like existence on the show while playing out an attention-getting love triangle with stars Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn. Divorced from film action bombshell Sandahl Bergman of Red Sonja (1985) fame, Josh remarried and lives with wife, Lisa, in Burbank. He has a daughter, Tristen, from his first marriage.- Actress
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Florencia is most thankful that her parents moved to the United States from Argentina because she's "had so many opportunities having been born and raised here." Playing the witty, intelligent, hard as nails attorney Tèa Delgado is Florencia's first television series. She has acted in regional theatre in such plays as "Hamlet." Describing herself as curious, she is presently learning how to meditate. Florencia is currently living in New York City and is single.- Director
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Adam Bernstein began his career as an animator, and at age 26 produced the first original programming for the Nickelodeon Network. He went on to direct over seventy music videos, including "Love Shack" for the B-52's, "Hey Ladies" for the Beastie Boys and "Baby's Got Back" for Sir Mix a Lot. In addition to the pilots for "Fargo" "30 Rock" "Scrubs" "Alpha House" and "Strangers with Candy," Adam has directed multiple episodes of "Oz" and "Breaking Bad." He is the recipient of a Golden Globe (Fargo) an Emmy Award (30 Rock), an MTV Award (Love Shack), a Peabody Award (Homicide - Life on the Street), and a Good Citizenship Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution (1973). He lives in New York City with his wife, the actress Jessica Hecht.- Actor
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Michael E. Knight was born on 7 May 1959 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for All My Children (1970), Date with an Angel (1987) and Hexed (1993). He was previously married to Catherine Hickland.- Actor
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Kevin Sizemore is an actor and producer born and raised in Princeton, West Virginia. Kevin caught the acting bug when he was cast in a Maxwell House Coffee commercial during his senior year of high school and then attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After traveling the country doing theater, he settled in Los Angeles.
Kevin is married to celebrity personal trainer, author and host of the podcast "Health Interrupted" Gina Lombardi. They have one son, actor Gunnar Sizemore who is known for his role as Micah Brenner on the TV series Nashville and the voice of many beloved characters animated films and series such as BAO in "Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny" and Jason in Emmy winning "Craig of the Creek" to name only a few. Gunnar is also an up and coming writer and director.- Writer
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Rich Wilkes was born on 15 August 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for xXx (2002), The Dirt (2019) and Airheads (1994).- Writer
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Kelly Hutchinson was born on 17 March 1976 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Dead to Me (2019), Don Peyote (2014) and Catch Me If You Can (2002).- Actor
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Nicholas Baroudi was born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Hating Game (2021), Person of Interest (2011) and Sins of the Son (2018).- Actress
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Born in New Jersey, and raised in Texas by two native New Yorkers. Moved to New York City the day after she turned 18. Returned to Texas to do Equity theater at the Tony-Award-Winning Alley Theater. Eventually decided to try Los Angeles. At the last minute, the friend that was moving to LA with her decided not to go, and she moved by herself, knowing no one. She was homeless for the first 3 & 1/2 months in California - living out of her car. Did still photos with Tom Cruise for promotional use for "Magnolia". (Was the "Dimples Girl")- Writer
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Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. Since then he has published eight books with a combined printing of more than a million copies in nine languages. He is the author of the blockbuster New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House: The True Story of Six MIT Kids Who Took Vegas for Millions, which is being made into a major motion picture produced by Kevin Spacey and MGM. Ugly Americans is Mezrich's eighth book and his second foray into nonfiction.
The number is now 25 books (as of August 2021).- Actor
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Scott A. Martin was born in Princeton, West Virginia and attended high school in Athens, West Virginia. He graduated from Concord University with a degree in journalism and began his professional career exploring the many avenues of such, including broadcast news, radio and news editorial. Finding the world of "journalism" to be unfulfilling Martin and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois so that he could pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an actor. In between working for The Blue Man Group and The Jenny Jones Show, Martin took classes at Chicago's Second City Theatre.
While living in Chicago Martin hooked with industry veteran, Aiman Humaideh, who proved to be an exceptional friend and colleague- helping Martin land roles on the television show, Cupid, as well as in John Cusack's film, High Fidelity.
Scott's son, Reese, passed away in 2007, and his daughter, Livia, lives in Princeton, West Virginia. Scott currently lives in West Virginia as well and believes that he should continue doing what makes him happiest in life: acting.- Lyle Menendez was born to a to a Cuban-American business executive, Jose Menendez and a schoolteacher, Kitty Menendez. After his birth, his mother became a full-time homemaker and his father immediately set about making sure his oldest son was even more successful in business then he was and give him a good name in the process. In achieving that goal, Jose became a stern, domineering, perfectionist father who controlled what Lyle would eat, who he could associate with, what books and television shows he was exposed to, and even tried to control his thoughts. Starting in grade school, Jose would question him about current events at the dinner table and berate him for unsatisfactory answers. His mother supported his father's methods, and in addition was subject to dramatic mood swings that her sons had to endure. The pressure took a toll on Lyle, who developed a bed-wetting problem at the age of 14 and suffered from insomnia. He also came to have a fierce temper. In high school his father ordered him to find a sport at which to excel, one that didn't involve being on a team. Lyle chose tennis, and was the highest-ranked member of the tennis squad. His grades were only average, however, which caused further tension at home. After graduating high school he was rejected by Princeton University and attended a local community college. He fell in love with a girl and wanted to open a restaurant, but his parents disapproved and their interfering ended the romance, engendering enormous resentment in Lyle. He was accepted into Princeton on his second try, but shortly afterwards was suspended for plagiarism. He returned a year later and fell in love with a model, but again his parents put an end to his romance. Lyle disliked school and only went through the motions, and his low grades led to academic disciplinary action. The brothers' home life became, to them, more tense and unbearable by the day, and the result was that on August 20, 1989, they killed both of their parents in their living room with a shotgun. They then went on a spending spree until Lyle's arrest in March of 1990. The ensuing trial caused nationwide publicity, as the brothers said they killed their parents after years of horrific abuse, particularly from their father. Also disturbing was Lyle's statement to a psychiatrist that their father would be proud of them for committing such a brutal, efficient murder. Their testimony was so compelling that the first trial ended in a hung jury. However, in the second trial, both were convicted of first-degree murder, though spared the death penalty. They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Born in Princeton to Illinois natives Sherwin and Sherry Lynn, Justin grew up in a small town in central New Jersey. After discovering his love for the craft at age 19, he began taking various workshops and programs studying with some of the industry's most prominent teachers; Paramount film coach Bob McAndrew, Robert Easton and Margie Haber, to name a few. He went on to book small roles in ABC's "All My Children" and HBO's "Sex In The City", before auditioning and being selected to study with Tony award winning theater legend, Frank Langella. In four hour classes with an elite twelve students, it was here where Justin reached a deeper level in his work. Langella took a liking to Justin and they parted as friends, before Langella referred Justin to his agent. He then began to study with Emmy award winning director and Colombia University professor, Peter Miner. After working with Peter for a short time, He invited Justin to come to Colombia to work with various up and coming students in the directors program. Although Justin thoroughly enjoyed this, he withdrew after being cast on daytime television drama, One Life to Live, where he received praise for his work as troubled Navy SEAL vet, Wes Granger. He later went on to star in the film "Dry River Road", where he again played a down and out war vet, and the film got notoriety and fond review at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Involved in various other projects, Justin is up and back between New York and Los Angeles, where he continues to expand his work.