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- A. Hyatt Verrill was born on 23 July 1871 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. A. Hyatt is known for With Williamson Beneath the Sea (1932) and Cineficción Radio (2019).
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who represented Harlem in the U.S. Congress from 1945 through 1971, was the first modern African American politician and the first Black Congressman to exercise real power in the halls of Washington, D.C. He succeeded his father as the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and parlayed the pulpit into a political career. Yet, after scaling the summit of power, Powell lost it all, seemingly fatigued by the failure of liberalism to deliver on providing the American Dream to all Americans, regardless of color, and tripped up by his own moral shortcomings.
Due to seniority, Powell eventually rose in Congress and in 1961, became chairman of the Education & Labor Committee, one of the critical committees in the House of Representatives. From this post, Powell was instrumental in passing legislation introduced by Presidents John F. Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, including such watershed programs as Medicare and Medicaid. The social programs that were part of Johnson's vision of "The Great Society" were shepherded by Powell through his committee.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Education & Labor Committee set records in passing legislation as Johnson set out not only to equal but surpass Roosevelt and the New Deal by enacting liberal, progressive laws to help the common people in general and African Americans in particular. However, L.B.J. also sowed the seeds of the cancer that would destroy his presidency and undermine liberalism: The Vietnam War. Liberalism, which seemed so remarkably ascendant in the period of 1964-66, would be swamped at the polls in 1968 after suffering a setback during the by-election of 1966. As the inner-cities burned on TV, white society began to evince a severe backlash against African Americans.
Powell's absences from committee hearings became legion. It could be seen as symbolic of the anomie that was afflicting the African American community, that soon began afflicting liberalism in general, as a philosophy and political movement. It was if liberalism set off a cycle of violence both at home, in the ghettos, and abroad, in Vietnam.
Soon, Adam Clayton Powell seemed to lose interest. He became careless. Earlier, as a young man, his commitment to the church had been questioned. Some felt that he had just used the pulpit as a vehicle to obtain social position. Likewise, Powell's commitment to social progress began to be questioned.
In a bizarre development that showed Powell was losing his political as well as moral judgment, he lost a slander lawsuit. The Congressman from Harlem refused to pay the judgment against him, which made him subject to arrest. Powell curtailed trips to New York to avoid being incarcerated, and began spending more time in Florida and Bimini, where he lived ostentatiously. His failure to be present in Congress for roll-call votes became a scandal of its own. While petty corruption of the kind practiced by Powell had long been a hallmark of Congressmen and Senators (U.S. Senator Tom Dodd was censured in June 1967 for misusing campaign funds) for the chairman of one of the most powerful committees in Congress to be absent regularly could not be tolerated.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. won his 11th bid for reelection to Congress in 1966, but when he went to take the oath of office in January 1967, Speaker of the House refused to administer it to him. He was excluded from the chamber, and the House Democratic Caucus ousted Powell as chair of the Education & Labor Committee due to allegations of corruption.
The House of Representatives refused to let him take his seat until the completion of an investigation by a Special Committee empowered by the Judiciary Committee. After the Select Committee reported its findings, in March of 1967 the House voted 307 to 116 to censure Powell and declare his seat vacant. He also was fined $40,000.
Always a fighter, Powell and 13 of his constituents filed a federal lawsuit against the Speaker and other House officials. In his lawsuit, Powell claimed that his expulsion was unconstitutional as the Constitution mandated a two-thirds vote to expel a member of a Congressional body, a bar the House had failed to meet. In the meantime, Powell ran for his vacated seat in a special election held in April, and won. He did not retake his seat, but continued his legal battle through the federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1969, in the case of Powell v. McCormack, that the expulsion was unconstitutional, agreeing with Powell's argument that it took a two-thirds vote to exclude a member of Congress. Thus, Powell was able to retake his seat, but he had lost his seniority and his political power.
After being re-seated in Congress, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. again was criticized for absenteeism, and in the June 1970 Democratic primary, he was defeated by Charles Rangel. Powell vowed to get on the ballot as an independent for the November election, but did not. Resigning as the minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, he moved to Bimini, where he lived until April 1972, when he was hospitalized in Miami. He died on April 4, 1972 from acute prostatitis. He was 63 years old. - Sound Department
Adam Gedney was born on 8 March 1979 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Adam is known for To Post or Not to Post (2013).- Adam Greenberg was born on 21 February 1981 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is married to Lindsay.
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Adam LaVorgna was born on 1 March 1981 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Brooklyn Bridge (1991), I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) and Blast (2000).- Writer
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Al Capp (born Alfred Gerald Caplin) was an American cartoonist and humorist from New Haven, Connecticut. He is primarily known for creating the comic strip "Li'l Abner" (1934-1977), which depicted the lives of a fictional clan of hillbillies in an impoverished mountain village. At its prime the strip had 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers, and was also reprinted in 28 foreign countries. Capp won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year. He posthumously won their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning".
In 1909, Capp was born in New Haven, Connecticut to a family of Latvian Jews. His parents were Otto Philip Caplin (1885-1964) and his wife Matilda Davidson (1884-1948). Their respective families had migrated from Latvia to the United States in the 1880s, in order to escape pogroms in the Russian Empire. Capp grew up in poverty, and had several younger siblings. His brothers Elliot and Jerome went on their own careers as cartoonists, while his sister Madeline became a publicist.
In August 1919, Capp was run down by a trolley car. He had his left leg amputated above the knee, and awoke from a days-long coma to discover that he was missing a limb. Capp was eventually given a prosthetic leg, and adopted a slow way of walking. His childhood tragedy reportedly led him to develop a darker worldview, and a more sardonic sense of humor than other cartoonists of his time. Capp's father was an amateur cartoonist, and introduced his son to drawing as a form of therapy. Capp studied the art styles of the illustrator Phil May, and the then-popular comic strip cartoonists Billy DeBeck, Rudolph Dirks, Tad Dorgan, Rube Goldberg, Milt Gross, George McManus, Fred Opper, and Cliff Sterrett.
Capp attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but never gained a high school diploma. In adult life, he claimed that he kept failing his geometry class. Capp subsequently wished to become a professional cartoonist, and took classes in three different art schools: the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Designers Art School (located in Boston). He was kicked out of all three for nonpayment of tuition. Due to his impoverished background, Capp had trouble in financing his education.
In early 1932, Capp hitchhiked his way to New York City. He settled himself in Greenwich Village, and supported himself by drawing advertising strips for a meager fee. By March 1932, Capp had been hired as a cartoonist by the Associated Press. He was disappointed that they wanted him to take over "Colonel Gilfeather", a comic strip created by Dick Dorgan, instead of allowing him to create his own strip. He revamped the strip, but eventually grew fed up with the task. Capp left the Associated Press in September 1932, and left New York City as well. He temporarily moved back to Boston, in order to marry his girlfriend Catherine Wingate Cameron. They had met as classmates in an art class.
In 1933, Capp moved back to New York City in search of a job. He reportedly only had about 5 dollars in his pocket during his return. He was hired as a ghost writer and ghost artist for the boxing-theme comic strip "Joe Palooka", while Ham Fisher remained the strip's sole credited writer. In an early story arc for this strip, Capp introduced a new character. He was Big Leviticus, an oafish mountaineer. He turned out be a crude prototype for Lil'Abner.
While still working as a ghost writer, Capp had started developing ideas about a comic strip focused on depicting mountain-dwellers. During his teen years, Capp had hitchhiked his way through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley. He believed that the locals could inspire a decent strip. Capp sold "Li'l Abner" (the new strip) to the United Feature Syndicate, and was hired as its main artist. The strip was launched on August 13, 1934, printed on only 8 different newspapers. The strip soon became much more successful, because Capp had a talent for creating outlandish characters and bizarre situations. He also included both black humor and social commentary into his stories.
Until 1934, Capp still used his real name when signing a strip. His syndicate asked him to start using a simpler name which could fir into fit into a cartoon frame. He chose Al Capp as his professional name, and had his name changed legally in 1949. Capp eventually created sub-series for his comic strip, which satirized other comic strip. The most successful of these parodies was Fearless Fosdick (1942-1977), a parody version of "Dick Tracy".
Besides the popular "Li'l Abner", Capp went on to create two other comic strips. He co-created "Abbie an' Slats" (1937-1971). The strip's protagonist duo were the spinster Abigail "Abbie" Scrapple and her orphaned cousin Aubrey Eustace "Slats" Scrapple, sharing a household. Capp remained the strip's main writer from 1937 to 1945, but was then replaced by his brother Elliot Caplin. The strip was syndicated to about 400 newspapers, but never became the major hit that Capp had hoped for. Capp then went on to co-create "Long Sam" (1954-1962), featuring a tall and attractive mountain girl as a protagonist. The strip is considered an example of "good girl art" in comics, art focusing on attractive young women in skimpy or form-fitting clothing. While briefly popular in its own right, this strip faced frequent changes in writing staff which led to an early cancellation.
During the 1950s, Capp was an outspoken liberal, and satirized politician Joseph McCarthy for (in his words) "terrifying the helpless and naive". During the 1960s, Capp's favorite targets for satire included campus radicals, hippies, and counterculture icons. He harshly criticized militant antiwar demonstrators and student political groups. Capp started being viewed as reactionary by the public at large, though he vocally supported struggles for racial equality and gay rights.
In 1972, Capp was arrested in Wisconsin on charges of "attempted adultery", as adultery was a felony in this state. He was accused of propositioning a married woman. The resulting negative publicity led to hundreds of newspapers dropping his comic strip. The popularity of "Li'l Abner" further declined over the following years, largely due to a perceived decline in Capp's own humor. Capp was in poor health at the time, and he was not as inventive as he once was. Capp announced his retirement on November 13, 1977, publicly admitting that he had stayed on longer than he should have.
In November 1979, Capp died from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire. His illness was caused by a lifetime of chain smoking, and he was 70-years-old at the time of his death. Capp was buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Capp was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004. Since his death in 1979, Al Capp and his work have been the subject of more than 40 books, including three biographies.- Actor
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Alan Ross was born on 3 December 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Demons of Ludlow (1983), Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake (1980) and Lethal Pursuit (1988).- Music Department
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Alfred Newman is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.
From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include All About Eve (1950), Anastasia (1956), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Captain from Castile (1947), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), How the West Was Won (1962), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and his final score, Airport (1970), all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions.
Newman was highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charles Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood.- Producer
Alfred P. Sloan was born on 23 May 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a producer. He died on 17 February 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.- Aliya Golding is an American actress. She is known for her supporting role in Journey to Senegal, directed by Shaina Danziger; Aliya has appeared in many films/episodes since her 2017 blossom into television. She was recently featured as a student in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix original. Aliya has also studied theatre and dance at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School since 2015; she performed in on stage theatre productions since age five and started dancing since age three. She is this century's breakout actress, after haven completed her dedicated years of time to athletics track & field and gymnastics.
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Allan B. Schwartz was born on 21 March 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Allan B. was a producer, known for Sleuth (1972), No Exit (1995) and Lethal Exposure (1993). Allan B. died on 20 April 2017 in Greenville, North Carolina, USA.- Actor
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Alphonso McAuley was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Glory Road (2006), Walk of Shame (2014) and Fat Albert (2004).- Additional Crew
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Amy Stechler was born on 23 June 1955 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was a writer and editor, known for The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo (2005), The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) and Brooklyn Bridge (1981). She was married to Ken Burns and Rod Thibeault,. She died on 26 August 2022 in Walpole, New Hampshire, USA.- Writer
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Andrew Bradley was born on 8 February 1986 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian (2008), Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian (2008) and Summit (2014).- Producer
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Andrew Fraser was born on 25 October 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for God Thinks You're a Loser (2008), Everything or Nothing (2007) and Faith & Bullets (2005).- Born in New Haven, Connecticut on 28 December, 1949, Andy made his first theatrical appearand in school plays in Kindergarten. He also portrayed the "Viper" in his Cub Scout Troop. Andy graduated from John Carroll University in 1971 with a degree in Sociology. After a tour of active duty as a commissioned officer, he went back to school to earn an MBA from the University of New Haven. In 1990, at the tender age of 40, Andy auditioned for a play with the Nutmeg Players. He was then hooked and in no time became a mainstain on the greater New Haven stage. He decided to audition for a role in the movie "Sleepers" and drew the extra role of a man in a bathtub as King Benny shoots the man in the tub next door. Andy hopes to land another movie role, perhaps a speaking role this time.
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Andrew Kosarko was born on 12 July 1986 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Haunted, Madison's Way and Digits (2011). He has been married to Alijah Katherine Nutley since 15 November 2013.- Actress
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Aneliese Roettger was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Karl and Anne Roettger. She has two older brothers and one younger sister, Annika. She attended Horizon High School and Santa Monica College. She studied Broadcasting. She was in a relationship with producer Mytchell Mora. She also dated actor/writer Cliff Dorfman from Warrior and Entourage.
She was on a couple episodes of Entourage (2009). And she played Thania Diaz in References (2010). She starred as Margie in Sleepy Time (2009). And played Jan in A Brief History of Women (2009). Her first role in a Los Angeles movie was as Claire in Fear of Flying (2010).- Anita Brown was born in April 1898 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is known for The Lightning Raider (1919), Eye for Eye (1918) and The Circus (1920).
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Anne Dore was born in 1930 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for Space Patrol (1950), Siren of Bagdad (1953) and Land of the Giants (1968). She died in 1977 in California, USA.- Anthony Franco was born on 25 December 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for D Minus (1998), Sex and Guilt (2005) and Family Matters (1989).
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Apollo Smile was born on 16 February 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress, known for Space Channel 5 (1999), Days of Thunder (1990) and Space Channel 5: Part 2 (2002).- Arthur Currier was born on 17 September 1886 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is known for That's My Daddy (1927), A Girl of the Limberlost (1924) and Call of the Night (1926).
- Arthur Twining Hadley was born on 23 April 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died on 6 March 1930 in Kobe, Japan.
- Barbara Blane was born in 1915 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress, known for My Marriage (1936) and Ed Sullivan's Headliners (1934).
- Barney Rapp was born on 25 March 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He died on 12 October 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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Barry Wood was born on 12 February 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Bell Telephone Hour (1959), Wide Wide World (1955) and Kobb's Corner (1948). He died on 19 July 1970 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.- Actress
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Becki grew up in Guilford, Connecticut. She started performing in local productions and summer stock theater at age 13. She studied European History at the University of Pennsylvania, during which time she spent several semesters abroad. After graduating, Becki immediately moved to NYC to pursue Broadway. After appearing in dozens of national commercials and guest starring roles, including Cold Case (2003), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and American Dreams (2002), she landed the role of Amanda on Ugly Betty (2006). She is married to actor Chris Diamantopoulos, and her brother is actor Matt Newton.- Actor
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A recipient of over a dozen awards, including the 2013 UBCP/ACTRA John Juliani Award for Outstanding Achievement, Ben has amassed over 100 film and TV acting credits, including lead roles in feature films that have played at prestigious festivals such as TIFF, Sundance and Berlin.
As a writer/director/producer, Ben has helmed 2 award-winning, theatrically released feature films: Down River (9 wins and 12 nominations, including Most Popular Canadian Film at VIFF 2013 and Best Feature at the 2014 Soho International Film Festival, NYC) and Moving Malcolm (4 wins and 1 nomination, including Best Feature Film at the 2003 Washington D.C. Film Festival). He has also written and/or directed and produced numerous short films and web series episodes, has directed Robson Arms for CTV, and has developed several original television series for Canadian networks.
For theatre, Ben has appeared in many plays including This, by Melissa James Gibson, Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies and Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley. Early in his career, Ben was nominated for a Jessie Richardson award for his portrayal of "Bobby" in David Mamet's American Buffalo. He has also directed numerous plays, including the Canadian Premieres of Tommy Smith's White Hot and Christopher Shinn's Dying City, as well as Either We Talk Or We Don't Talk, created in collaboration with actors from Haven Studio. In 2020, Ben wrote and directed the one-man show Casey and the Octopus for the inspiring and dynamic 19-year-old cancer survivor Casey Wright.
Next up for Ben is his television series, Trigger Me, which he created and directed, and features many Haven Studio actors in lead roles. HBO's Westworld director/executive producer Richard J. Lewis has come on-board as executive producer.
Ben started his teaching career in 1995, under the tutelage of his mentor Ivana Chubbuck (author, The Power of the Actor). He has also studied with and been greatly influenced by Larry Moss (author, The Intent to Live), Patsy Rodenburg (author, The Second Circle) and Canada's Mel Tuck.
Having taught acting in Vancouver, Los Angeles and across Canada, Ben established Haven Studio in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighborhood in 2002. He and his team at Haven Studio continue to offer extremely in-demand classes to both top-notch veteran actors and ambitious up-and-coming performers.
NOTE: In 2021, Ben changed his name from Ben Ratner to Ben Immanuel (Immanuel is his middle name) to avoid being repeatedly mistaken for or associated with director/producer Brett Ratner, to whom he has no relation.- Director
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Ben Parker was born on 16 September 1908 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Thunder Mountain (1964), Invisible Avenger (1958) and Guerrilla Girl (1953). He died in December 1983 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.- Additional Crew
Benjamin Spock was born on 2 May 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is known for Not for Women Only (1968), Valentine's Day (1964) and The Art Linkletter Show (1963). He was married to Mary Morgan and Jane Cheney. He died on 15 March 1998 in La Jolla, California, USA.- Bernard Woolfe was born on 28 August 1915 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for The Philco Television Playhouse (1948), Troubleshooters (1959) and Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950). He was married to Dolores Michaels. He died on 27 October 1985 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
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William Joseph McGuire Jr. (he was nicknamed 'Biff' when playing football at high school) initially pursued studies in agricultural engineering at the University of Massachusetts. Deciding "that farming wasn't for me", he dropped out and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Stationed in Oxfordshire during the latter stages of World War II, he became interested in the performing arts while attending the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham. Put to work as a set painter, Biff appeared in a local stage production, at which time he was spotted by a drama critic who talked him into going to London to audition (as it turned out, successfully) for a part in William Saroyan 's play The Best Years of Our Lives. Upon his return to the U.S., he acted on Broadway in the original 1949 production of South Pacific. His many subsequent performances on the 'Great White Way' during the next half century included a leading turn in Fininan's Rainbow in 1960, which also co-starred his wife, the English actress Jeannie Carson. In the course of many years, the 'McGuires' made many successful stage appearances together in off-Broadway plays, including Mary, Mary, Camelot and Cactus Flower. Both were also long-standing members of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
The tall, lean-framed stage thesp eventually broke into TV acting during the early 50s. In addition, he penned several episodic screenplays as well as managing to sell an original drama entitled "Top of the World" to the BBC. Biff only made sporadic forays into motion pictures, notably as a character actor or second-string lead in The Phenix City Story (1955), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968). On the small screen, he starred in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and was one of the three principal characters (Dr. Michael Malloy) in the nostalgic newspaper drama series Gibbsville (1976), alongside Gig Young and John Savage. Prior to his retirement from acting in 2013 he also had recurring appearances on the soaps Search for Tomorrow (1951) and Santa Barbara (1984).- Billy Lush was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Straw Dogs (2011), Dishonored (2012) and The Black Donnellys (2007). He has been married to Anne Clare Graham since 9 April 2011. They have two children.
- Blair Moody was born on 13 February 1902 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Meet Your Congress (1949), We, the People (1948) and Longines Chronoscope (1951). He was married to Mary Ann and Ruth. He died on 20 July 1954 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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Blossom Seeley was born on 16 July 1886 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933), Blood Money (1933) and Somebody Loves Me (1952). She was married to Benny Fields, Rube Marquard and Joe Kane. She died on 17 April 1974 in New York City, New York, USA.- Bob Stefanowski was born on 21 May 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is married to Amy Kathleen Wilson. They have three children.
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Bobby Abate (Brooklyn, NY) is a Queer artist, filmmaker and editor. Exhibitions and screenings include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New York Film Festival, Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the ICA in London and most recently the 42nd annual Harper College Small Works exhibition. Bobby has a BFA from MassArt in Boston and an MFA degree from Bard College. He was the 2020 recipient of the Princess Grace Artist Development Grant. Editing credits include We're Here Season 3 on HBO, Sasha Velour's 2022 European Smoke & Mirrors tour, 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days and several projects with director Matthew Placek. Bobby is writing a screenplay focused on the NYC Queer underground and drag culture in the early 1960s.- Brad Ausmus was born on 14 April 1969 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Braves TBS Baseball (1973), Sunday Night Baseball (1990) and Prime 9 (2009). He has been married to Liz Ausmus since 1995.
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Brett Epstein was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Friends from College (2017), Ray Donovan (2013) and The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show (2020).- Briana Raucci was born on 13 October 1992 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress, known for The Green (2011).
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Buddy Morrow was born on 8 February 1919 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Skylarkin' Time (1950), Saturday Night Dance Party (1952) and Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra (1952). He was married to Lucille Ross, Clare Eggleston and Carol Morrow. He died on 27 September 2010 in Maitland, Florida, USA.- Actress
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Carlacia Grant is an actress whose upbringing brought her all around the world. A former pageant queen, she found her passion for acting in summer theatre camp where she was cast as the Lead in the Robert Louis Stevenson Play "Treasure island". Carlacia is best known for her breakout role in the second season of the Netflix Hit Series "Outer Banks".- Camera and Electrical Department
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Caswell Cooke was born on 6 June 1968 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is known for Self/less (2015), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and After Earth (2013).- Actor
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Chandler Cowles was born on 29 September 1917 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind (1983), Kraft Theatre (1947) and The Medium (1951). He was married to Pavlina Stefanova Dokovska, Adrienne Kathleen Zuckert and Katherine Drexel Henry. He died on 1 February 1997 in New York City, New York, USA.- Producer
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Charles Hamilton Eglee grew up in North Haven, Connecticut and Eastham, Massachusetts. He was graduated cum laude from Williston Academy and received his B.A. in English from Yale University. After a brief stint teaching film history at Yale, Eglee moved to California and worked for Roger Corman, where he served in a variety of production capacities and met then production designer James Cameron. With Cameron, Eglee wrote Piranha II: The Spawning under the screen name H.A. Milton. Subsequently, he wrote and produced the canuxploitation classic, Deadly Eyes. In 1984, Eglee moved to television, joining the writing staff of St. Elsewhere as a story editor for two seasons. He went on to become writer and supervising producer of the ABC series Moonlighting. At 20th Century Fox Television, Eglee co-wrote and executive produced the one-hour pilot, Rockenwagner. Joining Steven Bochco Productions in 1991, Eglee wrote and co-executive produced the ABC series Civil Wars, during which time he also wrote for L.A. Law. In 1993, he co-created and executive-produced the short-lived ABC series, The Byrds of Paradise, starring Timothy Busfield, Seth Green and Jennifer Love Hewitt. At the show's conclusion, Eglee joined NYPD Blue during its second season, as writer and co-executive producer. In 1995, he co-created Murder One with Steven Bochco and was the show's executive producer and show runner. Again with Bochco, Eglee co-created and executive-produced Total Security for ABC starring James Belushi and James Remar. Eglee and James Cameron teamed up again in 2000 to co-create Dark Angel, a futuristic dystopian drama starring Jessica Alba. In 2003, Eglee joined the writing staff of the groundbreaking FX police drama, The Shield as executive producer. In 2007, Eglee joined the Showtime drama series Dexter as head writer and executive producer for the show's third and fourth seasons - both of which received the Emmy nomination for Best Dramatic Series. In 2010, he became a writer and executive producer for the television adaption of The Walking Dead for AMC. Currently, Eglee is the showrunner and executive producer of the Netflix original series, Hemlock Grove. Of "The 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time," chosen by the Writers Guild of America, Charles Eglee has been on the writing staff of six of them. Eglee is also known as "Chic," a nickname afflicted on him at birth by his parents. He prefers "Carlitos." But almost no one calls him that- Actor
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Charles Kullmann was born on 13 January 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931), La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft (1934) and The Goldwyn Follies (1938). He was married to Lisa. He died on 8 February 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.- Actor
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Christopher Malcolm Bruno was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in the small town of Milford, Connecticut with his now-deceased mother, Nancy Mendillo, but also spent a substantial amount of time with his father, Scott Bruno, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He developed an appreciation for the arts but had no intention of pursuing it as a career. He attended college in Vermont where he skied on the ski-team while studying Psychology.
During his sophomore year he was temporarily sidelined with an injury so he decided to try something different. He auditioned for a play, Machiavelli's "The Mandrake" and was cast as the lead. Having discovered a new passion for the arts, Bruno transferred to Stony Brook University where he changed his major to Theater and was a walk-on starting pitcher for their baseball team. His fastball was clocked at 90 miles per hour and he finished with a 6-0 record his senior year and broke three school records for strikeouts, wins and games pitched. Those records were later broken by The Minnesota Twins perennial all-star Joe Nathan.
After college, Chris moved to New York full-time and, after several bartending jobs, he landed a two year contract on NBC's Another World (1964). During his first year on the show Chris was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award as "Outstanding Newcomer". A few years later he was cast as Michael Delaney on All My Children (1970), a gay school teacher who loses his job to social prejudice. The writers won an Emmy that year for his groundbreaking storyline. He relocated to Los Angeles to move his career to the next level. He performed stand-up comedy at The Improv and was discovered by an exec at Warner Bros and subsequently was cast on "Suddenly Susan", "The Nanny", "Jesse", and a recurring role on Alan Ball's series, Oh Grow Up (2006).
In 1998, Chris and his brother, Dylan Bruno, were cast in Lorenzo Carcaterra's dark and gritty New York cop show "The Force" for The WB. He was cast as Walt Bannerman in Stephen King's The Dead Zone (2002), which ran for six seasons on USA Network. In the summer of 2004, he produced and starred in the feature film "Last of the Romantics", and again worked alongside his brother. During his hiatus from The Dead Zone, he completed work on the feature film "The World's Fastest Indian" opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins.
In the last season of The Dead Zone, he was able to exercise his directing skills as he helmed an episode entitled "Independence Day" which again included an appearance by his brother, Dylan Bruno. They dedicated this episode to the memory of their mother, Nancy Mendillo Bruno, who had died from breast cancer earlier that year. After the show was canceled, he landed recurring television roles on Numb3rs (2005) and Prison Break (2005), and later appeared in the movie Prison Break: The Final Break (2009). He was the male lead in The Cell 2 (2009). He had a long run doing guest starring roles on Castle (2009), Southland (2009), NCIS (2003), and NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) . In 2013, he teamed up with his cousin, Vohn Regensburger, to produce and star in the feature film, A Remarkable Life (2016), in which he and Dylan played actual brothers for the first time. Upon wrapping, he immediately went to work on Lifetime's Sorority Surrogate (2014) and was a recurring character on ABC's Family Tools (2013) as the husband of Leah Remini's character.
In 2013, he joined the cast of ABC Family's The Fosters (2013) as Adam, and subsequently played Danny on MTV''s Awkward. (2011). On December 8, 2017, he made his professional debut as an MMA fighter.- Christopher John Matteis was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the youngest of two children from Italian-American parents. His interest in acting began in high school after starring in an Anti-Bullying PSA produced by the drama club. He began his professional acting career after graduating from the University of Connecticut in 2015, where he played D1A football and received a B.S. in Business Management/Entrepreneurship (Cum Laude).
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Christian Downs was born on 14 February 1985 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Christian is known for The Accidental Husband (2008), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008) and The Other Side of the Tracks (2008).