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Originally from New Jersey, Brian Geraghty graduated from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre and then began his professional career in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. He has previously enjoyed being a surf instructor and continues to surf in his free time. He is perhaps best known for his role "Ronald " on big sky- Lee Meredith was born on 22 October 1947 in River Edge, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for The Producers (1967), Great Performances (1971) and The Sunshine Boys (1975). She has been married to Bert Stratford since 1969. They have two children.
- Jamie McShane stars in Tim Burton's smash-hit Netflix series Wednesday. The show spins off the iconic Addams Family series, following Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega) and is written by Al Gough & Miles Millar. Jamie plays Sheriff Galpin, who has a vendetta against the Addams family.
Jamie is often recognized for his role as Eric O'Bannon in Netflix thriller Bloodline (from Damages creators Glenn Kessler, Daniel Zelman & Todd A. Kessler), starring alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Kyle Chandler and Sissy Spacek. He played the long-time friend and partner-in-crime of "Danny" (Mendelsohn).
In film, Jamie appears in David Fincher's Oscar Nominated Netflix film Mank, about famed Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) who co-wrote Citizen Kane with Orson Welles. This marks Jamie's second collaboration with David Fincher as they had previously worked together in Fincher's thriller Gone Girl.
Other feature credits include ARGO (multiple Oscar winner, including Best Picture), Marvel's The Avengers, Marvel's Thor, Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler, Hostage, Gridiron Gang, and Pride and Glory. Jamie was also the lead of Busman's Holiday, an independent film and passion project that shot in Ireland, Norway, Italy, India, Tanzania and Australia. The film was ultimately distributed by Amazon.
Jamie has appeared in over 250 episodes of television. Highlights include a Series Regular role in FOX thriller The Passage, based on Justin Cronin's best-selling fantasy book trilogy. Jamie recurred across season one of David E Kelley & Michael Connelly's hit Netflix drama The Lincoln Lawyer. He starred in USA Network's limited series Unsolved, chronicling the police investigations into the murders of rap stars Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. He recurred across season one of the CSI: Vegas reboot as the lead villain. Other recurring roles include CBS military drama Seal Team, Amazon's hit detective drama Bosch, TNT's critically acclaimed police-drama Southland, as well as an emotionally charged arc as Irish Gunrunner Cameron Hayes in FX's hit Sons of Anarchy.
Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Jamie is a life-long athlete excelling in numerous sports, especially hockey and tennis. He's played in numerous tournaments and spent time as an instructor. He also received his black-belt in Tae Kwondo. Jamie earned his BA in English at the University of Richmond. Following graduation he backpacked throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. For the decade following his return, he would stumble all over New York City doing play after play, eventually landing roles in Indie films. During this time Jamie wrote a book of poetry and some children's stories, and worked full-time in his family's business selling and fixing microscopes. Jamie eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where he now lives. - East Coaster Thomas Barbusca followed his older sister Brielle's footsteps in to acting when he was just a toddler. At 6 the industry brought Thomas to Los Angeles, when his sister Brielle, booked a series regular role on the hit USA series The Starter Wife.
In Los Angeles, ginger haired Thomas quickly became a favorite amongst commercial ad agencies; booking award winning campaigns for products like Dominos, Ford, Kraft, JC Penney, & Lunchables; just to name a few. Was not long after that, that Thomas began booking television on shows like Body of Proof (ABC), The New Girl (FOX), Sam & Cat (Nickelodeon), Anger Management (FX), and The Thunderman's (Nickelodeon). Thomas also began recurring on shows like The New Normal (NBC) & Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
In 2015 Thomas began work on the Wet Hot American Summer reboot for Netflix. Thomas' witty remarks as Camper Drew, quickly gained Hollywood's attention; making him one of the breakout stars of the series. Post Wet Hot, Thomas began work, recurring on American Horror Story:Hotel (FX), as well as Preacher (AMC). In between filming both shows, Thomas also found time take flight as Peter Pan in the 2015-16 Geico commercial campaign.
Coming up in 2016 you can catch Thomas in Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life for CBS Films; based on the James Patterson book series, and coming up in 2017, you can catch Thomas weekly in The Mick on Fox. - Actor
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American actor. In 2010, Noon began his career on the television show Boardwalk Empire, portraying Thomas Darmody. In 2019, he played Thor in the comedy film Good Boys, before voicing Greg Heffley in the 2021 animated Disney+ film Diary of a Wimpy Kid and its 2022 sequel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. In 2021, he played Evan Morrow in the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, followed by an appearance in the 2022 comedy film Marry Me as George and in Netflix's Family Switch as Wyatt. In 2023, he was cast as Raphael in the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. In September 2021, he was cast as Lucas Hollister for the upcoming western film Rust, but by April 2023 he was replaced by Patrick Scott McDermott, due to the production shutting down for over a year caused by the film's shooting incident.- Writer
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Dan Fogelman was born on 19 February 1976 in River Vale, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for This Is Us (2016), Life Itself (2018) and Tangled (2010). He has been married to Caitlin Thompson since 13 June 2015. They have one child.- Melissa Gorga was born on 21 March 1979 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. She has been married to Joe Gorga since 20 August 2004. They have three children.
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Jason Etter is a "Jersey Boy," born and raised.
After graduating Ramapo College of New Jersey with a BA in Communications and a Mathematics Minor, Jason decided to pursue his acting career.
While taking an acting class at the the School of Film and Television in New York, Jason met a producer and landed his first role in a feature feature film, playing Tyler in Greetings from the Shore (2007).- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Charley Parlapanides was born in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Blood of Zeus (2020), Death Note (2017) and Immortals (2011). He attended and graduated from Central Regional High School, Swarthmore College and Loyola Law School. He has been married to Elenie Syrengelas since 2006.- Actress
- Producer
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Santina Muha was born on 6 May 1983 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018), Take It Back (2019) and Pretty.- Actor
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Jason Medwin was a Physical Education teacher for a short time at Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, which also so happens to be the alma mater of other celebrities such as Brandon Flowers, Anthony E. Zuiker, and Joey Slotnick. While being a P.E teacher he earned the nickname "The Tank"- Actor
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Member of the Actor's Studio. Alumnus of Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts. An unsung screen talent of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Margotta now puts his talent to work by bringing the Stanislavski\Strasberg method to other actors and artists by teaching. In the 1990s, he taught at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City.- Actor
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Gregory Terlecki is of Ukrainian, Greek and Scottish heritage. In November 2022, Gregory became co-writer for a thriller film to be shot in Montreal, Canada. In October 2022, his script "Dream Files": Ep.1:1: "Almost Three O'Clock" won the Jean Luc Godard Award of "Best Short Script" for 2021 from the Short List of seventeen others, at the Cult Critic Awards. Filming for his mystery-triangle script "The Devil's Tail" ended on Friday September 13th, 2019 with Claudelle Tremblay (Cannes Film Festival 2017: "Noah's Truck") as lead: "Alice Briggs," playing a failed artist with a ten year curse. Life, and musician partner of "The Devil's Tail" co-producer Miguel Monast since 1979. Gregory was hand picked to be one of the haunting "Top Hatted Men" by Director Bill Paxton during headhunting while filming The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005). His role as 'The Tacky Tourist' in Scam (2005), was as the wildly dressed, frustrated and obnoxious driver looking for safe parking in the wrong part of town. In 2001, Gregory played Guillaume in Expiration (2003), originally a plate smashing brutal fight scene with frustrated man-hungry wife Nora. It was rewritten and re-shot two years later. Jeremiah Kipp, Film Festival Today's movie reviewer, described the scene of Gregory and Gavin Heffernan (Gavin's only one-on-one male to male scene) as 'a surprise encounter with a thief's melancholy, lost soul father (Gregory Terlecki) that feels like a poignant short story...' 2003 also saw him in Guy Letourneau's "Good Dogs Go To Heaven" as young Michael's salesman father returning home for an idyllic meal that quickly became a life-altering one for his son. In 2003, Gregory played McDonald Stuart; the ghost of philanthropist David McDonald Stuart, heir of McDonald Tobacco in "Creepy Canada" (2002)_, an hour-long show detailing true accounts of the paranormal throughout Canada's history. He was also "The Executioner" on that series,torturing two; a prisoner who ends his life by suicide, and a female slave and arsonist whom he hangs. That particular episode "The Ghost's of Rue St Paul" was named #3 on a "Creepy Canada" Top Ten Episodes List special. In 2003, he played the dual dream roles of Hunk & Scarecrow in a Montreal area 500 seat theater production of "The Wizard of Oz". Gregory's father Bill was a W.W. II photographer. Among his subjects were Italy's Emperor Victor Emmanuel and actor John Candy and family in the 1940s and 1950s. His love of documenting life through the camera was passed on to Gregory when twelve. Gregory was born on the Maine & New Brunswick border crossing of River de Chute that his grandfather opened up; his ancestors were United Empire Loyalists who walked from Connecticut to receive land grants. With a covered bridge, waterfalls and one room schoolhouse in the backyard, it was as perfect a childhood setting as could be. Gregory graduated fine arts, film & photography at Toronto's Ontario College of Art & Design University. Also doing modeling, he spent several years world traveling, including overland by bus from London to Kathmandu, South East Asia, Australia, and South America, documenting the beautiful and the unusual. Gregory is a music minister tenor in French, English & Latin. In 1999, he completed a hard cover photo history & bio book of his birthplace, "The Lost World of River de Chute," now part of the National Library of Canada. The latest 240 page edition became available in 2020. Gregory's great-uncle Percy W. Bishop, who wrote books on Nationalism, was one of Canada's first "Thinking Speculators" on the petroleum business. He became the original owner of 60,000 acres of Cold Lake Alberta oil & gas property before the tar sands were developed, which was greater than that owned by the Saudi Arabians at that time of 30,000 acres. P.W. also helped Cyrus Eaton during his Eaton's store empire building days and entertained future Prime Minister Jean Chretien at his Mississauga Ontario estate "Birnhamwood". P.W. and Gregory shared a deep love for their birthplace and historic preservation. Gregory's script "Going Beyond Violet" won a Finalist award of Larry Brody's "TVwriter.com," among others. In 2006, he modeled for a series of print ads for the Videotron cable TV company as the very tallest of a trio of comedic cable guys. 2007 saw him as director of his true story screenplay "The Window" brought to the stage as a three hour reading. With a cast of twenty-five, "The River de Chute Kidnapping Case", as it was known almost a century ago, was headlines throughout the land. The story was an official laurel selection of the 2014 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, and went on to win international awards. In 2008, he was "The Manager" in Amanda Fahey's: "Freezer Repairs," a fantasy movie filmed in Toronto. With its upbeat ending, music, dance, and cast of lovable characters, "The Devil's Tail" has charmed film festival jury's and audiences around the world to win awards and trophies in many categories. Gregory is now working on super short scripts for his fantasy series: "Dream Files." As a life long antique car restorer, his present one is an Auburn Speedster phaeton.- Sound Department
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Alan Howarth's sonic journey began in Cleveland, Ohio, where he engaged in various music-related activities. He played in regional rock bands like "Tree Stumps," "Renaissance Faire," and "The Silk," with notable performances opening for iconic bands such as "The Who" and "Cream." In addition to performing, Alan founded Braino and Pi Corp, and was a key figure in Pi Keyboards and Audio, a pioneering synthesizer and pro audio shop.
His illustrious career took off with his involvement in Hollywood, starting with his work on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," which propelled him into the role of sound designer for the subsequent six Star Trek feature films. His collaboration on "Escape From New York" with director and composer John Carpenter marked the beginning of numerous successful partnerships, including scores for "Halloween 2-6," "Christine," "Big Trouble in Little China," "Prince of Darkness," and "They Live."
Alan's contributions to sound design have been recognized with placement on the Oscar-winning sound effects teams for "The Hunt for Red October" and "Dracula," directed by Francis Ford Coppola. His role as the audio advisor at Magic Leap and Chief Audio Officer at Electronic Arts further solidified his reputation as an industry leader.
At Dimension Audio, Alan played a pivotal role in developing the 48.6 multi-channel sound system, which laid the groundwork for today's immersive theatrical speaker array systems like Dolby Atmos. He continues to push boundaries as a producer, film composer, sound designer, and researcher. Alan is a visionary in the field, creating patents for Natural Frequency Resonance Music wellness sound applications and pioneering immersive spatial music and audio designs for AR and Spatial Computing applications.
Alan Howarth remains at the forefront of sonic innovation, shaping the future of audio experiences with his visionary approach and unparalleled expertise.- Actor
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Actor Jared Gertner has worked in theatre, TV, film, commercials, and voice over. He is best known for his role as Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon on Broadway, the First National Tour, and in London's West End, where he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical.
Gertner made his Broadway debut as William Barfee in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway, and the First National Company in San Francisco and Boston - where he won the IRNE Award). He also created the role of Warren in Ordinary Days (Off Broadway- Roundabout Theatre Company), and can be heard on the original cast album.
On TV, Gertner has appeared on shows as varied as 9-1-1: Lonestar, NCIS, American Crime Story: Impeachment, Supernatural, Mom, Modern Family, 2 Broke Girls, Erin & Aaron, Side Hustle, Call Me Cat, Agent Carter, How I Met Your Mother, Ugly Betty, and The Good Wife. Audiences may also recognize him for his award-winning work as Randall Moody in the web series, Submissions Only. In addition, he has been cast in pilots for NBC and CBS.
As a voice over artist, he can be heard in films, TV shows, and in numerous TV and radio commercials.
Gertner's nationwide work in regional theatre includes Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed, Sacramento Music Circus, The Muny, Cape Playhouse, Fulton Opera House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St Louis Repertory, The Gem, The Orpheum, 11th Hour Theatre, and more. As a theatre educator, he has taught master classes across the U.S and in London.
Jared Gertner hails from the Jersey Shore (the place, not the TV show) and received a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.- Script and Continuity Department
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Cynnie grew up in North Hollywood, California, and worked as a stand-in for Patty Duke on "The Patty Duke Show" before becoming a script supervisor in 1969, a career spanning nearly 40 years.
Her first job was on the TV series "Adam 12" and later "Emergency." Her credits include films The Goodbye Girl (1977), American Gigolo (1980), Sharkey's Machine (1981), and Chances Are (1988), as well as TV series "LA Law", "Murder, She Wrote", and "Life with Bonnie".
She loved her work, was a devoted Dodgers fan and story-teller and was grateful for the many friends and family who so enriched her life.- Camera and Electrical Department
Michael's interest in film began in elementary school when he would run the film projectors for both classroom and extra curricular presentations. In 1975, the family moved to Southern California and Michael became passionately involved in the theater department at school. After borrowing a book on theatrical lighting design from the theater's library, he began designing the lighting for the many stage productions that were produced throughout the school year. At age 16 he formed his first lighting company, and began performing production services for community groups, restaurants, and schools in his area. Michael went on to study theatre arts and lighting design in college.
In 1983 he took over the management of a small LA based stage lighting rental house which provided production services for theater, concerts, and corporate special events. In 1992, Michael moved to the Hollywood area and befriended a cinematographer who was interested in his theatrical background for shooting music videos. After purchasing a couple of light meters, he had now found a whole new genre of lighting; Motion Picture Set Lighting. Because of his management capabilities, and vast experience in lighting design, he succeeded in set lighting quickly. Soon he was gaffing music videos, small commercials, and ENG shoots. When the opportunity to work on independent low budget features came along, Michael enjoyed the opportunity to learn from experience through narrative film making.
In 1997 one of those films turned union in the middle of production, and his career in film took a dramatic change. Now a new member of IATSE Local 728, he could work on the largest productions in Hollywood.
Michael began working on the rigging crews of some of Hollywood's biggest studio movies. This experience turned out to be exactly the training necessary to prepare Michael for gaffing larger movies. There is nowhere in the non-union world to learn how the big studio movies are lit, so the rigging crew was the key to advancement. Rigging Gaffer jobs presented themselves first, and eventually opportunities for First Unit Gaffer.
Working now with many world renowned cinematographers, Michael continues to this day to enjoy storytelling through the magic of light!- Actress
- Music Department
Leigh Lezark was born on 26 July 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Enter Nowhere (2011), Missed Connections (2012) and Time to Choose (2015).- Sound Department
- Actor
- Producer
Steve Bucino spent the formative years of his career working in music studios in Seattle Wa. and New York City. In 2005 Steve transitioned into audio post production recording, editing and mixing projects ranging from national advertising campaigns, independent features and documentaries, non scripted reality television, and major network animation and ADR recording.
After more than 10 years working and living in New York Steve relocated to Los Angeles in 2014 with his wife, actress Kirsten Day.
Some of his notable clients and credits include recording, sound editorial, sound design and re-recording mixing for:
20th Century Fox, CBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks Animation, Disney, Netflix, Hulu, BBC America, World Vision, Showtime, HBO, CartoonNetwork, Discovery Channel, HGTV, PBS, MTV, History Channel, Travel Channel as well as on going projects for major advertising agencies and production companies from around the globe.
Steve is a supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer for primetime television series as well as independent feature films.
Steve originally hails from Toms River New Jersey.- Janet Evanovich was born on 22 April 1943 in South River, New Jersey, USA. She is a writer, known for One for the Money (2012), One for the Money (2002) and CBS Saturday Morning (2012). She is married to Peter Evanovich. They have two children.
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Paula Fortunato was born on 15 May 1962 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. She is known for Des nouvelles du bon Dieu (1996). She was previously married to Sumner Redstone.- Actor
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- Script and Continuity Department
John Warwick was born on 4 January 1905 in Bellengen River, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor and writer, known for In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), Passenger to London (1937) and Police Surgeon (1960). He was married to Molly Raynor. He died on 10 January 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Joan Koplan was born on 29 September 1950 in River Edge, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Bee and PuppyCat (2013), Tarzan in the Golden Grotto (1969) and Small Town Security (2012). She was married to Irwin Koplan. She died on 31 March 2016 in Ringgold, Georgia, USA.
- Frankie Edgar was born on 16 October 1981 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bastard Sons (2023), UFC 200 Greatest Fighters of All Time (2016) and UFC on Fox (2011).
- Melbourne MacDowell was born on 22 November 1856 in South River, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Speed Mad (1925), Feel My Pulse (1928) and Savages of the Sea (1925). He was married to Mrs. Caroline Wells Neff, Wilhelmina Marie Strauss, Fanny Davenport (d. 1898) (first), Virginia Drew Trescott and Nellie Irving. He died on 18 February 1941 in Oakland, California, USA.
- An American actor known primarily for his work on Broadway in Disney's The Lion King, Mr. Lipitz has worked twice for legendary director, Sidney Lumet and makes his home just outside New York City. Regional stage credits include musicals such as Just So, Red Hot and Blue and The Producers and plays such as Art, God of Carnage, Laughter on the 23rd Floor and upcoming Death Of A Salesman in 2021.
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Jason Babin was born in Eel River Crossing, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a editor, content creator and podcast personality in the Quebec stand-up comedy scene. He has worked with Mike Ward, Jim Jefferies, Big Jay Oakerson, Jean-Thomas Jobin, Luis J Gomez, Yannick De Martino, Mehdi Bousaidan, Pantelis, Eddie Ifft, Jerr Allain, Pierre-Bruno Rivard, Dave Gaudet & more.- Editor
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Todd Zelin was born on 1 July 1976 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for The Righteous Gemstones (2019), The Uninvited (2024) and Arrested Development (2003).- A fearsome Apache Indian warrior and medicine man of mythic stature, Geronimo was born about 1829 on the upper reaches of the Gila River (near the present-day mining town of Clifton, AZ). He belonged to the Be-don-ko-he band of the southern Chiricahua Apaches. He was known as Goyathlay or Goyaklay, meaning "one who yawns." It's not clear how he came to be called Geronimo, but conventional wisdom is that it was bestowed upon him by Mexicans during his many raids into that country.
Few specifics are known of his early life, but he emerged as a leader of the Chiricahuas in 1858 in the wake of personal tragedy. According to Geronimo, he had gone in the company of other Apaches and their families to trade peacefully with settlers around the Mexican military post at Janos in northern Chihuahua. While he and other adult males were away, a troop of Mexican soldiers from the neighboring state of Sonora swooped down on the family encampment and slaughtered most of the Apaches there, including Geronimo's mother, wife and three children. As a result, Geronimo swore revenge on Mexicans. Soon after the massacre at Janos, Geronimo received a spirit's voice that told him to fight the Mexicans. In the ensuing forays Geronimo was wounded many times but always recovered, and as late as 1897 he was still boasting to those who would listen that no bullet could kill him. Indeed, foes and followers alike thought that Geronimo was endowed with supernatural powers. Eyewitnesses declared him clairvoyant; according to them, he could interpret signs, explain the unknowable and predict the future.
In line with its uncertain and fluctuating policy, the US government tried to "civilize" the Apaches by shifting them from one reservation to another in Arizona and New Mexico. Although they would "settle down" for a spell on reservation land, sooner or later one or more bands would break out and go on the warpath, and the resulting plundering, burning and killing terrorized the civilian populace from Arizona down into Mexico. Geronimo himself often led these warring factions. Several times he was captured or forced to surrender and was returned to a reservation for a period of time (although other Apaches might be on the warpath), but he eventually would break out again. In May 1885 he fled the reservation with 35 men, 8 boys and 101 women. Ten months later he again surrendered to the American military in northern Sonora (a treaty between the US and Mexico allowed security forces from each nation to cross the border in pursuit of hostile Indians) only to bolt for freedom one more time. With 5,000 American soldiers and 500 Apache scouts and police in pursuit, Geronimo--with 16 warriors, 14 women and 6 children--surrendered to the US Army for the last time on September 3, 1886, at Skeleton Canyon in southern Arizona.
Thus ended an epoch called "The Apacheria", a period of almost constant warfare involving whites, Mexicans and Apaches that lasted for nearly two centuries. Geronimo was exiled to Florida but was promised that afterwards he and his followers would be allowed to return to Arizona--a promise that was not kept. They were placed under military confinement and later scattered among various reservations, with Geronimo and some of his people being sent to Oklahoma. He later became a farmer there and adopted Christianity. He dictated his autobiography, "Geronimo: His Own Story", published in 1906. In February 1909 the 85-year-old warrior fell off of his horse and remained in a ditch until the next day. He caught pneumonia and died a few days later. He was buried in the Indian cemetery at Fort Sill, OK. - Director
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Joe Valenti was born in Toms River and has been a life long resident of New Jersey. He developed a love for filmmaking at an early age and produced and directed many short films and videos while growing up. He has been providing entertainment in television and film for over 25 years. His work has aired on ABC, CW, PBS, National Geographic, Netflix, Amazon Prime, ESPN, Fox Sports, Tennis Channel, Tubi and more. He has acquired extensive feature film, commercial and documentary experience as well as years of aired, broadcast productions. He has also directed and streamed thousands of hours of content to almost every popular platform available and has handled every kind of production ranging from single camera episodic and feature film, multi-cam web live streams, to 10 camera live television productions.
Over the years Joe has compiled an arsenal of production equipment including four production trucks. Vision One, Two and Four were created for live broadcast, mobile production and Vision Three, the film production unit which houses complete lighting and grip equipment, is for independent film and television productions,
Valenti's first feature film in 2001, "Lying Beside You" was a truly independent first outing. The $17,000 low budget, 16mm film was awarded several awards throughout its film festival run. Small crews helped create an independent vibe for this feel good, romantic comedy.
"The Hacking Chronicles" (2007), a 24-style action adventure series which Joe shot and directed for AT&T's digital channel at a budget of $33,000 an episode, led to the funding for his next movie. "Echelon 8" (2009)is not only in worldwide distribution and available on Tubi and Apple TV but was also on Netflix for five years as well as being the ABC Late night movie of the week and the CW afternoon movie of the week. His next feature "The Meat Puppet" (2012) was picked up for distribution from Tomkat Films and airing on Amazon Prime and Tubi while also being available for purchase at Best Buy and Amazon.
In January of 2011 Valenti became the producer and director of "All Night with Joey Reynolds", a late night talk show for NBC's New York Nonstop. The show originated from the Nasdaq Market Site in Times Square, New York. Past guests have included, Danny Aiello, Frankie Valli, Jackie Martling, Pat Cooper and Michael Imperioli. The five-night-a-week talk show originated from the Nasdaq studios in Times Square and ran for three straight months playing host to many celebrity guests and musical acts.
Valenti Vision Films also handled production for Nuvo and Fuse's second season of "Knockout" (2015). Valenti served as Producer, DP and Head of Production for the reality show which featured Roy Jones, Jr., Floyd Mayweather, Sr., and Sugar Shane Mosely. Joe was also the Director, DP and editor for PBS' NJTV "Tales of the Jersey Shore", a documentary series focusing on the history of the New Jersey Shore. The online, beloved fan-film "The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman" which was directed, shot, edited and co-written by Valenti, has generated over 40 million combined views on YouTube.
Since 2009, Valenti has directed hundreds of multi-camera live events across the country for Fox Sports, Tennis Channel, ESPN3, AAC, Comcast Sportsnet, The Ivy League, AFL, MAAC, MAC and many others. This also includes the Maxwell Football Awards that aired live on ESPN3, Comcast Sportsnet and ABC Philadelphia over the past 5 years.
Valenti recently wrapped up a two year project as a producer, cinematographer, editor and drone pilot for the television series, "The Chair". The show highlights Roman Catholic Cathedrals across the country and shares interviews with the residing Bishops. Over 90 episodes were shot across more than forty states and the show will begin airing on Amazon Prime September of 2022.
Entering the virtual world in 2020, Valenti Vision Films handled all of the production and directed a National Geographic special called "Stopping Pandemics" with Dr. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Roberts. Joe directed the entire show from his home studio with remote call-ins. The show aired on National Geographic and was picked up by ABC and CNN as well. He also handled the recordings and live streams for the Actor's Fund Gala which featured, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Benning, Nathan Lane and Nia Vardalos.- Actress
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Cindy Kathleen Marinangel was born in River Edge, New Jersey, to parents Jim and Kathy Marinangel (née Klehm). When Cindy was a year and a half, they moved to Lake Zurich, Illinois and three years later to McHenry, Illinois. She has one younger brother Bill.
Cindy grew up snow and water skiing, playing as a left-handed first basewoman for the softball team her father coached, as well as acting, dancing and writing poetry. She graduated high school in three and a half years.
Cindy attended Michigan State University for a year, Boston University for a summer and graduated Cum Laude from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She took post-graduate classes at Columbia College Chicago and Pepperdine University.
Cindy had her first commercial audition as a baby in New York but her mother said she screamed the whole time and she vowed never to take her back! Cindy's first leading role came in kindergarten where she played Spring, a Queen in the Kindergarten thru third grade play. Her mother rehearsed her so well she knew everyone else's lines and mouthed them when they spoke.
Cheerleading, dance shows, pom-poms, student council, musicals and stage plays filled her high school years. She spent several summers dancing and working at Nippersink Resort in Wisconsin. At Purdue she was a Gold Duster dancing with the band at football half times while studying psychology with a theater minor. Cindy served as Skit Director for her sorority Phi Mu, and in her senior year began driving six hours round trip to Chicago to study at the Chicago, Second City. Cindy is a Conservatory Graduate having studied improvisation under Nia Vardalos and Stephen Colbert.
Cindy booked her first Chicago audition in the initial year of the hit show "Tony & Tina's Wedding". She spent several years performing six nights a week while also doing children's theater in the mornings. She eventually played Tina in Chicago and went with the show to Las Vegas, later joining an off-Broadway tour cast.
Los Angeles soon beckoned and Cindy began working in TV and film, starring opposite Fred Durst and Tim Bagley among others. She voiced two characters in the number one video game Brutal Legends with Jack Black and Ozzy Osbourne. Cindy was personally selected by the Knowles family to voice a half-hour narration for E! Entertainment which ran internationally, called "Beyonce' Uncut". Cindy produced and hosted an online radio show, and in 2007 was honored to be inducted by Mark Rydell and Martin Landau as a Lifetime Member of the famed Actors Studio in New York and Los Angeles.
A great lover of live performance, Cindy continues to grace the stage in plays and ballroom dance performances. She formed the film company "Angel Baker Productions" and co-wrote, produced and starred in the epic short romance "Eternal Waltz", sponsored in part by the Johann Strauss Society of Germany. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity.- Marty Hodas was born on 12 October 1931 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He died on 24 May 2014 in Long Island, New York, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
- Actor
David Vogel was born on 15 March 1973 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an assistant director and actor, known for Eagle Eye (2008), Sweet Girl (2021) and The Kingdom (2007).- Sondra Fortunato was born on 23 October 1948 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Mother's Day (1980).
- Nicole Gable was born on 23 July 1993 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA.
- Victor Colasurdo was born on 19 February 2000 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for The Equalizer (2021).
- Actor
- Composer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Rachel Bolan was born on 9 February 1963 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Feast (2005), Rock of Ages (2012) and Doonby (2013).- Al Leiter, a 19-year Major League veteran, is an Emmy-nominated MLB Network analyst, regularly appearing on MLB Tonight, Hot Stove, Diamond Demo, Path to the Pennant and special event coverage.
In March of 2010, Leiter was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Leiter also serves as a color commentator for YES Network's Yankees broadcasts and previously worked as a post-season game analyst for ESPN and FOX Sports.
Leiter was drafted by the Yankees and debuted with the club in 1987. He would go on to pitch for the Blue Jays (1989-95), Marlins (1996-97 and 2005) and Mets (1998-2004) before retiring as a Yankee in 2005 with a 162-132 record and 3.80 ERA. Leiter won the World Series rings with the Blue Jays (1993) and Marlins (1997) and was an NL All-Star in 1996 and 2000. He was also the first pitcher to earn a victory against all 30 Major League teams. Leiter received the Roberto Clemente Award in 2000 for his community service and philanthropic efforts. - Producer
- Art Department
- Special Effects
Timothy Feimster was born on 19 February 1979 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) and What Happens in Vegas (2008). He has been married to Evelyn Warfel since 18 May 2014.- Art Department
- Animation Department
Arielle Phillips was born on 1 April 1991 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. Arielle is known for Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023), Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019) and SpongeBob SquarePants (1999).- Actor
- Casting Department
- Manager
Mike Bucci was born on 5 June 1972 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and manager, known for Eastern Championship Wrestling (1993), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and ECW as Good as It Gets (1997). He is married to Melissa.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Jenn Ficarra was born on 12 October 1991 in Pearl River, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Bay State (1991), Welcome Back, Brotter (2009) and Great Minds with Dan Harmon (2016).- Writer
- Director
- Editor
Ian J. Keeney, born in Toms River, NJ is an award-winning filmmaker and writer, has completed several feature and short films and has been working in the industry since graduating college in 2001. Not limited to writing and directing, he also produces, edits and performs a wide array of various technical positions such as Director of Photography on his films and others. He is best known for his dark subject matter with his love for thrillers, but his body of work ranges from comedy to horror and everything in between.
Aside from film, he is also an author and a musician. His latest novel won Best Science Fiction in the Los Angeles Book Festival as well as other awards. His novels are available in major bookstores and online retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Audible.com.
In his band, Wolves in Clothing, he plays the drums and writes the songs.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editor
John R. Johnston was born on 12 November 1964 in Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and editor, known for Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005), Loving (1983) and Tour of Duty (1987).- Meilani Mathews was born on 13 July 2014 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA.
- Aline Griffith was born on 22 May 1923 in Pearl River, New York, USA. She was married to Luis Figueroa y Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno. She died on 11 December 2017 in Madrid, Spain.
- Greyson Mathews was born on 5 May 2016 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Production Designer
- Actress
Lisa Sever-Ferraro was born on 6 April 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. She is a production designer and actress, known for I Am Legend (2007), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and Blindspot (2015). She has been married to Jay Ferraro since October 2009.- Actor
- Composer
- Additional Crew
Curt Carlson was born on 23 February 1964 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Baby Mama (2008), Jersey Justice (2014) and Watching the Detectives (2008). He has been married to Christi Carlson since 3 September 1988. They have three children.- Rosalie Becker was born on 5 February 1954 in South River, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes (1993) and Man Is a Woman (1998). She was married to Franck Hagendorf. She died on 3 November 2008 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.