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1. Paul Lynde Paul Lynde Self, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special Paul Lynde was born in 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio (one of six children and the middle of four boys). His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Lynde got his inspiration to become an actor at the age of four or five after his mother took him to see the original silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ...
2. Richard Boone Richard Boone Actor, The Hobbit Richard Boone was a college student, boxer, painter and oil-field laborer before ending up in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he used the G.I. Bill to study acting with the Actor's Studio in New York. Serious and methodical, Boone debuted on Broadway in the play "Medea". Other plays followed...
3. John Dye John Dye Actor, The Perfect Weapon
4. Sheldon Leonard Sheldon Leonard Producer, The New Housekeeper Sheldon Leonard was born in New York City's lower Manhattan, the son of Jewish parents. He studied acting at Syracuse University and, after graduating, landed a job on Wall Street. Following the Wall Street crash of 1929, he found himself unemployed and resolved to become a professional actor on the stage...
5. Spalding Gray Spalding Gray Actor, The Killing Fields
6. Diane Polley Diane Polley Casting Director, Anne of Green Gables
7. Vampira Vampira Actress, Plan 9 from Outer Space The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira," of late night 50s TV, was actually born Maila Syrjäniemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1921, in Petsamo, Finland. Her uncle was the multiple Olympic medal runner Paavo Nurmi. Maila arrived in the United States with her...
8. Carlo Ponti Carlo Ponti Producer, Doctor Zhivago
9. Dashiell Hammett Dashiell Hammett Writer, The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett was born May 27l, 1894, in St. Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Hammett and Mary Bond. He joined the Baltimore branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915. He enlisted in the US Army's Ambulance Corps in June 1918 and was posted to a camp 20 miles from Baltimore, where he caught the flu...
10. Arthur Batanides Arthur Batanides Actor, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Stocky, general purpose actor, a prolific face on the small screen during the 1960's and 1970's. Became enamored with acting after performing stand-up routines in front of fellow GIs in Europe, during World War II. Educated in dramatic art at the Actors Lab in Los Angeles, followed by extensive stage experience...
11. Isabella Grasso Isabella Grasso Actress, Flight Isabella grew up on Long Island and lived in Lattington, New York. From a young age, Isabella loved dancing and attended MaryAnn's Dance Studio in Locust Valley since the age of 4. As Isabella grew older, she eventually became a teacher at the dance school for young girls. Isabella attended Sacred Heart Academy...
12. Sidney Miller Sidney Miller Director, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock Sidney Miller was born Sydney L. Miller in Shenandoah, PA, on October 22, 1916, the son of Polish immigrants who already had two daughters. When Sydney was 14 his father, a tailor, sold his business and moved the family to Los Angeles. There Sydney got the acting bug, and his first film was an uncredited bit part in Penrod and Sam...
13. Margaret Whiting Margaret Whiting Self, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon Margaret Whiting is the sister of actress/singer Barbara Whiting. Margaret was born on July 22nd 1924, in Detroit, Michigan. A popular vocalist in the 1940s and 1950s, recording dozens of hits for Capitol Records, she is the daughter of Richard A. Whiting, himself a successful songwriter and author of "On The Good Ship Lollipop"...
14. John Newland John Newland Director, Errand of Mercy Tall, dignified-looking Newland began in show business as a song-and-dance man with a vaudeville troupe, 'The Vikings', whose trade-mark was wearing gold capes. He acted in stock with the Stuart Walker Company, then found work on the New York stage, alongside Milton Berle, at the Roxy, Capitol and Loew's State Theatres...
15. Michael Aldridge Michael Aldridge Actor, Chimes at Midnight Excellent British character actor who played in the theater from 1939 to 1986 ("French Without Tears", "Othello" [as "the Moor", a role he had already played at the age of seventeen in a school production], "She Stoops to Conquer", "Jeeves"...) and also appeared in scores of movies, TV movies and TV series...
16. Coco Chanel Coco Chanel Costume Designer, The Rules of the Game
17. Daniel Allar Daniel Allar Actor, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2
18. Jacques Marin Jacques Marin Actor, Charade Short, stocky Jacques Marin was a wonderfully droll character actor, who tended to pop up in international films of the 60's and 70's, whenever a typically French-looking gendarme, police inspector, concierge or shopkeeper was needed. His trademark was a toothbrush moustache and a deadpan expression...
19. Basil Sydney Basil Sydney Actor, Around the World in Eighty Days The son of a stage manager, Basil Sydney entered the acting profession in 1909. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he saw action with the Norfolk Regiment in the British Army. In the early 1920's, Basil established himself as a matinée idol on the London stage...
20. Howard Smith Howard Smith Actor, Kiss of Death
21. Al Silvani Al Silvani Actor, Rocky
22. Lila Kaye Lila Kaye Actress, An American Werewolf in London
23. Juliet Berto Juliet Berto Actress, Celine and Julie Go Boating
24. Maxine Elliott Hicks Maxine Elliott Hicks Actress, Beethoven
25. Vivek Shaq Vivek Shaq Actor, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
26. Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis Writer, Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a colossus of American letters in the first half of the last century. Arguably, he is the first major "modern" writer of the 20th century, as there is American literature before "Main Street" (1920) and after that seminal novel...
27. Peter Fitz Peter Fitz Actor, Au Revoir Les Enfants Peter Fitz (born August 8th 1931 in Kaiserslautern, Germany) is mostly active in theatre. After his graduation from theatre school in 1970, he started as an actor for the Deutsches Schauspielhauses Hamburg (German Theatre Hamburg). From 1970 to 1986, he was a permanent actor for the Schaubühne Berlin (Berlin Theatre)...
28. Marion Hutton Marion Hutton Soundtrack, In Society Band vocalist of the 40s who appeared in a few films.
29. Katharine Alexander Katharine Alexander Actress, Now, Voyager Katherine (also called Katharine) Alexander, an excellent character actress, had been born in 1897 to a mother who was part Cherokee and to a father who farmed land on Indian territory. And yet she was never given the part of a native American in the course of her thirty-five-year acting career. Often a society lady...
30. Jad Capelja Jad Capelja Actress, Puberty Blues
31. Chester Burnett Chester Burnett Soundtrack, The Hangover Part II
32. Jameson Thomas Jameson Thomas Actor, It Happened One Night On the British stage from his teens, he first appeared as a half-breed boy in "The Squaw Man." His screen debut was in 1923 in the film "Chu Chin Chow." Dissatisfied with the British film industry, he moved to Hollywood and played a number of minor roles up to the time of his death. On the English stage he appeared with such greats as Anna May Wong, Alice Joyce and Gilda Grey.
33. John Warwick John Warwick Actor, Passenger to London
34. Campbell Morrison Campbell Morrison Actor, Close My Eyes
35. Annette Mills Annette Mills Self, Muffin the Mule
36. Chris Avram Chris Avram Actor, A Bay of Blood Cristea Avram is a Romanian actor, born in Romania. He played in many of the Romanian movies of the '60. In that period (actually in 1963-64) a French team came to Romania to make a movie (I think it's "Steaua fara nume " - "Mona l'etoile sans nom"), and of course, they were using some of the Romanian crew available there...
37. Peter Neusser Peter Neusser Actor, Anschluß in Karlsruhe
38. Franz Planer Franz Planer Cinematographer, Breakfast at Tiffany's Descended from a wealthy family of landowners in what was then Austria-Hungary, Franz Planer understood the importance of photography as an art form early in his life. He first stood behind the camera as a portrait photographer, working out of Vienna from 1910. He soon branched out, filming newsreels in Paris and...
39. Don Richardson Don Richardson Director, Our Man in Toyland
40. Ewan Roberts Ewan Roberts Actor, The Day of the Triffids
41. Billy Stewart Billy Stewart Soundtrack, Stuck on You Talented singer/songwriter Billy Stewart was discovered by Bo Diddley in 1956. He had great chart success in 1965 and 1966 with consecutive hits: "I Do Love You", "Sitting In The Park", "Secret Love" and a unique upbeat scat-singing version of "Summertime", from "Porgy and Bess", which has become a rock standard today.
42. Oliver Maguire Oliver Maguire Actor, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
43. William B. Hawks William B. Hawks Producer, The Law and Jake Wade
44. Edward Fielding Edward Fielding Actor, Rebecca
45. Yvonne Peattie Yvonne Peattie Actress, Dangerous Crossing
46. Juanito Navarro Juanito Navarro Actor, Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
47. August Blom August Blom Director, Atlantis
48. Lyle R. Wheeler Lyle R. Wheeler Art Director, Gone with the Wind He was known as the 'dean of Hollywood art directors'. Lyle Wheeler worked on more than 350 films, winning five Academy Awards ('Gone with the Wind', 'Anna and the King of Siam',The Robe,The King and I and The Diary of Anne Frank) and was nominated for twenty-four others. The former magazine illustrator...
49. Gene Baylos Gene Baylos Self, Episode dated 2 April 1970
50. Emerson Treacy Emerson Treacy Actor, Adam's Rib
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