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Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his film debut in the Corman film Crazy Mama (1975), directed by Jonathan Demme. Moving to New York, Paxton studied acting under Stella Adler at New York University. After landing a small role in Stripes (1981), he found steady work in low-budget films and television. He also directed, wrote and produced award-winning short films including Barnes & Barnes: Fish Heads (1980), which aired on Saturday Night Live (1975). His first appearance in a James Cameron film was a small role in The Terminator (1984), followed by his very memorable performance as Private Hudson in Aliens (1986) and as the nomadic vampire Severen in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987). Bill also appeared in John Hughes' Weird Science (1985), as Wyatt Donnelly's sadistic older brother Chet. Although he continued to work steadily in film and television, his big break did not come until his lead role in the critically acclaimed film-noir One False Move (1991). This quickly led to strong supporting roles as Wyatt Earp's naive younger brother Morgan in Tombstone (1993) and as Fred Haise, one of the three astronauts, in Apollo 13 (1995), as well as in James Cameron's offering True Lies (1994).
Bill died on February 25, 2017, in Los Angeles, from complications following heart surgery. He was 61.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Christian Clemenson was born on 17 March 1958 in Humboldt, Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for The Big Lebowski (1998), Apollo 13 (1995) and United 93 (2006).- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
James Horner began studying piano at the age of five, and trained at the Royal College of Music in London, England, before moving to California in the 1970s. After receiving a bachelor's degree in music at USC, he would go on to earn his master's degree at UCLA and teach music theory there. He later completed his Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory at UCLA. Horner began scoring student films for the American Film Institute in the late 1970s, which paved the way for scoring assignments on a number of small-scale films. His first large, high-profile project was composing music for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), which would lead to numerous other film offers and opportunities to work with world-class performers such as the London Symphony Orchestra. With over 75 projects to his name, and work with people such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Oliver Stone, and Ron Howard, Horner firmly established himself as a strong voice in the world of film scoring. In addition, Horner composed a classical concert piece in the 1980s, called "Spectral Shimmers", which was world premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Horner passed away in a plane crash on June 22, 2015, two months short of his 62nd birthday.- Actor
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Geoffrey Blake is an Emmy nominated, two-time SAG Award winning actor best known for his role as 'Wesley' (the abusive radical boyfriend) opposite Robin Wright's 'Jennie' in the iconic Academy Award Best Picture Forrest Gump (1994). In addition to Forrest Gump (1994), Blake has appeared alongside Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks in multiple films. Those performances are part of Blake's frequent collaborations with such Academy Award winning filmmakers as Robert Zemeckis and Ron Howard (Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), Apollo 13 (1995), Edtv (1999), Frost Nixon) whose films alone have garnered over $2,000,000,000 in Box office. Blake's most critically acclaimed performance was that of the preppy pipe-smoking astrophysicist 'Fisher', the right hand man, in the Sci-Fi classic Contact opposite Academy Award winner Jodie Foster.
Blake has well over 100 credits to his name in both television and film. In the 1980's and early 1990's, he frequently collaborated with friend and colleague, Emilio Estevez. The two met on the generation defining film Young Guns (1988) where Blake portrayed 'McCloskey', the Young Gun snitch, opposite Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Dermot Mulroney. Blake would go on to make four more films with Estevez as both an actor and director (Men at Work, Rated X, The War at Home, Nightbreaker). He also worked with other luminary filmmakers such as Ridley & Tony Scott (The Man in the High Castle, Enemy of the State), Paul Mazursky (The Pickle), Frank Darabont (Mob City), Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog), Roland Joffe in Texas Rising (2015) and numerous others. In addition, he has appeared in a multitude of Emmy Award winning series, mini-series, and movies for television with prolific content providers such as Steven Bochco, David Milch, Jerry Bruckheimer, Shonda Rhimes, David Shore, Paul Attanosio, Don Bellisario, and Dick Wolf, repeatedly reaching out to Blake to be on their shows.
Simultaneously, Blake stars in two series as recurring regulars. In Agent X for TNT, Blake portrays 'Gray Lawson', the Machiavellian Director of the CIA, opposite Academy Award Nominee Sharon Stone and James Earl Jones. He also recurs in Ridley Scott/Scott Free's The Man in the High Castle, Amazon Prime's highest rated and most critically praised one-hour drama to date. Based on the Phillip P. Dicks Hugo award winning Dystopian novel, Blake portrays 'Doc Meyer' the leader of the American East Coast resistance to the Nazi occupiers and nemesis to Rufus Sewell's menacing Third Reich killer sociopath.
In 2014, Blake spent five months in Durango, Mexico filming History Channel's 10-hour mini-series event Texas Rising (2015) directed by two-time Academy Award Nominee Roland Joffe (Killing Fields, The Mission). Blake came to the production by way of his colleague Bill Paxton, whom he previously worked opposite in Apollo 13 and Mighty Joe Young. Blake portrays 'Col. George Hockley'; confidant, agitate, right hand man and second in command to Paxton's 'General Sam Houston'. Blake relished at the opportunity of working with Paxton again as well with fellow actors Ray Liotta, Olivier Martinez, Brendon Fraser, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and numerous others.
Raised in Northern California, Blake sparked his love for acting and writing as a member of The American Conservatory Theatre at the ripe old age of 16. He started his career under the tutelage of John Housman at the USC School of Theatre. He went on to study with legendary acting teacher Peggy Feury at the Loft Studio, where among his classmates were his generation's finest actors (Sean Penn, Forrest Whitaker, Meg Ryan, Nicolas Cage, Michelle Pfeifer to name just a few). Later he studied with, often mentioned in Academy Award winner's speeches, Larry Moss.
Not only is Blake an award winning actor, he is also a highly respected screenplay writer alongside his scribe partner and wife, Marcia Blake. Together, they have written projects for A-Level film talent such as Robert Towne (Chinatown), Tom Cruise's production companies, Brad Pitt's Plan B, Robert Deniro's Tribeca, major studios, and HBO.
Together with Marcia, Blake has the great fortune of raising two sons. His family inspires and supports him in his creative endeavors where he strives and blessed to stay working at the top tiers of the Entertainment Industry.- Music Department
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Edie Lehmann Boddicker was born in Buffalo, New York, USA. She is a singer and vocal contractor, known for Dune 2, Nope (2022), Dune (2021) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). She has sung with Aretha, Madonna and Quincy Jones. She was an actress on General Hospital as Katharine Delafield. She has been married to Michael Boddicker since October 15, 1995. They have four adult children.- Music Department
- Actress
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Sally Stevens is a native of Los Angeles, attended UCLA, and began her work in film, television and sound recordings in 1960 while still at UCLA.. The first film score she sang on was "How The West Was Won", 1961, and the most recent, "Deadpool 2", in 2018. She worked in Variety TV on Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Carol Burnett. She contracted vocals for, and sings on Family Guy, The Simpsons and American Dad. She toured as soloist with Burt Bacharach, and earlier with Ray Conniff and Nat King Cole. Her choral and solo work includes hundreds of TV series and film scores, and in the mid-eighties she added Vocal Contracting to her work, contracting choirs for John Williams, Danny Elfman, Jamers Horner, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Marc Shaiman, Don Davis, Tyler Bates and many others. She has written lyrics for film, sound recordings and TV for composers Burt Bacharach, Dominic Frontiere, Don Ellis, Dave Grusin and others. She served as Choral Director for the Oscars broadcasts for over twenty years and sings on the Main Title of The Simpsons and Family Guy, still airing as of 2021.- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Recognized and Commended by the United States Congress, Maria Newman is an award-winning composer, violinist, violist and pianist. As an Annenberg Foundation Composition Fellow, a long-standing multiple Mary Pickford Foundation Composition Fellow, and violin soloist/featured composer in such diverse venues as the United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia's Academy of Music, Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Newman has become a visible symbol in modern classical music and makes her living from commissions and performance. Newman's scintillating and highly discussed works represent a range of genres, from large-scale orchestral works, works for ballet, chamber works, choral and vocal works, to new scores for restored classic silent film.
Maria Newman has been honored with numerous musical commendations and recognitions from the United States Congress, the Annenberg Foundation, the Mary Pickford Foundation, the California State Senate, the California State Assembly, the County of Los Angeles, the City of Malibu, and the Malibu Times periodical, and has appeared in subject spotlight articles by many of this nation's most noted and esteemed newspapers and magazines. She has received two Malibu Music Awards as "Classical Artist of the Year", the "Variety Composer Legend" Award, the coveted "Debut Award" from the Los Angeles "Young Musicians' Foundation," the California Arts Commission, the Utah Performing Arts Tour, and has been honored by ASCAP and many other organizations. Newman's works are featured regularly on public radio and television, as well as on Turner Broadcasting.
Newman was born into one of the most famous and influential musical families in Hollywood. She is the youngest daughter of nine-time Academy Award-winning film composer, Alfred Newman (1900-1970), who was the celebrated conductor of the original Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Maria Newman was educated at Yale University, where she graduated with an MM as a George Wellington Miles Fellow. While at Yale her studies in composition were with Martin Bresnick, and in violin with Syoko Aki. Newman received her BM Magna cum Laude from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. Newman is a member of the American Academic Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda. She has collaborated in concert as soloist with actor Pierce Brosnan, and has had the great honor of performing as soloist at the United States Capitol Building Complex on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., headlining a Special Event representing the Victim's Rights Bill.- Music Department
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Sandy De Crescent is known for Jurassic Park (1993), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and Starship Troopers (1997).- Music Department
The incredibly wide and diverse audience that Tom Boyd reaches through his oboe performances on over 1400 motion picture film scores makes him one of the most heard oboe players on the planet today.
Mr. Boyd attended The Julliard School and shortly thereafter won the Principal Oboe position in The Honolulu Symphony at the age of 21. After performing the standard orchestral repertoire of beloved greats such as Beethoven and Brahms (and surfing almost every day for ten years!), he decided to move to Los Angeles to see if he could break into the commercial studio scene. Three weeks later he found himself under the baton of John Williams playing principal oboe on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Mr. Boyd was a professor of music at the University of Hawaii for ten years and has become the new Professor of Oboe at Azusa Pacific University. He teaches and coaches many young and up and coming musicians throughout the United States.
Some of his larger films include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, King Kong, the Jurassic Park and Lethal Weapon series, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away. Most recently, he can be heard on The Bucket List, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Rush Hour 3 (composed by Lalo Schifrin), The Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Water for Elephants, and the upcoming film Big Miracle staring Drew Barrymore. Mr. Boyd is also no stranger to television and has performed in many well-known ceremonies including the Grammys, the Oscars, and the Latin Grammys, and has been on The Tonight Show several times including an appearance in the orchestra with Neil Diamond. Mr. Boyd has also performed on many albums including those by singing legends such as Barbra Streisand and Natalie Cole. He is currently involved in a recording project of John Denver songs with several world-class singers including Plácido Domingo and arrangements by Lee Holdridge. Those are just a few of the many enjoyable moments he has had in his musical career.- Music Department
James Thatcher is known for his work on Inception (2010), Predator (1987) and Watchmen (2009). He has been married to Coleen R Thatcher since 1975. They have five children. As of 2020 James Thatcher participated in 291 movies that were nominated for the Academy Award. That's more than anyone else in the history of the award.- Music Department
- Producer
Louise Di Tullio is known for War Horse (2011), Men in Black³ (2012) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002).- Music Department
- Additional Crew
- Composer
Ian Underwood was born on 22 May 1939 in New York, USA. He is a composer, known for Blade Runner (1982), No Way Out (1987) and Aliens (1986).- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Alan Kaplan is known for The Tomorrow War (2021), Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and Star Trek Beyond (2016).- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Brian O'Connor is known for I Am Number Four (2011), Star Trek (2009) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Michael Satterfield was born on 19 December 1967 in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and executive, known for Unhappily Ever After (1995) and Weird Science (1994).- Music Department
Sebastian Toettcher is known for The Island (2005), xXx (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Set Decorator
Michael Corenblith was born on 5 May 1951 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is a production designer and set decorator, known for Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000).- Music Department
- Editor
- Sound Department
Jim Henrikson is known for Apocalypto (2006), Avatar (2009) and Titanic (1997). He was previously married to Nancy Fogarty.- Music Department
Steve Becknell is known for Watchmen (2009), Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and Eight Legged Freaks (2002).- Music Department
Eun-Mee Ahn is known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and The Tomorrow War (2021).- Music Department
David Duke is known for I Am Number Four (2011), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and The Matrix (1999).- Music Department
Bob was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but that only lasted a couple years and he has been in Southern California since. He has performed on 300 movies and TV shows in addition to 30 years in the Pacific Symphony, 25 years in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, 22 seasons with Opera Pacific, and 45 years Hither and Yon in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Bob plays bass trombone and various and sundry low brass instruments, notably tuba and contrabass trombone.
Bob served as President of Local 7, American Federation of Musicians for 11 years and on its Executive Board for several decades prior to that.- Music Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
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Wainani Young-Tomich is known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Jurassic World (2015) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).- Music Department
Richard Todd is known for Eight Legged Freaks (2002), The Matrix (1999) and Star Trek Beyond (2016).- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Bob Bornstein was born on 14 May 1928 in New Jersey, USA. He is known for Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He was married to Audrey Lowell Bornstein and Audrey Lowell . He died on 18 February 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
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- Soundtrack
Michael Fisher is known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Watchmen (2009) and No Way Out (1987).- Music Department
Bill Booth is known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and The 5th Wave (2016).- Music Department
- Music Department
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Bob Zimmitti is known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and The Maze Runner (2014).- Music Department
- Visual Effects
- Art Department
- Writer
David B. Sharp is known for Sveener and the Shmiel (2009), Event Horizon (1997) and The Arrival (1996). He has been married to Marlene D. Moore since September 1980. They have two children.- Set Decorator
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Merideth Boswell is known for Apollo 13 (1995), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and Natural Born Killers (1994).- Sound Department
- Music Department
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- Director
- Producer
Stephen Sfetku was born on 24 October 1963 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Jurassic Park (1993), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and Dante's Peak (1997).- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects