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Craggy Irish-American James Naughton, a handsome charmer and solid character lead of crime stories, is best-known for his strong, cynical work on the musical stage. He firmly moved into films and especially TV roles, however, thanks to his Tony Award-winning Broadway success. A post-war baby and the older brother of actor David Naughton, the Connecticut native was born on December 1, 1945, the son of a pair of school teachers. Jim developed a taste for singing during his years performing at high school events.

Following studies at Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Jim made his off-Broadway debut in 1971 for his pungent portrayal of "Edmund" in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," for which he received a Theatre World Award. his Broadway debut with "I Love My Wife" in 1977, followed by "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" in 1980.

In the early 70's he made a strong impression in the TV movie version of the play Look Homeward, Angel (1972) starring Timothy Bottoms and followed that with a featured role in the acclaimed college dramedy The Paper Chase (1973) also starring Bottoms. This led to a brief, co-starring role opposite veteran Dan Dailey in the short-lived father/son detective TV series Faraday and Company (1973), which was one of a rotating series of four programs comprising "The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie," and as astronaut Pete Burke in the equally short-lived TV series version of Planet of the Apes (1974). In the meantime he also found guest roles on such crime series as "Mannix," "Joe Forrester" and "Barnaby Jones."

Jim continued diligently with work on TV throughout the 80s starring in three more quickly canceled TV programs -- as a high school dean in Making the Grade (1982); an emergency room team lead in the medical drama Trauma Center (1983); and a single dad raising a daughter in Raising Miranda (1988). He also had a light recurring role as Judith Light's ex-husband in the sitcom Who's the Boss? (1984). His smooth voice has often been heard on national TV commercials and in radio spots. He is provided narration on PBS television's Nature series.

JIm received bookend Tony Awards for his "Sam Spade"-like detective in the 1989 film noir musical "City of Angels" (1990) and as slick, shyster lawyer/razzle dazzler "Billy Flynn" in the revival of "Chicago" (1997). He would also direct such stage plays as Arthur Miller's "The Price" and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" with Paul Newman and Jane Curtin.

Sporadic, often restrained work in such films as the Stephen King horror opus Cat's Eye (1985), The Glass Menagerie (1987) (as the "Gentleman Caller"), The Good Mother (1988), First Kid (1996), The First Wives Club (1996), Oxygen (1999), Factory Girl (2006), Suburban Girl (2007), The Word (2013), Equity (2016) and The Independents (2018), which starred and was directed by his son Greg Naughton and featured actress/daughter Keira Naughton, usually had Jim cast as trustworthy husbands (well, not always) and well-dressed professionals. He possessed one of those strong, worldly faces you certainly know but may not quite place.

Into the millennium, Jim has had recurring roles on such series as Ally McBeal (1997), Gossip Girl (2007) and Hostages (2013). Naughton has also taken to the cabaret circuit where his simple, relaxed singing style was showcased in his award-winning one-man show "Street of Dreams." The show, which featured a number of eclectic songs from country and western to contemporary pop to classic standards, was seen at such venues as the Manhattan Theatre Club and Caroline's Comedy Club. His wife, former actress Pamela Parsons, died of cancer in 2013.

David Webb Peoples was born on 9 February 1940 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He is a writer and editor, known for Unforgiven (1992), Blade Runner (1982) and 12 Monkeys (1995). He is married to Janet Peoples.

Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).

He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Samuel Dassin and Berthe Vogel. Young Dassin grew up in Harlem, and he attended Morris High School in the Bronx, graduating in 1929. After taking acting classes in Europe, he returned to New York. In 1934, he became and actor with the ARTEF Players (Arbeter Teater Farband), and was a member of the troupe until 1939. Dassin played character roles in Yiddish, mainly in the plays by Sholom Aleichem. But upon discovering "that an actor I was not," he switched to directing and writing. At that time, he joined the Communist Party of the United States, but left the party in 1939, he said, disillusioned after the Soviet Union signed a pact with Adolf Hitler.

Dassin came to Hollywood in 1940, and was an apprentice to directors Alfred Hitchcock and Garson Kanin. In 1941, he made his directorial debut at MGM with adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Dassin's best directorial works for Hollywood include such criminal dramas as Brute Force (1947) starring Burt Lancaster; The Naked City (1948), one of the first police dramas shot on the streets of New York; and Night and the City (1950) starring Richard Widmark as a hustler in London who is caught up in his own schemes. While he was assigned by producer Darryl F. Zanuck to make the film, Dassin was accused of affiliation with the Communist Party in his past. Zanuck advised Dassin to "shoot the expensive scenes first, to hook the studio" so the film was finished and released in 1951. Dassin was reported to HUAC in a 1951 testimony by directors Edward Dmytryk and Frank Tuttle. That was enough to sink his career in Hollywood. Dassin was subpoenaed by HUAC in 1952 and eventually became blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

He left the United States for France in 1953 and struggled during his first years in Paris. He was not fluent in French, and his connections were limited. However, Dassin's low-budget film, Rififi (1955), famous for its long heist sequence that was free of dialog, won him the Best Director Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. There, he met the Greek actress Melina Mercouri. Later, Dassin co-starred opposite Mercouri in his film Never on Sunday (1960), which won the Best Film Award at Cannes in 1960. At that time, the anti-Communist witch hunt in America was fading, and Dassin was accepted again. He received two Academy Award-nominations for directing and screen-writing for Topkapi (1964), starring Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, and Peter Ustinov. Dassin also served as member of jury at the Cannes and several other international film festivals.

Jules Dassin was married twice. He had three children with his first wife, violinist Beatrice Launer. His son, Joe Dassin, was a popular French singer in the 1960s and '70s, with such hits as "Bip Bip," "L'Eté Indien" and "Aux Champs-Èlysées." In 1966, Jules Dassin married Mercouri, an ardent anti-fascist who lost her Greek citizenship for opposing the junta, and the couple was living in Manhattan, remaining very active in their efforts to restore democracy in Greece during the dictatorship of the Colonels. After 1974, the couple returned to Greece, Mercouri became a member of the Greek Parliament, and Culture Minister of Greece. While living in Athens, Dassin was active in the effort to bring the 2500-year-old Elgin marbles of the Parthenon back to Athens from their current location at the British Museum in London. In this and other humanitarian causes, Dassin followed the last will of his late wife.

Jules Dassin died of complications caused by a flu, on April 1, 2008, at age 96, at Hygeia Hospital in Athens, Greece. He is survived by two daughters and grandchildren.

Nicholas Tucci was born and raised in Middletown, CT. He graduated from Middletown High School before attending Yale University, where he received a BA in Theater and was a member of the sketch comedy group Suite 13. He had acted in numerous theatrical productions across the country, including multiple original works and many by William Shakespeare. He wrote several screenplays, both adapted and original, and all mainly rooted in the horror genre. A rabid, lifelong Stephen King fan, he owns a well-mannered Maine Coon cat named Church (after his favorite novel). Church is alive and well and lives in Middletown, albeit by a busy road.

Emma Tammi was born on 26 February 1982 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), The Wind (2018) and The Left Right Game (2020).

Darcey Silva was born on 13 September 1974 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for White T (2013), Darcey & Stacey (2020) and 90 Day Fiancé: B90 Strikes Back! (2020).

Emily Johnson was born on 11 August 1975 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Beowulf (2007), The Wild (2006) and Delivery (2016). She was previously married to Jens Kohler.

Joey Logano is a celebrated Nascar racing driver and winner of 2015 Daytona 500. As of this writing Joey is the lead of the final practice 62nd Daytona 500 scheduled race on February 16, 2020. Joey Logano began his racing career at the age of 6 in 1996. His first win was the Eastern Grand National Championship in the Jr. Stock Car Division in 1997. At age 10 Logan's family relocated to Georgia and he started stocking up win after win in many racing venues.

Conor Timmis was born on 17 October 1980 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Six Two Five, The Red Reina (2024) and Sensory Perception (2019).

Jeff Goldberg graduated from UCLA with honors in 2004, majoring in Mass Media Communication with a minor in Political Science. As a college senior, Goldberg interned for Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Productions, just prior to the release of The Passion of the Christ. Upon graduation, he was hired as an Agent Trainee at William Morris Agency, where he became first assistant to the Worldwide Head of Television, Sam Haskell. After leaving William Morris with Haskell, Goldberg assisted with the production of Mississippi Rising, a benefit concert that raised over $15 million for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. He went on to become the Director of Marketing for independent production company Every Tribe Entertainment during the release of the feature film, End of the Spear, which was one of the top ten grossing films of its opening weekend in 2006. Goldberg later became VP of Marketing and Distribution for EthnoGraphic Media, a documentary film company. In January 2009, Goldberg co-founded Toy Gun Films, an independent film production company that has produced award-winning short films in Colombia, Japan and South Africa.

David Garry grew up in Connecticut, and was a member of the Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater in his late teens. He had received awards for acting in high school, and had worked at the renowned Goodspeed Opera House before moving on to study Theater at the City University of New York. While he was there in New York City (1990-1994), he furthered his skills in acting with classes, college and community theater productions, and started to generate an income as an actor on stage.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1994, joined SAG-AFTRA early on, and had become a longtime performing member of the award-winning theater company, Theatre Neo (in which he had also served as board member and show producer). Amongst the many roles he's had on stage, in commercials, films, and television, a couple favorites include played the recurring role of 'Hanrahan' on 'Just Shoot Me!', and in 2013 David proudly produced and starred in the film, 'The Man Who Loved His Cat'.

In addition to the acting and performing world, David has been a filmmaker (Stuffed Whale Productions) having produced and directed 'Deaners', a documentary film on the fans of James Dean.

David is a Libra, loves cold sesame noodles, and hates evil.

Nate Barlow was born on 6 July 1975 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Tales from Beyond (2004), A Brief History of Hollywood (2020) and Chance (2002). He has been married to Debra Barlow since 26 August 2006.

Katharine Ingham was born on 15 August, 1902 at Middletown, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Samuel (1867-1949) and Clara Louise Northup Ingham (1874-1946). Her father was for 23 years the headmaster at Governor Dummer Academy, an all-boys school in South Byfield, Massachusetts. Later he would teach at Yale University and serve five terms in the Connecticut State Legislature. Growing up in South Byfield, Katherine was the only girl student aloud to attend her father's school. Later she attended Centenary Collegiate Institute, a co-educational, preparatory school in Hackettstown, New Jersey. Katherine did not go on to college, but instead began working at the age of eighteen as an entertainment journalist for the Boston Traveler.

It was around this time that she married Thomas Stewart Brush (1890-1938), the son of a wealthy newspaper publisher in Ohio. It was after Katharine and her husband moved to Liverpool, Ohio, that she began writing to ease her boredom. In 1927 her short story "Night Club" (Harper's Magazine) received an O. Henry Award honorable mention and two years later "Him and Her" (Collier's Weekly 16 March) was given the O. Henry "Best Short Short" Award of 1929.

Katharine's marriage ended amicably in 1929 over geography. She wanted to live in New York and he needed to stay in Ohio because of the family publishing business. Later that year she married Hubert Charles Winans, a New York banker who had made a fortune trading Midwest wheat for Brazilian coffee. At first they referred to their marriage as a "trial" and for a time maintained separate residences. The couple would later divorce after nearly twelve years of marriage.

During her career she published numerous short stories that were serialized in magazines like Harper's, College Humor and Cosmopolitan; some of the more popular were assembled in her book "Night Club" (1929). Her short stories "Good Wednesday", "Football Girl" and "The Birthday Party" are among her best remembered. Many of Katherine's works were usually set in the post First World War period and were typified by her ability to tell a good story with humor.

Of her books, "Young Man of Manhattan" (1930) and "Red Headed Woman" (1931) were by far the most successful. Katherine's other books include: "Glitter" (1926), "Little Sins" (1927), "Other Women" (1933) "Don't Ever Leave Me" (1935), "This Is On Me" (1940), "You Go Your Way" (1941), "The Boy from Maine" (1942), "Out of My Mind" (1943), "This Man and this Woman" (1944) and "When She was Bad" (1948).

Katharine Brush died after an illness of several months on 10 June, 1952, at St. Luke's Hospital in New York. The illness had prevented Katharine from finishing her last novel, "Lover Come Back", which was intended to be published that fall. She was survived by her son, publisher Thomas Stewart Brush Jr., who at the time his death in 1992, had been a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera Association since 1978.

Dean Acheson was born on 11 April 1893 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He died on 12 October 1971 in Sandy Spring, Maryland, USA.

Ben Fisher was born on 8 May 1986 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Good News (2019), Sexually Frank (2012) and A Lovely Lady (2007).

Tony Pastor was born on 26 October 1907 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Let's Rock (1958) and Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947). He died on 31 October 1969 in Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA.

September 19, 1922- November 23, 2006 was an Italian-American boxer who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career,Won 229 a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts. Pep, known for his speed and finesse, is considered to be one of the best fighters of the 20th century and was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1977, Pep was elected to the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.

In 1990, Pep was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame as a member of the Hall's original class. Pep, who enjoyed giving out autographs to his fans, worked there as a volunteer alongside fellow former world champion boxer and friend Carmen Basilio.

As of March 2006, Pep resided at a nursing home in Connecticut, suffering from Dementia pugilistica, before his death on November 23, 2006. He is buried in Rocky Hill, CT. He has two children William"Billy"Papaleo and Mary Papaleo Both reside in Wethersfield Ct

Arthur Hoops was born in 1870 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Song of Hate (1915), Mistress Nell (1915) and Such a Little Queen (1914). He was married to Mabel Amber. He died on 16 September 1916 in Long Island, New York, USA.

Allie Wrubel was born on 15 January 1905 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was a composer, known for Blood Simple (1984), The Wedding Planner (2001) and Anything Else (2003). He died on 13 December 1973 in Twentynine Palms, California, USA.

Hal Hackady was born on 10 February 1922 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer and composer, known for Hey, Let's Twist! (1961), Senior Prom (1958) and Lights Out (1946). He died on 12 October 2015 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.

Michael Jude Murphy was born on 8 September 1969 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. Michael Jude is a director, known for 6 Brothaz in a Cadillac (2006), Rare Objects (2023) and Which Brings Me to You (2023).

David Giardina was born on 23 October 1962 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Taffy Was Born (2004), Through the Woods (2012) and Walking Virtues (2024).

Maud Granger was born on 25 December 1849 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The White Pearl (1915), Zaza (1915) and The Runaway Wife (1915). She was married to W.R. Baxter and Alfred Cecil Calmour (1857-1912) playwright. She died on 17 August 1928 in New York City, New York, USA.

Composer ("Oh, Promise Me") and author, educated at St. John's College in Oxford, England. He also studied with Lebert, Pruckner, Vannucini, von Suppe, Genee, and Delibes. He earned an honorary Mus. D. at Racine College. He first worked in a brokerage firm, and also owned a dry-cleaning business in 1882, becoming a music critic for the Chicago Evening Post in 1889 and Harper's Weekly from 1895-1897, and the New York World between 1898 and 1900 and again between 1907 and 1912. He organized and conducted the Washington, D.C. Symphony Orchestra between 1902 and 1904, and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and also ASCAP since 1929. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Begum", "Robin Hood", "The Knickerbockers", "The Algerian", "The Fencing Master", "Rob Roy", "The Highwayman", "Papa's Wife", "The Little Duchess", "Maid Marian", "Red Feather", "Happyland", and "The Beauty Spot". His chief musical collaborator was Harry B. Smith, and his other popular-song compositions include "Brown October Ale", "Sweetheart, My Own Sweetheart", "The Spinning Song", "Little Boy Blue", "My Home Is Where the Heather Blooms", "Come, Lads of the Highlands", "Dearest Heart of My Heart", "Do You Remember Love?", "Moonlight Song", Gypsy Song", and "Hammock Love".

Vinny Imperati, also known as "Skinny Vinny" was born in Middle Town, CT October 17, 1987. The first taste of any production work came at the age of 13 when he first fell in love with the video camera. He produced, filmed and edited his first project "Momentum", which was a 23 minute skate boarding video that consisted of a few of his friends he grew up with. "Momentum" premiered on his local television station and also won him a multimedia award while being a sophomore in high school. Growing up his inspirations were "Jackass", "CKY", "Big Brother Magazine", and looked up to Bam Margera, Steve O, Spike Jones, Rick Kosick, and Jonny Knoxville. In his late teens he fell in to the world of alcohol and drugs and his passion and love for film and production slowly faded away. By the time he turned 25 years old he was fully addicted to heroine and cocaine, and was homeless from the ages of 26-29 and the dream of moving to Hollywood no longer existed. October of 2017 Vinny found his way to Los Angeles, CA for the attempt of getting sober but just found himself living on the streets of downtown Los Angeles with no hope of ever finding sobriety. Going in and out of treatment centers with no luck, he found himself giving up. February 2018 his ended up in a sober Living in Culver City Los Angeles called "Design for Recovery". There is where he found a glimmer of hope, and first met friend/co-star Zach Holmes. Zach invited Vinny to help film a video for Zach's social media, then is when Zach noticed that Vinny had experience behind the camera. Fast forward almost five years, and almost five years of full sobriety, Vinny and Zach have gone on to work and become close friends with the very people they looked up to as kids. Vinny has worked along side, Bam Margera, Steve O, and many more, and has been involved in projects in front of the camera such as, "Your Pranks our Show" Ft Vinny and Zach, Youtube sensation "Send it City" "What the Fudge Podcast" Starring Zach and Vinny and "Whacked out Sports". Vinny has also made cameos in music videos for Musician Chad Tepper. January 2023 Vinny was brought on as one of the Co-Hosts of Steve O's "Wildride Podcast" and has appeared in numerous videos posted by Steve-O.