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Attended the Air Force Academy Prep School after high school. He quit and switched over to Mississippi State to play football, but was forced to quit when he broke his hand. He then transferred to the University of the South, and graduated with a B.A. in psychology. He worked a year as a counselor at the Tennessee State Prison, then traveled around a bit before being asked to appear as an extra in a TV movie. He moved to Los Angeles in 1980, and sent in his picture to the makers of Tarzan the Ape Man (1981). The rest is history.

Thomas Morgan is an award-winning director and producer. He is best known for his films Soufra (2017) and Waiting for Mamu (2014). Morgan was the executive producer for India's Daughter, which received the Peabody award for journalism, as well as the Emmy-nominated film Silenced.

Morgan is the co-founder of Square Zero Films, a New York-based film production company. He received his honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Central Michigan University and has taught documentary film making to students around the world. Morgan is a father of four.

John Knight Holbrook was married to Florence. They had two children together Gladys Holbrook and John Holbrook Jr. They were living together in Ithaca NY from 1915-1919. John K. Holbrook was employed at the Wharton Studios located at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. John was the head cameraman of Wharton Inc., later he became a producer and director of silent films himself. He also filed many different patents as early as 1913 for color processing of film, and later he developed a micro-filming technique in the 1940's.

Blues singer/guitarist "Sleepy" John Estes--he got his nickname because he had the ability to take naps whenever and wherever he felt the need--was born in the small farming town of Ripley, TN, in 1904, to a family of poor sharecroppers. He was raised in the nearby town of Brownsville. A childhood accident resulted in his losing sight in his right eye. He taught himself to play guitar, and it wasn't long before he was performing at picnics and parties in the area, at times working with famed mandolin player Yank Rachell. In the 1920s Estes, Rachell and harmonica/jug player Hammie Nixon traveled to Memphis, TN, and performed in jug bands on street corners.

In 1929 Estes signed a recording contract with Victor Records. In 1931 he and Nixon moved to Chicago, where Estes also recorded for Decca Records, and in the 1940s he made some recordings for Bluebird Records, where his biggest hit, "Someday, Baby", became known as a blues classic and featured Estes' signature crying vocals and well-crafted lyrics. He eventually returned to Brownsville and slowed down his recording career, although he did occasionally travel to Memphis to record, often for Sam Phillips at the legendary Sun Records studio. Unfortunately, Estes eventually lost the sight in his left eye, also, leaving him completely blind. By the end of the 1950s he had faded from the blues scene (many fans actually thought he had died).

In 1962 Estes was discovered living in abject poverty in Brownsville. Thanks to a revival of interest in the blues at that time, Estes' career was revived, and he appeared in several blues documentaries in addition to going on the road and playing in clubs, concerts and blues and folk festivals. He also recorded an album, "Sleepy John Estes". He appeared at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival. He played again at the Newport Folk Festival in 1969 and at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival that same year. He appeared in the American Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife in 1970 and again in 1973.

He died in 1977 in Brownsville, TN.

Formerly a Marine Sergeant and top-notch Pinkerton detective, Easley began writing professionally in 1981. A junior in high school, he joined the staff of the Chester County Independent a weekly newspaper published in Henderson, Tennessee. Easley worked primarily as a reporter and photographer covering high school sports and student events. He currently lives in Tennessee and works as a freelance writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His work has appeared in P.I. Magazine, a national trade publication for professional private investigators. He recently completed work on the upcoming horror film, _Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2001)_.