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- Wichita, Kansas-born Alan Fudge was an American actor with scores of television credits, including, notably Man from Atlantis (1977), Eischied (1979), Paper Dolls (1984), and Bodies of Evidence (1992). He made guest appearances on such shows as Banacek, Kojak, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House on the Prairie, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Lou Grant, Knots Landing, Magnum, P.I., Cagney & Lacey, The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, Dallas, MacGyver, Dynasty, Matlock, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Home Improvement, Beverly Hills, 90210, Baywatch, Dawson's Creek, and 7th Heaven.
- Reed Jr. was in several episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) playing beatniks and hippies. In one episode, the Clampett family take in a hippie after he has an accident because he couldn't take his eyes off Ellie May as he passed the Clampett estate. Another episode dealt with saving the hippie coffeehouse to which Milburn Drysdale held the deed and wanted to evict the beatniks. In two later episodes, "Robin Hood of Griffith Park" and "Robin Hood and the Sheriff", Reed returns, leading a merry band of hippies who encounter the Clampetts fresh off their trip to England. They all play Robin Hood in Griffith Park, but even they find Granny's offer to smoke crawdads a little too far out there.
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Born to James Upshaw Crenshaw (a gentleman farmer and city clerk) and his wife, Mozelle Gillentine (a nurse), Brevard graduated from high school and college in Tennessee and later hitchhiked to San Francisco, California, becoming a headline performer at the famous "drag club", Finnocios, performing as Marilyn Monroe live. Monroe reportedly came to see one of Brevard's shows due to the rave reviews. Brevard died of pulmonary fibrosis after a short period in hospice care. Brevard's only immediate survivor was a sister.- Matronly or grandmotherly, Alma Kruger appeared onscreen between 1935-47. She was 64 years old when she made her film debut in William Wyler's These Three (1936). She then proceeded to appear in over 40 films in the space of little more than a decade, appearing in, among others, Mother Carey's Chickens (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944), and Saboteur (1942). She was likely best-known as head nurse "Molly Byrd" in the Dr. Kildare and Dr. Gillespie films of the 1930s/40s. She died at age 88 in 1960.
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Andy Rooney was born in Albany in January 1919 and grew up in the Capital District (of NYS), the son of Walter and Elinor (Reynolds) Rooney. He attended Colgate Academy. In 1941, at the age of 22 he was drafted into the Army and was posted to London, where he began writing for Stars and Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper and later in the war he became one of the first US journalists to report on the Nazi concentration camps. He began working as a broadcast journalist in 1949 for CBS. He established a name for himself over many years as a correspondent and commentator. He is probably best remembered by TV audiences for his regular closing segment on 60 Minutes (1968), "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney". He died in November 2011, aged 92, having continued working until just a few weeks earlier.- Director
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Anna Wilding is a leading and award winning creator in feature film, television, music video and photography. Anna Wilding is cited in print media as "truly multi talented" and "iconic" for her work behind the lens and on screen and stage. Anna Wilding is an award-winning director, actress, writer, producer and still photographer. In addition Anna founded a known film company in London - Moving Horse Pictures, and runs Kalon Film Group LLC and Broader Horizon Entertainment LLC . Anna Wilding is a dual American citizen. Ms Wilding's work has contributed to over $1.5 billion in the global box office.
Ms Wilding is known in America and internationally . Anna works in both the studio and art house feature films, documentaries, television, streaming , cable business, music video's and tours solo art exhibits in galleries and Museums.Ms Wilding directed and/or co-produced major music videos for major rock stars and record labels. Anna is a leading movie industry consultant.
In 2015-2017, Ms Wilding pivoted and served as Chief White House Correspondent including on-air broadcaster and Presidential photographer. Anna took some of the most well known and acclaimed images of President Obama White House. Her photographic work appears in magazines, newspapers . Her acclaimed "Celebrate Hope-the Obama Collection" photography exhibit tours as a solo exhibit with multiple month long showings in major art galleries . Ms Wilding's photographic and fine art work tours worldwide from Rome to Hong Kong to Los Angeles and hangs in Collections worldwide.In 2021 Anna made the first ever authentic President Obama ,Mrs Michelle Obama, and President Biden NFT's. Many of Anna's images have gone viral.
"Anna's Obama Images make me think ... I call it 'Obama Classicism" after the great masters ... Raphael and Leonardo DaVinci."-said one Collector of Anna Wilding's work noted cinematography luminary Sherman Woody Owens A.S.C and former chair of USC Cinematography
Anna judged in the Australian Atom Film and TV Awards in 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2018 and served on the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) nominating committee 2021
Anna has often fought and negotiated for female equality and pay parity in Hollywood. On October 10, 2017, Anna broke her silence in mainstream media about her experiences with Harvey Weinstein where she had said "No" to his advances and the effect on that on her contracts as actor. Her interviews went viral. Ms Wilding was interviewed for an extensive exclusive 30 minute segment with Vinnie Politan on Court TV in 2020. Anna had been on the record in prior years speaking out and against the "casting couch".
Around 2006, Wilding it is well known that stood up and spoke out at a Directors Guild event in New York about the lack of female directors following yet again, another all male panel. In 2007, Wilding was also specifically and formally thanked for her important and powerful consultant producer work on all three "Lord of the Rings" films by producers and New Line studio executives Mark Ordesky and Bob Shaye.
Ms Wilding, as a film executive and in house producer and founder was nicknamed "Queen of the Independents" by industry insiders in the height of of independent art house motion pictures in the late1990's when Fox Searchlight, Paramount Screen Gems, Sony Picture Classics all started to some into existence to accommodate this new independent era of commercial filmmaking .
As an actress in 1993, she played the newsworthy "battered wife" (Gail) ever seen on prime time New Zealand television on the long running, award winning Shortland St. Clips of her work on the show were exhibited at that year's TV Awards; the show won for Best Drama TV Series. As an actress Anna was first discovered by Disney casting as a teenager in New Zealand . Anna cut her teeth in professional theater picking up awards for improvisational theater , performing at Second City as guest performer , as well performing in classics such as Midsummer's Night Dream off Broadway
Wilding directed and starred in the theatrically released and popular award winning and critically acclaimed hit feature documentary film (Warners/WEA) Buddha Wild Monk in a Hut. (as Narrator/Presenter and Director, Writer and Producer. Anna's additional responsibilities also included cinematography). The film qualified and was considered front-runner for the Oscars, is archived at Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences by official invitation, played out of competition at Sundance, and was nominated for and won an award in Best Feature Documentary USA by Kids First and the Coalition Of Quality Media -a collection of major US studios; the film played for over 60 days in cinemas. Other notable films directed by Wilding include "Pop Culture Punk Art", which was selected for Cannes SFC 2010, and "White Sands", and the feature documentary "Faultline" 2014, about the New Zealand earthquakes which screened and sold to institutions around the world. Ms Wilding later released it as a public service given the value of knowledge for active crisis zones.
From ages 10-15 she was a competitive tennis player. Headlines read at the time, "Wilding Keeps the Flag Flying." Wilding won her first tournament at the age of ten after hitting balls with a stick against a shed in a country paddock. Her family could not afford the trip to Florida to train with Bolitteri. She was first discovered as an actress by a New Zealand agent and then discovered by visiting Disney casting directors at the age of 16, who urged her to pursue an acting career internationally. Anna left for Australia and the USA in her teens to do that, working successfully on TV in comedy shows, feature film, and professional theater in New Zealand and Australia and then London and the USA. Professional theater shows included: Heloise and Abelard, Dazzle (at Auckland Town Hall), Midsummer's Night Dream (off-Broadway in New York), and When Harry Met Sally (Pasadena Arts Center, Los Angeles). Wilding has undertaken several guest star appearances including performing live at the televised Celebrity West Coast New York Tony Awards 2000 in the USA and stand up in 2019 .
Among other major music videos Wilding directed and/or co-produced for artists ranging from Rolling Stones to UB40, Stanley Jordan, and David Parker in the 1990's. In 2005, her long-form music video "Rebel In Me" (made for the International Songwriter of the Year 2004-World Music Awards-Moana and the Moa Hunters) was nominated for 2005 Los Angeles Femme Film Festival and played to rapturous applause in a packed house in downtown Los Angeles. Wilding's music videos have been seen on extensive play at MTV, VH1, etc.
Wilding won her first acting award as "Best Actress" at the International Theatre festival at the age of 19 for the comedy "The Patience of Silence", a play which she also wrote, directed and produced. Anna is known for her improvisational skills . She was professional Theatresports (improvisational comedy) player and won the "Audience Favorite Award".
Before traveling to USA, Wilding took up an acting scholarship she had won at the prestigious VCA in Melbourne, a winter program studying with a renowned New York method coach. Wilding was 1 of 25 actors, selected by American nationwide auditions to the former National Shakespeare Conservatory New York program (Yale) where she studied directly under one of Meryl Streep's tutors. This was a serendipitous turn as Wilding had often been compared to a young Streep in range. Wilding's audition was held at the old Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles (former home of the Oscar telecasts) as exciting moment, coming from NZ Anna hopes to never forget.
Wilding moved to Los Angeles by herself at the suggestion of casting directors. Wilding did not have a mentor in Hollywood, and worked three jobs in production and editing houses at one time, to support herself. Anna collaborated on major music videos and long form rock documentaries with major pop and rock icons and earned producer positions in key production houses leading to directing and producing major rock music videos for major artists.
Wilding, unwilling to deal with the "casting couch", still prevalent in those years, put her acting career on hold multiple times. She worked and enjoyed the challenge of the craft and business aspects of production. She continues to work in both freelance and executive ranks of the mainstream movie and film business.
Anna was soon an executive on several high profile independent film companies including Moving Horse Pictures out of London. Anna made an industry name in production and in-house producer and Exec positions in the mid-late 1990s in the mainstream commercial independent feature film scenes in LA and London. Anna Wilding had a hand in many significant and award winning films and projects.Industry insiders nicknamed her the "queen of the independents". As an executive of production companies in the 1990s, she was one of the first women in recent Hollywood history to fight for equal pay, and opportunity in Hollywood. It was rarely forthcoming and it is a fight that continues by women in Hollywood to this day.
Wilding founded the registered charity Wilding Foundation in New Zealand and it ran from 2009-2018. In February 2011, Wilding started an emergency relief fund-raising appeal for victims of the earthquake in her hometown of Christchurch. She returned to NZ to work on the ground voluntarily for the charity over a year.- Cristea Avram was a Romanian actor. He appeared in many Romanian movies of the 1960. In 1963-64, a French team came to Romania to make a film and used some of the Romanian crew available there. Avram met actress Marina Vlady and succeeded in petitioning the Romanian government to allow him to visit France. He never returned to Romania.
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Christopher Malcolm Bruno was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in the small town of Milford, Connecticut with his now-deceased mother, Nancy Mendillo, but also spent a substantial amount of time with his father, Scott Bruno, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He developed an appreciation for the arts but had no intention of pursuing it as a career. He attended college in Vermont where he skied on the ski-team while studying Psychology.
During his sophomore year he was temporarily sidelined with an injury so he decided to try something different. He auditioned for a play, Machiavelli's "The Mandrake" and was cast as the lead. Having discovered a new passion for the arts, Bruno transferred to Stony Brook University where he changed his major to Theater and was a walk-on starting pitcher for their baseball team. His fastball was clocked at 90 miles per hour and he finished with a 6-0 record his senior year and broke three school records for strikeouts, wins and games pitched. Those records were later broken by The Minnesota Twins perennial all-star Joe Nathan.
After college, Chris moved to New York full-time and, after several bartending jobs, he landed a two year contract on NBC's Another World (1964). During his first year on the show Chris was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award as "Outstanding Newcomer". A few years later he was cast as Michael Delaney on All My Children (1970), a gay school teacher who loses his job to social prejudice. The writers won an Emmy that year for his groundbreaking storyline. He relocated to Los Angeles to move his career to the next level. He performed stand-up comedy at The Improv and was discovered by an exec at Warner Bros and subsequently was cast on "Suddenly Susan", "The Nanny", "Jesse", and a recurring role on Alan Ball's series, Oh Grow Up (2006).
In 1998, Chris and his brother, Dylan Bruno, were cast in Lorenzo Carcaterra's dark and gritty New York cop show "The Force" for The WB. He was cast as Walt Bannerman in Stephen King's The Dead Zone (2002), which ran for six seasons on USA Network. In the summer of 2004, he produced and starred in the feature film "Last of the Romantics", and again worked alongside his brother. During his hiatus from The Dead Zone, he completed work on the feature film "The World's Fastest Indian" opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins.
In the last season of The Dead Zone, he was able to exercise his directing skills as he helmed an episode entitled "Independence Day" which again included an appearance by his brother, Dylan Bruno. They dedicated this episode to the memory of their mother, Nancy Mendillo Bruno, who had died from breast cancer earlier that year. After the show was canceled, he landed recurring television roles on Numb3rs (2005) and Prison Break (2005), and later appeared in the movie Prison Break: The Final Break (2009). He was the male lead in The Cell 2 (2009). He had a long run doing guest starring roles on Castle (2009), Southland (2009), NCIS (2003), and NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) . In 2013, he teamed up with his cousin, Vohn Regensburger, to produce and star in the feature film, A Remarkable Life (2016), in which he and Dylan played actual brothers for the first time. Upon wrapping, he immediately went to work on Lifetime's Sorority Surrogate (2014) and was a recurring character on ABC's Family Tools (2013) as the husband of Leah Remini's character.
In 2013, he joined the cast of ABC Family's The Fosters (2013) as Adam, and subsequently played Danny on MTV''s Awkward. (2011). On December 8, 2017, he made his professional debut as an MMA fighter.- Actor
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Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington, to Kathleen Louise (Indahl), who worked at a supermarket, and Daniel Clifton Pratt, who remodeled houses. He is of mostly Norwegian descent. He graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 1997, and has two older siblings, Cully and Angie.
Chris came to prominence for his small-screen roles, including Bright Abbott in Everwood (2002), Ché in The O.C. (2003), and Andy Dwyer and Parks and Recreation (2009), and notable film roles in Moneyball (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Delivery Man (2013), and Her (2013). In 2014, he broke out as a leading man after headlining two of the year's biggest films: he voiced Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014) & starred as Peter Quill/Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). In 2015, he headlined the sci-fi thriller Jurassic World (2015), the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and his most financially successful film. In 2016, he co-starred in the remake The Magnificent Seven (2016), with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, and appeared with Jennifer Lawrence in the sci-fi drama Passengers (2016). In the near future, he returns as Star-Lord for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) not far behind.- Peller was born in Russia in 1902, one of eight or nine children of Wolf Swerdlove (Swerdlov/Sverdlov; died 1949) and Yudis (aka "Julia") Tilkin (or Tilken; died 1952). The family emigrated to the United States when she was a child, settling in Chicago. In 1925, Clara Swerdlove married a local jeweler, William Peller. The couple had two children (a son, Leslie, and a daughter, Marlene) before divorcing some eight years later. Clara worked as a manicurist for thirty-five years at a local Chicago beauty salon. She moved to a North Shore apartment to be closer to her daughter after she retired. Peller was hired as a temporary manicurist for a television commercial set in a Chicago barbershop. The agency which produced the commercial was so impressed by her uniquely harsh foghorn voice and gruff, no-nonsense manner they signed her as an actress. Peller became a surprise celebrity in her early 1980s with her delightfully cantankerous appearances in a series of extremely funny TV commercials for the fast food chain Wendy's in which she loudly grumbled the memorable catchphrase, "WHERE'S THE BEEF ?", upon seeing an oversized hamburger bun with a centered greatly reduced in size hamburger. Peller capitalized on her newfound fame by making guest appearances as herself on a 1984 episode of "Saturday Night Live" and the pay-per-view cable TV WrestleMania 2 (1986). Peller briefly popped up in the "Remote Control Man" episode of Amazing Stories (1985) and had small roles in the films Moving Violations (1985) and The Stuff (1985). She echoed her legendary refrain on a .45 single called "Where's the Beef?", written and recorded by Coyote McCloud. In addition, there were such spin-off memorabilia items as coffee mugs, beach towels, t-shirts, a board game, and even a Clara Peller doll. However, Peller was fired by Wendy's for appearing in a TV commercial for Prego Pasta Plus spaghetti sauce, in which she held a large jar and joyfully exclaims, "I found it! I really found it!" Peller died at age 85 on 11 August 1987 in her native Chicago from congestive heart failure and coronary atherosclerosis.
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A promising blue-to-gray-eyed, blonde-haired child actress of the post-WWII years who had more talent than she was given credit for, little Constance Beekman "Connie" Marshall was born on April 28, 1933 in New York City. Her parents were not of show business stock, her father being a lieutenant with the Allied Military Government in Europe. She was a direct descent of this country's fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall, and was a descendant of Gerardus Beekman, the first Colonial Governor of New York.
Sensitive-looking and sad-eyed, Connie Marshall broke into the competitive side of show business quite young as a pig-tailed model for commercial newspapers and magazines. Frequently used by New York photographers, artists and caricaturists, she began her acting career a year later by happenstance. A failed screen test taken in Hollywood was, by luck, seen by 20th Century-Fox director Lloyd Bacon, who just happened to be casting the role of little Mary Osborne in the warm family comedy-drama, Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944). The film went on to star the future husband and wife team of Anne Baxter and John Hodiak, who first met and fell in love while shooting this picture. Director Bacon stopped looking when he came across young Connie.
Educated at the Gardner School in New York, where she appeared in a few plays, and the Fox Studio School, Connie also studied ballet and ballroom dancing. She made a strong impression in her very first film, with a natural forlorn ease as one of the Osborne children that also included up-and-coming Bobby Driscoll. With Connie's second picture Sentimental Journey (1946), she was handed her best weepy-eyed showcase. Terminally ill Julie Beck (played by Maureen O'Hara) adopts an orphan girl (played by Marshall) so Julie's husband, William (John Payne), will have someone to care for after she passes away. Connie held her own and received rave reviews.
She continued to show precocious promise in the post-war years in both sentimental drama and lightweight comedy with Dragonwyck (1946) as the daughter of Vincent Price; Home, Sweet Homicide (1946) as an amateur young sleuth who tries to solve a neighborhood murder aided by brother and sister Peggy Ann Garner and Dean Stockwell; Mother Wore Tights (1947) as the daughter of song-and-dance team Betty Grable and Dan Dailey; and the noted comedy classic, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) as the elder daughter of the titular couple, Mr. and Mrs. Blandings (played by, respectively, Cary Grant and Myrna Loy). She would work with the silver screen's top movie stars over the years, including Gene Tierney and Joan Crawford, but once she outgrew her precociousness, her career began to fade away. She attempted TV with the short-lived series Doc Corkle (1952) and appeared as a feisty teen co-star opposite Gene Autry in his film oater Saginaw Trail (1953), but by 1954, after an unbilled part in Rogue Cop (1954), she was out of the business.
Marshall was forgotten until 2006 when -- five years after her passing -- news of her death on May 22, 2001 at age 68 from cancer became public. Although her potential was never fully utilized, she most certainly deserves a place in the Hollywood annals as one of filmdom's more talented young actors.- Courtney Pledger was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Millsaps College (Jackson, Mississippi) with a B.A. in Theater Arts. After beginning her career as an actress in New York and Los Angeles, she moved over to the production side when, on a trip to Upstate New York with a friend, she discovered the story of housewife-turned-activist Lois Gibbs, whose life became the subject of Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982), a 1982 CBS film, starring Academy Award-winning actress Marsha Mason.
She went on to produce the Emmy-winning A Killing in a Small Town (1990), Challenger (1990) (a mini-series for ABC), and the ABC/London Weekend Television/Television France series A Fine Romance (1989). During these years, she was a high level executive for several film/TV production companies, including Hearst Entertainment, The IndieProd Company, and IndieProd/Rastar. She later moved to London, and, in 2000, partnered with British producer Sarah Radclyffe on Jigsaw Films, which has developed a number of high-profile studio projects. Films which she has co-produced include Cherub: The Recruit, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009), State of the Art (2019), and Kensuke's Kingdom (2023). - Actress
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Damaris Hayman was an English character actress often cast in upper class or eccentric roles. Born in 1929 in Kensington, London, and educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. After repertory work in the theatre, she made her film début in The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) in an uncredited role as a sixth former.
Apart from scores of small parts, Hayman appeared in the Doctor Who (1963) serial, "The Dæmons" (1971; episodes 1-5) as Miss Hawthorne, the self-proclaimed White Witch of the village of Devil's End. 'Doctor Who, the Television Companion' described her character as "very memorable" and praised Hayman as being "perfectly cast in the role, her engaging performance adding much to the story".
She appeared in Citizen James (1960), Comedy Playhouse (1961), Steptoe and Son (1962), Ours Is a Nice House (1969), Happy Ever After (1974), The Sweeney (1975), and One Foot in the Grave (1990). She worked with Ronnie Barker, appearing in one episode of his final series, Clarence (1988). She appeared in The Liver Birds (1969) as Miss Rigby and in Duty Free (1984)'s A Duty Free Christmas (1986). After appearing in a sketch in Tony Hancock's last television series in 1967, she became a close friend of the comedian in the remaining year of his life.
Hayman died in 2021, shortly before her 92nd birthday.- Stunts
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Dana Farwell Smith is an American stuntman and actor. He graduated from Coldwater High School in Coldwater, Michigan. He later attended a Saturday morning stunts program which would change his life and shape his career.
With a background in motocross and karate he headed to Los Angeles to try his luck at a career in film and television. He changed his name to Dane Farwell as there was already an actor with a similar name. After some background work in television and films, he landed his first big break on The Flash (1990) as a stunt double.- Actor
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David Ladd's professional career in Hollywood spans more than 40 years, beginning when he was a young boy performing in several films with his father, the legendary leading man Alan Ladd (his mother was actress Sue Carol). In the years since his first role, he has gone on to become a teenage film star, a senior production executive at MGM, and the producer of several studio films. He earned a degree in business administration from the University of Southern California (USC).
He first began working in production for ABC Television, producing movies and variety specials. He then moved to Columbia as a creative executive, before partnering with renowned producer John Veitch. Ladd's first solo producing credit on a motion picture was on the Wes Craven thriller, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). Under his production banner, David Ladd Films, he produced MGM's A Guy Thing (2003), directed by Chris Koch (starring Jason Lee and Julia Stiles); and Hart's War (2002), the critically-acclaimed World War II courtroom drama (starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell and Terrence Howard). Previously, Ladd served as Executive Vice-President of production for MGM.
During his nine years at the studio, he was instrumental in its resurgence, having supervised the development and production of numerous films, including Get Shorty (1995) (starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito); the courtroom thriller Red Corner (1997) (starring Richard Gere); Mulholland Falls (1996); The Cutting Edge (1992); and Untamed Heart (1993), among others.- Producer
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David Miller was an internationally established producer who oversaw independent productions in Canada and abroad, under Poor Man's Productions and his DRM Productions shingle company. While in the early stages of his independent production career, Miller was the Director of Creative & Business Development at Channel Zero Inc. (home of Movieola-The Short Film Channel, Silver Screen Classics and Ouat Media Distribution) and wrote and produced the 18th Annual Gemini Awards (Night 1 and 2).
Miller worked in Public Relations for various organizations such as the National Film Board of Canada, the Academy of Canadian Cinema, and freelanced on various films. During his time at the NFB Miller attained success leading the organization's 2004 Oscar; campaign, where the NFB received their 1967 and 1968 Academy Award nominations and an Oscar; for the film 'Ryan'.
Miller garnered numerous international awards including a 2009 Genie nomination for Best Motion Picture for the multi-award winning feature film 'Amal' (by Richie Mehta). The film has garnered more than twenty prestigious awards -- ranging from Best Feature Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to Best Feature at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles to the Audience Award at the AFI Dallas Film Festival.
David Miller was a standing member of the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) and sits on the CMPA Feature Film Committee. In addition, he was President of A71 Productions Inc.- Actress
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Plump and personable character actress Diana Bellamy was born on September 19, 1943 in Los Angeles. She graduated with a master's degree in Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1970.
Diana Alice Bellamy began her acting career in puppet theater in her native Los Angeles. On the big screen, she had such memorable small roles as a sassy whorehouse madam in Outrageous Fortune (1987), a sharp-tongued secretary in Outbreak (1995), and a sarcastic White House switchboard operator in Air Force One (1997). On television, Bellamy played Mrs. Pennington in The Nest (1987) and Grace Woods in Spellbinder (1988), and had recurring parts as Maggie Poole on 13 East (1989) and as Mrs. Cha-Cha Rimba Starkey on Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (1994). Among the many series on which she made one-off appearances were "Married with Children", "Melrose Place", "Nash Bridges", "Wings", "Murphy Brown", "Baywatch", "Quantom Leap", "Alien Nation", "Family Ties", "Newhart", "Hunter", "The Fall Guy", "Hill Street Blues", and "T.J. Hooker".
Outside of her film and television credits, Bellamy did a substantial amount of stage acting: She did three seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and also acted in stage productions of "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You" (as the title character), "The House of Blue Leaves", and "The Skin of Our Teeth".
Despite suffering from cancer, diabetes, and blindness in the last five years of her life, she continued to act. Her last roles included the blind Principal Cecelia Hall on Popular (1999) and the crippled Mrs. Nichols onstage in "The Ladies of the Corridor". Bellamy died on June 17, 2001 at age 57 at her home in Valley Village, California.- Actor
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Blond, boyishly handsome Dwayne Hickman, the younger brother of Darryl Hickman, followed in his sibling's tiny footsteps as a moppet film actor himself. Born Dwayne Bernard Hickman in Los Angeles on May 18, 1934, the brothers had a younger sister as well, Deidre (born 1940). He had minor roles in such films as Captain Eddie (1945) (Darryl had a major role in this), The Secret Heart (1946), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), Mighty Joe Young (1949), The Happy Years (1950) (again with Darryl in a major role), and topped his youthful film career as "Nip Worden" in the canine movie series "Rusty", which began with The Son of Rusty (1947) and ended with Rusty's Birthday (1949).
Graduating from Cathedral High School in 1952 (Darryl graduated from the same school in 1948), Dwayne enrolled at Loyola Marymount University. He returned to Hollywood following college studies and, unlike his brother, focused strongly on television work, making appearances on such series as Public Defender (1954), The Loretta Young Show (1953), The Lone Ranger (1949), and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952). He also appeared in the Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward comedy film Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) playing the secondary teen couple with Tuesday Weld. He grabbed major comedy attention, especially from young female baby-boomers, as Chuck, the girl-crazy nephew, in The Bob Cummings Show (1955). (Cummings became his mentor.)
Hickman then played the titular lovesick title high school teen in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959), the role for which he is best known, and in which he was reunited with Tuesday Weld as the prime object of his attention, although Weld did not remain with the series for the entirety of its run. Laying low for a few years, Hickman returned to the screen, making a strong impression in the western film Cat Ballou (1965), and then began hanging out with the young beach crowd in several AIP movies including Ski Party (1965), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), and a few slapstick comedies such as Sergeant Dead Head (1965) and Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967). He guested on a mix of comedic and dramatic TV shows including Combat! (1962), Mod Squad (1968), Ellery Queen (1975), The Flying Nun (1967), and Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974).
In the 1970s, Hickman began working behind the scenes as a publicist, a Las Vegas entertainment director and, most successfully, as a programming executive for CBS. He would return only occasionally to acting. He revisited his Dobie Gillis character, albeit a fully grown-up version, in such made-for-television movies as Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977) and Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988). In addition to guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote (1984) and Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991), he appeared in glorified cameos in High School U.S.A. (1983), had a recurring role on Clueless (1996), and was glimpsed in Cops n Roberts (1995), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), and Angels with Angles (2005). He began episodic directing chores in the 1980's, working on such episodes as "Charles in Charge", "Designing Women", "Head of the Class", "Harry and the Hendersons", and "Sister, Sister". In 1994, he published his biography, aptly titled 'Forever Dobie'.
Thrice wed, Hickman has two children -- one by his first wife, actress/model/beauty pageant winner Carol Christensen (1963-1972) who appeared a few times on "Dobie Gillis", and the other by his present wife, actress/voiceover artist Joan Roberts, to whom he has been married since 1983.- Writer
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Eddie Dowling was an American composer, songwriter ("Do You Remember?"), author, actor, producer and director. He was president of the USO Camp Shows and held honorary degrees from such Roman Catholic colleges as Boston College, Providence College, Mount Mary College, and Catholic University of America (CUA).
The 14th of 17 children born to immigrant parents, Joseph Nelson Goucher (his original name) made a world tour with the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir (of Providence, Rhode Island). His theatrical career was extremely varied. He appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway in "She Took a Chance", "Velvet Lady", "Ziegfeld Follies" (1918 and 1920), "The Girl In the Spotlight", "Blaze of Glory", "Love's Old Song", and "Purple Dust". He wrote the plays "The Greater Love" and "Heart of the North", and produced "His Double Life", "Big Hearted Herbert", "Richard II", "Shadow and Substance", and "Madame Capet". He wrote the librettos for and appeared in "Sally, Irene and Mary", and produced, appeared in and wrote songs for "Thumbs Up!" and produced and appeared in "Here Come the Clowns", produced, directed and appeared in "The Time of Your Life" (Pulitzer Prize, 1940), and was Tom Wingfield in the original production of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" (opposite Laurette Taylor and Julie Haydon). His stage scores and librettos included "Honeymoon Lane" and "The Sidewalks of New York".
He was the national chairman of the stage, screen and radio division of the Democratic National Committee from 1932-36 and again in 1940. Joining ASCAP in 1927, his chief musical collaborators included James F. Hanley, J. Fred Coots, Victor Herbert and Bernie Wayne. He wrote or co-wrote such songs as "The Little White House (at the End of Honeymoon Lane)", "Dreams of You", "Half a Moon", "Jersey Walk", "Headin' for Harlem", "Mary Dear", "Wherever You Are", "Little Log Cabin of Dreams", "Row Row With Roosevelt", "Did God Die in Dixie?", "May God Keep You In the Palm of His Hand", "Logic", "Suzie from Sioux City", and "High Up On a Housetop".- Actress
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Ellen D. Williams grew up Santa Monica, California. She earned her B.A. in theatre performance from California State University-Long Beach. After graduating, she lived in Seattle for a number of years and performed throughout the city and traveled around the Northwest performing in an educational theatre troupe. Williams landed her first professional role in the cult musical, 'Moby Dick', produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh. After returning to Los Angeles, she continued doing more theatre and in 2009 was nominated by LA Weekly as Leading Female Performance for her work in 'Ruby, Tragically Rotund'. She is best-known as "Patrice", Robin Scherbatsky's frenemy/coworker, on How I Met Your Mother (2005). Currently, she plays opposite Zach Galifianakis on FX's Baskets (2016). She resides in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Born as Emma Chukker and raised in San Diego, California, Emma Caulfield began studying drama at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe Theatre, where she won the distinguished honor of "Excellence in Theatre Arts". She picked up her drama studies once again at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) in London, all before finishing high school.
Caulfield, an award-winning actress known for her starring role as the young and beautiful demon-turned-mortal "Anya" on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) starting in 1999. Her role was initially conceived only as a guest demon-of-the-week appearance in a December 1998 episode, but she was called back for a few more guest spots when Joss Whedon recognized her talent. She appeared in most of the episodes the following season and, after that, was promoted to a full-time series regular. She has starred in numerous films, including the hit indie sci-fi/rom-com film Timer (2009) as the central character, Oona Leary, a woman on the verge of her 30th birthday who trusts that an implanted timer device will tell her the exact moment she will meet her true love.
Caulfield starred in the ensemble indie film Telling of the Shoes (2014) as "Alex", the quietly suffering wife of a man with a deep secret. She garnered praise in the role of Sarah in the short film Hollow (2007), picking up a Best Actress award at the Beverly Hills Short Film Festival. She starred as "Caitlin Green" in the Revolution Studios' thriller, Darkness Falls (2003). She also starred alongside Chaney Kley as a young woman attempting to take care of her troubled 8-year-old brother plagued by night terrors. Left to her own resources, Caitlin must tackle the legendary evil that haunts their small town in the dark.
Caulfield spent 2010 juggling two shows, Gigantic (2010) and Life Unexpected (2010), in heavily recurring arcs. She is also a writer and producer. In August 2009, she and her writing partner Camilla Ransten launched the successful web comic, Contropussy. A decidedly female-driven satire that showcases human behavior through the eyes of animals. She is also the co-creator, executive producer and star of the hit web series Bandwagon: The Series (2010).- Stunts
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Born in Beverly Hills, California, Ernie F. Orsatti started in the film industry at the age of sixteen. His mother, Inez Gorman, was a noted opera singer. His father, Ernie Orsatti, was a famous baseball player who played for The St. Louis Cardinals, known as "the gas house gang". He was the nephew of Victor M. Orsatti and Frank Orsatti and the brother of Frank Orsatti. The surname Orsatti name has been associated with Hollywood for decades, starting with the Orsatti agency, during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.- Eva Wilma Riefle was the daughter of Otto Riefle, and Luiza Carp, both new immigrants to São Paulo. Otto Riefle was a German metalworker born in Pforzheim, the Black Forest region near Stuttgart, Germany, who in 1929, aged 19, emigrated to Rio de Janeiro, to work at the Levy-Frank metalworking company, but was transferred the next year to São Paulo, where in 1933, during the city's Carnival, he met met Luiza. Luiza Carp was a pianist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Jewish parents from Kiev, Ukraine., then a soviet socialist republic. Eva was conceived of their union, and the couple married shortly after, before she was born.
Eva Wilma had a daughter and a son with her first husband John Herbert: cinema director Vivian Buckup (b. 1956) and musician John Herbert Junior (b. 1958). Eva had five grandchildren: Miguel (b. 1986) and Mateus (b. 1990) by Vivian; and Gabriela (b. 1987), Francisco (b. 2000), and Vitorio (b. 2006) by John Herbert Junior. - Actor
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Felix Silla was born on January 11, 1937 in a small village outside Rome, Lazio, Italy. Silla trained as a circus performer, came to the United States in 1955, and toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Show. His multiple talents -- as a bareback rider, trapeze artist and tumbler -- brought him to Hollywood where he became a stuntman, starting with the Gig Young-Shirley Jones vehicle, A Ticklish Affair (1963).
His best-known roles are the maniacal, miniature "Hitler" who menaces George Segal in The Black Bird (1975) and Cousin Itt on The Addams Family (1964). He had doubled -- often for children -- in such hits as The Towering Inferno (1974), The Hindenburg (1975) and Battlestar Galactica (1978). Between movies, he frequently appears in Las Vegas and Reno nightclubs with his own musical combo, "The Original Harmonica Band".
Silla and wife Sue Silla -- a "little person", like himself -- were married from 1965 until Felix's death on April 16, 2021, and had three children, Bonnie, Michael and Diana.- Actor
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Gene Raymond was born on August 13, 1908, in New York City as Raymond Guion. He was a child performer and a Broadway veteran by the age of 12. Blond, husky, and handsome, he enjoyed his greatest popularity in the 1930s and early 1940s. His big break came in Personal Maid (1931). He was soon cast in classics such as Red Dust (1932) (opposite Jean Harlow and Clark Gable) and in Ex-Lady (1933) (as the husband of Bette Davis 's character). His career continued to grow with a starring role in Sadie McKee (1934) (opposite Joan Crawford).
Soon after, he met and fell in love with one of MGM's stars, actress/singer Jeanette MacDonald. They married in 1937. In 1941, he and Jeanette were cast opposite one another in Smilin' Through (1941), their only picture together. In 1948, Raymond tried his hand at directing and producing with Million Dollar Weekend (1948), but it was not a very successful venture. In 1949, he and MacDonald decided to slow down their careers: she left the movies, and he became very selective on the ones he did. They spent the next 14 years traveling and staying active in Hollywood society.
In 1963, MacDonald, who suffered from heart disease, had an arterial transplant, and Raymond tried to nurse her back to health. In 1965, she had a heart attack and died with her husband by her side. This brought an end to their 28-year marriage, one of Hollywood's longest-lasting, although the union was childless. Every year after her death, he attended the Jeanette MacDonald International Fan Club convention in Los Angeles. He shared stories with her fans and friends, a thing he once said he would do "till Jeanette and I are together again".- Actor
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Harry Towb was a Northern Ireland-born character actor on stage and in films and television. He was born in Larne, County Antrim, to Jewish parents. His father was a Russian emigrant. Harry Towb once claimed he was the only Jew ever born in Larne. He grew up in Belfast, making his stage debut at the Guildhall Theatre in Londonderry in 1946.
Towb began acting in England in the 1950s. Over the years he was affiliated with the National Theatre, the Abbey and Gate Theatres in Dublin, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He was also a prolific performer on British television in a wide variety of roles. He appeared twice in Doctor Who (1963). His second appearance, in Terror of the Autons: Episode Two (1971), features one of the cult series' scariest scenes in which his character is suffocated by a plastic chair. In films, he often appeared as priests or law enforcement officers.
Towb died of cancer three days before his 84th birthday. He was survived by his wife, actress Diana Hoddinott, children Emily, Daniel and Joshua, and three granddaughters.- Haylee Wanstall began acting at the age of five making a debut in Queer as Folk (2000) by the age of seven. At age, she moved on to bigger things, working alongside Glenn Close and Patricia Clarkson in The Safety of Objects (2001), portraying an autistic child caught up in her parents' divorce. Haylee spent her High School years at the Toronto-based arts school ESA, where she graduated in Drama with honors. Haylee is an alumna of the University of British Columbia.
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Howard Hesseman was a leading counter-culture figure since the late 1960s. He was a member of the improv group, "The Committee", for a decade in the 1960s/1970s. A character actor for many years on different television shows since the 1960s, he took small parts in The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Dragnet 1967 (1967), Soap (1977), and Sanford and Son (1972). The role that brought him to prominence was Howard Johnson in the cult classic Billy Jack (1971).
He was a frequent guest star on The Bob Newhart Show (1972) but would become best-known for his role on the classic series WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), as anti-disco hipster DJ "Dr. Johnny Fever". Also in the 1970s, he appeared in The Sunshine Boys (1975), Tunnel Vision (1976), Silent Movie (1976) and The Big Bus (1976). After the cancellation of WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), he went on to star as the husband of Ann Romano in One Day at a Time (1975). After that series was cancelled, Hesseman starred in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Doctor Detroit (1983), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), Clue (1985), and Flight of the Navigator (1986).
He then starred as history teacher Charlie Moore in Head of the Class (1986). He left that show in 1990 and appeared in a steady stream of television guest roles. In 1987, he appeared in Amazon Women on the Moon (1987). In 1991, he starred in Rubin and Ed (1991). Afterward, he appeared in other films, including Gridlock'd (1997) (with Tupac Shakur). His work in later years concentrated mostly on television, where he took mostly small guest roles, in such shows as That '70s Show (1998), Touched by an Angel (1994), The Practice (1997), and Crossing Jordan (2001).- Actor
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Jack Sheldon was the son of Jen Loven (1909-1989), who taught many of the Hollywood entertainment elite and their children to swim at her famous Jen Loven Swim School in Hollywood. Jack was known mostly for his sidekick status on the The Merv Griffin Show (1962) in the 1970s.
He had two sons, Kevin and John, and two daughters, Julie and Jesse Sheldon. John, a musician, plays drums, and attended military college prep school at the prestigious Army & Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California. He acted with his father in the Disney comedy Freaky Friday (1976), as one of the trouble-making kids who loved to harass Jodie Foster. He played in jazz clubs, most often at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood, sometimes joined by George Segal.- In a 40-year stage, film, and television career, Weston played sleazy villains to hapless men going through midlife crises to clumsy comics. He was one of the bad guys who victimize a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 cult classic Wait Until Dark (1967) but meets his end at the hands of the number one Bad Guy Alan Arkin. He appeared in much lighter fare in Cactus Flower (1969), Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960), and Dirty Dancing (1987). In the last of these, he ran the Catskills resort that set the stage for romance between Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
His stage work on Broadway included "California Suite" (1976) and "The Floating Lightbulb" (1971). For the latter, he received a Tony Award nomination for his role as the trashy manager. Also in 1981, Weston appeared opposite Alan Alda in The Four Seasons (1984) about the friendship between three middle-class, middle-aged couples. Other film credits include Stage Struck (1958), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), The Ritz (1976), and Ishtar (1987). - Actor
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James Olson was born on October 8, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, the son of LeRoy Olson, an engineer. He made his stage debut at age 12 as "Hans Brinker" in the Evanston Children's Theatre production of 'Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates'. He received a BS degree in Speech from Northwestern University before serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman (M.P.) in 1952 for a two-year stint.
A Chicago-based stage actor before moving to New York, the 6'3" Olson studied with Lee Strasberg and made his Broadway debut in 'The Young and Beautiful'. Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s he continued to find poignant Broadway roles in 'J.B.' (1958), 'Romulus' (1962), 'The Chinese Prime Minister' (1964), 'The Three Sisters' (1964) and 'Of Love Remembered' (1967). Olson was featured in the 1966 Mary Tyler Moore-Richard Chamberlain musical misfire 'Holly Golightly' (based on the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)); the ill-fated musical closed before it reached Broadway.
Olson debuted on television as the title character in The Life of Mickey Mantle (1956). His film career began with the forgettable action drama The Sharkfighters (1956) but he later appeared in better roles in the film noir drama The Strange One (1957) and the Chekhov classic The Three Sisters (1966) (as Baron Tuzenbach, his Broadway stage role). He displayed an understated power in his performance as Joanne Woodward's suitor in the Oscar-nominated picture Rachel, Rachel (1968), which garnered him the best reviews of his film career. This was followed by a prime scientist role in the classic sci-fi thriller The Andromeda Strain (1971). He continued onstage in roles in 'The Glass Menagerie', 'The Crucible', 'A Safe Place', 'Twelve Dreams', and 'Winterplay'.
He had numerous TV-movie roles in Paper Man (1971), Incident on a Dark Street (1973), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974), The Sex Symbol (1974), The Missiles of October (1974), The Family Nobody Wanted (1975), Someone I Touched (1975), Strange New World (1975), Law and Order (1976), and The Spell (1977), and guest and/or recurring roles on such TV series as Bonanza (1959), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Medical Center (1969), Police Story (1973), Police Woman (1974), The F.B.I. (1965), Gunsmoke (1955), Mannix (1967), Harry O (1973), Hawaii Five-O (1968), Maude (1972), Barnaby Jones (1973), The Bionic Woman (1976), and Battlestar Galactica (1978).
Major stardom proved elusive, however. Olson wrapped up his career with the films Ragtime (1981), Amityville II: The Possession (1982), Commando (1985) and Rachel River (1987) and 1990 TV appearances on The Family Man (1990) and Murder, She Wrote (1984), before retiring.- Jana Bellan was an attractive and appealing brunette actress who only appeared in a handful of movies and TV shows during her regrettably short-lived career in the 1970s. She was memorable as fetching carhop "Budda" in her film debut in American Graffiti (1973), and delightful as the sassy and spirited Mary Lou in the amusing drive-in redneck comedy romp Sixpack Annie (1975). Bellan was impressive as the luckless compulsive gambler Terry in Al Adamson's Black Heat (1976). She made guest appearances on episodes of "The F.B.I.", "Cannon", "Starsky and Hutch", "Serpico", and "Barnaby Jones". After appearing in the obscure feature film, Kings of the Hill (1978), Bellan quit show business. She is now a member of Lynn Rd, a contemporary Christian group out of St. Paschal Baylon Church in Thousand Oaks, California. The group consists of Bellan, Kevin Stoller, Jody Bruno, and Georgina Cebrero.
- In 1975, Canadian actress and impresario Janie Woods-Morris founded the Four Seasons Musical Theatre Society to mark the 100th anniversary of the collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan. Under the umbrella of conductor Laszlo Gati's Victoria Symphony Summer Festival, the Four Seasons began by performing four Gilbert and Sullivan abridged operettas (two each night) in the Newcombe Auditorium at British Columbia's Provincial Museum.
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Jay C. Flippen could probably be characterized these days as one of those craggy, distinctive faces you know but whose name escapes you while viewing scores of old 1950s and 1960s films and television series. Playing both sides of the law throughout his career, his huge cranium, distinctive bulldog mug, beetle brows, bulky features, usually scowling countenance, and silver-white hair were ideally suited for roles as criminals and rugged adventurers, while his background as a standup comedian in burlesque, vaudeville and minstrel shows.
He was born John Constantine Flippen on March 6, 1899, in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father, John (a bookkeeper), died in 1908. Flippen's older sister, Era, died a year later (in 1909). His mother, Emma L. Flippen (née Pack), earned an income as a dance and theatre instructor. His maternal grandmother, Mary Pack, lived with the family. Picking up on his mother's artistic interests, Flippen joined the Al G. Field Minstrels at age 16. He was discovered by African-American star comedian Bert Williams in the 1920s, and was Williams' Broadway black face understudy and tour replacement for the 1920 musical revue "Broadway Brevities". Between 1924-29, he recorded scores of songs for Pathé Columbia, Perfect, and Brunswick Records. A veteran radio announcer for Yankee baseball games, Flippen was a lifelong baseball fan who forged friendships with several major league baseball stars. He also appeared on Broadway throughout the mid-1920s (and after), including "June Days" (1925), "Hello, Lola" (1926), "The Great Temptation" (1926), "Padlocks of 1927" (1927), "Second Little Show" (1930), the musical "Hellzapoppin'" (1941), and "Take a Bow" (1944).
Flippen made his film debut in the short The Ham What Am (1928), which captured a vaudeville performance, followed by a few other early 1930's shorts. He didn't move strongly into feature films until post-World War II where he could be counted on to provide his patented gruff and bluster in primarily war stories, film noir, and westerns whether playing a sheriff, farmer, cop, prison warden, military high-ranker or bartender. After playing Hodges, a guard, in Brute Force (1947), he appeared in such other crime yarns as Intrigue (1947), They Live by Night (1948), A Woman's Secret (1949), The Las Vegas Story (1952), The Wild One (1953), The Killing (1956), The Midnight Story (1957), Studs Lonigan (1960) and, The Seven Minutes (1971). His also dominated in such westerns as The Lady from Texas (1951), Devil's Canyon (1953), Man Without a Star (1955), Oklahoma! (1955) (as Ike Skidmore), The Restless Breed (1957), Run of the Arrow (1957), The Deerslayer (1957), From Hell to Texas (1958), and The Plunderers (1960).
Flippen supported many a top Hollywood male star during his four-decade film career. His atmospheric characters notably supported James Stewart in several of his top-notch vehicles, including Winchester '73 (1950), Bend of the River (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), The Far Country (1954), Strategic Air Command (1955), The Restless Breed (1957), Night Passage (1957), and Firecreek (1968). He was a regular player on 1960s television as well, including Bonanza (1959), The Untouchables (1959), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), Route 66 (1960), Burke's Law (1963), Gunsmoke (1955), Rawhide (1959), That Girl (1966), and The Name of the Game (1968). He also co-starred as an Chief Petty Officer in Ensign O'Toole (1962).
In later years, Flippen was dogged by illness. While filming his sheriff role in the classic comedy western Cat Ballou (1965), he had to have his leg amputated after a minor scrape, probably aggravated by diabetes, turned into a severe infection. He continued his career often in a wheelchair. His latest television roles were on episodes of The Virginian (1962), Here Come the Brides (1968), and Ironside (1967).- Actress
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Jill Jaress, CEO of "Got A Laugh Entertainment", completed her full-length romantic comedy, 1 Nighter (2012), in February 2012. She served as writer/producer/director and starred in it with Golden Globe nominee Timothy Bottoms.
Her first film, Someone to Love (2007), screened at Cannes to an SRO audience in the short film corner, won the Broad Humor Film Festival, was a finalist in the academy-qualifying USA Film Festival, as well as the Queens International Film Festival, the Big Bear Lake Film Festival, Through Women's Eyes Film Festival, Sundays in the City Film Festival, Cinema City International Film Festival and was honored in the Accolade Awards. The mission of "Got a Laugh Entertainment" is to produce commercially successful, uplifting comedies and family films.
Films in development include Someone to Love (2007), two outstanding romantic comedy feature scripts titled "Forever Yours?" and "Love to Steal", and an outstanding family fantasy, "The Christmas Spirit". Between films, she completed a how-to book for actors, "Acting: Everything My Agent Never Told Me". It features 54 chapters of business advice for aspiring actors, as well as one-on-one interviews with Steve Martin, Martin Landau, three top casting directors, two top agents, writers, directors and producers.
Jaress won the WGA Producers Access Program with "The Christmas Spirit" script. It was also a finalist in the screen-writing division in the Cinema City International Film Festival. She won an Excellence in Writing award for her full-length feature script based on her short, Someone to Love (2007). She wrote for the TV series, Safe at Home (1985), and a play titled "Rude Awakening", which was honored as a literary work in the Writers' Digest Competition and included in the Audrey Skirball-Kenis California Play Collection. She also wrote, directed and produced an educational television series titled "Breaking In" for cable and a pilot for KYPA radio on health and fitness titled "Star Secrets".
Her stage credits include a starring role in the musical, "Dean", on the West End in London. She also appeared with Pierce Brosnan in Tennessee Williams' play, "Red Devil Battery Sign", in London.- Actor
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During the 1960s, Carroll was a basketball prodigy and a fountain of untapped talent. He was also progressively becoming an addict. Through his teenage years, he discovered love, loss, pain, and joy, which is recounted in his memoir, "The Basketball Diaries", which tells the story of being lost; searching for something of substance and meaning; and about the beauty of innocence and the darkness of its loss. As copies of the diary began to make the rounds in the literary underground, Carroll was lauded as an important writer as people began to praise his talent. Kerouac and Burroughs dubbed Carroll "a born writer".
By 1978, "The Basketball Diaries" was published and Carroll was a genuine literary icon. In 1973, he published "Living in the Movies", and moved to California. However, the purity he sought was not achieved until the origination of his second diary, "Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries". The diary recalls his years working under the wing of Andy Warhol at the latter's legendary Factory, the entries also illustrate Carroll's battle with heroin addiction.
After touring with rocker Patti Smith, Carroll explored the idea of starting his own band. What eventually was conceived was The Jim Carroll Band. The band released three records under the Atlantic Records banner. Throughout the 1980s/1990s, Carroll continued to publish poetry and spoken word albums as well as a greatest hits compilation of his band.
In 1995, Scott Kalvert released a biopic of Carroll's life. The film property had been purchased by numerous directors who had all failed to produce it. It was finally released with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Carroll. Despite a strong lead performance in the film, ultimately it did not capture the beauty and brutal honesty of Carroll's book. Certain events were changed, characters invented and entire plot devices added. Carroll was quoted as having been "unpleased" with the final product. After this, he published another compilation of poetry and recorded his first straight rock album of all new material in almost 20 years.
Carroll continued to tour through live readings and book signings. He remained in his native Manhattan, where he experienced a lifetime wrought with exploration and self-discovery until his death there at age 60 in 2009.- John Franklin Carson was born and raised in Hollywood, California. His father was actor Kit Carson (born Eldridge Franklin Carson), who appeared in many Western films, most notably working with Dale Robertson. His mother, the former Rosemonde James, also had some acting experience, albeit primarily as a fashion model, and was elected president of the Mannequins Association of Los Angeles in 1968. Young Johnny started his career doing commercials, including one at age 5 or 6 portraying a circus ringmaster for a local department store. He later did cartoon voices for Hanna-Barbara. While attending Valley College, he played a lead role in "Taming of the Shrew", staged by the drama department in November 1969.
After his feature film debut, there was a dispute with Johnny Carson regarding use of the name John Carson. As a result, he began to use the name John David Carson professionally. He was romantically linked with Kim Darby at the time of her ex-husband (James Stacy)'s motorcycle accident, in which Stacy lost an arm and a leg, becoming a paraplegic. Carson and Darby met while the two were filming Joie (1973). - Casting Department
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Jonathan Bernard Valentine Groce was an American talent and literary manager, representing actors, TV and screenwriters, directors, stand-up comedians, stage performers, and social media influencers. Working with true triple threats, his storytellers rely on his ability to connect a wide variety of executive producers, casting directors, network executives, and studio bosses to help them tell their stories to audiences of all ages and demographics with a robust roster spanning both coasts and now internationally. A proud Film and Media/English Literature graduate from Johns Hopkins University, he worked in talent and development for 15 years in New York and Los Angeles, and is thrilled to land at Bohemia Group.
Prior to joining Bohemia, Jonathan created a boutique management company, Revealed Talent Management, where he cultivated incredible emerging voices that include a staffed writer on SNL today, Broadway singers, touring stand-ups, and showrunners from around the world. Before going out on his own as a talent rep in 2015, he was Head of Talent and Casting at Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, working on diverse shows with the top names in comedy, such as Children's Hospital, Rick and Morty, The Eric Andre Show, and Adventure Time.
From 2009-12, he was Manager of Talent and Casting at MTV Networks, overseeing talent on Awkward, Teen Wolf, The Inbetweeners, America's Best Dance Crew and Ridiculousness. During his time in New York, he won several Emmy awards as Casting Director and Producer for Ca$h Cab for Discovery Channel in NY, where he started his career developing unscripted talent for companies such as Lion Television, Zero Point Zero, and Lucky Duck Productions.- Julie T. Wallace (born Julie Therese Keir) trained at LAMDA and made her stage debut as the mother/teacher in 'Billy the Kid' at the Upstream Theatre, followed by 'The House of Usher' in Aberystwyth, and 'Beauty and the Beast' in Bristol. She made her London debut in 'Anne of the Worlds' at the Royal Court. She was BAFTA nominated for her role of Ruth in the BBC television production of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986).
- Prior to breaking into films, Philadelphia native Julius Harris worked as a bouncer in New York City. It was due to his many associations with struggling actors, that on a dare, Harris auditioned for his first role, in the well-received picture Nothing But a Man (1964), in which he played a father in the South, alongside Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln. After, this, Harris' impressive physique and deep voice helped enable him to rack up numerous appearances in the then popular blaxploitation genre.
His strong appearance in supporting roles in such low-budget films as Shaft's Big Score! (1972), Super Fly (1972), and Black Caesar (1973), which helped springboard him into better quality productions. Harris scored a co-starring role in the first Roger Moore James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973), in which his portrayal of the bald-headed, grinning villain "Tee Hee", with the menacing artificial arm, was one of the more iconic heavies of the entire franchise.
More work quickly followed for Harris, including NYPD "Inspector Daniels" in the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), King Kong (1976), and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). In addition to his film work, he was guest-starring in numerous TV shows, including Harry O (1973), Sanford and Son (1972), Cannon (1971), Good Times (1974), and Kojak (1973). Harris continued working throughout the 1980s in a mixture of different character roles, although the 1990s proved to be a leaner period for him.
Julius Harris passed away on October 17, 2004 from heart failure, at the age of 81. He was cremated and then interred in his hometown, and is survived by his daughter (Kimberly) and his son (Gideon). - Actor
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Keith Michell was an Emmy Award-winning Australian stage, television, and film actor. Born 1 December 1926 in Adelaide, South Australia, he was brought up some 150 miles away, in Warnertown, on the Augusta Highway between Crystal Brook and Port Pirie. He taught art until he made his debut on the Adelaide stage in 1947, following that up with his first appearance in London in 1951.
Michell was a member of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company. From 1974-77, he was the artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. He has starred in several musicals, including the first London production of Man of La Mancha (1972). In addition to his stage work, he appeared extensively in film and television in Australia and the UK, most notably as King Henry VIII in the six-part 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), for which he won an Emmy Award. A movie version was made in 1972. On US television, he appeared in various episodes of Murder, She Wrote (1984). In addition to acting, he wrote a musical adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt', called "Pete McGynty and the Dreamtime". He also paints and illustrates books, as well as written and illustrated cookbooks.
Michell married the Anglo-Czech actress Jeanette Sterke in 1957; they had two children: actor Paul Michell and actress Helena Michell. He died on 20 November 2015, aged 88, in Hampstead, London, England. A theater in Port Pirie, the Keith Mitchell Theatre-Northern Festival Centre, was founded in his honor.- Kevin Hagen is the son of professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. His father abandoned the family when Kevin was five. He was raised by his mother, grandmother, and two aunts, with some help from his uncle, a physician.
The family moved to Portland, Oregon, when Kevin was a teenager. He played baseball and football at Jefferson High School. He attended Oregon State University before enlisting in the U.S. Navy after World War II; he served in San Diego.
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Kirby Morrow trained in theatre at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. Throughout his career, he also trained in Vancouver, Paris, Dublin, Toronto and Los Angeles. Reaching a successful stature in both on camera and animation voice-overs, he was a highly sought-after guest at animation, science fiction and Comicon conventions around the world.
Kirby Morrow died at the age of 47 on November 18, 2020, just eight days after the death of his father. No cause of death was given but Morrow's brother, Casey Morrow, wrote on Facebook that his brother's body "could not keep up" after a long history of substance abuse.- Born in Rabat, the actor received a strict religious education before receiving modern education at the Mohammedia School, where he did his primary studies. He then pursued secondary studies at the Mohamed V high school in Rabat and worked at the same time as a teacher of the Arabic language. He became interested in theater and began working with the Al Mâamora theater company in 1948, before entering a theater school under the supervision of the Ministry of Youth and was directed by, among others, André Voisin, Charles Le Nick, Pierre Richy and Abdellah Chekroun. He also distinguished himself in the National Theater Troupe founded in 1953. He also worked in film, radio, television, and voice dubbing.
After Moroccan independence, he was actively involved in the influence of Moroccan theater, teaching from 1956-58 the art of rhetoric and eloquence at the Institute of Theatrical Research. In 1982, his performance in 'The Black Stallion', earned him international recognition. In 1986, he appeared in Gary Nelson's 'Allan Quatermain and the City of Lost Gold'. Other significant roles included the Moroccan films 'Brahim Yach?' by Nabil Lahlou (1982) and 'Caftan d'amour' by Moumen Smihi (1988). In 1990, he made his last film appearance in 'The Riders of Glory' by Souheil Ben Barka. - Lawrence "Larry" Casey was born in 1940, one of eight siblings (William Jr., Paul, John, Joseph, Mary, Peter, and the late Michael), born to to William and Florence Casey. When Larry was 10 years old, his family moved to Manhattan's East Side where the very tall and athletic Larry played baseball and one day wanted to become a professional ball player. Casey's father died in February 1955 and Larry gave up baseball to work after school to help support the family. He graduated high school in 1958. In 1962 his mother bought a dairy farm in Guilford, where she would live with her sons Paul and John until her own death in December 2004, almost 50 years after she was first widowed. Larry Casey and his wife Katha have three children.
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Lisa Lu is a Chinese-American actress. She started her career as a teenager, performing in Kunqu theatrical productions, a traditional style of Chinese opera. The Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) ended with a Communist victory. While the new regime financially subsidized China's theaters for most of the 1950s, it started withdrawing its support by the end of the decade and shut them down during the 1960s. Lu migrated to the United States by the late 1950s, in search of more career opportunities.
In 1960, Lu had her first notable film role as Madame Su-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese officer, in The Mountain Road (1960), set during World War II. She joins an American unit in an anti-Japanese mission in the Pacific War, and engages in a brief romance with their leader Major Baldwin (played by James Stewart). The relationship ends when Baldwin burns down an entire Chinese village, and creates thousands of casualties among the innocent civilians he treats as collateral damage. The conflict between the two lovers is based on Baldwin's idea that the end (his mission) sanctifies the means, and on her disagreement with his indiscriminate killings.
In 1961, she played the character of Chinese slave girl Su Ling, in an episode of Bonanza (1959). In 1962, she appeared in the Western film Rider on a Dead Horse (1962) and in the crime-drama Womanhunt (1962). She had a hand-full of television appearances for the rest of the decade. In the late 1960s, Lu found more work in Hong Kong films, most notably The 14 Amazons (1972), in which she played the semi-legendary She Saihua, a female general in the army of Emperor Taizong of Song (who reigned from 976-997).
In 1973, Lu appeared in the American horror film Terror in the Wax Museum (1973). In 1975, she starred in Qing guo qing cheng (1975) as the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908, reign as regent 1861-1908). The film depicts the relationship between the powerful regent and her puppet ruler, the Guangxu Emperor (1871-1908, reigned 1875-1908). She reprised her role in the sequel, The Last Tempest (1976).
In 1977, she had a supporting part in the dystopian science fiction film, Demon Seed (1977), in which the computer Proteus imprisons and forcibly impregnates its creator's wife (played by Julie Christie), in an effort to create a human host for its prodigious sentience. In 1979, Lu had a supporting role in Saint Jack (1979). The film depicts the efforts of small-time pimp Jack Flowers (played by Ben Gazzara) to create a lucrative brothel in Singapore, while defying the control of the local organized crime syndicate.
In 1981, Lu played a nun in Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982), set in the Vietnam War, which depicts a cynical and selfish soldier. When a promise to an old friend causes him to offer volunteer service in a local orphanage, the soldier starts caring about people other than himself. The following year, she narrated the documentary film Sewing Woman (1982), about the life of an immigrant worker, Zem Ping Dong, in San Francisco. In 1986, she had a small role in the adventure film Tai-Pan (1986), set in the aftermath of the First Opium War (1839-1842), and depicting a powerful trader and opium smuggler in 1840s Hong Kong. The film was an adaptation of the 1966 novel "Tai-Pan" by James Clavell. It was both a critical and box-office flop.
In 1987, Lu played Empress Dowager Cixi for a third time, in The Last Emperor (1987). Early in the film, the dying Cixi chooses Puyi (1906-67, reigned 1908-12) as the new emperor of the Qing dynasty, despite him being underage and being outranked in the succession order by his father and several uncles. The film covers the consequences of this deathbed decision. In 1988, Lu had a small role in the mini-series Noble House (1988). The series was based on a 1981 novel by Clavell, and served as a sequel to Tai-Pan (1986), although set in 1980s Hong Kong. It features the descendants of the merchant princes of the 19th century, and the efforts of centuries-old companies to adapt and survive in a changing world.
In 1993, Lu appeared in the generational-saga film The Joy Luck Club (1993), which features the lives of a group of Chinese women, from their childhoods in China to old age in the United States, and their relationships with their Chinese-American daughters. She played the mother of General Shi Yan-sheng in Temptation of a Monk (1993), set in 7th century China. After several years of playing mostly bit parts, Lu played a supporting role in the comedy-drama The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006) as the gossipy neighbor of protagonist Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa). Lu continued played small roles for the rest of the 2000s.
In 2010, she had a substantial role in the drama film Apart Together (2010) as the aging "widow" Qiao Yu-e, whose husband disappeared in 1949 during the final phase of the Chinese Civil War. Qiao was pregnant at the time. Decades later, her missing husband turns up alive, returning from self-exile abroad. He tries to reconcile with a wife who barely remembers him, and with their son, who has never met him. In 2012, Lu appeared in the romantic drama Dangerous Liaisons (2012) as Du Ruixue, the matriarch of a dysfunctional family. In 2018, aged 91, Lu appeared in the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) as Shang Su Yi, matriarch of a wealthy and influential Singaporean family.- Logan Kari Williams was born on April 9, 2003, in Vancouver, British Columbia to Marlyse, a Swiss mother, and Clive, a South African father. He landed his very first audition when he was ten years old playing the part of Jack Spehn in the Hallmark movie The Color of Rain (2014). He later starred on The Flash (2014) as the young Barry Allen. Logan attended a private school but mostly enjoyed hanging out with his friends, skateboarding, soccer and music. He died tragically in 2020, one week before his 17th birthday following a three-year battle with opioid addiction. Marlyse Williams has said she hopes her son's story will help raise awareness of addiction and prevent some other mother from experiencing the same kind of pain.
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Lucy Roucis was an example of "turning something adverse around and making it work." Her early-onset Parkinson's disease actually helped get her a part in Love & Other Drugs (2010). Director and screenwriter Edward Zwick, after reading over 40 actors for the role, was so impressed with her audition that he asked her to write for the scene and add her own dialogue. She portrayed a woman doing a stand-up routine, poking fun at having Parkinson's, and helps Anne Hathaway's character ("Maggie") begin accepting her own diagnosis.
A native of Denver, Colorado, Lucy is the daughter of a dentist and a homemaker. She and her five siblings all received a private education. She attended Loretto Heights College in Denver, receiving a B.A. in theatre, Magna cum Laude. She immediately moved to Los Angeles to start her career, where she became a long-time student of Roy London. She began getting work in the film, television, and modeling world as well, being tall and slender. She had roles in the films The Party Animal (1984) and (uncredited) Better Off Dead (1985). Onstage, she was a member of the Los Angeles-based Radio City Music Hall Rockettes Christmas Spectacular and the Colony Theatre's production of the musical 'The Robber Bridegroom'. She co-starred and produced the Celtic Arts Center's 'A Tragedy You Can Dance To', by Ric Matheson. Several television commercials and print ads later, she broke ground as an actor when her Parkinson's reared its head.
Lucy had a double diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and thyroid cancer, undergoing thyroid removal and the cancer being eradicated. But Parkinson's is incurable. Defeated, she returned home to Denver, giving up on Hollywood. She reinvented herself as an actress with a disability and found work. Denver Audiences knew Lucy well and her Parkinson's was just part of her package. She was a long-time member of the world renowned PHAMALY (Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League, Inc.), alongside her fellow cast members who all had disabilities of their own. The award-winning company produces quality plays at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Roucis starred in 20 productions, winning best Supporting Actress in a Musical from WestWord Magazine for her "Miss Adelaide" in 'Guys and Dolls'. She was cast in the pilot, 'One Step Ahead', of a Washington, DC-based weekly disability news program, as its Cultural Correspondent. In 2008, she received the Mayor's Award for being an Unsung Hero. In 2008, she underwent deep brain stimulation at the Cleveland Clinic. The procedure, although temporary, lessened the symptoms of her advanced Parkinson's disease. Lucy found her voice as an advocate for Parkinson's and disability awareness. She found an outlet for her wit as a stand-up (or sit-down) comic, working fund raisers with comedian Josh Blue, and also did outreach work in schools and taught/coached acting in Denver and also was a writer.- Actress
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Mabel Todd was born Mabel Dodds on August 13, 1907 in Los Angeles, California. Sadly her mother died when was very young. Mabel had a lovely singing voice and began her career in vaudeville. She and her sister Marcia often performed as a duo. Mabel started singing on the radio where she was nicknamed "The Little Ray of Sunshine". She married comedian Morey Amsterdam in 1933 and the couple worked together on The Laff and Swing Club radio show. Mabel made her film debut in the 1937 musical Varsity Show. She signed a contract with Warner Brothers and was given supporting roles in Hollywood Hotel (1937) and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938). With her blonde hair and high-pitched voice Mabel was typecast as a dumb blonde comedienne. She was a popular personality on the Warner Brothers lot where she was often seen riding her scooter. In April 1942 Mabel appeared in one of the first televised talent shows.
The following year she starred in The Ghost and the Guest (1943). Her husband, Morey Amsterdam, had written the script for her. During World War 2 she traveled across the country entertaining the troops in a USO show. Todd and Amsterdam split up in 1945. Their divorce was so bitter that he refused to ever speak about her again. By this time her movie career had stalled and she could only get bit parts. Her last role was an uncredited role as a florist in the comedy Wife Wanted (1946). She continued to work on radio and appeared in several stage shows. She made headlines in 1950 when she divorced her second husband, Matthew A. Sontino. In court, she accused him of beating her with a shoe and giving her a black eye. Both of her marriages were childless. She retired from show business and lived a quiet life away from the spotlight. Todd died on June 2, 1977, aged 69. She was cremated and her ashes are interred at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.- Actor
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Marcus Chong began as a child actor in Roots: The Next Generations (1979) as Frankie Warner where he met Alex Haley. He then went on to work on Little House on the Prairie (1974), starring Michael Landon . As a young adult, he appeared on Broadway in "Stand Up Tragedy", and won a Theater World Award. In film, he debuted in Jeff Bridges's American Heart (1992) about street kids in Seattle. He went on to perform in "Panther", written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Chong portrayed Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panthers. Marcus filmed The Matrix (1999). Chong has been performing his up and coming new productions on stage in NY as Alexander Dumas, author of the "Three Musketeers" and the "Count of Monte Cristo". Chong portrayed Harry Belafonte in Not 4 Sale (2013) and appeared in the USC film Son Shine (2013). He also appeared on such television shows as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and Burn Notice (2007).