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- Joe Unger was born on 25 May 1949 in Lake County, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) and The Bodyguard (1992).
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman was born on 17 August 1936 in Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, Roberts County, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Dances with Wolves (1990), Hidalgo (2004) and Dharma & Greg (1997). He was married to Rosie. He died on 13 December 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Former fashion model Nancy Walters' first film appearance was in
Monster on the Campus (1958), then a few years later she had a bigger part as a
schoolteacher in the Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii (1961).
After a few more small roles in films, and a spate of guest-starring
roles in TV series, she quit show business to concentrate on her work
as a Christian minister. - Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Edgar Kennedy, who was born on April 26, 1890, near Monterey,
California, hit the road as a young man and traveled across the
country, working in a succession of jobs. He became a professional
boxer, claiming to have gone 14 rounds against The Manassas Mauler,
Jack Dempsey.
In addition to his knowledge of the "Sweet Science", Kennedy possessed
a good musical voice, and wound up singing in musical shows in the
Midwest, his first taste of show business. During his cross-country
peregrinations he wound up in Los Angeles, and found himself hired as
an actor by comedy producer Mack Sennett.
At the Sennett Studios he was allegedly one of the original
Keystone Kops, but soon graduated from bit
parts to supporting roles in Keystone comedies, including
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
with Charles Chaplin. Kennedy had good
roles in other Chaplin movies, but when his contract expired in 1921 he
went freelance, though he did occasionally return to Sennett.
After leaving Sennett Kennedy established himself as a first-rate
supporting comic, and made a career out of playing harassed
businessmen, next-door neighbors, cops, etc. By the late 1920s his
craft was most prominently featured in comedies for
Hal Roach, Sennett's arch-rival, where
he flourished in support of Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy. It was with Roach that he
developed his mastery of the "slow burn", a routine for which he became
famous. He often played a none-too-bright policeman brought to the
boiling point by the absurdities of Laurel and Hardy. He also directed
the two in
From Soup to Nuts (1928) and
You're Darn Tootin' (1928).
RKO hired Kennedy to appear in a series of comedy shorts called "The
Average Man," in which he played the head of a family. The shorts had
very tight shooting schedules, often as few as three days, but Kennedy
was always a pro and delighted the audience by giving them his all. He
made over 200 short subjects and appeared in over 100 feature films,
still in demand right up to the day he died of cancer on November 9,
1948.- Stunts
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Cliff Lyons was an American actor, stuntman and second-unit director,
primarily of Westerns, particularly the films of
John Ford and
John Wayne.
Lyons, the son of Garrett
Thomas Lyons and Wilhamena Johnson Lyons, was raised on a South Dakota
farm, though his family lived for a time in Memphis, TN, where he
attended business school. An expert horseman, he gave up the notion of
a business career and opted for the rodeo arena instead, touring the
country and eventually reaching Los Angeles at the age of 21. With
accomplished cowboys in great demand, Lyons quickly became involved in
movies, working both as a stuntman and actor. After only a couple of
bit parts, he was signed by low-budget producer
Bud Barsky to do seven inexpensive Westerns
directed by Paul Hurst, with Lyons
and Al Hoxie alternating as the hero and the
heavy. Lyons and Hoxie alternated in another Western series produced by
Morris R. Schlank, and, as Cliff "Tex"
Lyons, he seemed headed for minor stardom as a B-Western lead.
Unfortunately, Lyons' voice was not well-suited for sound and the talkie revolution
confined him to small roles. As his small shot at stardom faded,
however, his career as a stunt double for stars big and small was on
the rise. He doubled such cowboy stars as
Tom Mix, Ken Maynard,
Buck Jones and
Johnny Mack Brown. In 1936 he worked
with John Wayne for the first and
struck up a personal and business relationship that would remain strong
for three decades. Wayne was influential in getting Lyons his first
work as a second-unit director and in introducing Lyons to John Ford,
for whom Lyons would do some of his finest work. Lyons' reputation as a
stunt coordinator is comparable to that of acknowledged master
Yakima Canutt, with whom Lyons partnered
on numerous occasions. Perhaps Lyons' most impressive work was the
massive and dynamic battle sequences of Wayne's
The Alamo (1960).
He was married from
1938-55 to actress Beth Marion, with
whom he had two sons. Cliff Lyons died in 1974 at 72, not long after
coordinating stunts for Wayne's
The Train Robbers (1973).- Actor
- Art Department
- Visual Effects
Elijah Vorrasi was born on 7 June 1979 in Lake County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Insider (2004), ET on MTV (2000) and Entertainment Tonight (1981).- Justin Kaiser was born on 16 July 1976 in 16 Jul 1976 Rice Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 17 January 2010 in Joliet, Will County, Illinois, USA.
- Justin Essenpreis was born on 16 November 1976 in Lake County, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The Dirty Monks (2004).