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Susan Backlinie was born on 1 September 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Jaws (1975), 1941 (1979) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981). She was married to Harvey Swindall, William Henry Backlinie, William Seale and Monty Cox. She died on 11 May 2024 in Ventura, California, USA.- Actress
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Naya Rivera was an Afro-Latina American actress, model and singer known for playing Santana Lopez from Glee and Hillary Winston from The Royal Family. She also was in The Master of Disguise, Baywatch, CSI: Miami, American Dad, Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2, Even Stevens and The Bernie Mac Show.- Actor
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Born Maurice William Elias in Los Angeles, James Stacy is the son of a Lebanese immigrant father and an American-born mother of Irish-Scottish descent. As a teen, Stacy first aspired to play professional football but settled on a career in the movies after a friend coaxed him into taking some acting classes.
Adopting the screen name James Stacy after his cousin Stacy and one of his movie idols, James Dean, he made his film debut in an uncredited role as a reporter in Sayonara (1957), starring Marlon Brando. Garnering little work or recognition in film, he turned to TV. Although he made notable appearances on The Donna Reed Show (1958) and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), it wasn't until 1968 that he gained his first big break, playing a young gunfighter on the TV series, Lancer (1968).
Although the show was canceled in 1970, Stacy continued to land smaller roles on TV. In 1973, he lost his left arm and left leg in a serious motorcycle accident that claimed the life of his girlfriend. The resultant medical bills wiped out his savings, but his ex-wives and his Hollywood friends rallied round and threw a benefit for him. Two years later, he made his professional comeback as a newspaper editor in the Western film, Posse (1975), in a role created expressly for him by the film's director, Kirk Douglas. Stacy was nominated twice for an Emmy: for Just a Little Inconvenience (1977) in 1977 and Cagney & Lacey (1981) in 1986. He retired in 1991.
Stacy's personal life was turbulent. Twice-divorced, he was briefly married to actress and singer Connie Stevens (1963-66) and, even more briefly, to actress Kim Darby (1968-69), with whom he had a daughter, Heather Elias.
Stacy is portrayed by Timothy Olyphant in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019).- Actor
- Director
Dana Elcar was born on 10 October 1927 in Ferndale, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Sting (1973), MacGyver (1985) and 2010 (1984). He was married to Marianne Torrance, Mary Margaret "Peggy" Romano and Kathryn Frances Mead. He died on 6 June 2005 in Ventura, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
In 'Some Day We'll Laugh: An Autobiography', she says, "In 1902 the family moved to Bar Harbor, Maine. (...) At 9 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, 1902, I was born at No. 1 Eden St. and Papa immediately dubbed me, 'Maid of Bar Harbor!'"
The child "born in a trunk" of parents who graced the carnival and vaudeville circuits, was christened Esther Worth, but at age 2 she became part of the family act (with her four brothers and her parents) with the billing now extended to "The Ralston Family with Baby Esther, America's Youngest Juliet."
The wholesome but fun-loving teen Esther broke into silent films in several uncredited roles. Her first appearance in a motion picture was in The Deep Purple (1915), filmed at the World Studios, New Jersey. She also appeared in the serial Phantom Fortunes (1916). Afterwards, she appeared with her family in live theatre productions at the smaller venues, eventually crossing the continent and finding themselves in Los Angeles. As early as 1918 she and her brothers began finding extra work at Universal City.
At her peak, she she became one of the industry's highest-paid silent stars in scores of dramas, comedies and westerns, notably opposite Hoot Gibson and Tom Mix. Her more familiar earlier silent roles were as Mrs. Darling in the silent classic Peter Pan (1924), as the Fairy Godmother in A Kiss for Cinderella (1925), and as Mary Jane Wilks in the film version of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1920). She was publicized as "The American Venus" by none other than showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. after appearing as a dazzling beauty queen in the film of the same name (The American Venus (1926)).
Appearing in close to 100 films over a 30-year period, she made several for Paramount and MGM come the advent of sound, including her first talkie The Sawdust Paradise (1928); the title role in The Case of Lena Smith (1929) a "lost" film directed by Josef von Sternberg; Betrayal (1929) starring Emil Jannings and Gary Cooper, and the romantic musical The Prodigal (1931) opposite Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett.
In England, she appeared opposite Basil Rathbone in After the Ball (1932) and Conrad Veidt in Rome Express (1932). Esther wanted Paramount Studios to up her contract to $100,000 when talkies came in; the company did not agree, and let her go. She went free lance in small productions. After supporting roles in Tin Pan Alley (1940) and San Francisco Docks (1940), and 7th billing in a B film in 1940 (San Francisco Docks (1940)), she retired from the screen at 38.
She earned a fortune from investments but eventually lost it due to the stock market crash of 1929. Forced to find work outside of the world of entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s she appeared on radio shows and TV commercials. In the ensuing years she was employed as a department store salesperson and talent executive.
Esther Ralston was married and divorced three times, and had three children - one from the first marriage, and two from the third.
She was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her film work.- Mort Mills was born on 11 January 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Touch of Evil (1958), Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966). He was married to Elizabeth (Betty) Dell Pentland and Mary Loretta Grady. He died on 6 June 1993 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Christopher Collins was born on 30 August 1949 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), The Transformers (1984) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992). He was married to Judith Ryan. He died on 12 June 1994 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Jim Bannon was a star athlete at Rockhurst College. After graduation, he became a sportscaster in Kansas City, and after 1938, in California. He began working as a radio actor and got small parts in movies. He was a movie stuntman in the early 1940s before starring in a detective movie series for Columbia, based on a radio show "I Love a Mystery." In 1949, he was given the title role of Red Ryder in the western series produced by Eagle Lion Productions. In the 1950s, he appeared in smaller character parts in westerns and on television.
- Barry Cahill was born on 28 May 1921 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Hang 'Em High (1968), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) and Tick, Tick, Tick (1970). He was married to Rachel Ames. He died on 9 April 2012 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Born in 1931, Narda became friends with Robert I. McCarthy when she was an eleven-year-old laundress for McCarthy's anti-aircraft battalion in Bonn.
In 1944, she was a child actress in Estonia. To escape the Russians, she, her grandparents, her mother and 2-year-old brother took to the sea bound for Sweden. Picked up as Germans, they were taken to Danzig. Amidst much confusion, because they spoke fluent German they were able to meld into the daily life there. The Onyx family later made their way to the American occupied forces at Bonn and sought refuge with the Swedish Red Cross. Later the family moved to Sweden; Narda resumed her acting career. Traveling to England where she worked for the Old Vic Company.
She then went to Canada to perform on stage and television. After appearing in some 70 television shows over the past six years, on October 20, 1961, she became an American citizen. While in Canada she met and married George Virand, also an Estonian refuge, where they moved to Hollywood. - Vivian Liberto was born on 23 April 1934 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was married to Richard Laurence Distin and Johnny Cash. She died on 24 May 2005 in Ventura, California, USA.
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Michael Stone was born on 4 April 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for National Treasure (2004), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Dressed to Kill (1980). He died on 29 July 2005 in Ventura County, California, USA.- Canadian-born Cecilia Parker, daughter of a British army officer, moved with her family to Hollywood when she was a child. After graduation from high school she got a job as an extra. She did extra work for about a year before she was noticed by Fox executives, who signed her to a contract in 1931. Her career went along steadily if not spectacularly until 1937, when she was signed by MGM to play the older sister of Mickey Rooney in the "Andy Hardy" series. Although she had worked in everything from westerns to jungle serials, it's this part that people remember her for. She must have given MGM some trouble at one point, because in 1941 she was "loaned" (exiled is probably a better word) to ultra-low-rent studio PRC for one picture, a fate that usually befell actors who displeased the higher-ups at the studios. All was apparently forgiven, though, as she made five more pictures at MGM before she retired in 1942. She returned in 1958 for one final Andy Hardy film, but then went back to the real estate business she and her husband operated in Ventura, California, where she died in 1993.
- George McDaniel was born on 30 June 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Last Starfighter (1984), Lionheart (1990) and This Is Spinal Tap (1984). He died on 24 March 2023 in Ventura, California, USA.
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- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fred Lerner was born on 2 February 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Die Hard (1988), Escape from New York (1981) and The Jerk (1979). He was married to Evelyn Marie Herran. He died on 15 July 2009 in Ventura, California, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Victor Daniels was given the title of "Chief" in an honorary capacity and identified himself as Cherokee although his background is vague. His application for a social security number lists his birth date as April 12, 1899, and his birth-place as Arizona. Thundercloud was the eldest of nine children born to Jesus Daniels and Tomaca Daniels (as indicated on his social security application). But on his marriage record to Mildred Turner in 1925, he said his name was "Victor Vazquez."
Raised on a ranch in Arizona, he claimed he was educated at the University of Arizona at Tucson but the Office of the Registrar checked their databases and found no attendance record for a Victor Daniels. He worked in cattle ranches and rodeos in addition as a mining foreman, boxer and guide before entering movies as a stuntman in 1929.
By 1935, Hollywood had given him the professional name of "Chief Thundercloud" and he was appearing in acting roles, many of them uncredited. For the next two decades he played strong, grim roles in such "B" westerns as Cyclone of the Saddle (1935), Ramona (1936), The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938), Young Buffalo Bill (1940), North West Mounted Police (1940), The Law Rides Again (1943), Romance of the West (1946), Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) and Santa Fe (1951). He eventually earned screen credit for his tribe members and chiefs, typecast more as evil than good.
Chief Thundercloud is probably best known for creating the role of faithful sidekick "Tonto" in the serial The Lone Ranger (1938) and its sequel The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939). He also played the title role of Paramount Pictures' Geronimo (1939). On TV, he appeared in such programs as "Death Valley Days," "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin," "My Little Margie" and "Buffalo Bill, Jr."
Following an uncredited part as a chief in the classic western The Searchers (1956), he died at age 56 following surgery for stomach cancer in Ventura County, California on November 30, 1955. Twice married, he was survived by second wife Frances, a former singer, and their two children. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Los Angeles area.
Not to be confused with noted Chief Thunder Cloud (1856-1916), a Blackfoot tribe member and Army scout who went on to perform with P.T. Barnum and his Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.- Val Bettin was born on 8 July 1923 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Shrek (2001) and Somewhere in Time (1980). He died on 7 January 2021 in Ventura, California, USA.
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- Editor
Mark Kamps was born on 1 November 1962 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Waterworld (1995) and Last Sunday Morning (1995). He died on 24 August 2007 in Ventura, California, USA.- Ruth Wells Brennan was born on 8 December 1897 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. She was married to Walter Brennan. She died on 12 January 1997 in Ventura County, California, USA.
- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Andy Brennan was born on 21 July 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967), The Real McCoys (1957) and The Tycoon (1964). He died on 24 April 2017 in Ventura, California, USA.- Royce Wallace was born on 9 May 1925 in Pleasanton, Nebraska, USA. She was an actress, known for Immediate Family (1989), ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) and Crossroads (1986). She died on 24 November 1992 in Ventura, California, USA.
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- Writer
A natural athlete, Burbank, California-bred Louie Nicholas Elias Jr. excelled in sports, especially football (US) and rugby. At UCLA, he played for the Bruins football team at the Rose Bowl under esteemed coach Red Sanders (UCLA's football coach from 1949-57). He played professionally in the Canadian Football League. He briefly joined the ROTC to avoid the draft, did reserve camp, and hated it. After college, he played professional football until knee injuries caused him to be cut from the team.
He returned to Hollywood, beginning as a film extra, working his way into a bit part movie actor. His first movie stunt job on Universal Studios' Spartacus (1960) earned him his first stunt injury when actor Kirk Douglas drowned him a soup cauldron and gave him a cut to his chin and a scar for life.
By 2000, he had more than 150 film and film TV series credits to his name. Among so many other action scenes, "Action Louie" had jumped from the tower of "F-Troop", had fought his way out of 'The Wild Bunch", had raced into "Vanishing Point," and taken the brunt on behalf of so many chiseled-featured actors. He also wrote screenplays, and later became a commercial actor.
Louie Elias died at age 84 on December 13, 2017.- Alex Gerry was born on 6 October 1904 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Funny Face (1957), The Bellboy (1960) and Back Street (1961). He was married to Toni Gerry. He died on 18 May 1993 in Ventura County, California, USA.
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- Producer
Rene Daalder was born on 3 March 1944 in Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a writer and director, known for Hysteria (1997), Here Is Always Somewhere Else (2007) and Population: 1 (1986). He died on 31 December 2019 in Ventura County, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Baltimore-born Eddie Mayehoff started out as a salesman before finding out that comedy was his real forte. A jack of all trades, he went on to become a bandleader (he attended the Yale School of Music), a radio comedy writer and a television emcee at various stages of his longstanding career. As an actor, the husky-voiced entertainer with the elastic face is probably best remembered for his film That's My Boy (1951), in which he played an ex-football star who aggressively prods his awkward, goofball son Junior (played by--who else?--Jerry Lewis) to follow in his athletic shoes. Dean Martin played Jerry's roommate in the popular film.
In 1954 Eddie was able to transfer the role of "Jarring" Jack Jackson to a short-lived TV series. Gil Stratton played Junior this time, the miserable egghead whose young life is turned hellish by his pushy, obstinate dad. Eddie made two other films with Martin and Lewis -- Stooge, The (1953)_ and _Artists and Models (1955). A few of his other comedy films include Off Limits (1952), How to Murder Your Wife (1965) and Luv (1967). On Broadway he appeared in both musicals and legit plays such as "Rhapsody" (1944), "Concert Varieties" (1947), "Season in the Sun" (1951), "A Visit to a Small Planet" (1957) (Tony nomination), and the farcical "A Rainy Day in Newark." He could be seen on TV and in commercials as the years rolled by. Eddie passed away in 1992.- John J. Fox was born on 24 April 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Night Gallery (1969) and Harlow (1965). He died on 9 November 1984 in Ventura County, California, USA.
- John Currie Slade was born on 11 April 1948 in Pontiac, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), Voyagers! (1982) and Slam Dance (1987). He was married to Laurie Walters and Betsy Slade. He died on 7 July 2017 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Dorothy Dwan was born on 26 April 1906 in Sedalia, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Drifter (1929), The Wizard of Oz (1925) and Square Crooks (1928). She was married to Paul Northcutt Boggs Jr., Larry Semon and Fred Buckels. She died on 17 March 1981 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Makee K. Blaisdell was born on 15 November 1931 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He was an actor, known for Johnny Lingo (1969), Star Trek (1966) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He died on 21 February 1988 in Ventura County, California, USA.
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- Soundtrack
At just a few month old, Carmencita Johnson started appearing in the "Our Gang" shorts. As a child she appeared in some of the better-known silent features such as The Way of All Flesh (1927), The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926), and The Wind (1928).
In the 1930s and 1940s, she did some modeling, acted, and was an occasional stand-in for Lana Turner. She also swam in Esther Williams aquatic movies.
Her best-known scene was probably in the last movie she worked on, A Place in the Sun (1951). Besides being one of Elizabeth Taylor's friends, Carmencita doubled for Shelley Winters when the Montgomery Clift character murders Alice Tripp by pushing her into the lake (or does he?) in A Place in the Sun (1951).
Carmencita married Jack Robertson in 1949 and soon after retired from film work. They had four sons--Nicolas, Drew, Winslow, and Cullen--and a daughter, Sydney. In 1961, Carmencita and Jack moved to Ojai, California, where she became a tireless supporter of the arts and helped to establish the Ojai Studio Artists Tour and the Ojai Art Center.
She was selected Ojai Valley Woman of the Year in 1985, and was the longtime publicist for artist George Stuart.
A number of the films Carmencita appeared in have been "lost," including the Academy Award-winning movie The Way of All Flesh (1927).
On September 26, 2000, the Robertsons were traveling on Harbor Boulevard and turning onto Peninsula Street in Ventura when their 1990 Honda Civic was broadsided by a 1991 Chevrolet Blazer. The passenger side of their car, where she was sitting, received the brunt of the impact. She was taken to Ventura County Medical Center, where she died about five hours later.- Art Department
- Animation Department
- Music Department
Christopher Joseph Reccardi was an American animator, writer, director and storyboard artist who is known for The Ren & Stimpy Show, SpongeBob SquarePants and the failed pilot The Modifyers. He also worked on Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, My Life as a Teenage Robot and Wander Over Yonder.- Joe Keaton and wife Myra were grade-Z vaudeville performers in the early 1900s. Their son Buster joined the act when he was only a few months old. The act was a rough-and-tumble one, with Buster being thrown around on stage most of the time. As the years went by, Joe Keaton became an alcoholic, which forced Buster to quit the act by the time he was a teenager. However, after he hit it big in silent film, Buster provided Joe with small parts in several movies. Myra and Joe split up long after Buster had become an adult. She'd had it with the constant verbal and physical abuse Joe put her through. He lived alone in a Hollywood hotel for many years and was said to have stopped drinking after becoming a Christian Scientist. Buster said Joe died as a result of being run over by a passing car.
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Edward Biby was born on 8 August 1886 in Pinckneyville, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Her Marble Heart (1916), A Love Riot (1916) and Racketeer Round-up (1934). He died on 3 October 1952 in Ventura, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
Martin Horsey was born on 12 December 1945 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Centurion AD: Demons Within (2017), Alias (2001) and The President's Analyst (1967). He was married to Minadora Demyashkin. He died on 9 October 2016 in Ventura, California, USA.- Stunts
- Actor
Joe Yrigoyen was born on 28 August 1910 in Ventura, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Cowboys (1972), The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) and The Phantom Rider (1946). He died on 10 January 1998 in Ventura, California, USA.- Actor
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- Additional Crew
Clyde Beatty, who was born on June 10, 1903 in Bainbridge, Ohio, was a big game hunter who became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He was the first lion tamer to be featured in a circus. Eventually, he became a circus impresario who owned his own show.
Beatty became famous for his "fighting act," in which he entered the cage with wild animals armed only with a bull-whip and a pistol strapped to his hip. The act was designed to showcase the five & a half-foot tall Beatty's courage and mastery of the wild beasts, which included lions, tigers, pumas, and hyenas, sometimes brought together all at once in a single cage in a potentially lethal combination. At the height of his fame, the act featured Beatty solo, in a cage confronting 40 snarling, roaring and caterwauling lions and tigers of both sexes.
Such was Beatty's fame that he appeared in films from the 1930s through the 1950s and on television until the 1960s. His "fighting act" made him the paradigm of a lion tamer for more than a generation.
Begining in the 1930s, he owned outright or allowed different circuses for which he performed to bear his name. His own circus converted from a railroad to a truck operation in 1956 (think of the ultimate scene from Cecil B. DeMille's Academy Award-winning _The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)_ for one reason why), and in 1958, added "Cole Bros." to its name to create the "Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus." Still in existence, and rivaled only by Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus in North America, it bills itself as "The World's Largest Circus Under The Big Top."
In 2004, the circus dropped "Clyde Beatty" from its name after it terminated its elephant act. This brought an end to an era that Beatty's name epitomized in which circuses featured wild animals from foreign climes. The era had lasted for well over two centuries in North America, since Captain Jacob Crowninshield exhibited his two-year old Indian pachyderm in New York, at the corner of Beaver Street and Broadway on April 23, 1796.
Clyde Beatty, King of the Lion Tamers, died of cancer in Ventura, California on July 19, 1965, just before the beginnings of the political correctness movement that assigned his once-illustrious name to obscurity. He was 62 years old. The plaque at his grave at Forestlawn Hollywood Hills Cemetary in Los Angeles, California features, fittingly, a lion.- Gordon Cooper was born on 6 March 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Primus (1971), The Munsters Today (1987) and CHiPs (1977). He was married to Susan Theresa Taylor and Gertrude Bernice 'Trudy' Olson. He died on 4 October 2004 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Mark Voland was born on 25 June 1952 in North Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Hill Street Blues (1981), The Rousters (1983) and E/R (1984). He died on 13 January 2010 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Herman Rudin was born on 26 December 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Outer Limits (1963), The Rifleman (1958) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). He died on 12 December 2000 in Ventura, California, USA.
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Trick rider and stunt woman Polly Burson was born Pauline Shelton on December 24, 1919 in Ontario, Oregon. Born into a rodeo family, Polly spent her early years on her grandfather's ranch and started riding calves at the age of seven. Moreover, Burson rode relay and flat races as well as was a trick rider since she was a teenager (she even managed to ride ride at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1941). Following an outstanding career on the rodeo circuit, Polly moved to California to break into the film business. Although it took Burson three years to break into said business, her career as a stunt woman was off and running from the mid-1940's and onward. Among the notable actresses that Polly doubled for throughout her five decade career as a stunt woman are Betty Hutton, Julie Adams, Sophia Loren, Shelley Winters, Yvonne De Carlo, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Malone, Betty Grable, Lucille Ball, and Kim Darby.
Burson was the recipient of a Golden Boot Award for her substantial and impressive contributions to the Western genre in 1991; said award was present to her by longtime friend and fellow stuntman Henry Wills. In addition, Polly was also inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame, and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas in November, 2002. Burson was married and divorced three times. She died at age 86 on April 4, 2006 in Ventura, California.- Jeanne Martel was born on 1 March 1915 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Flying Fists (1937), Two Minutes to Play (1936) and Lost Ranch (1937). She was married to Tom Tyler. She died on 24 April 1980 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Sound Department
Mick D'Andrea was born on 13 May 1952 in California, USA. He is known for Masters of the Universe (1987), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Monkey Shines (1988). He died on 3 November 1996 in Ventura County, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Thomas Carr was born on 4 July 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Congo Bill (1948), Brick Bradford (1947) and Superman's Peril (1954). He was married to Julejane Cameron. He died on 23 April 1997 in Ventura, California, USA.- Stunts
- Actor
- Producer
Chris Carnel was born on 26 August 1963. He was an actor and producer, known for Iron Man (2008), Ford v Ferrari (2019) and The Island (2005). He died on 4 October 2020 in Ventura County, California, USA.- Ruth Brennan was born on 22 September 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for California Passage (1950), Oh! Susanna (1951) and Schlitz Playhouse (1951). She was married to Dixon Lademan. She died on 27 October 2004 in Ventura County, California, USA.
- Estelle Clark was born on 7 May 1898 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Crowd (1928), Don't (1925) and Sinners in Silk (1924). She died on 3 December 1982 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Helen Howell was born on 29 March 1895 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Three Days to Live (1924), Paying the Limit (1924) and Movie Madness (1920). She was married to Frank Capra and George Barnes. She died on 15 March 1957 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Art Director
Al Dempster was born on 23 July 1911 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He was an art director, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Mary Poppins (1964) and Sleeping Beauty (1959). He died on 28 June 2001 in Ventura, California, USA.- Bill Severn spent his brief career at MGM as a child actor, known as Little Billy Severn. His brother Christopher was also a child actor. As an adult, he was a world-known evangelist, based in Ventura, California. His ministry took him and his family to far-flung places such as Indonesia during the 1965 revolution, Israel, the UK and also every corner of the USA by way of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. He was a devoted husband and father. He was in the midst of a busy schedule in 1983 when he died suddenly - he was exercising in his weight room when he was stricken by a massive heart attack. This was a dreadful shock because he seemed to be the in the peak of health. He was only 45 years old. He was laid to rest in Pierce Brothers-Valley Oaks Memorial Park, in Westlake Village, California, beside his mother.
- Dorothy Scott was born on 24 July 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Pretender (1947), My Bodyguard (1980) and The Girl in Room 20 (1946). She was married to Bill Scott. She died on 2 January 2004 in Ventura, California, USA.