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David Ruprecht was born on 14 October 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Finding Home (2003) and The Author, the Star, and the Keeper (2020). He has been married to Patti Colombo since 1990.- Actress
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Feisty, spirited and gutsy red headed actress Sondra Currie has amassed an impressive number of television, film and stage credits to her name - including "Linda Garner," Zach Galifianakis' doting mother, in one of the biggest all-time comedy franchises, "The Hangover" trilogy. "Would a cupcake kill you?" Sondra also recurred as "Ms. Vivian" in Tyler Perry's popular comedy series "Love Thy Neighbor" and starred alongside Barbara Bain and Eileen Grubba in a new film "Take My Hand".
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sondra grew up in a "show business family." As the daughter of actress, Marie Harmon ("Gunsmoke," "The El Paso Kid," "Night Time in Nevada." "Ladies Courageous"), Sondra grew up with a natural passion for acting and the art of filmmaking. She was discovered in her teens by the legendary producer and director, Howard Hawks ("Sergeant York," "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," and "Rio Bravo.") Hawks cast Sondra in her first film, "Rio Lobo" starring the Duke himself, John Wayne. Sondra relates the story of their first meeting, as he extended his hand to the very young actress and said "How do you do, I'm John Wayne"...to which the red faced actress replied "Yes, I know, I'm Sandy Currie!"
Sondra was known for her adventurous spirit and her willingness to take risks in her film roles and choices - including performing her own stunts. She went on to star in numerous features, among them, 1970's cult favorites "Jessi's Girls," "Policewomen" and "Mama's Dirty Girls" and the '80's "Concrete Jungle". She refers to these early projects as "slice and dice" films where she definitely got her degree at the college of human nature. Since then, Sondra has continued her focus on working and training with the best that Hollywood has to offer. Sondra is a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio, studying under such greats as Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, Lou Antonio and Salome Jens. Sondra also studied under Milton Katselas' as a member of his Master Class for 17 years.
Sondra has guest starred in well over 125 television shows, including "NCIS," "ER," "JAG," "7th Heaven," "Cheers," "Murder She Wrote," "The Golden Girls," multiples of "Three's Company," multiples of "Simon & Simon," "Magnum P.I.," and "Knight Rider." Starring roles in television Movies of the Week include two "Columbo" films, "Kid Cop," "The Secretary," "The Perfect Wife," "Thicker Than Water" and "Alien Nation: Dark Horizon."
Sondra and her husband, renowned producer/director Alan J. Levi, co-own Lumina Pictures and Entertainment LTD. together. Lumina Pictures has several projects in various stages of production, having just completed "Take My Hand." As part of a large, extended entertainment family, Sondra and Alan enjoy incorporating the talents of friends and family members alike in their creative endeavors... including Cherie Currie ("The Runaways"), Marie Currie ("The Narrow Road Of Light"), Robert Hays ("Airplane!") and Jake Hays ("Maudlin Strangers").
Sondra is also very active in Los Angeles area theatre - as an actress, producer and ardent advocate. Her favorite stage credits include "The Vagina Monologues," "Death of a Salesman," "AfterThe Fall," "The Chesterfield Woman" and "Hatful of Rain". She was a founding member of Camelot Artists - now the Katselas Theatre Company - and is a member of the prestigious Theatre West. She considers her mentor, her husband, her luckiest gift of all. "He's the most patient, giving, talented person I've ever known. And, I'm the smartest, I married him!"
Sondra and Alan served on the Board of the California Independent Film Festival together and were Jury Members for the first ten years of the Festival. In 2008 they were honored to be invited to be Jurors of the First International Indie Film Festival in Sapporo, Japan, where Sondra was the sole woman on the panel.
One of her most rewarding endeavors is being a member of SHARE Inc. (Est. 1953). SHARE inc. is a highly visible and successful Los Angeles charity devoted to helping at-risk youth, developmentally disabled and abused and children-in-need. "This is a place where I might really be able to make a difference," she says. "I see it first-hand. The children are so receptive, and it's such a positive experience. It helps me keep everything else in perspective."
In her spare time, Sondra is an avid photographer. "I love to explore through my lens, it really gives me an intimate look at my subject", she loves to garden and tend her orchids and she and her husband are ardent travelers. They've explored almost every canal in France and many canals in England, Belgium, Holland and Italy on a small boat that they manage themselves. "Alan navigates and I do the ropes and locks myself" she beams. Meeting the locals in the small villages is most rewarding and we've made some life-long friends. It's our time to just drop off the planet. "My life is very rich."- Actor
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Jeffrey Tambor starred in Amazon Studios hit series TRANSPARENT, playing family patriarch "Mort Pfefferman," who over the course of the show becomes the unforgettable "Maura." Tambor's groundbreaking performance earned him two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award and a Critics' Choice Award. He's also starred in the Emmy-winning sitcom ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, playing twin brothers "George Bluth" and "Oscar Bluth," and played "Hank Kingsley," the self-centered sidekick on HBO's critically acclaimed THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW.- Gorgeously buxom and curvaceous blonde bombshell Taaffe O'Connell was born into an upper class family on May 14, 1951 in Providence, Rhode Island. She primarily grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and was a straight-A student in her grade school years. O'Connell received a masters degree in drama from the University of Mississippi.
Taaffe moved to Hollywood, California to pursue an acting career. She started out doing guest spots on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch (1975), Baretta (1975), Police Woman (1974), Vega$ (1978) and CHiPs (1977). O'Connell made her film debut with an uncredited bit part in Rocky II (1979). Taaffe had a regular role as showgirl "Hillary S. Prentiss" on the short-lived sitcom Blansky's Beauties (1977). She played ill-fated nurse "Jane" in the seasonal slasher opus New Year's Evil (1980).
Taaffe achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity as "Dameia", a spaceship crew technical chief who gets gruesomely raped and killed by a giant slimy maggot in the marvelously warped sci-fi/horror winner Galaxy of Terror (1981). She went on to play wisecracking USO showgirl "Honey" in the trashy women-in-prison exploitation outing Caged Fury (1983) and insatiable German nymphomaniac "Brigitte Fritz" in the amusing lowbrow comedy romp Hot Chili (1985).
Moreover, O'Connell made guest appearances on a handful of TV shows that included Happy Days (1974), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Laverne & Shirley (1976), Archie Bunker's Place (1979), Three's Company (1976), Knight Rider (1982), Dallas (1978) and Dangerous Women (1991).
More recently, Taaffe popped up in minor parts in the low-budget fright features The Stoneman (2002) and Dismembered (2003). Outside of acting, Taaffe O'Connell has developed a special directory to help out her fellow thespians, writes articles for magazines specializing in casting, and makes occasional guest appearances at film conventions. - Mina Kolb was born on 7 June 1926 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for A Mighty Wind (2003), The Hollywood Knights (1980) and Ellen (1994).
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Chubby and engaging character actor Britt Leach was born on July 18, 1938 in Gadsden, Alabama. Leach was often cast as no-nonsense police officers, scruffy everyday blue collar working class types, and crude hillbillies in both movies and TV shows alike. Britt graduated from the McCallie prep school in 1956. He was active in college theater. Leach graduated from Birmingham Southern College in the mid 60s. He attended Northwestern University for a short spell, but eventually dropped out and briefly worked in Army intelligence. His film and television career started in the early 70s. Leach's most memorable movie roles include boorish hick bartender Dan Oldum in the terrific "Jackson County Jail," hard-nosed detective Sergeant Cook in "Night Warning," cranky toy store manager Mr. Sims in the notorious sicko Santa slasher horror flick "Silent Night, Deadly Night," trailer park resident Mr. Potter in the charming "The Last Starfighter," Anthony Michael Hall's plumber father in the hilariously raucous "Weird Science," and redneck hunter Reg in "The Great Outdoors." Among the many TV shows Britt has made guest appearances on are "Quantom Leap," "Coach," "Murder, She Wrote," "L.A. Law," "Tales from the Crypt," "Amazing Stories," "St. Elsewhere," "Fame," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Hill Street Blues," "Dallas," "M.A.S.H.," "The Waltons," "Wonder Woman," "The Love Boat," "Sanford and Son," "Happy Days," "Mission: Impossible," "Bonanza," "The Partridge Family," and "The Brady Bunch." Leach called it a day as an actor in the early 90s. From 1992 to 1999 Britt was the co-editor and publisher of "Country Connections," an award-winning bi-monthly magazine which covered environmental and progressive social issues. Leach has also written poems. Britt Leach resides in Sherman Oaks, California with his wife Catherine Roberts Leach.- Actor
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Rod McCary was born on 15 April 1941 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Stir Crazy (1980), The Flintstones (1994) and Night of the Demons 2 (1994). He is married to Emily Bowers McCary. They have one child.- Actress
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Joanna Kerns was born on 12 February 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Girl, Interrupted (1999), Knocked Up (2007) and Growing Pains (1985). She has been married to Marc Appleton since 30 September 1994. She was previously married to Richard M. Kerns.- After a youthful career in the New York City Ballet under the guidance of the famed dance-master George Balanchine, Elaine Giftos starred on Broadway, before moving to Hollywood to act in movies and on TV. She has co-starred with Barbra Streisand and Jack Nicholson, with Woody Allen and Gene Wilder, and with Burt Reynolds, among other major stars, in motion pictures. She has starred in over fifty TV series, such as Emmy-winners Ally McBeal (1997), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Three's Company (1976), and the sci-fi cult hit War of the Worlds (1988), as well as starring in many award-winning movies for television. She stars with Edward Asner and Majel Barrett in the first original made-for-the-Net Science Fiction cyberseries, Mars and Beyond (2000), on the Cyber Sci-Fi Network.
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After playing in various rock bands in his teens, Don apprenticed for three years as an actor with the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, where he got his Equity card when he was twenty. He's had a long association with that Tony Award-winning theater and in 1994 was made an Associate Artist by then-Artistic Director, Jack O'Brien. In 2018 he created the role of "JD" in the Broadway musical, "Escape To Margaritaville," also doing the pre-Broadway tour and singing on the original cast album. He made his Broadway debut playing the "Skipper" in "Take Me Out," the Tony Award-winner for Best Play of 2003. Don has done over thirty leading roles with the Old Globe, as well as working at many of the top regional theaters including the Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown, the Long Wharf, the Geffen, Ariizona Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, as well as many productions across Canada. Don is also a published songwriter who performs his own songs in clubs and coffee houses. His wife Claudia is a busy voice and dialect coach. They live in the Wallkill Valley in New York with their two dogs, Riley and Scout.- Actor
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Michael Bell is an American voice actor who is known for voicing Gleeman Vox from Ratchet: Deadlocked, Raziel from The Legacy of Kain video game series, Chas Finster and Dru Pickles from Rugrats and several Smurfs from The Smurfs cartoon. He also voiced in The Transformers: The Movie, Challenge of the Super Friends, and did live-action acting for several episodes of Star Trek and Dallas.- Actress
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Ruta Lee was born on 30 May 1935 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Funny Face (1957). She was previously married to Webster Bernard Lowe Jr..- Joel Brooks was born on 17 December 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Stir Crazy (1980), Indecent Proposal (1993) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
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John McCook was born on 20 June 1944 in Ventura, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), The Young and the Restless (1973) and Magnum, P.I. (1980). He has been married to Laurette Spang since 16 February 1980. They have three children. He was previously married to Juliet Prowse and Marilynn Ann McPherson.- Actress
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Christina Hart was born as Christina Hartzell. She is an actress and writer, known for Charley Varrick (1973), Happy Days (1974), Helter Skelter (1976), The Love Boat (1977), and Three's Company (1977). She was previously married to Frank Doubleday and is the mother of actresses Kaitlin and Portia Doubleday.- Jacque Lynn Colton was born on 18 September 1939. She is an actress, known for Mr. Mom (1983), Toys (1992) and Twin Sitters (1994).
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Excellent, prolific and dependable character actor Terry Kiser was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Terry attended the University of Kansas on both football and dramatic scholarships. He graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering and worked for three years in this profession in his hometown of Omaha. Kiser also acted in some 50 plays around this same time. Terry then moved to New York and studied his craft at the Actors Studio, where he was mentored by legendary Method acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Following several gigs in television commercials, he made his film debut as a preacher in the film Rachel, Rachel (1968). Although often cast as sleazy and unlikable scoundrels, Terry has shown on occasion that he can portray more sympathetic parts with equal skill and conviction.
Kiser gave an especially strong and engaging performance in a rare substantial starring role in the little seen drama Lapin 360 (1972). Best known as the deceased, but still active Bernie Lomax in the hilarious "Weekend at Bernie's" films, Terry's other memorable roles include Chuck Norris' ill-fated cop partner Dave Pierce in the exciting An Eye for an Eye (1981), shady businessman Freddy Barrett in the entertaining science fiction disaster film Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983), petty worthless hoodlum Jesse Hardwick in the superior horror anthology opus From a Whisper to a Scream (1987), sneaky psychiatrist Dr. Crews in Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988), and the evil Count Gunther Spretzle in Mannequin: On the Move (1991). Kiser had a recurring part on the daytime soap opera The Doctors (1963).
Among the many television series Terry has done guest spots on are Will & Grace (1998), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), Baywatch Nights (1995), Dream On (1990), The Golden Girls (1985), L.A. Law (1986), Hunter (1984), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Riptide (1984), Knight Rider (1982), The Fall Guy (1981), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Hill Street Blues (1981), CHiPs (1977), Diff'rent Strokes (1978), All in the Family (1971), Maude (1972), Hawaii Five-O (1968), The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), and Baretta (1975). In addition to his film and television work, Kiser has acted on stage in the Broadway plays "God's Favorite" (Terry received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in this Neil Simon comedy), "Shelter", "The Castro Complex", and "Paris Is Out!". Terry won both an Obie and a Theater World Award for his exemplary acting in the dramatic play "Fortune and Men's Eyes".
Terry currently resides in Colorado and co-founded the premiere acting school The Actors Arena in Austin Texas with Joy Leigh.- Actress
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Karen Austin has worked continually on film, television and stage in a wide variety of roles. She received an MA in Theatre and Philosophy from Northwestern University. She won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a Dramalogue Award for Lead Performance for the play NUTS. Known for her role as John Candy's wife in Summer Rental. She has one daughter, Olivia.- Actor
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Hollywood born Robert Clotworthy is an American actor and Voice Over Artist. His father, Bill Clotworthy was an advertising executive and later the network censor for Saturday Night Live. At the age of fifteen Robert was noticed by several Los Angeles casting directors and immediately started working in television commercials as well as television shows and movies. Over his long career he has had the privilege of working alongside some of the biggest stars in Hollywood including Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper (American Sniper).
As a Voice Over Artist Robert is one of he most recognized voices in the business and has narrated hundreds of hours television including the History Channel Series Ancient Aliens and The Curse of Oak Island. George Lucas selected Robert to be the narrator of the Emmy nominated documentaries Empire of Dreams: The Making of the Star Wars Trilogy and Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed. Director Rawson Marshall Thurber cast Robert as the opening narrator for his film, Red Notice (2021) and Elizabeth Banks picked him to be the voice of Charlie her film adaptation of Charlie's Angels (2019).
Robert also works extensively in animation and video games. His voicing of Jim Raynor in the iconic StarCraft video game series is hailed by both critics and fans around the globe and earned him a BTVA nomination.- Shera Danese was born on 9 October 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Risky Business (1983), John Q (2002) and Alpha Dog (2006). She was previously married to Peter Falk.
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Valerie Curtin was born on 31 March 1941 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for And Justice for All (1979), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and All the President's Men (1976). She was previously married to Barry Levinson.- Actress
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Susan Lanier, also known as Suze Lanier-Bramlett, was born in Dallas, Texas. This multi-talented and sassy actress, producer, director, writer, vocalist and musician is most known for starring in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) and Cut! (2014). She has performed everywhere from Broadway with Tennessee Williams to the big screen with Wes Craven to the small screen opposite John Travolta. She was married to musical icon Delaney Bramlett.- Susanne Zenor was born on 26 November 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress, known for The Way We Were (1973), Play It Again, Sam (1972) and The Baby (1973). She was previously married to Edward Mallory, J.S. Johnson and Robert Eugene Cavallo.
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Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon, and went into the theatre (like his parents) doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays. He started appearing on television in 1974, gaining some notice in a recurring role as Archie Bunker's friend Stretch Cunningham on All in the Family (1971), made his film debut in 1976, and goes back to the stage periodically. Some of his more noted film roles have been in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and the surprise classic about a charming pig, Babe (1995). He garnered some of the best reviews of his career (many of which said he should have received an Oscar) for his role as a corrupt, conniving police captain in L.A. Confidential (1997).- Sandra was also a recurring cast member of "The Tonight Show" starring Johnny Carson in the prestigious Mighty Carson Art Players; where Carson and a group of stock actors perform scripted skits that spoof news, movies, television shows and commercials.
De Bruin is the creator of the bestselling "Actor's Audition Log" (published by Break-A-Leg Books), lauded by countless successful actors & agents for actors to record pertinent information throughout the audition process. Her logs are also available as apps. - Kit McDonough was born on 13 August 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993), I Am Sam (2001) and American Heart (1992).
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A bodacious, bedimpled, pert-nosed, well-endowed knockout, Loni Anderson earned an assured television sex symbol pedestal during the late 1970s and early 1980s. As sexy but smart Jennifer Marlowe on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), the ravishing star later became a soap-styled fixture in mini-movies. All eyes were peeled on this worthy pin-up who helped to bring back the glossy platinum-blonde allure of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren.
Loni strove for much more than a sex pedestal as she tried to parlay her newly found fame into a viable dramatic career. She met with a measured degree of success as she recreated the lives of such artificial sex sirens as Mansfield and Thelma Todd on television, but got bogged down in television-movie retellings of famous movie classics (Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Leave Her to Heaven (1945)) that could not help but pale in comparison. This attempt at seriousness was further hampered by messy tabloid headlines in her private life.
Loni Kaye Anderson was born with very dark (jet black) hair on August 5, 1945 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of a chemist. An art student at the University of Minnesota, she entered (and won) beauty contests on the sly (including a Miss Minnesota runner-up placing in 1964). Married and divorced from Bruce Hasselberg before she reached age 21, Loni took on a teaching position to support herself and baby daughter (Deidre) while completing college.
Developing an interest in acting, she went the route many aspiring thespians do -- apprenticing in local commercials and theater shows. Still dark-haired, she played in several early 1970s productions such as "Born Yesterday" (as Billie Dawn), "Send Me No Flowers", "Can-Can" and "The Star-Spangled Girl". She even played Tzeitel in "Fiddler on the Roof" and appeared in a production of "The Threepenny Opera".
Remarried in 1973 to actor, Ross Bickell, the couple decided to move away from Minnesota to Los Angeles in 1975 and actively pursue film and television work. Pounding the proverbial pavement, she eventually went blonde and this, plus her gorgeous looks, helped her to secure minor but sexy roles on such series as S.W.A.T. (1975), Police Woman (1974), Barnaby Jones (1973), The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and Three's Company (1976). By the time she nabbed the role of Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), she had grown quite admirably as an actress.
Loni and Howard Hesseman became the breakaway stars of the sitcom and Loni skyrocketed to sexy status, earning two Emmy nominations in the process. On the other hand, her instant fame led to the breakup of her second marriage to Bickell in 1981. Loni found hit-and-miss success outside the parameters of her comedy series. She was front-and-center in a number of television-movies, notably playing tragic Hollywood sex sirens Jayne Mansfield in The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980), opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger as her muscle-bound husband Mickey Hargitay, and Thelma Todd, in White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991), whose untimely death in 1935 is still questioned.
Loni also appeared lusciously alongside Bob Hope, brightening up several of his classic television specials. On the minus side, she fizzled in her teaming up with equally sexy Wonder Woman (1975) star Lynda Carter in the tepid, short-lived series Partners in Crime (1984) and then played a former Las Vegas showgirl who inherits a bundle in the sitcom misfire Easy Street (1986). She also was given a chance to work in feature films such as Stroker Ace (1983). While her performance in that movie was panned, it did have her meeting and co-starring opposite mega star Burt Reynolds.
Appearing in routine, mini-movie soap operas (via her own production company), if anything, kept Loni in the public eye as a serious-minded actress, but it was an uphill battle to rise above her manufactured image as a fantasy bombshell. Not helping things was her high-profile marriage to Reynolds in 1988, which began blissfully enough (and produced adopted son Quinton), then dissolved quickly into a nasty divorce in 1993 that damaged the reputations of both stars.
In later years, Loni showed incredible perseverance. As always, the stalwart beauty continued to play up the glam but has since downplayed the dramatics. She seems more focused these days on having innocuous fun, playing a number of hearty vixens in sitcoms and series guest spots. Over time, she has enjoyed such lightweight sitcoms as her regular role in Nurses (1991), and as a guest in such sitcoms as The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991) (in which she recreated her role as Jennifer Marlowe), Empty Nest (1988), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) and Clueless (1996). Her last movie was the SNT-based comedy movie A Night at the Roxbury (1998).
Millennium television credits include the sitcom The Mullets (2003) and as Tori Spelling's materialistic mother in So Notorious (2006), which did not get the seal of approval from Tori's real-life mother. Loni has more recently starred in the resurrected comedy series My Sister Is So Gay (2016). In 2008, she married a fourth time to musician Bob Flick. Loni's autobiography, "My Life in High Heels", was published in 1997.- Devon Ericson was born on 21 December 1952 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She is an actress, known for Night of the Comet (1984), Young Dan'l Boone (1977) and Magnum, P.I. (1980).
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John Fink was born on 11 February 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor, known for Batman & Robin (1997), Flatliners (1990) and The Client (1994). He was previously married to Charlotte "Sharkey" Flintermann.- Actor
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Archie Hahn was born on 1 November 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Small Soldiers (1998), Guess Who (2005) and Innerspace (1987). He has been married to Carol Larkin since 14 May 2014.- Lauri Hendler was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA. She is an actress, known for Gimme a Break! (1981), Saints Row IV (2013) and FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992). She has been married to Steven Reizes since 16 December 1990.
- Beautiful California-born Angel Tompkins started her career out as a Chicago-area model before attempting an on-camera career in the late 60s. She made an assured (major) film debut as the seductive blonde who comes between husband and wife Elliott Gould and Brenda Vaccaro in the comedy I Love My Wife (1970). An irreverent vehicle for Gould, who was in the initial stages of his euphoric post-M*A*S*H (1970) super stardom, Angel experienced almost Bo Derek-like attention as Gould's mistress and earned a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Newcomer" in the process. The camera obviously loved her and she immediately went into a slew of projects, but the quality was nowhere to be found after such a promising start.
Prime Cut (1972) at least co-starred Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin with newcomer Sissy Spacek in a featured role, but it bordered on trashy entertainment. Angel's "Clarabelle" character did warrant some attention when Playboy magazine featured some nude scenes in their pages. Little Cigars (1973) has a minor cult following today but is no great shakes. Angel again played a mistress, this time a mobster's gal, who joins a band of little people and robs banks and casinos. Such teasing sexploitation films as How to Seduce a Woman (1974) and The Teacher (1974), the latter co-starring the now-grownup Dennis the Menace (1959) Jay North, and violence-prone flicks including The Don Is Dead (1973), The Farmer (1977) and The Bees (1978) did not help in the long run.
On TV, Angel played a season on the short-lived Search (1972), and showed up in scores of guest spots as either a fetching diversion or fetching part of the action in such shows as The Wild Wild West (1965), Mannix (1967), Task Force: Part I (1976), Knight Rider (1982) and Simon & Simon (1981). She continued into the 80s but her filming remained standard. Playing a stripper who divorces Charles Bronson in Murphy's Law (1986), later film appearances include the action-filled Relentless (1989), Crack House (1989) and Extreme Honor (2001). A dedicated SAG board member all these years, Angel's multiple runs for the presidency have thus far been unsuccessful. - James Staley is happily retired from Acting. He is very grateful for the great adventure the Performing Arts provided him. He has been an Emmy judge the last 30 years and is active with his two sons and their families. He and his wife Barbara celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2018 hiking in Italy. Favorite pursuits include two grandsons, hiking in Alaska, the Swiss Alps, the UK and a seven day trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu in Peru.
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A graduate of the University of Iowa, Getz is one of four siblings raised in Iowa and in the Mississippi River Valley of Northern Illinois. After doing a number of plays at the University of Iowa he was encouraged to try acting as a profession. A children's theater production in Napa led to New York which led to Getz's first East Coast play at LaMaMa with Danny DeVito and Peter Riegert. He later spent one season (1970-71) with the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, joined Actor's Equity, and a year later helped found the Napa Valley Theater Company in Yountville, California. One of Getz's earliest roles was as "Shampoo Man" in a Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo commercial shot in the late 1970s. He appeared in the workshop and very first production of the musical "The Robber Bridegroom".- Actor
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Barry Gordon was born on 21 December 1948 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for A Thousand Clowns (1965), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) and Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993). He has been married to Dr. Gail Schaper-Gordon since 1993. They have two children. He was previously married to Sally Julian.- Actress
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Rebecca is a singer, actress and entertainer. She started her music education at the University of North Texas, majoring in voice and piano, and then moved to New York City to continue her studies. While in New York, a talent agency spotted her and made her a "Breck" girl. Rebecca would appear on magazine covers, do some commercials, and then she headed for Hollywood. In 1980, she had her first appearance on a sitcom, she played "Twinkie" on the wildly popular Three's Company (1976)'s episode, A Crowded Romance (1980). The following year, she would again have a small but memorable part as "Wendy McWilliams" ("the Cheerleader who Dropped her Baton") on Paternity (1981). This led to her most famous role as "April Curtis", the computer whiz on Knight Rider (1982), which is in syndication in the U.S. and 92 foreign countries. After the 1980s, Rebecca stopped appearing in TV shows and concentrated on her singing career. She has appeared in a few movies but, since 1992, her main focus has been performing before live audiences. She has toured internationally, and worked tirelessly for charitable causes, such as "Toys for Tots", "Feed the Children" and the "Special Olympics".- Actor
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Philip is the son of William Harris, an NYPD (Captain) policeman and Sophia Muller, a school teacher. He grew up in the Bay Ridge-Fort Hamilton section of Brooklyn and attended Fort Hamilton HS. He started playing drums at 14 and in addition to his acting, directing and teaching careers, he still plays drums live and on recordings. He graduated from SUNY Cortland with a degree in elementary education. From there, he received an MFA in acting from the prestigious NYU School of the Arts. Upon graduation, he never stopped working as an actor. It was while he starred in Showtime's "Brothers" playing the flamboyant, groundbreaking gay character, Donald Maltby that he moved into directing, a career that continued for another twenty-five years, directing such hit shows as Roseanne, Frasier, According to Jim and many others. He is also a much sought after film acting teacher in the Los Angeles area. He is married to actress Alison LaPlaca. They have one son.- Actor
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Shane Sinutko was born on 16 March 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Minotaur (1984).- Laurette Spang was born in Buffalo, New York but raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She grew up as the middle child of a chemist father and housewife mother. She has an older brother, Richard and a younger sister, Marilyn. As a dramatic major in college, she made a college trip to New York where a chance encounter with a soap opera producer led to an audition the following summer (after graduation), and a place at the Williamtown summer theatre. That led to a scholarship at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Spotted by a Universal talent scout, she signed a contract and arrived in Hollywood in 1972.
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Terence McGovern was born on 11 May 1942 in Berkeley, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for American Graffiti (1973), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990). He has been married to Molly Blaisdell since 7 January 2012.- Actress
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Ilene Graff was born on 28 February 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Remington Steele (1982), Mr. Belvedere (1985) and Loving Annabelle (2006). She was previously married to Ben Lanzarone.- Producer
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Brian Robbins is President of Kids & Family Entertainment for ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks, with oversight of all strategy, creative and business operations for the company's kids and young-adult focused brands including Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, Nickelodeon Studios and Awesomeness. He also has purview over The Nick Experience, Nickelodeon's experiential division which includes live shows, as well as Nick's domestic consumer products business.
Robbins most recently served as President of Nickelodeon, responsible for evolving the global brand leader in kids and family entertainment for a new generation of young audiences by enhancing its robust content offerings and expanding its cultural footprint on next-generation platforms and in film.
Prior to that, Robbins was President of Paramount Players, a production division of Paramount Pictures that develops, produces and markets feature films from original source material and in collaboration with Viacom flagship brands Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and BET.
Projects led by Robbins under the Paramount Players division include: Nobody's Fool, directed by Tyler Perry and starring Tiffany Haddish; What Men Want directed by Adam Shankman and starring Taraji P. Henson; the adaptation of Trevor Noah's autobiography Born a Crime; and film versions of classic Nickelodeon shows Rugrats and Dora the Explorer, among others.
Prior to establishing Paramount Players, Robbins founded multi-platform media company Awesomeness, which Viacom purchased in July 2018. As Founder & CEO, he drove all Awesomeness creative, producing hit web series and films Expelled, Guidance, Foursome, t@gged, and Freakish, as well as theatrical release Before I Fall.
A prolific producer of television, film and digital media, Robbins is best known for executive producing numerous popular and critical television hits aimed at teens and young audiences, including the long-running CW series Smallville and One Tree Hill; Nickelodeon's All That and Kenan and Kel; Disney Channel's Sonny With a Chance and So Random; and Spike TV's Blue Mountain State. He also produced the popular WB series What I Like About You and HBO's Arli$$.
In feature film, his director and producer credits include Paramount Pictures' Coach Carter, Hardball, Varsity Blues and Good Burger; Disney's Wild Hogs and Shaggy Dog; DreamWorks' A Thousand Words; and Sony's Radio, along with many other works.
Robbins is the recipient of a Directors Guild Award, a Peabody Award, and the Pioneer Prize by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is based in Los Angeles, CA.- The day in 1951, that Syl, (Paul's nickname since the age of ten), saw Bobby Driscoll in Disney's version of Treasure Island, at the Lowe's Paradise Theater in the Bronx, he knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life (the same Paradise Theater where Paul fell hopelessly in love with Hedy Lamarr in "Samson and Delilah"). He wanted to be on that screen forever. He wanted to live and work in the world of pirates, cowboys, cops and robbers. Interestingly enough, the first TV role he ever got was "Officer Williams" in Columbia TV's Police Story.
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Deborah Tranelli was born on 6 July 1955. She is an actress, known for Dallas (1978), Naked Vengeance (1985) and Hart to Hart (1979).- Granville Van Dusen was born on 16 March 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Soap (1977), The West Wing (1999) and Space: Above and Beyond (1995). He has been married to June Ellen Lommen since 3 September 1966. They have two children.
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Rita Wilson (born Margarita Ibrahimoff) is an American actress, singer, and film producer from Los Angeles. Her ancestry is primarily Greek and Bulgarian. She was granted Greek citizenship in 2019, in honor of her efforts to assist Greece by appealing for international aid after a devastating wildfire in Mati, Attica. Also in 2019, Wilson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For several decades, Wilson has been an activist for additional funding to combat women's cancers. She has served as an honorary co-chair of the Women's Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
In 1956, Wilson was born in Los Angeles. Her father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff (1920-2009), was a bartender. He was born to a Pomak family in Oraio, Greece. The Pomaks being a Bulgarian Muslim minority population in northeastern Greece. Ibrahimoff migrated to the United States in 1949, and legally changed his name to Allan Wilson in 1960. Ibrahimoff was born to a Muslim family, but converted to Orthodox Christianity upon his marriage. Wilson's mother was Dorothea Tzigkou. She was an ethnic Greek woman from Sotirë in southern Albania. Dorothea was part of a Greek minority population in Gjirokastër County. Wilson was brought up as an Orthodox Christian by her parents, and has continued practicing her religion into adulthood.
In 1972, Wilson made her television debut in an episode of the sitcom "The Brady Bunch" (1969-1974). She portrayed Pat Conway, one of the candidates for the position of head cheerleader. Her character was depicted as a one-shot rival for the regular character Marcia Brady (played by Maureen McCormick). Afterwards, she started regularly appearing in guest-star roles in television.
In 1977, Wilson had her film debut in the science fiction horror film "The Day It Came to Earth" (1977). It depicted an alien who arrived to planet Earth on a falling meteor, and re-animated the corpse of a recent murder victim. The film was shot in Arkansas, and used a primarily local cast of actors. It was one of several B-Movies distributed by the company Howco, primarily to drive-in theaters. The film found moderate success, and later became available in syndicated television through an early episode of the horror television series "Elvira's Movie Macabre" (1981-1986).
In 1981, Wilson had a guest role in the sitcom "Bosom Buddies" (1980-1982), which depicted two men who regularly cross-dressed as women. She was introduced to fellow actor Tom Hanks (1956-), who was one of the series' protagonists. The two met again when they co-starred in the comedy film "Volunteers" (1985). They portrayed Lawrence Bourne III and Beth Wexler, two volunteers of the Peace Corps who fall for each other during a dangerous mission in Thailand. Wilson and Hanks eventually started a real-life romantic relationship, and Hanks converted to Orthodox Christianity to be able to marry her. The couple were married in 1988, and eventually had two sons: Chester Marlon "Chet" Hanks (born in 1990) and Truman Theodore Hanks (born in 1995). Chet eventually followed in his parents' footsteps as an actor.
During the 1980s, Wilson had continued to regularly appear in guest-star roles in television. She portrayed Nurse Lacey in two episodes of the war drama "M*A*S*H" and portrayed two different characters in episodes of the sitcom "Happy Days". Her other appearances included then-popular series, such as "Three's Company", "Who's the Boss?", and "Moonlighting". She had relatively few film roles in this period. In the 1990s, she started appearing frequently in films. She portrayed the supporting character of Suzy Baldwin in the romantic comedy "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), the sister of co-protagonist Sam Baldwin (played by Tom Hanks). In one of the film's subplots, Suzy is mistaken for Sam's new girlfriend.
Wilson portrayed Catherine O'Shaughnessy in the Christmas-themed black comedy "Mixed Nuts" (1994). Her character was the overly emotional and empathetic supervisor of a suicide-prevention hot-line, who was unaware that her boss was nearly bankrupt. After her boss Philip (played by Steve Martin) confessed his love for her, Catherine became his new fiancee. The film was a remake of the French comedy film "Santa Claus Is a Stinker" (1982), but added several new subplots to the basic story.
Wilson portrayed the adult version of co-protagonist Chrissy DeWitt in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film "Now and Then". The preteen version of the character was portrayed by Ashleigh Aston Moore. The film's followed the lives of four 12-year-old girls in 1970, and their reunion as adults in 1995. Chrissy was portrayed as the sexually repressed and overly naive member of the group, the product of an overprotective mother. During their reunion, Chrissy was a pregnant homemaker who had never left her hometown, and was still a naive "good girl". Her friends had become successful career women, and two of them had moved away.
Wilson had a supporting role in the comedy film "That Thing You Do!" (1996). She portrayed the waitress Marguerite, an employee at a jazz club. Marguerite tried to romance professional drummer Guy Patterson (played by Tom Everett Scott), but he ignored her when he had a chance to meet his idol, Del Paxton (played by Bill Cobbs). Guy's night out with his idol resulted in him suffering from a hangover in his performance. His music group fell apart soon after, and Guy started a romantic relationship with Faye Dolan (played by Liv Tyler), an assistant of the band members.
Wilson had a supporting role in the Christmas-themed comedy film "Jingle All the Way" (1996). She portrayed Liz Langston, the wife of workaholic salesman Howard Langston (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger). Howard loved his wife and son but neglected them. When he remembered that Liz instructed him to buy a Christmas gift for his son, it was already Christmas Eve and most shops had sold out their toys. Howard started obsessively searching for his son's favorite action figure, in the apparent belief that it will cheer up his heartbroken son. Meanwhile, Liz had to face the unwanted romantic advances of their neighbor, Ted Maltin (played by Phil Hartman). By the end of the film, Howard realized that he never bought a Christmas gift for Liz. The film was in part a satire of the commercialization of Christmas, and in part a quest for a parent to apologize for neglect through a single gift to his son. The film earned 129.8 million dollars at the worldwide box office. Wilson was nominated for the "Stinkers Bad Movie Award" for Worst Supporting Actress for this role, but lost to actress Jami Gertz (1965-).
In the psychological horror film "Psycho" (1998), Wilson portrayed Caroline, the office co-worker of Marion Crane (played by Anne Heche). The film was a remake of "Psycho" (1960), where the role of Caroline had been played by Pat Hitchcock. Caroline is remembered primarily for offering to share her tranquilizers with Marion. Caroline apparently considered them superior to aspirins in dealing with common headaches. Caroline also made references to her nagging mother, making her one of several characters in the film who had a problematic relationship with their mother.
Wilson portrayed Ellie Graham in the romantic comedy "Runaway Bride" (1999). Her character was both the ex-wife and the editor of news reporter Homer Eisenhower "Ike" Graham (played by Richard Gere). In the film, Ike had undermined his own career by publishing an inaccurate biographical article on a woman, using as his only source the ramblings of a casual acquaintance. In an effort to restore his reputation, Ike decided to write an in-depth biographical article. He systematically interviewed the woman's friends, family, and several of her ex-fiances. In the process, Ike became romantically interested in the woman. The film earned 309.5 million dollars at the worldwide box office.
Wilson produced the hit comedy film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (2002), in her debut as a producer. She had helped the lead actress and playwright Nia Vardalos to secure a film contract for her script. Wilson won the "Visionary Award" at the "Producers Guild of America Award". She subsequently served as an executive producer for the spin-off television series "My Big Fat Greek Life". Wilson subsequently served as one of the producers in several films. Her films include "Connie and Carla" (2004), "Mamma Mia!" (2008), "My Life in Ruins" (2009), "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" (2016), "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" (2018), and "A Simple Wedding" (2018).
In 2012, Wilson released her debut solo album as a singer, "AM/FM". The album included several classic songs from the 1960s and the 1970s, such as ""Angel of the Morning" and ""Faithless Love"". In 2014, Wilson performed for President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington, DC . In 2016, Wilson released the eponymous album "Rita Wilson". It included mostly new material, including song written by Wilson herself. She joined the music band Chicago on tour in order to promote the album. Her subsequent albums included "Bigger Picture" (2018), "Halfway to Home" (2019), and "Now & Forever: Duets" (2022).
In 2015, Wilson had a month-long hiatus in her performing career. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and the hiatus was intended to help her deal with her health problems. She subsequently had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. In 2020, Wilson and her husband contracted COVID-19 during their stay in Australia. They were experiencing only minor symptoms, but they were admitted to the Gold Coast University Hospital. After their recovery, the couple decided to donate their blood antibodies for virus research.
By 2022, Wilson was 66-years-old. The veteran actress has no apparent plans to retire yet, and her singing career has been adding to her fame. Despite a number of health scares, she remains remarkably active and energetic. Though she is better known for supporting roles rather than lead roles, Wilson is familiar to several generations of viewers through her performances in films with enduring popularity.- Actress
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Victoria Carroll was born on 21 January 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) and Nightmare in Wax (1969). She has been married to Michael Bell since 1984. They have one child.- Actress
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Joyce Bulifant was born on 16 December 1937 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Airplane! (1980), Dirty Love (2005) and American Playhouse (1980). She was previously married to Roger Perry, Glade Bruce Hansen, William Asher, Edward Mallory and James MacArthur.- Regina Baff was born on 31 March 1949 in The Bronx, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Escape from Alcatraz (1979), The Great Gatsby (1974) and The Paper Chase (1973).
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Lee Bryant was born on 31 August 1945 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Airplane! (1980), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and Friends with Kids (2011). She has been married to Norman Stanley Schwartz since 1982. They have two children. She was previously married to Myles Harmon.- Producer
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A multi-award-winning director, writer, producer and actor, Stuart Gillard is a three time nominee for the prestigious DGA (Directors Guild of America) Award, winning for Going to the Mat (2004), a movie he directed for the Walt Disney Company. Mr. Gillard is a man of many talents whose career spans three decades. After graduating from the University of Alberta, Gillard was one of twelve candidates selected to study acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada. He then was invited to Seattle, Washington where he was a founding member of the University of Washington Professional Acting Troupe. He returned to Canada where he won the country's top acting awards.
This led to many job offers in Los Angeles where, in addition to acting, he began his directing and writing career. Mr. Gillard has written and directed several feature films including If You Could See What I Hear (1982), Shades of Love: Indigo Autumn (1988), Paradise (1982), A Man Called Sarge (1990), and Kart Racer (2003). He also wrote and directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) for New Line Cinema , one of the top-selling movies of all time. In addition, Mr. Gillard has directed twelve movies for the Walt Disney Company, including RocketMan (1997) and Twitches (2005), the latter being the Number One Cable Movie of the Year.
Gillard has directed for all the major television networks including multiple episodes of the popular series, Beauty and the Beast (2012), 90210 (2008), Ringer (2011), Emily Owens M.D. (2012), Charmed (1998), Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994), One Tree Hill (2003), and All Souls (2001), a series he also co-created and co-wrote for Paramount and Spelling Television. He has directed many successful Television Dramatic Pilots, including Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), Bordertown (1989), Legacy (1998), and the two-hour movie, Sandkings (Sandkings (1995)), the pilot of Outer Limits, which earned him an ACE award for Best Director and which ran for 150 episodes.
In 2016, Mr. Gillard is the Executive Producer/Director for CBS Studios Beauty and the Beast (2012). He resides in Montecito, California with his wife, producer/columnist Marilyn Majerczyk and their children.- Richard McKenzie was born on 2 June 1930 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Being There (1979), MacGyver (1985) and Corvette Summer (1978). He was married to Aza Cefkin. He died on 1 December 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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President of Oxford Group Productions, Lowe is a recognized producer and entrepreneur who brings a unique blend of experience and leadership to artistic programming and the projects, in international film production, Network and Cable television movies and the Theatre. Represented by ICM, one of Hollywood's most influential talent agencies, Lowe began her career in the film industry as a professional actor, studying at the American Academy, later with Stella Adler and ultimately accepted into The Actors Studio. As a theatrical producer, Lowe has produced numerous well-received national shows. The distinguished production of "Down Winder Dance" starring Sara Gilbert, entails the 1950s Atom Bomb testing in Utah and its effect on the farmers and livestock living down wind of the nuclear blasts. Finally in 1997, the United States government accepted partial responsibility for the terrible aftermath on the citizens of Utah. However, ironically, most of the victims with cases against the government are now deceased. Lowe produced the highly acclaimed, The Avenging Angel (1995) starring Tom Berenger, Charlton Heston and James Coburn. Having produced the film for Turner Pictures with worldwide release. With formation of Turner's new production company, Ms. Lowe looks forward to re-teaming on future productions.
Lowe and Police Detective Tom Lange have recently joined forces on "Out For Justice", a new television series profiling Lange's successful career in Los Angles law enforcement's high profile cases. Lowe's vital role to the company's overall media ventures involves acquisition, development, financing, and distribution of properties by working with Hollywood's most qualified and talented personnel, providing a sound basis for the a creative slate of properties with merit. The focus of Oxford Group Productions is on quality and diversity, in providing entertainment, which audiences desire to see, resulting ultimately in a memorable experience. The company has a numerous slate of projects, including "One Night In 67", a feature film documentary involving an in-house studio recording session that would be the prelude to one of the most notorious events of all time. This project will be represented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival this spring.- Ellen Travolta was born on October 6, 1939 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Grease (1978), Joanie Loves Chachi (1982), and Charles in Charge (1984). She was previously married to Jack Bannon and James Thomas Fridley. She is one of John Travolta's siblings and has had her own respectable career. She played Scott Baio's mother in three different shows (Happy Days (1974), Joanie Loves Chachi, and Charles In Charge).
- Vernon Weddle was born on 24 August 1935 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA. He is an actor, known for Short Circuit (1986), Norma Rae (1979) and Simon & Simon (1981).
- Robin Eisenman was born in New York City, New York, USA, and grew up in Plainview, Long Island. She began working professionally at 20 years old on the CBS daytime drama, Search for Tomorrow (1951), originating the role of "Jennifer Pace". As an actress, she is known for her work on The Young and the Restless (1973), Days of Our Lives (1965) and General Hospital (1963). She has guest-starred in over 40 prime-time series, has starred or guest-starred in almost 20 TV pilots, and has been featured in over 120 national or regional TV commercials. She has been married to voice actor Maurice LaMarche since May 19, 1991, and they have one child.
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Teresa Ganzel is better known as a recurring cast member of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She replaced the late Carol Wayne as the Matinee Lady in the popular "Tea Time Movie" skits. She has had several stereotype (ditzy, buxom, blonde bimbo) roles in films such as The Toy (1982) with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor, Movie Madness (1982). In the film, she had a memorable topless scene. She made a turn when she appeared in Transylvania 6-5000 (1985). She played the overprotective and confrontational mother, Elizabeth Ellison.- Actor
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Brad Maule was graduated from Stephen F. Austin College cum laude with a B.F.A. in theater and English. He grew up on a farm in rural west Texas where he attended one of the few remaining country schools with an enrollment of 150 students in twelve grades. Maule's theatre credits include Billy Barnes' musical revue, Movie Star. He then played Hamlet in Somethin's Rockin' in Denmark. He won the Drama-Logue Award for his performance in Stephen Sondheim's Marry Me A Little. Maule's television credits include guest starring roles in The White Shadow (1978), Three's Company (1976), Too Close for Comfort (1980), and Charlie's Angels (1976). He also appeared on the ABC miniseries Malibu (1983). Brad Maule wrote and performed songs before he became an actor. He worked as backup singer for Bob Gentry, Jim Nabors, and Don Ho, among others, and has released a couple of albums.- Actor
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Peter Isacksen was born on 11 December 1954 in Fullerton, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Keys to Tulsa (1997), Surf II (1983) and CPO Sharkey (1976). He has been married to Deborah Kennedy Isacksen since 6 May 1995. He was previously married to Gina K. Persons.- Actress
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Perky American actress with a sexy style and a flair for comedy. Born in New Jersey, she was raised by her singer mother in New York, Michigan, and Oregon. She began acting as a child, in school and local productions. After college at North Texas State and the University of Idaho, she went to New York and landed work as a singer at the Radio City Music Hall and then as a performer in Broadway musicals. She went to Las Vegas as part of a comedy act and, there, she met Jack Emrek, who introduced her to film and television executives in Los Angeles. She made numerous appearances on television in both comic and dramatic roles and, by the 1960s, was a familiar and popular personality in movies. She specialized in spunky types of great humor, innocent sexiness. Although she was off the screen for much of the late 1970s, she reappeared in a few roles in the 1980s.- Actor
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Barry William Blenkhorn grew up in Santa Monica, California and, after he turned 4 years old, he became one of those annoying kids who were bound and determined to get into show business. He was neighbors with actor Peter Graves whom he idolized and asked for advice on how to become an actor and his response was that he just thought about it. At the age of 11, he changed his name from Barry William Blenkhorn to Barry Williams. He then got an acting coach and took some scene study courses in Sherman Oaks and took courses for film and television techniques which later he landed a lead role in an educational school industrial called "Why Johnny Can Read" and landed roles in TV commercials. Then he had guest roles in TV shows such as Run for Your Life (1965), Here Come the Brides (1968), It Takes a Thief (1968), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) and Mission: Impossible (1966), but then success came for him when he landed the role of "Greg Brady" in the blockbuster hit family sitcom series The Brady Bunch (1969). After the first season, he and his TV siblings made a Christmas album signed by Paramount Records which sold terribly as critics called them 6 kids who couldn't sing so Barry took singing lessons and released a single by the same record company called "Sweet Sweetheart" hoping to have a solo album released but producers thought he should wait for that moment while he was making records with his TV siblings as they made 3 more records, did summer tours and had their own animated TV series The Brady Kids (1972) on which some of their songs were featured. After the series ended in 1974, Barry started performing solo in concerts and then took up musical theatre and landed numerous successful roles in shows like "Pippin", "West Side Story", "Oklahoma", "Movie Star", "Grease", "The Music Man", "Romance/Romance", "City of Angels" and "The Sound of Music" and still did the odd acting appearance in front of the camera like in Police Woman (1974), Three's Company (1976), Highway to Heaven (1984), Murder, She Wrote (1984), and a stint on the daytime soap General Hospital (1963) and the MTV series Hollywood 7 (2001) as well as in all the "Brady Bunch" reunion shows. In 1978, he did try taking a shot at pursuing a solo career and signed up with Private Stock records but their label went out of business. However, in 1999, he did release a tribute album called "The Return of Johnny Bravo" doing cover songs that expressed him as a singer as well as celebrating 30 years of The Brady Bunch (1969). He continues to do musical theatre as well as touring with his music and public speaking.- Cisse Cameron was born on 5 January 1954 in the USA. Cisse is an actor, known for Space Mutiny (1988), The Prize Fighter (1979) and Porky's II: The Next Day (1983). Cisse has been married to Reb Brown since 8 September 1979.
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Gary and his wife Glenda moved to Los Angeles in 1977 for Gary to pursue a writing career. He went on an open call as an actor, got the part, and now two hundred parts later Gary is still acting. Gary and Glenda now have a home in Mississippi and an apartment in Los Angeles, and Gary works both the southern and L.A. markets.
In the last few years Gary has devoted much of his time to writing and has successfully sold two pilot scripts to CBS, two screenplays and had his first full length Equity play, "As the Crow Flies", receive its world premier. The production was both a creative and financial success and received many positive reviews. Currently he has a project in development at Warner Horizon.
In 2008 Gary can be seen in "In the Electric Mist" with Tommie Lee Jones, "Deal" with Burt Reynolds, "Good Intentions" with Elaine Hendrix, "Major Movie Star" with Jessica Simpson, and "My Mom's New Boyfriend" with Meg Ryan and Antonio Banderas.
Gary has worked as an actor for some of the most distinguished film directors of our time in a number of motion pictures, including "JFK" (Oliver Stone), "Silkwood" (Mike Nichols), "Nadine" (Robert Benton), "Honkytonk Man" (Clint Eastwood), and "The Border" (Tony Richardson). Other feature credits include "The X-Files," "Doubletake," and "The Astronaut's Wife".
On television, Grubbs made a name for himself by portraying attorneys in two of the highest rated programs in television history, "The Burning Bed" and "Fatal Vision". He has also starred in numerous movies-of-the-week and miniseries, including "Canal Street Brothel", "For One Night", "Foxfire", and many others. Gary's recent series and episodic work includes appearances on "ER", "Angel", "NCIS", "K-ville", "Will & Grace" and "The O.C."
Gary and Glenda have a daughter Molly who is employed at Team One Advertising in Los Angeles, and their son Logan is a grad student at The University of Southern Mississippi.- Floyd Levine was born on 23 February 1932 in New York, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Death Wish (1974), Norbit (2007) and Meet Dave (2008).
- Beau Starr is an American actors best known for his role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the horror films Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), and for his long-running role in Due South (1994) as Lt. Harding Welsh.
Beau began acting in the early 1980s, taking guest roles in TV series such as Knight Rider (1982), Hill Street Blues (1981) and The New Mike Hammer (1984). He soon switched to feature films, however, playing the unstable father of Judd Nelson in William Lustig's Relentless (1989), an equally violent father in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), and a police commissioner in Jan de Bont's Speed (1994).
He has since notched up over one hundred TV and film appearances including Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Trial by Jury (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and Hoodlum (1997).
More recently he starred in the Masters of Horror (2005) episode 'Jennifer', directed by Dario Argento.
He is the brother of actor Mike Starr. - Greta Blackburn was born on 8 March 1956 in California, USA. She is an actress, known for My Blue Heaven (1990), 48 Hrs. (1982) and Yellowbeard (1983).
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After a successful career as a child actor, Kaleena Kiff moved behind the camera as a producer and director. Kaleena developed and produced the multiple BAFTA Scotland award-winning feature film The Legend of Barney Thomson. The dark comedy stars Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson and BAFTA winners Robert Carlyle & Ray Winstone. Additionally, Kaleena produced the comedy feature No Men Beyond This Point which was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Films at the Toronto International Film Festival and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2019, Kaleena and her partners will be premiering Stuffed in competition at the SXSW Film Festival. The documentary feature film explores the art and passion of award-winning taxidermy artists around the world. Kaleena is a member of the Producers Guild of America and ACE Producers (Europe).- Actress
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Sally Kirkland, Best Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner, LA Film Critics Circle Award winner, and veteran of over 200 movies. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the trademark blonde hair, actress Sally Kirkland has certainly made an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Born in New York City, her mother was the fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazine. Sally began her career on the off-Broadway circuit and trained under Lee Strasberg. Sally Kirkland is a movie, television, and theater veteran since the 1960s and is probably best known for the drama movie Anna (1987), for which she garnered the Best Actress Oscar nomination and won the Best Actress Golden Globe, the Independent Spirit Award, and the LA Film Critic's Circle Award.
Sally's first director was Andy Warhol in The 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964). Her 220 movies also include Coming Apart (1969), The Sting (1973), The Way We Were (1973), Cold Feet (1989), Best of the Best (1989), Revenge (1990), JFK (1991), Edtv (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Coffee Date (2006) and Archaeology of a Woman (2012). In the past couple of years, she has starred in Buddy Solitaire (2016), Apartment 212 (2017), and The Most Hated Woman in America (2017) co-starring with Melissa Leo and Peter Fonda. And coming out soon, she has starred in Sarah Q (2018), Cuck (2019), Invincible (2020) and Hope for the Holidays (2020). She was nominated for Best Actress in a television movie by the Hollywood Foreign Press for The Haunted (1991). Her television credits include: guest starring on Criminal Minds (2005), and recurring roles on Head Case (2007) and The Simple Life (2003). She guest starred on Resurrection Blvd. (2000) and in the television movie Another Woman's Husband (2000).
Sally had a recurring role on Felicity (1998) and starred in the NBC movie Brave New World (1998). She also starred in the television episode Song of Songs (1994), and was a series regular on the television series Valley of the Dolls (1994). She also co-starred in the television movie The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993). She had a recurring role as Barbara Healy in the original Roseanne (1988) series. She starred in the television movie Heat Wave (1990), and recurred as Tracy on Days of Our Lives (1965). Sally is also an exhibited painter, poet, renowned acting coach and ordained minister.- Actor
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Reb Brown was born on 29 April 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Space Mutiny (1988), Uncommon Valor (1983) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983). He has been married to Cisse Cameron since 8 September 1979.- Terence Goodman was born on 29 November 1950 in Fort Dodge,Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for Ode to Billy Joe (1976), Final Rinse (1999) and Small Town Crime (2017).
- Tall, lovely, and willowy blonde Simone Griffeth was born on April 4, 1950 in Savannah, Georgia. She was a Theater Arts major at the University of South Carolina for three years. While attending college Simone wrote, put together and acted in a weekly children's show for a Columbia television station. She appeared in a TV commercial at age fifteen. She made her film debut with a charming performance as the titular sweet innocent country lass in the enjoyable redneck exploitation item Swamp Girl (1971). She was likewise well cast as another naive hillbilly gal in the sordid Sixteen (1972) and was excellent as David Carradine's enticing co-driver Annie Smith in Paul Bartel's wickedly funny sci-fi black comedy cult classic Death Race 2000 (1975). Simone was at her sexiest as the bored wife of a neglectful millionaire in Hot Target (1985) and was once again solid in the entertaining Crown International action opus The Patriot (1986).
Among the many TV shows Griffeth has done guest spots on are Silk Stalkings (1991), The Golden Girls (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Riptide (1984), T.J. Hooker (1982), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), The Greatest American Hero (1981), Three's Company (1976), Hawaii Five-O (1968), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Starsky and Hutch (1975) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974).
Griffeth now teaches acting and works along with her husband Wayne McDonald as a real estate agent for high-end Low Country properties in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Moreover, Simone continues to act in independent films. - Actress
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Joan Roberts was born in Washington, D.C on February 19th and raised in the suburb of McLean, Virginia. She attended West Virginia University and American University majoring in drama and speech.
After touring with the U.S.O. Ms. Roberts joined WRC/NBC radio in Washington, D.C as a staff announcer and local radio personality. She quickly became one of the areas most sought after voice-over talents. While filming on location in Los Angeles she signed with an agent and relocated to California where she began a busy career guest starring in numerous television shows, Movies of the Week, pilots and series including, "Designing Women" in the highly acclaimed episode, "The AIDS Show"," Three's Company", "Archie Bunker", "Fantasy Island", "Matlock", "The Castaway's Return to Gilligan's Island" and many more.
In 1981 Ms. Roberts was cast as one of the stars of the CBS television series, "Pvt. Benjamin". The CBS network executive assigned to the series was Dwayne Hickman, former star of the classic television series, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". After meeting at a studio party the couple began dating and married two years later on April 16th 1983. Ms. Roberts continued guest starring in television shows, working in theatre and began pursuing a writing career. Encouraged by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, creator of "Designing Women", she wrote several scripts for the series as well as columns for various magazines and newspapers. In 1992 the couple's son, Albert Thomas, was born and Ms. Roberts devoted her time to her family and concentrating on her writing and voice-over career. In 1994 she co-authored with Dwayne Hickman his critically acclaimed autobiography, "Forever Dobie...The Many Lives of Dwayne Hickman", Birch Lane Press.
Dwayne Hickman left the CBS and began directing half hour comedies and pursuing his love of oil painting. While continuing her busy voiceover career Ms. Roberts signed on as contributing editor of "ArtAffairs Magazine" writing many of the magazines cover stories. By 1999 Hickman's artwork had moved from hobby to a thriving business. The couple formed, Hickman/Roberts Productions, Inc. and began publishing limited edition canvas prints of his artwork. In addition to her on-going show business career, Ms. Roberts launched Dwayne Hickman's artwork in galleries across the country. She created a marketing and promotional program unique in the art industry producing and promoting celebrity artist events nationwide.
Ms. Roberts is one of a small group of successful voice talent to work in the area of political narration. She was the female voice for McCain's 2008 Presidential Campaign, numerous candidates and issues and multiple races in the 2010 mid-terms. Joan Roberts, Dwayne Hickman and their son Albert reside in Los Angeles, California.- Actor
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Steven Anderson was born on 24 November 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for When a Stranger Calls (1979), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).- Actress
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Fay DeWitt was born on 4 December 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), Red Dead Redemption (2010) and Circle (2015). She was previously married to Raymond Joseph Allen.- Actor
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Hank Garrett was born on 26 October 1931 in Monticello, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Death Wish (1974), The Amityville Horror (1979) and Nothing to Lose (1997). He has been married to Deanna Marie Smith since 23 July 2017.- Actress
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Dorian Lopinto was born on 30 August 1957 in New Rochelle, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994), Ablaze (2001) and Hunter (1984). She is married to Chip Meehan. They have one child. She was previously married to Nicholas Deleo.- Frances Lee McCain was born on 28 July 1944 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Back to the Future (1985), Gremlins (1984) and Footloose (1984).
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Donald Petrie was born on 2 April 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Miss Congeniality (2000) and Grumpy Old Men (1993).- Actress
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Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Paula began acting as a teenager, playing lead roles onstage at NYU's Bronx campus (before women were enrolled there) while still in high school. Upon graduating from prestigious Bard College on full scholarships, earning her B.A. in Dramatic Arts, she entered the revolutionary off- and off-off-Broadway theatre scene of the 1960s.
While playing "Lizzie" during an off-off-Broadway production of "The Rainmaker," she met fellow actor James Mendenhall, with whom she partnered and ran the Playhouse-on-the-Mountain, a summer theatre on Mt. Cathalia in Ellenville, NY, for three seasons. There, Paula played leading roles in iconic shows such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Rain." After working on and around Broadway, and touring in shows during the late 60s, the highly ground-breaking and controversial play "Geese," written by Gus Weill and produced by Mendenhall, brought her to California for the show's West Coast debut.
After relocating to Los Angeles, Paula became a Lifetime Member and Moderator of The Actors Studio, and an acting teacher at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Paula was also a member of the iconic improv group Synergy Trust for four years in the early 70s. She made extensive acting appearances in the 70s and 80s on television, including notable appearances on "The Bob Newhart Show," "Barney Miller," and "Three's Company."
Pursuing her own self-discovery quest, Paula led est Graduate Seminars in Los Angeles for seven years in the 70s and 80s, and co-ran the Actors Institute of Los Angeles in the 1980s. During this era of her life, she appeared in multiple feature films including "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" directed by Peter Masterson, and "Witchfire" starring Shelley Winters. After leading her colleague Dan Fauci's Mastery of Acting workshops, she brought that workshop to Esalen Institute in 1988, eventually morphing it into her own self-expression workshop for "civilians" as well as actors known as THE MAX. Paula led THE MAX acting workshop for over 30 years at Esalen and in Vancouver, B.C., as well as overseas in England, Germany, and The Netherlands. Paula also taught Improv Theatre Games classes at Strasberg Institute, as well as at Esalen, and continued her participation at The Actors Studio in the Acting Unit and the Playwrighting Unit.
Paula's television and film career flourished in the Vancouver, B.C., Canada acting scene beginning in the late-80s and early-90s, where she worked on numerous productions including "21 Jump Street" and "The X-Files." Additionally, Paula won more roles in high-profile films, including her featured appearance in "Insomnia" starring Al Pacino, as well as in the cult-film hit "Freddy vs. Jason." Her recent television series credits include a running role on the miniseries "Terminal City," a lead role on the sitcom "Mr. Young" for four seasons, and as Andie MacDowell's mother on "Cedar Cove." She also enjoys performing voiceovers for animation, video games, documentary narration, commercials, and books-on-tape. As of late, Paula has become the Hallmark Channel's "Grandma Queen," regularly appearing in that network's Christmas and off-season Movies of the Week, often as the pivotal, comedic, and wisdom-dispensing Grandmother/Mentor.- Herman Poppe was born on 15 June 1944 in the USA. He is an actor, known for The Rocketeer (1991), Pale Rider (1985) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
- Julie Piekarski was born on 2 January 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress, known for The Facts of Life (1979), Diff'rent Strokes (1978) and Merry Christmas, Elijah. She was previously married to John Probst.
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Rhonda Shear has been breaking the mold from her beginnings as a New Orleans beauty queen and politician to her years in Hollywood as an actress to her time touring as a professional stand-up comedienne to becoming the mogul behind one of the most popular intimate apparel brands to creating the infomercial sensation The Ahh Bra to writing her first book Up All Night... whew! Rhonda has always worked hard and she has used her strengths and wit to grow into the successful, inspirational woman she has become.
While appearing on countless TV shows and in films, modeling professionally, hosting USA: Up All Night for over 450 episodes, and doing stand-up comedy, Rhonda learned all a girl can know about costuming, enhancing one's assets, and capturing the attention of audiences around the world. Rhonda now delights in sharing that knowledge and encourages women to find happiness and confidence in more than just their underwear drawers. Through Shear Enterprises, LLC Rhonda develops apparel and intimates for women of all shapes and sizes, focusing on comfort, color, and creative solutions. See her Film/TV credits HERE!
Rhonda's empowering approach to design has made the award-winning Rhonda Shear brand a huge success on shopping channels, at online retailers, and in stores around the world. She has a little something for everyone in sizes XS-3X, always has tons of color options, and creates solution-focused styles that are fit to flatter. She designs for her own ever-changing body, and by really listening to the feedback from her millions of customers worldwide.
Rhonda launched her line and Shear Enterprises, LLC in 2003 after reuniting with her childhood sweetheart, Van Fagan, after 26 years apart. While she was climbing the Hollywood ladder to stardom all those years, he was honing his business savvy and when they met again the sparks and ideas really started to fly. Together they built an empire in intimate apparel. Since launching the business, Rhonda, Van, and their talented team have received countless prestigious accolades and awards including Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year: FL, Enterprising Woman of the Year, TB Business Journal's Business Woman of the Year, INC 5000 Fastest Growing Companies, Best Product award at HSN, ERA Moxie Awards, WPO's 3rd Fastest Woman Owned Business, and many, many more! Designing her line is one of many outlets for the creative soul that is Rhonda Shear.
In her new book Up All Night, she shares the stories, revelations, and struggles encountered along the road to success. Rhonda Shear uses her eclectic mix of life experiences featured in the book as inspiration for each new project she approaches...and she is always looking for a new project that uses her unique and multifaceted expertise. She has helped manufacture and launch celebrity lines, pitched TV shows, created signature fragrances, and written a book all while keeping a toe in the comedy world and successfully selling her own lines around the world. We're tired just thinking about all that, but Rhonda Shear...she shows no signs of slowing down! In fact, Rhonda just launched a Facebook Live Show from her home called Rhonda Shear's -Social Distance- Social Hour featuring new guests each week!
As if her business acumen weren't enough, Rhonda is also quite the philanthropist. She hosts charity events, sits on boards, speaks to groups, and volunteers her time and money to multiple charitable organizations every year. Some of her favorites include: SPCA, Pawlicious Pets, American Cancer Society: Making Strides, AHA Go Red for Women, PACE for Girls, CM Ovarian Cancer Society, Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, John's Hopkins: All Children's Hospital, Tampa Bay Fashion Week, My Fairy Godfathers, and many more. During the scramble for PPE in early 2020, Rhonda was able to manufacture and donate thousands of masks to hospitals, clinics, first responders, and nursing homes throughout Tampa Bay.
Rhonda now lives in St. Petersburg, FL with Van and her 5 adorable rescue dogs (Sweetie, Lexie, Girlie Girl, Honey Baby, & Molly). While she will forever be a New Orleans girl at heart - Go Saints! -, she also supports Tampa Bay's sporting community and local businesses. When they find a spare moment, she and Van enjoy cruising in their party-ready yacht, Help Me Rhonda, or competing for best chef in the kitchen. Never a dull moment with Rhonda Shear!- Born in Arizona, he is of British/American descent, living extensively in both the USA and the UK. He trained as an actor at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He spent the first eleven years of his professional career in the theatre in Britain. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1972 to 1975. He played the leading man (Donald) in the musical, 'Irene', at London's Adelphi Theatre in 1978. He appeared in the London productions of The Curse Of The Starving Class (Royal Court Theatre), The Red Devil Battery Sign (Phoenix Theatre) and numerous English Repertory Theatres. His film and television work has been primarily in the USA. In 2009 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the College of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Michael Ensign is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Robert Machray was born on 4 May 1945 in San Diego, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Master of Disguise (2002), Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader (2001) and Thanks (1999).
- Jordan Clarke was born on 21 July 1950 in Rochester, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Venice the Series (2009), Guiding Light (1952) and White Squall (1996). He has been married to Valerie Hawkins since 1992.
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Pamela McMyler was born on an Army base near Summerville, SC, where her father was a major. When she was 10, her father was transferred to France. She attended school there and became fluent in French. While living there, her mother took her to see Susan Hayward in the film I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), which she said inspired her to begin studying to become an actress. After her father retired, the family moved to Santa Barbara, where McMyler graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1962. She had several small parts in television series of the day. In 1968, she appeared in Amblin, a short early feature from director Steven Spielberg that, upon being screened by a Universal executive in 1970, landed him a seven-year contract. McMyler was also signed and soon John Wayne had come across Amblin and gave McMyler a role in his 1970 film, Chisum, her theatrical film debut. Her remaining career was marked by various assorted guest TV roles and a few forgettable films. She decided to retire from acting in 1989. She moved to Ventura in 1992 and was still living there with a pig named Blossom and two dogs, according to a February 2021 interview with the website Noblemania. She had a ten-year marriage in the 1970's but it ended in divorce, and she has no children.- Actor
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Gary was nominated for Best Actor for the Canadian series "Wild Roses" for the CBC at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2009. The show was also nominated. Born and raised in Newport News, Virginia.. He is a proud uncle, and son of Joe and Bev...and has 9 nieces and nephews. Gary moved to Los Angeles in 1979, but always considers Virginia his home. For the last 14 years he has split his time between the States and Canada. Gary is now a dual citizen, and enjoys the time he spends in the great white north. He has been teaching acting for the past 15 years, doing seminars in the US and Canada, and just finished teaching a semester at the University of the Arts in San Francisco. He enjoys his "frustrating" time on the golf course, playing in numerous charity events every year, and still swings a pretty mean tennis racket. A big sports fan...he cheers for the underdog...Cowboys - Joe Tores team in New York City...and the house that Jerry West built.- Gwen Humble was born on 4 December 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Being There (1979), Remington Steele (1982) and The Greatest American Hero (1981). She has been married to Ian McShane since 30 August 1980.
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Jeannetta Arnette was born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is an actress, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), Pineapple Express (2008) and Pay It Forward (2000).- Actress
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DeeDee Rescher was born on 28 August 1953. She is an actress and producer, known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), The King of Queens (1998) and The Nanny (1993). She has been married to Keith Auck since 3 December 2016. She was previously married to Roy G. Silver and George Ball.- John Martin was born on 21 July 1951 in Turlock, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Black Roses (1988), El Norte (1983) and Mistresses (2013).
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John Bernard Larroquette, is an all-around American actor known for his roles in both drama and comedy. He became well-known as Deputy District Attorney Dan Fielding in the NBC sitcom "Night Court" (1984-1992; 2023-present), a role that earned him four straight Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. This remarkable achievement showed off his talent, demonstrating his knack for mixing serious drama with comedic flair. Larroquette's performance of Dan Fielding evolved from conservative to more humorous, reflecting his own sense of humor, which was a hit with viewers.
Apart from "Night Court," Larroquette's career is filled with impressive roles in various TV series. He won an Emmy for a guest role in "The Practice" and appeared in "The Good Fight," "The Librarians," "Boston Legal," and "Happy Family." His return to "Night Court" in the reboot sees him play again his role as Dan Fielding. However, the character has become gentler over time, suggesting personal growth and struggles, including a reference to a past marriage and a shift from practicing law to working as a process server. This comeback in the reboot adds a new layer to his famous role, mixing fond memories with fresh storytelling.- Catherine Parks was born on 10 December 1956 in Tampa, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Weekend at Bernie's (1989) and The Man in the Family (1991).
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Former athlete and top male model Rick Edwards made his notable beginning on cinema in the Italian middle age saga _Paladini - storia d'armi e d'amori, I" (1983)_, playing the role of Orlando, a Christian knight, who travels the countryside at the time of Crusades in quest to kill a Moor prince, played by Ron Moss. Born in Northfield, Massachusetts, Rick Edwards educated University in Amherst, where he is noticed in the oar team. He becomes a professional and rows four years with the New York Athletic Club, even taking part in the world championships of 1978. That allows him to be noticed by an agent who makes him begin a career of model. Regularly on the cover of Gentleman Quarterly, an equivalent of Vogue, he makes also advertizing. Favorite model of the manufacturer Ford, he finds time to practise boxing, but it is a disadvised profession for a mannequin, and he stops after two years, full of regrets. Tired of being a male model he went on to appeared in supporting roles in small films, wishing to become an actor. He took a part in Skatetown U.S.A. (1979) and TV serial High Performance (1983). Later this year he was chosen for "I Paladini - storia d'armi e d'amori, where he received his first main acting experience. Later he appeared in two TV shows. In 1987 Rick Edwards joined the TV serial Santa Barbara (1984), playing the role of Jake Morton.- Kathy Shower was born on 8 March 1953 in Brookville, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988), Commando Squad (1987) and Baja Run (1996).
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Richard (Rick) Partlow was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1948, the youngest of two boys, to Mr and Mrs. James E. Partlow. His Mother, Norma Jane VanDervort, born in 1921, a graduate of Ohio University, was an artist, singer, poet, lyricist, author (under Norma Kalina) and reporter. His Father, James Edwin Partlow, a graduate of North Carolina State University, was a corporate businessman and served as a Captain during World War II in the Army Signal Corps, Intelligence Division.
One year after his birth the family moved to Oakland, California and the at age three to Houston, Texas where Richard was introduced to swimming, boating, water skiing, crabbing and Saturday Morning Serials at the movies like Buck Rogers and Commander Cody. That is where his imagination took root. At age 9 the family moved to Pennsylvania. His parents bought a modest farm house on ten acres a few miles from the village of Chester Springs where Richard attended fifth and sixth grades in a two room school house. Richard graduated at the top of his class of five students. He and older brother, Jamie, attended amid graduated from Downingtown High School, Richard in 1966. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, 80 miles west of Philadelphis, was idyllic for Richard. No young child or teenager could wish for any greater experience. Friendships were forged that exist to this day. Football, track, gymnastics and swimming took up a lot of his time. But the four seasons of the year held so much more. Summer was rope swings over the swimming hole, a three acre honeysuckle canopied pine forest as his private domain, and a one half acre asparagus patch as his summer cash cow when sold to the local farmers market. Fall was sports, riding horses and roaming the forest . Winter was snow forts, sledding, ice hockey on the local pond and for cash, using his Dads 1948 Jeep with plow to clear snow from the long country lanes. Spring was planting veggie gardens, building homemade go-carts and dreaming of summer.
Richard was somewhat rebellious during his last year of High School so his Father insisted he spend his first year of college at Valley Forge Military Academy Jr. College. From there a year at The University of Miami and a semester at Villanova University which is when Richard joined the Marines. Following his stint in the Marines Richard had no idea of what he wanted to do with his life. During summer breaks in high school and college he spent alot of his time playing guitar, singing and writing music with partner Jim Richards. They played mostly in coffee houses and cafés in Phila. and on the Jersey Shore.
So following the Marines, with his parents divorced, the farm sold, Richard moved back to Philly, working as a bartender, bank teller, retail sales and finally with a detective agency as a flagman on a road crew where he was placed to track stolen equipment. With only two weeks on the job a car stopped. A man and woman got out and asked Richard if he wanted to be in a play at a local community theatre. He got the lead in the play in the role of Tom Lee, in 'Tea and Sympathy'. Richard was hooked. During the limited run of the show he was seen by a producer of a local CBS children's show and signed a one year contract where he played characters in history such as young Ben Franklin and young Thomas Edison.- Actor
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Steve Vinovich was born on 22 January 1945 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Godfather of Harlem (2019), The Intern (2015) and Worth (2020). He has been married to Carolyn Mignini since 27 November 1982. They have two children.