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Julianna Margulies was born on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley (near New York City), as the youngest of three daughters of Francesca (Goldberg), a teacher and dancer in American Ballet, and Paul Margulies, an advertising writer and philosopher. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from Romania, Austria, Hungary, and Russia). Until beginning high school in New Hampshire at age 14, she lived several years with her family in Paris and in England. She obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College, where she appeared in several plays on campus. She jobbed as a waitress until her first role as a prostitute looking to go straight in Out for Justice (1991). It took more than a year to find another role; during that time, she managed to support herself from several regional theater productions and national TV ads. Until she became a regular in ER (1994), she guest starred in several television series and a pilot. Since then, she has starred in several films, including Ghost Ship (2002), Evelyn (2002), and Snakes on a Plane (2006), and headlines the CBS drama The Good Wife (2009), for which she has won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.- Actor
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Chester Hayes was born on 17 November 1913 in Spring Valley, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Veils of Bagdad (1953), From Hell It Came (1957) and Swashbuckler (1976). He was married to Tillie ?. He died on 9 June 2000 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Michelle Pfeifer was born on 16 July 1966 in Spring Valley, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Ethereal Plane (2005), Sex Games Vegas (2005) and Dark Rose: Feedin' & Breedin' (1998).
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- Writer
- Producer
Reggie Bush was born on 2 March 1985 in Spring Valley, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Walking on Dead Fish (2008), The Reggie Bush Project (2006) and Sighrens. He has been married to Lilit Avagyan since 12 July 2014. They have three children.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Joshua Swanson was born on 1 March 1978 in Spring Valley, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Obscure: The Aftermath (2007) and Online Out of Line (2011). He has been married to Rachael Dayne since 29 November 2002.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Robert J. Horner was a prolific, if spectacularly untalented, producer/director in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He had only one eye and no legs (accounts differ as to whether he was born that way or lost them in a traffic accident in his youth), but that didn't stop him from producing quite a few low-budget--very, VERY low-budget--westerns and action pictures and even directing a few of them. Contemporary accounts of the films, and a perusal of the few that exist today, indicate that Horner would not only equal but far surpass Edward D. Wood Jr. as the absolute worst director in film history.
Horner's silent pictures in the 1920s had a reputation for being among not only the cheapest (on par with his contemporary fellow hack director-producer actor Victor Adamson, a.k.a. Denver Dixon) but also the most spectacularly inept to ever come out of Hollywood. The advent of sound films by 1930 added a new and exciting dimension to Horner's incompetence. He appeared to have only the vaguest understanding of synchronization, apparently believing that "noise" and "sound" were synonymous. Audio volume would vary wildly between scenes, literally driving the few people brave (or masochistic) enough to endure a Horner feature--invariably on the lower half of a double bill--out into the comparative quiet of the street. His films seldom took more than three days to shoot and rarely, if ever, cost more than $2,000. Even with those chump-change budgets, though, he still found it difficult to obtain financing through conventional channels--mainly because no legitimate producer in his right mind would let Horner anywhere near him--and he was forced to be "creative" in obtaining financing. This "creativity" often consisted of such tactics as soliciting donations from aspiring actors and actresses in exchange for a part in one of his upcoming films, and those naive--or stupid--enough to give him money often ended up never hearing from him again (in addition, many of these aspiring actresses also charged him with trying to solicit more than just a financial donation). This and other schemes--such as hiring actors and actresses to work in his films and once they were finished refusing to pay them--invariably landed him in hot water with the authorities, among others. He was arrested several times by Los Angeles police on fraud and racketeering charges, resulting in a string of criminal convictions and civil-court assessments against him, and he spent a good deal of time dodging creditors and tax agents looking to take him to court and lawmen looking to take him to jail. If there was one word that could describe Robert J. Horner it would probably be "sleazeball", but given all his personal and professional shortcomings, he was still able to eke out a living on the far, far, far fringes of Poverty Row, an accomplishment that many other low-buck producers down at Horner's level couldn't manage.
Horner filed for bankruptcy in February 1933, listing six silent western film negatives as his only assets. His liabilities included $29,573 owed in back taxes and a large number of unpaid-labor claims. His personal assets totaled $1,500. He attempted to make a comeback by producing a few western films for Aywon Pictures. His days as a producer ended in 1935, though, when he tried to bring silent-screen cowboy Ted Wells back as a western hero; the result was the stupefying inept The Phantom Cowboy (1935). Horner was planning an eight-film series with Wells beginning with Defying the Law (1935), which he produced for Aywon, but the "series" ended with that picture.
Robert J. Horner passed away on July 29, 1942, at the El Paso (TX) City-County Hospital from cirrhosis of the liver.- Additional Crew
- Producer
Kat McCullough was born on 28 November 1981 in Spring Valley, Illinois, USA. Kat is a producer, known for Nancy Grace (2005), A.M. Joy (2016) and Melissa Harris-Perry (2012).- Robert Barry was born on 17 March 1945 in Spring Valley, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Space Case (1992), Homefront (1991) and Body Slam (1986).
- Seth Joyner was born on 18 November 1964 in Spring Valley, New York, USA.
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- Writer
- Actor
Jason R. Davis is the founder of the Chicago Horror Film Festival and the Indie Horror Film Festival. He has an education in film studies and screen writing. However, before he went into film, he had another love that had driven him. Writing. Reading. The Art of Fiction.
He has spent much of his life both reading and writing. As a child in middle school, he would often wake up in the early morning hours before school and start pounding away stories. He would use his father's alarm clock that he could hear in their bedroom and know that it was his time. His first typewriter was a Christmas present that year, and he would clatter away.
All through middle and then high school he continued to write. When it was time to go to college, he even thought that he would just go on and continue his education in the English arts. However, instead of continuing with just writing, he had a moment of inspiration and decided to follow another passion. He went to Columbia College where he could study film making and writing.
In 2003 he founded the Chicago Horror Film Festival. With very few outlets that supported the horror genre at the time, it gave him a venue to not only show his own films, but for other great horror films from around the world. In 2005, the festival grew to a point where he created its sister festival, the Indy Horror Film Festival.
Now, with a strong knowledge in horror, and what makes a terror filled story, he has transitioned himself from festival director and filmmaker to fiction writer.- Special Effects
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- Actor
Bill Simmons was born on 12 January 1972 in Spring Valley, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Evil Inside (2011), Disciples (2014) and Brutal (2007).- Malcolm Williams was born in July 1870 in Spring Valley, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Idol of the Stage (1916), The First Kiss (1928) and Empty Pockets (1918). He was married to Florence Reed. He died on 10 June 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Cory Littleton was born on 18 November 1993 in Spring Valley, California, USA.
- Writer
- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Beatrice Banyard was born on 11 February 1897 in Spring Valley, Iowa, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Myrt and Marge (1933), What Price Innocence? (1933) and The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933). She was married to Willard Mack. She died on 1 February 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Billy Papke was born on 17 September 1886 in Spring Valley, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Prince of Broadway (1926) and Madison Square Garden (1932). He died on 26 November 1936 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
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David has been acting in some fashion since he was young. He began working professionally as an adult and became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1994. He has worked in Commercials, Film, Television, Industrials and Print.
He studies acting in Los Angeles and San Diego.
David is an experienced horseback rider and has owned and ridden horses all his life.- Michael Wiley was born on 5 January 1978 in Spring Valley, California, USA.
- Bradley Fields was born on 24 July 1951 in Spring Valley, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Modern CEO (2008). He died on 5 May 2020 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Chad Durbin was born on 3 December 1977 in Spring Valley, Illinois, USA.
- Mike Goff was born on 6 January 1976 in Spring Valley, Illinois, USA.