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Jim Beaver is an American character actor, best known for his leading roles on the TV series Deadwood (2004) and Supernatural (2005). Born in Laramie, Wyoming a minister's son, he was raised in and around Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Following high school and a year of college, he joined the Marines and served as a radioman with the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam. He attended Oklahoma Christian College (now Oklahoma Christian University), Edmond, OK, where he first became interested in acting as a career. After one year, he transferred to Central State University (now the University of Central Oklahoma), Edmond, OK, and while a student made his professional debut in a production of "Rain" at the Oklahoma Theatre Center in 1972. He obtained a degree in theatre and returned to the Dallas area where he worked for five seasons with the Dallas Shakespeare Festival. He had written several plays in college and afterward (as well as a biography of actor John Garfield), and in 1979 he was commissioned for the first of three plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He also began to make appearances in bit roles in films and television shows shot in the Dallas area, including Semi-Tough (1977) and Dallas (1978). Moving to New York in 1979, he worked in stock and in dinner theatre tours, and also maintained a side career as a critic, columnist, and feature writer for Films in Review, the magazine of the National Board of Review. An assignment for an article on TV Superman George Reeves led him to Los Angeles. During his research there, his play "Verdigris" was produced to solid reviews at Theatre West in Hollywood, and he was signed as a writer by Sam Adams, partner in the prestigious Triad Artists agency. He began a successful period as a television writer, penning episodes for shows such as Vietnam War Story (1987), Tour of Duty (1987), and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985), and was nominated for a CableAce Award for an episode of the latter. He had continued to act on stage and in small film and TV roles, and in 1988 he landed a substantial supporting role as Bruce Willis's best friend, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, in Norman Jewison's production In Country (1989). He gave up television writing and concentrated on acting. Slowly his roles grew larger (and more varied). He was Mark Harmon's chain-smoking detective partner Earl Gaddis on Reasonable Doubts (1991) and Edward Asner's dim-witted mechanic assistant Leland on Thunder Alley (1994). He was frequently cast in Westerns (Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), Bad Girls (1994), among many others) or as detectives, sheriffs, or police officers (Sister Act (1992), Sliver (1993), Joy Ride (2001)). After two seasons on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996) as French Stewart's sullen bar-owner boss Happy Doug, Beaver landed his most prominent and critically acclaimed role, that of Ellsworth, the gruff but decent and beloved prospector in the landmark Western series Deadwood (2004). Nominated along with other cast members for a 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award, he found his career in high gear following that series. From it he moved to the popular father-figure role of demon hunter Bobby Singer on Supernatural (2005), a part that brought him a worldwide fan base and a secondary career making personal appearances. He was married to and had a daughter with Cecily Adams, the actress-casting director daughter of Get Smart (1965)'s Don Adams. Following her death from lung cancer in 2004, he wrote a best-selling memoir, "Life's That Way." He has continued to write plays and, between acting jobs, to work on the George Reeves project, now planned as a book. He served as biographical consultant on Reeves for the semi-biopic Hollywoodland (2006).- Actor
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Born in the back seat of a car on a snowy night in Eastern Wyoming to his strong willed mother and a Texas born cowboy. He spent his first seven years on the family's 14,000-acre ranch, where he was the youngest of a close knit group of cousins and siblings. Those first years are what shaped him into who he was to become. He learned at an early year the value of family, hard work and the love of the land and nature. His mother, Margaret Mary West, raised him to challenge himself and be strong in the face of difficulty. Although being raised on his remote surrounding he was brought up with a great appreciation for art and culture. His grandmother loved to read and instilled that love into all her grandchildren. He would spend hours looking at books of paintings and photographs, imagining himself as the characters he saw in the exotic parts of the world.
At the age of seven his family moved to New Mexico where they once before had their ranch. His father, Byron Brown, continued to teach him to be a cowboy while his mother taught him to be an artist. He took dance classes from his aunt, where he enjoyed being the only boy on a stage of girls. He studied classical dance for many years and learned the value of his studies as he grew as an actor. When his father died of cancer four days after his ninth birthday, he turned inward and became angry about the loss. It was a difficult time for him and the family. He held on to his fathers cowboy culture and was happy at the idea of moving to Montana to be on another big ranch. Before they were able to sell their small horse ranch a film crew came to New Mexico to film Silverado. His mother took young Tom to a open casting call, where he got his big first break. His family decided to move to California, so he could pursue an acting career.
He continues to live between New Mexico, Montana and California. He and his wife raise their children with the same values they were brought up with.- Jim J. Bullock was born on 9 February 1955 in Casper, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for Spaceballs (1987), Too Close for Comfort (1980) and Ron and Laura Take Back America (2014).
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Ashlynn Yennie was born in the small town of Riverton, Wyoming. She studied acting at the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Her first feature film credit was when she was cast as Jenny in the cult horror film The Human Centipede. She has starred in numerous feature films and television shows.- Actor
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Jesse Garcia
Garcia has been widely recognized for his role in the highly acclaimed "Quinceañera," winner of the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and Official Selection for the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. For his performance as Carlos, Garcia was nominated and won the prestigious ALMA Award (American Latino Media Arts) as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture in 2007.
Garcia, can most recently be seen in Joss Whedon's "The Avengers." Number one opening weekend film of all time, with $200.7 and over $1billion worldwide, to date. Other credits include, "A Beautiful Life," opposite Angela Sarafyan, "Periphery," opposite Steven Grayhm, Tessa Thompson, and Jess Weixler, and "Days of Wrath," opposite Wilmer Valderrama, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ana Claudia Talancon and Laurence Fishburne, where he plays Mario, the Kingpin of the Triple Sevens, in a story about the intertwining lives of a teacher, TV news crew and rival gang members. Also, in Hue Rhodes', "Saint John of Las Vegas,", opposite Steve Buscemi and Romany Malco. As well as, Youssef Delaras', "Bedrooms," with Julie Benz and Xander Berkeley, Mun Chee Yong's, "Where the Road Meets the Sun," Joshua Homnick's, "Los Foley Guys," with Rainn Wilson and Al Madrigal, the highly anticipated zombie flick "Re-Kill," the Broadway debut of the stage production of "The Pee-wee Herman Show."
Garcia also appears in The Sundance 2007 film, "La Misma Luna," also known as "Under the Same Moon," alongside Kate del Castillo and America Ferrera. In addition, Garcia starred in Twentieth Century Fox's, "The Comebacks," where he plays a tough "rich-street kid" football player with an attitude.
Born in Rawlins, Wyoming, Garcia spent most of his childhood in Hanna, WY, a town with a population of just over seven hundred people. His acting debut came in 1987 when he was cast in the challenging role of Brown Bear. With a winter coat turned inside out (to look like brown fur) and construction paper ears pinned to his hood, Garcia recalls that he presented a striking likeness to a real brown bear. With his lines memorized, blocking mastered and adrenaline surging, Garcia (6) was well prepared. He heard his cue line and crawled out of his cave, violently thrashing his head from side to side. With teeth bared and tonsils flaring, he reared up on his hindquarters pawing the air; then he growled with all his might - "RRRAAAWWWRRR!" The first graders (sitting on the floor of their small classroom) giggled. It was not exactly the reaction Garcia was aiming for, but from the mouth of that cardboard cave, an actor was born.
Following this performance, Garcia took a 15-year hiatus from the show business industry to concentrate on his schoolwork. He received grants and scholarships for Co-Ed Cheerleading at Eastern Wyoming College and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
In the middle of his first year at U of N, a classmate of Garcia's, Jennifer Jerosik, told him that she was moving to Atlanta, GA to study acting with Judson Vaughn, a filmmaker/actor/teacher who she'd heard speaking at a convention in Chicago. Instantly Garcia's Inner-Bear growled again and he decided he wanted to join her.
After a 45-minute telephone interview, Garcia was accepted to study at WHAT Films, the film development/production company and training facility headed by Vaughn. A week later, Garcia dropped out of school, and he and Jennifer packed everything they owned into his 1993, burgundy Mercury Cougar and drove 1,580 miles southeast to Atlanta - not the quickest route to Hollywood, but his years in Atlanta prepared him well for what would become his profession. At WHAT Films he learned to act, write and to direct, and he got sound career advice from Vaughn and from writer/director Ben Taylor (Abgeschminkt!). Others at WHAT who were particularly helpful to Garcia included Roxzane Mims, Lavon Lacey, Chet Dixon and Ralph Price, to name a few.
While in Atlanta, Garcia honed his comedic skills performing in "Sketchworks," Bob Harter, Della Cole and Jen Kelly's sketch comedy group. Garcia's first feature film role came when fellow WHAT Films actor Chet Dixon (Cold Mountain, Days of Wrath) prompted director Stacey Childers to cast him her film "Delivery Boy Chronicles."
In Dec, 2003, he moved to Los Angeles in hopes of advancing his career. In 2005, he was featured in nine national commercials, including such major brands as McDonalds, Toyota, Avis, MGD, Bud Light, State Farm and others. His television and independent films included such projects as HBO's "Walkout," directed by Edward James Olmos, guest spots on FX's Sons of Anarchy, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, ER, The Shield, TNT's The Closer, Law and Order: CI, NCIS, Nickelodeon's Unfabulous, Jerry Bruckheimer's FOX series Justice and FX's Sons of Anarchy.
As well as keeping busy with his acting career, Garcia has taken on the challenge of directing and producing. Producer and lead actor in a short feature titled, "American Identity," directed by Stephen Rollins, he was honored with opening the Short Film Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Also, he produced and was a lead actor in John Irwin's short film, "Sold," with an all-star cast and crew, a film about the reality of human trafficking. "Sold" premiered at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in 2011 and has made the festival circuit around the world. The DBAC, PSA campaign with fellow filmmakers, Doug Spain, Jeremy Valdez, and Walter Perez.
Garcia recently wrapped principal photography on his directorial debut, short film, "The Price We Pay." A film about a scarred and depressed soldier coming home from war to find his relationship with his neighborhood, best friend and wife, not how he left it. Shot in a less than conventional manner, with subtle science fiction elements, the film is already stirring up attention in the film making and military communities.
As of 2013, Garcia is in post-production for his short, "The Price We Pay." He is also writing and has several projects in development as a producer, director and actor. He is also in development for his feature film directorial debut and is in search of projects to direct in the near future.- Actor
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Darren Dalton made his screen debut as Randy Anderson, the Soc, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983), a drama based on the novel by S.E. Hinton.
He has since starred in over 30 films and has also worked as a screenwriter and producer. He has collaborated with C. Thomas Howell on a number of projects including War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008) and The Day the Earth Stopped (2008).
Dalton is probably best known for his starring role in the John Milius World War 3 film Red Dawn (1984) in which he co-starred with Howell, Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and Lea Thompson.- Actress
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Isabel Jewell, like other actresses in Hollywood in the 1930s, suffered from chronic typecasting. The diminutive, platinum-haired daughter of a doctor and medical researcher seemed to be often playing hard-boiled, tough-talking broads: gangster's molls, dumb blondes, prostitutes and, of course, poor "white trash" Emmy Slattery in Gone with the Wind (1939). However, she also played ordinary 'nice' next-door girl types, for example in Marked Men. While stardom eluded her for the most part, she nonetheless remained a busy supporting actress with an impressive array of A-budget films to her credit. Signed as an MGM contract player, she reputedly earned up to $3,000 a week -- a small fortune at the time. Isabel was educated at St. Mary's Academy in Minnesota and at Hamilton College in Kentucky. After years in stock companies (including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska), she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in "Up Pops the Devil" (1930). With just three hours of rehearsal time, she delivered her performance to great critical acclaim and had even better reviews as a fast-talking telephone operator in "Blessed Event". She reprised this role in the screen version of Blessed Event (1932) and her movie career was effectively launched. While her parts were often small, they could also be memorable, as in Ceiling Zero (1936) and Marked Woman (1937). Other acting highlights include her consumptive prostitute finding salvation in Lost Horizon (1937), and her poignant against-type performance as an ill-fated seamstress on her way to the guillotine in A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
In the 1940s and '50s, her roles diminished from small to bits to uncredited and she fell on hard times: in 1959 she got into trouble with the law in Las Vegas for passing bad checks and, two years later, spent five days in jail for drunk driving. She was found dead in her home in April 1972, aged just 64. One of her two former husbands was writer-producer-director Owen Crump (1903-1998). A lasting memory of Isabel Jewell is her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Vine Street.- Writer
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Perino was born in Evanston, Wyoming, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended Ponderosa High School in Parker, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. Perino graduated from the University of Southern Colorado (now known as Colorado State University-Pueblo) in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and minors in both political science and Spanish. While attending the university, Perino was active on the debate team and with KTSC-TV, the campus-based PBS affiliate where she served as host of Capitol Journal, a weekly summary of Colorado politics, and producer of Standoff, a weekly public affairs program. From there, Perino attended graduate school at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). Perino obtained her masters at UIS in Public Affairs Reporting while also working as a daily reporter covering the Illinois Capitol for WCIA-TV, a CBS affiliate.
Perino then went on to work in Washington, D.C., for Representative Scott McInnis (R, retired) of Colorado as a staff assistant before serving nearly four years as the press secretary for Rep. Dan Schaefer (R-CO-Retired), who then chaired a House Commerce subcommittee on Energy and Power.
After Representative Schaefer announced his retirement, Perino moved to England to marry businessman Peter McMahon. After a year in England, Perino and McMahon moved back to the United States and resided in San Diego, California, for three years. During that time, Perino worked in the field of high-tech public affairs.
In November 2001, Perino returned to Washington, D.C. to serve as a spokesperson for the Department of Justice. Several months later, she was asked to join the White House where she served as the Director of Communications for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). By statute, the CEQ oversees the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, where all federal agencies must complete environmental assessments on their activities before they take action.
On March 31, 2006, President George W. Bush named Perino as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary. In the role, Perino communicated many times a day with the President's director of communications, his press secretary and his director of media affairs, handling all environment-related media calls for the White House, as well as serving as the spokesperson for the White House on environmental issues. In addition, she served as the coordinator for all agencies on environment, energy and natural resource issues, as well as reviewing and approving the agencies' major announcements, while keeping the other White House offices apprised of CEQ actions.- Actress
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Hannah Barefoot is a theatrically-trained actress, singer, and writer known for playing complex women with grit and humor. Born in Cody, Wyoming, she at first intended to become a professional dancer, but after diving into her local theatre and fed by classic films, she found her true love in theatre. She pursued a BFA in Theatre, Dance, and Singing at the University of Wyoming.
She moved to Los Angeles after breaking into the film industry with her lead role in the indie-cult favorite, The Falls: Testament of Love (2013). She recurred on the Amazon original series Good Girls Revolt (2015), based on true events in 1969, and the Spectrum Original L.A.'s Finest (2019), starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba. She has guest starred in shows such as Chicago Med (2015), Good Trouble (2019), Creepshow (2019), Dirty John (2018), and Lucifer (2016), among others. Her many leading film roles have endeared her to a loyal audience who appreciate the variety of her work ranging from the romantic lead to the villainous psychopath. More recently, Hannah was filmed the Oscar winner King Richard (2021) and the Sundance Appalachian drama, The Evening Hour (2020).
In the theatre, Hannah appeared in the Los Angeles production of Center Theatre Group's, "2:22 - A Ghost Story" (2022), at the renowned Ahmanson Theatre alongside Constance Wu, Anna Camp, Finn Wittrock, and Adam Rothenberg.
Hannah wrote, produced, and starred in the dark action comedy Incendio (2017), to break her out of the 'nice girl next door' mold. This film screened at 17 festivals worldwide, allowing audiences to see her athleticism and unhinged ferocity. She has since been in development of several other projects.
Hannah is a singer-songwriter with the band The Luminous Grey, comprised of herself and her husband, musician Andy Barefoot. Their original song "To See Your Smile" appears over the entire final scene of Hannah's film Off the Rails (2017), and their original song "Geronimo", appears in her film Country Christmas Album (2018).
Hannah continues to train as an actor and is constantly developing her skills, be it improv, dialects, horseback riding, rock climbing, etc.- Cecilia Hart was born on 6 June 1948 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), The Runaways (1978) and MacGyver (1985). She was married to James Earl Jones and Bruce Weitz. She died on 16 October 2016 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.
- Mildred Harris was born on 29 November 1901 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for The Doctor and the Woman (1918), For Husbands Only (1918) and The Price of a Good Time (1917). She was married to William Peter Fleckenstein, Everett Terrence McGovern and Charles Chaplin. She died on 20 July 1944 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Geoffrey Lower was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming. When a love for acting eclipsed his pre-law studies at the University of Nebraska, he transferred to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City, where he gained respect for his stage work. Subsequently, he worked with the Public Theatre in New York City, at the New York Shakespeare Festival and on Broadway with Garson Kanin in "Happy Ending", for which he received a Drama Critics Award. He also performed in the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. Additional stage credits include "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Much Ado About Nothing" with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, "Love's Labor Lost" with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and "The Merchant of Venice" at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. His contemporary theater credits include "What Doesn't Kill Us" at the McCadden Theatre in Hollywood, "There's One in Every Marriage" at P.R.T.E. and "The Marrieds" at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center. In addition to six seasons as the Rev. Timonthy Johnson on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Lower's television career includes two seasons on The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1990), as well many guest appearances on other TV series. His film appearances have placed him alongside a wide array of award-winning colleagues, including Frances McDormand, John Lithgow, Robin Williams, Giancarlo Giannini and Peter Gallagher. Lower lives in Los Angeles with his wife, producer Karen Severin. He is represented by Terry Lichtman.
- Jim Siedow was a marvelously quirky and distinctive character actor who achieved instant cult favorite status with his terrific portrayal of the weary and irascible the Cook in Tobe Hooper's immortal and outstanding horror classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Siedow was born on June 12th, 1920 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Siedow first began acting in high school drama class. He moved to New York City at age 18 and continued to perform in touring shows for the W.P.A. theater. He served with the Army Air Corps during World War II. Following his tour of duty Siedow then moved to Chicago, Illinois and did radio soap operas. Siedow met his future wife Ruth while living in Chicago. They got married in September, 1946 and eventually moved to Houston, Texas. The couple had three children altogether. Siedow soon established himself as an important and substantial part of the Houston stage scene. Siedow created one of Houston's first original local community theaters and directed Houston's first production of the acclaimed play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?". Other plays Siedow directed include "Visit To a Small Planet," "Critic's Choice," and "Murder Among Friends." Siedow also acted in stage productions of such plays as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "The Lion in the Winter." Siedow made his film debut as a rock star's estranged father in the obscure indie drama "The Windsplitter." But it was Siedow's dead solid perfect performance as the Cook in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that really put him on the cinematic map. Alas, Siedow's film roles after "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were few and far in between. However, Siedow was excellent as a bitter mad bomber in the superior made-for-TV suspense thriller "Red Alert" and had a funny bit as a cantankerous shotgun-toting hillbilly in the hilariously raucous car chase romp "Hotwire." Siedow was once again spot-on as Drayton Sawyer (a.k.a. the Cook) in the worthy and unjustly maligned sequel "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2." Siedow was prominently featured as an interview subject in the enjoyable and informative documentary "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait." Jim Siedow died at age 83 from emphysema complications on November 20th, 2003.
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Kirby Heyborne was born on 8 October 1977 in Evanston, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Three Stooges (2012), Saints and Soldiers (2003) and Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (2006).- Actress
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Elina Madison was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for #LWL Laugh with Lillian (2021), Last Call at Murray's (2016) and Minty: The Assassin (2009). She is married to Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh.- Actor
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Ethan McDowell was born on 12 December 1979 in Lovell, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Found (2023), The Walking Dead (2010) and Love Dogs.- Stewart Petersen was born on 16 April 1960 in Cokeville, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for Where the Red Fern Grows (1974), The First Vision (1976) and Seven Alone (1974).
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George Clayton Johnson was born on 29 July 1929 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Logan's Run (1976), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). He was married to Lola Brownstein. He died on 25 December 2015 in North Hills, California, USA.- Producer
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Sean Covel was born on 4 March 1976 in Newcastle, Wyoming, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Matt Epic and Think Tank (2006). He was previously married to Alexa PenaVega.- Born as Mildred Davenport, Acquanetta was a movie actress of genre motion pictures. She was nicknamed the "Venezualan Volcano" by Universal Studios, although she doesn't appear to have been from that country. At one point, when asked for paperwork related to her birth, she said she was half Arapaho Native American. This also may be where the idea that she was born in Wyoming came from. Census records suggest that she was born in Pennsylvania as part of the Davenport family there. It's also likely that she was a light-skinned African American woman passing as white in an era when having black ancestry would severely hinder a career in movies. She was often seen in her trademark long black braids and beautiful silver and turquoise jewelry. She starred in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) and also also had roles in Arabian Nights (1942), Jungle Woman (1944), Dead Man's Eyes (1944), Lost Continent (1951) and The Legend of Grizzly Adams (1990). In the 1950s, Acquanetta moved to Phoenix and married the owner of a local car dealership. She achieved local celebrity status when she appeared in numerous ads for her husband's business. She also was the host of her own TV program, "Acqua's Corner," that played movies. Acquanetta also authored a book in 1974 called "The Audible Silence," a compilation of poems about life, love, and Indian jewelry. She used her celebrity and charming personality to support/raise money for a number of cultural groups and charities including Mesa Lutheran Hospital, the Heard Museum, the Phoenix Indian School, Stagebrush Theatre, and the Phoenix Symphony. She passed away of Alzheimer's complications in Ahwatukee, Arizona, on August 16, 2004, at the age of 83. She left behind four sons: Jack Ross Jr., 45; Lance Ross, 50; Tom Ross, 47; and Rex Ross, 43. She was also survived by her brother, Horace Davenport, 85, a retired Pennsylvania judge.
- Kathryn (Kay) Loder, grew up in Nebraska and Texas, the daughter of a drama professor and an elementary school principal. Her mother was Frances Loder, who taught theater at the University of Texas at Austin for many years. Her older brother was James Edwin Loder, a renowned theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. Loder discussed his younger sister in his book, "The Transforming Moment," saying that a religious experience at the age of 14 diverted her from an emotionally troubled childhood towards a career in the theater. Her distinctive voice and looks, as well as her operatic acting style, made her perfectly suited to play memorable female villains in exploitation pics such as "The Big Doll House" and "Foxy Brown." It is no small irony that the genre itself was passing around the time of her death in 1978.
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Paul Baxley was born in Casper Wyoming in 1923. Growing up in Los Angeles, he went on to become an all-city quarterback and track star at Eagle Rock High.
A Marine, a Scout and Sniper in the 4th Division in World War II, he fought on Kwajalein (Roi-namur), Iwo Jima, Saipan and Tinian. He received Two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a letter of commendation from the President of the United States. Taught briefly on Paris Island after the war.
After the War, he went back to college and became an all-American quarterback. Afterwhich he met Richard Talmadge, who at the time, was the most successful Stunt Coordinator in the motion picture business. Along with Dick and Davey Sharp, the threesome were probably the best all around athletes the industry had ever known. His movie star looks were an obvious fit for doubling some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, among them James Dean, Alan Ladd and Marlon Brando. After working together, he and Marlon became best friends and remained so until Marlon passed away in 2004.
Continuing as one of the most successful Stunt Coordinators and Second Unit director through the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, he also directed several episodes of T.H.E. Cat and The Dukes of Hazzard. Later in his career he enjoyed working as his son's Stunt Coodinator and Second Unit director.- Patti Lewis was born on 20 November 1921 in Cambria, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for The Wayne and Shuster Hour (1957), The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). She was married to Jerry Lewis. She died on 15 January 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- American actor who starred in silent Westerns under one name, then moved into character roles and bit parts under another. Born Floyd Taliaferro Alderson in Sheridan, Wyoming, and raised on a ranch in Rosebud County, Montana, he became an expert horseman. He served in World War I, then traveled to California. After getting work as a wrangler for Universal Pictures, he entered films as an extra in 1915. By the 1920s he was starring in silent Westerns under the stage name Wally Wales. His career declined, and in the mid-1930s, he changed to a new stage name, Hal Taliaferro, and worked in supporting roles and even bit parts for the rest of his career, primarily in Westerns. In the 1950s, he retired to his family's property in Montana (then and now known as the Bones Brothers Ranch). He devoted himself to landscape painting until a series of strokes debilitated him. He died in a nursing home in his birthplace, Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1980. His papers are archived at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
- Jessica Player was born on 27 December 1982 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She is an actress, known for Dynasty (1981), A Family for Joe (1990) and Dynasty: The Reunion (1991).
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Allison Victoria-Wolfe was born Allison Oliver Schulz on October 24th in Casper, Wyoming. She is of German, Welsh and Irish decent. While attending Texas A&M University, Allison began appearing as a High School Cheerleader on NBC's "Friday Night Lights." After graduating, she began her film career as a Stand-in on ABC's "The Gates." While on set, she was discovered by a Casting Agent. She earned her SAG Card on the SYFY Channel movie "Swamp Shark."
Allison has appeared on film and television, but is most recognized as the Season 15 Winner of Food Network's "Worst Cooks in America."- This blonde Columbia starlet was born Helen Emily Inkster and began as a model ("Miss Wyoming" of 1939). She cut her acting teeth at the Pasadena Playhouse and made her screen debut in 1946, appearing primarily in second features as leads or second leads opposite the likes of Richard Dix, Bruce Cabot and (on three occasions) Charles Starrett. Despite her cool patrician beauty and occasional glimpses of talent, her Hollywood career lasted a mere five years. Following the death of her first husband in 1953, Helen toiled for the remainder of the decade as a supporting actress in early TV anthologies and action series like Perry Mason (1957) and Sea Hunt (1958) before quitting the cameras in 1961. She is perhaps best remembered for her role in Mysterious Intruder (1946) (the fifth of eight Columbia instalments of the "Whistler" series, based on a popular CBS radio mystery drama) and as the saloon girl Dixie King in The Fighting Frontiersman (1946).
- David Humphrey was born on 7 June 1973 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for Sonic Adventure 2 (2001), Sonic Heroes (2003) and Jack Keane (2007).
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Dick Ziker was born on 15 January 1940 in Casper, Wyoming, USA. He is an assistant director and actor, known for To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Showtime (2002) and Westworld (1973).- Actress
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Jules Bruff is an American actress and filmmaker born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and raised in the hills of Oakland, CA. She earned a BFA in Acting at the University of Colorado where she was awarded the Best Actress Scholarship. Upon graduation she was cast as the lead in the feature film Virginia.
Jules had a supporting role in David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac.
Jules penned and led the Indie hit film Part Time Fabulous (2011).
For her tremendous work in Part Time Fabulous Jules won the Best Actress Award at the Monaco Film Festival. She followed that up with another Best Actress Award at the Feel Good Film Festival.
Her film Part Time Fabulous won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Berkshire International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Awareness Festival, the Film 4 Change award at the Albuquerque Film Festival, a Special Jury Commendation for Best Feature Film at the Durango Film Festival, the Exploring Humanity Award for her partner/Director Alethea Root at the Dubuque International Film Festival and many others.
Jules has written, produced and worked on every platform from stage to screens small and large. She is a friend and fan of filmmakers and actors world wide. Armed with classic beauty and an infectious love for people, Jules continues to blaze her trail through the American and International landscape.- Casting Department
- Actress
- Casting Director
Coco Kleppinger was born and raised in Wyoming in a large and boisterous family. She got her BA from UWyo/UCLA in theater and her MFA from UCLA in theater, film and television with a dual emphasis in acting and dialect/vocal production. After acting for 18 years and vocal/dialect coaching for 7, she went into casting for feature films. She lives in Los Angeles and still acts and coaches on occasion.- Producer
- Actor
- Editor
Joseph originally hails from Brainerd, Minnesota (the home of Paul Bunyan). He attended the Juilliard School's acting program in New York, with Kevin Spacey as one of his classmates. Joseph is married to Avra Douglas, making him the son-in-law of actors Arlene Martel and Jerry Douglas. They have one daughter, Molly Rose Brutsman.- Bruce Kellogg was born on 13 April 1910 in Thermopolis, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for The Deerslayer (1943), They Were Expendable (1945) and Unknown World (1951). He was married to Lucille Norman. He died on 22 May 1967 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Jackson Pollock was born on 28 January 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He is known for American Gothic (2016), Works of Calder (1950) and The New York School (1972). He was married to Lee Krasner. He died on 11 August 1956 in Springs, New York, USA.- Actor
- Music Department
George Wienbarg III was born on 16 November 1950 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for 79 Parts (2016), 69 Parts (2022) and The Gospel According to Most People (1972). He was previously married to Sandra Van Cleve and Carolyn Cogswell.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Piper Major was born on 21 March 1974 in Cody, Wyoming, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Nocturnal Animals (2016), HBO's Project Greenlight Finalist Short: Speed Dating (2014) and New Girl (2011).- Mickey Daniels was born on 11 October 1914 in Rock Springs, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for The Little Minister (1922), Roaring Roads (1935) and Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926). He died on 20 August 1970 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Producer
- Actress
Helen McCole Bartusiak was born on 4 May 1956 in West Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a producer and actress, known for Twelve Hungry Men (2012), Sick Boy (2012) and Bushido (2013). She was married to Raymond Donald Bartusiak and Vincent John DeGregorio. She died on 22 May 2015 in Houston, Texas, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
Don Coleman was born on 14 January 1893 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for The Black Ace (1928), The Boss of Rustler's Roost (1928) and The Bronc Stomper (1928). He was married to Patricia . He died on 16 December 1985 in Willits, California, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
Ted Smile was born on 14 May 1921 in Wyoming, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lawless Rider (1954), Son of the Renegade (1953) and Have Gun - Will Travel (1957). He died on 2 November 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Cinematographer
Kurt Wetherill was born on 14 February 1986 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for 12 Rounds (2009), Rock Bottom (2006) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Robert Muratore was born in Casper, Wyoming, USA. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for The Frame (2014), The People vs. George Lucas (2010) and 78/52 (2017).- Jack Snow was born on 25 January 1943 in Rock Springs, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for Heaven Can Wait (1978), The NFL on NBC (1965) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He was married to Merry Carole Shane. He died on 9 January 2006 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Arloa Reston was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. Arloa is an actor, known for Desperate Housewives (2004), Beneath the Eyes of God (2018) and The Look (2003).
- Producer
- Writer
- Actress
Jane Milmore was born on 25 March 1955 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for Daddy Dearest (1993), Anything But Love (1989) and The Hughleys (1998). She was married to Richard Vaczy. She died on 4 February 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jessamine Milner was born on 4 October 1894 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for Sybil (1976), Hart to Hart (1979) and Train Ride to Hollywood (1975). She died on 9 July 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Curt Gowdy was born on 31 July 1919 in Green River, Wyoming, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), Heaven Can Wait (1978) and BASEketball (1998). He was married to Geraldine Dawkins. He died on 20 February 2006 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.- Skeeter Bill Robbins was born on 16 July 1887 in Glen Rock, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for Chasing Trouble (1926), Man Rustlin' (1926) and Baffled (1924). He died on 28 November 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Randy Cordray was born on 30 December 1953 in Casper, Wyoming, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Dharma & Greg (1997), The Office (2005) and Still Standing (2002).- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Editor
Andrew Bursiaga was born May 8, 2000 in Wyoming to Jose and Julia Bursiaga, both who served in the United States Air Force. Andrew discovered his love for acting and filmmaking at a young age of 12. His interest began to grow even stronger about the film industry and soon began to soak in as much knowledge as possible. In his teenage years he adopted the Stanislavski acting method and began to make more of his own films. He shared the same interest as some of his other friends and all began to work with each other, however, it was always going to be a new set of friends every few years due to the military orders his father received.
During his years at CMR High School, Andrew had taken theater every year to not only to learn more about acting but also saw it as an opportunity for himself to keep his passions close and alive. As the years went on, Andrew became an official Montana state thespian member. He surpassed 200 hours in theater and his school won various awards for the plays they had performed such as "Wait until Dark", "One Lane Bridge", "Emotional Damage".
His skills sharpened over time as he got older and began to submit his own work to film festivals. In 2018 he starred in the short film The Winter Hitman which placed as a finalist in the Las Vegas Global Film Festival in 2019. During 2019, Andrew was a part time student at Evergreen Valley College studying but would soon find his way into the film industry working in the production department on sets with companies such as, Netflix, Marvel Studios, Amazon Studios, and more. He worked on various projects throughout recent years such as feature films, short films, and commercials and in various positions on and off screen. Some of the most notable are All the Old Knives, Surface, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and BLACK_SITE.
Andrew continues to perform in various projects all while starting Red Genesis Productions, a company he owns and created to continue making his own projects while continuing his acting career aiming for bigger roles to play.