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- Jane turned down a full scholarship to study violin at Juilliard, opting to spend four years studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. She got her acting start in radio, working on Lux Radio Theatre and the Whistler. Her first brief marriage to a Navy pilot ended when he was killed in action during World War II. Shortly after marrying Tom Turnage, she retired from acting, returning briefly to television roles in the early '50s when her husband was sent to Korea.
- Actress
- Director
Shirley Jo Finney was born on 14 July 1949 in Merced, California, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Lou Grant (1977), Hey Good Lookin' (1982) and Nuts (1987). She died on 10 October 2023 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Script and Continuity Department
William Raynor was born on 9 April 1920 in Queens, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Get Smart (1965), Karen (1964) and Murder Without Tears (1953). He was married to June R. ? and Betty Raynor. He died on 5 January 1994 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Director
Paul Gruwell was born on 28 November 1933 in the USA. He was a director, known for Heavy Metal (1981), Dino-Riders (1988) and Batman Beyond (1999). He was married to Sharon Ehler Gruwell and Elizabeth Gruwell. He died on 4 November 2014 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.- Joseph Stone was born on 19 April 1914 in Carstairs, Alberta, Canada. He was a writer, known for Operation Petticoat (1959), World of Giants (1959) and The Man and the Challenge (1959). He was married to Mary Anne. He died on 5 October 2001 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer / arranger / record producer Thom Bell is known as one of the chief architects of "The Sound Of Philadelphia". In the mid-'60s he was the house pianist at The Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia and later became musical director for Chubby Checker. In 1966 he partnered up with entrepreneur Stan Watson to produce a local group called The Delfonics. In early 1968 they had their first smash with "La-La Means I Love You", and for the next two years wrote, produced and arranged such hits for the group as "I'm Sorry", "Break Your Promise", "Ready Or Not, Here I Come" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time"). In late 1970 Bell broke off with the group to work with another Philadelphia group called The Stylistics, and wrote and produced songs for them for three years. He simultaneously produced The Stylistics and former Motown artists The Spinners. Between all this, he still found time to provide hit arrangements for his boyhood pal Kenny Gamble's Philadelphia-International Records.- Special Effects
- Actor
- Stunts
Born and raised in rural Elkton, Maryland, the "Marriage Capital" of the East Coast, where elopers would run from neighboring States for a no-wait wedding, Harry Woolman, an aspiring motorcycle daredevil, would ride his cycle backwards or standing on his head, at the outskirts of town attracting the matrimony-bound to stop and ask for directions, when he would offer to guide them to one of the 24-hour chapels for tips. One of these clients was a Hollywood producer down from New York City who invited Woolman look him up for a job if he was ever in California.
Woolman was a long-time Hollywood stuntman and special effects innovator, doubling for such notables as Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, William Bendix, and John Carradine. He also appeared in occasional roles such as the motorcycle police officer in the Abbott & Costello comedy, "The Time of Their Lives".
Headlining as a daredevil on the racetrack circuit with Ed "Lucky" Teter & his Champion Hell Drivers, Woolman survived over 3,000 head-on collisions and was featured numerous times on the television program "You Asked For It", doing everything from jumping a house with a car to being blown up in a paper coffin by 20 sticks of dynamite.
During the 60s, 70s & into the early 80s, Woolman turned to special effects, particularly gunfights and explosions.- Lemar Pomeroy was born on 9 June 1928 in Utah, USA. He died on 8 November 1997 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.
- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Deke Richards was born on 8 April 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Italian Job (2003) and Phenomenon (1996). He died on 24 March 2013 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.- Jim Corsi was born on 9 September 1961 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Diane. He died on 4 January 2022 in Bellingham, Massachusetts, USA.
- Etta Murphy was born on 16 October 1919 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She was an actress, known for Shoestring Theatre (1959). She was married to Sherman Calvin Murphy. She died on 5 March 2001 in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
Ray Figelski is known for The Fred Astaire Show (1968), The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and Days of Our Lives (1965). Ray died on 7 February 1999 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.- Additional Crew
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jean Forward was born in Oakland, California, the eldest child of Walter Levi Forward and Harriet (Gould) Forward. Jean graduated from Oakland High School. By 1939, at age 18, items about her appearances in various musical productions began appearing in the Oakland Tribune. For example, on March 6, 1939, Jean appeared in the Players Auditorium in San Francisco in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" - alternating in the lead with two other singers. An April 28, 1939 item listed her as a "young lyric soprano". On October 9, 1941, Jean welcomed Ezio Pinza, who was to appear in a recital that evening to open the Oakland Forum's concert series. There is a photograph of Jean at the piano with Mr. Pinza. He would conclude his tour with an appearance with the San Francisco Opera Company. In September, 1942, now 21 and able to vote, Jean and her parents registered to vote in precinct 1738, Los Angeles County. On July 25, 1943, an item in the Long Beach (CA)announced a performance of Gounod's "Faust" at the Long Beach Auditorium. Jean Forward was listed as one of the five "outstanding resident singers" who were in the production along with David Laughlin and Jerome Hines. In a June 4,1995, interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution (page C/2), Jean's daughter Sherryl Nelson told of how her mother and David Laughlin fell in love during the production. Because Jean's mother forbade her from seeing David, they declared their love as Faust and Marguerite on stage. They were married not long afterward. In an Internet posting in May, 2011, her son Robert David Laughlin noted that his parents sang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and after the end of the Second World War, sang for the USO in the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan.- Miki Gorman was born on 9 August 1935 in China. She died on 19 September 2015 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.