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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).- 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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Jennifer L. Smith was born on 11 January 1971 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. Jennifer L. is a casting director and executive, known for Wonder (2017), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) and The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020).- Actor
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Kurt Wetherill was born on 14 February 1986 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for 12 Rounds (2009), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Rock Bottom (2006).- Producer
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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.- Madeleine Le Roux was born on 28 May 1946 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. She is an actress, known for Cry Uncle (1971), Ryan's Hope (1975) and Behind Locked Doors (1968).
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Martin Vavra is known for Benehooy, Unwelcome Guests and The Department of Time Travel. He is a director, fly fisher, is owned by a husky and was the runner up as the Little Lebowski Urban Achiever Award three years in a row. He creates films that inspire the imagination, challenge your thoughts and subvert the dominant paradigm. He is committed to diversity and empowerment in front and behind the camera. Education, wanderlust and curiosity are the pillars by which Martin endeavors to live by with every film.- Actor
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Cody Wetherill was born on 14 February 1986 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Garden of Weedin' (2007) and Lies & Illusions (2009).- Harriet Hageman was born on 5 October 1962 in Fort Laramie, Wyoming, USA. She is married to John Alan Sundahl.
- Gerry Spence was born on 8 January 1929 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. He is an actor, known for Ghosts Can't Do It (1989), Trial and Error (1997) and First Monday (2002).
- Joyce Coad was born on 14 April 1917 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for The Scarlet Letter (1926), The Magic Garden (1927) and Drums of Love (1928). She died on 3 May 1987 in March Air Force Base, California, USA.
- Ralph McCullough was born on 2 September 1895 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for What Shall I Do? (1924), Paradise Express (1937) and Seven Years Bad Luck (1921). He died on 25 December 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Justin Bauer was born on 6 December 1988 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. He is a writer and cinematographer, known for Freelancer (2010), Story of Erica (2008) and Radar Contact (2014).- Dale Hoopes was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming. He attended Western Wyoming Community College from 2009-2012 where he received his AFA in Musical Theatre Performance in May of 2012. Dale spent three summers performing in Garden Valley, Idaho at Starlight Mountain Theatre. He then worked for Brigham's Playhouse in Washington, Utah for five years where he was both a performer as well as the Production Manager. He is currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah with his husband and is pursuing a BA in History Education from the University of Utah.