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Actress Collin Wilcox extended her given name twice over the duration of her professional acting career -- billing herself as Collin Wilcox-Horne and Collin Wilcox Paxton, to be exact. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Highlands, North Carolina, and her interest in theater was sparked by her parents, Jack H. and Virginia Wilcox, who founded the Highlands Community Theatre (now known as the Highlands Playhouse) in 1939. She made her acting debut there as a young girl and appeared in various productions, including "Our Town". In later years, Collin would dutifully return from time to time and perform at her theater alma mater in appreciation.
She attended high school in Knoxville, Tennessee and became the resident ingénue at the regional Carousel Theatre. She majored in drama at the University of Tennessee and studied performing at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Illinois, as well as improv at The Compass (a forerunner of the Second City troupe) where Paul Sills was the director. There, she worked alongside up-and-coming talents Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Barbara Harris, Severn Darden and Shelley Berman. She eventually migrated to New York in 1957 and earned membership with Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio, who saw great potential in her. She worked there for eight years.
Collins' Broadway debut came a year later with "The Day the Money Stopped", starring Richard Basehart and Mildred Natwick, which earned her the Clarence Derwent Award for "Best Supporting Actress". Slowly garnering notice for her growing quirks and interesting, edgy performances, Collin went on to work with the crème de la crème of Broadway eccentrics including Tallulah Bankhead in "Crazy October", Geraldine Page in "Strange Interlude" and Ruth Gordon in "La Bonne Soup". Neurotic Southern plays such as Tennessee Williams off-Broadway productions of "Camino Real" and "Suddenly, Last Summer" fit her like a glove. In Los Angeles, she appeared in "The Sea Gull" under the direction of John Houseman, "Period of Adjustment" with William Windom and "Getting Out" with Susan Clark. Williams, himself, chose Collin to repeat her leading role as "Isabel" in "Period of Adjustment", when the play went to London.
Collin's film debut came with her brilliant, award-worthy role as young "Mayella", whose Southern white trash teenager, under the duress of her racist father, falsely accuses black man Brock Peters of rape in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Her cross-examination courtroom sequence with Peters' hired attorney, Gregory Peck, is unforgettable. No other film role would have the same impact as that once-in-a-lifetime part. Prior to this, "Mockingbird" director Robert Mulligan personally selected the classically-trained Collin as his TV "Frankie" in a strong presentation of The Member of the Wedding (1958). It was her first television role. For such a strong start, her later film career would prove strangely erratic, with a number of offbeat roles in The Baby Maker (1970), arguably her best post-Mockingbird part, opposite Barbara Hershey and Sam Groom, Catch-22 (1970), September 30, 1955 (1977), Jaws 2 (1978), Marie (1985), The Journey of August King (1995) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), among them.
While Collin graced a number of quality TV programs, such as the mini-movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Foxfire (1987) and Wildflower (1991) along with such established series as Gunsmoke (1955), The Twilight Zone (1959), The Fugitive (1963) and The Waltons (1972), it was the live stage that kept her fiery passion for acting alive. In the late seventies, she returned to her hometown, met and married third husband Scott Paxton, and founded the multi-arts center, "The Highlands Studio for the Arts", in 1981. She served as its artistic director for nine years as well as its resident playwright and improv teacher. She and her husband (who has been president of the Board of Directors) formed a troupe called "The Instant Theatre Company" (ITC) which reaffirmed her family's name in the commitment to its town's local theater. The company lasted for close to a decade before resurrecting again in 2003 with Collin and Rex Reed performing in a presentation of "Love Letters".
Married three times, she has two children, Kimberley and William, from her former husband, British actor Geoffrey Horne, and one child, Michael, from the marriage to Scott Paxton. She died of brain cancer at her North Carolina home in Highlands on October 14, 2009. She was 74.- Actor
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Bushy-browed, New Zealand-born actor and writer Jonathan Hardy became most familiar to television audiences as the commanding voice of the Jim Henson Creature Shop muppet, Dominar Rygel XVI, the pint-sized , egocentric ruler-in-exile of a galactic empire, in TV's cult series Farscape (1999). His distinctive diction proved ideally suited to lending both humour and personality to the cantankerous, idiosyncratic 26-inch Hynerian.
Jonathan was educated at St. Patrick's College and Victoria University in Wellington, and trained for acting at the New Zealand Player's Drama School. In later years, he became a force in his country's theatrical scene as artistic director of the Auckland Mercury Theatre, from 1980 to 1985. Prior to that, he had studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a scholarship, and subsequently spent ten years gaining valuable experience on British stages -- with the National Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon Avon. Back in the antipodes, he was especially acclaimed for his performance as Willy Loman in an Auckland Theatre Company production of "Death of a Salesman". With the same organisation, he had another winning role in "Twelve Angry Men". After moving to Australia in 1972, Jonathan was notably featured in the films The Mango Tree (1977) and Mad Max (1979), and had guest spots on popular television shows like Prisoner (1979) and The Flying Doctors (1986). He also made occasional forays into screenwriting. His first, for the controversial Boer war drama Breaker Morant (1980), won him an Oscar nomination (along with Bruce Beresford and David Stevens), and an Australian Film Institute Award. In the cast of the two-act play "Breaker Morant", debuting at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne (February 1978), he played the key role of Major James Francis Thomas, who defended Morant at the infamous court martial.
Jonathan was known in his profession for his work ethic and boundless energy. In fact, he soldiered on for many years after 1988, despite having undergone the trauma of heart transplant surgery. He also had a reputation for a wonderfully wicked sense of humour ...after all, he once described Rygel's most endearing traits on "Farscape" to be "biting people and farting helium"!- Jimmie lived in Valley City, Ohio as a very young boy, and then moved to Elyria, Ohio, as an adolescent. He got his start in acting performing in the All School play, "The Great Sabastions". He graduated from Elyria High School in 1963.
- Before launching her own professional acting career, Jane Galloway Heitz was a casting agent in Chicago. She helped launch the careers of Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Eric Stonestreet and Richard Kind.
Jane sold her casting agency in 1997 to focus on acting full-time.
She was married to Emmy-winning TV producer/director Bill Heitz from 1965 until his death in 2002. They had a daughter, Amie Richardson, and three grandchildren. - Actor
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Terry Nutkins was born on 12 August 1946 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Aladdin and the Forty Thieves (1984), Children in Need (1991) and I'm Famous and Frightened (2004). He was married to Jackie. He died on 6 September 2012 in Glenelg, Highland, Scotland, UK.- Ker Wells was born on 31 May 1964 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Amazon (1999), Relic Hunter (1999) and Heck's Way Home (1996). He was married to Marianne Rendón. He died on 30 August 2019 in Highland Lake, New York, USA.
- Dr. Bergen Evans was a disseminator of knowledge to thousands on the Northwestern U. Campus before serving as the chairman of the board of editors for the CBS television "The $64,000. Question". Dr. Evans was born in 1904 in Franklin, Ohio and was the son of a physician. his father entered the U.S. Consular service in 1909 and was assigned to England and Bergen entered school there at age four. When World War 1 came around in 1915 , Bergen and his four siblings were sent back to the U.S. Bergen entered Franklin High School in Ohio and worked afternoons and nights in the local paper mill. Bergen entered Miami U. in Oxford, Ohio and received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Master of Arts degree from Harvard and returned to Miami U. as an assistant professor of English. He won a Rhodes scholarship in 1928 and attended Oxford in England for three years. He received a B. Litt. degree. He returned to the U.S. and added a Ph.D. at Harvard. He then returned to teaching at Northwestern as a full professor. He wrote several books including ""Natural History of Nonsense" and "Spoor of Spooks". Following that he edited a new dictionary published by Random House. He also wrote the "Skeptics Corner" for Mercury magazine.
- Robert Stein was born in 1912 in the Russian Empire. He died on 12 July 1994 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA.
- Bum Bright was born on 6 October 1920 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 11 December 2004 in Highland Park, Texas, USA.
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Carl Sepulveda was born on 5 February 1896 in Ely, Nevada, USA. He was an actor, known for The Chinatown Mystery (1928), Rustlers of the Badlands (1945) and The Four-Footed Ranger (1928). He was married to Grace Barnett and Kathleen. He died on 24 August 1974 in North Highlands, California, USA.- Ann Grossman, later known as Ann Rottman, and professionally as Anne Redfern, was born in the Bronx, NY, but lived for 64 years in Highland Park, NJ, where she raised two daughters with her husband, Ernest (Ernie) Rottman. She was active in amateur as well as professional theater. In addition to her one major movie role in Deadtime Stories, she had brief appearances in the films The Miracle Worker and Regarding Henry.
- Joseph Glenn Rockhold was born in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, USA and passed away on 31 August 1982.
Rockhold played the title character of "The Uncle Orrie Show", a live audience show, on WHIO-TV in the 1950's and 1960's, and entertained an estimated 200,000 other children a year in personal appearances. He retire in 1968 after 35 years in broadcasting. A farm boy from Hillsboro, Rockhold had also held the title of farm director for WHIO Radio. He had produced several programs dealing with rural life including Valley Farmer and Urban and Suburban.
Rockhold became a radio and television performer following World War II after taking a fling in the recording distribution business and later trying station management in Lancaster, Chillicothe and Bellefontaine.
After jobs in radio stations in Columbus and Detroit, where he played folksy characters on locally produced shows, Mr. Rockhold went to WSPD, a new Toledo station being started by Lou Emm, now the morning personality for WHIO Radio.
He was a newscaster and he also did a down-home program where he did all the voices.
Rockhold then went to Chicago's WLS where he appeared on Barn Dance and acted on NBC soap opera's. He play Lou Hanks on the Uncle Ezra show and was Doc Green on the Tom Mix show.
Rockhold followed Emm to WHIO in the early 1950's. Soon he was featured on the Uncle Orrie Show with Ken Hardin as Ferdie Fussbudget and Jack Jacobson on Nosey the Clown. - Charles Kennedy was born on 25 November 1959 in Inverness, Scotland, UK. He was married to Sarah Gurling. He died on 1 June 2015 in Fort William, Highland, Scotland, UK.
- Gino Hernandez was born on 8 August 1957 in Highland Park, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for World Class Championship Wrestling (1972), Mid South Wrestling (1981) and World Pro Wrestling TV (1984). He was married to Janice Marie Bancroft. He died on 2 February 1986 in Highland Park, Texas, USA.
- Ethel Mandell was born on 29 December 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Love Birds (1934), Romeo and Juliet (1916) and The Spider and the Fly (1916). She died on 2 September 1942 in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA.
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Sheldon Drobny is Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Paradigm Group II, an investment firm with over $200 million in investments in over 40 companies. Drobny is also a Board Member of numerous Paradigm Group II portfolio companies, including XML Global (Chairman), Cypress Bioscience, TL Contact, and Vertaport, Inc. Prior to entering public accounting, he had a number of years of taxation experience with the Internal Revenue Service. In recent years Drobny has entered the mass media industry. He is co-founder of Air America and Nova M Radio Networks, and is the author of Road to Air America, published by Select Books in 2004. Drobny is also a very active supporter of the Chicago Jewish community. He is Benefactor of the Sheldon and Anita Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, and is active with the Jewish Children's Bureau and Jewish United Fund. Drobny is a member of the NASD and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois C.P.A Society and several other professional associations, and holds a BS degree in Accounting from Roosevelt University.- Scots stage actor who late in life appeared in a number of silent films. Educated in Belfast, Ireland, Mantell traveled to America at 24 and played in "Romeo and Juliet" and "East Lynne" with Helena Modjeska. He worked constantly in America and Great Britain and established himself as a great success in Shakespearean works. Mantell married five times and was widowed twice. His third wife, Charlotte Behrens, had been his leading lady. Married, she fell in love with Mantell and lived openly with him. Her husband threatened to kill Mantell, who was also married. Following a divorce for each of them, they married, but Charlotte died less than two years later under cloudy circumstances. His fourth wife, Marie Booth Russell, was also his leading lady, and she too died at an early age, of Bright's Disease, in 1911. Mantell's fifth wife, Genevieve Hamper, was another of his leading ladies. She survived him when he died at 74, in 1928, following a nervous collapse. Mantell's son, Robert B. Mantell Jr. appeared in a few films before his suicide.
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Janet Burrows was born on 15 November 1959 in Glenville, Illinois, USA. She was a production manager, known for This Can't Be Love (1994) and One Christmas (1994). She was married to Ed Tapia. She died on 22 July 1999 in Highland Park, California, USA.- Robin Cook was born on 28 February 1946 in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. He was married to Gaynor Regan and Margaret Katherine Whitmore. He died on 6 August 2005 in Ben Stack, near Laxford Bridge, Highland, Scotland, UK.
- Hot Boy Ju was an actor, known for Hot Boy Ju: Hoe Bitch (2019) and Hot Boy Ju: Free BubG (2020). He died on 21 March 2021 in North Highlands, California, USA.
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Mike Hudson was born in 1968. He is known for Rob Riggle Global Investigator (2019), Jackass Shark Week (2021) and Shark Week (1987). He died on 11 August 2022 in Highlands County, Florida, USA.- Jim Boutet was born on 2 July 1930. He was an actor, known for Sandcastles (2004) and Missing Persons (1993). He died on 16 May 2004 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA.
- Mollie Lowery was born on 2 August 1945 in Van Nuys, California, USA. She died on 25 July 2016 in Highland Park, California, USA.
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Lou Teicher was born on 24 August 1924 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Betty Teicher and Elaine Teicher. He died on 3 August 2008 in Highlands, North Carolina, USA.- Gil Altschul was born on 10 September 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Gil was a director, known for Are You Ready for Marriage? (1950) and Why We Respect the Law (1950). Gil died on 1 November 1982 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA.