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- Actor
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Richard Hugh Lynch was born on February 12, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Irish immigrant parents. He was one of seven children. Before starting a career as an actor, he joined the United States Marine Corps in 1958. He served for four years where he made Corporal, and did a tour of the Middle East with the Sixth Fleet. He began his training with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen at H.B. Studios in New York's Greenwich Village, and later went on to train extensively with Lee Strasberg at Carnegie Hall. In 1970, he became a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and spent years in the New York theater community playing in dozens of on- and off-Broadway productions. The more notable plays were: "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel", "The Lion in Winter", "The Devils", "The Lady from the Sea", "Action", "Live Like Pigs", "Richard III", "Offi on a Tangerine", "A View from the Bridge", "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth", and Shelley Winters' "One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger".
Lynch made his film debut in the classic film Scarecrow (1973), winner of the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His performance in Scarecrow launched his film career and brought him to Hollywood, where he has worked in film and television for over twenty years. His more prominent film work has been in: The Seven-Ups (1973), Open Season (1974), The Formula (1980), Invasion U.S.A. (1985), Bad Dreams (1988), Little Nikita (1988), Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (2002), and William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration (1980). His performance as the evil King Cromwell, in the successful fantasy film The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), won him the Saturn Award for Best Actor from the Academy of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Although best known for playing villains, he was cast as the President of the United States in Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy (2007).
He also starred in numerous television series and Movies of the Week, such as Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980), Sizzle (1981), Vampire (1979), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), Battlestar Galactica (1978), and the Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) two-part episode "Gambit". His work in a variety of independent films has won him a high profile internationally. He has also worked in China, where he played in the first joint production between the Screen Actors' Guild and the People's Republic of China, The Korean Project. In his spare time, Richard enjoys fishing, the arts, architecture, music and poetry. He is also fluent in several languages including German and Italian.- Actor
- Producer
Don is probably best remembered for his role as "Ernie Kaltenbrunner" in the 1985 comedy horror The Return of the Living Dead (1985). Don's career spans over 40 years in both film and TV. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ozone Park Queens, and later West Hempstead, Long Island, Don Calfa was originally interested in a career in the fine arts. He got the acting bug after seeing films such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Vertigo (1958). After dropping out of high school to study at Erwin Piscotor's "The Dramatic Workshop", (he finished his degree in night school), Calfa spent two years in summer stock which enabled him to join Actors Equity and eventually get his SAG card.
Don has starred alongside some of cinema's greats including Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991), Michael Douglas in The Star Chamber (1983), Jack Nicholson in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), and many more.
Among Don's most memorable roles were as "Mr. Pitts" on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), "Ralph Wilum" in Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989) (aka "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown"), "Paulie" in Weekend at Bernie's (1989), "Scarface" in Foul Play (1978). His stage work includes extensive off-off-Broadway work, and he appeared on Broadway in "Lenny".
Nowadays, Don still works in the movie business and works the convention circuit in the USA, alongside his friend, Beverly Randolph, who he met on the set of The Return of the Living Dead (1985). Don recently, along with the rest of "The Return of the Living Dead" cast, recorded a cast commentary for a new special edition release of "The Return of the Living Dead". Plans are in motion for a "Return of the Living Dead" cast reunion in the United Kingdom in November 2007 at Birmingham's NEC Memorabilia event.- Ted Markland was born on 15 January 1933 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Colors (1988) and Last Man Standing (1996). He died on 18 December 2011 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His gritty, violent, often homosexual-themed films were too strong for American audiences of the time, and many of his productions were filmed in Europe, mainly France.
However, Anger is best known for authoring the landmark "Hollywood Babylon" book series, which detailed a far seamier side of the Hollywood film industry than most people were aware.- Actress
- Soundtrack
The very pretty Judith Allen certainly had the makings of a great actress but her career fell far short, to the point that she came to be more sensational in the tabloid news than she was in the "B" films she graced.
She was born Marie Elliot in New York City on February 8, 1911, of Scottish parentage, and raised in Belmont, Massachusetts. She began studying theatre at the Leland Powers School in Boston following high school graduation, but this was interrupted when, at the age of 19, she married pro wrestler Gus Sonnenberg (aka "The Goat"). The marriage went sour almost immediately and she quickly returned to the dramatic school and picked up where she left off. Following this she joined up with a stock company that toured the New England area and changed her name to the more attractive spelling and sounding Mari Colman.
Paramount took notice of "Mari" and signed her to a contract following a screen test. Cecil B. DeMille cast her in the virginal leading lady role opposite Charles Bickford and Richard Cromwell in This Day and Age (1933), not knowing that the newcomer was already married, which had been a prerequisite for him casting her. Judith kept her faltering marriage a secret from DeMille and the studio.
During shooting, DeMille took it upon himself to change her marquee name to "Judith Allen." Meanwhile, jealous, estranged husband Sonnenberg broke Judith's marriage cover by blabbing to reporters just before the film's opening, to the fury of DeMille. Surprisingly, DeMille did not retaliate against Judith and she continued her Paramount career. The crimer has since reached minor cult status.
A beautiful and talented Depression-era co-star for Paramount and a lovely loanout to other studios in both drama and comedy, Judith went on to appear opposite Randolph Scott in The Thundering Herd (1933); Bing Crosby in the musical Too Much Harmony (1933) (in which she sang the song "The Day You Came Along"); Richard Arlen in Hell and High Water (1933); Reginald Denny in Dancing Man (1934); Tom Brown in The Witching Hour (1934); Johnny Mack Brown in Marrying Widows (1934); William Haines in Young and Beautiful (1934); and Bruce Cabot in both Men of the Night (1934) and Night Alarm (1934). Her best remembered film roles of that period were in the W.C. Fields classic The Old Fashioned Way (1934), as Fields' daughter, and the Shirley Temple vehicle Bright Eyes (1934) opposite James Dunn. Judith was also reunited with Crosby in the musical She Loves Me Not (1934) but Kitty Carlisle was his musical co-star and Judith appeared in support way down in the credits.
Following her divorce, Judith married Irish boxer Jack Doyle, aka "The Gorgeous Gael," in April of 1935 and her career became, naturally, a second priority. A boxing loss to Buddy Baer in August of that year at Madison Square Garden severely damaged Doyle's worldwide reputation. He later tried to focus on a singing career with Allen, touring in vaudeville shows. They were not welcomed when they arrived in Ireland to perform. These upsets triggered an on-again, off-again relationship which made for great tabloid fodder. The couple did co-star together in the film Navy Spy (1937), but it was too late and they eventually split up for good.
Trying to regain some late 30s film momentum, Judith was now solidly trapped in second-string programmers with roles opposite "B" actors Norman Foster, Regis Toomey, William Boyd, Donald Cook, Gene Autry', Harry Carey, Grant Withers and Dick Purcell for Republic Pictures and its "Poverty Row" subsidiaries such as Mascot, Monogram and Winchester. By the end of the decade her leading lady career had all but vanished and she was appearing unbilled in such pictures as Four Girls in White (1939) and the classic The Women (1939).
Into the 1940s, Judith found work on radio, on stage, in vaudeville and in nightclubs. To supplement her income, she also sold life insurance. A rare film would come her way in the 40s and 50s, including one lead role in Train to Tombstone (1950), but it was extremely rare. She married a third time, to publisher Rudolph Field in 1941, but the breakup was nasty and it too hit the tabloid papers while they went through the throes of divorce.
By 1951, Judith had abandoned the limelight. A fourth marriage would also end in divorce and she suffered a nervous breakdown following the death of her mother. In later years she joined the Mentalphysics Spiritual Teaching and Retreat Center in Joshua Tree, California (Palm Springs area) and eventually became an ordained minister. She died at age 85 in Joshua Tree.- Actor
- Music Department
Marshall Rohner was born on 20 December 1963 in Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Road House (1989), Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984) and Medium Rare (1987). He died on 18 October 2005 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lillian Miles was born on 1 August 1907 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Reefer Madness (1936), The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Code of the Mounted (1935). She died on 27 February 1972 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.- Why the devil did Eddie Fetherstone appear more than forty times on the screen as a reporter, a newspaperman, a news or cinema operator, a photographer? It is a mystery that only the casting directors of the golden age of Hollywood could solve. For Eddie had nothing to do with journalism. For an unknown reason, his physical appearance was once associated with the aforementioned type of trade and on they went! In fact Eddie Fetherstone had been a vaudevillian from the start and comedies were more in his line. He did some for Capra, La Cava, McLeod, John Ford, but his roles were most often so tiny that you had to keep your eyes wide open not to miss his appearance.He fared better with Harold Lloyd in two of his feature-length talkies and in shorts for Columbia alongside Buster Keaton, the Three Stooges and Harry Langdon. Nevertheless he WAS the quintessential reporter, often wisecracking to be honest, the latter fact paying tribute to the comic he was at core. On the other hand, Eddie Fetherstone often found himself at the wheel of a cab or barking for shows. Another oddity was that directors found him excellent in roles of henchmen, thugs and other hoods. So much so that B-directors such as D. Ross Lederman or C.C. Coleman could hardly make their run-of-the-mill cop and robber adventures without his presence. Eddie Fetherstone was never a star but remained one of the movie industry's faithful companions for no less than four decades.
- Ed Griffith was born on 11 November 1938 in Salinas, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and Highway to Heaven (1984). He died on 5 October 2006 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.
- Actress
Wanda Barbour was born on 28 January 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Thomas E. MacDougall. She died on 14 November 1979 in Yucca Valley, San Bernatdino, California, USA.- Actor
David Schulberg was born on 29 January 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor. He died on 14 August 2005 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.- Actress
Beth Hartman was born on 2 January 1904. She was an actress. She died on 28 May 1989 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.- Connie Conrad was born on 31 March 1890 in Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Petticoat Junction (1963). She died on 16 January 1986 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Klaus Wille was born on 14 July 1946 in North Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Four Deuces (1975), Candy Stripe Nurses (1974) and Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing (1968). He was married to Lisa Ann Elliott. He died on 10 August 2023 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.- Donnie Humphrey was born on 20 April 1961 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. He died on 1 September 2014 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Lawrence Milton, was Admiral Nimitz's photographer during WW II. He re-entered the film industry and after 46 years, received the award of Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Operating Cameramen. He retired at age 73. He was Key Grip on shows like Wild Wild West, Happy Days, Love Boat, Hawaii 5-O, dating all the way back to Hal Roach days (Lone Ranger, My Little Margie, Amos and Andy, etc).
He worked on dozens of features at MGM, Fox, and Independents. He was in the industry for over 46 years. He passed away on 19 September 2005. His son, Richard, is a producer/director/writer/actor, formerly at Universal Studios.- Leonard Malin was born on 31 December 1931 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was married to Diane Hallett. He died on 15 December 2021 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.
- Actress
Marie Spingold was born on 11 October 1884 in Greencastle, Indiana, USA. She was an actress. She died on 11 November 1981 in Yucca Valley, San Bernardino, California, USA.