Anson Williams

Anson Williams is an actor and director. Born as Anson William Heimlick - his father Haskell legally changed the original spelling of the family name from "Heimlich" - he is best known for his role as gullible but well intentioned singer Warren "Potsie" Weber on the long-running hit television series Happy Days. His character was one of the few to remain through the entire run of the series, although his appearances became less frequent in later seasons.

In 1986, Williams directed the ABC after-school special The Drug Knot. This dealt with the problem of teenage drug abuse and was highly acclaimed. Many critics praised it as the best anti-drug show ever made. He has gone on to direct many episodes of popular television shows, including episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, seaQuest DSV, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed.

In 2005, Anson Williams and the rest of the cast of Happy Days appeared in Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion on ABC.

Anson Williams is the second cousin of Dr. Henry Heimlich, known for the Heimlich Maneuver for treating choking victims.
He guest starred in an episode of Boy Meets World in its third season as a nod to Happy Days.

Rodney Allen Rippy

Rodney Allen Rippy was a child actor who appeared in Jack in the Box commercials of the 1970s. In the spots, he was seen trying to wrap his kid-sized mouth around the supersized Jumbo Jack hamburger. His catch phrase was, "It's too big to eat!"

A graduate of California State University, Dominguez Hills (Carson, CA), Rippy is a partner in the film production company, Bow Tie Productions, and spokesman for Hurricane Housing Relief.

Rippy's recent screen credits include appearances in the 1997 independent film Former Child Star and the 2003 David Spade comedy Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.

Rippy was mentioned in the comic strip Peanuts in 1974, referred to by Snoopy.

Sherwood Schwartz

Sherwood Charles Schwartz is an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the TV series Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch.

During the late 1990s and the 2000s, he has made many appearances on TV talking about his series. He has been on everything from the CBS Evening News and 20/20 to TV Land's Top Ten and Biography. He also took part of a "Creators" marathon on Nick at Nite in the late 1990s. He was also a guest at the 2004 TV Land Awards.

In 1988 he appeared on the Late Show with Ross Schafer for a Gilligan's Island reunion. All 7 castaways from Gilligan's Island were on the show. This was the last time they were all together on TV.

Schwartz was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He is Jewish.
In his 1988 book Inside Gilligan's Island, he mentions he did not get along well with Red Skelton and in his years as head writer it was in his contract that he would not see him face to face. He may not have gotten along well with Skelton, but Schwartz got along quite well with his earlier boss, Bob Hope. He would later name his daughter, Hope, after him.

Kent McCord

Kent McCord is an American actor.

McCord was born Kent Franklin McWhirter in Los Angeles, California. Using the stage name Kent McCord, he first appeared on television in 1962 as a guest on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. He became a close friend of Ricky Nelson and made several more appearances on the show over the next few years, as well as landing small parts in three Elvis Presley films. After working in a variety of secondary roles, he got his big break in 1968 when he was given a lead role next to Martin Milner as rookie LAPD police officer James A. "Jim" Reed on Adam-12, a police drama television series created by Jack Webb. The popular show ran on NBC from 1968 to 1975 and made McCord a household name. In Jack Webb's show "Dragnet 1967" he made guest appearances being billed under the name "Kent McWhirter" as well as "Kent McCord".

In 1972, McCord was elected to the National Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the Board for eleven years. He is currently 1st National Vice President[1] and serves on the National Board of Directors[2] as well.

In 1980, McCord played the lead character Troy on the short-lived series Galactica 1980. He was then pegged to play Jack Webb's partner in another revival of Dragnet, but the project ended with Webb's death in 1982. From 1994 through 1995, McCord played the recurring role of Scott Keller on seaQuest DSV, and in 1999 he was introduced to a new generation of fans as a semi-regular guest star on the science fiction television cult hit, Farscape. He played two versions (one human and one alien appearing in the physical form of the human) of the same character, Jack Crichton.

In 2003, he ran for President of the Screen Actors Guild but lost to Melissa Gilbert by a margin of 42% to her 50%.

Captain & Tennille

Captain & Tennille are U.S. pop music recording artists who achieved success during the second half of the 1970s and into the early 1980s with a repertoire of mostly sophisticated hit songs. The duo consists of "Captain" Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille. They were married on November 11, 1975. Captain & Tennille are best known for their single, "Love Will Keep Us Together."

In November 2003, Tennille performed a benefit concert for the Reno, Nevada Chamber Orchestra, where her surprise guest was none other than Daryl Dragon. This was the first time they had publicly performed as Captain & Tennille in many years. As a result, their first live recording, An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille, was released to commemorate the event.

Throughout the '90s, they continued to perform various concert dates at venues around the world, frequently at Harrah's Lake Tahoe which was close to their home in northwestern Nevada. One of the most lauded of their appearances in this decade occurred when they played a one-time-only date at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1995 as part of their twentieth anniversary as an act.

At the same time throughout the 1980s and '90s, Tennille enjoyed a second career as a big band and pop standards singer, not unlike pop colleague Linda Ronstadt. She released several albums and performs with orchestras throughout the country.

The couple recently sold their home in northwestern Nevada, where they had lived for more than a dozen years. During that time, Tennille had the honor of serving as Ambassador for the Arts for the state. They now have homes in both Southern California and Arizona. On October 9th, 2007, three new DVDs were released of the Captain & Tennille's ABC TV specials. The Captain & Tennille In Hawaii, The Captain & Tennille in New Orleans, and The Captain & Tennille Songbook. These were released singlely or as a boxed set. The first week of November will bring the release of the Captain & Tennille's first Christmas album and first newly recorded studio album in over 10 years.

Betty Garrett

Betty Garrett is an American actress and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. However, she is probably best known for a pair of roles in two prominent 1970s sitcoms.

In late 1973, she joined the cast of All in the Family, playing Archie Bunker's socially liberal next-door neighbor, Irene Lorenzo, a role she would remain in until her character was phased out in late 1975. The following year she joined the cast of Happy Days spin-off, Laverne and Shirley as Edna Babish, Laverne and Shirley's landlady, who eventually married Laverne's father (played by Phil Foster). She remained with the series until it ended in 1982.

Garrett and Parks formed a musical team and toured nightclubs and theatres in the United States and England. Part of the reasons the couple started acting in England was because of her husband Larry Parks being black listed, which also affected her career, making it hard for them to work in the states. The two also appeared together on Broadway in Bells Are Ringing and Beg, Borrow or Steal.

A diversified performer, when not appearing in musicals for films and stage, she has played non-musical roles, starring in plays such as A Girl Could Get Lucky, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, and Plaza Suite. She also appeared in Spoon River Anthology, which originated at Theatre West, went to Broadway for a four-week concert engagement, and stayed a season. When it was revived in Los Angeles several years ago, Garrett won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for this performance. Her second Los Angeles Drama Critics Award came when she first presented Betty Garrett and Other Songs at Theatre West. She has also appeared in this production at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Betty also ventured into directing with Arthur Miller's The Price at Theatre West. Her effort gained critical acclaim. More recently Garrett, aged 88, received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Lee Meriwether

Lee Ann Meriwether is Miss America 1955, and an American actress, appearing in movies, soap operas, game shows and television, best known for her roles as Buddy Ebsen's daughter-in-law and crime-solving partner, Betty Jones, in the long-running 1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones, and as John Schuck's wife, Lily Munster, in the syndicated 1980s sitcom, The Munsters Today.

Lee Ann Meriwether known as Lee Meriwether was born in Los Angeles, California 27 May 1935. The daughter of Claudius Gregg Meriwether (born. 13 October 1904 Oregon - died. 15 July 1954 San Francisco, California.) and Ethel Eve Mulligan (born. 25 March 1903 Oregon - died. 21 May 1996 Los Angeles, California). She has one brother Don Brett Meriwether born 14 May 1938 Los Angeles, California. Lee grew up in San Francisco, California after the family moved there from Phoenix, Arizona. She attended George Washington High School where one of her classmates was Johnny Mathis. She later attended San Francisco City College, where one of her classmates was fellow actor Bill Bixby.

Winning Miss San Francisco, Meriwether won Miss California, then Miss America with her recital of a John Millington Synge monologue. After her reign, she joined The Today Show. An August 1, 1956 International News wire photo of Meriwether and Joe DiMaggio announced their engagement. According to DiMaggio biographer Richard Ben Cramer, it was a rumor started by Walter Winchell.

Meriwether married 20 April 1958 to Frank Aletter a TV and film actor. They divorced in 1974 and are the parents of actors Kyle Aletter-Oldham born 31 May 1960 in Los Angeles, California and Lesley A. Aletter, born 12 November 1963 in Los Angeles, California. Lee remarried 21 September 1986 to current husband, Marshall Borden (Ryan's Hope, Luke Jackson #1 on One Life to Live).

Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated, Tony and Emmy award-winning American actress, singer, and dancer.

Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals, most notably Singin' in the Rain, during the 1950s and chalked up several hit records despite an only intermittent career as a recording artist. Her song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (featured in the 1950 film "Two Weeks With Love" as a duet with Carleton Carpenter) was a top 3 hit in 1951. She is also remembered for her smash recording of the theme song "Tammy" which earned her a gold record and was the best-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957 and was number one for 5 weeks on the Billboard pop charts. Reynolds also scored two additional top 25 Billboard hits with "A Very Special Love" in 1958 and 1960s "Am I That Easy To Forget", a pop version of Skeeter Davis' country hit (interestingly, Davis' real first names are also Mary Frances).

She has amassed a large collection of movie memorabilia and displayed them, first in a museum at her Las Vegas hotel and casino during the 1990s and later in a museum close to the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, California. She has on several occasions auctioned off items from the collection.

Now, at last, there is a new home for this irreplaceable collection - right in the heart of the USA in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The Museum will be located at Belle Island Village, and is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2008.

She currently resides in Los Angeles next door to her daughter Carrie, and her granddaughter, Billie.

June Lockhart

June Lockhart is best known for her roles as the TV mothers, first as Paul Martin's (portrayed by Hugh Reilly) wife, Ruth Martin (Timmy's mother), in the 1954 hit series, Lassie (a role she played from 1958 to 1964), and as Professor John Robinson's (portrayed by Guy Williams) wife, Doctor Maureen Robinson, in the 1960s hit series, Lost in Space. The Sci-Fi TV program was highly popular, noted for the design of the sleek silver spacesuits, which June Lockhart wore in many publicity photos (see image at right).

She played the part of Rainy Dawson in "The Incident at Barker Springs" on Rawhide.
She also appeared as a regular in the soap opera General Hospital in several different years, and as Dr. Janet Craig on the TV series Petticoat Junction, replacing Bea Benaderet, who died of cancer during the show's run. She also provided the voice of Martha Day, the lead character in the Hanna-Barbara animated series These Are the Days. Lockhart was the only actress or actor to have starred in three hit series during the 1960s.

She was the only child of two actors: Canadian-born Gene Lockhart, who came to fame on Broadway in 1933 in Ah, Wilderness!, and UK-born Kathleen Arthur Lockhart. They appeared together in A Christmas Carol, in which June, as a teen, appeared. June also played supporting parts in films as Meet Me in St. Louis, Sergeant York, and The Yearling.

June Lockhart won a 1948 Tony Award for Outstanding Performance by a Newcomer (a category that no longer exists) for her role on Broadway in For Love or Money. And in 1951, she starred in Lawrence Riley's biographical play Kin Hubbard opposite Tom Ewell.

In 1986, she appeared in the fantasy film, Troll, which was followed by the 2 sequel films, Troll 2 and Troll 3. Years later, in 1998, she appeared in the film version also named Lost in Space (film), 30 years after starring in the TV series.

Demond Wilson

Grady Demond Wilson is an American actor, best known for his role as Redd Foxx's long-suffering son, Lamont Sanford in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son.

Wilson was born in Valdosta, Georgia. Upon returning from service in Vietnam, in the late 1960s, Wilson was briefly a member of touring stage productions before moving to Hollywood where he performed guest roles on a few television series such as Mission: Impossible and All in the Family and acted in films such as 1971's The Organization.

Later that year, he was called to audition for Sanford and Son and won the role of Lamont Sanford. Wilson played Lamont through the run of the series, and in fact became the de facto star when Redd Foxx walked off the show in 1974 and his character was written out for the rest of the season. Foxx returned the following year and the pair worked together until the show's cancellation in 1977. Wilson would later bow out of the 1980 short-lived series revival.

Wilson later starred as Raymond Ellis in the 1978 series Baby, I'm Back and as Oscar Madison in 1982's The New Odd Couple.

In 1984, he became a minister. In 1991, he did not attend Redd Foxx's funeral, due to other commitments. In 1994, he founded Restoration House, a center that provides spiritual guidance and vocational training for former prison inmates.

Wilson has written books from a Christian, Afro-centered perspective about the New Age Movement and its hidden dangers to that community. New Age Millennium by Wilson was released by CAP Publishing & Literary Co. LLC on December 1, 1998.

Wilson stated the book to be an exposé of symbols and slogans.

He has also appeared as a guest star on the UPN Television Network sitcom Girlfriends, playing Lynn's biological father.

Ken Osmond

Kenneth Osmond is an American actor known for his role of Eddie Haskell on the original Leave It to Beaver television situation comedy, which ran on CBS from October 4, 1957 to 1958 and then on ABC from 1958 to June 20, 1963.

Osmond's playing of Eddie Haskell in the original series became a cultural reference, recognized as an archetype for the "behind-your-back" rebel. Teenager Eddie Haskell would be polite and obsequious to grown ups, but derided adults' social conventions behind their backs. He was constantly trying to involve his friends in activities that would get them into trouble. Eddie was the kind of friend parents such as Ward and June Cleaver wish their children would limit association with, but need to have to gain learning experiences. Even today, the phrase "Eddie Haskell" is known to refer to an insincere flatterer.

After his child acting career, Osmond served 18 years as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). During his time on the force, he worked in vice, narcotics and as a motorcycle officer. He grew a mustache to help secure his anonymity. He retired after getting hit with three bullets while in a foot chase with a suspected car thief. He was saved by his bulletproof vest and belt buckle. He earned a medical disability pension from the police force.

He eventually returned to acting with appearances on Happy Days and the TV movie High School USA. Osmond starred in the role in the Still the Beaver situation comedy and the 1997 film Leave It to Beaver. In that film, Osmond played Eddie Haskell, Sr., and Adam Zolotin, a younger actor, played Eddie Haskell, Jr.

Osmond makes personal appearances at film festivals, collectors' shows and nostalgia conventions. He has been married to wife Sandy since 1970. Since his retirement, Osmond handles rental properties in the Los Angeles area.

On September 18, 2007, Osmond filed a class action lawsuit against the Screen Actors Guild alleging that SAG has collected $8 million in foreign residuals for U.S. actors, but has not distributed them to the actors.[1]

Jimmie Walker

James Carter Walker is an American actor and stand-up comedian who is probably best known for portraying JJ Evans on Good Times, which ran from 1974 to 1979. While on the show, he was known for such catch phrases such as "Dyn-O-Mite" and "What can I say."

Walker was born in The Bronx, New York. He is a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in New York City. Through a federal program known as SEEK, or "Search for Education, Evaluation, and Knowledge", he continued his studies and entered into the field of radio engineering with local station, WRBR. As a young man, Walker was a vendor at Yankee Stadium, starting with the 1964 World Series. He was given a Silver dollar by Mickey Mantle that he still owns. In 1967, he began working full-time with WRBR. Two years later, he began performing as a stand-up comedian and was eventually discovered by the casting director for Good Times after making appearances on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In and the Jack Paar Show.

Walker was 26 years old on Good Times (John Amos, the actor who portrayed Walker's father on Good Times, was in reality, just eight years older than Walker), during the 1973-74 season, and was 32 years old when the show ended its run after the 1978-79 season.

Dwayne Hickman

The younger brother of child actor Darryl Hickman, he also began his work at an early age. One of his earliest roles was an appearance in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Melodies Old and New. He first gained wide notice when he played a recurring role as Bob's nephew on the situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show (a/k/a, Love That Bob) in 1955 while a student at Loyola University (now known as Loyola Marymount University). This role probably led as much as anything to his casting in the lead role in the CBS sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Interestingly, although at the show's debut the Dobie character was still a teenager in high school, Hickman was already 25.

After playing Dobie for four years (with fellow former Loyola student Bob Denver as his sidekick, Maynard), Hickman found himself stereotyped as a "youngster" just at the time of his life when he was too old to play any further such roles. He appeared in some minor "beach" films and made an unsuccessful TV pilot for a program in which he was to play a young schoolteacher.
In 1965, Hickman also appeared in the comedy Cat Ballou along with Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, and Nat King Cole.

Della Reese

is a famous American Emmy nominated actor and Grammy nominated singer. She started her career in the late 1950s as a successful Jazz singer, best known for her 1959 hit single "Don't You Know". Later in her career, she became a successful actress, best known as playing Tess on the television show Touched by an Angel. Today, she is also an ordained minister in the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church in Los Angeles, California. She is of half African-American and half Cherokee Indian descent.

Della Reese announced on Larry King Live in 2002, that she suffers from Type-2 diabetes. She is a spokeswoman for the American Diabetes Association, traveling around the United States to raise awareness about the disorder.

In 1983, she married Franklin Thomas Lett Jr., a concert producer and writer. Between them they have four adult children: Dr. James Barger, Deloreese Owens, Franklin Lett III, and Dominique Lett-Wirtschafter.

Besides being a singer and actress, Reese is an ordained minister in the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church in Los Angeles, California. She is godmother to the child of Angel co-star, Roma Downey who played a leading role in Touched by an Angel, alongside Reese. In 2005, Reese was honored by Oprah Winfrey at her Legends Ball ceremony along with 25 other African-American women.

Best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed. His television version of The Alan Young Show began in 1950. After the show's cancellation, Young appeared in supporting parts in films such as The Time Machine. His most popular venture, however, was Mister Ed, a CBS television show which ran from 1961 to 1966. He played the owner of a talking horse which would talk to no one but him.

In later life he founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church and did animation voices. He was the voice of Scrooge McDuck for many Disney films and on the popular cartoon series DuckTales from 1987 to 1990. In Mickey's Christmas Carol, he portrays the character's miserly namesake. He also provided the voice of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey and voiced Hiram Flaversham in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. His other cartoon voice appearances include Camp Lazlo, Megas XLR, Static Shock, House of Mouse, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Duckman, Batman: The Animated Series, TaleSpin, The Smurfs, The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.

Currently, Alan Young voices the character of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family audio series Adventures in Odyssey.

He won an Emmy Award for his starring role in Life Goes On as a man suffering from AIDS. He has also had recurring roles on ER, Melrose Place, and Now and Again. He currently plays Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock on 24.

Lowe began his acting career in his teens, co-starring with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Urich in the 1987 made-for-TV film April Morning, which depicted the battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War.

Lowe made his directorial debut in 2000, with the short film The Audition. He also directed the upcoming Beautiful Ohio, set to be released in 2007.

She is the daughter of Ted Mills a television executive who died in August 2003. Her stepmother, Genevieve, whose real name was Ginette Marguerite Auger, died March 2004. Alley's mother was Joan (Paterson) Mills Kerr an author as well as an editor for American Heritage Magazine died November, 1996. Her stepfather was Chester Kerr former director of Yale University Press. She has one sister Hilary Mills Loomis and one brother Tony Mills. Her first acting role on Television was on the short-lived comedy, The Associates, where she played an attorney, opposite a then-unknown Martin Short.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, film, television, stage actor and author Orson Bean. Bean is well known for being a long term celebrity panelist of To Tell the Truth and Match Game. Mills is his third wife and they have been married since 1993.

Mills joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful as Pamela Douglas, the estranged sister of Stephanie Forrester on December 1, 2006. She was put under contract with the show, but after making only a handful of appearances, her character disappeared without explanation.

He was the son of Josephine Rose Acerno, an Italian American, and Richard Byron Van Patten, who had distant Dutch ancestry from a great-grandfather.[1] He is the older brother of actress Joyce Van Patten and uncle of Talia Balsam. He has been married to the former Patricia Poole since 1954 and is the father of three sons, all actors: Vincent Van Patten, Nels Van Patten, and James Van Patten.

Van Patten started his career in showbiz as a child actor on Broadway in 1937's The Eternal Road as Dickie Van Patten, appearing in 12 more Broadway shows while still in his teens. He moved on to television and movies with the 1949 TV series I Remember Mama which ran from 1949 to 1957, and as patriarch Tom Bradford on Eight is Enough, 1977 to 1981. He has also been in many Mel Brooks films, including High Anxiety, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights, as well as cameos in the music videos for "Smells Like Nirvana" and "Bedrock Anthem" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Pat Boone has said that he is a direct descendant of the American pioneer Daniel Boone.[1] He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, attended David Lipscomb College and began recording in 1954 for Republic Records. His 1955 version of "Ain't That a Shame" was a huge hit, selling far better than Fats Domino's original version. This set the stage for the early part of Boone's career, which focused on covering R&B songs by black artists for a white market. Previously, rock 'n' roll had had only limited exposure outside of the African American community. The immense popularity of Pat Boone's covers also helped to bring attention to the original artists, such as Little Richard and Fats Domino and to rhythm and blues in general. In addition, the songwriters and copyright holders benefited even when individual artists did not.

In fact, only six of Boone's many hit singles were R&B covers, and only four of those were rockers. All were released in the first two years of his long career. These were "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino and "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard, and "At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)" by the El Dorados. The other two R&B covers were blues ballads, "I Almost Lost My Mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter and "Chains of Love", a hit for Big Joe Turner and later B.B. King that had been written by Ahmet Ertegün. By 1957, Boone was concentrating on the middle-of-the-road music that dominated his career. Although he would continue, on occasion, to record R&B songs (such as "Two Little Kisses," a non-alcoholic version of "One Mint Julep"), they were only rarely released on singles (his version of The Capris' song, "There's a Moon Out Tonight" being a notable exception) as cover versions.

Rickles was born in Queens, New York City to Jewish parents Etta and Max Rickles. After graduating from high school, he served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Cyrene as a S1/c until 1946, when he was honorably discharged. Two years later he studied drama, and played occasional bit parts on television. Frustrated with the lack of acting work, he began doing stand-up comedy. He eventually became known as an insult comedian by learning to respond to hecklers. The audience liked these insults more than his prepared material, so he developed that part of his act. It is believed that this characteristic was partially inspired by his admiration for older comic Jack E. Leonard, though Rickles denies this.[1]

Rickles continues to be very active on the stand up comedy scene to this day. He is still a popular performer in Las Vegas and has many dates booked through the end of 2007. He has no plans to retire as he recently said in an interview: "I'm in good health. I'm working better than I ever have. The audiences are great. Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings and you come out and fight. My energy comes alive. And I still enjoy it."[4] Rickles' memoir, Rickles' Book, was released on May 8, 2007 by Simon & Schuster. A documentary about him directed by John Landis is scheduled for release in 2007.

Jonathan M. Lovitz is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live and for his show The Critic.

Lovitz was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. He later said in an interview for the book Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live that his time on SNL was the most memorable in his career. He went from having no money to being offered a $500,000 movie contract. He was nominated for an Emmy his first two years on Saturday Night Live. One of his most notable SNL characters was "Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar" that generated the catch phrase, "Yeah! That's the ticket!" Some of his other recurring characters included Master Thespian, Tonto, Mephistopheles, Hanukkah Harry, and Michael Dukakis. Lovitz succeeded Hartman on the comedy series NewsRadio following Hartman's murder.

William Bruce Jenner is a U.S. track athlete. Jenner placed third in the 1972 U.S. Olympic trials and finished in an impressive tenth place at the 1972 Munich games. He became an American champion in the event and won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, setting a world and Olympic record of 8,634 points. Jenner was handed a large American flag from a bystander in the audience as he spontaneously ran a celebratory victory lap, a gesture that has been emulated frequently since that time by athletes in other sports from countries around the world. He was the 1976 recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States and was considered by many at the time to have earned the right to be known as the world's greatest athlete.He was also a Sullivan Award Winner and The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in 1976. He was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Bay Area Hall of Fame and Connecticut Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.

Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer and singer. Her first major role, billed as "Julie Newmeyer", was as one of the brides in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Her show-stopping 90-second Broadway appearance as "Stupefyin' Jones" in Li'l Abner in 1956 led to a reprise in the 1959 film version.

Newmar starred as the sexy 'Rhoda the Robot' in the short-lived cult TV series My Living Doll. She is best known for her 13-episode recurring role on the 1960s TV series Batman as the "purrfect" villainess, Catwoman (portrayed in the related 1966 feature film by Lee Meriwether and in the series' final season by Eartha Kitt). In 1967, she guest starred as April Conquest in an episode of The Monkees and as a pregnant princess named Eleen in the Star Trek episode "Friday's Child." She appeared on stage with the late Anthony Newley in a national tour of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and as "Lola" in Damn Yankees!. She also guest-starred on such iconic 60s TV shows as The Twilight Zone, F-Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies and Get Smart.

Many of his comedy specials involve serious issues for the Latino community, and Rodriguez is known for his charity work. He is number 74 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Standup Comics of all time.

Rodriguez is a part-owner of the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, California, the site of comedian/actor Michael Richards' highly-publicized on-stage rant against two African American men who were heckling him [1]. Of Richards' repeated use of a controversial ethnic slur, Rodriguez said, "Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African American, then you have a whole lot of explaining" [2].

His son Paul Rodriguez Jr. is a professional skateboarder.

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. He came in at #17 on AFI's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time and is one of two living actors on the list (Sidney Poitier being the other).

Kirk Douglas received three Academy Award nominations for his work in Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful and Lust for Life (as Vincent Van Gogh). Douglas did not win any competitive Oscars, but received a special Oscar in 1996 for "50 years as a moral and creative force in the motion picture community".

He also played an important role in breaking the Hollywood blacklist by publicly opposing Stanley Kubrick's intention to take credit for the screenplay of Spartacus, which had been adapted from Howard Fast's novel by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. Douglas had collaborated closely with Kubrick in Paths of Glory, where Douglas played one of his most memorable roles, as Colonel Dax, the commander of a French regiment during World War I ordered to make a suicidal attack.

For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Kirk Douglas has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6263 Hollywood Blvd. In 1984, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Jon Voight

Jonathan Vincent Voight is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Voight, an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee, has had a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. He came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's Deliverance, and 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor. Voight's impersonation of the late newscaster Howard Cosell, in 2001's biopic Ali, earned Voight critical raves and his fourth Oscar nomination.

Johnny Crawford

John Ernest Crawford is an American actor, singer and musician.

An original Mousketeer in 1955[citation needed], Crawford has been an actor on stage, films and television.

He received an Emmy Award nomination at the age of 13 for his role as "Mark McCain," the son of Chuck Connors on the television series The Rifleman,[citation needed] which originally aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC network. During this time, he had wide popularity with American teenagers and a recording career that generated five Top 40 hits, including the single "Cindy's Birthday," which peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top 40 Hit Chart in 1962.

Crawford played "Horsey", Tommy Kirk's cowboyish sidekick in the 1965 movie Village of the Giants which also featured Joy Harmon, Beau Bridges and Ron Howard.[citation needed]

The Naked Ape, a 1973 movie directed by Donald Driver — based on the book — starred Crawford and Victoria Principal.[citation needed]

Crawford had a key role in the early career of Victoria Jackson, of Saturday Night Live fame; after appearing together in a summer stock production of "Meet Me in St. Louis," he presented her with a one-way airline ticket to California, encouraging her to try her luck in Hollywood.[citation needed] This led to her early TV appearances on The Tonight Show, before being cast as a regular on Saturday Night Live.

Crawford is currently the leader of the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, which specializes in traditional jazz, early big band, and classical styles of music.

Barbara Billingsley

Barbara Billingsley is an American film and television actress. Los Angeles Junior College behind her, Billingsley traveled to Broadway when Straw Hat, a revue in which she was appearing, attracted enough attention to send it to New York. When, after five days, the show closed, she took an apartment on 57th Street and went to work as a $60-a-week fashion model.

As an actress on the silver screen, she had usually uncredited roles in major motion picture productions in the 1940s. These roles continued into the first half of the 1950s (The Bad and the Beautiful) and led to lead roles on the sitcoms Professional Father and The Brothers.

She is best known for her role as the archetypal, suburban housewife and mother June Cleaver in the sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show ran from 1957 to 1963 and proved to be very lucrative for Billingsley.

When production of the show ended in 1963, however, Billingsley was typecast as saccharine sweet, and had trouble obtaining acting jobs for years. She traveled extensively abroad until the late 1970s, and then, after an absence of 17 years from the public eye (other than appearing in two episodes of The F.B.I. in 1971), she appeared in the movie Airplane! (1980), as a passenger who could speak jive. She was the voice of "Nanny" on Muppet Babies from 1984 to 1991.

Billingsley appeared in a 1983 Leave It to Beaver reunion television movie titled Still the Beaver and in a subsequent revival television series, The New Leave It to Beaver (1985-1989). In the 1997 film version of Leave It to Beaver, Billingsley played the character "Aunt Martha". In 2007, Billingsley completed a role on My Name Is Earl.