HYPHENATES
Marina Ripa Di Meana (TV personality - 'The Farm', 'I, Cesaroni' actress - 'Nebbie e Delitti')
Emily Dole (wrestler known as Mt. Fiji, 'Mama's Family', 'Hard Time On Planet Earth')
Carole Hart (writer/producer - "Free To Be... You And Me", 'Sesame Street', "It Happened One Christmas")
Hugh Wilson (writer/producer/direcor - 'WKRP In Cincinnati', 'Frank's Place', 'The Famous Teddy Z')
Lin Bolen (NBC VP of daytime programming, producer - 'W.E.B.')
Vic Damone (singer/actor, 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', 'The Joey Bishop Show', 'The Thin Man', 'The Hardy Boys')
Marty Allen (comedian teamed with Steve Rossi, 'Mr. Jerico', 'Hollywood Squares')
Bud Luckey (animation designer - Woody for "Toy Story", Eeyore for 'Winnie the Pooh' series, 'The Alvin Show', 'MAD TV' pilot for a special, Voiced Eeyore in the TV series.)
Lill-Babs (Swedish singer & actress - 'Bonusfamiljen', 'Rederiet', 'Pang I Bygget')
Art Bell (radio UFO advocate - 'Millennium', 'Dark Skies')
Harold Guskin (acting teacher, 'Tattinger's', "Out of the Darkness")
Anthony Ray (ass't director - 'Branded', 'Iron Horse', 'The Outcasts' & actor - 'The Twilight Zone', 'Dobie Gillis')
Miriam Nelson (choreographer - 'The Red Skelton Show', "Alice In Wonderland", 'Here's Lucy', 'Columbo'; actress - 'Mrs. Columbo', 'The Lucy Show', 'Mr. Ed', 'Death Valley Days')
Don Cherry (singer, voice of Mr. Clean)
Will Jordan (actor, impressionist best known for playing Ed Sullivan)
Denis Nordern (writer/presenter - 'It'll Be Alright On The Night', 'Looks Familiar')
Stan Lee (Marvel Comics power, writer, actor)
Roy Clark (self - 'Hee Haw', actor - 'The Beverly Hillbillies')
Ricky Jay (magician, actor - 'Deadwood', 'Flashforward', 'The Unit', 'Kidnapped', 'The X-Files', 'Simon & Simon')
Penny Marshall (director - 'Laverne & Shirley', 'The United States of Tara', 'According To Jim', 'Working Stiffs', actress - 'Laverne & Shirley', 'The Odd Couple', 'Happy Days')
John Ford Noonan (actor - 'Bay State', writer - 'St. Elsewhere', 'Comedy Zone')
Bill Sellars (producer/writer/director - 'All Creatures Great And Small', 'Compact', '199 Park Lane', 'United!', 'Newcomers', 'The Doctors', 'One By One', 'Triangle', 'Owen, M.D.', 'Five Red Herrings', 'Doctor Who')
OTHERS
Jim Shaw (CEO of Shaw Communications)
Thomas Chambers (Roman Catholic priest and televangelist)
Karel Makonj (Czech puppeteer)
Mort Walker (creator of "Beetle Bailey", longest run on one strip - 70 years, turned into at least a one-shot cartoon)
George S. Kaufman (real estate developer who revitalized Astoria Studios which was then used for 'Orange Is The New Black', 'Sesame Street', 'Onion News Network', 'Johnny and the Sprites', 'Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego', 'Judge Judy', 'The Cosby Show', 'Cosby', 'Law & Order', 'Spin City', and Mariah Carey’s 'MTV Unplugged')
Ensa Cosby (Bill Cosby's daughter, did a bit part in an episode of 'The Cosby Show')
Linda Brown (central figure in Brown v. Board of Education, "Separate But Equal")
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (portrayed in "Mandela and de Klerk", "Mrs. Mandela")
Barbara Bush (portrayed by Nora Dunn & Phil Hartman on 'Saturday Night Live', and by Mo Collins on 'MadTV')
Jean McFaddin (impresario behind the Macy's fireworks show and the Thanksgiving Day parade)
Steve Ditko (co-creator of Spiderman and Doctor Strange, both of whom have been adapted for television)
Douglas Grindstaff (sound designer - 'Star Trek', 'Dallas', 'Midnight Caller', 'The Brady Bunch')
David Rothenberg (At age 6, his father set him on fire with kerosene. Michael Jackson paid his medical bills. He grew up to be a conceptual artist. His story was told as a TV movie in which he was played by Matthew Laurence.)
Marilyn Johnson (casting director - 'The Sweeney', 'A Touch Of Frost', 'Vicious', 'Cracker', 'Widows')
Michael Pickwoad (set designer - 'Doctor Who', 'Kavanagh QC', 'The Prisoner', 'Class', 'Poirot', 'Marple')
Alan Johnson (choreographer - "Lambchop's Channukah', 4 Shirley MacLaine specials, the 42nd Tony Awards)
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