Sunday, December 31, 2017

HAT SQUAD 2017



ACTORS
Francine York ('Burke's Law', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'Jason of Star Command', 'Lost In Space', 'Batman', 'The Wild, Wild West', 'Columbo')
Om Puri (Indian actor - 'Jewel In The Crown', 'White Teeth', 'C.I.D.', 'Kirdaar', Safar')
Tony Rosato ('Saturday Night Live', 'SCTV', 'Night Heat', 'Amanda's By The Sea')
Dick Gautier ('When Things Were Rotten', 'Mr. Terrific', 'Get Smart')

Miguel Ferrer ('Twin Peaks', 'NCIS: LA', 'Lateline', 'On The Air', 'Broken Badges')
Gordon Kaye (''Allo, 'Allo', 'Coronation Street', 'Born And Bred', 'Mansfield Park')
Mary Tyler Moore ('The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', 'Annie McGuire', 'Mary', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Hour', 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye', 'New York News', 'The Naked Truth', 'That's 70s Show', "Happy Hotpoint")
Mike Connors ('Mannix', "War And Remembrance", 'Tightrope', 'Today's FBI')
John Hurt ('I, Claudius', "The Naked Civil Servant', 'The Storyteller', 'Merlin', 'Doctor Who')
Frank Pellegrino ('The Sopranos', 'Law & Order')
Emmannuelle Riva ('Venus And Apollo', 'Les Dossiers De L'ecren', 'Enigmes de l'Histoire')
Alec McCowan ('Mr. Palfrey of Westminster', 'Love And Mr. Lewisham', 'Angel Pavement')

Richard Hatch ('Battlestar Galactica', 'Battlestar Galactica' reboot, 'Streets of San Franciso', 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman', 'Dynasty', Santa Barbara')
Warren Frost ('Twin Peaks', 'Seinfeld', 'Matlock')
Bill Paxton ('Big Love', 'Training Day', 'Agents Of SHIELD', 'Hatfields and McCoys' 'Texas Rising')
Neil Fingleton ('Game Of Thrones', 'Doctor Who')

Miriam Colon ('How To Make It In America', 'Streets of Laredo', 'The Edge of Night')
Tony Haygarth ('Kinvig', 'Where The Heart Is', 'Rosie', 'The Borrowers', 'El C.I.D.')
John Forgeham ('Crossroads', 'Catwalk', 'L For Lester', 'Making Out', 'All In The Game')
O'BSERVATION: Haygarth & Forgeham, co-stars of 'Ivanhoe', died on the same day.
Christine Kaufmann ('Mission d'amore', 'If The Neighbors Were Knowing', 'Monaco Frenze')
Darlene Cates ('Picket Fences', 'Touched By An Angel', "Wolf Girl", 'Sally Jesse Raphael')
Chelsea Brown ('Laugh-In', 'Number 96', 'E-Street', 'Mission: Impossible', 'Match Game')
Tim Pigott-Smith ('Jewels In The Crown', "King Charles II", 'The Chief', 'The Vice')
Peter Hansen ('General Hospital')
Linda Hopkins ("King", "Purlie", 'Roots: The Next Generation', "Go Tell It On The Mountain")
Clifton James ('Texas', 'Dallas', 'Lewis & Clark', 'Gunsmoke', 'Murder, She Wrote')
Erin Moran ('Happy Days', 'Joanie Loves Chachi', 'The Don Rickles Show', 'Daktari')
Kathleen Crowley ('Waterfront', 'Maverick', 'Perry Mason', '77 Sunset Strip', 'Climax!')
Michael Mantenuto ("Dirtbags")
Dali Lavi ('Sez Les', 'Hallo Peter', other music variety shows, better known for movies)
Michael Parks ('Then Came Bronson', 'Twin Peaks', 'The Real McCoys')
Curt Lowens (played German officers & scientists - 'GH', 'The FBI', 'The 6 Million Man')
Ken Miller ('B.L. Stryker', 'Dragnet', 'The Cisco Kid', 'Flash Gordon', 'Public Defender')
Geoffrey Bayldon ('Catweazle', 'Worzel Gummidge', 'Magic Granddad', 'Devenish')

Powers Boothe ('Philip Marlowe, Private Eye', 'Deadwood', 'Agents Of SHIELD', 'Nashville', '24', "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones" - won the Emmy for it)
Oleg Vidov ('Secret of the Black Dragon', 'Alias', 'Criminal Minds', 'The West Wing')
John Cygan ('The Commish', 'Bob!', 'NYPD Blue', 'Regular Show In Space')
Dina Merrill ('Hot Pursuit', 'Hotel', 'The Love Boat', 'Batman', 'Murder, She Wrote')
Sir Roger Moore ('The Saint', 'The Persuaders', 'Maverick', 'The Alaskans')
Jared Martin ('Dallas', 'Fantastic Journey', 'How The West Was Won', 'War Of The Worlds')
Elena Verdugo ('Meet Millie', 'Marcus Welby, M.D.', 'Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law', 'Mona McCluskey', 'Redigo', 'The New Phil Silvers Show', 'Many Happy Returns')
Wendell Burton ('Mathnet', 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show', "East of Eden", 'Kung Fu')
Roger Smith ('77 Sunset Strip', 'Mr. Roberts')
Peter Sallis ('The Last of the Summer Wine', 'Wallace & Gromit', 'The Wind In The Willows')
Glenne Headley ('ER', 'Encore! Encore!', 'The Night Of....', 'Monk', 'Lonesome Dove')
Andy Cunningham ('Bodger & Badger' 'On The Waterfront')
Stephen Furst ('St. Elsewhere', 'Babylon 5', 'Have Faith', 'Misery Loves Company', 'Delta House'/"Animal House")
Bill Dana ('Make Room For Daddy', 'The Bill Dana Show', Steve Allen show, Jose Jimenez)
Michael Nyqvist ('Millennium' 'Zero Hour', '100 Code', 'Madiba')
Skip Homeier ('Star Trek', 'Dan Raven', 'The Interns', 'Studio One In Hollywood')
Carol Lee Scott ('Grotbags', 'Emu's World')
Ji-Tu Cumbuka ('Roots', 'Murder, She Wrote')
Joe Robinson ('The Avengers', 'The Saint')
Sam Beazley ('Casualty', 'Kingdom', 'Foyle's War', 'Midsomer Murders', 'Doctors', 100 years)
Nelsan Ellis ('True Blood', 'Elementary', "Warm Springs", 'The Inside', 'Veronica Mars')
Randy Schell (vocal artist - 'GEICO', for 'Fear The Walking Dead')
Elsa Martinelli ('Atelier', 'Astuzia per astuzia', 'The Rogues, 'Return of the Saint')
Trevor Baxter ('Doctor Who', 'Maestrom', 'Lorna Doone'(2x), 'The Politician's Wife')

Martin Landau ('Mission: Impossible', 'Space: 1999', 'Entourage', 'The Twilight Zone')
Harvey Atkin ('Cagney & Lacey', 'Law & Order')
Molly Peters ('Armchair Theatre', 'Baker's Half Dozen', "Das Experiment", Bond Girl)

Joe Robinson ('The Saint', 'The Avengers', 'Theatre 625', 'Pardon The Expression', Bond)
John Heard ('The Sopranos', 'The Client', 'Prison Break')
June Foray (Queen of Voice-Overs: Rocket J. Squirrel, Talky Tina, Granny, Cindy Lou Who, Witch Hazel, Nell Fenwick, Natasha Fatale)
Willie Payne ('The Larkins', 'The Bill', 'Rumpole of the Bailey')
Patti Deutsch ('Laugh-In', 'Grandpa Goes To Washington', 'Capitol Critters', 'Match Game')

Marcello Perracchio ('Inspector Montalbano', 'The Octopus')
Jeanne Moreau ('Belle Epoque', 'A Cursed Monarchy', 'Le tourbillon de Jeanne', Catherine the Great")
Robert Hardy ('Hot Metal', 'All Creatures Great And Small', 'Elizabeth R', TV's Churchill)
Hywel Bennett ('Shelley', 'Return of Shelley', 'The Bill', 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'EastEnders', 'Malice Aforethought')
Ty Hardin ('Bronco', 'Riptide', 'Sugarfoot', 'Cheyenne', 'Maverick')
Haruo Nakajima ('Ultraman', 'Urutora Q', the man who played Godzilla)
Joseph Bologna ('Top of the Heap', ;Superman' cartoon, 'Married With Children', 'Rags To Riches', 'Sins')
Claude Rich (''A Cursed Monarchy', 'Radetzkymarsch', 'Le grand secret')
Sonny Landham ('Call To Glory', 'Miami Vice', 'The Fall Guy', 'BJ and the Bear')
Jay Thomas ('Love and War', 'Cheers', 'Mork & Mindy', 'Murphy Brown', 'Ink')
Mireille Darc ('Frank Riva', 'Les yeux d'Hélène', 'Burnt Hearts'. 'Terre indigo')
Richard Anderson ('The Six Million Dollar Man', 'The Bionic Man', 'Perry Mason', 'Dan August', "The Night Strangler", 'Dynasty', 'Cover Up', 'Kung Fu: TLC', 'Zorro')
Novella Nelson (
'The Starter Wife', 'Army Wives', 'New York Undercover', 'The West Wing', 'Chiefs', 'Law & Order: SVU', 'Damages', '30 Rock' [as herself])
Mark LaMura ('All My Children', 'As The World Turns', 'One Life To Live', 'LA Law')

Frank Vincent ('The Sopranos', 'NYPD Blue', 'Law & Order: SVU', AFLAC)
Gastone Moschin ('Don Matteo', 'Melodramma', 'I Miserabili', 'Il Mulino del Po')
Harry Dean Stanton ('Big Love', 'Twin Peaks', 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman')

Bernie Casey ('Bay City Blues', 'The Martian Chronicles', 'Harris and Son')
Liz Dawn ('Coronation Street', 'Emmerdale', 'Play For Today', 'Z Cars')
Jan Triska ('Mystery of the Conundrum', 'F.I. Vek', 'Hunter', 'Evergreen')
Anne Jeffreys ('Topper', 'General Hospital', 'Port Charles', 'Baywatch', 'Finder of Lost Loves', 'Falcon Crest', 'Love That Jill', 'Battlestar Galactica', 'Fantasy Island')
Tony Booth ('Til Death Do Us Part', 'Emmerdale')

Benjamin Whithrow ('Pride and Prejudice', 'Tom Jones'', 'The New Statesman')
Bobby Nutt ('It's A Nutt House', 'The Comedians', 'The Wheeltappers', 'Benidorm')

Chuck Low ('Tribeca', 'The Sopranos', '100 Centre Street', 'Law & Order')
Anna Wiazemsky (
'Le pain noir', "Don Juan", "Le grand inquisiteur", "La passion")
Trevor Martin 
('Z Cars', 'Orlando', 'Coronation Street', 'Three Golden Nobles', 'Doctor Who')

Tom Alter ('Rishton ka chakravyuh', 'Zabaan Sambhal Ke', 'Hatim', 'Siddhant', 'Daraar', 'Junoon', 'Sheila', 'Barood', 'Upanayas', 'Agwaah', 'Param Veer Chakra')
Elizabeth Bauer ('Ironside', "Return Of Ironside", 'Lancer', 'Batman')
Roy Dotrice ('Beauty and the Beast', 'Misleading Cases', 'Picket Fences', 'Going To Extremes', 'Dickens of London')

Trevor "Ziggy" Byfield ('The Bill', 'Ghost Hunter', 'The Knock', 'The Broker's Man', 'Rides', 'Chancer', 'Yesterday's Dreams')
Danielle Darrieux (reached 100! 'Miss', 'Le misere des riches', 'Jalna', 'Dangerous Liaisons')
Federico Luppi ('En Terapia', 'El Pacto', 'Swindlers', 'Casa Natal', Luces y Sombras')
Robert Guillaume ('Soap', 'Benson', 'SportsNight', 'The Robert Guillaume Show')
Rosemary Leach ('The Jewel In The Crown', 'Coronation Street', 'My Family', 'Down To Earth', 'Berkeley Square', 'The Tomorrow People', 'Growing Pains', 'The Charmer', 'Life Begins At Forty', 3 Ronnie Corbett series)
Jack Bannon ('Lou Grant', 'Trauma Center', 'St. Elsewhere', 'Petticoat Junction')

Patrick O'Connell ('We'll Meet Again', 'The Brothers', 'Fraud Squad', 'Frontier')
Brad Bufanda ('Veronica Mars', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'Co-Ed Confidential')
Don Pedro Colley ('The Dukes of Hazzard', 'Daniel Boone', 'The A-Team', 'Nichols')
Sandy Neilsen ('Taggart', 'Winners and Losers', 'Brond')
Judith McGrath ('All Saints', 'A Country Practice', 'Prisoner Cell Block H', 'Neighbours')
Iain Rogerson ('Coronation Saints', 'Bloomin' Marvellous', 'Sketch Pad', 'Emmerdale')
John Hillerman ('Magnum PI', 'The Adventures Of Ellery Queen', 'The Betty White Show', 'Valerie', 'One Day At A Time')
Harry Landers ('Ben Casey', 'Star Trek', 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', 'Quincy M.E.')
Karin Dor 
('Ironside', 'Rosamunde Pilcher', 'Das Traumschiff', 'Die große Freiheit')
Keith Barron 
('Duty Free', 'Coronation Street', 'The Good Guys', 'Haggard', 'DCI Bans', 'Holby City', 'Doctors', 'Dead Man Weds', 'The Chase', 'Where The Heart Is', 'NCS Manhunt', 'Take Me', 'All Night Long', 'Leaving', 'Room At The Bottom', 'The Adventures of Lucky Jim', 'The Odd Man' & 'It's Dark Outside' [same character])  And this show didn't even take into account all of the one-shots roles I actually got to see him in!
Ann Wedgeworth ('Evening Shade', 'The Edge of Night', 'Another World', 'Three's Company')
Earle Hyman (
'The Cosby Show', 'Thundercats', 'Seier'n er vår')
Della Reese ('Della', 'Touched By An Angel', 'Chico And The Man', 'The Royle Family')
Rodney Bewes ('The Likely Lads' and its sequels, 'Just Liz', 'Albert!')
David Cassidy (;The Partridge Family', 'David Cassidy - Man Undercover', 'Ruby & The Rockits')
Rance Howard ('The Waltons', 'Gentle Ben', 'The Andy Griffith Show', 'Babylon 5', father of Ron & Clint, grandfather of Bryce Dallas)
Shashi Kapoor ('Gulliver's Travels', 'Kissa Kathmandu Kaa')
Heather North (Daphne in 'Scooby Doo', 'My Three Sons', 'Ironside', 'The Monkiees')
Heather Menzies-Urich ('Logan's Run', 'Dragnet 1967', 'The Farmer's Daughter', 'Vega$', best known for being one of the Von Trapp children in "The Sound Of Music".)
Rose Marie ('The Dick Van Dyke Show', 'Hardball', 'The Doris Day Show', 'The Garfield Show', 'My Sister Eileen', 'The Bob Cummings Show')
Richard Venture ('Law & Order', 'The Boys', 'Street Hawk', 'Falcon Crest', 'Mary Hartman')





PERSONALITIES
Roberta Peters (opera singer - 'Hotel', 'The Jack Benny Program', many variety shows)
Judge Joseph Wapner ('The People's Court', 'Sliders')

Robert Osborne (TCM host)
Brian Matthews ('Saturday Club', 'Easy Beat', 'Thank Your Lucky Stars')
Christopher "Big Black" Boykin ('Rob & Big')
Dr. Brandon Rogers ('America's Got Talent')
Barry Norman (film critic, 'Film 72-98', 'Omnibus')
David E,H, Jones (aka "Daedalus", 'Kopf um Kopf')
Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (WWF Wrestling shows)
Monty Hall ('Let's Make A Deal')
Tom Petty ('The Larry Sanders Show', 'It's Garry Shandling's Show', 'The Simpsons')
Mychael Knight ('Project Runway')
Frits Bom (Dutch presenter - 'De Dik Voormekaar Show', 'Elke Nederlander Wordt Geacht de Wet te Kennan')

Antonio Carlucci ('Two Greedy Italians', 'Italian Feast', 'Southern Italian Feast', 'Food & Drink', ''Antonio Carlucci's Six Seasons')
Keith Chegwin ('Cheggers Plays Pop', 'Multi-Coloured Swap Shop', 'Saturday Superstore')
Wendy Pepper (Contestant on first season of 'Project Runway')

NEWS & SPORTS
Alan Colmes ('Hannity & Colmes', 'The O'Reilly Factor', 'Happening Now')
Paul Kangas ('Nightly Business Report')
John Andriese  (MSG basketball announcer)
Ceceiia Alvear (NBC journalist, opened doors for Latinos in news business)
Kate O'Beirne (National Review editor, 'Hardball with Chris Matthews', 'Meet The Press')
Frank Deford (Sports Illustrated, 'Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel', 'ESPN SportsCentury', 'ESPN 25: Whos #1?)
Jim Piersall (pitcher, game commentator, appeared as himself on 'The Lucy Show'
Gabe Pressman (WNEW, WNBC reporter - 71 years in the business, 'The Last Word')
Bob Wolff (News12 sports (LI), World Series pre-game host 1962-65, ESPN SportsCentury)
Bill Smith (reporter/anchor for KTLA & KTTV's "Metro News - Metro News")
Liz MacKean ('BBC Breakfast Today', 'Newsnight')
Tommy Hawkins (former b-ball player, KNBC sportscaster, talk show host on KHJ/KCAL)
Mike Neville (news presenter for BBC's 'Look North' and Tyne Tees' 'North-east Newsview')
Ray "Moosie" Turnbull (curling analyst for The Sports Network, CBS in 1988 at Nagano)
Michelle Marsh (anchorwoman from WCBS & WNBC)
Ferdie Pacheco (ringside commentator, doctor for Muhammed Ali)
Stephen "Snapper" Jones (
Basketball color commentator for CBS, TNT, TBS, USA Network, NBC, NBA TV)
Chuck Will (CBS golf impresario behind the scenes)
Dick Enberg (all-around sports commentator)


DIRECTORS
Philip Saville ('Boys From The Blackstuff', 'The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil')
Bill Webb ('ABC Wide World of Sports', the Triple Crown, MLB All-Star Games)
Christopher Morahan ('The Jewel In The Crown', 'Emergency Ward 10', 'Theatre 625')
Jonathan Demme ('Columbo', 'The Killing', 'Enlightenment', 'Trying Times', 'SNL' segments)
Tobe Hooper ('Nowhere Man', 'Amazing Stories', 'Tales From The Crypt', 'Freddie's Nightmares')
Sir Peter Hall ('The Wars Of The Roses', 'The Camomile Lawn', "Orpheus Descending")

Alan Root (African wildlife documentarian)
Kundan Shah 
('Parsai Kehate Hain', 'Nukkad' 'Intezaar')
Umberto Lenzi ("House Of Lost Souls", "House of Witchcraft")
Paddy Russell ('Compact', 'Doctor Who', 'Emmerdale', '3-2-1', 'Z Cars')

Peter Baldwin ('Dick Van Dyke Show', 'Gomer Pyle: USMC', 'The Andy Griffith Show', 'The Doris Day Show', 'The Partridge Family', 'The Brady Bunch', 'The Bob Newhart Show', 'Happy Days', 'Chico and the Man', 'The Love Boat', 'Carter Country', 'Benson', 'Family Ties', 'Webster', 'ALF', 'Full House', 'Family Matters', 'WKRP in Cincinnati', 'Dream On', 'Blossom', 'Sabrina, the Teenage Witch', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'Sanford and Son', 'Murphy Brown' and 'The Wonder Years')
Anthony Harvey ("The Glass Menagerie", "The Disappearance of Aimee", "This Can't Be Love")


WRITERS
William Peter Blatty ('Insight', "The Exorcist")
Alan Simpson ('Hancock's Half Hour', 'Steptoe & Son', 'Frankie Howerd', 'Casanova '73')

Colin Dexter (creator of 'Inspector Morse' which led to 'Inspector Lewis' and 'Endeavour')
Jean Rouveral, ('Guiding Light', Search For Tomorrow', 'As The World Turns', blacklisted)
David Storey ('Home', 'Early Days', 'The Contractor')
Trish Vrandenberg ('Designing Women', 'Everything's Relative', 'Family Ties', 'Kate 'n' Allie')
Chris Bearde ('Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In', 'The Gong Show', 'The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour')
Michael Bond (Creator of Paddington Bear)
Tom Elliott ('Coronation Street' and its biggest story - the pub fire at Rover's Return)
Richard Gordon (doctor who wrote the books which were the basis for 'Doctor In The House', 'Doctor At Large', 'Doctor In Charge', 'Doctor At Sea', 'Doctor On The Go', others)
Bernard Pomerance ('The Elephant Man')
Peter Whalley ('Coronation Street', 'Angels', 'Albion Market', 'Revelations', 'Castles')
Len Wein ('Swamp Thing', 'Justice League', 'Teen Titans', 'Wolverine', 'Robo-Cop Alpha Commando')
JP Donleavy ('Personal Reflections', "New York-idyl")
Albert Innaurato ('Happy Birthday, Gemini', 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd')
Bob Schiller ('I Love Lucy', 'The Lucy Show', 'All In The Family', 'Flip', 'Sanford', 'The Red Skelton Show', 'Maude', 'Pete & Gladys', 'Archie Bunker's Place', 'He's The Mayor')
Donald Bain (prolific author who ghost-wrote 45 mystery novels for Jessica B. Fletcher)
Frank Barron (Hollywood Reporter editor, created 'The Man From Blackhawke', H-B)
Pat Hutchins (children's book author - 'Titch', 'Rosie & Jim' also its presenter)
Sue Grafton ('Nurse', 'Seven Brides For Seven Brothers', 'Rhoda', "A Killer In The Family")


PRODUCERS
Sam Lovullo ('Hee Haw')
Bruce Lansbury ('Mission: Impossible', 'Murder, She Wrote', 'The Wild, Wild West', 'Knight Rider')
Jack Harris ('Obras maestras del terror', "The Blob")
Albert Freedman (producer who rigged 'Twenty-One')
Brad Grey ('The Sopranos', 'The Larry Sanders Show', 'Real Time with Bill Maher', 'Just Shoot Me', 'Politically Incorrect', 'NewsRadio', 'It's Garry Shandling's Show')
Jerry Perenchio ('Monsanto Presents Mancini', 'Andy Williams Special', Univision)
Marilyn Hall ("A Woman Called Golda" [Emmy winner], 'Lights, Camera, Monty!')
Marion Goldin ('60 Minutes')
Jeffrey Tuchman ("Man From Hope", 'Investigative Reports', 'Real Sex')

Don Ohlmeyer ('Monday Night Football')
Jack Good ('Six-Five Special', 'Oh Boy!', 'Shindig')
Pat Lewellyn ('Two Fat Ladies', 'The Naked Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen', 'Police, Camera, Action!')
Martin Ransohoff (Producer who founded Filmways TV)
Stuart Evey (Helped to found ESPN)


MUSIC
Chuck Berry (first entrant into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, song on board Voyager, many TV shows)

Daniel Licht ('Dexter', 'Deception', 'The Blacklist', 'Body of Proof', 'Jake In Progress', 'Kitchen Confidential', "Hendrix")
Walter Becker (1/2 of Steely Dan)
Fats Domino (played himself in 'Treme', music all throughout Toobworld history)
Dudley Simpson ('Doctor Who', 'The Tomorrow People', 'The Brothers', 'Sally', 'Blake's 7')


ANIMATION
Joe Harris (illustrator created Trix Rabbit, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, King Leonardo)
Bob Givens (one of the creative team behind Bugs Bunny)


HYPHENATES
Professor Irwin Corey (comedian, Happy in 'Doc', died at 102)
Al Jarreau (singer - R&B, Jazz, Pop; actor - 'Touched By An Angel' & 'Promised Land' crossover; Self - 'Touched By An Angel', 'Soul Man', 'New York Undercover', 'SCTV')

Patty Dworkin Freedman (publicist, actress - 'Three's Company', 'The Love Boat', Fantasy Island, 'Eight Is Enough', 'Dynasty', 'Happy Days', 'One Day At A Time', 'Delta House')
Jimmy Breslin (Pulitzer winning writer, 'Lateline', 'Ink', 'The Critic', 'Saturday Night Live')
Chuck Barris (game show creator and producer, host of 'The Gong Show')
Don Rickles (insult comic and actor - 'CPO Sharkey', 'The Don Rickles Show', 'Comedy Roasts')
Charlie Murphy (writer/actor - 'Chappelle's Show', 'Power', 'Boondocks', 'Are We There Yet?')
Joan See (commercial actress, taught "Acting in Advertising")
Martha Lavey (artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre, actress - 'Missing Persons')
Edwin Sherin (director - 'L&O' franchise, 'H:LOTS', 'L.A. Law', actor - 'Brenner', 'L&O')
Roger Ailes (producer 'The Merv Griffin Show', founder of FOX News, political consultant)

Elinor Bunin Monroe (creative director @ WNET 13, title designer, art department)
Marsh McCall (writer/producer - 'Just Shoot Me', 'Fuller House', 'Last Man Standing', 'I'm With Her')
Gregg Allman (country/blues rocker, actor - 'Family Guy', 'Tales From The Crypt')
John Noakes (presenter - 'Go With Noakes', 'Blue Peter', actor - 'The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau')
Brian Cant - presenter ('Play School', 'Play Away'), narrator ('Trumpton', 'Camberwick Green'), actor ('Doctor Who', 'The Girl In A Black Bikini', 'Z Cars', 'Dixon of Dock Green')
Suzanne Wasserman (producer/director - 'Independent Lens')
Red West (stuntman 'Wild, Wild West', actor 'Black Sheep Squadron', 'Magnum PI')
George A. Romero (horror director, Zombie godfather, produced 'Tales From The Darkside')
Sam Shepard (playwright - 'True West', actor - 'Bloodline', 'Klondike', 'Streets of Laredo')

Glen Campbell (singer/host - 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour', 'The Glen Campbell Music Show', actor - 'The FBI', 'Players', "Strange Homecoming")
Barbara Cook (singer/host - 'The Bell Telephone Hour', 'Match Game', actress - 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', 'Studio One', 'The Chevy Show')
Sir Bruce Forsyth (one of the last longest running performers on TV.  Actor - 'Slinger's Day', "The Canterville Ghost", presenter - 'Strictly Come Dancing', 'Saturday Night At The Palladium', quizmaster - 'Play Your Cards Right')
Dick Gregory (actor - 'Reno 911', 'Wonder Showzen', 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 'Laugh-In')
Jerry Lewis (actor - 'Wiseguy', 'The Simpsons', 'Mad About You', comedy genius - MDA Labor Day Marathon, 'The Jerry Lewis Show', 'Thy Pains', 'Law & Order', 'The Sopranos')
Shelley Berman (comedian, actor - 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'LA Law', 'The Twilight Zone')
Jake LaMotta (personality/actor - 'Trials of O'Brien', 'Car 54, Where Are You?')
William G. Stewart (host, '15 To 1', producer - 'Bless This House', 'Family Fortunes')
Ralphie May (stand-up comic, actor - 'Inside Amy Schumer', 'Squidbillies', 'Whoopi')
Sean Hughes (stand-up comic, actor - 'Sean's Show', 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks')
Richard Gordon (Gemini & Apollo astronaut, technical advisor & actor - 'Space')
Mel Tillis (C&W singer, actor - 'Love, American Style', 'The Love Boat', 'Mel Tillis Time')
Ken Shapiro (writer/director/actor - "The Groove Tube", 'Texaco Star Theater', 'The Great Machine')
Jim Nabors (singer, actor - 'The Andy Griffith Show', 'Gomer Pyle, USMC', 'The Jim Nabors Show', 'The Lost Saucer', 'Valentine's Day')
Jim Burns (writer/producer - 'MTV Unplugged')
Danny Breen (producer - 'The Wayne Brady Show', 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', actor - 'Not Necessarily The News')



OTHERS
Paula Dell, (stuntwoman - 'Charlie's Angels')
Edward Tipper (Easy Company soldier, portrayed by Bart Ruspoli in 'Band of Brothers')
Christian Evans (ex-husband of Ricki Lake)
Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus (GE commercial to spur women scientist, alternate Toobworld)
Ward Chamberlin, Jr. (pioneered the 
decentralized network model of independent public stations)
Bernie Wrightson (artist & incredible comic book illustrator, co-creator of 'Swamp Thing')
Francine Hughes Wilson (inspiration for "The Burning Bed", played by Farrah Fawcett)
Sandy Gallin (talent manager)
Ian Brady (unrepentant "Moors Murderer" portrayed on TV in five different productions)
Manuel Noriega (Panamanian dictator played by Bob Hoskins and Jon Lovitz)
Bruce McCallum (camera operator - 'The Sopranos', 'Tribeca', 'The Night Of...' 'Blacklist')
Miriam Marx (editor, 'You Bet Your Life', daughter of Groucho)
John Bernecker ('The Walking Dead')
Margo Chase (logo designer, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer')
Lois Laurel Hawes (Stan Laurel's daughter)
Clara Douglas (editor, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'Smiley's People', 'Cold Lazarus', 'Bleak House')
Marty Sklar (Disney imagineer)
Christine Whittaker (BBC film researcher for documentaries - 'Bird's Eye View', 'Pandora's Box', 'People's Century', 'For All Our Working Lives')
John Mollo (Oscar-winning costume designer for "Star Wars", 8 "Hornblower" & 2 "Sharpe" movies)
Raul Davalos (editor - 'Empire', 'Gilmore Girls', 'Dreamcatcher')
Charles Manson (cult leader involved in Tate-LoBiano murders, played by many actors)












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