Sunday, January 5, 2025

THE HAT SQUAD 2024 - HYPHENATES & OTHERS

 

HYPHENATES & OTHERS

ROGER CORMAN
PRODUCER - 'Splatter', 'The Phantom Eye', "Sharktopus" franchise, "Dinoshark" franchise, "Avalanche Alley", "Velocity", "Spacejacked" WRITER - 'Black Scorpion', 
ACTOR - "Sharktopus", 'The Practice', 'Rebel Highway', "The Second Civil War" 
SELF - 'Beverly Hills 90210'


HYPHENATES

Sarah Doole (Producer - 'The Young Pope', 'My Brilliant Friend', Executive with Anton, Fremantle Global, Red Production, Yorkshire Television)
Randy Sparks (ACTOR - 'The Outlaws', 'The Wonderful World of Disney', 'Colt .45', MUSICAL DIRECTOR - 'Ford Presents The New Christy Minstrels' [He founded the group], COMPOSER - 'Destry' theme music)
Janice Burgess (Nickelodeon executive, PRODUCER - 'Blue's Clues', CREATOR - 'The Backardigans')
Steve Lawrence (ACTOR - 'The Nanny', 'Diagnosis Murder', "Alice In Wonderland", SELF - 'Two And A Half Men', 'Sanford And Son', SINGER - various variety shows, PLAYED BY - Mike Myers, 'Saturday Night Live')
John B. Hobbs (PRODUCER - 'Just A Nimmo', 'Three Up Two Down', 'Bread', 'Brush Strokes' DIRECTOR - ''Allo! 'Allo!', 'Mulberry', 'Bread', 'Leaving', 'Butterflies')
Joe Camp (Producer, Director, + Writer of "Benji" franchise, including 'Benji, Zax, and the Alien Prince')
Christopher Durang (ACTOR - 'Kristin', 'LateLine', 'Frasier', 'Ryan's Hope', 'Tales From The Crypt', WRITER - 'Comedy Zone', 'My America', 'Trying Times',
SELF - 'Saturday Night Live')
Lynne Reid Banks (WRITER - 'Jackanory', 'Armchair Theatre', 'On Camera', "It Never Rains...", REPORTER - ITN & BBC, One of the 1st two reporters on air in 1955.  Wrote "The L-Shaped Room" & "The Indian In The Cupboard")
Howie Schwab (RESEARCH - ESPN, PERSONALITY - 'Stump The Schwab', 'Sports Jeopardy!')
Edgar Lansbury (ART DIRECTOR - 'The Red Skelton Hour', 'The Defenders', PRODUCER - 'Coronet Blue', "Summer Girl", "A Stranger Waits", Angela's brother)
Lynn Loring (ACTRESS - 'Search For Tomorrow', 'The FBI', 'Fair Exchange', PRODUCER - 'Glitter', "The Return of the Mod Squad", "Sizzle", "Mr. Mom")
Meg Bennett (ACTRESS - 'The Young & The Restless', 'Santa Barbara', WRITER - 'General Hospital', The Bold & The Beautiful', 'Generations', 'Santa Barbara', 'Sunset Beach', SELF - 'Match Game', '10,000'/'25,000'/'100,000 Pyramid'
Darryl Hickman (ACTOR - 'The Americans' [1961], 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis' - the older brother to his younger brother Dwayne's character of Dobie, 'A Pup Named Scooby-Doo', 'The Magical World of Disney', 'The Bisketts', 'The Nanny' PRODUCER - 'Love Of Life', 'A Year At The Top', WRITER - 'The Loretta Young Show', 'Hawaiian Eye')
Morgan Spurlock (PRODUCER - 'Superheroes Decoded', 'True Life', PRODUCER & SELF - 'Morgan Spurlock Inside Man', SELF - 'Morgan Spurlock's New Britannia', 'Piers Morgan Live', 'The Colbert Report')
Albert S. Ruddy (WRITER - 'Hogan's Heroes', 'The Offer', 'Walker, Texas Ranger'/'Walker' PRODUCER - 'The Godfather Saga', 'Martial Law', 'Flatland' AS PLAYED BY Miles Teller in 'The Offer')
Chet Walker (PRODUCER - "A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story", "Freedom Road", SELF - 'The White Shadow' (1 episode)
Jerry West (PUNDIT - 'ESPN SportsCentury', 'Rome 1960: Games of the XVII Olympiad', 'Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers', 'ESPN 25 - Who's #1?', 'Sports Stories with Denny Lennon', ACTOR - 'Arli$$')
Judy Belushi Pisano (ACTRESS - 'All Downhill From Here', PRODUCER - 'The Blues Brothers', OTHER - John Belushi's widow)
Shelley Duvall (ACTRESS - 'Faerie Tale Theatre', 'Cannon', 'The Twilight Zone', 'Ray Bradbury Theatre', 'L.A. Law', 'Baretta', 'Frasier', 'Wishbone' PRODUCER - 'Faerie Tale Theatre', 'Tall Tales & Legends', 'Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories', 'Nightmare Classics', 'Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle', "Backfield In Motion")
Peter Marshall (SELF - 'Hollywood Squares', 'Storybook Squares', 'The Peter Marshall Variety Show', 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In', 'CHiPs', 'America 2-Night', 'The Bold and the Beautiful', 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch', 'The Mike Douglas Show' ACTOR - 'Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue', 'Burke's Law', 'Lou Grant', 'The Love Boat', 'CHiPs', 'Fantasy Island', ' WKRP In Cincinnati', 'The Lucy Show', '77 Sunset Strip', 'Love, American Style', 'Banacek', 'Hotel', 'Sledge Hammer!', 'Automan')
Eduardo Xol (SELF - 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', ACTOR - 'La Jaula de oro', 'Sentimientos ajenos', 'Acapulco, cuerpo y alma')
Kris Kristofferson (ACTOR - 'Amerika', 'Texas Rising', 'Dead Man's Gun', "Freedom Road", "Sodbusters", "Tad" SELF - 'The Larry Sanders Show', 'The Muppet Show', 'Saturday Night Live', "Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Show", "The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico")
Jack Jones (SINGER - 'The Love Boat', 'Funny Face' ACTOR - 'Over The Garden Wall', 'Condominium', 'McMillan & Wife', 'Police Woman' BOTH - 'The Rat Patrol' SELF - 'Buddy Faro', 'Night Court', 'It's A Living', 'Get A Life', 'Cruise of the Gods', TVXOHOF)
Quincy Jones (MUSIC - 'In The Heat Of The Night', 'Sanford & Son'/'Sanford', 'Ironside', 'Now You See It', 'Wednesday Mystery Movie' PRODUCER - 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'/'Bel-Air', 'MAD TV', 'In The House', 'Vibe', 'Lost On Earth')
Jim Abrahams (WRITER - 'Police Squad', 'Big John, Little John' DIRECTOR - "First Do No Harm", 'Police Squad')
Paul Maslansky (PRODUCER/WRITER/ACTOR - 'Police Academy: The Series', PRODUCER - 'Police Academy: The Animated Series', 'King', "My Dissident Mom")
Arnold Yarrow (ACTOR - 'EastEnders', 'The Man In The Mirror', 'Doctor Who'; WRITER - 'Softly, Softly: Task Force', 'EastEnders'; SCRIPT EDITOR - 'Softly, Softly', 'Barlow at Large', 'Softly, Softly: Task Force')
Britt Allcroft - (PRODUCER/WRITER - 'Shining Time Station', 'Thomas the Tank Engine'/'Thomas and Friends', 'Schemer Presents!', 'Magical Adventures of Mumfie', ACTRESS - 'Thomas and Friends', 'Magical Adventures of Mumfie'



OTHERS
Reggie Wells (MAKEUP - 'The Oprah Winfrey Show', 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta')
J.C. “Spike” Osorio (LIGHTING TECHNICIAN - 'Wonder Man')
Akira Toriyama (Creator of "Dragon Ball", inspiring many animated series)
Debra Byrd ('American Idol' & 'The Voice' vocal coach)
Gerald M. Levin (Time-Warner CEO)
Laurent de Brunhoff (Continued his father's creation of Babar the Elephant as the writer and illustrator of the stories which were later turned into a TV series) 
Ben Stern (Opposed a Neo-Nazi rally in Illinois; may have been the inspiration for Danny Kaye's character in the TV movie "Skokie")
Amy Coles (Personal Assistant to Stephen Colbert, 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert')
Richard Leibner (Agent for broadcast journalists like Dan Rather & Diane Sawyer)
Patrick Gottsch (Founder of RFD-TV and the Cowboy Channel)
Jamie Kellner (Started FOX and the WB)
Professor Helen Whitwell (Pathologist who inspired and advised 'Silent Witness')
Susan Wojcicki (Former chief of YouTube)
J. Richard Munro (president & CEO of Time Inc, oversaw Time-Warner merger)
Bob Weatherwax (Trainer of collies playing 'Lassie' and other dogs. Son of Rudd)
Tom McCarthy  (NBCUniversal Senior Vice President & Global Security Chief)
Donald J. Hall (Expanded family business Hallmark into TV production)
Virginia Carter (Feminist adviser to Norman Lear)
Béla Károlyi (Gymnastics coach who fell from grace, played by Mark McKinney and Darrell Hammond on 'Saturday Night Live')
Colin Petersen ("Cucumber Castle", Australian child actor who became original drummer for The BeeGees)
Alice Brock (Alice of "Alice's Restaurant", 'To Tell The Truth')
Bill Hennessy, Jr. (Courtroom sketch artist)
Martha Lutrell (Agent 4 Susan Sarandon, Tony Bill, Judy Davis, Stephen Rea, etc.)
Charles Dolan (Founded Cablevision and HBO)



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