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- Actor
- Soundtrack
While on the Darmouth College football team, Charles Starrett was hired to play a football extra in The Quarterback (1926). Impressed by the job, Starrett got the acting bug and next went into vaudeville, then regional stage work and finally to Broadway. Spotted by a Paramount talent scout, Starrett was signed to play the romantic lead in Fast and Loose (1930). For the next couple of years he would be busy, but his roles were unremarkable. In 1933 he would be one of the people who helped organize the Screen Actors Guild. In 1936 he would sign with Columbia and over the next 16 years star in 115 westerns. Appearing in as many films as he did, he was usually called "Steve" something - such was life on the "B" circuit. During the 1940s Starrett would always be among the top ten western stars. After playing assorted sheriffs and rangers, he would become well known for his role as the "Durango Kid". Never ask where he kept the white horse and the clothes, but he could change outfits and horses before the gun could clear the leather. The Durango Kid first appeared in 1940, and towards the end of his career he would play the Durango Kid in almost every film, even though he was starting to show his age. When the "B" movie westerns rode off into the sunset in the early 1950s, Starrett hung up his spurs for good.- Composer
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Shawn Patterson is an Academy Award, Emmy and Grammy nominated Composer, Songwriter and Music Producer.
Originally hailing from Athol, Massachusetts, Patterson's life long passion for music started with his late father, Ronald Patterson, a multi-instrumentalist musician. As a child, Shawn was exposed to television shows whose music scores (and sometimes songs) became engrained in his head: Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Lost In Space, and Starsky & Hutch. But it was his introduction to John Williams' legendary scores of Star Wars and Superman that initiated Patterson's profound life long journey to become a score composer and a part of cinematic storytelling through music.
In his youth, Shawn attended Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; where he was selected to study privately and perform with legendary jazz musicians Dr. Billy Taylor and Max Roach. As a jazz, blues, rock guitarist and bandleader, Shawn played shows and lead various bands (including trio, duo and solo settings) anywhere he could while writing compositions in his free time. In 1987, Patterson attended and graduated from the Grove School of Music in Studio City, California. While attending Grove, Shawn studied orchestration and arranging privately with Roger Steinman. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1990, Patterson studied composition and orchestration privately with legendary Los Angeles Composer and Orchestrator, Jack Smalley. Patterson soon found success writing music for film trailers around town.
Over the years, Shawn has composed score and written songs in an enormous wide range of styles for a number of award winning episodic television shows.
In 2013, Patterson was approached to write a pop song for Warner Brother's upcoming animated feature, "The Lego Movie." Shawn spent about six days writing the music and lyrics in his studio. The song became so engrained within the film the Lego Corporation memorialized it as their global theme parks' official song playing it throughout the parks, property hotels and even restaurants. Patterson was asked to perform Everything Is Awesome at the 30th Annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards. In addition to receiving the Academy Award and Grammy nominations (and multiple film festival award wins) for Everything Is Awesome, Shawn also received the Critic's Choice Award nomination.
In 2015, Shawn was honored with the very first Variety Artisan Award at the 30th Annual Santa Barbara Film Festival for his contribution to film.
Patterson continues on his endless quest to explore musical styles in both song and score across film, television and theater mediums.
He lives in Los Angeles with his three kids and three dogs.- Wright Lorimer was born on 10 March 1874 in Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for The Shepherd King (1923). He was married to Kitty Isabel Purdy. He died on 22 December 1911 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Location Management
Robert Alan Nelson was born on 15 July 1934 in Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 20 June 2012 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.- Dave Bargeron was born on 6 September 1942 in Athol, Massachusetts, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Harold Noyes was born on 25 August 1902 in Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and Breakthrough (1950). He died on 17 March 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Philip Bezanson was born on 6 January 1916 in Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He was a composer, known for Golden Child (1960). He died on 11 March 1975 in Hadley, Massachusetts, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alden Willey was born on 27 July 1891 in Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He was an assistant director, known for The Shrine of Happiness (1916), Comrade John (1915) and Beulah (1915). He died on 15 March 1959 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.