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- Jeanne Moody was born on 25 April 1930 in Cherokee, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Three on a Spree (1961), Theatre 625 (1964) and Frontier (1955). She was previously married to Scott Forbes.
- Pierre Watkin was one of a stable of tall, distinguished-looking and sophisticated character actors (such as Russell Hicks, Jonathan Hale, Selmer Jackson and Samuel S. Hinds) whom Hollywood kept steadily employed playing political leaders, army officers, lawyers, wealthy businessmen and the like. Unlike many of his colleagues in that category, however, Watkin is notable for his (relatively) soft voice and precisely articulated speech. He is probably best remembered by film enthusiasts as Mr. Skinner, the unctuous, self-important bank president, in the W.C. Fields comedy The Bank Dick (1940), in which he uttered the now-classic line, "Allow me to give you a hearty handclasp".
He was the third of four sons of C.H. and Elizabeth J. Watkin, who operated a lodging house for "theater people" in Sioux City, IA. After completing high school he entered the acting profession, and by the time he registered for the draft in WWI he was working with an acting troupe--headed by Sidney Toler--and married. He requested a deferment from military service because he was the sole support of his wife. His wife's name is unknown, however, and it's also unknown if they had any children; this information does not appear in the draft registration, and the name Pierre Watkin(s) is completely missing from both the 1920 and 1930 federal censuses. - Director
- Editor
- Actor
A highly regarded editor (he cut the classic Sunrise (1927)), Harold D. Schuster started out in films as an actor. It didn't take him long to abandon that career, and he turned to the production side of the business, working his way up to editor and eventually taking the reins as a director. While much of his directorial output is routine, there are some real gems scattered throughout. My Friend Flicka (1943) is a beautiful, serene tale of a boy and a spectacular horse and was a major success in its day. Although typed as an "outdoors" director, Schuster could turn out tough, gritty little thrillers when he wanted to, such as Loophole (1954), about a bank teller who gets framed for an embezzlement; it ranks right up there with the edgy crime dramas of Don Siegel and Phil Karlson. Schuster's western Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957), despite its potboiler title, is a sharp, well-paced effort about two disparate groups of travelers who must band together to fight off rampaging Indians. Good writing, a rousing score and Schuster's tight direction raise this several notches above the product normally churned out by its studio, the usually low-grade Allied Artists. Schuster eventually turned to series television, and finished out his career there.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Pianist, composer and conductor, he entered military service during World War II after college. He led his own trio between 1943 and 1960, and opened a night club in 1962. He has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1959, his popular-song compositions include "Lazy Lover".
For many years in both Las Vegas and Los Angeles, he was in a relationship with Michael Cavanaugh, no relation, of North Attleborough, MA.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Legendary voice-over artist, narrator, and disc jockey Ken Nordine was born on April 13, 1920 in Cherokee, Iowa, the son of an architect. Nordine attended Lane Technical College Prep High School and the University of Chicago. Blessed with an exquisitely deep, rich, soothing, and resonant baritone voice, Ken was heard on "The World's Great Novels" and other Chicago radio programs in the 1940s. He married his wife Beryl Vaughan on July 27, 1945; the couple had three sons. Nordine achieved his greatest popularity in the 1950s at the peak of the beatnik jazz and poetry movement with his delightfully hip and creative free-form spoken-word aural vignettes on such albums as "Word Jazz," "Son of Word Jazz," "Love Words" and "My Baby." These albums showcase Ken's sublimely smooth and mellifluous narration over cool jazz music by the Chico Hamilton jazz group. His vignettes ranged from the lightweight and humorous to the more dark and paranoid to just plain odd and dream-like. Nordine did readings on the TV series "Faces in the Window" and Fred Astaire danced to Ken's divinely mellow ditty "My Baby" on a TV special. Nordine also narrated the 1948 documentary short Against the Tide (1948) and was Linda Blair's vocal coach for the landmark horror classic The Exorcist (1973).
Not surprisingly, Ken also lent his supremely dulcet tones to numerous film trailers and TV commercials, with his narration for a bunch of funky and imaginative TV commercials for Levi's jeans made throughout the 1970s and 1980s rating highly as some of his most famous and beloved work in this particular field. In 2005 Ken released the DVD "The Eye is Never Filled." He continued to host his own weekly radio show and perform live in concert almost right to the end. Ken lived in both Chicago, Illinois and Spread Eagle, Wisconsin. Nordine died at 98 on February 16, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Jack Roberts was born on 5 March 1979 in Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Dad, Inc. (2018), The Rock 'n' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher (2010) and In the Land of Canaan (2016).- Salle Ellis was born on 22 August 1934 in Cherokee, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996) and The Road to Galveston (1996). She was married to Walter Dean Ellis and Dean Flanders. She died on 16 January 2018 in Aransas Pass, Texas, USA.
- Lelan Rogers was born on 9 June 1928 in Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues (1987), Coward of the County (1981) and Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983). He died on 22 August 2002 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA.
- Guy M. Gillette served as a United States Senator from Iowa as a Democrat. He was appointed to fill an unexpired term in 1936 was re-elected in 1938 and defeated in 1944.
He then came back in 1948 and was elected again, but was defeated for re-election in 1954 as a Democrat. - Writer
- Producer
- Editorial Department
Ralph Block was born on 21 June 1889 in Cherokee, Iowa, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for In Caliente (1935), His First Command (1929) and The Sea Wolf (1930). He was married to Mary Greenacre. He died on 2 January 1974 in Wheaton, Maryland, USA.- Actor
- Composer
Cory Daniel Long (born September 12, 1991), known professionally as Lil Cory, is an American actor, rapper and music producer from the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama.
He was discovered by Multi-Platinum Grammy Award-Winning Producer Jared Lee Gosselin in 2019.
On April 05, 2023 he released the single "Empty the Bag (Featuring Gucci Mane)".
He is the son of Winfred "Weenie" Bynum, a former professional football player whom played for the New York Giants.- Adam Timmerman was born on 14 August 1971 in Cherokee, Iowa, USA.
- Jack McElroy was born on 21 October 1913 in Cherokee, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Run for the Hills (1953). He died on 2 March 1959 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Kelly Goodburn was born on 14 April 1962 in Cherokee, Iowa, USA.