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Walt Sloan is an actor, based in Chicago, who has appeared in over 100 films and television productions, in several national and regional commercials, and numerous industrial and educational films.
He received Best Supporting Actor from the Rome International Movie Awards for his performance in "Fangs Vs Spurs." He has had lead roles in several award-winning short and feature films, including "Civil," winner of a Special Jury Award in the 2018 deadCenter Film Festival, "Day 1," winner of Best Guerrilla Feature at the 2016 Action on Film International Film Festival, "Fate Accompli," winner of Best Thriller Short in the 2014 Illinois International Film Festival, and "Only Thunder," awarded First Place in the short film category at the 2013 Sunset International Film Festival in Los Angeles. He also had a supporting roles in "Return to the Hiding Place," winner of Best Feature and Audience Choice Award at the 2013 San Antonio Christian Film Festival, and. "4 and a Half Terrorists," winner of the 2008 Chicago Comedy TV Pilot Competition. As a writer, he received a Best Screenplay Award in 2011 for his religious thriller "The Salus Imperative."
In addition to acting and writing, Walt sings bass/baritone with The Buckthorns, a 12-member mixed a cappella group that has been performing in the Chicago area since 1995.
Walt is represented for acting, voice, and print by Shirley Hamilton Talent.- Actress
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On stage from the age of seven, Martha Sleeper began on screen in her early teens as a comic actress for Hal Roach. After her successful debut in the independently produced farce The Mailman (1923), she found herself cast in a series of child comedies with Buddy Messinger and a brace of one- and two-reel shorts opposite Charley Chase with titles like All Wet (1924) and Crazy Like a Fox (1926). Being voted a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1927 was a further boon to her popularity. An attempt was made to turn her into an eccentric knockabout comedienne in the vein of Gale Henry, but this failed to come off. She was subsequently used in rather more subtle domestic farce, such as in Pass the Gravy (1928) , as Max Davidson's daughter, frenetically trying to communicate with him by mime. Her last role of note in silent comedy was as a rather perfunctory leading lady in Stan Laurel's last solo effort, Should Tall Men Marry? (1928).
Her contract with Roach was not renewed due to a fiscal downsizing of the company in 1928, so Martha moved over to FBO. This was a Poverty Row outfit that specialized in low-budget features--often westerns--for the Midwest market. No prints of the six films Martha made for FBO are believed to have survived. After 1930, she bounced around among the studios, appearing in supporting roles--often as the "other woman"--in melodramas for MGM, Paramount and RKO. At the same time, growing ever more restless in Hollywood, she sought work on the stage. In an interview, she asserted that she had been given "permission to take jobs in the theater in downtown Los Angeles. That's unheard of, a contract player wanting to have time for stage work" (NY Times, April 7,1983).
In 1936, Martha and her actor-husband Hardie Albright left the West Coast for New York to begin a ten-year run on- and off-Broadway. At the same time she developed a lucrative sideline of designing idiosyncratic costume jewelry, mostly made from bakelite, wood and metal. This blossomed into a respectable $300,000-a-year business and earned Martha the sobriquet of "The Gadget Girl". Her varied creations--including tarantula brooches, necklaces of sun-drenched strawberries and collars of champagne bubbles and swizzle sticks--were hugely popular with the general public, the jet set and film stars like Dolores Del Río and Fay Wray.
In 1949, Martha settled on the island of Puerto Rico, sold her possessions in New York and reinvented herself yet again, as proprietor of a boutique in San Juan, designing and manufacturing fashionable women's clothes. She remained on the island until her retirement in 1969, spending her remaining years on her second husband's plantation near Charleston in South Carolina.- Actor
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Geoff Ross was born on 28 June 1983 in Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Pretty Smart (2021), Pet Friendly (2019) and You (2018).- Mary Loane was born on 7 December 1900 in Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Rocky King, Detective (1950), Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951) and Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950). She was married to Charles Mendick and Charles Mendick. She died on 19 May 1994 in New York City, New York, USA.