R
List activity
33 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
41 people
- Ronnie Stapleton is known for Matewan (1987) and Fifth Hollar (2015).
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Robert Reich was born on 24 June 1946 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for America Is Sinking (2023), Love & Taxes (2015) and Saving Capitalism (2017).- Robert Pardun is known for Rebels with a Cause (2000) and The Century of the Self (2002).
- Renee C. Blaine. Renee was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but her family's ties to the mountains of Colorado drew them back when she was 3 years old. It was here that she began her career as a fashion model in the mid 1980's, appearing in Self, Ski and Mademoiselle Magazines in ads for Rayban, Obermeyer and Justin Boots. She also appeared in weekly ads for the local high end department store, May D&F. Her local success brought national attention, allowing her to spend some time in New York at the Ford Agency. She then went international, modeling in Japan and Italy, appearing in several magazines and newspapers as well as many cover photos. returning home, Renee spent several years modeling all over the United States, most notably in Texas and Ohio, where she had several appearances as an extra in the television program Walker, Texas Ranger and the film Born on the 4th of July. She then won the part of Linda Dufrense in the Academy Award winning film The Shawshank Redemption. Today, Renee is the proud mother of 3 children, 2 daughters and a son and is a very happy Grandmother.
- Actor
- Art Director
Robert Haley was born on 16 August 1942 in Didsbury, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor and art director, known for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Smart People (2008) and Homecoming (2009).- Ron Newell is known for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The West Wing (1999) and Houseguest (1995).
- Rob Reider is known for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Just Another Stupid Kid (1984) and The Bob Braun Show (1967).
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Richard Doone was born on 4 December 1948 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for Hillbilly Elegy (2020), The Public (2018) and Criminal Minds (1998).- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. He emigrated from Spain in 1913. Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly Irish descent, met Eduardo in 1916 and were married the following year. Rita, herself, studied as a dancer in order to follow in her family's footsteps. She joined her family on stage when she was eight years old when her family was filmed in a movie called La Fiesta (1926). It was her first film appearance, albeit an uncredited one. Sotted by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan, she signed her first studio contract, and make her film debut at age sixteen, in Dante's Inferno (1935), followed by Cruz Diablo (1934). She continued to play small bit parts in several films under the name of "Rita Cansino". Fox dropped her after five small roles, but expert, exploitative promotion by her first husband Edward Judson soon brought Rita a new contract at Columbia Pictures, where studio head Harry Cohn changed her surname to Hayworth and approved raising her hairline by electrolysis. She played the second female lead, Judy McPherson, in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). After thirteen minor roles, Columbia lent her to Warner Bros. for her first big success, The Strawberry Blonde (1941); her splendid dancing with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich (1941) made her a star. This was the film that exuded the warmth and seductive vitality that was to make her famous. Her natural, raw beauty was showcased later that year in Blood and Sand (1941), filmed in Technicolor.
Rita was probably the second most popular actress after Betty Grable. In You'll Never Get Rich (1941) with Fred Astaire, was probably the film that moviegoers felt close to Rita. Her dancing, for which she had studied all her life, was astounding. After the hit Gilda (1946) (her dancing had made the film and it had made her), her career was on the skids. Although she was still making movies, they never approached her earlier success. The drought began between The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Champagne Safari (1954). Then after Salome (1953), she was not seen again until Pal Joey (1957). Part of the reasons for the downward spiral was television, but also Rita had been replaced by a new star at Columbia, Kim Novak.
Rita, herself, said, "Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me". In person, Rita was shy, quiet and unassuming; only when the cameras rolled did she turn on the explosive sexual charisma that in Gilda (1946) made her a superstar. To Rita, though, domestic bliss was a more important, if elusive, goal, and in 1949 she interrupted her career for marriage - unfortunately an unhappy one almost from the start - to the playboy Prince Aly Khan. Her films after her divorce from Khan include perhaps her best straight acting performances, Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) and They Came to Cordura (1959).
After a few, rather forgettable films in the 1960s, her career was essentially over. Her final film was The Wrath of God (1972). Her career was really never the same after Gilda (1946). Perhaps Gene Ringgold said it best when he remarked, "Rita Hayworth is not an actress of great depth. She was a dancer, a glamorous personality, and a sex symbol. These qualities are such that they can carry her no further professionally." Perhaps he was right but Hayworth fans would vehemently disagree with him.
Beginning in 1960 (age 42), early onset of Alzheimer's disease (undiagnosed until 1980) limited Rita's ability. The last few roles in her 60-film career were increasingly small. With 20 years of symptoms, Rita was cared for by her daughter, Yasmin Khan, until Rita's death at age 68 on May 14, 1987, in New York City.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Rogelio Douglas Jr. is known for Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), Whiplash (2014) and Straight Outta Compton (2015).- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Robert Carlyle was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland, to Elizabeth, a bus company employee, and Joseph Carlyle, a painter and decorator. He was raised by his father after his mother left him when he was four. At the age of 21, after reading Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," he enrolled in acting classes at the Glasgow Arts Centre. In 1991, together with four other actors, he founded the Raindog theatre company (named after Tom Waits' album "Rain Dog," one of Carlyle's favorites), a company dedicated to innovative work. Danny Boyle's film Trainspotting (1996) marked his breakthrough.- Costume Designer
- Actress
Rachael Fleming was born in 1965 in Lancashire, England, UK. She is a costume designer and actress, known for Trainspotting (1996), Never Let Me Go (2010) and 28 Days Later (2002). She is married to Andrew Macdonald. They have five children.- Ron Taylor was born in 1947. He is an actor, known for The Truman Show (1998) and The Truman Show: Tru-Talk (1998). He is married to Sue. They have one child.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Robert Davis is known for The Truman Show (1998) and Independent Lens (1999). He is married to Daryl Davis.- Editor
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Born and raised in Downtown Sacramento, California, Ramon first discovered acting as a teenager. School plays here and there. It was in San Francisco where he truly began to understand it, love it. Directors encouraged him to go further. He moved to Los Angeles to continue to learn and grow as an artist, developing his career.
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Rio Scafone is an award winning actress and recording artist originally from Detroit, Michigan. She is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and is known for her comedic roles as well as dark, perfectly imperfect characters. Rio Scafone is also a recording artist and is well known as the bombastic front woman of the band, Rio and the Rockabilly Revival.- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Rita Cadillac was born on 18 May 1936 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Das Boot (1981), Me faire ça à moi (1961) and Any Number Can Win (1963). She died on 4 April 1995 in Deauville, Calvados, France.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Roger Barth is known for Das Boot (1981) and Liebe Melanie (1983).- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Ralf Richter was born on 17 August 1957 in Essen, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Das Boot (1981), Was nicht passt wird passend gemacht (2003) and Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umbracht für das Volk (1991).- Richard Woods was born on 9 May 1923 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Miller's Crossing (1990), I.Q. (1994) and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He died on 16 January 2001 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Robert LaBrosse is known for Miller's Crossing (1990), Il diavolo nella carne (1991) and Passion's Flower (1991).
- Actor
- Writer
- Executive
Robert has appeared in the Broadway production of "Vieux Carre" by Tennessee Williams. He studied with and taught for Lee Strasberg. He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio, a former moderator there and coordinator of the writers/directors unit under the direction of Ernie Martin.
Robert has produced a number of plays and short films. The most notable, a six month run of "Frankie and Johnny" was very well received and reviewed.
Robert has written a number of screenplays on controversial subjects including "Follow the Prophet", which premiered at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Román Alcides Shí, was born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador. He moved to California in 1979, after first living in Little Rock, Arkansas, then Tampa, Florida, and finally, destiny brought him to San Francisco, California. His grandfather from his father's side moved from Hong Kong to El Salvador, and married his grandmother who was born from descendants in Spain.- Actor
- Producer
- Richard was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a Welsh immigrant mother. His adoptive father was a native of Pittsburgh. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in the 1960s and he graduated from Lennox High School and earned his BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
He moved his family to Grass Valley, California in 1979 and was active with the Foothill Theatre Company, a regional theatre in Nevada City. He returned to Los Angeles in 1991 to resume his acting career. He did over 70 skits on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). He still maintains his northern California residence with his wife, Judy and their daughter, Alexis. Richard and Judy also have two sons, Matthew and Justin. - Ron Gruetter is known for Milk (2008).
- Writer
- Actor
Roger Mudd was born on 9 February 1928 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for CBS Reports (1959), Time Machine: True Stories of the NYPD (2000) and Empires of Industry (1997). He was married to Emma Jeanne Spears. He died on 9 March 2021 in McLean, Virginia, USA.- Actor
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
Ronald Reagan had quite a prolific career, having catapulted from a Warner Bros. contract player and television star, into serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild, the governorship of California (1967-1975), and lastly, two terms as President of the United States (1981-1989).
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, to Nelle Clyde (Wilson) and John Edward "Jack" Reagan, who was a salesman and storyteller. His father was of Irish descent, and his mother was of half Scottish and half English ancestry.
A successful actor beginning in the 1930s, the young Reagan was a staunch admirer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (even after he evolved into a Republican), and was a Democrat in the 1940s, a self-described 'hemophiliac' liberal. He was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1947 and served five years during the most tumultuous times to ever hit Hollywood. A committed anti-communist, Reagan not only fought more-militantly activist movie industry unions that he and others felt had been infiltrated by communists, but had to deal with the investigation into Hollywood's politics launched by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, an inquisition that lasted through the 1950s. The House Un-American Activities Committee investigations of Hollywood (which led to the jailing of the "Hollywood Ten" in the late '40s) sowed the seeds of the McCarthyism that racked Hollywood and America in the 1950s.
In 1950, U.S. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas (D-CA), the wife of "Dutch" Reagan's friend Melvyn Douglas, ran as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate and was opposed by the Republican nominee, the Red-bating Congressman from Whittier, Richard Nixon. While Nixon did not go so far as to accuse Gahagan Douglas of being a communist herself, he did charge her with being soft on communism due to her opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Nixon tarred her as a "fellow traveler" of communists, a "pinko" who was "pink right down to her underwear." Gahagan Douglas was defeated by the man she was the first to call "Tricky Dicky" because of his unethical behavior and dirty campaign tactics. Reagan was on the Douglases' side during that campaign.
The Douglases, like Reagan and such other prominent actors as Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, were liberal Democrats, supporters of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, a legacy that increasingly was under attack by the right after World War II. They were NOT fellow-travelers; Melvyn Douglas had actually been an active anti-communist and was someone the communists despised. Melvyn Douglas, Robinson and Henry Fonda - a registered Republican! - wound up "gray-listed." (They weren't explicitly black-listed, they just weren't offered any work.) Reagan, who it was later revealed had been an F.B.I. informant while a union leader (turning in suspected communists), was never hurt that way, as he made S.A.G. an accomplice of the black-listing.
Reagan's career sagged after the late 1940s, and he started appearing in B-movies after he left Warner Bros. to go free-lance. However, he had a eminence grise par excellence in Lew Wasserman, his agent and the head of the Music Corp. of America. Wasserman, later called "The Pope of Hollywood," was the genius who figured out that an actor could make a killing via a tax windfall by turning himself into a corporation. The corporation, which would employ the actor, would own part of a motion picture the actor appeared in, and all monies would accrue to the corporation, which was taxed at a much lower rate than was personal income. Wasserman pioneered this tax avoidance scheme with his client James Stewart, beginning with the Anthony Mann western Winchester '73 (1950) (1950). It made Stewart enormously rich as he became a top box office draw in the 1950s after the success of "Winchester 73" and several more Mann-directed westerns, all of which he had an ownership stake in.
Ironically, Reagan became a poor-man's James Stewart in the early 1950s, appearing in westerns, but they were mostly B-pictures. He did not have the acting chops of the great Stewart, but he did have his agent. Wasserman at M.C.A. was one of the pioneers of television syndication, and this was to benefit Reagan enormously. M.C.A. was the only talent agency that was also allowed to be a producer through an exemption to union rules granted by S.A.G. when Reagan was the union president, and it used the exemption to acquire Universal International Pictures. Talent agents were not permitted to be producers as there was an inherent conflict of interest between the two professions, one of which was committed to acquiring talent at the lowest possible cost and the other whose focus was to get the best possible price for their client. When a talent agent was also a producer, like M.C.A. was, it had a habit of steering its clients to its own productions, where they were employed but at a lower price than their potential free market value. It was a system that made M.C.A. and Lew Wasserman, enormously wealthy.
The ownership of Universal and its entry into the production of television shows that were syndicated to network made M.C.A. the most successful organization in Hollywood of its time, a real cash cow as television overtook the movies as the #1 business of the entertainment industry. Wasserman repaid Ronald Reagan's largess by structuring a deal by which he hosted and owned part of General Electric Theater (1953), a western omnibus showcase that ran from 1954 to 1961. It made Reagan very comfortable financially, though it did not make him rich. That came later.
In 1960, with the election of the Democratic President John F. Kennedy, the black and gray lists went into eclipse. J.F.K. appointed Helen Gahagan Douglas Treasurer of the United States. About this time, as the civil rights movement became stronger and found more support among Democrats and the Kennedy administration, Reagan - fresh from a second stint as S.A.G. president in 1959 - was in the process of undergoing a personal and political metamorphosis into a right-wing Republican, a process that culminated with his endorsing Barry Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. (He narrated a Goldwater campaign film played at the G.O.P. Convention in San Francisco.) Reagan's evolution into a right-wing Republican sundered his friendship with the Douglases. (After Reagan was elected President of the United States in 1980, Melvyn Douglas said of his former friend that Reagan turned to the right after he had begun to believe the pro-business speeches he delivered for General Electric when he was the host of the "G.E. Theater.")
In 1959, while Reagan was back as a second go-round as S.A.G. president, M.C.A.'s exemption from S.A.G. regulations that forbade a talent agency from being a producer was renewed. However, in 1962, the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy successfully forced M.C.A. - known as "The Octopus" in Hollywood for its monopolistic tendencies - to divest itself of its talent agency.
When Reagan was tipped by the California Republican Party to be its standard-bearer in the 1965 gubernatorial election against Democratic Governor Pat Brown, Lew Wasserman went back in action. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and though Wasserman was a liberal Democrat, having an old friend like Reagan who had shown his loyalty as S.A.G. president in the state house was good for business. Wasserman and his partner, M.C.A. Chairman Jules Styne (a Republican), helped ensure that Reagan would be financially secure for the rest of his life so that he could enter politics. (At the time, he was the host of "Death Valley Days" on TV.)
According to the Wall Street Journal, Universal sold Reagan a nice piece of land of many acres north of Santa Barbara that had been used for location shooting. The Reagans sold most of the ranch, then converted the rest of it, about 200 acres, into a magnificent estate overlooking the valley and the Pacific Ocean. The Rancho del Cielo became President Reagan's much needed counterpoint to the buzz of Washington, D.C. There, in a setting both rugged and serene, the Reagans could spend time alone or receive political leaders such as the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, and others.
Reagan was known to the world for his one-liners, the most famous of them was addressed to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall" said Reagan standing in front of the Berlin Wall. That call made an impact on the course of human history.
Ronald Reagan played many roles in his life's seven acts: radio announcer, movie star, union boss, television actor-cum-host, governor, right-wing critic of big government and President of the United States.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Reyna Young's alter ego Miss Misery has been labeled by press as "The Queen of Horror in the bay area". She currently resides in San Francisco with her husband John Gillette and son Logan. Reyna is an Award Winning Director and actress with over 15 years of experience in Theater, Television and Film.
Reyna is known for her work in the horror and action genre films and is a late night horror hostess of the popular syndicated show Movie Massacre which she writes, directs and produces. She was born in 1983 in San Francisco, Ca and grew up taking dance, singing, tap dancing, martial arts and acting classes. The oldest of two children, her younger sister and her were raised by their Father. She is of English, Hispanic and Native American descent.
Reyna became interested in acting after watching John Carpenter's Halloween when she was a little girl, wanting to grow up and be Jamie Lee Curtis, she quickly begged her father to take her on auditions, which he did. Landing her roles in commercials, and seeking out every audition she could.
Before Directing her first short Reyna auditioned and landed roles in independent films and theatre productions her first year of college. Quickly wanting to be behind the camera, she wrote and directed her first short film and from there fell in love with Directing. After meeting her future husband John Gillette, they quickly created Last Doorway Productions and started making short films. In 2007 on October 31st The Last Doorway aired and Reyna Young presented her persona Miss Misery. The Last Doorway lasted for 78 episodes before being asked by a station in Hayward to host late night movies. Thus Movie Massacre was born and is now a syndicated television show. Reyna also hosted Zombie Proms around the bay area and ran for six years a film festival showcasing the work of short horror films called A Nightmare to Remember. She's producing, Directing and writing feature horror films in the industry.