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Travis Knight was born on 13 September 1973 in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), ParaNorman (2012) and Missing Link (2019).- Kelly is a proud Oregon boy and Portland Trail Blazer fanatic, but he spent about half of his early life in Washington, DC. He graduated from Oberlin College, which is in a lovely part of Ohio where there really wasn't a whole lot to do. Fortunately, he met dancer Carolyn Hall and they were able to keep each other entertained. So much so, in fact, that some years later they got married. They now reside, together, in Brooklyn, New York. Carolyn won a NY Dance & Performance ("Bessie") Award for her body of work and continues to dance while also pursuing a career in Historical Marine Ecology, and teaching workshops on communicating science.
Kelly has acted on stage all over the place, in New York, and around the country, winning a Drama Desk Award for Signature Theatre's revival of the AR Gurney play, "The Wayside Motor Inn." He earned nice reviews, opposite multiple Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, playing the "blithely cocky" (Ben Brantley, NYTimes) & "nicely nasty" (Clive Barnes, NYPost) Octavius Caesar in the Broadway revival of "Julius Caesar". He is a former member of the Tony Award winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company.
Kelly's father, Les, is a former U. S. Representative. His mother, Sue, worked at the Wilderness Society and The National Abortion Rights Action League. Before that, she and her sister, Ann, co-ran her family's restaurant in Tumalo, Oregon, where Kelly had his first job washing dishes. Kelly's interest in performing was most likely passed on from his parents with his mother being a singer and his father a politician. His sister Stacy, is a social worker. She and her brother appeared in plays together in their early years before Stacy left acting to pursue other interests. Central Oregon residents still fondly recall Stacy's farewell performance in the Sisters Junior High production of "A Mouse That Roared" in the spring of 1980. - Actor
- Additional Crew
Harry Bellaver was born on 12 February 1905 in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), Another Thin Man (1939) and Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). He was married to Gertrude Dudley Vaughan Smith. He died on 8 August 1993 in Nyack, New York, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
A distinguished American athlete and occasional actor with many other strings to his bow, Rafer Johnson was a UCLA basketball star who went on to become Pan American decathlon champion in 1955, a two time decathlon silver medallist at the Melbourne Olympics (despite injuries) and winner of gold four years later in Rome. In 1968, he joined the Special Olympics International Board of Directors as a co-founding member and the following year also co-founded the California Special Olympics, serving as board president from 1983 to 1992. He was briefly a member of the Peace Corps during the administration of John F. Kennedy. While sports anchor at KNBC in Los Angeles, he took time out to support his close friend Robert F. Kennedy during the latter's 1968 presidential campaign in the role of advisor and quasi bodyguard. Along with L.A. Rams football star Roosevelt Grier he famously tackled Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan and secured the murder weapon, a .22 caliber revolver. In 1984, Johnson was the torch bearer at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He became an inductee into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame in 1994, the California's Hall of Fame in 2009 and seven years later was awarded the UCLA medal.
In between his many sporting achievements, Johnson enjoyed a modest acting career. At its outset, he had befriended film legend Kirk Douglas while in Rome training for the 1960 Olympics and was offered the plum role of the Ethiopian slave Draba in the upcoming blockbuster epic Spartacus (1960). Since accepting the part would have made Johnson a professional actor and therefore disqualified him from participating in the games, he had little choice but to turn down the offer. The role subsequently went to fellow athlete Woody Strode. After 1960, Johnson appeared sporadically in films, often cast as native Africans in period adventures (The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), The Fiercest Heart (1961), Tarzan and the Great River (1967)) and subsequently guest-starred in episodes of Mission: Impossible (1966),Roots: The Next Generations (1979) and Quincy, M.E. (1976). He also made a brief appearance as a DEA operative in the James Bond thriller Licence to Kill (1989).
Rafer Johnson passed away on December 2 2020 in Sherman Oaks, California, at the age of 85.- Producer
- Actor
Brooks West was born on 22 February 1916 in Hillsboro, Texas, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Eve Arden Show (1957) and My Friend Irma (1952). He was married to Eve Arden. He died on 7 February 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Madge was born as Margaret Philpott in Texas. She got her start in theater working with a stock company in Denver. Put under a personal contract by a Broadway producer, Madge got her big break when she replaced Helen Hayes in the Broadway play "Dear Brutus". Her success as a stage actress led to her being signed by Fox Pictures. After appearing in a number of movies in the early 20's, Madge was best remembered for her performances in 'Lorna Doone (1922)' and 'The Iron Horse (1924)'. A strong will contrasted the screen image of innocence and led to disagreements over roles by the late 20's. Madge had been cast in a number of movies each year and was in Fox's first dialogue feature 'Mother Knows Best (1928)'. But her refusal to work in the film 'The Trial of Mary Dugan', which was bought expressly for her, led to her contract with Fox being terminated. It would be 3 years until she returned to the screen in the cult favorite 'White Zombie (1932)' with Bela Lugosi, but her career was not going anywhere as Madge was just one of those old silent stars. For the next few years, she appeared in a small number of low budget films and by 1936 her film career was over. In 1943, she would again appear in the headlines when she shot her lover, millionaire A. Stanford Murphy after he jilted her to marry another woman. She did marry two other men, Carlos Bellamy, whose last name she kept, and then to Logan F. Metcalf. Both marriages ended in divorce. She has no children.
- Although Charles King played a variety of roles in silent films, and even made a series of comedy shorts for Universal in the 1920s, it was as a villain in sound westerns that King achieved his greatest fame. In the 1930s and 1940s his jowly face, beady eyes, Texas accent, droopy walrus mustache and overhanging beer belly became familiar to legions of fans of B westerns, especially those of rock-bottom PRC Pictures (it seemed like he showed up in every western PRC ever made), and you knew as soon as you saw him that he would meet his doom before the end of the last reel. Sometimes he was actually the head of the gang, but usually he was just a hired gun or, on even rarer occasions, "middle management". There's a line in Blazing Saddles (1974) where Gene Wilder says, "I've killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille"; it's doubtful that anyone has been killed more times in films than Charlie King. He's been shot, beaten up, run over, thrown off cliffs and blown up by the likes of John Wayne, Buster Crabbe, Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, and pretty much anyone who ever appeared in a movie with him--if he had been in a Shirley Temple picture, she would have found a way to bump him off.
After a memorable career as a punching bag, piñata and moving target for most of the actors in Hollywood, Charlie King finally hung up his spurs in 1957, and died of cirrhosis of the liver in May of that year. - Matt Hughes was born on 13 October 1973 in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Kingdom (2014), UFC 25 Years in Short (2018) and UFC 200 Greatest Fighters of All Time (2016).
- Cheryl Moana Marie Nunes was born on 17 May 1971 in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for Fallen Angel (1997) and Celebrity Wife Swap (2012). She was previously married to Antonio Sabato Jr..
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- Writer
- Producer
Patrick Carlyle was born on 29 December 1983 in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Monsters University (2013), The Wedding Ringer (2015) and Rough Night (2017).- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood films, including The Good Earth (1937) and Dragon Seed (1944). She also wrote novels using the pen-name 'John Sedges', and she won the 'Nobel Prize' for Literature in 1938.- James Fawcett was born on 14 October 1917 in Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States. He was married to Rosenda Sofia Carbajol and Pauline Fawcett. He died on 23 August 2010 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Music Department
- Producer
- Composer
Roger Edens was born on 9 November 1905 in Hillsboro, Texas, USA. He was a producer and composer, known for On the Town (1949), Strike Up the Band (1940) and Funny Face (1957). He died on 13 July 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Kay Lee was born on 9 October 1903 in Hillsboro, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Fireside Theatre (1949) and Armchair Detective (1949). She died on 7 March 1985 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Mary Hartline was born on 29 October 1927 in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Princess Mary's Castle (1957), Super Circus (1949) and The Mary Hartline Show (1950). She was married to George Carlson, George Hugh Barnard, Harold Barclay Stokes and Woolworth Donahue. She died on 12 August 2020 in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA.
- Special Effects
- Art Department
For more than thirty years, A. D. Flowers worked his magic in movies and on TV and ended his career as one of Hollywood's most highly respected and sought-after special effects experts. His craft, however, predated the now-universally employed computerized high-tech FX that the movie and TV industry relies upon today. Explosives, flashbulbs, miniatures, water tanks, unique recipes for blood, and a lot of improvisation (not to mention chance) comprised Flowers' bag of tricks. Affirming that he used his bag of tricks to its best advantage, the Academy Awards presented Flowers with Oscars for his contributions as a "powder man" in the 1970 production of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and for his skillful creation of disaster in the 1972 "The Poseidon Adventure." He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work with Steven Spielberg in the 1979 movie "1941" -- one of Flowers last efforts in his field. He was born in Texas and raised in Sayre, Oklahoma. After graduating from high school in 1935, like so many others from Oklahoma in the '30s, he hitchhiked to California, the golden state, where he hoped to find work. Within three years he was married and, with the help of his father-in-law, a painter at MGM studios, had a job as a studio handyman. Starting right at the bottom, literally, Flowers spent his first 19 nights at his new job on his hands and knees polishing a dance floor that Mickey Rooney used. He eventually moved from floors to grounds and was given the "greenman" assignment wherein his responsibility included feeding and nursing and otherwise maintaining plants, flowers, and any turf on movie sets. By the mid-'40s, Flowers had worked his way into the studio property department and from there onto assignments working with special effects. Explosives became his forte, but anything mechanical proved his domain. Whether employing hydraulics, electronics, or pyrotechnics -- skills that he studied at trade schools while practicing them in movies -- Flowers helped create or re-create fires, floods, dog fights (the aerial kind), bombs bursting in air, etc. For many years he enjoyed the role of chief of mechanical special effects at 20th Century-Fox. And his specialties were not limited to movies. He also plied his trade in television on shows such as "Gunsmoke" and Combat!" for example. A. D. Flowers retired to Camarillo, California, in 1979.- Actor
- Producer
Casey Lauer was born in Hillsboro, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for In Search of Tomorrow (2022), Firecracker (2005) and The Far Flung Star (2013).- Editor
- Director
- Cinematographer
Residing in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, Nick has worked on multiple feature length films in various departments which include; Directing, Editing and Visual Effects. He has previously worked for Lone Rider Films, Eagle Ridge Studios and owns the Montana based Editing/ VFX company Bitterroot Films. His latest film "Death on the Dearborn", is an 1800s western mystery feature starring Zach Mcgowan, Kevin Mcnally and Bob Morley.- Joslyn Kramer's interest in acting first started at the age of 11 when she attended a talent search at a local mall. She competed at IMTA months later in Los Angeles where she was found representation. After the convention, she started homeschooling and her parents took turns driving, flying, or taking a train to get Joslyn to each and every audition, callback, and booking. Three years of auditioning later, Joslyn decided to go to pubic school and stay in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona where she attended high school and got involved in the musical theatre program.
Since moving to LA in early 2013, she has finished the filming of her first feature length film which is set to release in 2014, and is performing at Malibu Playhouse in their inaugural show "The Dream of the Burning Boy" which ran Sep 6 - Oct 13 2014. - Milton Caniff was the world-renowned comics artist known as the "Rembrandt of the Comics". His influence can be seen not only in the works of such comics artists as Jack Kirby and Will Eisner, but also in the works of Federico Fellini and Orson Welles. Caniff ented the comics world as an office boy for a local Ohio newspaper. After working at several papers, he moved to New York in 1932, where he obtained a job with the Associated Press. His first comic, "The Gay Thirties", was a single panel comic. In 1933, when he heard that the newspaper syndicate was looking for a new weekly, he spent the weekend creating "Dickie Dare", about an imaginative little boy who liked to dream about the adventure stories he'd read. The strip was moderately successful, and caught the eye of the editor of the Chicago "Tribune", Captain Joe Patterson. Patterson had the idea for an adventure strip featuring a young boy and his adult guardian/sideick. The strip, "Terry and the Pirates", was a huge hit, spawning a radio show, movie serials, dozens of tie-ins, and a huge fan base.
During the war, Caniff found that his strip was popular among servicemen, partially for the stories, but mostly for his ability to create and draw sexy female characters. Caniff, unable to join the armed forces due to a childhood injury, created the strip "Male Call" for the Camp Newspaper Service. "Male Call" was somewhat risque for its time (though harmless looking today), featuring a scantily clad heroine named Miss Lace. Caniff supplied the strip free of charge to the armed services, which ran from 1942 to 1946. In 1946, unhappy over the fact that he could not obtain ownership of the "Terry" strip, Caniff turned the work over to artist George Wunder (that same year, Caniff received the very first Rueben award from the National Cartoonists' Society for his work on the strip). Caniff went over to Field Enterprises Syndicate with an idea for a new strip. This strip, instead of having a young boy as the hero, would have an adult, but would still have the rollicking adventures (and sexy women) of "Terry". The new strip, "Steve Canyon", was an even bigger success than "Terry", and ran for the next 41 years. While it's true that the storylines in "Canyon" may not have moved with the times (especially during the Vietnam era), the strip was able to survive as long as it did because of the strength and power of Caniff's drawings. When Caniff died in 1981, so did "Steve Canyon." The final June 5th strip contained a farewell from Bill Maudlin's Willie and Joe characters, as well as signed farewells from dozens of Caniff's fellow artists. - Waifuleelee was born on April 19, 1998 in Hillsboro, Texas. She was raised in Central Texas her whole life by her father, who is an Entrepreneur in the Trucking, Oil and Gas Industry and more. Waifuleelee is known for going viral from her gaming clips of Call of Duty. She started out doing modeling after graduating from John Casablancas modeling school in Carrollton, Tx. Waifuleelee also graduated from College with her Business Degree and multiple business certificates.
- Joseph Glenn Rockhold was born in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, USA and passed away on 31 August 1982.
Rockhold played the title character of "The Uncle Orrie Show", a live audience show, on WHIO-TV in the 1950's and 1960's, and entertained an estimated 200,000 other children a year in personal appearances. He retire in 1968 after 35 years in broadcasting. A farm boy from Hillsboro, Rockhold had also held the title of farm director for WHIO Radio. He had produced several programs dealing with rural life including Valley Farmer and Urban and Suburban.
Rockhold became a radio and television performer following World War II after taking a fling in the recording distribution business and later trying station management in Lancaster, Chillicothe and Bellefontaine.
After jobs in radio stations in Columbus and Detroit, where he played folksy characters on locally produced shows, Mr. Rockhold went to WSPD, a new Toledo station being started by Lou Emm, now the morning personality for WHIO Radio.
He was a newscaster and he also did a down-home program where he did all the voices.
Rockhold then went to Chicago's WLS where he appeared on Barn Dance and acted on NBC soap opera's. He play Lou Hanks on the Uncle Ezra show and was Doc Green on the Tom Mix show.
Rockhold followed Emm to WHIO in the early 1950's. Soon he was featured on the Uncle Orrie Show with Ken Hardin as Ferdie Fussbudget and Jack Jacobson on Nosey the Clown. - Eddie Futch was born on 9 August 1911 in Hillsboro, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Super Fight II (1974), ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961) and Showtime Championship Boxing (1986). He died on 10 October 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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- Composer
- Producer
Jerry Allison was born on 31 August 1939 in Hillsboro, Texas, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Almost Famous (2000), American Graffiti (1973) and Nowhere Boy (2009). He was married to Joan Elizabeth Sveum and Peggy Sue Gerron. He died on 22 August 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Additional Crew
- Editorial Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paul Coderko was born on 20 October 1957 in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA. He was an assistant director, known for Night Court (1984), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) and Let Me Count the Ways (2006). He died on 23 September 2017 in Burbank, California, USA.