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Matthew Fahey was born on 28 September 1990 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Animal Kingdom (2016), Awkward. (2011) and Holden On (2017).- Nancy Dow was born on 22 July 1936 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The Ice House (1969), The Wild Wild West (1965) and Mr. Terrific (1967). She was married to John Aniston and John Tunis Melick, Jr.. She died on 25 May 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
W.D. Richter was born on 7 December 1945 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Stealth (2005) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).- Actor
- Art Department
Dan Ferro was born on 10 October 1960 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Blow (2001), Creepshow (1982) and Sgt. Bilko (1996). He was married to Barbara Ferro. He died on 19 August 2022 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA.- Actor
- Director
Joe is an actor and comedian based out of Los Angeles. He is a performer at Upright Citizens Brigade and is one of the hosts of UCB's One Big Jam. He also does stand up around town. Joe has been an actor for over twenty years. He's appeared in numerous TV shows and films, as well as 30+ national commercials. The comedy screenplays he's written have placed in competitions such as The PAGE Awards, Screencraft Animation, and Screencraft Comedy Features. Finally, you can catch him at your local LA Fitness basketball court rolling his ankle.- Actor
- Producer
Tommy Kijas was born in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Rookie (2018), Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and L.A. Confidential (2019).- Jamie Szantyr is a professional wrestler. She is most prominently know for her work on Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Velvet Sky. She has paired with Angelina Love to form the wrestling stable The Beautiful People (which has also included at various time Cute Kip, Madison Rayne, and Lacey Von Erich). Working as a heel in both singles and tag-team matches, her job was to help put the faces over. As a result, she had few singles-match victories prior to receiving her own push in 2010. She has since won the women's championship twice, as well as the women's tag-team championship.
- Charles Quigley was born on 12 February 1906 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crimson Ghost (1946), The Shadow (1937) and Brick Bradford (1947). He was married to Harriet. He died on 5 August 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Music Department
A native of Middletown, Connecticut, David was acting and performing from an early age and made his television debut doing magic for the legendary comedy team "Bob and Ray" on a PBS special. In high school David was an early member of the central Connecticut chapter of the National Organization for Women, and worked with Yale Law student Bill Clinton on the U. S. Senate Campaign of Joseph Duffy. After graduating from Wesleyan University, with majors in both Theatre and Government, he moved to New York where he first gained national attention in over 180 commercials as "Books Dalton", the spokesman for the B. Dalton Bookstore chain. Now a Los Angeles resident he has had recurring roles "True Blood" and "Silicon Valley" among others, was the pianist for "The Black Orchid Trio;" and lead guitar in the all-actor rock band "Brando's Pants," and has been a member of Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE ensemble for over 30 years. He is also very active as a vocal coach, and has been helping singers develop since the 1980's.- Music Department
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Joe Porcaro was born on 29 April 1930 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is known for Peter Pan (2003), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) and One from the Heart (1981). He was married to Eileen. He died on 6 July 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ricky Bottalico was born on 26 August 1969 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Arli$$ (1996), Sunday Night Baseball (1990) and 1996 MLB All-Star Game (1996).
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- Actor
- Director
Tom Seymour is known for the New York Times celebrated VHS Massacre documentaries. Over the course of his career he has won over 50 Independent film awards including five Telly Awards, a National Board of review student nomination and he shares Emmy and YouTube Award nominations with the Black20 Studios team (net_work). Tom's feature film career started at the tale end of the 1990's Independent film movement while he was working at CBS News. He produced and acted in John Krasinski's first feature (A New Wave) directed Aubrey Plaza in one of her first digital shorts (Daddy's Little Judge) and even appeared on the Tonight Show in the Easter Bunny Hates You digital short! While some of his work has recently reached the level of main stream praise, his film career has remained in the independent arena. The distribution of his films range from the small theatrical release of Everything Moves Alone, Netflix with Land of College Prophets, Blockbuster Video with London Betty and NBC Universal's Peacock TV, MUBI and Shudder's Mid May Massacre with the VHS Massacre and VHS Massacre Too films. His films have been covered everywhere from Variety, NPR to the New York Times.- Dayle Hinman was born on 21 September 1952 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. She is married to John Farrell.
- Camera and Electrical Department
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
A graduate of NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, Ryan has spent the last few years working tirelessly on sets ranging from small independent films (Don Jon, A Birder's Guide to Everything) to Hollywood Blockbusters (The Dark Knight Rises, Captain America: The First Avenger). He's worked as a 1st Assistant Director on various projects, and has directed three short films of his own (Going Down, Fortitude, and The Final Illusion) with several more films in pre-production.
Alongside personal projects, he's produced several other shorts, and acted as a production manager/writer/director for the web based comedy troupe The Horse Thing. With the recent acquisition of the MoVi, Ryan has become an active camera operator and acts as the "Gimbal Op" or "Runner" for the two person operated rig.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Lukas Nathaniel was born on February 7th of the year 1997. He is a screen writer, who's been writing since he was in elementary school. After being noticed by many of his schools' teachers for his pieces of writing, he made his official onscreen debut as the title-based character in Chris Kallianiotis's short YouTube feature "Serial Killer (2012)". Throughout high school Lukas took Communications, Video Production, Computer Microsoft classes and also joined the school's tech club. The classes gave him experience that he still uses to produce his films. The tech club taught him about the prop's backstage of the school plays as well as the lighting.
Forming his own YouTube channel in 2013 Lukas created himself an improvised character "Freddy Jenkins, the Clown" which lasted from 2014-2016. During his final year of high school 2015, Lukas took a final video production class requiring him to make a couple more projects. One of these projects that came to be is a short podcast, Funny News Update, and the other is a 2-minute commercial, Parker's Gator burger Commercial. In 2016, Lukas wrote his first screenplay "Noah's Trail" which is set to be released as a documentary sometime in 2026.
Lukas still keeps himself busy building his resume with writing, acting, directing, and producing credits. Some recent projects of his include "The Golden Man Siege" (2020), "The Red Room" (2022), "Serial Killer: Special Edition" (2023), "Serial Killer 2: Past vs. Present" (2023), Phantom (2023), Serial Killer 3/The Red Room II (2024). January 31st, 2024, Lukas returned to portray Freddy Jenkins, the Clown for a 10-year anniversary special. February 9th, 2024, Lukas helped Tony Jr. (Anthony Guarda) by filming/editing/producing a new cooking web series hosted by Tony Sr. (Tony Guarda) titled Tony's Kitchen (2024-).
There are six projects being written and will film very shortly. One is When an Idiot Dies; a comedy mini-series planned about a tall naive child that gets into unfortunate deadly trouble. The rest of the Five projects are short films currently in production. The titles are "Assassin Not for Hire", "Mirror Maniac", "The Midnight Creep", "Hacker-Z", and "Goldenman Siege 2: Frozen Warzone".- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Robert Middlemass was born on 3 September 1883 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Air Hawks (1935), Navy Blue and Gold (1937) and The Black Raven (1943). He was married to Mary Graham. He died on 10 September 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Vince O'Brien was born on 11 January 1919 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Quiz Show (1994), Annie Hall (1977) and Dark Shadows (1966). He was married to Kate. He died on 19 June 2010 in Haworth, New Jersey, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Bernard Gordon was born on 29 October 1918 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Horror Express (1972), Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). He was married to Jeannette Lewin. He died on 11 May 2007 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Sequan Canady was born on 8 August 1980 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Love's Twisted seasons, Feelings Lie and Low Notes.- Actor
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Walter Carlson was born on 17 March 1902 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Presumed Innocent (1990), Cowboy in the Clouds (1943) and Doughboys in Ireland (1943). He died on 18 August 1960 in Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA.- Actor
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Philip Guerette was born in New Britain, Connecticut in 1977. He finished his first feature length film (Thrill Kill Jack) at the age of twenty for a mere 700 dollars. This earned Thomas Edward Seymour, Mike Aranksy and Guerette a Merit award from the B-movie film festival along with multiple screenings on the festival circuit. At the age of twenty three he finished his second feature length film, (Everything Moves Alone) this time he shot it on 16mm film. The budget was nine thousand dollars. This won the trio "Autuer of the Year" at the Bare Bones Film festival in Oklahoma in 2002 along with several other nominations and screenings (California Indy fest, New York International film festival and many others). They received a four star review from Film Threat magazine on-line. Phil Hall (The writer of the review) arranged for the trio to have a theatrical run of their film in New York City.
In 2005 The Land of College Prophets (their third feature) premiered in New York and set the film festival world on fire with 5 wins at the B-movie awards New York (Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, Actor (Thomas) and Makeup). From then on the wins kept pouring in and the film took off. Phil Guerette is still working today on who knows what number film in the independent underground of American films. Third time's a charm they say.- Actor
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Composer ("I'm My Own Grandpaw", "McNamara's Band"), author and singer who formed the Jesters Trio after his high-school graduation; the Jesters sang on radio, films, recordings and television between 1923 and 1950. From 1950, he was the West Coast representative for Hansen Publications and wrote a number of singing commercial jingles. He joined ASCAP in 1948 and his other musical compositions include "poetry", "Hiawatha's Mittens", "Bread and Gravy", "It's the Same the Whole World Over", and "I Had But Fifty Cents".- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Geno Richard Cuddy was born in New Britain, Connecticut on April 26, 1995. He became interested in art and acting at a very young age. Mr. Cuddy is an avid fan of cult classics, silent classics and avant garde films.He is also a fan of the works of F.W. Murnau and Luis Bunuel.- Camera and Electrical Department
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- Producer
Jim Hickcox was born on 28 June 1982 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Slow Creep (2015), Soft Matter (2018) and The Rise of Kenji Gojira (2012).- Soundtrack
Tex Davis was born on 14 June 1914 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Tex was married to Betty Douchette. Tex died on 29 August 2007 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Make-Up Department
Pamela Priest was born on 25 May 1943 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. She is known for The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Virus (1999) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995). She died on 29 June 2023 in Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA.- Writer Don Tracy was born in New Britain, CT, in 1905. After graduating college he worked for several local newspapers as a reporter, and in 1928 he moved to New York City and got a job as editor of Radio News. In 1934 he published his first novel, "All Sold!", and shortly after that he published his second novel, "Flash". He taught courses at New York's Syracuse University from 1955-60 and wrote a series of well-received historical novels, but concentrated mainly on crime novels. As "Roger Fuller", he wrote novelizations of films, such as Sign of the Pagan (1954), and scripts for such TV series as The Defenders (1961), Burke's Law (1963), The Fugitive (1963) and Peyton Place (1964). He died of cancer in Florida in 1976.
- Paul Manafort was born on 1 April 1949 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer, known for The Dying Gaul (2005), Get Me Roger Stone (2017) and CBS This Morning (2012). He has been married to Kathleen Bond since 12 August 1978. They have two children.
- Wayne Barrett was born on 11 July 1945 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003), Client 9 (2010) and Giuliani Time (2005). He was married to Frances Marie McGettigan. He died on 19 January 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Actor
- Set Decorator
George Atamian was born on 12 September 1964 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and set decorator, known for Payback (1999), Rush Hour (1998) and The Mexican (2001).- Writer
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- Additional Crew
Jim Aparo was born on 24 August 1932 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Jim was a writer, known for Young Justice (2010), Beware the Batman (2013) and LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Super-villain High (2018). Jim died on 19 July 2005 in Southington, Connecticut, USA.- Charles Welch was born on 2 February 1921 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Shadow of the Cloak (1951), The Secret Files of Captain Video (1953) and Rocky King, Detective (1950). He died on 16 July 2004 in Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA.
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David LaFlamme was born on 4 May 1941 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Linda Baker, Linda Neska and Sharon Wilson. He died on 6 August 2023 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.- Sheila Rose Hayes, born July 24th 1982 in New Britain, Connecticut. Moved to Newington at 4 and attended and graduated from Newington High School.
Attended Santa Barbara City College for Theater Arts and University of Hartford for Drama. She moved to Los Angeles at 21 yrs old.
Loves Running and yoga. Also holds a Real Estate license in Connecticut, in addition to constantly pursuing her acting career. - Norman Daniels was born on 3 June 1905 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1955), General Electric Theater (1953) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died on 19 July 1995 in Camarillo, California, USA.
- Arthur F. Goodrich was born on 18 February 1878 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for A Front Page Story (1922), Yes or No (1920) and So This Is London (1930). He was married to Alice Elizabeth Dougherty. He died on 26 June 1941 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Tebucky Jones was born on 6 October 1974 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA.
- John Miltern was born on 13 July 1870 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923), The Love of Sunya (1927) and Everybody's Old Man (1936). He died on 15 January 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Conrad Gozzo was born on 6 February 1922 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Conrad is known for Touch of Evil (1958), Two Weeks Notice (2002) and Peter Gunn (1958). Conrad died on 8 October 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
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Haley Berryman was born on 14 May 1997 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. She is a producer, known for Camp Watchachoosits (2017), The Squirrel Catcher and Sing That Thing (2015).- Burlesque dancer and stripper Joan Arline was born on December 11, 1932 in New Britain, Connecticut. The only child of Doris and James Connery, Arline started taking Russian ballet dance lessons at the age of three before going on to expand to jazz, tap, ballroom, and theater lessons. Joan performed in numerous recitals, dances, shows, and reviews as well as was one of the youngest dancers to perform in repertory theater in Connecticut. Moreover, Arline played the mother in her high school senior class production of "Mother Was a Freshman." Joan lived in New Britain until the age of twenty. Arline auditioned and was accepted as a Rockette in New York City, but ultimately decided to move to Buffalo, New York due to a waiting period with the Rockettes. Joan began her show business career as a chorus girl at McVan's nightclub, where she met band leader and future first husband Don Roth. Roth encouraged Arline to perform in burlesque and even wrote a little "ripple" in the music Arline danced to as a cue as to when she should start removing her clues in her routine. Known as the Sexquire Girl, Joan was a headliner on the burlesque circuit from 1953 to 1958. Arline performed on stage with two trained Russian wolfhounds and a pink-furred chaise lounge.
After retiring from burlesque to raise a family, Joan moved to Detroit, Michigan and opened a dance studio in the basement of her home. She later went on to become a precious metals commodities broker in the Detroit area. Arline successfully auditioned for the Palm Springs Follies in 1994 and subsequently moved to Palm Springs, California. Joan went on to join the Branson Follies in Branson, Missouri in 2006. Arline returned to burlesque around this time and was elected into the Burlesque Hall of Fame. Her last official public performance was as a living legend at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Reunion in June, 2011. Joan died at age 78 from leukemia on October 16, 2011. - Gil Ferro was born on 10 October 1960 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Fault Lines (2001). He died on 19 August 2022 in the USA.
- Actor
- Stunts
Louis Cavecche was born on 21 June 1922 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 August 2004 in Crestline, California, USA.- Actress
- Stunts
Gloria Cavecche was born on 18 January 1926 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress. She died on 20 March 2021 in Apple Valley, California, USA.- Producer
- Actor
James Abucewicz was born on 27 December 1967 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Everything Moves Alone (2001) and Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008).- Anna Eshoo was born on 13 December 1942 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA.
- Peter Kilduff was born on 11 June 1941 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA.
- Johnny Prytko was born on 25 September 1936 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Ann Prokop. He died on 1 April 2020 in Manchester, Connecticut, USA.
- Jason Marchi is first a writer of fiction and non-fiction with over 800 publishing credits in newspapers and magazines. He is also an independent film producer with business partner Mike Timm working under the Omicron World Entertainment LLC banner.
Jason's first book for children, The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant (2011) became the Barnes & Noble regional bestseller in Connecticut. It was followed by the picture storybook The Growing Sweater (2014), which won 11 different awards, three of them gold medals.
Jason was the Founder and Executive Director of the former New Century Writer Awards contest and educational organization that operated between 1998 and 2002. With Managing Director, Mike Timm, New Century Writer awarded over $65,000 in cash and scholarships to 100 writers during its years of operation.
Through the New Century Writer Awards program, Jason Marchi was the first industry professional to recognize the writing talents of Joe Hill (20th Century Ghost). New Century Writer was closely associated with Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope:All-Story, as well as several top Hollywood studios and independent producers. - Jessy Matthews, who is also known for his role as a diner patron with his 7 year old Nephew was born in New Britain Connecticut, he is also a Justice Of The Peace For The State Of Connecticut, and is also an Ordained Minister With The Universal Life, he is also a talented Self Taught Percussioninst, and is also a member of a native American Medicine drum where he sings and drums at powwows which are usually known as Native American Festivals, along with powwows, he also does the sing for native ceremonies, he also served as a city commissioner from the month of July 2012 to the year of December 2014