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- Actor
- Producer
James Reynolds was born on 10 August 1946 in Oskaloosa, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Dying to Learn (2022) and Generations (1989). He has been married to Lissa Layng since 21 December 1986. They have two children. He was previously married to Laura Toffenetti.- Actor
- Writer
Iowa-born Chester Conklin was raised in a coal-mining area by a devoutly religious father who hoped that his son would go into the ministry. However, Chester got the performing bug one day when he gave a recitation at a community singing festival and won first prize. Knowing his father would never approve of his desire to become a comedian, he left home. One night in St. Louis he caught a vaudeville act by the famous team of Joe Weber and Lew Fields, who were doing what was called at the time a "Dutch" act. Conklin thought that he could do that act himself, and better, so he decided to develop a character patterned after his boss at the time, a German baker named Schultz. Schultz had a thick accent and a very bushy "walrus"-type mustache, which Conklin appropriated for his new character. He managed to break into vaudeville with this act and spent several years on tour with various stock companies. Eventually he secured a job as a clown with a traveling circus. After seeing several of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops shorts in theaters, Conklin went to the Sennett studio and applied for a job there. Sennett hired him as a Keystone Kop (at $3 a day). He stayed with Sennett for six years, and became famous for his pairing with burly comic Mack Swain in a series of "Ambrose and Walrus" shorts and appeared in several of Charles Chaplin's shorts for the studio (Chaplin adapted Conklin's "walrus" mustache as part of the costume for his "Little Tramp" character). Conklin was approached by Fox Films to do a series of comedy shorts, and when Sennett refused to match the offer Fox made, Conklin left Sennett and signed with Fox. He stayed with Fox for several years, then freelanced for several independent producers in a series of comedy shorts. Conklin worked steadily into the sound era, and retired from the screen in 1966. His last movie was the well-received Western comedy A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966), in which his character was named "Chester."- Bruce Edward Morrow was born on July 25, 1940, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He attended Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) in Springfield, then earned his Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He worked as a disc jockey in Los Angeles before relocating to the Washington, D. C. area in 1966. For 25 years, he worked for the Voice of America, where he wrote and narrated the "Opinion Roundup" radio show, which was broadcast worldwide, and retired from the VOA as an editor and news anchor in the English news division.
While living in the District of Columbia, he appeared in many stage productions during the 1970s and '80s. Upon his retirement from the VOA in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a full-time acting career. He had a busy career in L. A., doing television and radio commercials, and making several supporting appearances in films and TV. His last work was a recurring role in the popular sitcom "3rd Rock From the Sun" as Father Rice; he made four appearances as this character, the last one in the episode "Proud Dick" (#2.13), which aired on January 5, 1997, approximately six weeks before his death.
Battling cancer, he returned east to be closer to his son, Christopher (who resided in Alexandria, Virginia) and his daughter, Melanie (who lived in Akron, Ohio). He entered the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Falls Church; he lost his battle with cancer on February 18, 1997. He was 56 years old. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Lillian Miles was born on 1 August 1907 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Reefer Madness (1936), The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Code of the Mounted (1935). She died on 27 February 1972 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.- Mary Russell was born on 22 April 1912 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937), Murder in Greenwich Village (1937) and Squadron of Honor (1938). She was married to Paul Ames. She died on 22 August 2005 in San Rafael, California, USA.
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Actor
Timothy Stam was born on 7 May 1996 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He is an editor and actor, known for Royal Ashes (2022), The Chance of a Lifetime (2019) and Cross Purposes (2020).- Bill S. Ballinger was born on 13 March 1912 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. Bill S. was a writer, known for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), The Outer Limits (1963) and I Spy (1965). Bill S. died on 23 March 1980 in Tarzana, California, USA.
- Steve Bell was born on 9 December 1935 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He was married to Joyce Dillavou. He died on 25 January 2019 in Muncie, Indiana, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Art Department
Cecil Stoughton was born on 20 January 1920 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He is known for Nixon (1995), Dispatches (1987) and 20/20 (1978). He was married to Faith Stoughton and Jacqueline Stoughton. He died on 3 November 2008 in Merritt Island, Florida, USA.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Arthur Russell was born on 21 May 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He was a composer, known for Before You Know It (2019), How to Survive a Plague (2012) and Independent Lens (1999). He died on 4 April 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.- Frederick Knight Logan was born on 15 October 1871 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He died on 11 June 1928.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Floyd Shields was born on 6 January 1886 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Romance and Sex Life of the Date (1951). He died on 16 April 1960 in Redlands, California, USA.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter, author and educator Thurlow Lieurance was educated at the College of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Conservatory de Musique in France, and was awarded a scholarship to the Fontainebleau. A military bandmaster in Kansas during World War I, he was later honored by the American Scientific Research Society for his work in researching music among native Americans and he recorded a number of native American songs. He authored the book "To Dance, Live, Love and Sing". With his wife Edna Wooley Lieurance, he toured in concerts between 1918 and 1927 and then was a professor at the University of School Music in Lincoln, Nebraska and Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Wichita until 1947. Joining ASCAP in 1934, his classical works include "Colonial Exposition Sketches", "Scenes Southwest", "Prairie Sketches", "Water Moon Maiden", "Fantasia for Violin and Piano", "Conquistador", and "Eleven Song Cycles". His popular-song compositions include "By the Waters of Minnetonka", "Reverie", "Blue Mist", "At Parting", "Purple Pines", "Among the Pines", "And I Ain't Got Weary Yet", "The Good Rain", "From the Old Homestead", "In Mirrored Waters", "Hymn to the Sun God", "Holiday Pleasures", "Irish Spring Song", "I Wonder Why", "Came the Dawn", "If I Hadn't Had You", "The Sandman", "Sunbeams", and "A Prayer".