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Jonathan Turner Smith, born in Brownfield, Texas, is an actor, writer, and producer. He co-produced and co-wrote the independent feature film, "Broken Victory," which won The Silver Medal at the New York Film and Television Festival and was a Semi-finalist at the Houston International Film Festival. "Broken Victory" also won four Halo Awards from the Southern California Motion Picture Council, was a Dramatic Film Finalist at the AFI/Billboard Video Awards and won a Silver Medal at the Excellence in Media Awards. Smith also won a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Critics Award for Outstanding Performance in the title role of Nathan in the play of the same name. He is the screenwriter and producer of the feature film, "The Loser's Club" and essays the supporting role of Sam Blake. The Screenplay has won more than 100 screenwriting awards from screenwriting competitions and film festivals from around the world and is based on Smith's stage play of the same name. The play, "The Losers' Club," is published by Eldridge Publishing and has been produced over 100 times by 50+ junior high and high schools throughout the United States. The play has won 15+ regional and state high school theatre awards. Other plays written by Smith include "The Election" and "Aftermath," both published by Eldridge Publishing. His play "Whose High School Is It Anyway?" is published by Heartland Publishing. Smith's two Faith-Based screenplays, "Jeremy" and "Our Finest Hour" are both award-winning screenplays. He is currently working on his first horror screenplay, "The Werewolf Chronicles."- Actor
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- Writer
Robert (Texas Bob) Hinkle's show-business career went from the rodeo to the studio, and spans the latter half of the 20th-century. After graduating from high school in his home-town of Brownfield, Texas, Bob enlisted in the United States Air Force in November of 1947 and received his honorable discharge in March of 1950. He joined the rodeo circuit upon discharge and it was at a rodeo in Moses Lake, Washington, where Bob was competing as a calf-roper and a bulldogger, that Bob had, in his opinion, his 'most memorable achievement'; he bet a fellow competitor $20 he could get a date with the Queen of the Rodeo, Miss Sandra Larson. He met her, took her to the rodeo dance that night, collected his twenty-bucks; and married the beautiful lady fifteen months later. This 'cowboy-and-the-lady' union is still intact after 56 years, and the raising of their three children, Michael, Bradley and Melody. While visiting his rodeo friends on the set of Universal's 1952 "Bronco Buster," Bob's western appearance and demeanor caught the eye of director Budd Boetticher and landed him an uncredited role as a combination cowboy stuntman. That was all it took for Bob to decide that the "reel" west of Hollywood was more to his liking than breaking bones in real-west rodeos. Acting roles soon led him to another turning point when, in 1955, he found himself back in Texas at the Marfa location of George Stevens' "Giant" as a combination of technical/dialogue director/coach, and advising the likes of James Dean, Rock Hudson, Mercedes McCambridge, and Dennis Hopper on how to 'talk Texas.' Later, he did the same coaching job on "Hud," with Paul Newman, Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas. He also created and directed the 'pig scramble' segment in that film. His 1955 work on "Giant," thanks to all the generous tips and questions-answered by George Stevens, expanded Bob's interest in the film business beyond action and, in 1960, Bob wrote, directed and produced "Old Rex" for Universal Pictures, and also a short called "Born Hunters." This led him to producing a live-action short for Paramount, "Mr. Chat." His expanding career found him in 1964 producing a series of country-music specials called "Hollywood Jubilee" with Jeannie Seely, Henson Cargill and an unknown singer named Glen Campbell. In 1964 he became the personal manger for his old friend, fellow-Texan, Chill Wills. Also, in 1963-65, Bob wrote, directed and produced a series of two-reel shorts for Paramount. These were shot in Technicolor and on location throughout the United States, and some of the titles were "Born Hunter," narrated by Tex Williams; "Thoroughbred Racing", shot in Kentucky and narrated by Don 'Red' Barry; and "Texas Today" and "Virginia City," narrated by Chill Wills. A daredevil stunt performer named Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel hired Bob as his promoter in 1968-71. In 1970 Hinkle became the personal manager for Marty Robbins and remained so until Robbins' death in 1982. In 1972 Bob combined his film production roots with country music by producing and directing, for Universal, "Country Music Jubilee" starring Marty Robbins and Sammy Jackson, and followed that in 1972 with "Guns of a Stranger," starring his two clients, Marty Robbins and Chill Wills. He pulled out all the stops in 1982 with "Atoka," in which 100,000 people went on a picnic with Willie Nelson, Larry Gatlin, Don Williams, Freddy Fender, Hoyt Axton, David Allan Coe, Freddie Weller, Red Steagall and Marty Robbins. Bob was later the General Manager of Network One in Nashville, where he produced numerous TV shows, music videos and national commercials. Bob and Sandra Hinkle now reside back in Dallas, back to his roots, where he is semi-retired but his fast pace continues as he helps disaster victims through his work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.- Sheryl Swoopes was born on 25 March 1971 in Brownfield, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), One and Done and Swoopes on Hoops (1995). She was previously married to Eric Jackson.
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- Soundtrack
Don Walser was born on 14 September 1934 in Brownfield, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Secondhand Lions (2003), The Hi-Lo Country (1998) and Barracuda (2017). He was married to Patricia Robertson. He died on 20 September 2006 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Producer
- Writer
- Visual Effects
Rene Ross Garza, is an American filmmaker born in the small town of Brownfield, Texas to Dora A. Scott, and Emilio Garza Jr. His family is of Spanish, American Native, and Mexican descent. As a child, Rene was captivated by movies and their visuals especially in such films as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T. These films and others like these fueled his imagination and with mentoring of his step father Richard Morris Scott, who once played a role in Hanger 18 and the Little Rascals, he followed his dream and began his career in filmmaking.