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Character actor Anthony James was born on July 22, 1942 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Unusually tall (6' 6½) and lanky, with a rough, pockmarked face, a lean, stringy build, and an extremely intense screen presence, James was often cast in Westerns as scary, sleazy villains. He was especially memorable as the racist diner counterman in the outstanding In the Heat of the Night (1967). Other noteworthy parts include a gay hitchhiker in the cult classic Vanishing Point (1971), a priest in The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972), an outlaw in High Plains Drifter (1973), a deranged psycho in The Teacher (1974), the chauffeur from hell in the chiller Burnt Offerings (1976), and the vicious leader of a gang of ferocious barbarians in the science fiction film Ravagers (1979).

James was hilarious in a rare change-of-pace good guy role as a heroic cannibal (!) in the post-nuke sci-fi romp World Gone Wild (1987), and also parodying his evil persona in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991). Among the many television shows in which he appeared in guest roles were Married... with Children (1987), Beauty and the Beast (1987), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Simon & Simon (1981), The A-Team (1983), Riptide (1984), The Fall Guy (1981), Hunter (1984), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), Quincy, M.E. (1976), Charlie's Angels (1976), Vega$ (1978), Starsky and Hutch (1975), S.W.A.T. (1975), Ironside (1967), Hawaii Five-O (1968), Bonanza (1959), Gunsmoke (1955) and The Big Valley (1965).

James's last film appearance to date was as the owner of a seedy bordello in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992). After quitting acting in the early 1990s, he pursued a successful career as an artist. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in such major cities as New York, Boston and Miami.

Handsome, slim-faced, curly-haired actor John Shea is primarily known to TV audiences for his recurring role as the evil Lex Luthor in the early '90s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).

John Victor Shea III was born in 1949 in North Conway, New Hampshire, to Elizabeth Mary (Fuller) and Dr. John Victor Shea, a teacher, coach, and assistant Superintendent of Schools. He is of Irish and German descent. John was raised in Massachusetts, and received his BA from Bates College, which he achieved on debating and football scholarships. He then attended Yale University and earned an MFA in directing from its School of Drama.

Following New York stage work, including his portrayal of Paris in a production of "Romeo and Juliet" (1977), initial on-camera notice came on TV with his reverential portrayal of Joseph in the mini-movie The Nativity (1978). A few years later on film he appeared in the small but memorable role of the impassioned, ill-fated American idealist who becomes a casualty to Chilean war-torn politics in Costa-Gavras' Academy Award-winning thriller Missing (1982). Although Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, who respectively played his despairing father and wife, were nominated for Oscars for their starring performances, John's role was central to the heart of the film and he made quite an impact. The actor was later honored by Amnesty International for his political work following the film's release.

Critical kudos, as well as awards, have come in John's direction over the years on stage, film and TV. In the film Windy City (1984) opposite Kate Capshaw, he earned the Best Actor Award at the Montreal Film Festival. On stage, he received a Drama Desk Award for "American Days", an Obie Award for "The Dining Room" and a 1976 Theatre World Award for his portrayal of the Jewish student "Avigdor" in "Yentl". The role was later portrayed by Mandy Patinkin in Barbra Streisand's 1983 film adaptation. On television, John was awarded the coveted Emmy for his depiction of the distressed husband and father wannabe who touches off a legal landmark case in the miniseries, Baby M (1988).

In a career pocked with remarkable versatility, interesting choices and challenging parts, John has played everything from a young Nazi in the miniseries Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985) to 'Robert F. Kennedy' in the epic-styled Kennedy (1983). He has kept his face alive in guest parts over the years on such well-received series as Sex and the City (1998), Tales from the Crypt (1989), The Hitchhiker (1983), Law & Order (1990) and Medium (2005). A budding Irish-American filmmaker, John co-wrote, directed and appeared in the low-budget film Southie (1998), a drama set in the Irish-American section of Boston. The film won the Jury Award for Best Independent Film at the 1998 Seattle International Film Festival.

Into the millennium, John found popularity on the Mutant X (2001) sci-fi series playing the role of "Adam Kane". Based on Marvel Comic's "X-Men", he received a nomination for Canada's prestigious Gemini Award as Best Actor. He also appears in a recurring role on Gossip Girl (2007) and had a regular part in the action drama series Agent X (2015) starring Sharon Stone.

In addition, he was also seen in a spat of dramas including The Insurgents (2006) with Mary Stuart Masterson; the British Framed (2008) and the Indian drama Achchamundu! Achchamundu! (2009), plus the Jessica Alba drama, An Invisible Sign (2010), the title role in Julius Caesar (2010), the horror opus 51 (2011),the psychological drama Anatomy of the Tide (2013) and the crime mystery Grey Lady (2017), which he also wrote and directed.

A screenwriter and audio book performer in addition to all his other talents, John lives with his second wife, the painter Melissa MacLeod, and his family are based in New York and on Nantucket Island where he was a founding member of the Nantucket Film Festival and is Artistic Director of the Nantucket Theatre Workshop. He has one son, Jake, from his first marriage, and two children, Miranda and Caiden, by wife Melissa.

Gordon Clapp grew up in the ski resort town of North Conway in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He developed an interest in acting at an early age when he was cast in a production of THE HAPPY TIME at a local summer theater. He attended Williams College where he majored in English but spent most of his time with the Drama department. It was there he met John Sayles who was to cast Gordon in four films over a twenty-year span including the cult favorite, RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN. During his Senior year at Williams he was part of the inaugural class at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center. Post college years found him performing for three seasons with a touring children's theater, and summer stock in the very hometown theater where he began as a 12 year old. The 70's and 80's found him in several regional theaters in Canada, and the States, forging a path into film and television. His work included five seasons at Canada's National Arts Centre, a number of CBC movies, a regular on a sitcom called CHECK IT OUT with Don Adams and two John Sayles films, MATEWAN and EIGHT MEN OUT. He finally took the Hollywood plunge in 1989, and soon landed a starring role along side Farrah Fawcett in the mini-series SMALL SACRIFICES. From there, numerous guest roles in such favorites as CHEERS, NIGHT COURT, WINGS and WONDER YEARS led to an audition for a guest role on NYPD BLUE where an impulsive character choice landed him 12 seasons in the role of Detective Greg Medavoy. Awards include a 1998 Emmy Award for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and the first SAG Award for Ensemble in a Drama Series. Since then, numerous film and television roles, including recurring roles on DAMAGES and CHICAGO FIRE notwithstanding, he has returned to his first love, theatre. In 2005 he received a Theatre World Award, A Drama Desk Ensemble Award, and a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Dave Moss in the All-star Broadway revival of GLENGARRY, GLEN ROSS. Off Broadway appearances include The New Group and 59E59. But his home is in New England where he frequents Vermont's Northern Stage, Lost Nation Theatre and Dorset Theatre Festival, Connecticut's Ivoryton Playhouse, New Hampshire's New London Barn and Peterborough Players and Boston's Huntington Theatre, and Central Square Theatre. In the Fall of 2019 he portrayed J Edgar Hoover in the Lincoln Center production of THE GREAT SOCIETY. What has stayed with him through all this time is his love of the poet Robert Frost. In 2008, he stumbled across a script titled THIS VERSE BUSINESS. He and playwright A.M. Dolan have been developing it and "barding" around the country with it ever since. In 2010 Gus Kaikkonen directed the first full production of the play at Peterborough Players taking it to new heights. In 2013 they played for three weeks at Lost Nation in Montpelier, Vermont and then skipped around the state in four other locations. The 2017 run at Northern Stage saw the 100th performance.

William Gibson was born on 17 March 1948 in Conway, South Carolina, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Neuromancer and The X-Files (1993). He has been married to Deborah Jean Thompson since 1972. They have two children.

Born in Conway, South Carolina to a father in the Air Force. Malissa Longo, spent very little of her life in the place of her birth. She spent the first ten years of her life, on and off, on the various air force bases abroad in England. Her family relocated back to the states, where they spent time in Ohio, before settling in Colorado. Malissa began performing on stage at very young age, first in dance recitals, then eventually acting and singing. She uprooted herself to New York City in pursuit of a career in musical theater and soon found she had an affinity for the screen, as well as, the stage.

Symone was born on 14 January 1995 in Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Bros (2022), Station 19 (2018) and Abbott Elementary (2021).

Harry Holman was born on 15 March 1872 in Conway, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Meet John Doe (1941), The Dark Horse (1932) and Oliver Twist (1933). He died on 3 May 1947 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Joe Conti was born on 24 March 1985 in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for This Is Us (2016), American Horror Story (2011) and Scandal (2012).

Spencer Waldner was born on 21 October 1992 in Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Crossword (2024), 5 Years Apart (2019) and Nerve (2021).

He enjoyed a humanistic school education. Madison completed his studies in 1771 with a Bachelor of Arts. He showed particular interest in the new ideas of the time, the Enlightenment, with which he dealt intensively. He became politically active at an early age. In 1776 he was elected to the Virginia Convention, which advocated independence and a constitution. During the American Revolution he campaigned for the colonial resistance movement against Great Britain in Virginia. Here he met the governor and later President Thomas Jefferson, with whom he became lifelong friends. In 1780, James Madison was elected to the Continental Congress, where he advocated for a strong central government that would help complete American liberation. The planter was instrumental in the preparations for the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, where he drafted the so-called "Virginia Plan" in May 1787.

In it, Madison advocated for a strong national central government that would guarantee personal freedoms, party diversity, and federal freedoms. With this model of a balanced party system that should lead to a mutual sharing of power, Madison founded the basic principle of the republican system of government in the USA. From 1789 to 1797, Madison represented Virginia in Congress. In 1794 he married Dolley Payne Todd. After supporting the presidential campaign of his friend Thomas Jefferson, Madison was appointed Secretary of State when he took office in 1801. In the election campaign of 1808, Madison himself was elected fourth president of the United States. Although he became embroiled in war with Great Britain on June 18, 1812, Madison was re-elected to a second term that same year.

The war with Great Britain was initially very disadvantageous for the USA. In 1814, Madison watched as the Capitol and White House were set ablaze by British troops. Nevertheless, the President was able to end the war with an advantageous peace agreement within the end of the year. A hugely popular leader, Madison left the office of president in March 1817. In the coming years he assisted Jefferson in planning the University of Virginia. He acted as an advisor to the next President James Monroe. In 1829, Madison officially returned to political life to attend the Virginia Constitutional Convention. He then withdrew into private life as a quiet observer of politics.

James Madison died on June 28, 1836 in Montpelier, Virginia.

In October of 2013, Gary partnered with Graham Gordy and Daniel Campbell to create Mortuus Pater Pictures, LLC. The motion picture production company released its first feature in 2019, the ensemble comedy 'Antiquities,' starring Andrew J. West, Michaela Watkins, Michael Gladis, with Ashley Greene and Mary Steenburgen, which is distributed by Chicken Soup for the Soul's Screen Vision. It just concluded a three-year run on Showtime and is available on many digital platforms throughout North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

An eighth generation native of the Ozarks and graduate of the University of Arkansas, he resigned as Executive Vice President of the Greater Little Rock Chamber of Commerce to accept a national scholarship to train at New York's American Musical & Dramatic Academy.

Since his first professional job as a "Sprocket" on 'Saturday Night Live,' he has had principal and/or recurring roles in a variety of productions - network series, feature films, shorts, stage, commercials, gaming and industrials.

He backed up Liza Minnelli on 'The Tonight Show' and serenaded Burt Reynolds with an original song on the set of an NBC sitcom. He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical by the Los Angeles Valley Theatre Awards for originating the role of "Anton Schmidt" in the world premier of 'Musical Chairs' by two-time Oscar-winning composer Joel Hirschhorn.

The writer of seven feature screenplays and three limited series pilots, he was a Semifinalist at Austin Film Festival and on The Red List of Coverfly. He was previously a Finalist in the Slamdance (Top 10) and Chesterfield Writer's Film Project (Paramount Pictures) (Top 50) screenplay competitions and a Quarterfinalist in the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

To showcase his writing and performing, the Groundlings/Martin DeMaat-trained improvisational actor became front man and songwriter for '10 Horse Johnson.' The all-original, Ozarks-born, Hollywood-bred counter country comedy band played Vegas, Nashville and Memphis and was a regular at Molly Malone's on Fairfax in LA. The group also had a 10-week theatre run as 'Cole Slaw & The Baked Bean Band' with Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile.' Heard internationally on Dr. Demento, 10HJ was the featured house band for the Sirius XM Playboy Radio holiday series, 'A Playboy Home Companion' and its five million listeners.

As a filmmaker, Gary produced, wrote and directed 'Jo's Town,' a feature documentary, which was named Best American Feature Film by the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, Best Documentary by the KAN Film Festival, and Finalist in the International Family Film Festival. Edited by Michael Ruscio ('In Treatment,' 'True Blood'), 'Jo's Town' was also an Official Selection of the Memphis International, Hot Springs Documentary, Valleyfest, Fayetteville, Gillioz and Little Rock Film Festivals. It also received a featured screening at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.

He was part of a four-actor cast of 'In Order of Appearance,' a short directed by Ruscio, which received the Best Ensemble Cast Award at the Deep Ellum Film Festival in Dallas.

He recently appeared on stage with Judge Reinhold in 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' as "Brian Doyle," and may be seen in the supporting role of "Raymond" in the upcoming dramedy feature 'I'll Be There.'

John Ratch Hart was born on February 15, 1952, in Conway, South Carolina, USA, as John Ratchford Hart III. He is an actor, known for "The Color Purple' (1985). After study and stage work in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, his first screen appearance was in the CBS-TV miniseries "Chiefs" (1983).

Charles Orme was a British film producer. He worked regularly with Powell & Pressburger, Ralph Thomas, Basil Dearden and John Boorman. He has over 50 credits on a number of classics including The 39 Steps (1959), Khartoum (1966), Deliverance (1972), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and The Omen (1976). He was an original member of the multiple-award-winning Powell & Pressburger production team known as The Archers. He was a production assistant, production manager and assistant director on many of their classic productions, including The Red Shoes (1948), The Small Back Room (1949), Gone to Earth (1950) and The Elusive Pimpernel (1950), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955), The Battle of the River Plate (1956) and Ill Met by Moonlight (1957).

Peyton Hillis was born on 21 January 1986 in Conway, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor, known for The Hunting (2021), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on CBS (1956).

Crystal Faye Todd was born on 4 January 1974 in Conway, South Carolina, USA. She died on 17 November 1991 in Conway, South Carolina, USA.

Chris Chappell was born on 4 July 1961 in Conway, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor, known for Split Second (1992), Out of Depth (2000) and Lava (2001).

Jim Covert was born on 22 March 1960 in Conway, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Lucas (1986), Best of WrestleMania (1992) and NFL Monday Night Football (1970).

Ralph 'Red' Berry was born on 20 November 1906 in Conway Springs, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Front Page Detective (1951), The Abbott and Costello Show (1952) and The Wresters Meet the Ladies (1951). He was married to Lil Pilkento. He died on 21 July 1973 in Pittsburg, Kansas, USA.

Roger Simons was born in 1944 in Conway, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for Saturn 3 (1980), Eye of the Needle (1981) and Cul-de-sac (1966). He died on 6 April 2020.

Naomi Andrew was born on 2 February 2016 in Conway, South Carolina, USA.

Ray Thornton is an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997.

Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War, during which he reached the rank of lieutenant.

Thornton returned to law school after returning from Korea and obtained his law degree in 1956. After election as Arkansas Attorney General in 1970, he was elected two years later to Congress. Thornton went on to serve three terms in the House. He served as a member of the Judiciary Committee. Thornton did not run for a fourth term in the House. Instead, he ran for the Senate, but lost a runoff berth in the Democratic primary to his colleague from the Second District, Jim Guy Tucker.

After his defeat in the Senate race, Thornton became involved in education, serving as President of Arkansas State University and then the University of Arkansas System from 1984 to 1990. In 1990, Thornton ran for Congress in the Little Rock-based district and won by a comfortable margin over the Republican nominee, Jim Keet, then a state representative. Thornton left Congress after another three terms until his retirement in January 1997.

Thornton served as a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1997 to 2005. After retiring from the court, he became the first public service fellow for the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2009, he became the first chairman of the Arkansas Lottery Commission, which operates the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.

Eric Fullerton was born on 9 June 1976 in Conway, Arkansas, USA. He is a producer and editor, known for Crystaline Power (1990), Hunger (2009) and 20 Years After (2008).

Trey Junkin was born on 23 January 1961 in Conway, Arkansas, USA.

Erik S. Barry was born on 9 April 1986 in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA.

Born Jeremy Lance Gosnell in Conway, Arkansas on September 6, 1978, to Linda Kay Gosnell (née Stacks) customer service representative and James Leo Gosnell a USPS Letter Carrier, but it would be during the time he was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother Wynell Stacks (née Dollar), a personal Nanny for former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller that Lance would develop an interest in acting by watching his uncle David Stacks known as Charles Davis perform the character Captain Dave on the "Alphabet Set" and later watching Michael J. Fox portray Alex P. Keaton on "Family Ties" that would lead Lance to imagine that one day he would be discovered by Hollywood.

It would be later during his high school years that he would begin attending the University of Central Arkansas' youth theater where he was introduced to the basics of acting while also studying study the comedians on Saturday Night Live from his living room and would often entertain anyone willing to listen to his versions of the voice's of Yogi the Bear, Dana Carvey's President George Bush and Ross Perot, the late Phil Hartman's President Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as well as learning the art of physical comedy from watching Chevy Chase.

In 1998, while enrolled at Arkansas State University would study theater and eventually stage manage William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

After enrolling at the University of Central Arkansas in 2006, an HBO film crew came to Little Rock, Arkansas to film part the documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School for Law and Lance made it into a background shot of the film.

It would not be until 2018 that Lance would make has film debut as an extra in the found footage film 1st Summoning followed by his first speaking role as Bob Roberts in the film Indestructible: Reckoning in 2019.