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Whitney Blake was born on 20 February 1926 in Eagle Rock, California, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Hazel (1961), My Gun Is Quick (1957) and One Day at a Time (1975). She was married to Allan Manings, Jack Fields and John Thomas Baxter Jr.. She died on 28 September 2002 in Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Delightful child/juvenile actress Virginia Anna Adelaide Weidler (her friends called her "Ginny") had that knowing gleam in her eye that usually spelled trouble in one form or another for anyone nearby. She was born in Eagle Rock, California, in 1927, one of six children. Her mother was former Wagnerian opera singer Margarete Radon (born Margarete Therese Louisa Meyer), and her father was architect Alfred Weidler.
Virginia nearly made her acting debut at age 3 in John Barrymore's Moby Dick (1930) but was summarily replaced. A year later, she scored her first small movie bit in Warner Baxter's Surrender (1931) and was on her way. One of her brothers, child actor and musician George Weidler, was Doris Day's first husband (from 1946 to 1949).
RKO picked up young Virginia after learning that she could speak a bit of French. The average-looking youngster was ably cast as rural tomboy types in Laddie (1935) and Freckles (1935), the latter film allowing her to do a dead-on parody of Shirley Temple. She earned her first lead in Girl of the Ozarks (1936) and showed she could easily hold her own. After an unimpressive stint with Paramount, who tried to groom her as a rival to Fox's bratty Jane Withers, she was finally picked up by MGM and her film career blossomed. Co-starring with Mickey Rooney in Love Is a Headache (1938), she proved a natural young comedienne and precocious scene-stealer in such films as Out West with the Hardys (1938) (again with Rooney) and Too Hot to Handle (1938).
Little Virginia could also shine in dramatic outings, as she did with The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) and Bad Little Angel (1939), but she was never a good choice for sappy roles, as demonstrated when she played Norma Shearer's whiny imp of a daughter in The Women (1939). Virginia's forte was providing comedy relief, and she reached her young peak with two classic MGM films: Young Tom Edison (1940), as Rooney's creative sister, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), as Katharine Hepburn's smart-alecky younger sister. Her tongue-in-cheek rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" at the piano was just one of many memorable highlights from this vintage classic.
The young actress's career started to slip away from her when the teenage Shirley Temple signed with MGM, abruptly bumping "Plain-Jane" Virginia back to secondary status. After rather disappointing receptions to Born to Sing (1942), The Youngest Profession (1943), and Best Foot Forward (1943), the awkward teen left films and turned to vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedy performer, utilizing her full-scale talents as a mimic. She made her legitimate stage debut in "The Rich Full Life" at the John Golden Theatre in 1945, but the show closed within a month.
Soon after, Virginia retired from show business, married, and had two children. She passed away from a heart ailment at 41. After her death it was learned that she had suffered from rheumatic fever as a child.- Angela Stevens was born on 8 May 1925 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), Outlaw Women (1952) and Blunder Boys (1955). She was married to George F. Zika. She died on 17 March 2016 in Canyon Lake, Riverside County, California, USA.
- Director
- Actor
- Animation Department
Raymond S. Persi is an Emmy Award®-winning director (The Simpsons) who has worked on high profile projects for many film and television studios including 20th Century Studios, Illumination Entertainment, and Disney Feature Animation. While at Disney Feature Animation, Raymond was a part of the story crew on Wreck-It Ralph and the Oscar®-winning animated feature, Frozen, as well as the Oscar®-winning animated short, Feast. Raymond was a producer and director on the award-winning independent short Ghost of Stephen Foster and served as co-director on the animated feature film, Extinct. In addition, Raymond is also a voice actor in several animated projects including Zootopia, where he provided the voice for Flash, the fastest sloth at the DMV. Most recently, in association with WildBrain Studios, Raymond has directed four new Peanuts Specials for Apple TV+ under the "Snoopy Presents" banner: "It's The Small Things, Charlie Brown", the Emmy® nominated/Leo Award® winning "Lucy's School", the Annie Award® winning "One-of-a-Kind, Marcie", and "Welcome Home, Franklin".- Kathy O'Dare was born on 27 August 1957 in Eagle Rock, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Eat My Dust (1976), Texas Detour (1978) and Happy Days (1974). She died on 18 July 2010 in Riverside, California, USA.
- Considered by many experts to be the greatest quarterback in the history of NFL football, Montana was recruited by the San Francisco 49ers from Notre Dame in 1979 after leading the "Fighting Irish" to a Cotton Bowl victory in 1978. "Joe Cool," as he was known for his ice cool disposition in the heat of the game, led the 49ers on field for twelve seasons and played key roles in the San Francisco 49ers four Super Bowl victories between 1982 and 1990. Montana scooped the Super Bowl MVP Award in 1982, 1985 and 1990, however he suffered an elbow injury in January 1991, and missed all of the 1991 season, and most of the 1992 season.
He was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs in April 1993, and spent his final two years with the Chiefs before finally retiring at the end of 1994.
Well remembered for his amazing plays with fleet-footed wide receiver Jerry Rice, and high-stepping running back Roger Craig. - George Weidler was born on 11 January 1926 in Eagle Rock, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Dimples (1936) and The Pinch Singer (1936). He was married to Barbara Heussenstamm, Maureen Arthur, Donna Mae Boniface and Doris Day. He died on 27 December 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Donald Kerr was born on 5 August 1891 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), The Devil Bat (1940) and Gang Bullets (1938). He died on 25 January 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Paul Ellering was born on 22 August 1953 in Grey Eagle, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for WrestleMania XXVII (2011), AWA All-Star Wrestling (1972) and Pro Wrestling USA (1984). He has been married to Joan Saatzer since 18 August 2006. He was previously married to Debra Randall.
- Frances Lee was born on 5 May 1906 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Her Splendid Folly (1933), Divorce Made Easy (1929) and The Carnation Kid (1929). She died on 10 October 1999 in Cardiff-by-the Sea, California, USA.
- Brad Olson was a professional actor--a member of SAG, AFTRA and Actors Equity--with 35 years of professional experience, beginning in the Theatre Arts Department of Texas University. His extensive theater background includes leading and principal roles in approximately 400 plays, ranging from classical theater to musical comedy, appearing with Arthur Treacher, Uta Hagen, Basil Rathbone, Diana Barrymore, Mae West and Alan Alda, among others. He acted and directed at Margo Jones Theatre, performed at National Classic Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse and Theatre-By-The-Sea, later touring extensively as a principal with The John Kenley Players. His TV appearances include guest-starring roles on such shows as The Andy Griffith Show (1960), The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956), Manhunt (1959), Stage 13 (1950) and Danger (1950), among others. He has made 24 Class "A" commercials, which have been shown on such early series as Studio One (1948), The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956) and Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961). He has been a television announcer, radio announcer, hosted symphonic broadcasts and wrote program notes, hosted his own symphonic program and created other music formats and copy, as well as news broadcasts. "To Ricki - With Pride" series, with Eddie Dowling. He was a comedy writer for Paul Lynde on The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965). He operated his own photography studio and darkroom, doing professional portrait photography, and was published in Bazaar and Vogue magazines. He was an expert marksman, horseman and, early on, professional jazz musician. He enjoyed writing songs, plays and working on a book in his spare time. He is survived by a daughter who is following in her father's footsteps to become an actor and a singer.
- Art Department
Richard Dean Snail was born and raised in Eagle Rock, California. He was once married to Producer and reality star Gina Rodriguez (co-star on Mama June From Not To Hot). They had two children together. Richard works as the head of greens in the television studios. Richard resides in Los Angeles.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Josh Veselka was born on 16 April 1970 in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Nick News with Linda Ellerbee (1991), Nick News Presents: LifeStory: Muhammad Ali (2001) and Studs Terkel: Listening to America (2009). He has been married to Rebecca Veselka since 16 September 2000. They have two children.- Burdena Pasenelli was born on 22 March 1945 in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. She died on 24 May 2016 in Carefree, Arizona, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Bio of James W. Hawk - filmmaker, published author and photographic artist
James W. Hawk was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania and grew up in East Cleveland, Ohio. He is of German, Irish, Scottish and Native American (Seneca) decent. He attended Ohio University in Architecture and completed his higher education at Cleveland State University as a Mechanical Engineer. He pursued a career in industrial sales and marketing with a Fortune 500 company which resulted in re-locations to Rochester, New York, South Bend, Indiana and New Haven, Connecticut.
Jim's first independent film project was a two hour cinema verite called Old School Roadster which aired on Connecticut television.
Jan Harlan (executive producer for Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg) viewed Jim's work and gave his work high marks. F. Miguel Valenti viewed Jim's work and assessed it as better than much of what is released these days.
One of Jim's films was an exhibit at a Rome Italy art exhibition recently. Seven of his films have finished as semi-finalists at film festivals One of Jim's films was recently awarded semi-finalist at a science fiction film festival out of a thousand entries. He has had films screened at 21 film festivals/venues around the world with 44 films being official selections He has had his films shown on local television.
Jim wrote, produced and directed his first scripted short film, Alpha to Omega: Part 4 with limited resources and plenty of ingenuity. Since that time, he has produced, written and directed many narrative short films, documentaries, music videos, animation films, experimental films, time-lapse films and industrial presentations.
Jim has also worked for the Connecticut Film Industry Training Program for three years as an Associate Producer and Director of the "behind the scenes" film of their short film project. He has been interviewed on television regarding the making of several of his short films. His work is represented on IMDb where he is one of the top lifetime contributors. He is a colleague of the USVAA (United States Veteran's Artist Alliance. He also serves on the advisory committee of CARTMICA
He continues to make short films and has added "published author" to his resume. He recently published his first short story of his ATHOIA Anthology which is titled TO beta-VANVERDEN AND BACK on Amazon Kindle. Clyde Phillips, a writer and producer for the award winning television series, DEXTER, gave VANVERDEN a 5 star rating.
Jim is also a photographic artist with his work being displayed on Fine Art America.com.
Here is his HawkMedia Studios website: HTTP://WWW.hawkmedia-studios.com/ Here is his HawkFilme website: HTTP://WWW.hawkfilme.com/ Here is his Aleph to Taw website: HTTP://WWW.alephtotaw.com/- Actress
- Producer
Stacey Storey was born in Eagle River, Alaska, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Best Friends Forever (2013), I Hate L.A. (2011) and The Heartless (2012).- Norm Van Brocklin was born on 15 March 1926 in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Crazylegs (1953), The Red Skelton Hour (1951) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He was married to Gloria Schiewe. He died on 2 May 1983 in Social Circle, Georgia, USA.
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Rian James was born on 3 October 1899 in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA. He was a writer and director, known for 42nd Street (1933), Best of Enemies (1933) and Exclusive (1937). He was married to Marina Alexeieff (Anne Andre). He died on 26 April 1953 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Connie Douglas Reeves was born on 26 September 1901 in Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas, USA. He died on 17 August 2003 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Dwight Warren was born on 18 July 1889 in Eagle Rock, California, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Dangerous Traffic (1926), In Slumberland (1917) and Double Dealing (1923). He was married to Louise Seston. He died on 14 August 1979 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Morgan D. Flowers was born in Eagle Lake, Texas, in July 1897. He attended Texas A&M College, and spent the next few years in Texas and New Mexico, working on ranches. He married Elizabeth Tweedy at San Angelo, Texas, on March 18, 1918. He began training polo ponies, and eventually began selling them. He also played polo, and through the game, met and became friends with Will Rogers. Rogers invited Flowers to come to California. According to his obituary, which was reprinted in his hometown newspaper, the Eagle Lake Headlight, on February 25, 1949, he was a large man, a "natural with horses," and "he did stunt riding in western movies." He died in Los Angeles, California, in late 1948 or early 1949.- Additional Crew
Larry Bees was born on 2 December 1932 in Eagle Rock, California, USA. He is known for Chisum (1970). He was married to Jackie. He died on 6 March 2013 in St. George, Utah, USA.- Jim Picotte was born on 9 September 1963 in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. Jim was married to Sylvia Ellen Red Dog. Jim died on 28 April 2020 in Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA.
- Eric Jimenez began his training in speech during his first years of college. He later continued his training through theater lessons at a private art academy. Upon graduation, he was offered the opportunity to perform in local plays in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area. This lead to opportunities in Los Angeles where he now resides. He is currently involved in the post production of major feature films.
- Ray Walters was born in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA. He is known for The Trouble Buster (1925), The Bronc Stomper (1928) and The Shield of Silence (1925).
- Leonard Charger was born on 29 November 1961 in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. He is known for Dances with Wolves (1990). He died on 10 March 2012 in Isabel, South Dakota, USA.
- Walter Hopps was born in 1933 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 20 March 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Patric Schmid was born on 12 April 1944 in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA. Patric died on 6 November 2005 in London, England, UK.
- Samuel D. Ratcliffe was born on 30 March 1945 in Eagle Lake, Florida, USA. He was a writer, known for Santa Barbara (1984), Another World (1964) and Guiding Light (1952). He died on 14 December 1995 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- Soundtrack
Rumel Fuentes was born on 25 June 1943 in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA. He died on 10 October 1986 in San Diego, California, USA.- Jeb Putzier was born on 20 January 1979 in Eagle, Idaho, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Francisco Javier Flores was born on 7 August 1984 in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for El escape de los Santos (2005), Ash Wednesday: Capitulo Unus (2007) and Cucaramacara (2005).- Art Department
- Animation Department
- Actor
Edmond Eggleston was born on 19 August 1975 in Eagle, Idaho, USA. He is an actor, known for The Super Hero Squad Show (2009), Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007) and The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (2008).- Carson Stiggers was born on 1 March 1913 in Eagle River, Alaska, USA. He was an actor, known for Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman (1915), Barney Most Huggable Moments (2013) and Barney & Friends (1992). He died on 27 February 2015 in England.
- Caroline Lockhart was born on 24 February 1871 in Eagle Point, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for The Fighting Shepherdess (1920), The Dude Wrangler (1930) and The Man from Bitter Roots (1916). She died on 25 July 1962 in Cody, Wyoming, USA.
- Costume Designer
Lillian was born on 16 January 1903 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA. Lillian was a costume designer, known for $10 Raise (1935), Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) and Bachelor of Arts (1934). Lillian was married to Douglas W. Churchill. Lillian died on 11 January 1989 in Monterey, California, USA.- Josh Ashton was born on 24 August 1949 in Eagle Lake, Texas, USA. He died on 4 October 1993 in Harris County, Texas, USA.