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Jerry Dexter was born on 18 April 1935 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981), The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) and The Adventures of Gulliver (1968). He died on 21 June 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Betty Ann Cain was born on 1 October 1931 in Wahiawa, Hawaii, USA. She was an actress, known for To Tell the Truth (2016). She was married to Craig Scheiner. She died on 30 July 2023 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Tipp McClure was born on 30 January 1927 in Cushing, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Daddy-O (1958), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and Official Detective (1957). He was married to Stephanie Evans. He died on 21 March 1995 in Sonoma County, California, USA.

June Mary MacCloy was born in Sturgis, Michigan on June 2, 1909. When she was a child her family moved to Toledo, Ohio. With her radiant smile, her tall, blonde, good looks and unusual voice, she brightened many a film and stage with her talent. After 1940 she became an obscure part of Hollywood and Broadway history. When she was a deep-voiced, 5' 71/2" teenage girl, she was chosen by song writer Lew Brown (of the prolific team DeSylva, Brown & Henderson) to do an impersonation of Broadway star Harry Richman, singing "I'm On The Crest of a Wave" in the ninth edition of George White's Scandals (Apollo Theater, July 2, 1928; 230 performances), starring Richman, Frances Williams, Willie & Eugene Howard and Ann Pennington. She and her mother moved to New York, and before embarking on a film career she was featured in the Parkington unit vaudeville shows, designed by Vincente Minnelli. In 1930 she was signed by Paramount Pictures to make film shorts in Astoria, L.I. Before making any features for Paramount, she was loaned out to United Artists to make her first feature, "Reaching for the Moon" with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Bebe Daniels. She's the memorable, tall, pretty blond with the deep voice, singing 16 measures of "When the Folks High Up Do The Mean Low Down!" by Irving Berlin. That same year, Paramount co-starred her with Frances Dee and Jack Oakie in "June Moon" (based on the Lardner-Kaufman play). Next came "The Big Gamble" (R-K-O Pathe) starring Bill Boyd, with Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland and ZaSu Pitts. In the early 1930s MacCloy made at least nine film shorts, including a series of short comedies called "The Gay Girls" with Marion Schilling and Gertrude Short. Three of her shorts were directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, using the name "William Goodrich." In 1932 she appeared with Lupe Velez, Bert Lahr, Buddy Rogers and June Knight in Hot-Cha, Florenz Ziegfeld's last production (Ziegfeld Theater, March 8, 1932; 119 performances). Her featured song was "Little Old New York" (unpublished) by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. When Hot-Cha closed, June sang on the cruise ship, "S.S. Transylvania, " and spent the rest of the decade performing in Chicago, New York and San Francisco clubs and theaters, with the orchestras of Johnny Hamp, Henry King, Ben Pollock and Griff Williams (with whom she recorded for Decca). Some of these spots included New York's Paramount Theater, Chicago's Chez Paree, and San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins. For Warner Bros./Vitaphone, she made a Technicolor two-reeler with Leon Erroll called "Good Morning, Eve, " directed by Roy Mack (September, 1934). Because of her contralto voice, she felt she was overlooked by radio producers. She suspected, many years later, that film producers may have thought she was a Lesbian. At Columbia Studios, she made "Glamour for Sale" in 1940, with Anita Louise and Roger Pryor. Her last real role was in "Go West" (MGM, 1940) in which she tried to seduce Groucho Marx, and sang a song, "You Can't Argue With Love" (unpublished) in the beer hall. She retired from performing when she married California architect Neal Wendell Butler, with whom she raised two children in Southern California. She met her husband through their mutual love of jazz music. She was widowed in 1985.

Mali Finn was born on 8 March 1938 in Danville, Illinois, USA. She was a casting director, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), Avatar (2009) and Titanic (1997). She was married to Don Finn. She died on 28 November 2007 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Michael Horowitz was born on 11 December 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Darwin Awards (2006), A Realized Man and Monologue (2017). He was married to Cynthia Horowitz. He died on 2 October 2019 in Sonoma County, California, USA.

Terence Locke was born on 12 June 1938 in Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Damnation Alley (1977), Kojak (1973) and Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976). He died on 17 March 1982 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Phyllis Gordon was born on 17 October 1889 in Suffolk, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Another Thin Man (1939), The Raid of the Human Tigers (1913) and A Messenger to Kearney (1912). She was married to Eugene Pallette. She died on 16 October 1964 in Sonoma, California, USA.

George Worthing Yates was born on 14 August 1901 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. George Worthing was a writer, known for The Tall Target (1951), Them! (1954) and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). George Worthing died on 6 June 1975 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Ed Parks was born to Edwin Rose Parks "the first" and Rosabel Mosley Parks of Waterbury, Connecticut. His father died in the 1919 flu epidemic, leaving Ed to be raised single-handedly by his mother, Rosabel (Rosa). He attended Driggs Grammar School in Waterbury, and developed an early talent for drawing, as well as an interest in aeronautics. He and his mother moved to Watertown when Ed was in Junior High, and he then attended Watertown High School (Connecticut). He was encouraged by his art teacher, H. Louise Johnson, to paint a mural in the High School basement gymnasium. The mural was an idealized history of the world, from the dinosaurs through present civilization. Around this time, he received his first freelance art job--drawing a small concept sketch for the patent papers of the very first Mickey Mouse watch, made by the Ingersoll Watch Company, of Waterbury. After high school, he attended Yale University Art School, with the idea of being a mural painter. During this time, he answered an ad posted on a bulletin board, "Disney Needs Artists." This soon led to his moving to California and a job at Disney, at the original Hyperion studio location, and then at the "new" (present) studio in Burbank. As did many animators, he began as an in-betweener, then as an assistant, and spent many years as an effects animator before moving into character animation on both features and many short subjects.

World War II saw him join the Navy, where he continued to work in animation on training films and ultimately top secret work for the Allied Invasion of Europe. During his time in the Navy, he met and married fellow Art & Animation Department Photographic Specialist Leah Bowlby. Following the War, the couple returned to California--(Leah is a California Native) Ed returning to Disney (Walt remarking, "Ed! When did you get back?!" and Ed replying, "I've been back for six weeks!"), and Leah finishing an education in Art at UCLA and becoming a high school art teacher until the birth of their son, Gary, in 1962.

Ed continued for Disney until 1960, with a half-year interlude circa 1956, where he was hand picked by Walt to go over to Paramount to work with Cecil B. DeMille as the effects animator for "The Ten Commandments." The Pillar of Fire, though not originally designed by Ed, was reworked by him, and its style and final look bears his hallmark. After this, he returned to Disney--with his final most distinct artistic flourish for the company being the design for the unique yellow smoke curling out of Cruella DeVil's cigarette in 101 Dalmatians.

Due to an opportunity for higher pay and more creative freedom, Ed left Disney and joined Hanna-Barbera, remaining there until his retirement from animation in 1978. A feature film for which he did extensive animation is Charlotte's Web, probably his favorite project with Hanna-Barbera, along with the much earlier Johnny Quest TV series. Another show which bears a large amount of his work is Scooby Doo, for its first couple of seasonal incarnations. Others of lesser renown include Hong Kong Phooey, the Great Grape Ape, Speed Buggy, Jeannie, and Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home.

Between his retirement from animation in 1978 and his passing in 1999, Ed painted and sold oil and acrylic paintings through local art galleries, taught painting privately, revived his interest in aeronautics with designing and building model airplanes, and spent time with his family. He is memorialized by a military style plaque on the Veterans Wall at Pleasant Hills Memorial Park in Sebastopol, California. His son, Gary, still has Ed's 1941 Disney animation desk (in use as a drawing desk) to this day.

E.A. Sirianni was born on 17 April 1922 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Mannix (1967), Night Gallery (1969) and Kojak (1973). He died on 31 December 1986 in Sonoma County, California, USA.

Robert Filmer was born on 6 November 1899 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Mom and Dad (1945), The El Paso Kid (1946) and Challenge of the Range (1949). He died on 15 January 1980 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Tom O'Loughlin was born on 24 December 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985), Jonny Quest (1964) and Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1982). He was married to Norma. He died on 26 October 2007 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Jim Wheelock was born on 14 November 1960 in Guatemala. He is known for Virtuosity (1995), Blink (1993) and The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986). He died on 1 October 2018 in Sonoma County, California, USA.

Henry H. Arnold was born on 25 June 1886 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Men of the Sky (1942), Army Air Forces - Pacific (1945) and Combat America (1943). He was married to Eleanor Alexander Pool. He died on 15 January 1950 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Paul Lombardi was born on 15 December 1959 in Sonoma, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fisher King (1991). He died on 9 September 1991 in Sonoma, California, USA.

George Burt was born on 7 October 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a composer, known for Secret Honor (1984), Cry Dr. Chicago (1971) and The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964). He was married to Sharon Graham. He died on 28 March 2015 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Bert Salzman was born in 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Geronimo Jones (1970), Angel and Big Joe (1976) and CBS Children's Film Festival (1967). He died on 29 November 2016 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Vingie E. Roe was born on 7 December 1879 in Wyandotte, Kansas, USA. Vingie E. was a writer, known for The Crimson Challenge (1922), Big Timber (1924) and Twilight (1919). Vingie E. was married to Raymond L. Lawton. Vingie E. died on 13 August 1958 in Sonoma County, California, USA.

Chester Gore was born on 25 August 1893 in Santa Rosa, California, USA. He was an art director, known for Just Off Broadway (1942), Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942) and Speed to Burn (1938). He died on 20 February 1966 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Cornelius P. Murphy was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was married to Betty Murphy. He died on 24 August 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Charles R. Meeker was born on 17 June 1942 in the USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Hitcher (1986), The Golden Child (1986) and The Hitcher (2007). He died on 18 February 2021 in Sonoma County, California, USA.

Alan Anderson was born on 9 December 1917 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for This Is the Army (1943) and Biography (1987). He died on 13 August 2007 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Edward Bach was born on 26 December 1943 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Columbo (1971) and Future Cop (1976). He was married to Stephanie Edwards. He died on 1 March 1998 in Sonoma, California, USA.

Warren Burr was born on 11 January 1923 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Youth Aflame (1944). He died on 25 January 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.