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Ryan Phillippe was born on September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, to Susan (Thomas), a nurse, and Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician. He has three sisters, Kirsten, Lindsay, and Katelyn, and attended New Castle Baptist Academy. Ryan's acting career began with the soap opera One Life to Live (1968). It was no small role. His character, Billy Douglas, was US daytime television's first gay teenager. Billy struggled with coming out issues and the town's anti-gay reactions. After several other television appearances and he began appearing in movies of his own, Nowhere (1997), White Squall (1996) I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Cruel Intentions (1999), Crash (2005), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), and Stop-Loss (2008).- Actor
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Born William John Hart in 1917, the Pennsylvania-born actor was the son of a professional ballplayer. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, then worked as a clothing salesman before deciding to give acting a try. He certainly had the requisite dreamboat looks as Columbia signed this blue-eyed, black-haired, extraordinary-looking specimen in 1939. Billed as Robert Sterling as not to confuse anyone with the silent screen legend William S. Hart, he was groomed in two-reeled shorts and bit parts in minor features but nothing much happened.
In 1941, MGM took him on as a possible replacement for another gorgeous Robert - Robert Taylor - who was about to join the Navy. Sterling married actress Ann Sothern in 1943 after meeting her on the set of Ringside Maisie (1941), one of several programmers in Sothern's "Maisie" series. They had a daughter, Patricia, who later became the actress Tisha Sterling. While at MGM he appeared in slick, "nice guy" second leads in such "A" films as Greta Garbo's swan song Two-Faced Woman (1941), Johnny Eager (1941) and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), the last two starring Lana Turner, while starring in "B" rankers that included The Getaway (1941) and This Time for Keeps (1942). Sterling himself would serve during WWII with the Army Air Force as a pilot instructor and was stationed at one point in London.
His movie persona suggested more than a trace of the dapper playboy, and his carefree style and tone easily had Gig Young coming to mind. Robert's film career, however, lost major momentum in post-war years with rather pat, colorless parts in such action dramas as Bunco Squad (1950) and Column South (1953), and even in the splashy musical Show Boat (1951). Divorced from Ms. Sothern in 1949, he was introduced to actress Anne Jeffreys while making his Broadway debut in "Gramercy Ghost" down the block from where she was starring in the musical "Kiss Me Kate." The couple wed in 1951 and produced three sons. Robert and Anne (who was also having a down time in films by this point) decided to revive their faltering careers with a singing club act. Not only was their pairing a success, it led directly to their starring roles in the classic Topper (1953) comedy series on TV. As wry, debonair ghost George Kirby, he and Anne (playing his equally "spirited" wife Marion) expertly took over the jet-setting roles established on film by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. The couple soon became household names engaging audiences week after week with their delightfully capricious antics and disappearing acts, much to the chagrin of bemused mortal Leo G. Carroll in the title role. Robert and Anne continued to perform together on stage ("Bells Are Ringing") and even top-lined another sitcom Love That Jill (1958) which lasted only a few months. After another failed series Ichabod and Me (1961), which was a solo effort, and a couple of pedestrian parts in the movies Return to Peyton Place (1961) (as Dr. Michael Rossi) (1961), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) and A Global Affair (1964), Robert slacked off considerably. He made only one return to Broadway with the 1961 light comedy "Roman Candle" co-starring Inger Stevens and Julia Meade. The show folded quickly. By the late 1960s, Sterling was pretty much out of the picture.
He entered into what would become a lucrative computer business, and kept a decidedly low profile, prompting many fans to think that the ever-busy Anne Jeffreys was a widow! In truth, the couple made sporadic appearances together in the 70s and 80s in episodes of "Murder, She Wrote" and "Hotel," among others. During the last decade of his life, Sterling suffered greatly from shingles, which kept him confined to a bed for the most part. The man who was once deemed "the ghost with the most" died in his Brentwood home of natural causes at the age of 88.- Actor
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Cristos, originally from the east coast, started his acting career in New York and moved to L.A. soon after. He was influenced as a child by actors such as Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Clint Eastwood. With over thirty feature films and twenty network shows to his credit, Cristos has many memorable roles in films such as "Desperado," "From Dusk 'Till Dawn," "The Deep Blue Sea," "Drillbit Taylor" and "Hell Ride." Some of his guest star credits include "The Shield," "George Lopez," "Desperate Housewives," "ER," "Numbers" and the Showtime series "Dexter."- Actress
- Producer
Shi Ne Nielson was born in New Castle, Colorado, USA. Shi Ne is an actor and producer, known for Charmed (2018), Chasing Life (2014) and Home Again (2017).- Producer
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Jonathan Craven is a creator and producer known for feature films, television, documentary, branded and VR /AR content. His work has included creations for HBO, Universal and Fox Studios, NBC, VH1, Apple Music, AT&T, Budweiser, Beats By Dre, Spotify, and a plethora of major recording artists. Craven's extensive experience as producer, writer and director includes partnerships with Hollywood studios such as Universal, Fox and HBO. As Partner, Executive Producer and Head of Content for Los Angeles-based production company The Uprising Creative (2012-2017), Craven served as both producer and director on countless videos for artists like Rihanna, Kanye, Hailee Steinfeld, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Selena Gomez and more. Alongside his extensive music video credits, Craven is responsible for numerous commercial, digital and documentary style spots for international brands such as Budweiser, Apple Music, Nike, AT&T, Perrier, Live Nation, Beats By Dre, CBS News and The Grammy Foundation, among others. Television credits extend from NBC to VH1 Films. Craven has also produced numerous feature films, including the horror hit The Last House on the Left (2009) for Universal Pictures/Relativity, The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2006) for Fox Atomic Films, and the acclaimed indie feature Random Acts of Violence (2012) for Netflix.- Producer
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Leslie Sansone was born on 14 February 1961 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Walk at Home by Leslie Sansone (2014), Walk At Home's New Year's Walk Challenge (2018) and Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone: High Calorie Burn - 2 Miles (2001). She has been married to Joseph Bullano since 26 August 1994. They have two children.- Actress
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Jan White was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. She is known for Season of the Witch (1972), The Hunted (1972) and Monodrama Theater (1953).- Director
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Roy Del Ruth was born on Oct. 18, 1895, in Philadelphia, PA. He began his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915. He began directing in 1919 for Sennett with the two-reeler Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts (1920). In the early 1920s he moved over to features with such efforts as Asleep at the Switch (1923), The Hollywood Kid (1924), Eve's Lover (1925) and The Little Irish Girl (1926)_. Following several more titles, many of which were later lost in a film vault fire, he directed The First Auto (1927), a charming look at the introduction of the first automobile to a small rural town. The film featured several elaborate sound effects for the time and was considered lost until it was restored years later. Del Ruth went on to direct a number of films before having the distinction of directing the musical The Desert Song (1929), the first color film ever released by Warner Bros. That same year he directed Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Warner's second two-strip Technicolor, all-talking feature that also became a big box-office hit for the director. Having successfully segued into the talkie era, Del Ruth directed two more two-strip color musicals, Hold Everything (1930) and The Life of the Party (1930), before directing James Cagney and Joan Blondell in the cheerfully amoral gangster film Blonde Crazy (1931). That same year he directed the first of three adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's famed novel, The Maltese Falcon (1931). In that one Ricardo Cortez portrayed the roguish private eye Sam Spade, whose investigation of a murder case entwines him in a plot involving a number of unsavory types searching for a fabled, jewel-encrusted falcon. While the plot basically mirrors the 1941 remake (The Maltese Falcon (1941), this pre-Code version featured several instances of sexual innuendo, including Bebe Daniels bathing in the nude, overt references to homosexuality and even one instance of cursing.
Del Ruth reunited with James Cagney for the crime drama Taxi (1931) and helmed the well-regarded show-biz comedy Blessed Event (1932). He went on to pilot a number of above average-pictures such as The Little Giant (1933) starring Edward G. Robinson, Lady Killer (1933) with Cagney again, Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) featuring Bette Davis, Upperworld (1934) with Ginger Rogers and the musical comedy Kid Millions (1934) starring Eddie Cantor. He next directed Ronald Colman in his second and final appearance as Bulldog Drummond in the detective mystery Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) and steered the backstage showbiz musical Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), starring Jack Benny and Eleanor Powell
After returning to the realm of crime for It Had to Happen (1936) with George Raft and Rosalind Russell, Del Ruth directed James Stewart in one of the actor's few musicals, Born to Dance (1936). He followed up with Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) before guiding ice skating star Sonja Henie through My Lucky Star (1938) and Happy Landing (1938).
Del Ruth continued churning out product for the studios, helming competent films like The Star Maker (1939), Here I Am a Stranger (1939), He Married His Wife (1940) and Topper Returns (1941). After working solo on The Chocolate Soldier (1941), Maisie Gets Her Man (1942), Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) and Broadway Rhythm (1944). It may be interesting to note that Del Ruth was the second highest paid director in Hollywood from the period 1932-41, according to Box Office and Exhibitor magazine.
Del Ruth was one of seven directors on the successful Ziegfeld Follies (1945), which featured an all-star cast of Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Lena Horne, Red Skelton and William Powell. From there he helmed the cheerfully ambitious Christmas-themed It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), an appealing entertainment that was compared to It's a Wonderful Life (1946), but did not have that film's generational resonance. Still, the musical comedy starring Don DeFore and Ann Harding was still a touching film that managed to delight. Del Ruth next directed The Babe Ruth Story (1948), with William Bendix badly miscast as baseball legend Babe Ruth. Bending historical truths lest he offend Ruth's legacy, Del Ruth's biopic was rushed through production amidst news of the ailing Ruth's declining health. Even Del Ruth remained unsatisfied with the results.
He directed George Raft again in the film-noir crime drama Red Light (1949), Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo in the comedy Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) and James Cagney in the vibrant The West Point Story (1950). Following a pair of mediocre Doris Day musicals, Starlift (1951) and On Moonlight Bay (1951), Del Ruth's career began to slow to basically one project a year, with Stop, You're Killing Me (1952) and the James Cagney military musical About Face (1952). He went on to direct Jane Powell and Gordon MacRae in Three Sailors and a Girl (1953), then took a short excursion into the new 3D process with the horror film Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) with Karl Malden.
Away from the director's chair for the next five years, Del Ruth returned to helm the low-budget horror picture The Alligator People (1959), a bizarre tale about humans being partially transformed into alligators in the Deep South, a picture that would seem more suited to Roger Corman than Del Ruth. His ended his career with the misfire Why Must I Die? (1960), apparently made to cash in on the success of the better known Susan Hayward film I Want to Live! (1958).
Roy Del Ruth died a year later on April 27, 1961, at 67 years old from a heart attack.- Actor
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Like many actors of his day, Joe Garcio didn't start out in California but was actually the son of a shoemaker in Delaware. After drifting around for a while Garcio made his way to Hollywood where he was able to establish himself as a prolific cowboy extra that was well liked by his peers.
Garcio's ability to handle and shoe horses lead him to appearing in westerns starting in the 1930s. He regularly worked in films doing posse scenes and appearing in Mexican settings. Like many cowboy extras, he couldn't make a living just doing only western movies. So Garcio found another revenue stream by appearing in many big budget films where they would need ethnic appearing extras when a movie's setting was an exotic location.
By the 1940s, Garcio's bulky weight and short height lead him to found himself regularly working in westerns as bartenders and henchmen. He also started appearing as police officers. It wasn't uncommon for Garcio to be an actor's stand-in in films. When he was a stand-in, he found himself working for longer periods on films and as such, the quantity of the work wasn't there. Like most stand-ins, Garcio was typically allowed to collect a paycheck as an extra and he was usually in a part that was an upgrade from your typical extra role.
With the coming of television westerns, Garcio found himself very busy at Revue Studios productions. He was usually a townsman in a lot of their westerns and he would appear as workman and ethnic extras in their drama based productions. Thanks to the many studio connections and friendships he developed over the years, he also found that he was able to gain employment in shows that were produced by other studios. He regularly appeared as a townsman on Bonanza and frequently played bartenders in rough looking bars.
By the late 1960s, westerns western coming to an end and the amount of westerns that studios were making were decreasing. It was during this period in which Garcio decided to retired but not before leaving a long lasting legacy of being a dependable extra, a good cowboy, and most of all a wonderful friend to many of his fellow cowboy extras.- Actor
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Patrick Mealey is a voiceover artist based out of Dallas, Texas known for their work in video games, anime, commercials, e-learning, audio books and various online projects. Originally from Newark, Delaware, Patrick fell into acting during college, specifically voice acting and has never looked back since. With a powerful, enthusiastic and especially youthful voice, their repertoire consists of heroes, best friends, edge lords, goofballs and the occasional gremlin (which isn't very far off from how they usually are).
A couple of roles they are known for include Gashin Tezuka in the anime AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline and Akira in the popular video game Genshin Impact. They've also done narration and performances for YouTube channels and creators such as Watchmojo.com, CDawgVA, and a multitude of independent projects throughout the online sphere.
Outside of acting, Patrick enjoys streaming games on Twitch, performing music, working out, hanging out with friends, taking care of their pet cat Draco and spreading positivity and care to everyone they can- Louise Tracy was born on 31 July 1896 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. She was married to Spencer Tracy. She died on 13 November 1983 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
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Gabbie Hanna was born on 7 February 1991 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Escape the Night (2016), David's Vlog (2015) and Laid in America (2016).- Nathan Roth was born on 26 September 1928 in New Castle, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bionic Woman (1976), Cat in the Cage (1978) and Witches' Brew (1980). He died on 14 March 2003 in San Marino, California, USA.
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Chris Clavelli was born on 11 July 1961 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Law & Order (1990), Here's the Thing... (2013) and Cryptids (2019).- Producer
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Matt Boatright-Simon is a multiple award-winning stage, television, and film writer/director/cinematographer/actor/editor/producer. He's created genre-bending film, magical realism theater, documentary television, visionary commercials and branded content.
Matt co-wrote the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning, internationally acclaimed play "100" and returned to Edinburgh in 2016 with the bombastic comedy "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Half Brother". He's won multiple awards across the globe for producing and directing with his short film "Let Be", holds a 2010 Insight Award of Excellence for his directing "This Emotional Life" for PBS, and won "Best Editor" at 2007 Terror Film Festival for his film "Til Night".
He's a visual stylist with a command of nuanced, character-based storytelling, mixed with organic visual effects. He's photographed President Obama, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, BB King, Kanye West; and a variety of other heads of state, Nobel laureates, astronauts and other exceptional human beings. In addition to filming from helicopters, airplanes, motorcycles and boats, Matt's shot in remote Fijian jungles, inside NASA's classified command center, at the Keck Observatory at 14,000 feet, and deep inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Boatright-Simon started his career at award-winning music video, commercial and film production shop Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, learned editing at the foot of Academy Award-winning Hank Corwin at Lost Planet in Santa Monica, honed his storytelling skills on London's West End stage, and developed his technical chops at Academy Award-Winning Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles. He's composed and performed music for film and television, reported and opined for numerous U.S. news publications including YahooNews! and Bleacher Report, had a recurring role on Beverly Hills 90210.
Matt was a member of the National Champion University of Wisconsin rowing team, speaks some Mandarin, is an inventor and a scratch coder.- Dalpre Grayer was raised in Jackson, MI. He moved to Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue an acting career. Since then he has appeared in numerous shows and commercials such as NBC's "Grimm", Comedy Central's "Workaholics", Honda, Uloric, plus many more. He most recently booked the ABC Studio pilot "An American Education".
- Gary Sloan was born on 6 July 1952 in New Castle, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for This is Where We Found Ourselves (2020), Guiding Light (1952) and Witchcraft (1988).
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Carl Boenish was born on 3 April 1941 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Gypsy Moths (1969), Playground in the Sky (1977) and Sky Dive (1979). He was married to Jean Boenish. He died on 7 July 1984 in Trollryggen Peak, Romsdal, Norway.- Producer
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Robert Stillman was born on 29 March 1910 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and assistant director, known for Second Chorus (1940), The Sound of Fury (1950) and In This Corner (1948). He was married to Ruth Pickering Clark and Priscilla Richenda Gurney. He died on 8 June 1995 in Riverside, California, USA.- Jane Bernoudy was born on 19 August 1893 in New Castle, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Mysterious Outlaw (1917), Mr. Opp (1917) and The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917). She died on 28 October 1972 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
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- Script and Continuity Department
Emily Turner was born on 23 January 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Ticket Cops (2010), Open House (2004) and Cupidity (2004).- Make-Up Department
Michele Teleis-Fickle was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. She is known for Grey's Anatomy (2005), F9: The Fast Saga (2021) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).- Director
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Jay Broad was born on 5 August 1930 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. Jay is a director and writer, known for The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991), Sidekicks (1986) and A Conflict of Interest (1982). Jay was previously married to Lois Bowers.- Michael Gray was born on 3 July 1964 in New Castle, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Laughing Boy (2000), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) and Dynasty (1981). He died on 6 June 2005 in Houston, Texas, USA.
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Jack Cole was born on 14 December 1914 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Justice League Action Shorts (2017), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008) and Plastic Man (2012). He died on 15 August 1958 in Cary, Illinois, USA.