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- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Mike Schank was an actor and composer, known for American Movie (1999), Storytelling (2001) and Coven (2000). He died on 13 October 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.- Errol Lindsey was born on 3 March 1972. He died on 23 July 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Darlene Lucht was born on 17 March 1938 in Franklin, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Bikini Beach (1964), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) and Five Bloody Graves (1969). She was married to Robert Dix. She died on 5 March 2011 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- A 26-year old African-American named Anthony Sears is now famous for being the fifth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. He was bisexual, had a girlfriend and worked at the Bakers Square restaurant in Milwaukee. Sears met Dahmer on the evening of March 25, 1989 at the Milwaukee gay club "La Cage". Later that night, when the bar closed, Sears' friend Jeffrey Connor drove him, Dahmer and Bob Keel, another friend of his, back to his grandmother's house. Before Connor let Anthony and Dahmer go, he reminded Sears that he was going to spend time with his family on Easter and asked him to call him in case he needed a ride back home. He had since never been seen again. According to his mother Marilyn, who didn't know he was going to be dead, Anthony was planning to see her on the next day to celebrate his recent promotion at his job at the Bakers Square restaurant as a manager, but he never showed up. As for Dahmer, he brought Sears inside his grandmother's house, where they had sex and Dahmer gave him a drink that put him to sleep. Once Sears fell asleep, Dahmer killed and dismembered his body, mummifying his head and penis, while the rest of the body was disposed. He eventually boiled his face by removing the skin and kept his skull as a souvenir. According to Dahmer, the body parts of Sears were in a black cabinet when he was serving a one-year sentence for a second degree sexual assault charge involving a teenage boy. In late July 1991, two years after his murder, Sears' remains were identified by a local coroner, when the world discovered the infamous ruthless serial killer of all time: Jeffrey Dahmer.
- Of Jewish-Puerto Rican descent, 23 year old handsome Chicagoan, Jeremiah Weinberger would become known as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmers 15th murder victim. They met in early July 1991 when Dahmer was prowling the streets of Chicago at "Carols Speakeasy Bar", located on Chicago's near north side, in Oldtown. Despite reservations, Weinberger was lured by the charming, boyishly handsome Dahmer to his Milwaukee apartment (Formerly The Oxford Apartments). After 4 days, Dahmer drugged Weinberger's drink. Once unconscious, Dahmer conducted experiments on Weinberger, by drilling a hole in his head, and injecting acid and boiling water into the frontal lobe of his brain, in an attempt to create a "sex zombie". Weinberger regained consciousness, but was groggy. Dahmer then drugged him again. Weinberger struggled for life for a day and a half before slipping into a coma. When his experiment failed, Dahmer strangled him. He severed Weinberger's head and placed it in his freezer. Dahmer dismembered Weinberger's body with a chainsaw and stored his torso in a 57 gallon blue drum which was filled with acid. In late July, 1991, along with a number of other victims, Jeremiah Weinberger's remains were returned to his parents for burial, when the world discovered a new infamous serial murderer; Jeffrey Dahmer.
- Charlotte Zucker was born on 10 March 1921 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Rat Race (2001) and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). She was married to Burton Zucker. She died on 5 September 2007 in Shorewood, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stalwart, durable Monte Blue, a romantic leading man of the silent days, was born January 11, 1887, as Gerard Monte Blue (some sources indicate 1890, but his mother's application for his admission to the Soldier's and Sailor's Orphan's Home lists his birth date as January 11, 1887). Various sources have reported his first name as George or Gerald, but, again, in his mother's application, it is spelled Gerard. His father was killed in a railroad accident when Monte was eight and his mother could not support four children. He was admitted (along with another brother, Morris) to the orphanage at that time. There he built up his physique playing football. At one time or another the able-bodied gent was a railroader, a fireman, a coal miner, a cowpuncher, a ranch hand, a circus rider, a lumberjack and, finally, trekking west, he became a day laborer for D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studios.
Blue eventually became a stuntman for Griffith and an extra in The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was his first film. Griffith took him in and made him an assistant on his classic epic Intolerance (1916), where he earned another small part. Gradually moving to support roles for both Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as "Danton" in Griffith's Orphans of the Storm (1921) with sisters Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. He rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead opposite Hollywood's top silent stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow and Norma Shearer. He made a relatively easy transition into talkies as he had a fine, cultivated voice, but, at the same time, lost most of his investments when the stock market crashed in 1929. By the 1930s the aging star had moved back into small, often unbilled parts, continuously employed, however, by his old friend DeMille and Warner Bros. At the end of his life he was working as an advance man for the Hamid-Morton Circus in Milwaukee. He died of a coronary attack complicated by influenza in 1963.- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Linda Hopkins was born on 14 December 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Leprechaun 2 (1994), Great Performances (1971) and The Kitchen (2019). She died on 10 April 2017 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.- James E. Doxtator was born on 1 March 1973. He died on 16 January 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Oliver Lacy was born on 23 June 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 15 July 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
John Dann MacDonald was born on July 24, 1916, in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He served in the OSS in the far east during World War Two. While still in the military, he wrote a short story and mailed it home to his wife, simply for her entertainment. Unknown to him, she submitted it to the magazine "Story", and it was accepted. This launched a writing career that spanned more than 40 years. MacDonald is best known for the series of detective-style novels featuring Travis McGee, with an interesting twist on the usual hard-boiled character; McGee was NOT a licensed private investigator, and in most of the novels, he agrees to recover something of value for a friend or a friend of a friend; his fee is one-half the value of the object. MacDonald had enrolled in the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, but dropped out during his sophomore year. He later completed his studies at Syracuse University, graduating in 1938, and in 1939 he received a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University. While attending Syracuse, he met Dorothy Prentiss; they married in 1937. They had one son. At the age of 70, John D. MacDonald traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in December of 1986 to undergo heart surgery. He died at a hospital there on December 28th. He is buried in Milwaukee, at Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum.- Director
- Producer
- Editor
Eli Grier Hayes was born on November 5th, 1993 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He fell in love with cinema at a relatively early age upon viewing the works of directors such as James Benning and Chantal Akerman. Eli began screenwriting as he entered high school, and directed his first short films, "The Life That Follows" and "Nobody," during his senior year. While enrolled at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York -- where he received his bachelor's degree in abnormal psychology, with a minor in creative writing -- he founded Hazel Eye Productions. Eli has since directed, produced & edited more than twenty-five feature films, and approximately fifty short films. His work has been screened at over seventy festivals across six continents, including The Beijing International Short Film Festival, Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival, The Pune Short Film Festival, The Cannes International Film Festival's Court Métrage, The Princeton Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, and The Milwaukee Short Film Festival, as well as venues such as Anthology Film Archives and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2017, he graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee with a master's degree in film & creative media, and went on to become the Project Manager at The Nashville Film Institute. Eli recently relocated back to his home city of Milwaukee, where he was working on several different projects, both short form and feature length, before passing away on May 23rd, 2020 at the age of 26 of an accidental overdose.- Steven W. Tuomi was born on 19 December 1962 in Ontonagon, Michigan, USA. He died on 15 September 1987 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Catherine Dahmer was born on 29 October 1904 in Iowa County, Wisconsin, USA. She was married to Herbert Walter Dahmer. She died on 25 December 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Konerak Sinthasomphone was born on 1 December 1976. He died on 27 May 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Joseph Bradehoft was born on 24 January 1966 in Minnesota, USA. He was married to Cheryl. He died on 19 July 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Ernest Miller was born in 1968 in the USA. He died on 3 September 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Curtis Straughter was born on 6 April 1973. He died on 18 February 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- David C. Thomas was born in 1967. He died on 24 September 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Raymond Smith was born in 1957. He died in May 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Burton Zucker was born on 4 July 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) and First Knight (1995). He was married to Charlotte Zucker. He died on 12 May 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Richard Guerrero was born in 1965. He died on 24 March 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Audrey Conti was born on 31 January 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), The Ford Television Theatre (1952) and Conflict (1956). She was married to Gary Clarence Steenblock. She died on 3 June 2021 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Rosalie Roy was born on 13 June 1909 in Portland, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Clancy of the Mounted (1933) and Young as You Feel (1931). She was married to Alan Douglas Nowell Clark. She died on 9 June 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
Bill Borchardt was born on 22 September 1914 in Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Coven (2000) and American Movie (1999). He died on 13 September 1997 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.- Bob Hersh was born Robert L. Hersh in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA to Emil and Mary A. Hersh. He married Sandra Hiken; in 1964; with the couple having three children, Leonard, Laura, and Susan. Hersh went to the University School of Milwaukee and Marquette University Law School. Between 1958 - 1960, he was "The Advisor" - host of horror movies on "Shock" screened on Friday nights at 11:30pm on WITI, Channel 6 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( 22 August 22, 1958 - 27 March 27, 1959); "Double Shock" on Saturday nights at 9:30pm, on WITI, Channel 6 Milwaukee, Wisconsin (23 August 23, 1958 - 28 March 28, 1959) and "The Advisor's Mystery Theater" Friday nights at 9:30pm (24 July, 1959 - 18 December, 1959), Saturday nights at 9:30pm (25 July 25, 1959 - 19 December, 1959), on WXIX, Channel 18 Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Friday nights at 10:05pm (25 December, 1959 - 29 January, 1960), Saturday nights after the 10:00 pm news (26 December 26, 1959 - 30 January, 1960) on WXIX, Channel 18 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He next decided to study law at .
In 1964, Hersh graduated from Marquette University, and began practicing law with his father, Emil Hersh. In 1984, he began the Hersh Law Offices in Mequon.
Hersh loved the theatre, performing on stage at different times in his life.. - Doug Balcer was born on 3 November 1976 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Eddie Noble and the Heroes (1999). He died on 3 April 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Rosemary Gernette was born on 25 April 1935 in Wausau, Wisconsin, USA. She was married to Howard Gernette. She died on 19 May 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Jackie Lucas was born on 24 October 1919 in Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Rough and Ready (1923), Smile Please (1924) and The Hollywood Kid (1924). He was married to Ramona Marie Hill. He died on 14 March 1983 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Matt Turner was born on 16 August 1970 in the USA. He died on 30 June 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Duane Gay was born in Wisconsin on April 14, 1956. He was known as an award-winning journalist who touched countless lives with the stories he told. Duane joined WISN-TV as a general assignment reporter in 1993. He was best known for his reporting in the weekly news segments "It's Your Money" and "The Inside Story." For a short time, Duane co-anchored Channel 12's morning news with WISN-TV's Sally Severson. After being diagnosed with a rare soft tissue cancer in the late '90s, Duane went on medical leave. However, he continued to provide periodic, inspirational updates on his medical condition and experimental cancer treatments. Prior to joining Channel 12, Duane served as news director at Milwaukee's WVTV (1988-1993) and as an anchor/reporter at Green Bay's WLUK-TV (1984-1988) and Wausau's WAOW-TV (1982-1984). Before moving into television, he worked as a radio reporter and anchor at WLPX and WBCS in Milwaukee, WYTL and WOSH in Oshkosh and WIZM in La Crosse. He earned a mass communications degree from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
- Esther S. Manz was born on 22 October 1907 in Plymouth, Wisconsin, USA. She was married to Gilbert Manz. She died on 26 February 1996 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Richard Atwater was born on 29 December 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Richard was a writer, known for Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011). Richard was married to Florence Atwater. Richard died on 21 August 1948 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Composer
Perhaps the most prolific member of Midnight Oil, Dwayne 'Bones' Hillman was born in the late 1950s in Auckland, New Zealand. Bones has been in many bands throughout his career as a bass guitarist, including 'Suburban Reptiles', 'The Masochists', 'Thunder Downunder', 'Coconut Rough', and of course 'The Swingers' and eventually 'Midnight Oil'. Suburban Reptiles disbanded and became 'The Swingers' in the late 70s, with Phil Judd from Split Enz and Ian 'Killjoy' Gilroy. Bones is good friends with Neil Finn, and there was some talk of Bones becoming the bassist for Crowded House, until Finn introduced him to Rob Hirst, who appointed him Midnight Oil bassist in 1987. Bones is the only member of Midnight Oil to appear in a movie, starring in a brief cameo in the 1982 musical movie 'Starstruck' (1982) as himself, Swingers bassist. Bones is married to Alexandra. Although Midnight Oil officially called it a day back in 2002, Bones continues to play bass in as many bands as he can get his teeth stuck into, and remains an important part of the Australian music industry.- Actor
- Production Designer
- Stunts
Byron Burrows was born on June 5, 1982 in Chicago Illinois, USA to his African American mother Cherry Vermel Burrows. They later resided in Milwaukee Wisconsin, in 1994 this is where he would receive his grade school education. After high school he traveled back and forward between Chicago and Milwaukee in the entertainment industry. In 2015 he decided to pursue acting, he is an actor, known for Paranoid Escape (2016)- Sally Martin was born on 14 July 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Jungle Princess (1936), Timothy's Quest (1936) and The Barrier (1937). She was married to Raube Marks. She died on 7 December 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Mike Sardina was born on 22 March 1951 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Parental Ties (2011) and Song Sung Blue (2008). He was married to Claire Sardina. He died on 27 July 2006 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Charles King was born on 12 October 1844 in Albany, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for A Daughter of the Sioux (1925), Tonio, Son of the Sierras (1925) and Warrior Gap (1925). He was married to Adelaide Yorke. He died on 17 March 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
A graduate of the former Boy's Tech High School (now Milwaukee Tech), he and his wife Carol set up housekeeping in Cedarburg while he was employed by a lawn mower manufacturer in Port Washington. By 1972 he was a quality-control inspector covering a career of 28 years. He became fascinated by the circus as a youth and became a model railroader and a circus historian and modeler, eventually completing a scale model of the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus which occupied most of his basement.
At the dawn of cable access television he began producing and hosting "Just Trains" on Milwaukee's local access channel on Viacom Cable. Eventually the show was picked up on the cable network around Milwaukee and other cities. After 72 shows of this 21-hour interview format show, Milwaukee's WMVS Channel 10 (PBS) agreed to air a new 21-hour magazine format show "On Track" in the Milwaukee market. For the second season the name was changed to "Tracks Ahead", and at that point it was expanded to the PBS network.- Dontre Hamilton was born on 20 January 1983. He died on 30 April 2014 in Red Arrow Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- George Reedy was born on 5 August 1917 in East Chicago, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Savage Harbor (1987), Making Sense of the Sixties (1991) and The Mike Douglas Show (1961). He died on 21 March 1999 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Beatrice Manley was born on 23 May 1921 in The Bronx, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Baby (1973), Little Mo (1978) and Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). She was married to Herbert Blau and Albert Freedberg. She died on 13 September 2002 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Jack Ritchie was born on 26 February 1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was a writer, known for A New Leaf (1971), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962). He died on 23 April 1983 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Steven J. Anderson was born on 29 June 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Age of Slavery (2000), The Alternate (2000) and Motel Blue (1997). He died in November 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.- 414 Lil Moe was an actor, known for 414 Lil Moe: Trendsetter (2021), 414 Lil Moe: Grateful (2021) and Drhodes feat. Lil Moe & Wingo of Jagged Edge: He Can't (2021). He died on 8 February 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Lee Rothman was born on 2 March 1927 in the USA. He died on 10 October 2004 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Chick O'Neill was born on 5 March 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Reeseville (2003) and Lady in the Box (2001). He was married to Michaele Kelly. He died on 14 April 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Soundtrack
Harvey Scales was born on 27 September 1941 in Osceola, Arkansas, USA. He died on 11 February 2019 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.- Douglas Mellor was born on 10 June 1929 in the USA. He was an actor, known for The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961), Fanny Crosby (1984) and Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent (1994). He died on 13 October 2004 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Barbara Williams was born on 24 May 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for L'espace d'un matin (1961) and The Gentle Rain (1966). She died on 3 August 2004 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.