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- Melvoin received notoriety for his show business career, mainly in television in Northern Michigan. Born Donald J. Melvoin, he spent most of his life performing, from playing the drums to his big break in television on WPBN as "Deputy Don" in a 1950s kids show in Traverse City, Michigan. He hosted the "Fireman Freddy Show" in Grand Rapids, Michigan as well as the "Don Melovin Show." He resided in Indiana, Las Vegas, and Hollywood where he acted in popular TV show such as "Bonanza," "Mayberry RFD," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Twilight Zone," and "Night Gallery." He had a couple bit parts in two movies, "Somewhere in Time," which was filmed on Mackinac Island in 1980 starring Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour and in another movie starring Ernest Borgnine, "The Treasure of Sawdust Island" in 1999. Later, he returned to WPBN in Traverse City to host a horror series as "Count Zappula." He retired and spent his final years in Traverse City with his favorite acting partner, his dog, Lover.
- Mark Staycer was born on 16 January 1955 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He was an actor, known for Let Him Be (2009). He died on 30 December 2023 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
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Napoleon A. Chagnon was born on 27 August 1938 in Port Austin, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Ax Fight (1975), Arrows (1974) and Bride Service (1975). He was married to Carlene Badgero. He died on 21 September 2019 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.- Walter Hagen was born on 21 December 1892 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Match Play (1930), Green Grass Widows (1928) and The Pathé Daily News, No. 54 (1914). He was married to Edna C. Straus. He died on 5 October 1969 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
- Writer Harold Titus was born in Traverse City, MI, in 1888. A 1911 graduate of the University of Michigan, he worked as a reporter for the "Detroit News" during his college years. After graduating he became a fruit grower in Grand Traverse County. He joined the US Army during World War I and served as a sergeant in an ordnance company. An ardent conservationist--he was the conservation editor of "Field & Stream" magazine--as well as a novelist, he wrote articles for conservation magazines, helped organize the Isaac Walton League in 1922 and was a long-time member of the Michigan Conservation Commission. In 1951 he was awarded the National Wildlife Society's Leopold Medal for his conservation efforts. He died in his home town of Traverse City in 1967.
- Carol Duvall was born on 10 January 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She was married to Carl Duvall. She died on 31 July 2023 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Script and Continuity Department
The grandson of a movie theater owner, Matthew Kinne became fascinated with movies upon watching Star Wars (1977) at age 10. A graduate of Wheaton College (BS in 1989) and Regent University (MA in 1995), Matthew's first job in motion pictures was with a production company called Messenger Films. Messenger Films specializes in evangelistic motion pictures created for overseas audiences. At Regent University, Matthew often worked as production designer and art director for the student film productions there.
Upon graduation from Regent University, Matthew was East Coast editor of Movieguide Magazine in Atlanta, GA from 1995 - 2000. Moving back to his native Michigan in 2000, Matthew began a freelance media producing career, becoming an author of book Reflections of Movie Lovers (from Living Ink Press) and frequent crew member with Brauer Productions. Matthew has also produced radio productions including such programs at At the Movies with Matthew Kinne and Daily Reflections for Movie-Lovers.- Jim Servis was born on 22 February 1948 in Monroe, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Nightkill (1980). He was married to Marcia Ann Shugart . He died on 4 March 2023 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
- James DeAnda was born on 28 August 1925 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was married to Joyce Anita Goode and Olga Hilma Vizcarra. He died on 7 September 2006 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
- James Beardsley Hendryx was born on 9 December, 1880, at Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of Charles F. Hendryx (1847-1935) and Fanny Galt Taylor (1848-1930). His father, who owned and published the Sauk Centre Herald, was thought to be the last surviving member of the first graduating class at Cornell University. His mother was a grand-daughter of US President William Henry Harrison and a first cousin to President Benjamin Harrison.
As a boy Hendryx liked to hunt and fish, often with his good friend Claude Lewis (1878-1957). Claude, who later became a well-known surgeon, had a younger brother everybody called Red. Red would sometimes make a nuisance of himself by wanting to tag along with the two older boys. Red Sinclair, better known to us as Sinclair Lewis, went on to become Sauk Centre's most famous son. When once asked by Claude what was the difference between his writing and Sinclair's, Hendryx replied "The difference is that Red gets a dollar a word, and I get a penny a word."
Hendryx left the University of Minnesota after a year's attendance. Of his college experience Hendryx wrote "Attended public school for a vast number of years during which I learned to fish, hunt and trap, then entered the University of Minnesota where I absorbed so much of the curriculum that even yet fragments of it work to the surface and have to be carefully removed."
Before turning to writing fiction, Hendryx had worked as a newspaper reporter, hardware salesman, life insurance agent, purchasing agent for a leather tannery, helped run levels for a survey crew and bookkeeper for a sheep-shearing plant. His longest continuous job was at the tannery in Kentucky. "I stayed there 53 weeks," Hendryx once wrote, "and to this day that remains my record for holding a steady job." His career as a newspaper reporter on the Cincinnati American was cut short after he clandestinely inserted the headline "Jenkins Jerked to Jesus at Joilet" on a column he wrote about a hanging he was sent to witness. The editor (his father) thought it inappropriate and felt it better if he left.
Hendryx had also worked as a cowboy on cattle ranches in Montana and later Saskatchewan. While in Montana Hendryx became acquainted with the outlaw Kid Curry and his brother Lonny. Later he could not bring himself to join a posse intent on capturing the brothers. Around 1898 Hendryx and a friend trekked their way north to seek their fortunes in the Yukon Gold Rush. Soon he was back working as a cowboy on ranches in the western United States.
On 27 October, 1915, not long after his first novel, "The Promise", was published, Hendryx married Hermione Flagler (1888-1967) in Cincinnati, Ohio. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Edgar Henry Flagler and Jessie Hill. Over the next six years Hendryx and his wife would have three children, Hermione F. (1918), James Jr. (1919) and Betty H. (1921).
James B. Hendryx wrote around seventy novel and hundreds of short stories. His favorite settings were the Canadian and Alaskan wilderness. He repeatedly returned to plot lines concerning the Klondike Gold Rush. Best known of which are, the Black John Smith of Halfaday Creek series, published in 6 novels and 13 anthologies and his 8 Connie Morgan novels. By the 1920s Hendryx's writings were earning him around $45,000 annually, a fair sum for the day. In 3 May, 1956 Hendryx received national attention when he was chosen to appear on This Is Your Life (1952) with Ralph Edwards.
James Beardsley Hendryx died on 1 March, 1963, after an eight month stay at Munson Hospital in Traverse City, Michigan. He was survived by his wife and children. He had remained an avid fisherman and hunter for most of his life. For a number of years he operated a ranch in the Badlands of Wyoming and maintained a cabin near Thessalon, Ontario. It was said of Hendryx that he was as tough as his characters, yet with a great sense of humor, gentle manner and that he really experienced the things he wrote about. - Production Manager
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Laura Stoye was born on 29 October 1947. She was a production manager, known for Treasure Island (1990). She died on 15 February 1991 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.