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Sharon Farrell was born on 24 December 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Night of the Comet (1984) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). She was married to Dale Trevillion, Steve Salkin, John Boyer, Ron De Blasio and Andrew Prine. She died on 15 May 2023 in Orange County, California, USA.

Sandy Ward was born on 12 July 1926 in Alamosa, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Perfect Storm (2000), Under Siege (1992) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). He was married to Roxann Gladys Michel, Barbara Jean Rucker and Irene Lois Krinsky. He died on 6 March 2005 in Orange County, California, USA.

Robert B. Williams was born on 23 September 1904 in Glencoe, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bat (1959), The Killing (1956) and Hang 'Em High (1968). He died on 17 June 1978 in Orange County, California, USA.

John War Eagle was born on 24 September 1901 in Charles Mix, South Dakota. He was an actor, known for The Man from Laramie (1955), Last of the Comanches (1953) and The Great Sioux Uprising (1953). He was married to Harriet Pansy McBride. He died on 21 June 1977 in Orange County, California, USA.

Gilman Rankin was born on 17 April 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The Power of the Resurrection (1958). He died on 31 October 1993 in Orange County, California, USA.

Veola Vonn was born on 27 July 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Burma Convoy (1941), South Sea Woman (1953) and Lafayette Escadrille (1958). She was married to Frank Nelson and Hanley Stafford. She died on 28 October 1995 in Orange County, California, USA.

Lotus Long's father was Japanese and her mother was an ethnic Hawaiian. The family came to California in the 1920s and, because of her exotic beauty, Lotus didn't find it difficult to get into the movies and portrayed a succession of various Asian women. She took the stage name "Lotus Long", and was generally assumed to be Chinese--something she later relied on to avoid internment with others of Japanese ancestry during WWII.

She met cameraman James Knott while in the Arctic with W.S. Van Dyke filming Eskimo (1933) in the early 1930s. They soon married. They lived 40 years on Beverly Glen, near Westwood Village in Los Angeles, before moving to Orange County.

Born in Iceland, Peter began running track at a young age. He excelled in this sport and in his late teens was on the Icelandic National Team for the decathlon. He held several national records. While competing in Europe, he met a runner from the United States who was currently attending and competing for USC. After talking, the USC track athlete asked him if he would ever consider coming to the United States to run for USC. Peter said he would love to and after talking to the coach, Peter began attending USC on a full scholarship. He came to the United States with his 3 children (Lisa, Petur Jr., and Kristine). While at USC (being in the right place at the right time) casting for a movie was being done [Journey to the Center of the Earth] and the producer was having a hard time finding someone to play Hans [a tall, strong Icelandic native]. One of the producer's colleagues had a son who went to USC. At a social event the son of the producer's colleague learned about the trouble the producer was having finding someone to play Hans. You can guess what happens from here. The colleague's son was on the track team as well and told the producer "I have the perfect person for the part." An audition was arranged and Peter soon went to try out for the part. He was immediately cast in the role of Hans. After the movie was filmed, Peter was offered a long-term acting contract that he turned down. He felt that after making the movie he had no privacy and did not want to live a life in the public eye. Later on, Peter competed in the 1960 Rome Olympics for Iceland in the 110-Meter Hurdles. Since then he married a Southern California native (of Danish decent) Marie George (now Marie Ronson) and had two more sons, Brian and Stephen. Both are currently licensed physicians in Southern California and are very proud of their father.

Michael Kirby was born on 20 February 1925 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Silent Partner (1978), Summer Holiday (1948) and The Golden Boat (1990). He died on 25 May 2002 in Orange County, California, USA.

Character actor Virgil Charles Frye was born on August 21, 1930 in Estherville, Iowa. A former Golden Gloves boxing champion, Frye worked in the cornfields in Iowa and was active in the civil rights movement in Alabama before he first began acting in films and TV shows in the mid-1960's. Virgil often played either tough guys or police officers. The father of both Sean Frye and Soleil Moon Frye, Frye also ran his own successful acting school in the Hollywood Hills. Virgil suffered from Pick's Disease or Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in his latter years and was the subject of the documentary Sonny Boy (2004) made by his daughter Soleil. Frye died at a nursing home in Orange County, California on May 7, 2012.

Cheryl Bartel was born on 30 January 1971 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Duplex (2003) and Wheelmen (2005). She died on 11 July 2010 in Orange County, California, USA.

Auburn-haired Arleen Whelan was born in Salt Lake City, but spent her early childhood in Pueblo, Colorado, where she attended High School. Her father was an electrician, who, upon opening his own electrical store in Los Angeles, moved the family westward. Arleen was enrolled in a beauty college and learned hairdressing and manicure, soon finding work for $18 a week in a salon on Hollywood Boulevard. There, she was 'discovered' by director H. Bruce Humberstone, who dropped in for a shave and ended up suggesting her name, as a likely candidate for movie stardom to Darryl F. Zanuck. In May 1937, she was signed to a seven-year contract by 20th Century Fox, her salary now between $50 and $300 per week.

Within a year, she had her first co-starring assignment, opposite Warner Baxter in Kidnapped (1938) . Next, she landed the highly prized role of pioneer woman Hannah Clay in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and, by 1942, Arleen also made the jump to Broadway, appearing as one of "The Doughgirls" (the other two were Virginia Field and Doris Nolan). She was not cast in the 1944 film version, however - that part going to Jane Wyman. Still, Hollywood's publicity machine went into full gear, making the most out of Arleen's affairs with actors Richard Greene and Tyrone Power. In 1945, Arleen was voted 'the most perfect all-over beauty' by a panel of magazine illustrators, but her career was already on the wane. Out of contract, and dissatisfied with her roles thus far, Arleen left Hollywood to live with her New York-based second husband, a Paramount executive. Her stay was short-lived, as was her marriage.

There were still a couple of good screen roles to come for Arleen as a free-lance actress. She popped up as busybody Valerie Shepherd in the political satire The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947), a performance critic Bosley Crowther described as 'cute' (December 27, New York Times). There was also another good lead, opposite Charles Winninger in director John Ford's own favourite among his films, The Sun Shines Bright (1953). For the remainder, at least, Arleen lent some glamour to the B-western she made for Republic and for Albert C. Gannaway's independent production company. After 1957, one of Hollywood's best-looking redheads called it a day and left the screen to improve her already impressive golf handicap.

Harry Cheshire was born on 16 August 1891 in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Impact (1949), The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) and Dangerous Mission (1954). He died on 16 June 1968 in Orange County, California, USA.

Richard M. Cangey was born on July 9, 1933, in a little apartment above a large bus garage in the town of Mahoningtown, a suburb of the city of New Castle, in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from New Castle High School in 1951 and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to pursue a boxing career while serving a Tool & Diemaker apprenticeship. In May 1953, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and took his basic training in Breckenridge, Kentucky. The Korean War ended during Cangey's fourteenth week of training and he was sent to Aberdeen, Maryland, for the remainder of his time -- most of it spent in a office pounding a typewriter. Following his basic training in October, Cangey returned home long enough to marry his high school sweetheart, Mary Ann Medina, from Yougstown, Ohio, and go on a brief honeymoon. Cangey was discharged in February 1955 and moved back to Cleveland with his wife to resume his apprenticeship and boxing career.

Cangey began a boxing career at the age of 13 and quit the ring in 1959 with 43 wins and 3 loses. Shortly thereafter, Cangey packed up and moved to Lakewood, California, where he landed a job at what is now Rockwell International. He was terminated a second time in 1962 for Union activity; this time the company offered Cangey one year's salary, tax free, not to return. He took the offer.

Working as a bouncer in one of Long Beach's more popular bars, Cangey eventually purchased and ran his own bar until 1965. During this time, he was introduced to actor Peter Breck, who offered him a job on the TV series "The Big Valley." After one season, Cangey and Breck parted company and for the next several months Cangey was idle. In the new filming season, Cangey was called to the set of "The Wild Wild West" where he met with Robert Conrad and began his relationship with Conrad as a stand-in, stuntman and eventually a close friend. Following "Wild Wild West," Cangey worked for Conrad through a short lived series called "The D.A.," and a couple movies-of-the-week. In June 1972, he went to Austria to work on the Conrad series called "Assignment: Vienna." Cangey returned to the States in October 1972 and opened a pizza store and restaurant.

Wally George was born on 4 December 1931 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989), Bonanza (1959) and Squanderers (1996). He was married to Mary Jo Teipl, Susan L Rennie, Nancy Marie Freely, Joan Marie Teipe, Jane Patricia Eagar and Lillian San Nicolas Kamminga. He died on 7 October 2003 in Orange County, California, USA.

Bonnie Bannon was the daughter of Walter A. and Juanita (Strong) Bannon and was born in Tulare County, California. After graduating from Fresno High School, she went to work for a local Warner Bros. theater and soon entered a Warner Bros. beauty contest, where she won a contract with the studio. She went on to work for other studios and in many of Busby Berkeley's films. Her sisters Eunice Bannon and Dorothy Bannon also worked in the movies, the former as a "fancy dress extra" and the latter in TV work, mainly the Zorro (1957) series. The family has a collection of her studio photos and magazine and newspaper articles about her career. She first married Alice Faye's brother, Charles, in Tijuana, Mexico, and divorced him two years later. She was married twice more before marrying William Jones, a businessman, in 1953. The best man and maid of honor were Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Arcaro (the jockey), friends of the groom. Bonnie had one child, a son named Fred Martin, from her second marriage.

Dorothy Devine was born on 21 May 1915 in Holly, Colorado, USA. She was married to Andy Devine. She died on 14 June 2000 in Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA.

Walter Rogers was born on 6 April 1906 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Seven Faces (1929). He was married to Viola Alice Naething. He died on 11 November 1943 in Orange County, California, USA.

Alfred L. Werker was born on 2 December 1896 in Deadwood, South Dakota, USA. Alfred L. was a director and assistant director, known for He Walked by Night (1948), Lost Boundaries (1949) and It's Great to Be Alive (1933). Alfred L. was married to Frances Allen. Alfred L. died on 28 July 1975 in Orange County, California, USA.

Trudy Wroe was born on 25 May 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Big Town (1950), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) and The Bob Cummings Show (1955). She was married to Don Durant. She died on 10 November 2007 in Orange County, California, USA.

Geraldine Dvorak was born on 1 January 1904 in Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for No Limit (1931), The Story of Mr. Hobbs (1947) and Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950). She died on 25 April 1985 in Orange County, California, USA.

John Meredyth Lucas was born on 1 May 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA. John was a producer and director, known for Star Trek (1966), Insight (1960) and Mannix (1967). John was married to Patricia Kay Hightower, Patricia Kay Silvera and Joan Winfield. John died on 19 October 2002 in Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA.

Peggy Lloyd was born on 15 April 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Cover Girl (1944), Saturday Night Preview (1951) and Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4 (1942). She was married to Robert Patten and Almon Bartlett Ross Jr.. She died on 18 November 1986 in Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA.

Fran Gerard was born on 23 March 1948 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Fran was married to Maximilian Anthony Rey and Jack L. Cavender. Fran died on 30 May 1985 in Fountain Valley, Orange County, California, USA.

Jack Wrather Jr. was born on 9 May 1944 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Land (1957) and Lassie (1954). He was married to Lana Wood. He died on 4 May 1973 in Orange County, California, USA.