James Brown (b. 1933) (musician)
Memorable works: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”; “I Got You (I Feel Good)”; “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)”; “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine)”; “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World”; “Living in America”; “Please, Please, Please”; “Night Train”
Joseph Barbera (b. 1911) (producer/writer/director)
Memorable creations (with William Hanna): Tom and Jerry; Huckleberry Hound; The Flintstones; The Jetsons; Scooby-Doo; Yogi Bear; Jonny Quest; Secret Squirrel; Magilla Gorilla; Top Cat; Quick Draw McGraw
Other memorable works: Good Will to Men (1955 animated short, Oscar nominee); Space Ghost (1966-68); The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-70); Super Friends (1973-77); Speed Buggy (1973-83); Hong Kong Phooey (1974-75); Jabberjaw (1976-78); Smurfs (1981-90, Emmy nominee); Snorks (1984-88)
Peter Boyle (b. 1935) (actor)
Memorable works: Joe (1970); Young Frankenstein (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005, multiple Emmy nominee); Monster’s Ball (2001)
Vincent Schiavelli (b. 1948) (actor)
Memorable works: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975); Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); Better Off Dead (1985); Batman Returns (1992); Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Lou Rawls (b. 1933) (musician/actor)
Memorable works: “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing”; “Dead End Street” (Grammy winner); “A Natural Man” (Grammy winner); “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”; telethons for United Negro College Fund (1980-2005)
Shelley Winters (b. 1920) (actress)
Memorable works: A Place in the Sun (1951, Oscar nominee); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959, Oscar winner); Lolita (1962); A Patch of Blue (1965, Oscar winner); Alfie (1966); The Poseidon Adventure (1972, Oscar nominee); Roseanne (guest star 1991-96)
Wilson Pickett (b. 1941) (musician)
Memorable works: “In the Midnight Hour”; “Land of 1000 Dances”; “Mustang Sally”; “634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)”; “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”; It’s Harder Now (Grammy nominee)
Chris Penn (b. 1965) (actor)
Memorable works: Footloose (1984); Reservoir Dogs (1992); Short Cuts (1993); The Funeral (1996)
Al Lewis (b. 1923) (actor)
Memorable works: Car 54, Where Are You? (1961-63); The Munsters (1964-66); They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Darren McGavin (b. 1922) (actor)
Memorable works: Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-75); A Christmas Story (1983); Murphy Brown (guest star 1989-92, Emmy nominee); Billy Madison (1995)
Curt Gowdy (b. 1919) (sportscaster)
Memorable works: Game of the Week (1966-76); called 13 World Series, 16 MLB All-Star Games and six Super Bowls; Boston Red Sox announcer (1951-66)
Don Knotts (b. 1924) (actor)
Memorable works: The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957-60); The Andy Griffith Show (1960-68, multiple Emmy winner); The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964); The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966); The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); Three’s Company (1979-84); Pleasantville (1998); Chicken Little (2005)
Dennis Weaver (b. 1924) (actor)
Memorable works: Gunsmoke (1955-64, Emmy winner); Touch of Evil (1958); The Twilight Zone (1961, “Shadow Play” episode); McCloud (1970-77, Emmy nominee); Duel (1971); Amber Waves (1980); The Simpsons (2002, “The Lastest Gun in the West” episode); Wildfire (2005)
Gordon Parks (b. 1912) (director, writer)
Memorable works: The Learning Tree (1969, director/writer/producer/composer); Shaft (1971, director); Leadbelly (1976, director)
Maureen Stapleton (b. 1925) (actress)
Memorable works: Lonelyhearts (1958, Oscar nominee); Airport (1970, Oscar nominee); Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975); Interiors (1978, Oscar nominee); Reds (1981, Oscar winner); Cocoon (1985)
Aaron Spelling (b. 1923) (producer, writer)
Memorable works: The Mod Squad (1968-73, Emmy nominee); The Rookies (1972-76); S.W.A.T. (1975-76); Starsky & Hutch (1975-79); Family (1976-80, Emmy nominee); Charlie’s Angels (1976-81); The Love Boat (1977-86); Fantasy Island (1978-84); Vega$ (1978-81); Hart to Hart (1979-84); Dynasty (1981-89, Emmy nominee); T.J. Hooker (1982-86); Hotel (1983-88); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000); Melrose Place (1992-99); And the Band Played On (1993, Emmy winner); Charmed (1998-2006); Summerland (2004-05); 7th Heaven (1996-2006)
Moose (b. 1990) (Jack Russell terrier)
Memorable works: Frasier (1993-2004); My Dog Skip (2000)
June Allyson (b. 1917) (actress)
Memorable works: Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Good News (1947); Little Women (1949); Too Young to Kiss (1951); The Glenn Miller Story (1953)
Jack Warden (b. 1920) (actor)
Memorable works: 12 Angry Men (1957); Brian’s Song (1971, Emmy winner); Shampoo (1975, Oscar nominee); All the President’s Men (1976); Heaven Can Wait (1978, Oscar nominee); Being There (1979); Used Cars (1980); Crazy Like a Fox (1984-86, Emmy nominee)
Glenn Ford (b. 1916) (actor)
Memorable works: Gilda (1946); Blackboard Jungle (1955); The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956); 3:10 to Yuma (1957); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Experiment in Terror (1962); The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963); Superman (1978)
Steve Irwin (b. 1962) (naturalist/conservationist/TV host)
Memorable works: The Crocodile Hunter (1996-2006)
Jane Wyatt (b. 1910) (actress)
Memorable works: Lost Horizon (1937); Father Knows Best (a.k.a. I Told You So) (1954-60, Emmy winner); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Akira Ifukube (b. 1914) (composer)
Memorable works: Godzilla (1954, and many other films in the series); The Burmese Harp (1956); Rodan (1956)
Dan Curtis (b. 1927) (producer/director/writer)
Memorable works: Dark Shadows (1966-71); The Night Stalker (1972); The Winds of War (1983, Emmy nominee); War and Remembrance (1988, Emmy winner)
Mickey Spillane (b. 1918) (author)
Memorable works: I, the Jury (1947); My Gun Is Quick (1950); Kiss Me Deadly (1952); The Girl Hunters (1962)
Mako (b. 1933) (actor)
Memorable works: The Sand Pebbles (1966, Oscar nominee); M*A*S*H (guest star 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980); Conan the Barbarian (1982); Pearl Harbor (2001); Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Jan Murray (b. 1916) (comedian/actor/host)
Memorable works: Sing It Again (1950-51); Dollar a Second (1953-57); Treasure Hunt (1956-59); Which Way to the Front? (1970)
Gene Pitney (b. 1941) (musician)
Memorable works: “It Hurts to Be in Love”; “Only Love Can Break a Heart”; “Town Without Pity”; “She’s a Heartbreaker”; “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance”
Buck Owens (b. 1929) (musician)
Memorable works: “Act Naturally”; “My Heart Skips a Beat”; “Where Does the Good Times Go”; “Streets of Bakersfield”; Hee Haw (1969-86, cohost)
Syd Barrett (b. 1946) (musician)
Memorable works: founder of Pink Floyd; The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Barnard Hughes (b. 1915) (actor)
Memorable works: Guiding Light (1961-66); Midnight Cowboy (1969); Tron (1982); The Lost Boys (1987)
Red Buttons (b. 1919) (actor)
Memorable works: Sayonara (1957, Oscar winner); The Longest Day (1962); They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); ER (1996 and 2005 guest star, Emmy nominee)
Mike Douglas (b. 1925) (host)
Memorable work: The Mike Douglas Show (1961-82)
Bruno Kirby (b. 1949) (actor)
Memorable works: The Godfather: Part II (1974); This Is Spinal Tap (1984); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Tin Men (1987); When Harry Met Sally … (1989); The Freshman (1990); City Slickers (1991); Donnie Brasco (1997)
Paul Gleason (b. 1939) (actor)
Memorable works: Trading Places (1983); The Breakfast Club (1985); Die Hard (1988)
Billy Preston (b. 1946) (musician)
Memorable works: “Outa-Space”; “Will It Go Round In Circles?”; backed The Beatles on the Let It Be album
Peter Benchley (b. 1940) (author/screenwriter)
Memorable works: Jaws (1973, novel; 1975, co-screenwriter); The Deep (1976, novel; 1977, co-screenwriter); The Island (1979, novel; 1980, screenwriter)
Freddy Fender (b. 1937) (musician)
Memorable works: “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”; “Secret Love”; “Living It Down”; “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”
Ed Bradley (b. 1941) (journalist)
Memorable work: 60 Minutes (1981-2006, multiple Emmy winner)
Jack Palance (b. 1919) (actor)
Memorable works: Panic in the Streets (1950); Sudden Fear (1952, Oscar nominee); Shane (1953, Oscar nominee); Playhouse 90 (“Requiem for a Heavyweight,” Emmy winner); Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (1982-86); Batman (1989); City Slickers (1991, Oscar winner)
Robert Altman (b. 1925) (director/producer/writer)
Memorable works: Combat! (1962-63); M*A*S*H (1970, Oscar nominee); Brewster McCloud (1970); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); The Long Goodbye (1973); Nashville (1975, Oscar nominee); Three Women (1977); Popeye (1980); Tanner ’88 (1988, Emmy winner); The Player (1992, Oscar nominee); Great Performances: Black and Blue (1993, Emmy nominee); Short Cuts (1993, Oscar nominee); Pret-a-Porter (1994); Kansas City (1996); The Gingerbread Man (1998); Cookie’s Fortune (1999); Dr. T and the Women (2000); Gosford Park (2001, Oscar nominee); Honorary Oscar (2006); A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
