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- Actress
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One of the most versatile actresses, Janice Rule was born in Norwood, Ohio, on August 15, 1931. Janice made her screen debut in the star-studded movie Goodbye, My Fancy (1951). She played the rival for James Stewart's affections, and was driven away by witch Kim Novak, in Bell Book and Candle (1958), a pre-Bewitched (1964) comedy. Janice appeared in the first season of the ground-breaking science fiction series The Twilight Zone (1959) playing "Helen Foley" (named after Rod Serling's favorite teacher). In 1961, Janice married Ben Gazzara and they had one daughter, Elizabeth Gazzara (they divorced in 1979). After marrying, Janice took off a few years from movie acting, then returned to the silver screen and gave her best performances. In a change of pace role, she was the party girl in The Chase (1966); and Janice showed a real flair for comedy as "Matt Helm"'s partner in The Ambushers (1967) with Dean Martin. She did a wonderful job realistically portraying a frontier woman in Welcome to Hard Times (1967), and received acclaim for her performance as a disturbed artist in 3 Women (1977). The last movie Janice appeared in was American Flyers (1985), and her last TV appearance was in the science fiction genre, The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) in 1992. From science fiction, to comedy, to portraying loose women, to playing strong women - Janice Rule covered the whole spectrum of human emotion and life.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Vera-Ellen began dancing at the age of 10, and a few years later became one of the youngest Rockettes. She appeared in several Broadway musicals until she was spotted by film producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1945. She was only 24 years old when Goldwyn cast her opposite Danny Kaye in Wonder Man (1945). She danced with Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950) and with Gene Kelly in On the Town (1949). Blonde, slim of build, and a dancing sensation, she appeared in a string of light-hearted but successful films. Vera-Ellen retired from acting in the late 1950s.- Actor
- Additional Crew
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George Chakiris made his film debut at the age of 12 singing in the chorus of Song of Love (1947). Following his graduation from high school, he supported his night-time dancing, singing and dramatic lessons with a daytime job clerking in a Los Angeles department store. Later he started his acting/dancing career appearing in musicals such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)--he is one of the ballet dancers escorting Marilyn Monroe in "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend"--White Christmas (1954), The Girl Rush (1955), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Brigadoon (1954), and Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). In 1957, he made his debut as a dramatic actor in Under Fire (1957). In 1958 he traveled to New York hoping for a Broadway "break." Hearing that Jerome Robbins was casting the London company of "West Side Story", he auditioned and was awarded the co-starring role of Riff. He played the part for almost two years on the West End stage before acting, singing and dancing as Bernardo in the Robert Wise film version (West Side Story (1961)), a performance that earned him a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since then, he starred in a succession of films, including Diamond Head (1962) with Charlton Heston, Bebo's Girl (1964) with Claudia Cardinale, The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac and Gene Kelly, The Big Cube (1968) with Lana Turner, Why Not Stay for Breakfast? (1979), Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982), and Pale Blood (1990). He is one of the most traveled stars in motion pictures, having been to such locations as Hawaii, Japan, Mexico, Italy, England, Spain, and France. His nightclub career was launched to rave reviews at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and Harrah's Club in Lake Tahoe. In the 1970s and 1980s, his career focused on television and music. He appeared as guest star in several TV series such as Hawaii Five-O (1968) (Death is a Company Policy - 1972), Wonder Woman (1975) (Death in Disguise - 1978), CHiPs (1977) (Fox Trap - 1983), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983) (Lost and Found - 1984), Murder, She Wrote (1984) (Weave a Tangled Web - 1989), and he joined the cast of Dallas (1978) from 1985 to 1986. He has released several records: "George Chakiris," "Memories Are Made of These," "The Gershwin Song Book," "West Side Story's Dynamic...". Recently, he has appeared in several plays and stage musicals: after "The King and I" in the US in 1995, he performed in Britain the role of Rochester in "Jane Eyre".- The British actor Ronald Howard was born in Norwood, London, England, in 1918. He and his younger sister Leslie Ruth Howard were raised by their mother Ruth Evelyn Martin and their father, the renowned actor Leslie Howard. After college, Howard became a newspaper reporter for a while but decided to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor.
He got his first taste of acting when he appeared with his father in an uncredited bit part in 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941). In the early 1940s, Howard gained acting experience in regional theater, later on the London stage, and eventually in films, with his official debut in While the Sun Shines (1947). His chief claim to fame is in television with his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock Holmes (1954), in which Howard Marion-Crawford played Dr. Watson. Boyishly handsome with a pleasant demeanor, Howard continued in film and television until the mid-1970s; however, he never caught on with audiences as well as his father had, prompting him to put aside his acting career to run an art gallery. In the 1980s, he wrote a biography of his father. - Actor
- Writer
- Director
Greg Vrotsos was born Gregory Nicholas Vrotsos in the Greater Boston town of Norwood, MA. His parents, Vaso, a hairdresser, and Nicholas, a carpenter and pizzeria owner, are from the Peloponesse region of Greece. After graduating from Norwood High School, Greg moved to Southern California. He briefly attended Marymount College before making the move to Los Angeles and studying acting under the Meisner technique. After a few years of study he began writing, directing, and acting in his own short films which eventually led to him finding work as an actor. Since then, he has worked and continues to work in Television and Film, ranging from drama to comedy.
Greg has had key roles in television shows such as Orange Is The New Black, Mayans MC, Twin Peaks, and Vinyl. In film, he was most recently seen alongside Keira Knightley in the Boston Strangler. He is a frequent collaborator of Dito Montiel, appearing in three of his films. Along with a resume that has had him acting opposite of some of the industry's top talent, Greg also works as a writer and director.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Robert has been in the Film, TV and Music industry for over 20 years. His career has taken him from Drummer for hire to music producer. He then parlayed his music knowledge and connections into music management where he worked with numerous artists in various capacities and stages of their career's. Simultaneously taking his acting and production experience and transitioned into developing and producing film and television.- Classically-trained London-born character actor, a RADA graduate of 1961. Weston was inspired to become an actor (and mentored) by Michael Croft, co-founder in 1956 of the National Youth Theatre. Following his national service with the Royal Artillery, Weston took his first steps on the stage in London's West End in the early 60s. He made his theatrical debut for the Royal Shakespeare Company seven years later in Macbeth. Weston has since appeared in 29 of the bard's 37 plays, having portrayed such characters as Laertes in Hamlet, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor (his personal favorite role), Balthazar in The Merchant of Venice and Alonso in The Tempest. He has also directed plays for various London theatres and authored a 2014 memoir, entitled "Covering Shakespeare: An Actor's Saga of Near Misses and Dogged Endurance".
Rather fittingly, Weston began on screen with a small role in An Age of Kings (1960), a BBC television adaptation of eight sequential historical Shakespeare plays. He next played Romeo to Jane Asher's Juliet in 1962 before branching out into more mainstream entertainments. His first notable role in motion pictures was as a patriotic Saxon friar in Becket (1964). Weston followed this with back-to-back leading roles in the horror films Witchcraft (1964), and, as a starving villager who defies the sadistic Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death (1964). He played the eponymous highwayman in Disney's highly fictionalized telemovie The Legend of Young Dick Turpin (1965) and a Norwegian in the World War II drama The Heroes of Telemark (1965), alongside Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris.
Weston has enjoyed guest spots on diverse TV shows, including UFO (1970), Dixon of Dock Green (1955), Special Branch (1969), Minder (1979) and The Bill (1984). He has been noted for his appearances in two Doctor Who (1963) serials: as the ill-fated 16th century Parisian servant Nicholas Muss in The Massacre, and, secondly, as the time-sensitive leonine navigator Biroc in Warrior's Gate.
Retired from screen acting, Weston has latterly concentrated on writing. His novel "Dodger Down Under" (published 2013), a Dickens pastiche, tells the continuing story of Jack Dawkins, the 'artful dodger' of Oliver Twist fame. He followed this with a sequel in 2015, titled "Dodger treads the Boards". A review has described the book as "wondrously inventive but faithful to the character's origins. He has an uncanny grasp of time and place, writes with fluent wit and excitement ...". A similarly themed Australian TV series, The Artful Dodger (2023), has recently aired on the Disney network.
A lifelong supporter of Chelsea football club, Weston resides in the central London district of Pimlico. - John Rudling was born on 31 August 1907 in South Norwood, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for To the Manor Born (1979), The Man in the White Suit (1951) and Middlemarch (1968). He died on 18 December 1983 in Leytonstone, London, England, UK.
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Glen Ash was born on 3 October 1931 in Norwood, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Hart to Hart (1979), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967). He died on 23 March 2018 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Born in the Fordham section of the Bronx NY but raised in the Norwood section, John studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute on the recommendation of his friend, actor Kevin Corrigan. While there, he studied with Geoffrey Horne, George Loros and Irma Sandrey. After three years at Strasberg, he spent the next 20 years working Off and Off-Off Broadway as an actor, director, playwright and producer before transitioning to film and TV.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Chicago-born Ralph Stuart Emanuel Donner got his musical start as a child, singing in church. He later competed in Chicago-area talent shows and formed several bands in high school, one of which--The Rockin' Five--backed Sammy Davis Jr. on a Chicago television show in the late 1950s. In 1959 Donner appeared on "Big Beat", a teen dance show hosted by legendary DJ Alan Freed, and soon afterward released a single with another of his bands, The Gents, and he and the band toured with the better-known group The Sparkletones.
Donner took advantage of the fact that his voice sounded very much like that of rock legend Elvis Presley to record a version of Presley's "The Girl of My Best Friend". Executives at Gone Records heard it and had Donner re-record it for their label, and it became a national hit. His next single, however, is the one he is best known for--"You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It)", which hit #4 on the US Billboard charts. He recorded a few more songs after that, although none was as big a hit.
He left Gone Records in 1963 for Reprise Records, the label owned by Frank Sinatra. Not much came of them, and he soon left the label, recording for, among others, Red Bird Records, but he was unable to revive his career. In 1981 he was hired to be the voice-over narrator, as Presley, in the documentary This Is Elvis (1981).
Ral Donner died of lung cancer on April 6, 1984, in Chicago.- Producer
- Production Manager
- Camera and Electrical Department
David M. Barsky was born on 27 July 1970 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Dirty Jobs (2005), Food Interrupted (2018) and Mail Call (2002). He has been married to Valarie Barsky since 22 March 2003.- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Peter Grant was born on 5 April 1935 in South Norwood, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1966), The Song Remains the Same (1976) and Yardbirds (1992). He was married to Gloria Grant. He died on 21 November 1995 in Eastbourne, England, UK.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Herbert Wilcox was born on 19 April 1890 in West Norwood, London, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Victoria the Great (1937), Spring in Park Lane (1948) and The Loves of Robert Burns (1930). He was married to Anna Neagle, Maud Violet Bower and Dorothy Brown. He died on 15 May 1977 in London, England, UK.- Transportation Department
- Additional Crew
- Sound Department
Bruce Comtois was born on 17 July 1962 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for Tenet (2020), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) and Iron Man (2008).- Director
- Cinematographer
- Writer
Cyril Montague Pennington-Richards was born in London. He began his film career producing religious films for J. Arthur Rank's Religious Film Society. He entered the "mainstream" film industry as a cinematographer with Ireland's Border Line (1938), a low-budget vehicle for Irish comic actor Jimmy O'Dea. During World War II Richards was attached to the renowned documentary unit The Crown Film Unit, and was the cinematographer on Humphrey Jennings famous Fires Were Started (1943). After the war ended he continued as a cinematographer, working on many films directed by his former colleagues in the CFU, such as Brian Desmond Hurst's Theirs Is the Glory (1946), Jack Lee's The Wooden Horse (1950) and Pat Jackson's White Corridors (1951).
He was the cinematographer on Hurst's A Christmas Carol (1951), considered by many to be the definitive version of the famous Charles Dickens novel. He worked with noted American director Edward Dmytryk, who was making films in England due to his being blacklisted during the notorious McCarthy "Red Scare" era in the US. Richards made his directorial debut with the comedy The Horse's Mouth (1953), and made his reputation with a series of modest, somewhat whimsical comedies over the next 20+ years. He made his final film, the modestly budgeted adventure Sky Pirates (1980), in 1977, after which he retired.- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Chris Peterson was born on 5 August 1972 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Villains of Valley View (2022), That '70s Show (1998) and Lab Rats (2012).- Writer
- Additional Crew
Bonnie Zacherle was born on 14 November 1946 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer, known for My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021), My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010) and My Little Pony (1986).- Editor
- Editorial Department
Todd Desrosiers was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He is an editor, known for 1923 (2022), Super Pumped (2022) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). He was previously married to Natalia Cedres.- Scott J. Fisher was born on 9 October 1963 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Race for Glory (1989), Unsolved Mysteries (1987) and Common Ground (1990).
- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Tony Rombola was born on 24 November 1964 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Alcohol by Volume (2012), WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2007 (2006) and Godsmack: Whatever (1998).- Esme Melville was born on 23 July 1918 in Norwood, South Australia, Australia. She was an actress, known for Romulus, My Father (2007), Forbidden (2003) and Blue Heelers (1994). She died on 14 September 2006 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Zeph Gladstone was born on 20 September 1937 in Norwood, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), The Oblong Box (1969) and Catch Hand (1964). She died on 28 October 2002 in London, England, UK.
- Stella Freeman was born on 26 April 1910 in South Norwood, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The House of the Arrow (1930). She was married to Godfrey Tearle. She died on 13 May 1936 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Brad Walst was born on 16 February 1977 in Norwood, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and composer, known for Raise Your Voice (2004), Blue Crush 2 (2011) and Three Days Grace: The High Road (2013). He is married to Rhonda Walst. They have three children.