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Gary Donatelli (born March 11, 1951 in Northbrook, Illinois, USA) is an American television soap opera director. Beside television work, Gary directed "Billion Dollar Rockets," a music video for the One Life Many Voices CD and "Lean On Me," a series of three mini dramas for post 911.
Northbrook is a suburb of Chicago, located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States.
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles. With a population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.
A soap opera is an ongoing drama serial on television or radio, featuring the lives of many characters and their emotional relationships. The term soap opera originated from radio dramas being sponsored by soap manufacturers.
Another World is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from May 4, 1964, to June 25, 1999. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J. Bell, and was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions at NBC Studios, 1268 East 14th Street in Brooklyn.
One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network from April 29 to August 19, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978.
Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and a director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000) and for his role starring as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick in the show Call Me Fitz (2010–2013).
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, talk show host, and writer. Lawrence came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably in the Fox television sitcom Martin and the films House Party, Boomerang, Bad Boys, Wild Hogs, Nothing to Lose, Blue Streak, Life, Big Momma's House and A Thin Line Between Love & Hate.
Agnes Nixon was an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the creator of the soap operas One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving.
Gary Michael Cole is an American actor and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he has had starring roles in the TV series Midnight Caller, American Gothic, Crusade, The Good Wife, Veep and most recently Chicago Fire. In film, he has appeared in The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo, Office Space, Dodgeball and Talladega Nights. He is also known for voicing the title character on the Adult Swim series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and Dr. James Timothy Possible on Kim Possible.
Kevin George Knipfing, better known by his screen name Kevin James, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known as Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007) and has appeared in the films Hitch (2005), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Grown Ups (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Pixels (2015). From 2016-2018 he starred in another CBS sitcom, Kevin Can Wait.
Mark Thomas Valley is an American film and television actor, best known for his roles as Brad Chase on the TV drama Boston Legal, Oliver Richard on the NBC drama Harry's Law, FBI Special Agent John Scott on Fringe, Christopher Chance in the Fox's action drama Human Target, and Tommy Sullivan in ABC's Body of Proof.
Frank Valentini is the executive producer for the ABC soap opera General Hospital. He previously held the position of executive producer, director, and composer for the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. From 1986 to 1992 he worked as stage manager. In 1992 he was promoted to associate producer, assuming full producer duties in 1995. In 2003 he became executive producer, replacing Gary Tomlin.
George Wallace is a 1997 biographical television film produced and directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gary Sinise as the titular former Governor of Alabama. The film's teleplay, written by Marshall Frady and Paul Monash, is based on the 1996 biography Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Frady. Mare Winningham, Clarence Williams III, Joe Don Baker, Angelina Jolie, Terry Kinney, William Sanderson, Mark Rolston, Tracy Fraim, Skipp Sudduth, Ron Perkins, and Mark Valley also star.
John Clark Donatelli is an American former professional ice hockey player and is the current head coach of the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Donatelli was a long-time minor league player in the American Hockey League (AHL) and International Hockey League (IHL). He played 35 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Anthony "Tony" Donatelli is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the Baltimore Blast of the Major Arena Soccer League.
Larry Carpenter is an American theatre and television director and producer. In the theatre, he has worked as an Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, a Managing Director and General Manager in both the New York and Regional arenas. He also works as a theatre director and is known primarily for large projects, working on musicals and classical plays equally. In television, he works as a director for New York daytime dramas. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the national labor union for professional stage directors and choreographers. He is also a member of the Director’s Guild of America PAC.
Jill Ackles is an American television soap opera director. Jill has directed for soap operas such as Days of Our Lives, All My Children, and One Life to Live. Jill occasionally draws dooodles for Doodle Day. Jill was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team shared with fellow directors of All My Children in 1997.
Owen Renfroe is an American film and television director. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied film with Professor Jeanine Basinger. His professional career began at age ten, when he sang in the children’s chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Jill Mitwell is an American television soap opera director. Mitwell gave the acceptance speech for One Life to Live winning the Daytime Emmy Award for the directing team in 2008.
Jamie Howarth is an American television and film composer and musical director. Howarth also restores damaged soundtracks from old films. He owns a company for sound restoration, called Plangent Processes. One of its more notable restorations is the soundtrack for the 1958 production of South Pacific, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The restored version of the track was released in 2006.
Michael Nankin is an American film and television writer, director and producer. He has been nominated for the Humanitas Prize for his writing.
Geoffrey Keezer is an American jazz pianist.
Denise Donatelli is an American jazz singer.
Zetna Fuentes is an American television director. She was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for work on the soap opera One Life to Live, as a part of the directing team.