List of people involved with Babylon 5

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The following is a list of people involved in a significant way with the science fiction television series Babylon 5 . It includes significant production crew, all writers and directors, and all regular, recurring, or pilot telefilm cast.

<i>Babylon 5</i> American space opera television series

Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Babylon 5: The Gathering, in May 1993 Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for five seasons.

<i>Babylon 5: The Gathering</i> 1993 pilot film of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 directed by Richard Compton

Babylon 5: The Gathering is the test pilot movie of the science fiction television series Babylon 5, aired on February 22, 1993. It is also the first of six feature-length films in the Babylon 5 media franchise.

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Babylon 5 cast (Season 4)

Cast

Mary Kay Adams American actress

Mary Kay Adams is an American actress known for her roles in television. She is perhaps best known for her role as India von Halkein on the soap opera Guiding Light and as Na'Toth in the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

Na'Toth is a fictional character in the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. Na'Toth is the aide to Narn Ambassador G'Kar, one of the main characters of the series. She appears mainly in the first and second seasons, with a final appearance in the fifth season.

Assing "Aki" Aleong is a Trinidad and Tobago–born American character actor and singer who has also been active in songwriting and musical production. His first important role was in the 1957 movie No Down Payment, which starred Joanne Woodward and Jeffrey Hunter. He is probably best known for portraying Senator Hidoshi during the first season of Babylon 5, as well as portraying Mr. Chiang, the aide to Nathan Bates in the weekly series of V: The Series. He also portrayed the character of Colonel Mitamura in Farewell to the King. He owned the Gingham Dog fast food restaurant in Hollywood, California, c. 1965.

Crew

Fiona Kai Avery is a comic book and television writer. Avery was hired as a reference editor for the fifth season of Babylon 5, and later continued in that role for the failed spin-off Crusade. Avery contributed several scripts for the series, including "The Well of Forever" and "Patterns of the Soul", as well as the unfilmed "Value Judgements" and "Tried and True". Following the cancellation of Crusade, Avery turned to comic book writing, working for Marvel and Top Cow on titles including The Amazing Spider-Man and the X-Men range. Her more recent work includes three spin-offs of J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars - Bright, Voices of the Dead, and Untouchable - as well as her own creation, Araña.

Richard Compton was an American actor, director and writer, primarily in television.

Tony Dow American actor, film director and film producer

Tony Lee Dow is an American film producer, director, sculptor, and television actor. He is best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, which ran in primetime from 1957 to 1963. Dow played Wally Cleaver, the elder son of June and Ward Cleaver and the brother of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver.

Directors

David J. Eagle is a television director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his direction of 13 episodes of the science fiction series Babylon 5, including "Severed Dreams", which won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and the CBS Schoolbreak Special "Kids Killing Kids", for which he received the Outstanding Children's Program Emmy Award as writer, director and producer.

Kim Friedman is an American television director and producer.

Stephen Furst American actor and film and television director

Stephen Nelson Feuerstein, better known as Stephen Furst, was an American actor and film and television director. After gaining attention with his featured role as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House and its spin-off television series Delta House, he went on to be a regular as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere from 1983 to 1988, and as Centauri diplomatic attaché Vir Cotto in the science fiction series Babylon 5 from 1994 to 1998. Other notable film roles included the college comedy Midnight Madness (1980), as a team leader in an all-night mystery game, the action thriller Silent Rage (1982), as deputy to a sheriff played by Chuck Norris, and the comedy The Dream Team (1989), as a good-natured mental patient.

Writers

J. Michael Straczynski American writer and television producer

Joseph Michael Straczynski is an American television and film screenwriter, producer and director, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Studio JMS, and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002–2004), and Sense8 (2015–2018).

Peter David American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games

Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man 2099 and X-Factor.

Kathryn M. Drennan is an American writer, having worked for Carl Sagan on the mini-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in the early 1980s and for Michael Piller, producer at the time for Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the early 1990s. She also contributed articles to several magazines, including Starlog and Twilight Zone Magazine. She was married to J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, and wrote articles about Rod Serling's Night Gallery for Twilight Zone Magazine together with him. She wrote one script during Babylon 5's first season, "By Any Means Necessary" as well as the prose Babylon 5 novel, To Dream in the City of Sorrows. She also wrote scripts for two other shows Straczynski worked on, She-Ra: Princess of Power and The Real Ghostbusters.

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Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label in association with Straczynski’s Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a backdoor pilot movie, Warner Bros. commissioned the series as part of the second year schedule of programs provided by its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). It premiered in the United States on January 26, 1994 and ran for the intended five seasons. Describing it as having "always been conceived as, fundamentally, a five year story, a novel for television", Straczynski wrote 92 of the 110 episodes and served as executive producer, along with Douglas Netter.

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  1. ↑ "JMSNews". jmsnews.com.
  2. ↑ Geoffrey Mark interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
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