Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat. After growing up Catholic, MacLeod became an evangelical Christian in 1984. His career, which spanned six decades, included work as a Christian television host, author, and guest on several talk, variety, and religious programs.
Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang Apana. The benevolent and heroic Chan was conceived as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes and villains like Fu Manchu. Many stories feature Chan traveling the world beyond Hawaii as he investigates mysteries and solves crimes.
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress. In a career spanning seven decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.
Jeannette Theresa Dubois, known professionally as Ja'Net DuBois, Ja'net DuBois, and Ja'Net Du Bois, was an American actress and singer. She was best known for her portrayal of Willona Woods, the neighborhood gossip maven and a friend of the Evans family on the CBS sitcom Good Times, which aired from 1974 to 1979. DuBois additionally cowrote and sang the theme song "Movin' On Up" for The Jeffersons, which aired from 1975 until 1985. After beginning her career on the stage in the early 1960s, DuBois appeared on television shows and in films into the mid-2010s.
Richard Arnold Roundtree was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and four of its sequels, Shaft's Big Score! (1972), Shaft in Africa (1973), its 2000 sequel and its 2019 sequel, as well as the eponymous television series (1973–1974). He was also known for featuring in several TV series, including Roots, Generations, and Desperate Housewives.
Police Station is an American TV series that aired in 1959. Stories were taken from actual files from throughout the US.
Octavus Roy Cohen (1891–1959) was an early 20th-century American writer specializing in ethnic comedies. His dialect comedy stories about African Americans gained popularity after being published in the Saturday Evening Post and were adapted into a series of short films by Al Christie featuring actors Charles Olden, Spencer Williams Jr., Evelyn Preer, and Edward Thompson.
Rosanna Rolle Carter was a Bahamian American television, stage and film actress, who was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to two Bahamian parents, and the sister of Esther Rolle and Estelle Evans, one of 18 children. During the Harlem Renaissance, she acted at New Lafayette Theater as one of the Lafayette Players. She acted in The Brother from Another Planet, a well-reviewed 1984 film described by its director as a science fiction allegory of immigration.
Stacy Harris was an American actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is sometimes found misspelled Stacey Harris.
Armond Lebowitz was an American film editor. He worked in many films by Larry Cohen, such as Q - The Winged Serpent (1982) and Perfect Strangers (1984). He also edited Ladybug Ladybug (1963), Too Many Thieves (1966), The Incident (1967), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1967).
Hugh Allan was an American actor. He had several lead roles. He was born Allan Abram Hughes in Oakland, California.
Max Asher, born Max Ascher, was an American actor whose career spanned the early silent film era to talkies in the early 1930s. His career began on stage. He appeared in various comedic shorts. He was 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall, and weighed more than 200 pounds (91 kg). In the 1920s he transitioned to character actor roles.
Joseph J. Franz was an actor and film director during the silent film era in the United States. Franz was born in Utica, New York. He died in Los Angeles in 1970. He was sometimes credited as Joseph J. Franz. He features in a Frontier advertisement with two of the studio's other stars.
Douglas Bronston was an American screenwriter and writer.
The Broken Violin is an American silent film directed by Oscar Micheaux, released in 1928.
The Lady Fare is a 1929 American short comedy film directed by William Watson from a story by Octavus Roy Cohen and screenplay by Spencer Williams. It was produced by Al Christie and filmed by the Christie Film Company. One of the first African-American talkies, also called a "singie" and a "dancie", it featured an all-female chorus line, possibly inspired by the Cotton Club. Twenty minutes long, it premiered on September 28.
Sandy Ward was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the recurring role of Logger Pete on 11 episodes of the American sitcom television series Malcolm in the Middle.
Edwin Velez is an American film, stage and television actor. He is best known for playing Frankie Santana in the final season of the American action and adventure television series The A-Team.
Edgar Latimer Hinton was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Special Agent Henderson in the American drama television series I Led 3 Lives.
Tom Reese was an American actor who appeared in many westerns on both the big- and small-screens.
