Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards,including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards,and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards.
The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films,made up of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. Together they received various accolades including two Academy Awards,and three Grammy Awards. They received nominations for an Laurence Olivier Award,a BAFTA Award,and five Golden Globe Awards. In 1976 they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,and the National Medal of the Arts in 2008.
Michael Edward O'Malley is an American actor,writer and producer. Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire,O'Malley hosted the early 1990s children's game show Nickelodeon Guts before moving to Los Angeles later that decade to star in his own sitcom for NBC called The Mike O'Malley Show. He is best known for his role as Jimmy Hughes on Yes,Dear,a CBS series which aired from 2000 to 2006. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Burt Hummel on the Fox series Glee.
Barbara Dana Broccoli is an American film and stage producer,best known internationally for her work on the James Bond film series. With her half-brother Michael G. Wilson,Broccoli controls the James Bond film franchise.
Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers,"the Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history."
Robert Bernard Sherman was an American songwriter,best known for his work in musical films with his brother,Richard M. Sherman. The Sherman brothers produced more motion picture song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. Some of their songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including Mary Poppins,The Happiest Millionaire,The Jungle Book,The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,The Slipper and the Rose,and Charlotte's Web. Their best-known work is "It's a Small World " possibly the most-performed song in history.
Joseph McFadden is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in The Crow Road,Sex,Chips &Rock n' Roll,Heartbeat and Holby City. McFadden won the 2017 series of the BBC One series Strictly Come Dancing with professional dance partner Katya Jones.
The 1990 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1990. Incumbent Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis,his party's nominee for president in 1988,opted to not seek a fourth term. Republican Bill Weld won the open seat,beating Democrat John Silber to become the first Republican Governor of Massachusetts elected since 1970.
Daniel John Cannon is a British film and television producer,director and writer,known for executive producing the 15-season show CSI:Crime Scene Investigation series franchise,and simultaneously executive producing the CSI:Miami and CSI:NY spinoffs.
Kenneth Graham Hughes was an English film director,writer and producer. He was the co-writer and director of the children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). He has been called "a filmmaker whose output was consistently interesting and entertaining,and deserved more critical attention than it has received."
Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director,and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne was an English ballerina,dancer,choreographer,actress,and theatre-television director,noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history,Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. At age 87,she was made a DBE in the 2014 New Year Honours List.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical with music and lyrics written by Richard and Robert Sherman and a book by Jeremy Sams. It is sometimes referred to as Chitty the Musical to distinguish it from the 1968 film of the same name on which it is based,written by Roald Dahl,Ken Hughes,and Richard Maibaum. The 1968 film was based in turn on the book of the same name by Ian Fleming. The show premiered at the London Palladium on April 16,2002,directed by Adrian Noble before opening on Broadway in 2005.
James Joseph Parsons is an American actor. From 2007 to 2019,he played Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He has received various awards,including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. In 2018,Forbes estimated his annual salary to be $26.5 million and named him the world's highest-paid television actor.
Randall Einhorn is an American television cinematographer,director,and producer,best known for his work on The Office,Wilfred,It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,and Survivor.
Kevin Feige is an American film and television producer who has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise since 2007. The films he has produced have a combined worldwide box office gross of over $26.8 billion,making him the highest grossing producer of all time,with Avengers:Endgame becoming the highest-grossing film at the time of its release.
Bradley Douglas Falchuk is an American television writer,director,and producer,best known for co-creating with Ryan Murphy the comedy-drama television series Glee,the drama series Pose,the horror comedy Scream Queens,the horror-drama anthology series American Horror Story,and spin off American Horror Stories. He was also a writer and executive producer for the television series Nip/Tuck and is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
Peter L. Wittrock Jr.,known as Finn Wittrock,is an American actor and screenwriter who began his career in guest roles on several television shows. He made his film debut in 2004,in Halloweentown High before returning to films in the 2010 film Twelve. After studying theater at The Juilliard School,he was a regular in the soap opera All My Children from 2009 to 2011,while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011,he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play The Illusion and made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman,directed by Mike Nichols.
Matthew Penn is an American director and producer of television and theatre. His father was a film and theatre director named Arthur Penn,his mother actress Peggy Maurer. He grew up in Stockbridge,Massachusetts,and New York City. He has a double major in English and Theater,Matt graduated from Wesleyan University in 1980.
Gordon Hyatt is an American writer and television producer. Hyatt is most well known for his work writing and producing CBS television documentaries,but has also been involved with public broadcasting as well as various civic and public service activities.
