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Gregory Peck was an American actor and won an Academy Award in 1962 for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, which was based on the book by Harper Lee. He was also honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award that had once been won by E.B. White. Other notable [...]
Maila Nurmi is best known as Vampira, the TV horror movie host from the 1950s. She has been imitated over the years, most notably by “Elvira – Mistress of the Dark”, and perhaps even the cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt, because Vampira was known for her “witty” graveyard humor and puns. Aside from her [...]
Béla Lugosi was a Hungarian actor who starred in a variety of old horror films, some classic, some not so classic. In his prime, he of course played the legendary Count Dracula (a character based on a combination of Vlad the Impaler and the Countess Elizabeth Bathory from a book by Bram Stoker) and though [...]
Harold Lloyd Jenkins (aka: Conway Twitty) was a hugely successful country music singer. He had 32 Number 1 hits and 15 that reached the top 5. Some of his most recognizable songs include: Hello Darlin’, That’s My Job, and Tight Fittin’ Jeans. He didn’t feel that his real name was marketable, so he came up [...]
Burgess Meredith was an actor from Cleveland who not only appeared in the Rocky movies with Sylvester Stallone, but like Cesar Romero, was a villain to Adam West’s Batman. He was the Penguin, and although his performance was perhaps not as critically acclaimed as that of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, he is remembered [...]
Christopher Michael Benoit was a Canadian wrestler whose career was greatly celebrated by wresting fans, but whose reputation took a sharp u-turn over the course of a weekend once he murdered his family and killed himself. He wrestled from 1985 to 2007 in the WCW, the WWF/WWE, and ECW sometimes using names like The Rabid [...]
Cass was a well-known singer and member of the pop quartet “The Mamas & the Papas”. After the group broke up, she went on to have a successful singing career. Though she is simply known as Mama Cass, her real name was Ellen Naomi Cohen. She adopted the name “Cass” in high school… borrowing it [...]
Hayes was a multi-talented funk and soul musician, record producer, composer, arranger, songwriter, and actor. He is best known for his theme song for the film Shaft and the voice actor for the character Chef on South Park. Hayes was raised in Covington, Tennessee by his grandparents. He started singing at the age of five [...]
Ritchie Valens (born Richard Steven Valenzuela) is considered to have pioneered the Chicano rock movement, and Spanish speaking rock n roll. He had a short career due to his untimely death, but he managed to have a few hits within that time. Those included of course La Bamba, which was the title of the movie [...]
Keith Moon was the drummer for the band The Who from 1964 to 1978 – the time of his demise. The Who is of course famous for a plethora of hit songs such as My Generation, Who Are You, Pinball Wizard, Magic Bus, Squeeze Box, and Baba O’Riley to name a few. Moon was known [...]
Buddy Holly was a rock n roll singer and guitarist in the 1950′s when rock n roll was making a name for itself. His work was an influence on both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones among many others. His most popular hit was probably Peggy Sue Got Married.
Aaron Spelling was not only the father to famous Beverly Hills 90210 actress Tori Spelling, but he was the most prolific television producer of all time counting 218 producer (including executive producer) credits on his resume. Among the shows he is responsible for are: Dynasty, Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, 7th Heaven, Melrose Place, Starsky and [...]
Mac got his start as a stand-up comedian in Chicago’s Cotton Pickin’ Club. At the age of 32 he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search, this is when he started to develop a fan base. He started acting when he was offered the role of Pastor Clever in Ice Cube’s 1995 film Friday. Following his [...]
Robert Urich was an actor who usually played private investigators and similar roles. His shows included: Spenser: For Hire, Vega$, S.W.A.T., Soap, and The Lazarus Man. He played a combination of leading roles and supporting roles on as many as 19 TV series and miniseries.
Sid Vicious (real name – John Simon Ritchie) was the bass player for punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He was a drug addict and so was his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who he was arrested for murdering. It is not certain whether or not Vicious actually killed Spungen, because he had no recollection of doing [...]
Dana Plato will forever be known as Kimberly on the show Diff’rent Strokes, the sister to Arnold and Willis, played by Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges respectively. After Diff’rent strokes went off the air, Plato’s career sunk to playing roles in B-movies, some of which bordering on soft-core porn. She had experienced drug and alcohol [...]
DeShaun Dupree Holton (aka Proof) was a member of the rap group D-12 (Dirty Dozen), which was made famous by rapper Eminem. He also had some solo work, but he is best-known for his D-12 membership, whose greatest hit was the song Purple Pill (retitled Purple Hills for the radio). He also appeared in movies [...]
Robert Palmer was an English singer who was probably most famous for his hits Addicted to Love and Simply Irresistible, but was also in the band Power Station whose hits included Some Like it Hot, and a cover of Bang a Gong. He did some solo stuff first but joined Power Station in 1985. He [...]
Jim Henson was a beloved puppeteer responsible for the creation of The Muppets, Sesame Street Muppets, and Fraggle Rock to name a few. He directed movies as well, such as Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. His legacy lives on through the Jim Henson Company, which continues to create creatures for television shows and movies.
Shari Lewis was a ventriloquist/puppeteer who is most famous for her puppet Lamb Chop, a Lamb that she used as the basis of her children’s show. Before having her own show, she and Lamb Chop appeared on Captain Kangaroo. Lewis was something of a renaissance woman, as she played piano and violin, danced, and acted [...]
Andrew Warhola was an American artist (of Slovakian descent). He is mostly known as a painter, but also made films including a version of Frankenstein. His Pop Art pieces include the famous Campbell’s Soup can painting, the Velvet Underground album cover with the banana, and “Marilyn diptych”, which displayed Marilyn Monroe’s face in rows with [...]
Christopher Shannon Penn was the brother of actor Sean Penn, and was an actor himself, best known for roles in the 80s Kevin Bacon dance movie Footloose, the Clint Eastwood Western Pale Rider, and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Not unlike the late Heath Ledger, Cesar Romero will forever be remembered for playing the Batman villain The Joker. Romero’s portrayal of the Joker was not as critically acclaimed as Ledger’s performance from The Dark Knight, but his version is memorable in a different light. Though Heath Leger played a homosexual character in the movie [...]
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. will always be known for starring in a slew of (mostly) horror and sci-fi movies ranging all the way from the 30s to the 90s. Now that’s an impressive body of work. Some of his most famous films included The Fly, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, House on Haunted Hill, House of [...]
John Franklin Candy was one of the most adored comedic actors of his time, particularly throughout the 80s and early 90s. He appeared on the Canadian sketch-comedy show SCTV before breaking into movies. Memorable films included Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, and Spaceballs to name a few. He even had a [...]
Dudley Moore was an English actor, comedian, and jazz musician. He is probably most famous for his roles in the movies 10 and Arthur. He also appeared in Crazy People, Santa Clause: The Movie, Like Father, Like Son, and as the narrator of The Adventures of Milo and Otis.
Edward D. Wood Jr. or Ed Wood as he is commonly known is famous for making terrible movies. In fact his movie Plan 9 from Outer Space is widely regarded as the worst movie ever made. The movie has surely been outstunk by now, but it is still referred to with the title just the [...]
Ian Kevin Curtis was the lead singer and lyricist of the late 70s rock band Joy Division, a band who’s surviving members would later make up 80s band New Order. Joy Division recorded two full length albums and earned a rather large cult following and influenced bands from Bauhaus and the Cure to U2 and [...]
Benjamin Sherman “Scatman” Crothers was an American actor who is probably most famous for his role in Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining based on the book by Stephen King. He also appeared in many other films, and provide voice acting for cartoons such as Hanna-Barbera’s Hong Kong Phooey and Transformers. In fact, he [...]
Joey Ramone’s real name was Jeffry Ross Hyman and he was of course the frontman for the legendary punk rock band The Ramones. He was 6 feet 8 inches tall and suffered from OCD. His appearance was sort of his trademark – sunglasses and long hair in his face. He often sang about meeting girls [...]