writer, director, producerBorn: 8/3/1950Birthplace: Chicago Lambasted by critics and revered by fans, John Landis began his outrageous Hollywood ascent while still a teenager, working as a mailboy…
(John Youngs)actorBorn: 8/25/1950Birthplace: Old Bethpage, New York An intense leading man, Savage is known especially for his roles in late-1970s films. He played one of the three friends serving…
director, writer, actorBorn: 9/28/1950Birthplace: Schenectady, New York After college, Sayles worked odd jobs while writing novels (Pride of the Bimbos, 1975; Union Dues, 1977) and short stories (…
(John Towner Williams)composer, conductorBorn: 2/8/1932Birthplace: Queens, New York Famed movie score and TV theme composer, Williams has worked with Hollywood's most famous directors and producers…
(Jacques Haussmann)actorBorn: 9/22/1902Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania Having begun his career as a theater director and then working with Orson Welles on both the Negro Theatre Project and the…
writer, directorBorn: 2/18/1950Birthplace: Lansing, Michigan Having begun his career writing for the National Lampoon magazine, it seemed a logical step for Hughes to then write several of the…
actorBorn: 1/22/1940Birthplace: Chesterfield, England Oscar-nominated actor whose career spans four decades and more than eighty roles ranging from the classical to the futuristic. Perhaps best…
director, producerBorn: 2/19/1930Birthplace: Malba, New York Beginning his career as a television director, he later became a major film director of the 1960s, with such acclaimed features as The…
actorBorn: 6/20/1952Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri John Goodman's sizable frame won him a football scholarship and a stint as a bouncer while he pursued a stage career. In 1979 he made his debut…
musician, TV personalityBorn: 7/9/1952Birthplace: Garden City, New York Hunky yet wholesome, Tesh has had a successful career in sports broadcasting, hosting TV shows such as Entertainment Tonight…
