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- Doyle Richmond was born in 1939 in Fulton, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The Gemini Factor (1987) and Silver Dream Racer (1980). He was married to Caroline Funnell. He died on 12 August 1993 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
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Vernon Presley was born on 10 April 1916 in Fulton, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Elvis on Tour (1972), Hee Haw (1969) and Elvis in Concert (1977). He was married to Davada "Dee" Stanley and Gladys Presley. He died on 26 June 1979 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.- Carleton G. Young was born on 26 May 1907 in Fulton, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for His Kind of Woman (1951), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945) and The Plymouth Playhouse (1953). He was married to Barbara Leonard Davis. He died on 11 July 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Minnie Mae Presley was born on 17 June 1890 in Fulton, Mississippi, USA. She died on 8 May 1980 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Nancy Adams was born on 8 July 1939 in Fulton, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Robin Hood (1973), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Sweet Charity (1969). She was previously married to Floyd Huddleston.- Actress
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Mitzi Mayfair was during the 30s and 40s a tap-dancer on Broadway. Her shows included "The Show Is On", and "Take a Chance". After Eleanor Powell's breakdown in January 1936, she replaced Miss Powell in "At Home Abroad". Mitzi Mayfair's film work was small, only co-starring in Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) and a few Vitaphone Shorts.- Director
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John Benitz wrote and directed the award-winning film Children of the Struggle, which was shown in film festivals across the country, on PBS, and is seen in high schools and colleges nationwide. It was also recognized by the NAACP Film Commission for its "true and poignant portrayal of the fight for black voting rights".
In addition, he has directed the West Coast premieres of Borderlands by Mona Kopellman, an original play about Bosnia, which was a Best Pick in the LA Weekly and the Off-Broadway play Fortune's Fools at the McCadden Theater in Hollywood, also an LA Weekly Best Pick and for which he won a Dramalogue Award. He directed One Grimm Evening at the Odyssey Theatre as well as What I Heard About Iraq by Simon Levy, which performed on college campuses, in theaters and performing arts centers in New York, California, Washington State, Montreal and at the LaMama Theatre in Manhattan.
He has acted Off-B'way at the former Ubu Rep, at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, The Odyssey and Fountain Theatres' in Los Angeles and Shakespeare Orange County. He's a proud member of Actor's Equity and SAG/AFTRA.
In 2007, John approached Andrew Carroll about the possibility of a play based on Carroll's New York Times best-selling books War Letters and Behind the Lines. He was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts and a Cal Humanities grant to bring If All the Sky Were Paper to a wider audience. Since then the play has performed at Seattle Rep, The Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Kennedy Center in DC. Annette Bening, Common, Laura Dern, Mary Steenburgen, Gary Cole, Dan Lauria, Lauren Bowles, Peter Strauss, Sandra Seacat, and Ed Asner are just a few of the actors he has had the pleasure to direct as part of this play.
He attended Sarah Lawrence College and Brandeis University for his MFA and is a Full Professor at Chapman University.
John is in production on a feature-length film about the war letters project.- Vester Presley was born on 11 September 1914 in Fulton, Mississippi, USA. He died on 17 January 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Roger Creed was born on 7 January 1915 in Fulton, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for RoboCop 3 (1993), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Batman Forever (1995). He died on 8 October 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Betty Roadman was born on 5 December 1889 in Fulton, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), It's All in Your Mind (1938) and The Headleys at Home (1938). She died on 24 March 1975 in Anaheim, California, USA.
- Riddle decided he wanted to be an actor after he wrote to silent screen star Billie Dove and she responded with an autographed picture. In addition to becoming an actor, Riddle started a collection of movie memorabilia. It eventually grew to more than 1,700 items that he donated to his alma mater, Murray State University in Kentucky, in 2001. Riddle's first professional job was in summer stock in Allentown, PA. He roomed with Jack Lemmon, who became a lifelong friend. He also worked in four Elvis Presley movies. In all, Riddle appeared in some two dozen movies and over 400 television shows.
- A native of Fulton, Missouri, Heinrich Hauer Bellamann was born on April 28, 1882. He was a serious student of music and studied both in this country and abroad. From 1907 until 1932, when he began to pursue writing full-time, Bellamann held administrative and teaching positions at several educational institutions including Julliard and Vassar. During these years, Bellamann wrote poetry and published three volumes: A Music Teacher's Notebook (1920), Cups of Illusion (1923), and The Upward Pass (1928). Although his poetry is today even less well known than his fiction, Bellamann is recognized by David Perkins in his 1976 History of Modern Poetry in which he ranks Bellamann with the serious minor poets who "adopted the mode" of the Imagists (p. 347). In 1942 Publishers' Weekly inaccurately reported that Bellamann was an author "new to the book trade" prior to the publication of Kings Row in 1940 (143:244). However, in addition to the three volumes of poetry already mentioned, four of Bellamann's novels were published before Kings Row. Furthermore, the range of sub-genre in which Bellamann experimented is quite surprising. In addition to Kings Row, Bellamann wrote two farm novels, a novel of manners, a social drama, a mystery, and a gothic romance. From 1907 until his death in 1945, Bellamann was married to Katherine Jones Bellamann of Carthage, Mississippi. Mrs. Bellamann herself was a novelist and poet and shared much creative work with her husband. In 1948, she completed Parris Mitchell of Kings Row, his posthumous sequel to Kings Row. She died in 1956. The Bellamanns had no children.
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Hunter David Gorton was born in Fulton, NY to Kim Gorton (Weaver) and Dave Gorton. Originally from Upstate New York, Gorton found himself at home in the finger lakes region where he studied film and television graduating from Ithaca College in 2015. While attending Ithaca he earned a Bachelor Of Science in Television-Radio with a concentration in media production. After receiving exposure in the entertainment industry thru the Roy H. Park School of Communications he then moved to Hollywood, CA to pursue a career as a freelance Art Director. Throughout his career he has helped create and design content on countless commercials, photo shoots, films, television series as well as interactive web media.- Sound Department
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Blair Carmichael was born on 13 June 1963 in Fulton, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Jack-O (1995), Death Mask (1998) and Outloud (1999).- Additional Crew
Robert Garlock was born on 31 August 1966 in Canal Fulton, Ohio, USA. He is known for Bringing Out the Dead (1999), American Playhouse (1980) and Basquiat (1996). He died on 2 September 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.- Nick Cave was born on 4 February 1959 in Fulton, Missouri, USA. He is an actor, known for It's OK to Ask Questions (2023), Museum Town (2019) and Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021).
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Michael Keith Aleshire-Rezendez was born on 10 January 1977 in Fulton, Kentucky, USA. He is a production designer, known for Think Like a Man (2012), Edison (2005) and New Warriors (2017).- Actor
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Composer, conductor and saxophonist James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford studied at the City College of New York and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Fisk University. He taught in New York City high schools and joined the Fletcher Henderson and Wilbut Sweatman orchestras as a saxophonist and flutist, then formed his own orchestra in 1929 which toured the US and Europe and made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1942, his popular-song compositions include "Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes", "Dream of You", "Uptown Blues", and his theme "Rhythm Is Our Business".- Nelle Reagan was born on 24 July 1883 in Fulton, Illinois, USA. She died on 25 July 1962 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Paul Rhymer was considered one of the outstanding American humorists during the 1930s and 40s, when his "Vic and Sade" radio series was the premiere daytime serial, one based on humor and not melodrama. In 1936, "Vic and Sade" was named the best-written program on radio. Two years later, radio writers voted Rhymer as best script writer and in 1940 the Motion Picture Daily said the program was the best daytime serial. Rhymer wrote more than 3,500 scrips for the series, and could count Upton Sinclair, James Thurber, and Ray Bradbury among his fans.
- Champion athlete Helen Herring Stephens was born on February 3, 1918 in Fulton, Missouri. The daughter of Frank Elmer and Bertie Mae Herring Stephens, Helen grew up on a farm in Callaway County near Fulton, Missouri. Stephens attended Fulton High School in Fulton, Missouri and William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri. Helen participated in her first race shortly after turning 17; she equaled the world indoor record for the 50 m and beat reigning Olympic 100 m champion Stella Walsh. Although her career as a competitive athlete only lasted 30 months, Stephens nonetheless ran in more than a 100 races. Among the notable achievements in Helen's brief, but still glorious athletic career are winning 14 AAU titles in the sprints, shot put, discus throw, and the standing long jump. Moreover, Stephens won the gold medal in both the Women's 100 m and the Women's 4 x 100 m relay at the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. In the wake of her Olympic triumph, Helen went on to run in a series of exhibition races against Jesse Owens and toured for seven years with the professional basketball teams the Olympic Coeds -- she also was the owner and manager of this particular team -- and the Professional Red Heads. In addition, Stephens joined the Federal Civil Service and worked for more than 25 years at the Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition, Helen also helped coach at her alma mater William Woods College. She was inducted the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. Stephens died at age 75 on January 17, 1994 in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Tony Galbreath was born on 29 January 1954 in Fulton, Missouri, USA.
- The son of Samuel L. and Grace A. (Smith) Merema, Bert S. Merema (credited as Burt) was a tractor and automobile hobbyist and Crosley car expert, leading to his appearance in "Powel Crosley and the 20th Century". Early in his working career, Bert was employed at Earl Hill's Garage in Albany and hauled milk, later working at Climax Engines and Auto Parts in Clinton. Beginning in December 1951 he was a founding partner with his brother Martin at Merema Bros. on Main Street in Fulton, and was later joined by his three sons.
- Mark Murphy was born on 13 July 1955 in Fulton, New York, USA.
- Bake McBride was born on 3 February 1949 in Fulton, Missouri, USA.