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Rya Kihlstedt was born on 5 August 1969 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Home Alone 3 (1997), Deep Impact (1998) and Dexter (2006). She has been married to Gil Bellows since 3 October 1994. They have two children.

Jonathan Drew Groff is an American actor and singer. Known for his performances on screen, stage and television, Groff is the recipient of such accolades as a Grammy Award and a Tony Award and has been nominated for three Tony Awards, two Drama League Awards, three Grammy Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Beth Behrs was born on December 26, 1985 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA as Elizabeth Ann Behrs. Beth spent her early years on the East Coast, first in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then in Lynchburg, Virginia, before moving with her family at the age of 15 to Marin County, just outside San Francisco. She studied drama both at high school and at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, appearing in a number of plays before enrolling to study drama at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. A few one-off parts on high profile US TV shows led to her breakthrough role as Caroline Channing in 2 Broke Girls (2011).

Taylor Kinney is an American actor and model. On TV, he is best known for his role as Kelly Severide on the hit series, Chicago Fire (2012), and its spin-off Chicago P.D. (2014) on NBC, also as Mason Lockwood on The Vampire Diaries (2009), on The CW; and as Glenn Morrison on Trauma (2009) on NBC. His film work includes The Other Woman (2014), Consumed (2015), and The Forest (2016).

Taylor was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Pamela Heisler, a dental hygienist, and Daniel Kinney, a banker. He is of German, Swiss-German, and English ancestry. He and his three brothers were raised in Neffsville, Pennsylvania by their single mother. Kinney studied business management at West Virginia University, before developing an interest in acting.

Barry Pearl was born on March 29, 1950 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA as Barry Lee Pearl. Upon graduating from Carnegie -Mellon University (1973) he joined the cast of the first national tour of the stage play, Grease, which began his journey with that project to the very present. He is known for his work on the film, Grease (1978), My Favorite Martian (1999) and The Newest Pledge (2012) to name a few. To see a partial, yet rather extensive list of Barry's other theatrical credits, please view his resume.

Billy Kametz was a Los Angeles-based actor originally from Hershey, PA. He came out to California to play Aladdin in the Aladdin Musical Spectacular in Disney's California Adventure for the final year of the show's 13-year run. Thereafter he was fortunate to lend his voice to cartoons, anime, video games, and commercials. Billy was most known for voicing characters such as Josuke in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Galo in Promare, Ferdinand de Aegir in Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Takuto Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, White Blood Cell in Cells at Work, Osomatsu in Mr. Osomatsu, Anai in Aggretsuko, Blue in Pokemon Masters, Naoto Kurogane in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Aoba in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nishikata in Teasing Master Takagi-Sand, Kyouya in Konosuba, Hakuno in Fate Extra, and Phil Coulson, Iron Lad, The Collector and Thor Noir in Marvel Avengers Academy, But also, from the character Colt in the video game Brawl Stars.

Gretchen Egolf grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she began acting in theater as a child. She trained at the Juilliard School and has since been living and working in New York, Los Angeles, and most recently London. Aside from her numerous Broadway, West End, and regional theater credits, Gretchen was a series regular on "Journeyman" (NBC) and "Martial Law" (CBS), and played the recurring characters of "Vanessa Whitaker," in "Roswell" (WB), and "ADA Kendra Gill" on "Law and Order SVU" (NBC). She has guest starred on numerous shows: "Doctor Who," "Law and Order," "Lie to Me," "CSI: Miami," "Criminal Minds," "The Good Wife," "Without a Trace," "NCIS," and "Medium," among others. Gretchen starred in the TV movies "Gleason" and "The Two Mr. Kissels" and also had series regular roles in the pilots "Leap of Faith," (NBC) "The Corsairs," (ABC) and "Eden" (USA). Film experience includes Mira Nair's "The Namesake," Anthony Minghella's "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and Robert Redford's "Quiz Show." She lives in the UK.

Jennifer is best known for her roles on The Bold & the Beautiful as Donna Logan & The Young & the Restless as Grace Turner. She has also worked with stars such as James Caan, Arnold Schwarzenegger & Sandra Bullock starring in many movies. Jennifer has won many titles including Miss New York USA, earned All-American status in swimming, graced magazine covers as a model & earned her MBA from Pepperdine University.

A very pretty blonde television actress of the 60s and 70s, usually seen in wholesome roles. The daughter of a marine engineer and a dance teacher, she graduated from Van Nuys High School and initially pursued a secretarial career. She came to acting by pure chance, 'discovered' by a talent scout while shopping at one of the (now long defunct) Joseph Hughes supermarkets in Los Angeles.

On screen from 1964, her film roles were largely inconsequential, with the sole exception of her scantily-clad seductress in the Matt Helm spoof The Ambushers (1967). The small screen saw her mostly cast as coeds, ingénues or assorted groovy chicks. Signed by Universal, Linda soon became dissatisfied with the roles on offer and asked to be released from her contract. She then turned freelance and was better served on TV, especially as co-star of Hank (1965), a short-lived sitcom on NBC, in which Linda played a university registrar's daughter and the titular character's romantic interest. After the show had run its course, she moved on to play the daughter of the town drunk in an episode of F Troop (1965) and enjoyed a rare pivotal guest role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), assisting Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin in coming to grips with 'The Thor Affair'. She made repeat appearances in Bonanza (1959) and My Three Sons (1960) before calling it quits in 1984.

Linda Foster was married to Vince Edwards (TV's Ben Casey (1961)) from 1967 to 1974. Her second husband was the actor Edward Winter, best remembered as the paranoid, inept Colonel Flagg in the hit TV series M*A*S*H (1972).

Billy Bletcher, standing 5' 2", was known as the little guy with the big voice, who, ironically, started his film career during the silent era.

Billy's show business career began in 1913 at the age of 19 in vaudeville, and within a year, he went to work for Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn where he both acted and directed. Two years later, he met his wife, Arline Harriett Roberts with whom he would stay married until the day he died in 1979.

In 1917, he took his wife westward to Hollywood where he started with smaller production companies, such as the Christie Film Company, writing and acting in shorts, and then moved on to larger and larger companies, such as the Fox Film Corporation where he did a few cowboy movies, one with Tom Mix, playing the comedic element. Then onto larger companies, such as Warner Brothers, RKO, Columbia, and Paramount where he had mostly bit parts, but got experience working with the likes of The Three Stooges and The Marx Brothers. But it was in Mack Sennett's comedy troupe where he started getting recognition doing two-reelers, and his biggest break came when Hal Roach studios pared him with Billy Gilbert and his career took off. Because pictures now had sound, directors and studios everywhere were clamoring for his deep, rich voice.

Mack Sennett and Hal Roach put Bletcher in shorts with W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy and he even played Spanky's father in the Little Rascals series, but it was Disney who made Bletcher a star.

Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy and Pluto, told Bletcher that Disney needed a big, blustering voice to "huff and puff and blow your house in," so he tried out, got the job, and within a very short time, Disney had him doing a session a week in the sound booth, sometimes doing two and three voices. His voice got so famous that when he auditioned to do the voice of one of the seven dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Walt Disney took him aside and told him, "Billy, your voice is heard so much in all of these singles that I make, I don't think I'd want to use you as one of the Seven Dwarfs." Bletcher admits that because his voice was so low and resonant, the characters he got to play were usually the "heavies" (bad guys). And as a heavy his voice became too recognizable for him to get a role in a feature length Disney production, with one exception: he did get a minor role in Dumbo as the voice of one of the clowns.

As a voice actor, he could go anywhere and soon found himself working for Leon Schlesinger at Warner Brothers, but never got credit for his work since Mel Blanc had it in his contract that he'd be the sole credit for voice characterizations. And at that time there were only a dozen or so actors doing voicework that the jobs were plentiful. He worked for Disney, Warner, and at MGM he did the voice of the Captain in the Captain and the Kids cartoons.

In the fifties, he did several characters on the Lone Ranger radio program, but before that he did what's known in the business as ADR (automated dialogue replacement) work, with his old pal Pinto Colvig. In The Wizard of Oz (1939), their voices were substituted for a few of the munchkins.

All in all, Bletcher worked on just over 450 films spanning nearly 60 years, his last film being a made-for-TV version of Li'l Abner (1971) in which he played Pappy Yokum. He passed away 13 years later at the age of 84.

Frank Birney was born on 10 September 1937 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Dave (1993), Mr. Mom (1983) and Critters 2: The Main Course (1988). He was married to Betty G. Birney. He died on 1 June 2021 in Studio City, California, USA.

Richard D. Winters was born on 21 January 1918 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Band of Brothers (2001), Dick Winters: Hang Tough (2012) and The Last Days of World War II (2005). He was married to Ethel. He died on 2 January 2011 in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, USA.

Michael Willis spent 7 years in the United States Air Force, and saw duty in Vietnam in 1970 - 71 and The Republic of Korea from 1974 - 76. After working as a freelance writer and moonlighting in theatrical productions, he settled in as a company member of Washington D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. The work of the Company, and several reviews in The New York Times, earned the Company's recognition in the International theatre community, and interest from agents in New York. Mr. Willis has been pursuing a career in television and motion pictures since 1994. He still writes ( he has a regional column in the trade publication "Backstage") and is married and has 3 children.

Riza Royce was born on 18 July 1903 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress and assistant director, known for The Bat (1959), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Lights Out (1946). She was married to Josef von Sternberg and Stanton MacDonald-Wright. She died on 20 October 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sherre Gilbert was born in 1987 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.

Richard McMurray was born on 9 September 1916 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Raging Bull (1980), The Swimmer (1968) and David and Lisa (1962). He was married to Lesley Woods, Jane Hoffman and Beatrice Seckler. He died on 12 December 1984 in Burbank, California, USA.

Martha De Laurentiis formed the Dino De Laurentiis Company (DDLC) in 1980 with her partner and husband, Dino De Laurentiis. Over the past 33 years, Martha produced, executive produced, and co-produced over 40 films and miniseries. Now known as the De Laurentiis Company, the enterprise has overseen the construction and management of three major international film studios: the Screen Gem Studios in Wilmington, NC; the Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast of Australia; and the CLA-De Laurentiis studios in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

DLC is based on the Universal Pictures lot, where it holds a long-standing first-look deal. In addition to producing the smash hit Hannibal for NBC, DLC is developing a diverse slate of projects for both film and television, including a Barbarella series with Nicolas Winding Refn for Gaumont International TV and Canal Plus, a series based on the novel Gateway by Frederik Pohl, a feature film entitled The Seventh Day (2021), and a new project based on the Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey.

Shannan Gilbert was born on 24 October 1986 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 1 May 2010 in Long Island, New York, USA.

Andrew Sensenig was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his youth in Central Illinois. Thanks to several inspirational teachers and mentors in public schools, Andy was introduced to acting and music at a young age, leading to a multitude of award-winning theatrical and musical achievements. His passion for acting led him to study at Circle in The Square Theatre on Broadway, followed by North Carolina School of the Arts. The "real world" had its calling and Andrew earned his degree in Business and Computers from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, which led him into the realm of computer consulting, investment banking, philanthropic endeavors, and his favorite role: family man.

Reuniting with NCSA alumni led to working as a composer and co-writer for "The Water Coolers," which ran Off-Broadway in 2002, and continues to tour the world with theatrical and corporate performances.

Upon returning to his life-long dream as a full-time actor in 2006, and after numerous film and TV appearances, the role of The Sampler in Upstream Color (2013) proved to be a game-changer, catching the attention of industry leaders worldwide. Other recent fan favorites include, the iconic superhero Triphammer in Sony PlayStation Network's first original series "Powers" (2015), We Are Still Here (2015), Don't Look In The Basement 2 (2015), and "Anomaly" (2014).

Charlie Schroeder was born on 15 February 1972 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for 13 Conversations About One Thing (2001), Strange Fruit (2004) and BlackMale (2000).

Grammy & Golden Globe & nominated composer and songwriter Vince DiCola is an Italian American platinum selling artist. He co-composed eight songs for the John Travolta starring and Sylvester Stallone directed film, STAYING ALIVE in 1983. DiCola and co-composer Frank Stallone received a Grammy nomination for their work on STAYING ALIVE in the category of Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special. Vince was also nominated for a Golden Globe for the song, "Far From Over".

In 1985, Vince's soundtrack to ROCKY IV went platinum with over one million copies sold. Vince's cues from this classic selling soundtrack have been used in radio spots, TV commercials, sports programs, other outlets as well as everyone's workout playlist for over three decades.

One year later DiCola had another hit with THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE soundtrack, which included cues from his score as well as the popular song "Dare". For many years Vince has been hearing, "You scored my childhood" from adults who were kids in the 80's. A few years ago, Intrada Records released expanded scores for ROCKY IV & THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE.

Vince continues to work and most recently has worked on several hit video games with his colleague Kenny Meriedeth including 'Angry Birds Transformers', 'Transformers Devastation', 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' to name a few.

In 2018, DiCola put on a very well attended concert of his film and TV work as well as other songs he's composed at the world famous Whiskey A Go-Go venue on the legendary Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. People flew in from all over the world to attend this special concert, which also featured Cody Carpenter on keyboard. Vince also enjoys guest performing with bands on their own albums. In July of this year, Vince will be a guest at Andy McKee's Musicarium in Petaluma, CA. Vince will be honored at the 13th Annual Fimucité festival in the Canary Islands in September & will be teaching master classes there as well. For fans of his music, you'll be treated to the ROCKY IV world premiere suite at Fimucité!

Now in 2021 Vince is busier than ever before with several new games, an exciting new Movie & TV series from the NRCity Universe and much more!

Jared Odrick was born on 31 December 1987 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Roller Coaster (2015), Filling In (2016) and Samaritan (2022).

Carol Tevis was born on 6 March 1907 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Love Takes Flight (1937), Love Is News (1937) and Sweepstake Annie (1935). She was married to William Kenneth Tevis and William Thomas Britton. She died on 15 May 1965 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

Jack Ryland was born on 22 July 1935 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for A Woman Named Jackie (1991), Shortcut to Happiness (2003) and Police Woman (1974). He was married to Lani Miyazaki and Judith Paige. He died on 5 January 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.

Ted Vollrath was born in 1936 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Vollrath served in the US Marines and fought in the Korean war. Ted had to have both of his legs amputated because of severe injuries received in combat. He began training in the martial arts in 1967 and was the first person to earn a black belt in karate while training out of a wheelchair. Vollrath eventually became a karate Grand Master and acquired black belts in several different styles of the martial arts. In 1971 Ted founded the Martial Arts for the Handicapable Incorporated; this organization is dedicated to teaching the martial arts to disabled people. Vollrath made his sole foray into feature film acting with a solid performance as Lou, a vicious and lethal enforcer for a drug dealer in the positively jaw-dropping low-budget action exploitation oddity "Mr. No-Legs." Ted put on an impressively vigorous and exciting display of his martial arts prowess in a simply incredible protracted set piece which occurs halfway through the picture. Moreover, Vollrath also appeared in the documentary "Let Me Live in Your World." Ted Vollrath died on November 18, 2001.