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Tony Hale was born on 30 September 1970 in West Point, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Arrested Development (2003), Veep (2012) and Toy Story 4 (2019). He has been married to Martel Thompson Hale since 24 May 2003. They have one child.

Gore Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal in 1925 in West Point, New York, to Nina (Gore) and West Point aeronautics instructor and aviation pioneer Eugene Luther Vidal. The Vidals endured a rocky marriage divorcing ten years after Gore's birth. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. Vidal would later become the confidant of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis when Jackie's mother married his former stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1943, Gore joined the US Army Reserves. Some of his Army experiences inspired his first novel, Williwaw, which was published when he was just 19. He dedicated the novel to J.T., a deceased prep-school friend. Subsequent novels would prominently feature gay male characters, and Gore found soon found his books had staying power on bestseller lists. In 1960, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress, backed by celebrity supporters like Paul Newman & Vidal's ex-fiancé Joanne Woodward. Another unsuccessful foray into politics would occur in 1982 when he ran for governor of California. In addition to being an accomplished writer, he is also a novice actor. His biggest roles to date have been in Gattaca (1997), Bob Roberts (1992), and With Honors (1994).

Victor Cutler was born on 28 October 1913 in West Point, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), A Walk in the Sun (1945) and Canyon Passage (1946). He was married to Anne Faunterloy McGill and Jane Nigh. He died on 7 September 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Ryan Cutrona is an American actor. He shares two Screen Actors Guild Awards with the Ensemble of Mad Men for his role as 'Grandpa Gene', Betty Draper's father. He is perhaps best known for playing gruff authority figures and military men in films and on television, in both dramatic and comedic roles.

He collaborated with Joe Frank on his Peabody Award winning National Public Radio series': "Work In Progress", "Somewhere Out There", "In The Dark", and "The Other Side"; produced at legendary KCRW.

He has performed at noted theater festivals, including The Theater Of Nations, and on stages in New York City (New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater) and Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse).

His World Premiere performances of texts by Samuel Beckett (La MaMa ETC, Performance Space New York [PS 122]) have been hailed by Mel Gussow in The New York Times as "...a direct emanation of Beckett's vision".

Admitted by Martin Landau and Mark Rydell, he has been a member of the Actors Studio for 30 years. He lives in Los Angeles, where he has enjoyed a long association with, among others, some Padua Playwrights.

Retired American professional wrestler of Japanese descent as Ricky Steamboat. He trained under Verne Gagne, and first made his name in the old Mid-Atlantic territory in the Carolinas. He had many legendary matches and feuds with Ric Flair, culminating in their epic "Holy Trilogy" of matches at WCW/NWA Chi-Town Rumble (1989), Clash of the Champions VI: Ragin' Cajun (1989) and WCW/NWA WrestleWar (1989). He had a major feud with Randy Savage over the WWE Intercontinental Title, which Steamboat won at WrestleMania III (1987) in what many consider the greatest WrestleMania match of all time. Over the course of his career, he was a 1x NWA World Heavyweight Champion, a 1x WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, a multiple-time NWA World Tag Team Champion, an NWA United States Heavyweight Champion, a WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and a WCW Television Champion. At different points in his career, he had "retired" so he could spend time with his family and run his gym. He was forced into retirement due to a back injury suffered in a match with "Stunning" Steve Austin at Clash of the Champions XXVIII (1994). He was one of the few wrestlers to work as a babyface (good guy) for his entire career. He was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2002 (charter class), the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009 and the NWA Hall of Fame in 2012.

Was given the name "Ricky Steamboat" by wrestling promoter Eddie Graham due to his strong resemblance to wrestling legend Sammy Steamboat. Sammy even endorsed the name change and allowed them to bill the "Ricky Steamboat" character as his nephew. Ricky and Sammy remained friends until Sammy's death.

Played an on-air executive role in the early days of NWA TNA.

He was the "Inside Wrestling" Rookie of the Year for 1977.

Received the 1995 PWI Editor's Award.

After he won the Intercontinental Championship, he asked Vince McMahon for some time off to be with his wife who was expecting the birth of their son Richard Blood Jr. This did not sit well with WWF management and shortly after he was forced to drop the belt to the Honkytonk Man (Wayne Farris). Still bitter, the WWE did not push him or give him any meaningful matches upon his return. He left for WCW shortly after.

Daughter of a Brigadier General, she was born at West Point Military Academy on Memorial Day. Grew up in Buenos Aires, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Wurzberg, London, Washington DC, Washington State, Michigan, Texas, South Carolina, New York. Went to 16 schools, graduated from Cranbrook in MI., Antioch - BA, The American Conservatory Theatre - MFA.

Elizabeth Sampson is an actor, director, spoken word artist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at The American Conservatory Theater. Elizabeth's plays include The Skeleton Flower with The Road Theatre Company Under Construction Playwriting Group 2019. Beginnings - A Barbary Coast Play commissioned by The American Conservatory Theater in 2018. The Petoskey Stones - The Road Theatre Company and The Bay Theatre Company in Annapolis, MD (chosen for the New Women's Voices in Theatre Festival Washington DC 2015). Her short play trilogy Irish Coffee was presented in succession at the Road Theatre Company's Summer Playwrights Festival 2013 with Kathy Baker and Perry King. It Was The Lark 2014 with Michael O'Neill. The Lighthouse in 2015. In 2016 her festival play Hell Is Empty was performed at the Road Theatre. As an actor Elizabeth has worked with numerous playwrights including Horton Foote, Wendy MacLeod, Teresa Rebeck, and playwright Craig Wright on Lady, The Unseen, and Melissa Arctic. While at A.C.T. she was asked to join the prestigious resident acting company where she performed in the west coast premiere of 1918, as well as Christmas Carol, and Twelfth Night. Her NYC credits include Bringing' Home the Girl (Here Space as co-writer and actor), King of the Moon (Present Company, director). As a Los Angeles based actor she has been seen in Detachments w/ Glenn Hedley at the Loretta Theatre Company. She is a founding company member of A Noise Within where she did The Way of the World. More LA theater credits include The Memorandum, The Dearest of Friends, Mr. Happiness, A Midsummer Night's Dream (w/ Carlos Bernard and Ashbury Actor's Group) and Measure for Measure directed by Tina Packer for the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company. Elizabeth studied and performed at The Studio Theatre in Washington D.C., in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Other D.C. credits include, Ten Little Indians, Killing Real Estate Women. As a Director she has directed Spring Dance (Pepperdine University), King of the Moon (The Groundlings LA, Present Theatre Company NYC), and staged readings too numerous to mention in and around Los Angeles. Her TV work includes - The Passage, recurring Law and Order True Crime The Menendez Murders Aquarius, Rizzoli and Isles, Law and Order: Los Angele, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Without a Trace, E.R., Boston Legal, Strong Medicine, The Unit, Cold Case, The Pretender, Medical Mystery Investigation and a long recurring on The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire. Film Work: Last Rampage - The Escape of Gary Tison, Leaving Barstow, As Easy as Pie, Battle of the Sexes (Sundance), Disfigured, Modern Vampires (w/ Rod Steiger).

She has been performing her short stories in the heralded Common Ground, Spark Off Rose, Melt In Your Mouth, Tell-IT!, Tree People and Stories@ThePlayhouse - which she both performed with and produced, spoken word events in Los Angeles for the last 20 years. She is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA.



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David Eisenhower was born on 31 March 1948 in West Point, New York, USA. He is known for Ain't Easy Being Green (2007), The Mike Douglas Show (1961) and Fox Files (1998). He has been married to Julie Nixon since 22 December 1968. They have three children.

Iliana Tzikas was born on 6 February 1994 in West Point, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Certix House (2020), Sick Minded (2024) and First Drop.

Colette Freedman - An internationally produced playwright with over 25 produced plays, Colette was voted "One of 50 to Watch" by The Dramatist's Guild. Her play Sister Cities was the hit of the Edinburgh Fringe and earned five star reviews: It has been produced around the country and internationally, 31 times including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur), Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle) and Australia. She wrote the film which stars Jacki Weaver, Alfred Molina, Jess Weixler, Stana Katic, Michelle Trachtenberg, Amy Smart, Troian Bellisario, Tom Everett Scott and Kathy Baker. It can currently be seen on Lifetime and Netflix. The Sister Cities novel came out December 2016.

Colette has co-written, with International bestselling novelist Jackie Collins, the play Jackie Collins Hollywood Lies, which is gearing up for a National Tour. In collaboration with The New York Times best selling author Michael Scott, she wrote the thriller The Thirteen Hallows (Tor/Macmillan). Her novel The Affair (Kensington) came out in, 2013. The play of the novel earned both critical and commercial success as it toured Italy February in 2013 and Antwerp in 2016. Her sequel novel The Consequences (Kensington) came out in 2014. The audio books came out in 2020.

Her YA novel Anomalies, co-written with Sadie Turner, Anomalies (Select Books) came out 2016. The audio book came out in 2018. Her memoir about Steve Dorff I Wrote That One Too, came out in 2017. The audio book came out in 2019. Her children's book The Reluctant Fairy Godmother, with Kimberly Much, came out in 2019.

Colette also co-wrote the film And Then There Was Eve, with Savannah Bloch, which won The Los Angeles Film Festival in 2017 and is distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures. She also co-produced the film Quality Problems, which won a slew of awards including best film and best ensemble and is distributed by Freestyle. Colette has AP'd several Lifetime films including Deadly Sugar Daddy and Nanny Danger - both out in 2020.

Colette has several scripts in development which she co-wrote with Brooke Purdy, including Miles Underwater (which is in post production) as well as Joint Venture, Scattering Rachel, Decay, Therapy and The Last Bookstore, which won Grand Prize at the CWA awards, We Screenplay's Diverse Voices and Best Science Fiction Feature for Action on Film.

Dennis M. DuPriest was born on 7 July 1952 in West Point, New York, USA to Gilbert DuPriest and Therese DuPriest. He traveled the world as a military dependent and graduated from John Jay High School in 1970. He is known as the "Keeper of the Flame" by the first three graduating classes of John Jay High School-Class of 1969, 1970 and 1971. He was a radio disc jockey in Del Rio, Kerrville and San Antonio during the 70's and 80's. He was also known as First Mate Mortimer - Captain Gus' side kick on "The Captain Gus Show"and his show "Gobs of Fun" on KENS-TV which he enjoyed entertaining young children. In the late 1980's Dennis worked at St. Gerard Regional High School as their endowment officer. In the 1990's and until his recent retirement he was employed at Somerset ISD. DuPriest passed away on Saturday, 21 January, 2012 at the age of 59. Dennis was preceded in death by his father, Gilbert DuPriest and is survived by his mother, Therese DuPriest, sister, Linda Padron and her husband Pete, brothers, Thomas and his wife Susan, Robert and his wife Maricela. Dennis was also a loving uncle to April and Katie Padron, Clint and Jennifer DuPriest, and Heather, Robert, Travis and Grace DuPriest and great niece Gianna Bennett.

Kristin Mente has a 25-year history in film and television that began as an intern wrapping electrical cables, at midnight, in a Texas swamp. Moving to Los Angeles in 2003, she built a successful film career as a First Assistant Director, Unit Production Manager and Line Producer. Kristin led physical production on several independent films over the years, including Brick by Rian Johnson, I Will Follow by Ava DuVernay, and Timer by Jac Schaeffer.

Transitioning to television production in 2010, Kristin joined NBCUniversal International Networks where she oversaw original series, live events, and global productions for NBCU International channels. Since 2016, Kristin has been Executive Producer for all E! International live events, producing high-profile shows for Golden Globes, Grammys, Oscars, Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, The Met Gala, Emmys, and The People's Choice Awards. In 2017, Kristin produced and directed the 13-episode aftershow series, After Dark, a digital companion to Joseph Mallozzi's Dark Matter series on Syfy. With the NBCU acquisition of Sky Networks in 2020, Kristin produced Sky Cinema's four-hour live broadcast of the 92nd Annual Academy Awards from the roof of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

In 2021, Kristin formed Sassy Bird Media to continue producing live events, developing, and pitching creative projects, and pursuing innovative ventures. Kristin is a proud member of the Director's Guild of America, loves tacos, and has an unnatural obsession with lighting in all its forms.

Paula Rafferty is an actress who was born at West Point, New York and traveled the world growing up. She has first hand knowledge with three revolutions. Paula has defensive driving skills and weapons training (aside from basic military training) from deployments pertaining to the Global War on Terror (J-Turns, Pit maneuvers, evasive, ramming etc..). She is an expert with the M-16 (39/40 consistently), and has qualified with pistols, the AK-47 and M-15. Paula has lived in multiple environments to include trailers, houses, apartments, row houses, condos, a farm, rental houses, hotels, barracks, and a shipping container in Afghanistan. She has lived on the west coast, east coast, the northeast, the south, and Midwest, as well as Oahu, the Philippines, Iran, and extended stays in Puerto Rico, Portugal, Berlin, and Den Hague, Netherlands. She has been around the world 16 times, has a masters degree in geography, and has been studying acting in Dallas, Texas under Cathryn Hartt since 2016. Paula has two grown children and recently completed a two and a half year tour in Afghanistan with the army, to include time working with NATO forces in Kabul. Paula has worked on several film productions; in lead and supporting roles and also featured extras. She is known for her smile and ability to relate to people.

Lewis Sorley was born on 3 August 1934 in West Point, New York, USA. He was married to Virginia. He died on 25 September 2024 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.

Born February 8, 1986 in West Point, New York as Amy Elizabeth Ayers, the daughter of Edwin F. Ayers, Jr., a Funeral Director and Marsha D. Ayers, a High School Teacher. She was adopted as an infant and raised as an only child. A mix of the world, Elizabeth is of Mexican, Native American, Scottish, Irish, English, Jewish, Polish, Greek, Spanish and Middle Eastern decent with family living all over the globe.

Elementary School to High School she took theater classes, performed in multiple plays, singing and dancing, however never dreamed of pursuing it as a career. Elizabeth was working as a Funeral Director at her family's business when a friend suggested they take an acting class together. Shortly after her first class she began to act in films traveling from Nashville to New York to Los Angeles until she began to work in production.

Elizabeth is the co-founder of a production company, Jane & June Entertainment based out of Los Angeles, California. She is an American Film Producer, Actor, Screenwriter and Director.

Brian was born at West point, New York on November 22, 1977. Brian grew up in a military family. His father served in the Marine Corps and Army. As a child, Brian moved around a lot living in such diverse places from Hawaii, Kentucky, Florida, and even Alaska just to name a few.

Before his senior year in high school he enlisted in the United States Navy were he served for over 7 years in Yokosuka Japan and Coronado California. During his time serving in the Navy he was able to experience different cultures and people that have influenced him in his artistic endeavors.

Growing up he has always enjoyed films where he will often act out scenes from films he watched. Even though he went into the military before pursuing his dream of becoming a Film Director, Brian's passion for the industry still remained. Using his experiences meeting new people and different cultural from all over the world as a tool for his creative mind.

Brian earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts at Columbia College Hollywood and will graduate with a Master's of Fine Arts in Filmmaking at New York Film Academy at their Los Angeles Campus.

Andrea Levine was born in 1966 in West Point, New York, USA. She died on 31 August 1990 in Kirkland, Washington, USA.

Derek Lee Ragin was born on 17 June 1958 in West Point, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Farinelli (1994), Angels in America: The Opera (2004) and Filme muito breve: Miguel Franco (1918-1988) (2019).

Al Hobbs was born in West Point, New York, USA. He is known for Life of Pi (2012), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and Mousehunt (1997).

Thomas Mesereau was born on 1 July 1950 in West Point, New York, USA. He is a legal representative.

Shep Camp was born on 16 July 1882 in West Point, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Song of the Flame (1930), The Painted Angel (1929) and Hampton Court Palace (1926). He was married to Ottie Chenault. He died on 20 November 1929 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Joe Aceti was born on 2 May 1935 in West Point, New York, USA. Joe was a director and assistant director, known for Major League Baseball on CBS (1955), The 1996 Fox Rock 'N Roll Skating Championships (1996) and The 1995 Fox Rock 'N Roll Skating Championships (1995). Joe was married to Barbara. Joe died on 4 October 2011 in Kirkland, Washington, USA.

Doug Crepeau was born on 5 August 1940 in West Point, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988).

Andrew O'Meara Jr. was born on 26 December 1936 in West Point, New York, USA.

Rob Elser was born on 28 October 1965 in West Point, New York, USA. Rob is a producer, known for Overlord: Fellowship of Evil (2015), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007). Rob has been married to Katherine Garbera since 16 July 2010.

Mike London was born on 9 October 1960 in West Point, New York, USA.