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Amie Huguenard was born on 23 October 1965 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She died on 6 October 2003 in Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA.

Timothy Treadwell was born on 29 April 1957 in Long Island, New York, USA. He is known for Late Show with David Letterman (1993). He died on 5 October 2003 in Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA.

World-famous, widely popular American humorist of the vaudeville stage and of silent and sound films, Will Rogers graduated from military school, but his first real job was in the livestock business in Argentina, of all places. He transported pack animals across the South Atlantic from Buenos Aires to South Africa for use in the Boer War (1899-1902). He stayed in Johannesburg for a short while, appearing there in Wild West shows where he drew upon his expertise with horse and lasso. Returning to America, he brought his talents to vaudeville and by 1917 was a Ziegfeld Follies star. Over the years he gradually blended into his act his unique style of topical, iconoclastic humor, in which he speared the efforts of the powerful to trample the rights of the common man, while twirling his lariat and perhaps chewing on a blade of straw. Although appearing in many silents, he reached his motion-picture zenith with the arrival of sound. Now mass audiences could hear his rural twang as he delivered his homespun philosophy on behalf of Everyman. The appeal and weight of his words carried such weight with the average citizen that he was even nominated for governor of Oklahoma (which he declined).

Robert Hansen was born on 15 February 1939 in Estherville, Iowa, USA. He was married to Darla Henrichsen. He died on 21 August 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Terry Murphy was born on 14 April 1952 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Time for Dying (1969) and The Big Picture (1950). He died on 26 February 2002 in Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA.

Phil Harris was born on 19 December 1956 in Bothell, Washington, USA. He was married to Mary Harris. He died on 9 February 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Ian MacKintosh was born on 26 July 1940 in Inverness, Scotland, UK. Ian was a writer and producer, known for Warship (1973), Thundercloud (1979) and The Sandbaggers (1978). Ian was married to Sharron Carter. Ian died in July 1979 in Alaska, USA.

Bill Brown was born on 3 December 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was married to Ami Brown and Brenda Faye Britt. He died on 7 February 2021 in Alaska, USA.

Marc-André Leclerc was born on 10 October 1992 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. He died in March 2018 in Mendenhall Towers, Alaska, USA.

Bob Harte was born on 23 January 1951 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He died on 22 July 2017 in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

Litzi Botello was born on 22 November 1958 in Norwalk, California, USA. She died on 25 June 2021 in Port Protection, Alaska, USA.

Israel Keyes was born on 7 January 1978 in Cove, Utah, USA. He died on 1 December 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Christopher McCandless was born on 12 February 1968 in El Segundo, California, USA. He died on 18 August 1992 in Stampede Trail, Alaska, USA.

Nick Mavar was born on 21 October 1964 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Julie Hanson. He died on 13 June 2024 in King Salmon, Alaska, USA.

Sherry Morrow was born on 11 June 1958 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. She died on 17 November 1981 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

John Bunce was born on 13 November 1985 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He died on 1 September 2012 in Nome, Alaska, USA.

Jack Kirk was born on 19 February 1895 in Nickerson, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Zorro's Black Whip (1944), Stormy (1935) and The Topeka Terror (1945). He was married to Ethel Mason. He died on 13 September 1948 in Ketchikan, Alaska, USA.

Tim Mischel was born in Dickenson North Dakota, USA. He died on 8 December 2022 in McCarthy, Alaska, USA.

Veranika Nikanava was born on 19 December 1994 in Minsk, Belarus. She was a director and actress, known for Generation 328 (2020) and Fortress of War (2010). She was married to Piotr Markielau. She died on 25 July 2019 in Alaska, USA.

Todd Kochutin was born on 15 August 1990 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. He died on 26 February 2021 in Bering Sea, Alaska, USA.

James Duval was born in the Midwest and spent the early part of his life growing up in Alaska. After high school he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon successfully finishing his mission he took up the ownership of a small chain of video stores in Alaska.

In the early 90s he moved to California with the desire to pursue his actual love, filmmaking. He attended San Francisco State University to study film. Shortly after beginning at SFSU he dropped out to pursue filmmaking directly.

He was married soon after moving in San Francisco. He is the father of two sons and married to a wonderful romance writer.

In 2004 he moved to Los Angeles with three independent films already completed and started producing with the team he helped form while in the SF Bay Area.

In 2014 he began the process of stepping away from his team to produce films independently so that he could spend more time with his family and pursue productions with a stronger social statement.

Gay Dawn was born on 9 February 1923 in Oregon, USA. She died on 6 October 1998 in Juneau, Alaska, USA.

Born in the small village of Poza de la Sal, in the Castilian province of Burgos, on the 14th March 1928. He grew up in the midst of the wonders of nature and the Spanish Civil war, and then studied medicine at the university of Valladolid where he graduated as a specialist in dentistry. He became an expert in falconry and in 1960 he was employed by the Saudi Arabian king together with two excellent specimens presented by the Franco Government to King Saud. Thanks to generous donations by the Saudi king and the collaboration of a number of Grandees (Spanish Aristocrats) he was able to produce his first documentary programme "Señores del Espacio." The success of this documentary allowed him to embark on his second great passion: an exhaustive study of the lives of wild wolves - which fortunately still exist today in Spain, probably due to Rodríguez's tireless work in conserving this and other species in danger of extinction, such as the Iberian lynx, several species of eagles, and Cantabrian and Pyrenean bears. He later travelled extensively in Africa and South America, from which he made a number of documentary programmes. But in 1974 he started on his most ambitious work and the one he will always be rembered for: El Hombre y La Tierra. Starting off from some of his earlier work, such as Wolves (El Lobo), Otters (La Nutria), etc, he made up an exceptional series of documentaries on Iberian fauna which has never been equalled. The series includes such subjects as hunting dogs, the last vultures in Europe, foxes, deer, storks, etc., and a special on the Doñana National Park (World Heritage Listed). All this when "ecology" was still a rather unknown word and had not come into fashion. Thanks to his work many species have survived and parks have been created for the protection of wildlife. The whole series of 26 parts exists in video, made by RTVE and licenced to a private distributor. These programmes are not only excellent for nature lovers, but also for students of the Spanish language, as his speaking is clear and easily understood. Whilst filming Los Perros del Mundo (Dogs of the World) in Shaktoolik, Alaska, he died in an aeroplane accident, on his fifty-second birthday, 1980.

Erik Rose died on 11 January 2011 in Alaska, USA.

Jerry Harper was born in the Dalles, Oregon in 1930. His parents divorced early in his life and, in 1944, Jerry and his mother moved to Alaska. Eventually Jerry's mother married Zach Loussac, the mayor of Anchorage. As a young man, Jerry pursued his acting career in many venues - working in carnivals and circuses before finding work on stage and in films and television. In 1987, Jerry and his wife Sandy returned to Alaska, where they opened the popular and prestigious Cyrano's Bookstore and Off Center Playhouse, bringing top quality theater to Alaska. A legend in Alaska at the time of his death, Jerry died of cancer on April 8, 2005 at the age of 75.