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- Betty Ann Cain was born on 1 October 1931 in Wahiawa, Hawaii, USA. She was an actress, known for To Tell the Truth (2016). She was married to Craig Scheiner. She died on 30 July 2023 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Casting Director
- Casting Department
Mali Finn was born on 8 March 1938 in Danville, Illinois, USA. She was a casting director, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), Avatar (2009) and Titanic (1997). She was married to Don Finn. She died on 28 November 2007 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
Michael Horowitz was born on 11 December 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Darwin Awards (2006), A Realized Man and Monologue (2017). He was married to Cynthia Horowitz. He died on 2 October 2019 in Sonoma County, California, USA.- Jerry Dexter was born on 18 April 1935 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981), The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) and The Adventures of Gulliver (1968). He died on 21 June 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Tipp McClure was born on 30 January 1927 in Cushing, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Daddy-O (1958), Official Detective (1957) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He was married to Stephanie Evans. He died on 21 March 1995 in Sonoma County, California, USA.
- Robert Filmer was born on 6 November 1899 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Mom and Dad (1945), The El Paso Kid (1946) and Challenge of the Range (1949). He died on 15 January 1980 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
June Mary MacCloy was born in Sturgis, Michigan on June 2, 1909. When she was a child her family moved to Toledo, Ohio. With her radiant smile, her tall, blonde, good looks and unusual voice, she brightened many a film and stage with her talent. After 1940 she became an obscure part of Hollywood and Broadway history. When she was a deep-voiced, 5' 71/2" teenage girl, she was chosen by song writer Lew Brown (of the prolific team DeSylva, Brown & Henderson) to do an impersonation of Broadway star Harry Richman, singing "I'm On The Crest of a Wave" in the ninth edition of George White's Scandals (Apollo Theater, July 2, 1928; 230 performances), starring Richman, Frances Williams, Willie & Eugene Howard and Ann Pennington. She and her mother moved to New York, and before embarking on a film career she was featured in the Parkington unit vaudeville shows, designed by Vincente Minnelli. In 1930 she was signed by Paramount Pictures to make film shorts in Astoria, L.I. Before making any features for Paramount, she was loaned out to United Artists to make her first feature, "Reaching for the Moon" with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Bebe Daniels. She's the memorable, tall, pretty blond with the deep voice, singing 16 measures of "When the Folks High Up Do The Mean Low Down!" by Irving Berlin. That same year, Paramount co-starred her with Frances Dee and Jack Oakie in "June Moon" (based on the Lardner-Kaufman play). Next came "The Big Gamble" (R-K-O Pathe) starring Bill Boyd, with Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland and ZaSu Pitts. In the early 1930s MacCloy made at least nine film shorts, including a series of short comedies called "The Gay Girls" with Marion Schilling and Gertrude Short. Three of her shorts were directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, using the name "William Goodrich." In 1932 she appeared with Lupe Velez, Bert Lahr, Buddy Rogers and June Knight in Hot-Cha, Florenz Ziegfeld's last production (Ziegfeld Theater, March 8, 1932; 119 performances). Her featured song was "Little Old New York" (unpublished) by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. When Hot-Cha closed, June sang on the cruise ship, "S.S. Transylvania, " and spent the rest of the decade performing in Chicago, New York and San Francisco clubs and theaters, with the orchestras of Johnny Hamp, Henry King, Ben Pollock and Griff Williams (with whom she recorded for Decca). Some of these spots included New York's Paramount Theater, Chicago's Chez Paree, and San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins. For Warner Bros./Vitaphone, she made a Technicolor two-reeler with Leon Erroll called "Good Morning, Eve, " directed by Roy Mack (September, 1934). Because of her contralto voice, she felt she was overlooked by radio producers. She suspected, many years later, that film producers may have thought she was a Lesbian. At Columbia Studios, she made "Glamour for Sale" in 1940, with Anita Louise and Roger Pryor. Her last real role was in "Go West" (MGM, 1940) in which she tried to seduce Groucho Marx, and sang a song, "You Can't Argue With Love" (unpublished) in the beer hall. She retired from performing when she married California architect Neal Wendell Butler, with whom she raised two children in Southern California. She met her husband through their mutual love of jazz music. She was widowed in 1985.- E.A. Sirianni was born on 17 April 1922 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Mannix (1967), Night Gallery (1969) and The Wild Wild West (1965). He died on 31 December 1986 in Sonoma County, California, USA.
- Terence Locke was born on 12 June 1938 in Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Damnation Alley (1977), Kojak (1973) and Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976). He died on 17 March 1982 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Paul Lombardi was born on 15 December 1959 in Sonoma, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fisher King (1991). He died on 9 September 1991 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Mae Gaston was the daughter of Grace Roberts of Llanfairfechan, Caernarvonshire, Wales and Edmund Warrener born in London. The family immigrated to East Boston, MA in 1884 (three siblings were born in Wales - Jane, Nancy & Robert) - they lived at 6 Wilbur Ct. at the time of Mae's birth. By 1889 they had relocated to Illinois where siblings Margaret and Edmund were born - her mother, Grace died in childbirth in 1897 and by 1900 her father had remarried Sarah Jane "Jennie" Saunders of Toronto, Ontario, Canada - only brother Edmund was living at home in 1900.
She appears in over 40 titles, many as leading lady with Francis Ford. On Sunday, 24 Oct 1920, the Boston Herald describes a movie town known as "Filmland City" on the Fellsway in Medford, Massachusetts where 8 episodes of the popular "Nick Carter" series have been recently filmed. Mae is the leading lady opposite star Tom Carrigan.
She married first Fred Curtis Aldrich 24 March 1903 in Chicago, IL. They had two children Edmund and Ardelle. Mae abandoned her husband and children. In Dec 2013, Fred married Estelle Hendricks and they raised Mae's children together.
She married second a bond broker, 30 year old Harold Hoover Baker. Mae lied about her age - A 43 year old divorcee claiming to be 32 residing in Beverly Hills and never mentioned that she had children.
In 1940 Mae and Harold have been living on 17104 Figueroa in Compton, California, for at least 5 years, a home valued at $2,500 (one of the least expensive in the area). Harold is an Operator on a Poultry Ranch, she is a housewife.
Mae died 27 May 1965 in Sonoma, California. - Director
- Writer
- Producer
Louis Clyde Stoumen was born on 15 July 1917 in Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA. Louis Clyde was a director and writer, known for Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962), The Naked Eye (1956) and The True Story of the Civil War (1957). Louis Clyde died on 20 September 1991 in Sonoma County, California, USA.- Producer
- Writer
Charles R. Meeker was born on 17 June 1942 in the USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Hitcher (1986), The Golden Child (1986) and Near Dark (1987). He died on 18 February 2021 in Sonoma County, California, USA.- Edward Bach was born on 26 December 1943 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Columbo (1971) and Mod Squad (1968). He was married to Stephanie Edwards. He died on 1 March 1998 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Warren Burr was born on 11 January 1923 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Youth Aflame (1944). He died on 25 January 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Actress
- Sound Department
Phyllis Gordon was born on 17 October 1889 in Suffolk, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Another Thin Man (1939), The Raid of the Human Tigers (1913) and A Messenger to Kearney (1912). She was married to Eugene Pallette. She died on 16 October 1964 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Animation Department
- Visual Effects
Ed Parks was born to Edwin Rose Parks "the first" and Rosabel Mosley Parks of Waterbury, Connecticut. His father died in the 1919 flu epidemic, leaving Ed to be raised single-handedly by his mother, Rosabel (Rosa). He attended Driggs Grammar School in Waterbury, and developed an early talent for drawing, as well as an interest in aeronautics. He and his mother moved to Watertown when Ed was in Junior High, and he then attended Watertown High School (Connecticut). He was encouraged by his art teacher, H. Louise Johnson, to paint a mural in the High School basement gymnasium. The mural was an idealized history of the world, from the dinosaurs through present civilization. Around this time, he received his first freelance art job--drawing a small concept sketch for the patent papers of the very first Mickey Mouse watch, made by the Ingersoll Watch Company, of Waterbury. After high school, he attended Yale University Art School, with the idea of being a mural painter. During this time, he answered an ad posted on a bulletin board, "Disney Needs Artists." This soon led to his moving to California and a job at Disney, at the original Hyperion studio location, and then at the "new" (present) studio in Burbank. As did many animators, he began as an in-betweener, then as an assistant, and spent many years as an effects animator before moving into character animation on both features and many short subjects.
World War II saw him join the Navy, where he continued to work in animation on training films and ultimately top secret work for the Allied Invasion of Europe. During his time in the Navy, he met and married fellow Art & Animation Department Photographic Specialist Leah Bowlby. Following the War, the couple returned to California--(Leah is a California Native) Ed returning to Disney (Walt remarking, "Ed! When did you get back?!" and Ed replying, "I've been back for six weeks!"), and Leah finishing an education in Art at UCLA and becoming a high school art teacher until the birth of their son, Gary, in 1962.
Ed continued for Disney until 1960, with a half-year interlude circa 1956, where he was hand picked by Walt to go over to Paramount to work with Cecil B. DeMille as the effects animator for "The Ten Commandments." The Pillar of Fire, though not originally designed by Ed, was reworked by him, and its style and final look bears his hallmark. After this, he returned to Disney--with his final most distinct artistic flourish for the company being the design for the unique yellow smoke curling out of Cruella DeVil's cigarette in 101 Dalmatians.
Due to an opportunity for higher pay and more creative freedom, Ed left Disney and joined Hanna-Barbera, remaining there until his retirement from animation in 1978. A feature film for which he did extensive animation is Charlotte's Web, probably his favorite project with Hanna-Barbera, along with the much earlier Johnny Quest TV series. Another show which bears a large amount of his work is Scooby Doo, for its first couple of seasonal incarnations. Others of lesser renown include Hong Kong Phooey, the Great Grape Ape, Speed Buggy, Jeannie, and Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home.
Between his retirement from animation in 1978 and his passing in 1999, Ed painted and sold oil and acrylic paintings through local art galleries, taught painting privately, revived his interest in aeronautics with designing and building model airplanes, and spent time with his family. He is memorialized by a military style plaque on the Veterans Wall at Pleasant Hills Memorial Park in Sebastopol, California. His son, Gary, still has Ed's 1941 Disney animation desk (in use as a drawing desk) to this day.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Bert Salzman was born in 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Geronimo Jones (1970), Angel and Big Joe (1976) and CBS Children's Film Festival (1967). He died on 29 November 2016 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Alan Anderson was born on 9 December 1917 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for This Is the Army (1943) and Biography (1987). He died on 13 August 2007 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- A.W. McClure was born on 28 May 1871 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Intolerance (1916) and The Albany Branch (1931). He died on 19 December 1956 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Special Effects
Clarence Champagne was born on 4 July 1907 in California, USA. He is known for Psycho (1960). He died on 27 January 1996 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Ben Aliza was born on 22 March 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wild Wild West (1965), Mod Squad (1968) and The Great Bank Robbery (1969). He died on 1 January 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
George Burt was born on 7 October 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a composer, known for Cry Dr. Chicago (1971), Secret Honor (1984) and The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964). He was married to Sharon Graham. He died on 28 March 2015 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Animation Department
Tom O'Loughlin was born on 24 December 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985), Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1982) and Jonny Quest (1964). He was married to Norma. He died on 26 October 2007 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Henry H. Arnold was born on 25 June 1886 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Men of the Sky (1942), Army Air Forces - Pacific (1945) and Combat America (1943). He was married to Eleanor Alexander Pool. He died on 15 January 1950 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Phil Shippy was born on 1 April 1956 in Weiser, Idaho, USA. He died on 10 October 1984 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- David Lind was born on 24 October 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 16 November 1995 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Art Director
Chester Gore was born on 25 August 1893 in Santa Rosa, California, USA. He was an art director, known for Just Off Broadway (1942), Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942) and Speed to Burn (1938). He died on 20 February 1966 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Nick Boris was born on 21 June 1918 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA. Nick was a director, known for There's a Message in Every Bottle (1969). Nick died on 18 June 2001 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Visual Effects
- Animation Department
- Art Department
Patrick J. Rodriguez was born in 1973 in California, USA. Patrick J. is known for Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Star Trek (2009) and Venom (2018). Patrick J. was married to Kimberly Rudy. Patrick J. died in September 2021 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Edna Searle was born on 30 July 1907 in Camberwell, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Runaway Ladies (1938) and Love on Leave (1940). She died on 7 April 1977 in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, USA.
- Cornelius P. Murphy was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was married to Betty Murphy. He died on 24 August 2013 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Susan Hein was born on 7 July 1957 in Woodbine, Iowa, USA. She died on 30 September 2022 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Vingie E. Roe was born on 7 December 1879 in Wyandotte, Kansas, USA. Vingie E. was a writer, known for The Crimson Challenge (1922), Big Timber (1924) and Twilight (1919). Vingie E. was married to Raymond L. Lawton. Vingie E. died on 13 August 1958 in Sonoma County, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Edward Petzoldt was born on 25 December 1904 in Missouri, USA. He is known for Private Secretary (1953), Cavalcade of America (1952) and The Reluctant Eye (1957). He died on 2 November 1965 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Diane Elizabeth Askew was born in Newcastle, England, on August 6, 1965. She moved to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in Chicago, and then in Mountain View, California. Diane attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received a B.A. degree in Anthropology (1992). In 1991, Diane moved to Sonoma County, just north of San Francisco, after marrying Breck Parkman, an archaeologist and storyteller. Breck enjoyed photography and quickly realized that Diane had a remarkable gift, a true "photographer's eye." Breck convinced Diane to explore her abilities as a photographer. The two of them went on numerous photography outings to places as far away as New Mexico, Alaska, and British Columbia. Diane enrolled in photography classes at Santa Rosa Junior College and took every course they had to offer. She later interned with a local wedding photographer, Dwight Caswell. After working as Dwight's assistant, Diane went on to become a wedding photographer herself and spent the next several decades photographing hundreds of Wine Country weddings in the northern San Francisco Bay area. Diane was a great wedding photographer, but her real passion was for nature photography. She especially enjoyed photographing birds, both at a rookery near her home in Sonoma County and on Sanibel Island in Southwest Florida. In the final years of her life, Diane became a photojournalist, something she had always dreamed of doing. She shot photos for local interest stories, including protest marches and wildfires. Diane's photos appeared in local newspapers and journals, and were occasionally featured in art exhibits. Her photos were also used in two documentaries about the disastrous Tubbs Fire of 2017. Diane gave birth to a son, Jon Parkman, in 2006. Six years later, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Determined to beat the illness, Diane waged a heroic battle for nine years. Regrettably, she lost that battle on December 23, 2021. Diane's son and family spread her ashes in the Valley of the Moon, at a spot she called her "happy place."
- Paul Otellini was born on 12 October 1950 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was married to Sandy. He died on 2 October 2017 in Sonoma County, California, USA.
- Pearl Anibus was born on 10 May 1890 in Arizona, USA. She was an actress, known for The Hazards of Helen (1914), The Spiked Switch (1916) and In Death's Pathway (1916). She died on 17 June 1976 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Linus Maurer was born on 15 January 1926 in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, USA. He died on 29 January 2016 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Art Department
- Visual Effects
Jim Wheelock was born on 14 November 1960 in Guatemala. He is known for Virtuosity (1995), Blink (1993) and The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986). He died on 1 October 2018 in Sonoma County, California, USA.- Music Department
Audrey Call was born on 12 April 1905 in Alton, Illinois, USA. Audrey died on 3 June 2001 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Additional Crew
Ralph Metzner was born on 18 May 1936 in Berlin, Germany. He is known for Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001), Hofmann's Potion (2002) and Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within (2007). He was married to Cathy Coleman and Susan Homer. He died on 14 March 2019 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Peter Kortner was born on 4 December 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He was a producer and writer, known for Playhouse 90 (1956), There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) and The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959). He died on 9 February 1991 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Ray Hubbard was a producer and writer, known for The Innocent Fair (1962), Mrs. Winchester's House (1963) and The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975). Ray died on 27 December 1999 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Editor
- Writer
- Editorial Department
Mildred Richter was born on 8 July 1899 in New York, USA. She was an editor and writer, known for Love in the Desert (1929), Taxi 13 (1928) and Cyclone Higgins, D.D. (1918). She was married to Jerome Storm. She died on 15 November 1972 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Paul Vieyra was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and Othello (1955). He was married to Stanley Abercrombie. He died on 28 May 2018 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Editorial Department
Lawrence Moore was born on 9 April 1907 in California, USA. Lawrence died on 7 March 1991 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Jerry Seltzer was born on 3 June 1932 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was married to Judi Flowers and Marjorie Sternfield. He died on 1 July 2019 in Sonoma, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Earl Nickerel was born on 18 November 1907 in Illinois, USA. He died on 26 June 1966 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Robert Parmalee was born on 18 March 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a producer, known for Call of the Valley: The Enduring Lure of Sonoma (2019). He was married to Nancy. He died on 30 August 2021 in Sonoma, California, USA.