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Morgan Spurlock was born on 7 November 1970 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Super Size Me (2004), The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) and Mansome (2012). He was married to Sara Bernstein, Alexandra Jamieson and Priscilla Sommer. He died on 23 May 2024 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Dooley was a keen cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at college. Moving to New York, he soon found success as a regular on the stage. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a stand-up comedian for five years, as well as having brief stints as a magician and as a clown. Unafraid of trying different areas of entertainment, he was also a writer. After appearing in many movies, including most notably Popeye (1980), Dooley has appeared as recurrent characters on various shows, including My So-Called Life (1994), Dream On (1990), Grace Under Fire (1993), and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).- Actress
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Devon Odessa was born on 18 January 1974 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for My So-Called Life (1994), Pumpkinhead (1988) and Uncle Buck (1989). She is married to Jeffrey Baldinger. They have two children.- Actor
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An American character actor described to some as a 'rugged outdoor western/war type', proved to be Walter Barnes status in motion pictures for nearly thirty years. A pro football player, Barnes made a mark into playing roles in pictures with his performance in the 1959 film "Westbound". Although, Barnes found work in countless foreign films of the 1960s, he usually played roles ranging from crusty law officials to occasional villains, in notable roles in "Captain Sinbad", John Wayne's "Cahill US Marshal", Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter", "Pete's Dragon" and "Day of the Animals". Also as a veteran of television, Barnes has had guest starring roles in such series including "Gunsmoke", "Rawhide" and "Cheyenne". He also played Bo Svenson's father on the early 80s TV series "Walking Tall" and appeared in the 1985-86 mini series "North and South". A diabetic, Barnes retired from acting in the late 1980s and eventually moved into the Motion Picture and Television Retirement Home in Woodland Hills, California, where he passed away in January of 1998.- Additional Crew
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Ed Catmull was born on 31 March 1945 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He is a producer, known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Big Hero 6 (2014) and Brave (2012). He has been married to Susan Anderson since 11 June 1983. They have three children.- Actress
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Patsy Parsons was born on 9 June 1931 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) and The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942). She was married to Solon Charles Soteras and William Powell. She died on 26 October 2006 in Westlake Village, California, USA.- Patsy Ramsey was born on 29 December 1956 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. She was married to John Ramsey. She died on 24 June 2006 in Roswell, Georgia, USA.
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Enoch J. Rector was an American boxing film promoter and early cinema technician. He was born near Parkersburg, West Virginia and attended West Virginia University. He was a partner in Woodville Latham's Kinetoscope Exhibition Company (later the Lambda Company) during the mid-1890s, working with Latham and his sons Otway and Grey, as well as fellow cinema technicians William K.L. Dickson and Eugène Lauste. Cinema historian Terry Ramsaye claimed that Rector, during his association with Latham, invented the 'Latham loop', a key feature of modern cinema cameras and projectors, in 1895. However, in 1927, Dickson stated unequivocally that Lauste was responsible for this important invention. Using this technique, Rector created the 90-minute documentary film The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), filmed in an early widescreen process on 63 mm film with an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1.- Director
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Gabe McCauley was born on 11 May 1979 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Reconnecting Roots (2018), Heaven Bound (2017) and The Joey+Rory Show (2012). He has been married to Mandy McCauley since 9 June 2000.- Actress
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Having served as writer, producer or star in numerous film and television projects for nearly twenty years, Allie Raye's colleagues find it hard to imagine the award-winning artist not standing among giants some day.
After honing her skills for seven years as a stand-up comedienne on the East Coast, Allie made the move to Los Angeles to further pursue her dreams of acting, producing and writing in the film and television industry.
2002 was a banner year for Allie the actress. She performed alongside Tom Cruise in the box office hit "Minority Report" (in a role written specifically for her after Steven Spielberg saw her audition tape) and Eric Stoltz directed her in an episode of Once and Again. Like Spielberg, Stoltz created additional scenes for Allie after observing her work.
She continued with guest appearances on numerous TV hits including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Emmy-winning The Practice and TV's long-running hit, ER. Allie has been featured in three hot music videos: Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be A Redneck If" (directed by Weird Al Yankovic) and Scott Grimes' "Sunset Blvd." She re-teamed with Weird Al for his "Amish Paradise."
Allie's numerous credits as multi-tasking artisan include producing, writing and starring in "Purple Rose", the award-winning musical "A Perfect Life" and "Charity", which she co-wrote with actor Douglas Spain (who also directed). Additional festival favorites include the spoofs "Jewz N the Hood" and "Queer Eye for the Homeless Guy" (with Paul Sand).
Allie guest-starred as Carlos Mencia's redneck wife on Comedy Central's hit "Mind of Mencia" and on the big screen, in "Domino" with Oscar nominees Kiera Knightley and Mickey Rourke (directed by Tony Scott) and the Indy film "Carts" with TV veteran Ted Lange and her "Charity" collaborator, Douglas Spain.
Allie is a series regular in the popular web series "Featherweight."- Actor
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Born in West Virginia.
Jon's directorial works have been featured on College Humor, Funny or Die, G4's Attack of the Show, Break, Fox News, Virgin Airlines, and Kotaku, to name a few. He is also well known across the internet for his work with sketch comedy groups SMBC Theater and 5SecondFilms.
Jon is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama (BFA) and now lives in Los Angeles.- Charles Craig was born on 27 May 1932 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Night of the Living Dead (1968), Born to Race (1988) and Mortal Remains (2013). He died on 23 February 2019 in Wooster, Ohio, USA.
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C. Ryan Stemple CSI is a digital intermediate colorist, originally from Pennsboro, West Virginia. He is known for his work on Finding Yingying (2020), Empire (2015), Teacher (2019), The T (2018), and many other films, TV and web series. He lives & works in Chicago, IL, is the owner of Quicksilver Color, and has a loud, stout three-legged cat named Minnie.- Rebecca Gilchrist was born on 10 June 1948 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. She is an actress, known for Batman: The Animated Series (1992), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and Quincy M.E. (1976).
- Connie Wald was born on 13 August 1916 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. She was married to Jerry Wald and Robert Edward Salkin. She died on 10 November 2012 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Carlyle S. 'Smitty' Harris was born on 11 April 1929 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He is married to Louise. They have three children.
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Jeff Richards is a talented producer, director, and above all a screen writer.
Richards was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he first developed his taste for the film arts. He began writing short stories and adaptations at the age of 9, and by the age of 28 he had completed his fourth full feature script, as well as his most prominent one, Christmasland, which has received much praise nationwide.
Richards pulled out of college to pursue his dreams. He moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he was able to develop his own personal style. After coming back to WV, he co-founded Completely Naked Productions and directed Extreme Art, his first full feature film.
Since, Richards has written and directed several short films and faux trailers, including the internet viral phenomenon, Hilljack Samurai. He is currently working on several projects, including another full feature untitled film that is set to be released in 2011.- Deron Williams is a retired American professional basketball player.
He played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini before being drafted third overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. The three-time NBA All-Star has also played for Besiktas of the Turkish Basketball League during the 2011 NBA lockout, and was a gold medal winner on the United States national team at the Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008) and London 2012: Games of the XXX Olympiad (2012). - Actor
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Born to vaudeville performers, Tommy Hanlon Jr. was taken into his mother and father's act at age 4 and kept performing for the rest of his life. After two years with the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre in Los Angeles in the 1940s, and appearing on stage alongside W.C. Fields, he came to Australia in the early days of television in the late 1950s and first appeared as a comedian with the popular In Melbourne Tonight. As the program became The Graham Kennedy Show, Hanlon devised his trademark, comic Letter From Mom segment. So popular did Hanlon become that the Nine Network signed him to host the network's first national daytime show, It Could Be You, which launched in 1960 and became a ratings hit with its surprise reunions of long-separated relatives and friends. It Could be You was the highest rating daytime TV show ever in Australia, so it came as a shock to many when Hanlon quit TV in 1978 to concentrate on his other great love, the circus.
He toured Australia until 2001 with Silvers Circus. He was married twice. His first marriage ended in divorce; the couple's son, Tommy, went on to invent a vertical take-off aircraft and became vice-president of Bell Helicopters. He met his second wife Muriel - whom he always called "Murphy" - while entertaining US troops in Korea. She died in 1990. He is survived by his daughter April, son Tommy, four grandsons and a great grand-daughter.- Additional Crew
Educator, sportscaster and a longtime voice on Paramount newsreels, Bill Slater graduated from the United States Military Adacemy in 1924 and earned a master's degree in political science from Columbia University. He then joined the Greenbrier Military Adademy in Lewisburg, West Virginia as commandant of cadets and later became head of the mathematics department and football coach at Blake School for Boys in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While at Blake, a father persuaded Bill to broadcast a local football game, and his career as a sportscaster was thence initiated. At Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, NY, he was headmaster between 1933 and 1942; while there, Ted Husing asked him to help broadcast an Army-Navy game on CBS. He covered the Berlin Olympiad for NBC in 1936, and the next year he emceed NBC's "Uncle Jim's Question Bee". He joined the US Army in 1942, serving as a lieutenant colonel in public relations. Later he announced tennis from Wimbledon and Forest Hills, races at Indianapolis, and Big Ten football as well as the popular "Luncheon at Sardi's" and "Dinner at Sardi's" radio series, at times with his wife Marion. They lived at 39 Woodbine Avenue in Larchmont, New York, and Bill Slater, the well-liked sportcaster turned radio-TV personality, succumbed in 1965 after a ten-year illness.- Skylene Montgomery was born on 4 December 1984 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA.
- Andy Parsons was born on 29 November 1982 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for White Zombie (2014) and Porkchop 3D (2012). He died on 18 November 2020 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA.
- Jered Holmes was born on 15 February 1934 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Dark Shadows (1966), Walls of Glass (1985) and Another World (1964). He died on 9 September 1994 in the USA.
- Sybil Carmen was born Carmen R. Attkisson on December 23, 1896 in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Her father, Richard Attkisson, was a bookkeeper. She was raised in Pittsburgh and attended Bellefield Public school. She later moved to New York City to become a dancer. In 1915 she was discovered by composer Gene Buck. He introduced her to Florenz Ziegfeld who cast her as a balloon girl in the The Midnight Frolic. The petite dancer quickly became an audience favorite. She would spend more than two years performing with the show. Sybil made her film debut in the 1918 drama A Romance of the Underworld. She also starred in the Century Grove Midnight Revue. During the Summer of 1919 she suffered a nervous breakdown and spent six weeks recovering at her mother's house in Pennsylvania.
She married film executive Maurice S. Revnes on September 8, 1919. The following year she was a featured performer in The Ziegfeld Follies. Then she had a small role in the 1921 film Experience (she was billed as Sibyl Carmen). She and her husband had two children - Carmen in 1921 and Richard in 1923. Sybil decided to quit show business and became a full-time wife and mother. When Maurice was offered a job with Pathe Studios in 1926 the family moved to Paris, France. Tragically on April 14, 1929 she died suddenly from a heart attack. Some sources claim she died from pneumonia. She was only thirty-two years old. Her body was returned to the United States for burial. - Additional Crew
Leon Metz was born on 6 November 1930 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA. He is known for Sharp Shooters (2006), Vendettas (2002) and History's Mysteries (1998). He died on 15 November 2020.