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Sharon Farrell was born on 24 December 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Night of the Comet (1984) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). She was married to Dale Trevillion, Steve Salkin, John Boyer, Ron De Blasio and Andrew Prine. She died on 15 May 2023 in Orange County, California, USA.- Actor
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Jerry Mathers was born on 2 June 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Trouble with Harry (1955), Leave It to Beaver (1957) and The Love Boat (1977). He has been married to Teresa Modnick since 30 January 2011. He was previously married to Diana Platt and Rhonda Gehring.- Actor
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Fred is lovingly known as Gopher by his millions of fans around the world who watched him became for 9 years in the 1970s hit series The Love Boat (1977). But, before Fred became well known as an actor, he went to "Phillips Exeter Academy" with David Eisenhower. Later, he became David's best man when he married Julie Nixon. Then, Fred entered "Harvard University" at Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor's Degree in English.
Fred is a well-educated man and can speak fluently in both French and Arabic. Before he joined the cast of The Love Boat (1977), Fred did guest shots on many shows, including Love, American Style (1969), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), Phyllis (1975) (with Cloris Leachman) & Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) (with John Travolta). Then, came other guest spots on TV shows and a couple of movies, while still on The Love Boat (1977).
Fred Grandy was destined to become more than just an actor. In 1986, he decided to run for Congressman as a Republican for the state of Iowa, and won. He received 3,000 votes. He served 4 consecutive terms (1986-1995). While in Congress, he was very much involved with Agriculture, Education, Workforce, Standards of Official Conduct, House Ways and Means. In 1994, he went ahead and entered the Governor's race but lost to his opponent, Terry Branstad. In 1995, he became both President and CEO for "Goodwill Industries", a position he held until 2000. Fred even became a political commentator on National Public Radio. He has also, as a guest, taught at the "University of Maryland" (School of Public Affairs) about non-profit organizations.
In 2003, in Washington, DC., Fred became the host of the talk radio show "The WMAL Morning News" (WMAL-AM Radio). On (Friday night) May 7, 2004, while at home in Bethesda and reading his newspaper, he began to feel very uncomfortable for 3 hours. At first, he felt indigestion so bad he thought he had food poisoning. Then, he began having massive chest pains. Now, he had to call 911 and he was rushed to "Suburban Hospital" where he had an emergency Angioplasty. Fred showed amazing courage and began feeling better almost immediately. He blames his heart problems on genetics, it seems to run in his family. And, what helped was his strict diet as a vegetarian. Fred is back on the radio co-hosting his show with Andy Parks.- Erica Hagen was born on 6 June 1946 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Soylent Green (1973), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and Wonder Woman (1975). She died on 15 September 2018 in West Hollywood, California, USA.
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American film and television actor MacDonald Carey became famous for his role as Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives (1965). For three decades he was the centered cast member of the show.
His film career was from the 1940s-'60s, and he appeared mostly in second-features (aka "B" pictures). He became known in Hollywood as "The King of the B's" (much like Lucille Ball, who was known as the "Queen of Bs"). He occasionally played second leads or supporting parts in "A" pictures, such as his role as a detective investigating suspected serial killer Joseph Cotten in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He also had a successful career on Broadway and on radio.
He was on "Days of Our Lives" from its inception in 1965 until his death in 1994.- Actor
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Jerry Lacy was born on 27 March 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Play It Again, Sam (1972), The Last Case of August T. Harrison (2015) and Spidora (2014). He has been married to Julia Duffy since 21 June 1984. They have two children.- Writer
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Ron Clements is an American animated film director who collaborates with John Musker. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are seminal films he co-directed because they brought back life to Disney animation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.- Actress
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A pouty-lipped glamour girl in "B" films during the 1940s, actress Frances Rafferty did a complete role reversal and turned wholesome housewife on TV into the next decade.
Born on June 16, 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa, Frances Anne Rafferty and her family, during the Depression era, moved to Los Angeles in search of work. Interested in the arts while growing up, she won a scholarship to the Edith Jane Dancing School the next year and attended UCLA following her high school graduation, but dropped out when she nabbed an understudy position for dancer Vera Zorina in the film I Was an Adventuress (1940), choreographed by the legendary George Balanchine.
A severe leg injury suffered after falling during a performance of "The Firebird" at the Hollywood Bowl changed her focus from dance to acting. Coached by the renowned teachers Maria Ouspenskaya, Frances was signed by MGM at the age of 19 and began with a dancing bit in Presenting Lily Mars (1943) starring Judy Garland. Other parts in The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942), Barbary Coast Gent (1944) and Mrs. Parkington (1944) added to her film credits. Her almond-shaped eyes gave this beauty a slightly exotic look and she capitalized on it in her best movie performance Dragon Seed (1944) as the ill-fated Oriental girl who is raped and subsequently murdered. Her skills as a dancer also showed up in the film comedy Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945), in which she dances in the elaborate "On the Midway" number.
Unable to secure major starring parts in "A" pictures, Frances remained an able "B"-level co-star with postwar roles in Bad Bascomb (1946), Lost Honeymoon (1947), Curley (1947) and An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949). None did anything to further her career.
A marriage to John Harlan in 1944 lasted only three years. In 1948 she married Thomas R. Baker, an Air Force colonel who later became general manager for the Los Alamitos Racetrack. They had two children, Bridget and Kevin. Following a role in The Shanghai Story (1954), Frances began setting her sights realistically on TV. A friendship with comedienne Lucille Ball helped Frances earn the co-starring role of "Ruth Henshaw", the daughter of Spring Byington, in the highly popular Desilu sitcom December Bride (1954), a role for which she is probably best known. When Harry Morgan, who played "Pete Porter" on the show, spun his character into the subsequent series Pete and Gladys (1960), Frances was brought on board to play Nancy, a next-door-neighbor. The show, which co-starred Cara Williams as Gladys, was short-lived, lasting only one season.
Frances quietly semi-retired after the show's demise with just a handful of TV performances coming her way, then disappeared altogether. She later raised quarter horses with her husband in California for a time. She died in 2004 of natural causes at age 81 in Paso Robles, where she helped form a local acting group called the "Pioneer Players".- Actress
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Blonde singer/actress Constance Moore was a stylish, glamorous lead in many "B" war-era musicals. Born in Sioux City, Iowa, on January 18, 1920, she was raised in Dallas, Texas, and nurtured ambitions to be a singer. The one-time brunette with the rich contralto started out as a band vocalist prior to entering films. Universal took notice and signed her up initially, but she is probably better known for the vocal work she did as leading lady in Republic Pictures tunefests, her best showcases being Show Business (1944) and Atlantic City (1944). In the former, she joined co-stars Eddie Cantor, George Murphy and Joan Davis in the vintage songs "I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad" and "Dinah". In the latter, she was top-billed and soloed on "After You've Gone" and "On a Sunday Afternoon".
As for her non-singing endeavors, Constance was seen to good advantage as both the femme colleague Wilma Deering to Buster Crabbe's planetary hero in the popular Buck Rogers (1939) serial, and as the lovely young daughter of W.C. Fields' character in the classic comedy You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), in which she also played second fiddle to love interest Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy. That same year Constance would yet again receive lower billing to the puppet in the mystery Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939). She and "husband" Macdonald Carey complemented Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray in the comedy romp Take a Letter, Darling (1942) as a secondary couple, and she later provided lovely distraction from the rugged goings-on in the WWII picture I Wanted Wings (1941) and westerns Mexicana (1945) and In Old Sacramento (1946). Constance retired from films in 1947 after co-starring with Eddie Albert in Hit Parade of 1947 (1947). She reappeared on TV only a few times in later years. Outside of some guest shots on such shows as Laramie (1959) and My Three Sons (1960), she co-starred with Robert Young in the short-lived, post-Father Knows Best (1954) series Window on Main Street (1961) and then replaced Irene Hervey in the dramatic series The Young Marrieds (1964) while in its second season. She also occasionally worked up elegant nightclub acts. Married in 1939 to agent John Maschio and the mother of two, her husband later became a successful real estate agent. After her retirement, Constance indulged herself in still life painting. Her husband passed away in 1998 and she followed in 2005 of heart failure following a long illness. The couple had two children.- Actor
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Kian Robert Lawley is an actor born in Sioux City, Iowa, that moved to San Clemente, California when he was five years old. Kian started a YouTube channel with his best friend Sam Pottorff in 2010, two years later he joined a collab channel called Our2ndLife (O2L), which ended 2014. In 2015 he created a new YouTube channel with his best friend and roommate Jc Caylen where they upload skits and challenges weekly. Also in 2015 Lawley won a Teen Choice Award for "Choice YouTuber", and got nominated as "Best Actor" on a Streamy Award for his role in The Chosen movie. Kian has now filmed five movies, with over three million subscribers on his main channel plus two million subscribers on KianAndJc, and still upload videos weekly.- Actress
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Attractive blond leading lady of second features in the 1930's and 40's, who had enough charm and charisma to have merited a better career. Her exploits as a western heroine paled in comparison to her real life battles, which began when she lost both her parents while in her early teens. Forced to support her three siblings, she worked (after school) as a cashier at Loew's Theatre in Los Angeles in the afternoons and evenings for $16.50 per week. By chance, she was noticed by an associate of Samuel Goldwyn who finagled a screen test for her. After a successful audition, she became a Goldwyn Girl for $125 per week. In 1935, she joined Fox as a contract player, though her roles remained little more than bit parts and walk-ons. One who did eventually recognise her potential was Columbia boss Harry Cohn, who signed Iris under contract a year later. At Columbia, she was immediately promoted to leading lady, albeit in stereotypical sagebrush sagas and mystery potboilers. Her most frequent co-star (they were in twenty films together) was the prolific Charles Starrett. Iris also popped up in the Columbia serial The Green Archer (1940), an inane attempt at an adaptation of a story by Edgar Wallace, with Victor Jory as the unlikely hero. This pretty much brought down the curtain on her career, since Iris spent the next couple of years in even lesser quality films for PRC (Producer's Releasing Corporation, one of the 'Poverty Row' studios). Possibly seeing the writing on the wall, she retired after marrying Columbia director Abby Berlin.
During the last fifteen years of her life, Iris became afflicted by oral cancer. She underwent fourteen operations which severely disfigured her face, bravely battling on until the disease eventually claimed her life at the age of 64.- William Vincent St.Cyr, or Vince was born on the Winnebago Indian Reservation on the Eastern banks of the Missouri River in Nebraska. In 1950, he entered the United States Marine Corps where he served in Korea during the Korean conflict. During his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Korean Service Medal and the United Nations Ribbon as well as other medals and citations. His group was also awarded a presidential unit citation for being the first to employ rotary wing aircraft for assault operations. Once completing his tour of duty in Korea, he was honorably discharged in 1952 as a sergeant. After returning to Winnebago he helped to create the Nebraska Platoon with other Nebraska Veterans.
Upon his return from the Far East, he married his sweet heart Ida Mae Saunsoci of Macy, Nebraska. The couple then moved to Inglewood, California where "Vince" obtained a position with the Northrop Aircraft Corporation in the design division. In the mid-fifties, he began his acting career where he appeared in many television shows and commercials. He also performed in many motion picture and stage productions. He returned to Winnebago in 1978, where he served his community as an emergency medical technician and community health representative from 1980 to 1982. He kept active with his acting career, often performing in children's educational programs in Omaha, Nebraska.
Vince died Sunday, March 16, 1997, at a Sioux City hospital following a lengthy illness. He was laid to rest at the Native American Church Cemetery in Winnebago, Nebraska with full military honors. Vince left behind a wife and three children at the time of his death with one child preceding him in death. - Actor
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Actor, critic (Denver Post) and production manager who began a long show-business career in the 1930s, touring with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in "The Seagull", "Idiot's Delight" and "Amphitryon 38", as well as working for the Federal Theater and Federal Writers projects. By 1940 he was assistant stage manager for "There Shall Be No Night" on Broadway, and during World War II he managed and appeared in the stage productions of "Junior Miss" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" for the USO Camp Shows. During that period he also appeared in "The Naked Genius" on the New York stage. By 1945 he was the production manager for an all-GI presentation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (produced by Maurice Evans) and, by 1947, "A Streetcar Named Desire". By the 1950s he managed "Seagulls Over Sorrento", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Tender Trap" and "Seventeen" for the stage. His last stage works were "Camelot" in 1960 and as production stage manager for the Repertory Theatre at Lincoln Center three years later. By 1970 he was named drama critic for the Denver Post, and he died at 61.- Composer
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Composer, conductor and arranger, educated at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in music and economics. Throughout college, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and directed his own orchestra. After graduation he joined CBS in Chicago, where he was staff arranger for WBBM. He has arranged for the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Paul Whiteman, Harry James, and Les Brown, and also for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie Fisher, Martha Tilton, Mel Torme, and Margaret Whiting, plus others. He directed the Victor Borge radio shows and the NBC All Star Summer Revue television show, and he co-produced Mel Torme's radio show. He has made many records.- Abigail Van Buren was born on 4 July 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was a producer, known for Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (2014), The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956) and Sammy and Company (1975). She was married to Morton Phillips. She died on 16 January 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Ann Landers was born on 4 July 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Listen to Your Heart (1983), Day at Night (1973) and What's My Line? (1950). She was married to Jules Lederer. She died on 22 June 2002 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Stanford Whitmore was born on 23 July 1925 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963), Hammersmith Is Out (1972) and The Dark (1979). He died on 8 May 2014.
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Howard Dimsdale was born on 21 April 1914 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969), Captain Scarlett (1952) and Mannix (1967). He was married to Joyce. He died on 27 August 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Bobbie Byers was born on 7 October 1941 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She is an actress, known for Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (1967), The Doctors (1963) and The Wild Rebels (1967). She has been married to Lee Tombs since 13 December 1976. They have one child.
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Cora Bennett was born on 7 July 1952 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952), Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980) and Reggie Little at Large (1953). She was married to Adam LeFevre. She died on 26 January 2008 in New Paltz, New York, USA.- Composer
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Jordan Dykstra is a Brooklyn-based violist and composer of film and chamber music. He scored the 2024 Oscar Award-winning (Best Documentary Feature) "20 Days in Mariupol" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary, scored 2 BAFTA nominations (and a win for Best Documentary), 2 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, a Cinema Eye Honors Award, a duPont-Columbia Award nomination, and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)'s NPO Audience Award. The journalists covering the war in Ukraine which led to the film won a Pulitzer Prize Award for Journalism. Regarding 20 Days, The Hollywood Reporter stated "the raw footage is largely unembellished, save for Jordan Dykstra's eerie electronic music score that could easily be appropriated for a horror film (which, of course, 20 Days in Mariupol is, of a sort)" (Frank Scheck). The Wall Street Journal commented that the film was "aided greatly by an eerie, tonal score by Jordan Dykstra" (Kyle Smith). Isaac Ale (Film & Froth) stated "the score is something to behold. Scored akin to a horror film 20 Days in Mariupol is full of low thumping bass, dissonance, and a low persistent, pervasive presence of dread. It has ambient elements to it that stick with you, increase your heart rate and remind you that this is something that happened only a year ago and is actually still happening today. To avoid hyperbole I'll just say I really mean this, this was one of the best scores I've heard thus far this year." Indiewire mentioned the "haunting original music by Jordan Dykstra" (Adam Solomons) while Variety wrote: "Adding discreet notes of suspense is Jordan Dykstra's original score" (Dennis Harvey).
In 2023 Dykstra helped produce and conducted the score for Chloe Dumont's debut feature "Fair Play" (starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich) which Netflix purchased for $20 million after its premiere at Sundance. The Hollywood Reporter wrote "[the score] captured the tensions of New York, the stock trading industry and a couple on the brink" (Abby White). He also co-composed the score to the feature documentary "Shaken", which premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival, that tackles the bad science behind shaken baby syndrome. Other 2023 credits include "Inside the Uvalde Response" which tackles the systematic failure during the school shooting in Texas, "Michael Flynn's Holy War" - winner of a 2023 Peabody Award, "Plot to Overturn the Election" - winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Network TV News Documentary, and the short films "La Cola del Camarón" and "One More Time With Feeling."
Previous film credits include Trey Edward Shults' 2017 thriller "It Comes at Night" (A24), the noir-mystery film "Blow the Man Down" (Amazon), Penny Lane's 2018 film "Hail Satan?" (Hulu), and Gus van Sant's 2011 film "Restless" (Sony) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Dykstra has also worked with filmmakers associated with the esteemed filmmaker collective Avila (Brussels) on "Globes" (2021) and "Echo" (2022).
Aside from performing and recording with individuals and bands - including Dirty Projectors, A Winged Victory for the Sullen with Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Atlas Sound - Dykstra's contributions for film have been heard at Cannes, Sundance, TriBeCa, TIFF, and the IFFR, among others. As a frequent performer, his highlights include MOCA (CA), Harpa (Iceland), Musikfestval Bern (Switzerland), Ftarri (Tokyo), Le Chaff (Brussels), KM28 (Berlin), Syros Institute (Greece), Yale Union (OR), Big Ears Festival (TN), Cafe Oto (London), Ostrava Days Festival (Czech Republic), and the RISD Museum (RI). Recordings of his music (solo and collaborative) have been issued by New World Records, Domino, Milan, Important, Elsewhere, Marriage, Mexican Summer, K, Gilgongo, and Dykstra's own cottage industry label Editions Verde.- Director
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Thomas Jerome "Tom" Fugle born 1941 in Sioux City, was an American craftsman and legendary biker. Tom was the son of Salmer and Bernadine (Schumacher) Fugle. Tom graduated from Central High School in Sioux City. He married Connie Anderson in 1969 to together they had a daughter, Natasha. Connie and Tom later divorced. Tom started dating Jennie DeCora on July 4, 1998 and they got married on October 23, 2016. Tom Fugle was one of the founders and the undisputed president of the El Forastero Motorcycle Club. Fugle built his first chopper in 1961 after buying a Harley-Davidson dresser with 3,000 miles on it for $800. He later said it was the most money he ever paid for a motorcycle. His last bike was an Evolution chopper. There are two documentaries featuring Tom Fugle, "21 Days Under The Sun" came out in May of 2016 on Netflix, and another by Jesse James called "The History Of The Chopper". The 8 mm documentary "EFMC" depicts the rituals of the El Forastero Motorcycle Club in the late 60's.- Gregory Gifford Giles was born on 18 July 1961 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), The Truman Decision (2018) and Cold Case (2003). He has been married to Rande M. Levine since 8 April 2012. He was previously married to Stephani L. Bruyer.
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Austin Lapierre was born in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. Austin is known for Game Night (2018), The Accountant (2016) and 2012 (2009).- Actor
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David Backhaus (AKA The Orphan Killer) resides in Los Angeles CA. David is originally from Sioux City IA. His first breakthrough role came in the Tribeca Film Festival hit of IOWA. He is a part of the new Horror Franchise The Orphan Killer. David is a menacing presence and is sure to be the Robert Englund of the 21st Century.