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Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.
A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable...
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an Jewish American writer. His principle genre is science fiction.
His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not only literature, but film, television, and print...
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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an American actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman.
International prominence would soon follow in the 1970s, as she began starring in a number of...
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Gerry Anderson MBE, born 14 April 1929 (1929-04-14) (age 80), is a British producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation".
His first television production was the 1957...
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Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer.
Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States. Raised by a musical family (his grandfather Isaac was a violinist in the Met Orchestra), Maazel was a...
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Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer.
Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns....
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Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907-1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl".
Ziegfeld was born...
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Arlene Phillips OBE (born 22 May 1943) is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment. She is most notable for being the choreographer of numerous West End and Broadway musicals, films and television shows, but is...
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John Stears (August 25, 1934 - June 28, 1999) known as 'the Dean of Special Effects' and 'The Real Q' was an Academy Award winning special effects genius that created James Bond's lethal Aston Martin, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights' light sabers, the endearing robots R2-D2 and C-3PO...
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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (born 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His two major films are The Cup (1999) and Travellers and Magicians (2003). He is the author of the book What Makes You Not a Buddhist (Shambhala, 2007). He is also a prominent...
