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Rudy Ray Moore (March 17, 1927 – October 19, 2008) was an American comedian, musician, singer, film actor, and film producer. He was perhaps best known as Dolemite, the uniquely articulate pimp from the 1975 film Dolemite, and its sequel, The Human Tornado. The persona was developed during his...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He...
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Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (Russian: Сергей Тимофеевич Аксаков) (September 20, 1791—April 30, 1859 (OS); October 1, 1791—May 12, 1859 (NS)) was a 19th century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of a landlord's family life, hunting, fishing, and butterfly...
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Robert "Bob" Rafelson (born February 21, 1933) is an American film director, writer and producer. He is most famous for directing and co-writing the film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson, as well as being one of the creators of the pop group and TV series, The Monkees (with Raybert/BBS...
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Michael London is a film producer. He has produced The Family Stone, Appaloosa, Sideways, and Smart People. He also owns Michael London Productions.
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Doug Jeffries is an award winning director, Writer and pornographic actor (porn star) from the United States who appears in pornographic films since 1993. While most of his films have been gay pornographic films, he has also made bisexual videos. Although he has directed for other studios, he...
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Perry Henzell (March 7, 1936, Annotto Bay, St. Mary's, Jamaica – November 30, 2006, Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica) was most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (1972), starring Jimmy Cliff.
Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot...
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Andrew Jarecki is an American filmmaker, best known for Capturing the Friedmans which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Co-founder/CEO of Moviefone, which provides film schedules over the telephone and was sold to AOL in 1999, Andrew was...
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For the cartoonist of the same name, see Chris Browne.
Christopher Browne is a documentary film maker/director in the USA. He is noted for directing the ten-pin bowling sports documentary A League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
Browne is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
After graduating Browne...
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Peter Cameron (born 29 November 1959 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey) is an American novelist and writer living in New York, NY. He is best known for his novels Andorra, The Weekend and The City of Your Final Destination.
Cameron grew up in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and in London, England. He spent...
