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- Thea White was born on 16 June 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999), Cartoon Network Racing (2006) and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays (2000). She was married to Andy White. She died on 30 July 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Kathy Gabriel was born in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for You Bet Your Life (1950). She died on 25 May 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Harvey Pekar was born on 8 October 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for American Splendor (2003), Hero Tomorrow (2007) and Harvey Pekar's Teo Macero (2015). He was married to Joyce Brabner. He died on 12 July 2010 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.- Jane Alice Brandon was born on 3 October 1945 in Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Incredible Hulk (1978), Kojak (1973) and Another World (1964). She was married to Peter Schwartz. She died on 24 May 2015 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.
- Kathryn Boyd was born on 13 September 1897 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Black Gold (1928), The Flying Ace (1926) and Deceit (1923). She was married to Abraham L. Roach, Milton M. Cloud, M.D. and Irvin C. Miller. She died on 16 March 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Mickey Deans was born on 24 September 1934 in Garfield, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Judy Garland. He died on 11 July 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Charles Brown was born on 15 January 1946 in Talladega, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for Trading Places (1983), Kennedy (1983) and Legal Eagles (1986). He was married to Renee Lescook. He died on 8 January 2004 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.- Actor
- Writer
Ronald Sweed (The Ghoul) grew up in Cleveland, and would use his admiration for Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson), a popular Cleveland television personality, into a career. When Anderson made an appearance at a local amusement park (Euclid Beach Park), the adoring 13-year-old Sweed was in the crowd wearing a gorilla suit. Ghoulardi called him up to the stage where an unscripted "skit" took place. Anderson was so impressed with the 13 year old Sweed that he worked part-time for Anderson.
When "Ghoulardi" ran it's course, Anderson moved to Los Angeles. Sweed thought there was still life in the idea of a crazy, zany host for B movies for youngsters that he begged Anderson to return. Anderson refused. Sweed's only choice was to try it himself. Since "Ghoulardi" was copyrighted he dropped the "ardi" and went with "The Ghoul". Things didn't go well at first. Most kids though it was a bad attempt at imitating a much loved Ghoulardi. Sweed changed things up by being less of beatnik-like character, blowing anything and everything up firecrackers and updating the catch phrases from the 50's to the 60's. The combined effect of the chaos and firecrackers made him such a hit that Kaiser Broadcasting, which owned stations in Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, decided to syndicate the Ghoul. But Sweed could only duplicate his fame in Detroit.
Soon, television would change, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" would suck the oxygen out of the Saturday night time period after 1975. Television stations found it easier to sell infomercials in the late night hours. He would appear on and off on local stations in Detroit and Cleveland.During the last few years, he would make occasional appearances at metro Detroit clubs.- David J. Stewart was born on 8 January 1915 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Murder, Inc. (1960), Sunday Showcase (1959) and The Defenders (1961). He died on 23 December 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Gerald Levert was born on 13 July 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Crank (2006), Coming to America (1988) and The Fast and the Furious (2001). He died on 10 November 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.- Actor
On March 18, 1894, Buchanan was born in Benton, Iowa, as Paul Stuart Buchanan. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he received his undergraduate degree at Wooster College. He taught English and coached basketball at the University of West Virginia, then switched to Florida University, where he started the school's 5000-watt radio station.
Buchanan earned a Ph.D. at Harvard before giving up the education business in favor of what he called "making a living." He went to Hollywood and became a character in tough-guy acting roles and took on a job as director of the Pasadena Play House. In May of 1930, he took a job as program director at radio station KHJ in Los Angeles, where he directed episodes of the "Hollywood Hotel" and "Lux Radio Theatre."
Walt Disney hired Buchanan as a dialogue and casting director at the Disney studios in Hollywood and put him in charge of all foreign versions of Disney productions. Buchanan was the voice of "The Huntsman" in the 1937 Disney animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Managing the foreign versions of Disney films took him to Europe and South America to translate "Snow White" into ten languages. Buchanan also had cameo voiceover roles as a flight attendant in "Saludos Amigos" (1942) and "Super-Speed" (1935), and he voiced Goofy in "The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air" (1938).
In New York radio, Buchanan produced and directed many network shows. He was head of the script department and program supervision for American Broadcasting Co. before moving to Cleveland in 1947 to produce "The Ohio Story" radio and TV series sponsored by Ohio Bell Telephone Co. He also took on directing the radio and television department of McCann-Erickson advertising agency's offices in Cleveland. He remained in Cleveland for the rest of his life.
"The Ohio Story" ran state-wide from 1947 to 1955 on radio and 1953 to 1961 on TV. At the time, the filmed series held the record as the longest-running scripted radio and TV program in the nation. In more than 2,500 "Ohio Story" shows, Buchanan never missed a rehearsal or a program. Buchanan worked tirelessly with actors, musicians, and sound technicians to get precisely the right shade of meaning into every sequence. He made actors out of bank clerks, students, and homemakers. Buchanan picked Robert Waldrop, a nationally known radio personality, to narrate the "Ohio Story" radio series. He convinced Hollywood actor Nelson Olmsted, known for his adaptations of terror tales by Edgar Allen Poe and science-fantasy stories, to commute to Cleveland for seven years to host, narrate and act in the "Ohio Story" TV episodes and the final two years of the "Ohio Story" radio series.
In an article in the June 25, 1958, Columbus Dispatch, Buchanan talked about his love and loyalty to Ohio and the "Ohio Story" series: "There has never been - or will be, a radio series that commanded the respect and attention of this state, or, for that fact, the nation. The "Ohio Story" reached its peak in the heyday of radio... the late 1940s. Only one show in the nation had a higher rating ... that was the Jack Benny show. I guess of all the things I've done in my lifetime; I'm most proud to have had a hand in developing and producing "The Ohio Story."
Buchanan was married twice. His first wife was Anna Hall Hilditch (December 28, 1900 - November 10, 1987). His second wife was Rita Whearty (November 19, 1919 - March 31, 2009).
Buchanan died on February 4, 1974, in Cleveland, Ohio.- Producer
- Production Manager
- Sound Department
Anthony Santa Croce was born on 25 October 1947 in New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Monsters (1988), Tales from the Darkside (1983) and White Mile (1994). He died on 11 December 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.- Victoria Karnafel was born on 19 November 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Deer Hunter (1978). She died on 22 March 2004 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- James Kisicki was born on 14 April 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Wonder Boys (2000) and The Oh in Ohio (2006). He was married to Deborah Kaiser Kisicki. He died on 27 November 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Production Manager
Born in Ashtabula, she was the daughter of Chris R. and MaryAnn (Tulino) Alleman. Kelly graduated from Harbor High School class of 1995, Lakeland Community College with an Associates Degree and Cleveland State University with a BA in Film, where she worked on student films as production manager and crew. She died in 2017, after a courageous five year battle with cancer (Multiple Myeloma).- Cecillia Stark was born on 2 March 1898 in Marosvararhely, Romania. She was an actress, known for Stranger Than Paradise (1984). She was married to Mojzesz Jozef Stark. She died on 2 March 1985 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- William Greene was born on 25 October 1926 in Iron City, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Saint (1962) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). He died on 12 March 1970 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Lawson J. Deming was born on 23 April 1913 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sir Graves Ghastly Presents (1967) and Count Alu Card (1972). He was married to Mary Rita. He died on 24 April 2007 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.- Bob Marvin was born on 6 January 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Screen Test (1979), Young People's Specials (1984) and TV Clown: The True Story of Flippo, King of Clowns (2007). He died on 10 June 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Thomas Cullinan was born on 4 November 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for The Beguiled (2017), The Beguiled (1971) and Lux Video Theatre (1950). He was married to Helen. He died on 11 June 1995 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.
- Madlaine Traverse was born in Cleveland, Ohio with the birth name of Madlaine Businsky. SHe was a silent film actress who began her career in 1913 with the production of LEAH KLESCHNA. She would be in an average of one film per year for the next six years. However, in 1919, Madlaine appeared in seven feature productions. After five more in 1920, Madlaine left films after the filming of THE IRON HEART. She died in the city of her birth on January 7, 1964.
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Fenton William Earnshaw was born in Duluth, St. Louis County, MN on 2 August 1912 to Harry Alfred Earnshaw (1878-1953) and Vena Minnie, nee Radtke (1877-1959). Both of his parents are buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. He attended UCLA, then known as "the Southern Campus", graduating in 1936 with a BA in Political Science. He was the president of the Blackstonians, a "pre-legal society" and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was also a colonel in the ROTC. He married Dorcas Abbott Brown on 7 June 1938 in Orange County, California. They had a son named Peter, born 12 March 1943. Dorcas died in September, 1994. When he registered for the draft on 16 October 1940, he and Mrs. Earnshaw resided at 1520 Surf Avenue in Balboa, California. Their phone number was NEwport-1895. He initially joined the Army in WWII, but, he told the Los Angeles Times in a 22 December 1952 article, he switched to the Navy, "and eventually found himself commanding a landing craft. He received a summons to report to Washington and before he knew what had happened was assigned to the OSS [Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA]." "One of his first assignments was to land in Formosa and blow up a Japanese naval dock." He escaped by posing as member of a Chinese burial party. USN records from 1944 list Earnshaw as a Lt. JG as of July, 1943. As for writing for the early TV series Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1952), starring Alan Hale Jr., Earnshaw further told the Times that he took inspiration for the story lines from his own experiences in the OSS and his father's scripts from the radio series, "Chandu the Magician". Earnshaw's first script for 77 Sunset Strip (1958) was Iron Curtain Caper (1958), with Kurt Kreuger as a German agent named John Luder. The last script that Earnshaw is credited with was a 1961 two-part episode of 77 Sunset Strip (1958). He moved to Honolulu in 1963 and lived in the Ala Wai Boat Harbor aboard his 40' ketch, the "Vena M", named for his mother. He also spent several years in Tahiti, writing, and was fluent in French He worked variously for the Hawaii Department of Education, and radio stations KTRG and KGMB. In February of 1970, he flew to the Cleveland Clinic Hospital for cardiac surgery, and was accompanied by his brother, Harry. The surgery was deemed successful, but complications set in, including pneumonia. On 6 March, Earnshaw suffered cardiac arrest and remained unconscious until his death on the 11th. His son, Peter, was also at his side. He was cremated in Cleveland. Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Honolulu, and in accordance with his wishes, his ashes were scattered in the ocean off Kona.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Nolan Bell was born on 7 July 1920 in Gary, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Addison's Wall (2006) and Maude (1972). He died on 26 February 1976 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.- Siberian Husky who rose to fame as the lead sled dog in Gunnar Kaasen's team that arrived in Nome, Alaska, in early February of 1925, delivering vials of serum to the city, then stricken with a diphtheria epidemic. The call went out for the serum in January 1925 from Nome, where children were dying of diphtheria, and at the time, the only way to deliver the serum was by dog sled.
Kaasen's team was the last of several involved in a 1,348-mile relay of the serum, during which many dogs died from exhaustion, frostbite and general exposure. Kaasen and his dogs, led by Balto, traveled 106 miles through subzero temperatures and icy blizzards and arrived in Nome in the early morning hours of February 2, 1925. They were the subject of much attention later that day by the press, photographers, and even a French film crew.
News of the serum run and the many children saved by the efforts of the men and their dogs spread quickly across the nation and Balto became a heroic symbol to many. A statue of his likeness was erected in Central Park in New York City as well as in Anchorage, Alaska. He was even cast in a few Hollywood movies of the day and with other members of the teams, he eventually became a part of a one-of-a-kind exhibit in a Cleveland Zoo. Late in his life, he suffered increasing blindness, arthritis, and general effects of old age and was euthanized on March 14, 1933. His body was preserved for display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. - Crystal Dozier was born on 6 July 1971 in the USA. She died on 17 May 2007 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.