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Dick Fisher began his professional career in 1978 as a cameraman shooting 16mm newsreels and commercials for a tiny television station (WUTR) in Utica, New York. Returning home to New York City in 1980, he pioneered the video news magazine format as the first videographer for PM Magazine. Applying film style lighting and production values to the fledgling location video field, he launched his own company, Videography Productions, Inc. His photographic talents were then applied to many reality based broadcast television programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, Hard Copy, Extra, Metromedia and Fox News.In 1994, working on weekends and in his spare time, he created a breakthrough film that proved to be a watershed for independent film. The highly acclaimed, The Brothers McMullen. The first release of Fox Searchlight Pictures, its phenomenal commercial success demonstrated the mass-market viability of micro budget independent films. Working with his production assistant, the talented writer/director/actor Eddie Burns, and a crew of enthusiastic volunteers, Fisher realized his conviction that, “the best production value is a story well told.” In addition to winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (1995) the film also received an Independent Spirit Award, a Special Jury Prize at the Deauville Festival of American Film, and the Producer’s Guild of America’s Golden Laurel NOVA Award for outstanding achievement by an emerging producer. Variety Magazine reported the film as the 2nd highest grossing independent release of 1995, and the most profitable film of the year ($13.4 million domestic gross against a final production cost of $275,000).Fisher studied communications and film making at Fordham University (BA, 1970) and Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Communication (MA, 1978). Practical feature film experience came on the sets of Quiz Show, The Paper, Age Of Innocence, Carlito’s Way, The Scout, It Could Happen To You, and other feature films on which he served as a video camera operator.

Nickname: Diane Fisher King

Height: 5′ 8½” (1.74 m)

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Diane Fisher – aka: Diane Frances Fisher and/or Diane Fisher King – was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. Diane has been an Actor/Director, Sound Designer and Instructor for the stage since 1997 and she has been working in film on both sides of the camera (Actor, First Assistant Director, and miscellaneous Crew work) since 2003. She is also a singer and writer and has performed in a wide variety of venues – from Outdoor Shakespeare productions and Summer Stock Musicals in Chicagoland, to touring a Greek Tragedy throughout Greece and working on big budget Commercial Films, Independent Movies and Television in Chicago and LA. She graduated with distinction from Indiana University where she received an AA Degree in Humanities and a BA Degree in Theatre and has had intensive post graduate training throughout the country (National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, NYC, Chicago) and abroad (Greek Islands). Diane has also worked in Arts Management as an Artistic Director for Indiana and Chicagoland theatre companies and churches. Since 2006 she has been on staff as the Outreach, Arts & Small Groups Director at her church in the Chicago area. With a great passion for people and the Lord she travels the globe every chance she gets ministering love, hope and healing through the Arts. Adventures in 2007 took her to the shores of Australia, Ireland and Africa. Diane currently resides in a Lakeshore condo in the Windy City.

David Fisher was already a very experienced television writer by the time he came to work on “Doctor Who.” Series to which he had contributed included “Orlando” (1967), “Dixon of Dock Green,” (1969), “The Troubleshooters” (1969-71), “Sutherland’s Law” (1973) and “General Hospital” (1977). Following “Doctor Who,” for which he wrote four stories, he contributed some scripts to “Hammer House of Horror” (1980). He has in more recent years been collaborating with Anthony Read on a number of historical books dealing with subjects including World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s. He lives with his second wife in a 16th-century house in Suffolk.

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Songwriter, author, producer and publisher, the son of Fred Fisher and brother of Doris and Marvin Fisher. Following his high school education, he became a song plugger for his father’s publishing firm, and later wrote special material for Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer, Mildred Bailey and Hope Emerson. He produced he plays “A Lady in Danger”, and “Springtime for Henry”, and the road-company music for “You Can’t Take It With You” and “A Second String”. He owned and operated summer-stock theater companies, and owned and managed the Fred Fisher Music Company and Marvin Music Company. Joining ASCAP in 1953, he collaborated musically with Irene Higginbotham, Sammy Gallop and Ervin Drake. His popular-song compositions include “Good Morning Heartache”, “No Pad to be Had”, “I’m Reading Old Letters”, “No Good Man”, “Fritzie”, “Mama, Put That Skillet On” and “My Love May End”.

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Born in Pasadena, 1973, grew up in Newport Beach, studied philosophy and law at USC, worked as a corporate lawyer in London before deciding to break into the entertainment business as a William Morris trainee. Founded Imperial Fish Company in 2001 with the mandate to make pretty good genre films. His interest in movies stems from a broader interest in storytelling and relation life experiences.

_Santa Croce (2006)_ marks Brad Fisher’s return to acting after a fifteen-year hiatus. After writing, spending time with family, working film crews and directing the award winning feature Knock on Wood (1998), Brad returns to his old craft with a renewed passion and understanding. Since filming _Santa Croce (2006)_ he has completed two other films, starring in Luke Pebler’s The Professor’s Daughter and Ernest Rhea’s The Script with “House”s Jesse Spencer.Brad’s prior acting highlights include starring in the off Broadway production of Romulus Linney’s Holy Ghost, two Los Angeles Critics awards for leading actor in Asa Bordages and John Bright’s Brooklyn USA and Anthony Schaffer’s Whodunit as well as numerous guest-starring roles in television and films.In addition to his American work, Fisher spent an additional two years acting in Ireland on stage, screen and television, including starring in the original rock opera “Switchblade” directed by Jim Sheridan.

Date of Birth: 23 October 1967

Birth Name: William Martin Fisher

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Bill Fisher started in the industry as a print photographer. His Father, Bill Fisher Sr., had him shooting medium format photos of all of his relatives by the time he was 8 years old. Bill’s raw talent was recognized early on at the age of 22, by the world famous German Photographer, Helmut Nuton. It wasn’t long before some of the world’s top magazines were knocking at his door. Bill photos ended up in magazines like, W, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and designers like Dolce & Gabbanna and Versace paid big bucks to have him shoot ad campaigns for them.While on a calendar shoot in the Bahamas for Supermodel Heidi Klum, Bill watched a television crew cover Heidi’s activities. He became very interested in video production. Launching the original Fisher Productions Inc., in 1993, by 1996 he began to turn his sights more towards video and film. From his extensive celebrity contact list, all he had to do is make a few phone calls and his ideas were on the screen.Although Fisher Films LLC., is a completely separate entity from Fisher Productions Inc., he runs it like it was his own. His contact list alone is one of the best kept secrets in Hollywood. He is actually very reserved.His drive for perfection is what keeps his motion pictures selling. Coming from the “photography” world, he knows just how to get the shot that he wants. Extremely creative cinematography, excellent writing and great story ideas are why his films are so successful.

Date of Birth: 12 May 1992

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Bethany is the oldest of five children, having three sisters and a brother. She has appeared in commercials and done voice overs for television. Not only a talented actress but also a strong singer and dancer having performed in numerous theatre productions including the title roles of Annie and Alice in Wonderland (for which she was nominated for an award of Best Female Youth Performer at 11), Sound of Music and Oliver just to name a few. In her spare time she loves horse riding and has her own horse.

Trivia:

Has a pet guinea pig called Puzzle.
Has a horse called Bonnie.
Is a huge “Charmed” fan so named her puppy “Charmz”.