All Entries Tagged With: "Roger Corman"
Raf Vallone
Date of Birth: 17 February 1916 Birth Name: Raffaele Vallone Mini Biography: Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian movie star known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a former soccer player who often was compared to Burt Lancaster, was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Cambria, Italy, the son of [...]
Dick Miller
Date of Birth: 25 December 1928 Birth Name: Richard Miller Height: 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Mini Biography: A native of the Bronx, New York, Richard “Dick” Miller served in the U.S. Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he [...]
Brian McKechnie
Date of Birth: 12 August 1978 Birth Name: Brian Joseph McKechnie Height: 6′ 5″ (1.96 m) Mini Biography: Brian McKechnie is the founder and president of sick & twisted productions, an independent b-movie company run out of Toronto, Canada. Brian started the company in 1998 to make movies that are considered different or “out of [...]
Patrick Magee
Date of Birth: 31 March 1922 Birth Name: Patrick McGee Mini Biography: Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, Patrick Magee is a classic example of how certain actors rate the stage far more highly than the screen. Magee was well aware that the vast majority of the films that he appeared in were dreadful (he mostly [...]
Traci Lords
Date of Birth: 7 May 1968 Birth Name: Nora Louise Kuzma Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) Mini Biography: Traci Lords is a study of a determined and complex woman with a very controversial background. Born and raised in Ohio as Nora Kuzma, she moved with her divorced mother and three sisters to Los Angeles at [...]
John Landis
Date of Birth: 3 August 1950 Mini Biography: John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of [...]
Bernard L. Kowalski
Date of Birth: 2 August 1929 Birth Name: Bernard Louis Kowalski Mini Biography: Bernard Kowalski is an important figure in television with a long and impressive list of credits. To mention a select few, he directed the pilots for “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” (1957), “N.Y.P.D.” (1967) and “The Monroes” (1966); executive-produced “Baretta” (1975); and was [...]
Aron Kincaid
Date of Birth: 15 June 1940 Birth Name: Norman Neale Williams Jr. Height: 6′ 1½” (1.87 m) Mini Biography: Beach stud movie and TV actor Aron Kincaid started life out as Norman Neale Williams III on June 15, 1940, in Hollywood, California. While still a toddler, his father, serving as a Second Lieutenant with the [...]