All Entries Tagged With: "Roger Corman"
Pamela Duncan
Date of Birth: 28 December 1924 Mini Biography: Pert and pretty Brooklyn-born actress Pamela Duncan made brief movie news in the 1950s as a “B” level performer and would be best remembered for her damsel-in-distress participation in two of Roger Corman’s cult turkeys — Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) and The Undead (1957), both [...]
Mimsy Farmer
Date of Birth: 28 February 1945 Mini Biography: Mimsy Farmer first began acting at age 16 when a press agent noticed her and offered her work in film which she accepted. Her first film was a minor part in Spencer’s Mountain (1963). After her first acting role, Mimsy took acting lessons after graduation and landed [...]
Ernest D. Farino
Mini Biography: Two-time Emmy Award-winning Ernest Farino’s professional motion picture career has spanned over 25 years, first as a Designer and Animator of visual effects (ranging from the Pillsbury Doughboy to The Terminator (1984) to “Children of Dune” (2003)), then as a director for feature films, television and the stage (Steel and Lace (1991), “Land [...]
Susan Cabot
Date of Birth: 9 July 1927 Birth Name: Harriet Shapiro Height: 5′ 2″ (1.57 m) Mini Biography: Susan Cabot was born in Boston and raised in a series of eight foster homes. She attended high school in Manhattan, where she took an interest in dramatics and joined the school dramatic club. Later, while trying to [...]
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Date of Birth: 12 June 1918 Birth Name: Samuel Zachary Arkoff Mini Biography: By the early 1950′s, Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now-infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.’s social circle. As a shark, Arkoff was [...]
Kent Adamson
Birth Name: Kent Bryan Adamson Nickname: Daddy Rose Rootie Height: 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) Mini Biography: Award-winning filmmaker Kent Adamson began making movies at the age of 11 in San Diego, California. He borrowed his uncle’s Super 8 camera and proceeded to ruin every subsequent holiday get-together for the rest of the family by insisting [...]