恐怖大师,出生于美国芝加哥,曾任特技演员,对讲笑话亦特别擅长。1973年编导处女作《Schlock》,是以大猩猩肆虐南加州为题材的恐怖喜剧。五年后执导《动物屋》,捧红了胖子谐星约翰布鲁奇。其后两人再合作《福禄双霸天》,商业上大获成功。在八十年代拍了一些广受欢迎的喜剧,包括《你整我...
艾迪·墨菲1961年生于纽约布鲁克林区,他父亲在他很小的时候就死了,他和他哥哥是由他母亲一手拉扯大。从小就显露饰演丑角的表演天份的艾迪墨菲,高中时就曾获得全校投票选出的“最受欢迎的学生”。之后,一脚跨入影坛,便一直是一位出色的喜剧演员。1980年,19岁的艾迪墨菲加入全美最受...
詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯,美国男演员。1931年生于美国密西西比州的阿卡布特拉市,1953年从密歇根大学毕业。1957年开始演员生涯。1962年他获得奥比最佳非百老汇戏剧演员奖,并因其对百老汇戏剧角色的出演获得两座托尼奖(《拳王奋斗史》,1969年,和《栅栏》,1987年)。在1970年琼斯因其在电影版...
塞缪尔·杰克逊1948年12月21日出生于美国华盛顿,在田纳西长大,从小就对课业非常的认真,并且进入位于亚特兰大的摩尔浩斯学院读建筑,后来才转到了戏剧系,以戏剧艺术学士的学位毕业。
唐·阿米契,美国电影演员,生于威斯康星州基诺沙。原名多米尼克·阿米西,有意大利、德国和爱尔兰血统。青年时代在威斯康星大学攻读法律,曾参加学校剧团演出,后改行从事戏剧和广播剧工作。1936年为二十世纪福克斯影片公司罗致,签订七年拍片合同。他第一部担任主要角色的影片是洛...
小库珀·古丁,美国演员。他的父亲库珀·古巴,是R&B乐队“主要成份”的主音歌手,这支乐队以歌曲《人人都是大傻瓜》而知名。他的父亲在他两岁时抛弃他们母子俩。尽管在幼年遭受父母离异之苦,但古丁在上学后始终保持着奋发向上、自信乐观的态度。高中毕业后,古丁学习了三年柔道,之后把...
Madge Sinclair was born Madge Dorita Walters on April 28 1938 in Kingston, Jamaica, married young and had two sons. Madge worked as a teacher in Jamaica until she was 30. She left her two boys with their father and went to New York City to be an actress. She began modeling and later acted with the New York Shakespearean Festival and at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. In 1974, Madge made her film debut, playing Mrs. Scott in Conrack (1974). She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance as Bell Reynolds in the miniseries Roots (1977). In the early 1980s, shortly after joining the cast of Trapper John, M.D. (1979), she was diagnosed with leukemia. She continued to work outliving the doctors' predictions by several years. On December 20, 1995, Madge Sinclair died at age 57 in Los Angeles, California.
Frankie Faison was born on June 10, 1949 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001) and The Wire (2002). He has been married to Jane Mandel since December 26, 1988. They have three children.
Jim Abrahams was born on May 10, 1944 in Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993). He is married to Nancy Cocuzzo.