约翰·福特是美国最伟大和最多产的导演之一，一生出品(导演)过超过130部长片。 约翰·福特出生于缅因州的伊丽莎白角(Cape Elizabeth)，是一个爱尔兰移民家庭中最小的孩子。1913年高中毕业后，跟随大哥Francis进入好莱坞电影界。跟他大哥一样，他把名也改成福特。在好莱坞的初...
约翰·韦恩原名马里恩·莫里森，父亲是一位药剂师，童年时举家南迁到南加州，并在莫哈韦沙漠经营一个农场，直到农场失败以前，莫里森每天都要和弟弟一起先游过一条小河，然后再骑马去上学。农场失败后他们再次搬家，莫里森开始替父亲送药或者卖报纸来打工，并有了一条硬毛狗取名叫“公爵”。...
威廉·霍尔登出生于一个富裕家庭，三岁的时候，他的家搬到了加州的帕萨迪纳，他的父亲是一名工厂药剂师，母亲是一名老师。1973年，还在帕萨迪纳专科学校攻读化学专业的威廉就已经和派拉蒙公司签下了一份电影合同50年代是威廉·霍尔登演艺事业的鼎盛时期，出演了《野餐》（Picnic）等影片。此...
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's notoriety on a national level was as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
A rather wanderlust fellow before he latched onto acting, Denver Pyle--who made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types--was actually born in Colorado in 1920, to a farming family. He attended a university for a time but dropped out to become a drummer. When that didn't pan out he drifted from job to job, doing everything from working the oil fields in Oklahoma to the shrimp boats in Texas. In 1940 he moseyed off to Los Angeles and briefly found employment as a (somewhat unlikely) NBC page. That particular career was interrupted by World War II, and Pyle enlisted in the navy. Wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal, he received a medical discharge in 1943.
