威廉姆·卡索（William Castle）1914年出生在纽约的一个犹太家庭，原名为威廉姆·史劳斯（William Schloss，Schloss是德语城堡的意思）。显然他的现在的名字就是把原名中的德国城堡换成了美国的而已。卡索在年幼时便父母双亡，但和普通小孩不同，他并没有因此郁郁寡欢，反而他天天像打了鸡血一般，做着疯狂的事，渴望获得关注。
Square-jawed, intense, no-nonsense Frank Lovejoy played a succession of detectives, street cops, reporters, soldiers and such over his career. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1912, he worked on Wall Street as a teenager, but the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929 cost him his job, and to make ends meet he got into acting.
Gorgeous was too tame a word for this foreigner stunner. Glamorous brunette beauty Ursula Thiess was born Ursula Schmidt in Hamburg Germany on May 15, 1924, the daughter of Hans Schmidt, who managed a printing company, and Wilhelmine Lange, her turbulent childhood including working as compulsory farm laborer on the orders of the Nazi government when the teen refused to join the paramilitary Hitler Youth Movement. She later began her entertainment career in her native homeland appearing on the stage and dubbing female voices in American films.
