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John Richard Schneider IV was born April 8, 1960, in Mt. Kisco, New York, to Shirley and John Richard "Jack" Schneider III, a pilot and U.S. Air Force veteran. His parents divorced when he was two. John began acting at the age of eight. He was in many plays in New York City. He and his mother moved to Atlanta, Georgia, when he was fourteen. He got involved in the local theater and was in many local productions. He had a small part in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) starring Burt Reynolds.

His big break came when he won the role of Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) on CBS from 1979-1985. He auditioned for the role pretending he was a genuine country boy. He had a weeks growth of beard and held a beer can claiming he was from Snellville, Georgia. He later became a very successful country singer and had several hit songs including "I've Been Around Enough To Know" and "Country Girls." He has since opened Faith Works Productions in San Antonio, Texas. He also appears in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) as Daniel Simon/Red McCall.

The dark, petulant beauty of this petite American film and musical star worked to her advantage, especially in her early dramatic career. Anne Marie Blythe was born of Irish stock, the younger of two children born to Harry and Annie (nee Lynch) Blythe on August 16, 1927, in Mt. Kisco, New York. Her father split while she was young and she, her mother and elder sister, Dorothy, lived in Manhattan, where the girls attended various Catholic schools.

Already determined at an early age to perform, young Anne Marie studied at Manhattan's Professional Children's School and became a seasoned radio performer, particularly on soap dramas, while in elementary school. A member of New York's Children's Opera Company, the young girl made an important Broadway debut in 1941 at age 14 as the daughter of the characters played by Paul Lukas and Mady Christians in the classic Lillian Hellman WWII drama "Watch on the Rhine", billed as Anne Blyth. She stayed with the show for two years.

While touring with the play in Los Angeles, the teenager was noticed by director Henry Koster at Universal and given a screen test. Signed on at age 17 as Ann (without the "e") Blyth (without the "e"), the pretty, photographic colleen displayed her warbling talent in her debut film, Chip Off the Old Block (1944), a swing-era teen musical starring Universal song-and-dance favorites Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan.

She followed it pleasantly enough with other "B" tune-fests such as The Merry Monahans (1944) and Babes on Swing Street (1944). It wasn't until Warner Bros. borrowed her to make self-sacrificing mother Joan Crawford's life pure hell as the malicious, spiteful elder daughter Veda in the film classic Mildred Pierce (1945) that she really clicked with viewers and set up her dramatic career. With murder on her young character's mind, Hollywood stood up and took notice of this fresh-faced talent.

Although Blyth lost the Best Supporting Actress Oscar that year to another Anne (Anne Revere), she was borrowed again by Warner Bros. to film Danger Signal (1945). During filming, she suffered a broken back in a sledding accident while briefly vacationing in Lake Arrowhead and had to be replaced in the role. After a long convalescence (over a year and a half in a back brace) Universal used her in a wheelchair-bound cameo in Brute Force (1947).

Her first starring role was an inauspicious one opposite Sonny Tufts in Swell Guy (1946), but she finally began gaining some momentum again. Instead of offering her musical gifts, she continued her serious streak with Killer McCoy (1947) and a dangerously calculated role in Another Part of the Forest (1948), a prequel to The Little Foxes (1941) in which Blyth played the Bette Davis role of Regina at a younger age. Her attempts at lighter comedy were mild at best, playing a fetching creature of the sea opposite William Powell in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) and a teen infatuated with a much-older film star, Robert Montgomery, in Once More, My Darling (1949).

At full-throttle as a star in the early 1950s, Blyth transitioned easily among glossy operettas, wide-eyed comedies and all-out melodramas, some of which tended to be overbaked and, thereby, overplayed. When not dishing out the high dramatics of an adopted girl searching for her birth mother in Our Very Own (1950) or a wrongly-convicted murderess in Thunder on the Hill (1951), she was introducing classic standards as wife to Mario Lanza in The Great Caruso (1951) or playing pert and perky in such light confections as Katie Did It (1950).

A well-embraced romantic leading lady, she made her last film for Universal playing a Russian countess courted by Gregory Peck in The World in His Arms (1952). MGM eventually optioned her for its musical outings, having borrowed her a couple of times previously. She became a chief operatic rival to Kathryn Grayson at the studio during that time. Grayson, however, fared much better than Blyth, who was given rather stilted vehicles.

Catching Howard Keel's roving eye while costumed to the nines in the underwhelming Rose Marie (1954) and his daughter in Kismet (1955), she also gussied up other stiff proceedings like The Student Prince (1954) and The King's Thief (1955) will attest. Unfortunately, Blyth came to MGM at the tail end of the Golden Age of musicals and probably suffered for it. She was dropped by the studio in 1956. She reunited with old Universal co-star Donald O'Connor in The Buster Keaton Story (1957).

Blyth ended her film career on a high note, however, playing the tragic title role in the The Helen Morgan Story (1957) opposite a gorgeously smirking Paul Newman. She had a field day as the piano-sitting, kerchief-holding, liquor-swilling torch singer whose train wreck of a personal life was destined for celluloid. Disappointing for her personally, no doubt, was that her singing voice had to be dubbed (albeit superbly) by the highly emotive, non-operatic songstress Gogi Grant.

Through with films, Blyth's main concentration (after her family) were musical theatre and television. Over the years a number of classic songs were tailored to suit her glorious lyric soprano both in concert form and on the civic light opera/summer stock stages. "The Sound of Music", "The King and I", "Carnival", "Bittersweet", "South Pacific", "Show Boat" and "A Little Night Music" are but a few of her stage credits. During this time Blyth appeared as the typical American housewife for Hostess in its Twinkie, cupcake and fruit pie commercials, a job that lasted well over a decade. She made the last of her sporadic TV guest appearances on Quincy, M.E. (1976) and Murder, She Wrote (1984) in the mid-1980s.

Married since 1953 to Dr. James McNulty, the brother of late Irish tenor Dennis Day, she was the mother of five, Blyth continued to be seen occasionally at social functions and conventions.

Ann Blyth died in 2026, aged 98, of natural causes in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Matthew Del Negro stars opposite Billy Bob Thornton on season 2 of Amazon's Goliath, and will next star opposite Gad Elmaleh in Netflix's comedy series Huge in France, due in early 2019. In 2017, Matt was in theaters in Taylor Sheridan's Wind River, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, and Jon Bernthal, which won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. On the silver screen Del Negro recurred as 'Michael Ambruso' on the ABC series Scandal for three seasons. He portrayed 'Mayor Gavin Newsom' in the ABC miniseries When We Rise, about the gay rights movement in the US, and played 'Detective Hauser' in the Warner Bros. feature Hot Pursuit, starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. The most notable of his many recurring roles include HBO's The Sopranos, NBC's The West Wing, Showtime's United States of Tara and MTV's Teen Wolf. Matthew's film credits include Celeste and Jesse Forever, starring Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg, Alex of Venice, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Derek Luke, Ira and Abby, Room 314, and Limerence, on which he also served as a Executive Producer.

Matt's Hollywood success has been well earned and slow-burning, as he began his career in small theater productions in New York before landing a pivotal recurring role on Season 4 of HBO's groundbreaking series The Sopranos (1999) opposite James Gandolfini and Edie Falco. Other theater credits include A.C.T.'s sold-out run of David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" in the role of Bobby Gould, directed by Loretta Greco.

Having made his own short film, Christmas Break, in 2007, Matt stepped behind the camera again as creative consultant to help fellow actor Chris Messina with his directorial debut, Alex of Venice (2014). He has had similarly prominent roles in an assortment of festival and independent films such as the gritty The Sublime and Beautiful (2014), Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012) starring Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones, Ira & Abby (2006) for Magnolia Pictures, and the Ethan Hawke directed Chelsea Walls (2001).

In 2017, after describing his career as "being told 'No' for a living" when speaking to near-graduates of MFA Theater Programs in Los Angeles, Matthew created and launched his podcast, 10,000 "No"s, which can be listened to on the Apple Podcasts App, Spotify and at 10000nos.com. On it, Matthew gets up close and personal with top-shelf folks from all walks of life about the 10,000 "No"s they've had to endure and the struggles they've had to overcome on their journey to where they are today. The interviews are inspiring, raw, honest, and funny, with the intention of helping listeners realize that the people they think have "got it made" put their pants on one leg at a time, just like them . Matthew grew up in Westchester County, New York and graduated from Boston College, where he played Division I Lacrosse and consistently made the Dean's List.

He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

Gavin MacLeod's pleasing, agreeable manner on two hit TV series in the 1970s and '80s belied a number of shady villains he portrayed in his early career. Born Allan George See in Mt. Kisco, New York, on February 28, 1931, and raised in Pleasantville, he was the son of Margaret (Shea) and George See, a gas station owner who was part Chippewa Indian (Ojibwa). He followed his 1952 graduation from Ithaca College (Fine Arts major) with Air Force military duty, then moved to New York City and worked for a while as an usher and elevator operator at Radio City Music Hall. Focusing on acting, he changed his stage name to "Gavin McLeod."

A solid break on Broadway in "A Hatful of Rain" in 1956 led to a move to Los Angeles in an attempt to break into film and TV. MacLeod began to earn a minor reputation as a second-string heavy in such crime shows as "The Thin Man," "Steve Canyon," "Manhunt," "Mr. Lucky," "Peter Gunn," "Michael Shayne," "The Untouchables" and "Perry Mason." This led to a regular comedy role as part of the McHale's Navy (1962) TV series. He also managed several film roles, although far down the credits, with I Want to Live! (1958), Compulsion (1959), Pork Chop Hill (1959), Operation Petticoat (1959), Twelve Hours to Kill (1960), High Time (1960), War Hunt (1962) and McHale's Navy (1964). He was a member of the superb supporting cast of The Sand Pebbles (1966). He returned to Broadway in "The Captains and the Kings" in 1962.

MacLeod's career more or less flowed and ebbed until 1972, when his shiftless typecast was shattered forever. As Murray Slaughter, the balding, beaming, wisecracking, gleaming-toothed news writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), MacLeod became a happy household name. From then on, he could only be envisaged as a lovable schmuck and nice guy. From there he went on to another benign starring role with the TV series, The Love Boat (1977), as the ingratiating Captain Stubing.

On the down side, "Love Boat" marred MacLeod's chances to be considered for more challenging work, and his inability to cope with success led to alcoholism and divorce from second wife Patti. However, he later turned his life around, remarried his wife, and they both wrote a book called "Back on Course" (1987). MacLeod continued sporadically on the musical stage ("Gypsy," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Gigi"), in TV reunions ("Love Boat" specials) and as a TV guest ("Murder, She Wrote," "Touched by an Angel," "The King of Queens," "Oz," "That 70s Show," "JAG" and "The Comeback Kid").

Caitlyn Marie Jenner was born William Bruce Jenner on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York and raised in Sleepy Hollow, New York to Esther Jenner & William Jenner. Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L.D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner had a six-year decathlon career, culminating in winning the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero". Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.

Jenner has six children with three successive wives-Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner-and from 2007 to 2021 appeared on the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians with Kris, their daughters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and Kris's other children Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian.

Jenner publicly came out as a trans woman in April 2015, announcing her new name in July. From 2015 to 2016, she starred in the reality television series I Am Cait, which focused on her gender transition. She has been called the most famous transgender woman in the world. Jenner is a transgender rights activist, although her views on transgender issues have been criticized by many other trans and LGBTQ+ activists.

A member of the Republican Party, she ran as a replacement candidate in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election. The recall failed, and she only received 1% of the vote, finishing in 13th place among the candidates running to replace governor Gavin Newsom. 6 months after the election, Jenner was hired by Fox News as an on-air contributor.

James Stephens was born on 18 May 1951 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Getaway (1994), Father Dowling Mysteries (1989) and Empire of Ash (1989). He has been married to Priscilla Taylor since 1973.

Laura Branigan was a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and actress best known for her powerhouse voice and international hits of the 1980s. Upon graduation from high school in Armonk, NY, Laura attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. During the 1970's, prior to establishing a solo career and signing with Atlantic Records, Laura was a singer/songwriter for folk/rock group Meadow and she also performed as a backing vocalist for Leonard Cohen while on tour in Europe. Laura rose to international fame with her 1982 breakthrough single "Gloria" and followed with chart-topping successes including "Solitaire", "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", and her 1984 smash "Self Control". Her music was featured in films such as Flashdance, Ghostbusters, and Coming to America, and she appeared on popular television shows including American Bandstand, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Solid Gold. Branigan also acted in TV series like CHiPs and Automan, and in films including Mugsy's Girls and Backstage. Branigan's songs continue to resonate in film and television, having been featured on highly acclaimed television shows such as Mr. Robot; American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace; and Somebody Somewhere, as well as films I, Tonya; Gloria Bell; and Speak No Evil.

Michael Angelo Covino is a filmmaker, actor, and producer, known for SPLITSVILLE (2025), THE CLIMB (2019), 80 FOR BRADY (2023), JOSEPHINE (2026), RIF RAFF (2024), NOTICE TO QUIT (2024), KICKS (2016), and HUNTER GATHERER (2016). SPLITSVILLE was created alongside Covino's longtime creative collaborator Kyle Marvin, and the film debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Sasha Fox was born on 1 May 2000 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Superdate (2013), Tripped Up (2023) and Splinter.

Lindsey Kear was born in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Lindsey is a costume designer, known for The End of Oak Street (2026), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Skyscraper (2018).

Lew graduated from Ithaca College in 1951 and was a member of Delta Kappa fraternity. He attended graduate school at Columbia University from 1954-1955. He received Ithaca College's Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 2001. He founded the golf tournament for the Entertainment Industry Foundation and served as a member of the foundation's board. Lew began golf tournaments for St. John of God Care Center and Villa Scallabrini Retirement Home. In 1998 he was named man of the year by the Los Angeles Italian American Golf Association.

Lindsay King was born on 31 March 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. She is an assistant director and producer, known for The Colony (2013), Polar (2019) and Escape: A Ghost Story (2021).

For four decades, Michael Eisner has been a leader in the American entertainment industry. He began his career at ABC, overseeing shows including Happy Days, Barney Miller, and Roots. He became president of Paramount Pictures in 1976, turning out hit films including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saturday Night Fever, and Grease. IN 1984 Michael assumed the position of Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company and, in the ensuing 21 years, transformed it from a film and theme park company worth $1.8 billion into a global media empire now valued at over $170 billion. In 2005, Michael founded The Tornante Company, a privately held media & entertainment holding company. Today Tornante owns Topps, Inc., Portsmouth Football Club in England, and has a large and growing television division, including ownership of BoJack Horseman and Tucca and Bertie for Netflix, as well as Undone for Amazon. He and his wife, Jane, founded The Eisner Foundation in 1996 and recently focused the foundation on inter-generational solutions. He was born on March 7, 1942 in New York and later attended Lawrenceville School and Denison University. He and Jane have three sons, Breck, Eric and Anders and three daughters-in-law, plus nine grandchildren.

Christopher Shand was born in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Christopher is an actor and producer, known for Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (2014), Gracie (2007) and Submergence (2017).

David S. Howard was born on 10 September 1928 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Moonstruck (1987). He was married to Anne. He died on 10 January 2023 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

Billy Branigan was born on 28 February 1957 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Me and the Mob (1992) and Billy Branigan: Maybe Tonite (1986). He died on 10 March 2022 in Massachusetts, USA.

Devin Hervey was born on 14 April 1993 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Courage to Love (2000).

Blake McCormick was born on 22 October 1964 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He is a producer, known for The Decameron (2024), Teenage Bounty Hunters (2020) and The Romanoffs (2018).

An award-winning host, interviewer, and entertainment expert, Dave Karger has made over 170 live appearances on NBC's Today show and appears regularly as an expert and correspondent on E! and Access Hollywood. In 2015 Dave received the Publicists Guild Press Award honoring the year's outstanding entertainment journalist. In 2014 he was named one of OUT Magazine's "OUT 100," acknowledging the most influential people in the LGBT community. Dave has also been a guest host on Today, Access Hollywood Live, and Turner Classic Movies. From 2012 to 2016 Dave served as Chief Correspondent at Fandango, where he hosted the original video series "The Frontrunners" and "Weekend Ticket." "The Frontrunners" received a 2013 Webby Award nomination for Best Variety Series. Before that, Dave spent 17 years as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he wrote over 50 cover stories, on subjects including George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, and Carrie Underwood. He also spearheaded Oscar coverage for the magazine and EW.com. In 2012 and 2013, Dave was the Academy's official red-carpet greeter on Oscar night, only the third person ever to hold that post. He also co-hosted the 2011 Oscars Digital Experience (produced by The Academy and ABC), which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media. He has served on the juries of the TriBeCa, Los Angeles, South By Southwest, and Florida Film Festivals. Dave graduated cum laude from Duke University.

Lee Sacks was born on 2 September 1985 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Little Paradise (2015), Arsenio! Live (2022) and How Low Will You Go: Snapchat (2018).

Sandy Frank is an American television producer and film distributor. He is best known for importing the many Gamera films, as well as the hit Japanese anime series Gatchaman, to the United States. He later made Gatchaman into the Battle of the Planets animated series, which has been telecast in the U.S. and worldwide in most countries.

He began working for Paramount Pictures and NBC-TV in Network sales, working his way up the ladder in the television industry. He subsequently struck out on his own, starting Sandy Frank Program Sales, Inc, a television program syndication company. In 1975 he expanded his company's operations and renamed it Sandy Frank Entertainment when the company went into TV production. He is best known for importing and redubbing 1960s and 1970s Japanese films and television series, such as Gamera and Battle of the Planets, for distribution in the American and international market. In addition to Japanese imports, Sandy Frank is known in game show circles for producing and distributing two music game shows in the 80s - Name That Tune and Face The Music - and the reality series "You Asked For It", which was on the NBC TV Network in prime time in 2000.

Five of the Gamera films, as well as Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, Time of the Apes, Mighty Jack, and Humanoid Woman (KTMA season), were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Mr. Frank lives in Manhattan.

Michael Skolnik was born on 15 August 1978 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for On the Outs (2004), La esquina caliente (1999) and Without the King (2007).

At nine years old, Scott made his movie debut in "Harrison's Flowers." Previous acting experience includes television commercial work. Scott lives in Yorktown, NY, with his parents and brothers Jason and Kevin (also in the business). He has a dog named Peeve and a hamster named Fred. Scott's major interests include soccer, baseball, basketball, running, cartooning, piano, saxaphone and hanging out with friends.

Carrie Rosen was born in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Carrie is a writer and producer, known for Speechless (2016), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019) and Faking It (2014).

Kelly Fitzpatrick was born on 31 December 1937 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Get Smart (1965), CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960) and Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964).