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Actors & Actresses
- Don Adams - Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 on "Get Smart."
- Mason Adams - Los Angeles Tribune editor Charlie Hume on the Ed Asner series "Lou Grant," and jam spokesman ("With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good").
- Eddie Albert - Oliver Wendell Douglas on "Green Acres," also a singer, spy, sex educator, trapeze artist, circus clown and environmental crusader.
- Dave Allen - controversial UK comedian.
- Leon Askin - General Burkhalter on "Hogan's Heroes."
- Alan Barry - British character actor.
- Betty Bolton - hailed as the youngest actress on the London stage -- in 1920 -- and one of Britain's earliest television performers.
- Richard Bright - character actor ("Hill Street Blues," "Law and Order," "The Sopranos").
- Imogene Burkhart, aka Jean Byron - mother of Patty Duke on the "The Patty Duke Show."
- J.D. Cannon - character actor best known for roles on "The Fugitive" and "Brewster McCloud."
- Jack Colvin - character actor "The Incredible Hulk."
- Bill Dearth - character actor.
- Bob Denver - Gilligan of "Gilligan's Island."
- James Doohan - actor, chief engineer.
- Don Durant - "Johnny Ringo."
- Richard Eastham - played Gen. Phil Blankenship on TV's "Wonder Woman."
- Dana Elcar - the boss on "McGyver."
- Jason Evers - character actor, "Wrangler."
- Anthony Franciosa - "The Name Of The Game."
- Gretchen Franklin - veteran of British soap "The EastEnders."
- Elisabeth Fraser - Bilko's on again/off again girlfriend on "The Phil Silvers Show."
- Anthony George - character actor.
- Frank Gorshin - impressionist, The Riddler on "Batman."
- Don Knotts - best known as Barney Fife and Mr. Furley.
- Jack Kosslyn - actor, drama coach and casting director.
- Al Lewis - Grandpa Munster.
- Barney Martin - played Seinfeld's father Morty.
- Darren McGavin - starred in the cult classic "Kolchak: The Night Stalker."
- Pat Morita - played Arnold on "Happy Days."
- Howard Morris - character and voice actor, film and TV director.
- Sheree North - 20th Century Fox's back-up plan.
- Louis Nye - early TV funnyman.
- Louis Pitoscia - a pro-wrestler and screen heavy.
- Kay Tremblay - Aunt Eliza on TV's Road to Avonlea.
- Ford Rainey - usually cast as presidents, judges and other authority figures.
- Charles Rocket - said the f-word on "Saturday Night Live."
- Margaretta Scott - last surviving signatory on the document that created Equity, the British actors' union, and one of television's earliest performers.
- Guylaine St-Onge - Canadian character actress.
- Robert Sterling - actor who couldn't top "Topper."
- Harold Stone - veteran character actor.
- Dennis Weaver - played Deputy Chester Goode on "Gunsmoke" and Sam McCloud on "McCloud."
- Charles White - character actor.
Voice Actors
Other Crafts
- Franklin Barton - producer, executive and writer who developed the "Law & Order" concept back in 1963.
- William J. Bell - writer, producer and creator of soaps with four-word titles.
- Richard Burdick - public TV pioneer.
- Bill Cameron - veteran Canadian newsman.
- Michael Cuneo - Star Trek modelmaker.
- Dan Curtis - TV producer and director.
- Ida Libby Dengrove - NBC courtroom sketch artist.
- Ralph Edwards - game show pioneer.
- Barbara Finberg - philanthropist whose efforts led to the launch of "Sesame Street."
- James L. Fisher - boom and dolly innovator.
- Dave Freeman - wrote for Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Tony Hancock, Sid James, Benny Hill and Frankie Howerd.
- Greg Garrison - director in TV's early days.
- Paul Henning - created "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres."
- Peter Jennings - ABC News anchor.
- Albert R. Kahn - co-founder of Electro-Voice.
- Jack Keller - Brill Building songwriter, wrote the theme song for "Bewitched," "Hazel" and "Gidget."
- Graham Kennedy - Australian TV icon.
- Donovan Leighton - editor, won Emmy for TV series "L.A. Law."
- Richard Lewine - producer and executive.
- Sherman Loudermilk - art director and KTLA's 'Cowboy Slim.'
- Don McGaffin - hard-hitting Seattle newsman.
- Stuart Martin - brought television to Vermont in 1954.
- Bill Matheson - legendary Edmonton broadcaster.
- Jose Melis - bandleader who worked with Jack Paar.
- Don Ray - Emmy nominated composer.
- Herb Sargent - wrote and shaped Weekend Update for "Saturday Night Live."
- Stanley H. Silverman - writer of early TV classics.
- Robin Spry - Canadian documentary filmmaker.
- Frank Stalley - one of the first regular anchors of the CBC Television's National News.
- Johnnie Stewart - created BBC's "Top Of The Pops."
- David W. Tebet - NBC talent exec who hired Johnny Carson.
- Chuck Thompson - entertained Baltimore sports fans for more than 50 years.
- Richy Victor - Chicago TV pioneer who once sold square-inches of Beatles bedsheets.
- George D. Wallace - character actor.
- Al Wasserman - documentary filmmaker & "60 Minutes" producer.
- Laurie West - pioneer UK weatherman who used plain language and symbols of sun, rain and clouds.
- Edward White - colour TV pioneer.
- John F. White - U.S. public TV pioneer.
- Sheldon White - developmental psychologist who helped create "Sesame Street."
Reality TV
Z Cars
Much as every 1960s UK rock musician attended art school, it seems most British actors at one time appeared on the long-running police drama "Z Cars."
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