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Jake Lacy is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Pete Miller on the ninth and final season of "The Office," and for his role as Shane on the HBO satire comedy miniseries "The White Lotus," for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. His first main role was as Casey Marion Davenport on the 2010-2011 ABC sitcom "Better with You." He starred with Jenny Slate in the 2014 film "Obvious Child,' and opposite Rooney Mara in the 2015 film "Carol." He played the Olivia Wilde character's love interest in "Love the Coopers" in 2015, and also starred as Nick Beverly on the Showtime series "I'm Dying Up Here."

Penn Jillette was born on 5 March 1955 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989), Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003) and Hackers (1995). He has been married to Emily Zolten Jillette since 23 November 2004. They have two children.

Katie Tharp was born in 1980 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. Katie was a set decorator, known for Going the Distance (2010), Tracers (2015) and Human Giant (2007). Katie was married to Eugene Mirman. Katie died on 29 January 2020 in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.

Randall Nickerson has been working in the film industry since 1987, first as a stage and film actor, before transitioning into cinematography, and ultimately into directing in 2001. Nickerson began his production company, "String Theory Films, LLC" in 2001 and formally incorporated it in early 2016.

After several short documentaries, Nickerson made the leap to his first feature-length film, Ariel Phenomenon (2022). Acting as investigative researcher, cinematographer, and co-editor on this upcoming project, he has plans for several other upcoming films in the near future.

Michael Moschen grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, as a next-door-neighbor. Thus is comes as no surprise that he learned to juggle at age 12. Michael got his first professional jobs with Penn, and the duo worked for a summer at an amusement park. Soon after, his self-discipline manifested itself, and he dropped out of high school. His reasoning was that he was not learning how to teach himself, so he essentially home-schooled himself. He became a street performer, and a founding member of the Big Apple Circus from 1977-1980. Michael has gone on to develop entirely new forms of juggling, taking the art to completely new heights. While most jugglers use three balls, he created a ten-foot triangle in which he stands to bounce the balls all around his body. He studied the fragility of crystal balls and through hours of exploration and practice, developed a method of rolling them over his hands so that they seem to float before him. He minimizes his own presence through blank expressions and dark clothing so as to highlight the unique motions of his props. He constantly finds new means of manipulations of his props, which has lead him into the study of architecture, to serve as a carpenter's assistant, and challenged him to learn dance, martial arts, and acrobatics. He has traveled all over the world in his 24-year career, but prefers to spend time at home with his wife, Danielle Mailer, and their daughter, Isabella.

As his writing partner, Winston Hibler, once put it, "Perhaps Ted's greatest talent was his own unique brand of humor. It was warm, gentle humor; there was never a barb in it. And his was the key, to Ted's whole personality. He was the kindest man I ever knew. He lived with laughter and without malice. He was generous in all things. His talents could be had for the asking. No job was too small, none too big. And this all adds up to the fact that through his talents and his personal virtues. Ted was able to achieve two of the goals he set for himself in life: he made good pictures and he made good friends." Ted Sears was a man of multiple talents. Born in 1900, he spent most of his childhood in New York. As a teenager he attended a trade school in Manhattan where he learned a variety of lettering techniques - since he planned on becoming a sign painter. Even though art and drawing were his first loves, his most lasting interests, early on he convinced himself he would never be an exceptional artist, and he also knew he had to help support his parents and four sisters. However, trying out various jobs was not a problem; he was good at almost everything, and so he lettered title cards for silent movies, worked with trick photography, drew ads

• and even made props for early two-reel comedies, joining silent comic

Charlie Bowers's company, putting together many of the objects Charlie and the other actors used. While on the set, he came up with plot ideas and gags for Charlie's unscripted movies, since he had an innate sense of story that developed quickly. He was young, so were the movies - and he soon turned to an even younger field: the world of film cartoons. Ted had never stopped drawing, discovering that cartoons with their loose, zany characters came naturally to him. This led to work as an animator in various studios - eventually he joined the Max Fleischer organization where he contributed story ideas as well as animation to Betty Boop and many other characters. (In fact, "character" was his favorite word.)

In 1931, Walt Disney hired Ted on a long term contract not as an animator but as a senior writer, (the Disney company's first) and in the twenty-seven years that followed no one ever challenged his position. He had found a niche that suited him, surrounded by the most talented and colorful personalities in animation, writing dialogue and story lines for virtually every important production the Disney Studio made: "Snow White," "Pinocchio," "Bambi," "Dumbo," "Fantasia," "Saludos Amigos," "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland," "Peter Pan" (for which he wrote song lyrics), "Lady and the Tramp," and "Sleeping beauty." As part of the Disney's company's original story department he is one of the men attributed in the creation of storyboarding now an industry standard for not just animated film but also live action. He also co-wrote narration for many of the Disney nature films with Winston Hibler, and later did a number of the Disney TV shows. He had writing credits on perhaps a dozen Oscar and Emmy winning productions.

To amuse himself, Ted still drew for his friends and made props for the plays his daughter appeared in - he also produced his family's Christmas cards which employed his old love for trick photography an special effects - these holiday cards took months to prepare and were awaited with great anticipation by over three hundred recipients. (he lettered the envelopes individually, turning each name into calligraphy.)

When Ted died in the summer of 1958, he left his mark on the Disney films, their quality in part springing from his belief in what he did, his many gifts, and the satisfaction that came from working with the finest talents in the animation business.

Christine Carlo was born on 26 February 1979 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and casting director, known for General Hospital (1963), The Helix... Loaded (2005) and Don't Let Go (2002).

American actress, mainly in small roles. A native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, Dewey attended Smith College as a theatre student. While in college, she married New York theatre and museum director Patric Farrell, who directed the Irish Theatre at Sheridan Square. Together they had a daughter, Patricia, who later developed myasthenia gravis, leading Dewey, then long-remarried, to found the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. The marriage to Farrell was brief and Dewey embarked on a stage career. She appeared in one Broadway flop, "Be So Kindly," in 1937, then was given a contract by Paramount Pictures. She played the wife of Robert Cummings in her first film, Wells Fargo (1937), but her roles quickly diminished in size. In her last film, she played Mrs. Farrell (coincidentally her own married name), the wife of Alan Ladd, in Rulers of the Sea (1939). But by that time, she had remarried, to comic book editor Whitney Ellsworth. She left Hollywood presumably for good and settled with her daughter and new husband in Connecticut. In 1951, her husband took on the duties of producing Adventures of Superman (1952) and the family moved back to Los Angeles. Dewey devoted the rest of her life to her work with the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. Widowed in 1980, Jane Dewey Ellsworth died August 30, 1991, from emphysema.

Nils Taylor was born on 25 September 1979 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Quarries (2016), Beginnings (2008) and Prologue (2010).

Kevin Hassett was born on 20 March 1962 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA.

Marion Herwood Keyes was born on 25 January 1904 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. Marion Herwood was a costume designer, known for Gaslight (1944), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Marion Herwood was married to William O. Keyes. Marion Herwood died on 4 July 2009 in Sequim, Washington, USA.

Seth Brower was born on 24 June 1980 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for Dead Boy Detectives (2024), Doom Patrol (2019) and Black Swan (2010).

Frank Richardson Pierce was born on 21 October, 1881, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, the son of Frank R. and Kitty (or Kittie) A. Pierce. His father had worked as a hardware dealer in Milwaukee before relocating to Seattle in the early 1900s. As a young man Pierce had served for a year and a half in the US Navy as a boatswain's mate, graduated from the University of Washington and worked for the city of Seattle as a clerk stenographer.

After selling his first short story for $40 Pierce dropped out of law school to pursue what would turn out to a lucrative career in writing. Primarily remembered for his westerns, Pierce became one of America's more prolific writers. His career spanned nearly 50 years and produced over 1,500 short stories, 3 novels, and 4 feature films. His popularity was such that over a thousand of his short stories appeared in Argosy and the Saturday Evening Post magazines. A number of his short stories were penned under the pseudonyms Erle Stanly Pierce and Seth Ranger. Pierce had also worked as a photo journalist for Motorcycling and Bicycling Illustrated while traveling on his 1919 Indian Scout motorcycle from the remote villages in Alaska to the small dusty towns along the Mexican/American border. Pierce was a founding member (May 5, 1921) and one time president of the Northwest Writers Association (later named the Seattle Free Lances) as well as a member of the Author League of America, the League of Western Writers and the Authors Guild of America.

According to his obituary, Frank Richardson Pierce was 78 when he passed away in Seattle on 7 January, 1966, but his 1917 draft registration card and the 1900 and 1910 US Census records indicate that he was actually 84. He was survived by his wife, Vivian G Gill, daughter, Dorothy and two sons, Frank Jr. and Frederick. .

Herbert Huncke was born on 9 January 1915 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Huncke (1990), A Fix (2005) and The Burning Ghat (1990). He died on 8 August 1996 in New York City, New York, USA.

Nikolai Bazan is an American Actor who was born and grew up in Massachusetts, with his Filipino mother and his father of Polish/Ukrainian/Scandinavian descent. He is the brother of singer/songwriter Martie Faye.

Nikolai moved to Hollywood in 2019 to pursue his dreams in the industry. He got his first TV appearance on the Disney+ Original "Shop Class" (2020) as a contestant on episode 2 "Hole in Won". He recently filmed his first staring role as JP for "FilAm," a short film (2022). He worked for the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie, "The Fabelmans" (2022) as a boy scout. Nikolai has also worked for various movies, TV series, TV commercials, internet commercials as well as doing some runway modeling. He attended an acting conservatory at the PRO level in Los Angeles, California and commercial and modeling school in Connecticut. Nikolai started acting in church plays when he was two years old. He also appeared in a local business commercial when he was eight years old. He was cast for a runway modeling gig when he was 10 years old.

Nikolai won first place in a commercial print competition, and was also awarded medals for runner up in scene and improv acting, TV commercial, and formal/sports runway modeling competitions.

Besides acting, Nikolai has also received several trophies for his little league baseball championships during his elementary and middle school years.

Arnold H. Clark was born on 5 September 1904 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 13 March 1976 in Pleasantville, New York, USA.

Ryan Maki is a director, writer, editor, producer, actor, wizard, and warrior. He loves to love and he loves to fight. He was born in the land of Greenfield, Massachusetts, the most dangerous place on Earth. From the moment he was born, he made various valiant efforts to restore peace to that war torn land. However, at the age of 2, he realized his efforts were for naught. There was no saving Greenfield, Massachusetts. He knows now, he must continue his fight to help restore cinema to its former glory. He may not have been able to help Greenfield, Massachusetts, but he knows now that he can help the film industry. He will save movies. He will save Hollywood. He will save cinema! Thank you for reading. I love you.

Richard Mealand was born on 2 September 1904 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Always Leave Them Laughing (1949), Studio One (1948) and Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024). He died on 20 February 1958 in New London, Connecticut, USA.

Matthew Roch Brady was born in Greenfield Massachusetts. His Gallic middle name was in honor of Father Roch a priest and family friend who had married his parents. His father was a civil engineer who up and moved the family every 4 years or so from project to project. His nomadic youth stayed in his blood and he continued to wonder after college touring the eastern seaboard in hard rock band based out of Atlanta. When the band wasn't touring Matt held down a myriad of jobs working as a rancher, carpenter, miner and campaign manager for a federal congressional seat. The band broke up in the late nineties and Matt moved to NYC for a year where he met his future wife. Together they decided to try Los Angeles. After a brief stint in advertising Brady tired of office life and went back to work as a miner helping to complete the new aqueduct into San Bernardino. While on this job Brady met director Michael Byrne at a party, shortly after Byrne cast Matt as the lead in his mocumentary No Sleep.

B.J. Lucas was born on 12 December 1977 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for The Great Mistake of Dr. Miles (2014), This Is Hell (2016) and Pool Party (2007).

Aaron Severini was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for Center Stage (2000) and Brighter Days (2003).

Kathy Peiss was born on 25 January 1953 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. She is known for New York: A Documentary Film (1999), American Experience (1988) and Love Lust (2011).