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- Kathryn Kelly is an actress from Atlanta. She began acting in theatre. She studied in Los Angeles at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where she transitioned into her film work. Kathryn is best known for Yellowstone (2020-) and Nashville (2017). Before that worked on Dolly Parton's show Heartstrings on Netflix and The Originals prior to that.
- Actor
- Producer
Robert Hammond Patrick was born on November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, raised there and Boston, Mass., Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. The eldest of five children. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, although dropped out after he took a drama course and became interested in acting. After leaving college, he took a job as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in Lake Erie in 1984. He swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded at the accident site, while he nearly drowned in his attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California. He worked in a bar to supplement his income and even lived in his own car.
After arriving in Hollywood, Patrick had the good fortune to do many movies for Filmmaker Roger Corman. Patrick starred in various direct-to-video television movies, and had a short appearance in Die Hard 2 (1990). His breakthrough role came as the liquid-metal, shape-shifting T-1000 in James Cameron's blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After that, he landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993) and Striptease (1996). His performance in Fire in the Sky caught the attention of Chris Carter, creator of the television series The X-Files (1993). After David Duchovny distanced himself from the series during its seventh season, Patrick was cast as FBI Special Agent John Doggett.
Robert found his way to the small screen when David Chase offered him the role of David Scatino in his award-winning The Sopranos (1999). Robert was a series regular on Season Six of HBO's True Blood (2008) and also appeared in the final season. He had a memorable role in the final season of Sons of Anarchy (2008), did a cameo role on the sitcom Community (2009), and had a supporting role in Season One on Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014) for the El Rey Network. In Spring 2017, it was announced that Robert would have a featured role in Gale Anne Hurd's highly anticipated Amazon series Lore (2017), based on the popular horror podcast. Recent film credits include Universal Pictures' Identity Thief (2013) with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, Warner Brothers' Gangster Squad (2013) in which he played Josh Brolin's squad member going up against Sean Penn as Mickey Cohan, Trouble with the Curve (2012) opposite Clint Eastwood, Lovelace (2013) opposite Sharon Stone and Amanda Seyfried, Universal's remake of Endless Love (2014) with Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde, Focus Features' Kill the Messenger (2014) opposite Jeremy Renner, and The Road Within (2014) with Kyra Sedgwick and Zoë Kravitz and James Gunn's Peacemaker (2022) with John Cena. In 2022, it was announced Robert would be joining Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone (2018) prequel 1923 (2022) with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
In addition to his acting success, Patrick is a lifelong supporter of the military and the USO. The grandson of an Army veteran who served during World Wars I and II and the Korean War, Patrick grew up with a profound respect for troops. Devoted to giving back, he regularly goes on USO hospital visits and has participated in four USO tours in seven countries since 2008, visiting more than 8,100 service members and military families. He is a passionate Harley-Davidson enthusiast and is co-owner of Harley-Davidson of Santa Clarita. He resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Barbara and their two children.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Colt Prattes was born on 28 August 1985 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor, known for Dirty Dancing (2017), The Merry Gentlemen (2024) and This Is Us (2016). He has been married to Angelina Mullins since 28 December 2013.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Becca Tobin was born on 18 January 1986 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Glee (2009), A Song for Christmas (2017) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2009). She has been married to Zach Martin since 3 December 2016. They have one child.- Actor
- Producer
Cody Rhodes was born on 30 June 1985 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Arrow (2012), Warehouse 13 (2009) and WrestleMania 38 (2022). He has been married to Brandi Rhodes since 12 September 2013. They have one child.- Always playing pretend and finding comfort in her own imagination, Navia Robinson began pursuing the performing arts at just age 5. At the age of 6, Robinson's acting career began and her dreams came to fruition, as she starred as Mary Jane Paul's (Gabrielle Union) niece, D'Asia, in the hit BET Network drama, "Being Mary Jane." In early 2016, Nicki Minaj hand-picked Navia, much to her delight, to portray Tasha, Nicki's childhood best friend, for a pilot/ordered to series revolving around her life growing up in Queens, NY entitled, "Nicki," which was shot for ABC's Freeform Network. Shortly after, Robinson's passion took her to the United Kingdom where she starred as Rosie in Netflix's Emmy® Award-winning series, "Free Rein." Once she returned to the United States, she appeared in The CW's critically acclaimed "Vampire Diaries" as Janie.
Perhaps, Navia Robinson is most recognized as Nia Baxter, Raven's Baxter's (Raven Symone) smart and socially conscious teenage daughter, in Disney Channel's live-action comedy, "Raven's Home," a spin-off of the iconic comedy series, "That's So Raven."
Robinson is also the voice of endeared characters Zayla, daughter of Invisibilio and Shocktress in Marvel's "Marvel Rising: Playing With Fire" and Valkyrie on Disney's animated series, "Rocketeers." - Brandon Spink is quickly making a name for himself with buzz-worthy roles in television and film. At the age of seven, he found his passion of performing while starring in local theater productions.
At 10 years old Brandon booked the lead role of Young Johnny Knoxville for the pilot of the same name for ABC.
Brandon took 2016 by storm with the feature Miracles from Heaven the role of Billy, co-starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah; the incredible true story based on author, Christy Beam's memoir.
Next was the role of young Bruce Wayne in Warner Bros. star studded film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zach Snyder.
Followed by Open Road Film's Mother's Day, playing Jennifer Aniston and Timothy Olyphant's son, Peter. The romantic comedy is by acclaimed director Garry Marshall.
In addition to the big screen in 2016, Brandon recurred as Petey in NBC's one-hour drama Game of Silence.
2017 is gearing up to be another busy year for Brandon who guest starred on ABC's Once Upon A Time as Baelfire. Brandon had a recurring role on Epix series Berlin Station, and co-starred in the film Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021).
During his down time, he plays on his hometown all-star baseball team and recently started learning guitar. He resides in Marietta, GA with his parents and two younger brothers. - Actress
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Aria Pullman is an American actor, musician, writer, and show creator. Raised in Upstate, NY, she freelanced for years modeling with some of the world's leading agencies. In addition, she has written and produced several award-winning web series. Her career in acting has garnered her roles on television, including Lucifer, Once Upon a Time, Rescue Me, and Jane the Virgin. Her films include Jersey Boys, Birthmother's Betrayal, and Home Invaders. Her work in songwriting for film and television consists of The Jimmy Kimmel Show, Shameless, Animal Kingdom, and Lucy in the Sky.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
For the past decade, AJ has worked prolifically in independent film, focusing primarily on art house genre fare. He's garnered critical acclaim for performances in such notable films as The Signal (2007), A Horrible Way To Die (Best Actor, Fantastic Fest/Frightfest UK), You're Next, Sun Don't Shine, Grow Up Tony Phillips, The Sacrament, and The Frontier. He is an actor, writer, and producer.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Christopher Allen Wehkamp was born in Marietta, Georgia USA. He is an actor and director known for his work in anime television series, movies and video games. He is best known for his roles in My Hero Academia (2016), Tokyo Ghoul (2014) and Attack on Titan (2013). He graduated from The University of North Texas in 2005. He lives with his family in Dallas, TX.- Actor
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Inspired by an emotional re-run episode of "The Rifleman" at the age of seven, Jeff Rose set his sights on becoming a professional actor and filmmaker. Born and raised in Marietta, Georgia, for ten long years, Jeff could only fantasize about his goals until registering for beginning acting classes during his freshman year of college at Kennesaw State University near his home in Kennesaw,GA.
After honing his skills in professional theatre in the southeast US and around the world, Jeff soon found himself cast in a major supporting role in a popular episode of the hit television series "In the Heat of the Night" alongside two acting legends, Caroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins.
A few film and TV credits later, thanks to Warner Brothers casting legend, Marion Dougherty, and his Orlando, FL talent agent, Helen Gittens, Jeff found himself under consideration for the role of Robin in Tim Burton's Batman sequel, "Batman Returns". At one point he was competing with Michael J. Fox and Shawn Wayans for the role. Though the character of Robin was ultimately not introduced in that film, the experience opened up enough doors for Jeff to relocate to Los Angeles, where he continued to grow as an artist and accumulate credits.
Jeff decided to move back to Atlanta a decade later when his mother suffered a debilitating stroke. A two year self-imposed hiatus from his career during that traumatic period proved to be the catalyst Jeff needed to jump back into acting with a renewed passion. At one point shortly thereafter, Jeff was recurring on four television shows simultaneously -- Army Wives, Drop Dead Diva, Teen Wolf, and Devious Maids.
Jeff is the proud father of two child actors, Brody Rose, who plays the lead character for the first 30 minutes of the Erwin Brothers hit feature film, "I Can Only Imagine", and Kayla Rose, who has a few film and television credits of her own.- Actress
- Writer
Pam Stone was born on 30 September 1959 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Radioland Murders (1994), Coach (1989) and Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998).- Music Artist
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- Composer
Travis Tritt was born on 9 February 1963 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), My Cousin Vinny (1992) and The Mule (2018). He has been married to Theresa Nelson since 12 April 1997. They have three children. He was previously married to Jodi Barrett and Karen Ryon.- Actress
- Producer
Leighanne Reena Wallace was born to Shirley "Dee" and Raymond "Ray" Wallace (R.I.P +). She has two older sisters, Suzanne & Tracy, and Two stepsisters and a late stepbrother after Her parents divorced when she was 3, and her mom remarried Jack Tolbet. Since her parents' divorce, Her dad disappeared from her life until
Growing up, Wallace had an eclectic, active background that involved sports. She participated in jazz dance and gymnastics and enjoyed all outdoor activities such as swimming, golf, tennis, and softball until a broken nose injury in seventh grade. When she was a child, she was booked on Star Search. While growing up, she was the manager for the basketball and tennis teams, voted on the Homecoming Court, and participated in Upstage Risk, Marietta's High School Drama Club, which developed her interest in the Arts (They do five to seven productions a year, including two musicals and the contest play. One of these productions is a night of senior-directed one-acts.), a member of the cheerleading squad for basketball and the Powder Puff football team for two years (this is a team which participates in a special game which is held once a year - the girls play football while the boys are the cheerleaders!). She did other extracurricular clubs, including the Flag Corps and Student Council, before graduating from Marietta High School in 1987.
After graduating high school, she did some theater Before coming to Los Angeles to study more and act. However, she was a top model in the Atlanta area, where she donated her time as a local celebrity to various charities, worked in Public Relations for Coca-Cola Corp., taught gymnastics, and nurtured her love for music through writing songs and singing as a pastime. A native of Marietta, Georgia, this Hollywood ingénue combines her beauty with her business savvy and proves that with will and determination, anything is possible.
Wallace started modeling during her sophomore year of high school. She did some print work, a runway, and a training video for Hooters, a restaurant chain. After high school, she has done print ads for Body for Life and skin products (including Danskin Products) and a couple of layouts for an August 1998 issue of Muscle Magazine.
After moving to Los Angeles, California, in the 90s, Leighanne has a face to remember, and she's been popping up all over the Movie scene! Not too long ago, she was on the acclaimed comedy improvisation group, The Groundlings. As her name becomes known, she continues taking classes while auditioning for new projects to move on to bigger and better things for her acting career. On the small screen, she has starred in everything from commercials with Jerry Seinfeld to music videos with the Backstreet Boys to the short-lived series ABC's Jam Bay to NBC's Days Of Our Lives. In 1991, she played the ex-girlfriend in "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" by Travis Tritt. She played Donna in "As Long As You Love Me," where she met her husband Brian Littrell and appeared in the US version of the Backstreet Boys music video "I'll Never Break Your Heart" as her then-boyfriend's love interest in 1997. Leighanne guest-starred in a Silk Stalkings episode, "Escorting Disaster," as a model named "Devine Farr". Leighanne was living in Los Angeles for only a month when she got the role of college girl "Tanna Stewart" in Wild America with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and has also been seen in such films as My Fellow Americans with Jack Lemmon and James Garner, where she did a sex scene with one of the main characters Carl. She also appeared on Jam Bay, Mortal Combat: Conquest, One Life To Live, and did a Mercedes Benz commercial. Leighanne worked on a new independent film called "Olive Juice," which features cameos by Brian and another Backstreet Boy, A.J. McLean, said to be released in Orlando only. She is the lead character in the movie. She even bought a puppy named Lil' Tyk, which she and Brian had adopted on her audition and landed the job! She recently finished starring in the independent feature "Megalodon," due out July 13, 2004 and is the star of Olive Juice, an independent romantic comedy.
Wallace and her husband appeared on I Heart Nick Carter, along with the other wives and the Backstreet Boys.
She hasn't been in music videos since As Long As You Love Me, and I'll Never Break Your Heart until 2006, Wallace appeared in her husband's music video, Welcome Home (You), with her son, who was 3, in Florida Georgia Line's collaboration video with the Backstreet Boys God, Your Mama and Me in February 2017 No Place with her family on January 4 2019 and her son Baylee's first music video, Don't Knock It later on that same year in July 10, 2019.
On November 30, 2022, with all of the Backstreet Boys families, Wallace, her husband, and their son were in Los Angeles to film the Boys' holiday special "A Very Backstreet Holiday," which was scheduled to air on December 14, 2022.
Leighanne not only starred and co-produced Olive Juice but produced the film's soundtrack with her husband, Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell. This soundtrack was the first project that Brian and Leighanne worked on together, not just as husband and wife but as business partners, as their label and film production company, BriLeigh, came from this collaboration. Leighanne was featured in some Christmas music with husband Brian and son Baylee on two albums: Brian Littrell's Family Christmas on December 6, 2010, and Christmas with the Littrells on December 6, 2011. These albums were just EPs that contained only a few tracks.
While on the set of the Backstreet Boys music video for their single "As Long As You Love Me" in 1997, Leighanne met Brian Littrell, one of the members and CCM singer, when she was showing up for work as one of the girls name Donna. Littrell bump rumps into her, and his heart never lets go. Leighanne didn't know that Brian had spotted her headshot and was anxious to meet her. Neither she nor he was looking for love, and Brian had been out of the dating game for a while, and meeting Leighanne opened a whole new chapter for him. He stated in J-14 magazine about this relationship that he had been out of the dating game for a while, and meeting Leighanne opened a whole new chapter for him. "I had just gotten out of a relationship with a high school sweetheart that didn't work out. I didn't really have my eyes or mind set on anybody. It was something that just happened. If I was looking, I wouldn't have been able to find her." That was how it started. He still refers to their first meeting as 'the day I met the rest of my life.' He then asked her out for Italian food the next day. He dated her for two years ever since, but their relationship grew slowly. As they got to know each other, they spent long evenings talking.
And then, only a few months later, his beloved grandfather died. But meeting Leighanne has been enough to help Brian through his darkest days.
In 1998, the singer fought for his life after he underwent open-heart surgery to correct his heart defect since birth. However, after he twice postponed the life-saving operation to repair the hole in his heart to go on tour with the band, Leighanne gave him an ultimatum: 'If you can't take care of yourself, then you can't take of me, our family, or anything.' Brian admits it was foolish, and Leighanne's decision to walk out on him made him realize how selfish he was.
He proposed to her on Christmas night 1999 after persuading her to join him for an impromptu winter picnic in 32-degree weather at Wallace's mother's house. She admits the rest of the romantic picnic proposal remains in a daze because as soon as she looked into Brian's eyes, she knew exactly what was on his mind. He then shocked her by giving her a stunning four-karat diamond engagement ring with two white diamond trillions flanking in square cut canary-yellow stone, made by Chris Vanoy and Jerry Brickman from Brian's design, and popping the question. It took ten minutes for Wallace to say yes through chattering teeth and for Littrell to slip the ring on her finger, and their engagement, along with the engagement of Kevin Richardson to Kristin Willits, was announced on MTV in February 2000. They married on September 2, 2000, at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Both are committed evangelical Christians. As a recent Rolling Stone Magazine article mentioned, she lives in Atlanta with the famous Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell. On November 26, 2002, Together, they had a son, musician/actor Baylee Thomas Wylee Littrell, who appeared in the Broadway musical Disaster! in 2016 and is now pursuing a similar path as his father's in the entertainment industry. She's working as his manager. Now, as the president of BriLeigh, Leighanne balances her duties as a businesswoman and accessories designer for a now-debunked company she started called "Wylee," actress, mother, and wife.
As of 2023, the family lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, near Atlanta, having been there since 2000, soon after Littrell and his wife got engaged.
On September 11, 2001, Leighanne and the band's crew member, carpenter Daniel Lee, were scheduled to fly from Boston, where the group played their fifth sold-out show the night before, back to Los Angeles aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Littrell canceled her flight the night before to spend more time with her husband, which saved her life, but Lee was one of 92 people killed aboard Flight 11 after it was hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
On June 26, Wallace lost her mother to a heart condition similar to Brian's.- Actor
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Born in Marietta Georgia, Cramer has also lived in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, where he graduated from Franklin High School. After a six year tour of duty in the US Air Force, Cramer came to Hollywood. All the "credits" on his acting resume were fake when he got his first film job on the Joel Silver/ Denzel Washington actioner Ricochet (1991). All his scenes were opposite John Lithgow. Cramer continues to pursue his acting as well as a feldgling writing career. He has recently completed writing a television pilot entitled "The Pentagon" as well as a feature film script entitled "Miller's Prize" about a WWII pilot shot down over northern Italy. This story is based on true events Cramer learned of while stationed 60 miles north of Venice, Italy during his Air Force tour.- Actor
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Hobart Bosworth--pioneering movie director, writer, producer and actor--was born Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, OH. He was a direct descendant of Miles Standish and John and Priscilla Alden on his father's side and of New York's Van Zandt family, the first Dutch settlers to land in the New World, on his mother's side. Bosworth was always proud of his lineage.
After his mother died his father remarried and the young Hobart took a dislike to his stepmother. Convinced that he was "ill used and cruelly treated," as he told an interviewer in 1914, he ran away from home for to New York City. He signed on as a cabin boy on the clipper ship "Sovereign of the Seas" and was soon out at sea.
After his first voyage, a five-month affair that took him from New York to San Francisco, he spent his wages on candy. Sleeping it off on a bench in the park in back of Trinity Church, the young boy did not know that the organ music he was listening to as he dozed was being played by his very own uncle. A Captain Roberts, who found stevedore work for the lad, told him of his uncle's presence in San Francisco. He continued as a sailor, as the sea was in his family's blood, eventually spending three years at sea. "All my people were of the sea and my father was a naval officer," he told an interviewer. He spent 11 months on an old-fashioned whaler plying the Arctic region, then was employed doing odd jobs in San Francisco. After turns as a semi-professional boxer and wrestler, Bosworth tried ranching in Southern California and Mexico, where he learned to become an expert horseman. Finally, his interest in art led him to the stage.
Thinking he'd like to become a landscape painter, a friend suggested that Bosworth work as a stage manager to raise the money to study art. Acting on his friend's advice, Bosworth obtained a job with McKee Rankin as a stage manager at the California Theatre in San Francisco. With the money he made, he undertook the study of painting. Eventually he was pressed into duty as an actor with a small part with three lines. Though he botched the lines, he was given other small roles. Bosworth was 18 years old and on the cusp of a life in the theater.
He signed on with Louis Morrison to be part of a road company for a season as both an actor and as Morrison's dresser, playing William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" and "Measure for Measure" (during his time with the company, Hobarth and another writer wrote a version of "Faust" that Morrison used for 20 years in repertory). By 1887 he was acting at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, and became proficient enough on stage to give Shakespearean recitals in costume the following year. He had acted almost all of the famous characters in the Shakespearean canon by the time he was 21 years old, though he admitted that he was the worst Macbeth ever.
Bosworth eventually wound up in Park City, UT, where he was forced to work in a mine, pushing an ore wagon in order to raise money. He escaped the pits to tour with magician Hermann the Great as the conjurer's assistant for a tour through Mexico. For the first time in eleven years, the 21-year-old Bosworth met his father. Hobarth recalled, "[H]e looked at me and said 'Hum! I couldn't lick you now, son.'" They never met again.
Bosworth arrived back in New York in December 1888, and was hired by Augustin Daly to play Charles the Wrestler in "As You Like It." He did so well in the role that Daly kept him on. Bosworth remained with Daly's company for 10 years, in which he played mostly minor parts. Seven times while he was with the company it made foreign tours, playing in Berlin, Cologne, London, Paris and other European cities.
Eventually, being kept in small parts eroded his confidence, and Bosworth left Daly to sign on with Julia Marlowe, who cast him in leads in Shakespearean plays. Just as Bosworth began to taste stage stardom in New York, he was struck down with tuberculosis, a very serious ailment in the 19th century. Bosworth was forced to give up the stage, as he was not allowed to toil indoors. Though he made a rapid recovery, he returned to the stage too quickly and suffered a relapse. For the rest of his working life he had to balance his acting with periods of rest so as to keep his T.B. under control.
Bosworth re-established himself as a lead actor on the New York stage, appearing opposite the famous actress Minnie Maddern Fiske (Mary Augusta Davey) in the 1903 Boradway revival of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler." He also appeared that year on the Great White Way as the lead in "Marta of the Lowlands," which was produced by Harrison Grey Fiske, Mrs. Fiske's husband. The role propelled him to Broadway stardom. However, he was forced again to give up the stage when he lost 70 pounds in ten weeks.
Moving to Tempe, AZ, to partake of the salubrious climate improved his chances of battling T.B., and eventually he got the disease under control. While he was not actually an invalid, he was forced to live like one and remain in a warm climate lest he suffer a relapse. The T.B. robbed him of his voice, but since he was no longer on stage, it didn't matter. There was a new medium for actors: motion pictures. Bosworth moved to San Diego, which had a reputation of having the most perfect climate in the continental United States, and in 1908 was contracted to make a film by the Selig Polyscope Co. Shooting was to be down in the outdoors, and he did not have to use his voice, which was in a poor condition. The arrangement was perfect for him. "I believe, after all, that it is the motion pictures that have saved my life," he recounted less than a decade later. "How could I have lived on and on, without being able to carry out any of my cherished ambitions? What would my life have meant? Here, in pictures, I am realizing my biggest hopes." Signing with Selig, Bosworth eventually spearheaded the movie company's move to Los Angeles. He is widely credited with being the star of the first movie made on the West Coast. Due to his role in pioneering California for the film industry, Bosworth often was referred to as the "Dean of Hollywood." He wrote the scenarios for the second and third pictures he acted in, and directed the third. According to his own count, he eventually wrote 112 scenarios and produced 84 pictures for Selig. Bosworth was attracted to Jack London's work due to his out-of-doors filming experience and the requirements of his health, which obviated acting in studios. "In all my reading I have never come across better material for motion picture plays than Jack London's stories, and I hope to go right through the whole lot."
In 1913 he formed his own company, Hobart Bosworth Productions Co., to produce a series of Jack London melodramas. He produced, directed and starred in the company's first picture, playing Wolf Larsen in The Sea Wolf (1913), with London himself appearing as a sailor. The movie was released in the U.S. by W.W. Hodkinson Corp. D.W. Griffith also released a Jack London picture earlier that year, Two Men of the Desert (1913), but Bosworth followed up "The Sea Wolf" with The Chechako (1914), with Jack Conway playing the lead as Smoke Bellew, the title character of the eponymous London novel the movie is based on. "The Chechako" and some of the subsequent Boswoth-London pictures were distributed through Paramount, the releasing arm of Famous Players-Lasky.
Conway also starred in the Bosworth-directed follow-up The Valley of the Moon (1914), in which Bosworth had a supporting role. He also appeared as an actor in John Barleycorn (1914), which he co-directed with J. Charles Haydon. He produced, directed, wrote and acted in Martin Eden (1914) and An Odyssey of the North (1914), playing the lead in the latter, which was released by Paramount. He finished up the series by producing, directing and playing the lead in the two-part "Burning Daylight" series: Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska (1914) and Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Civilization (1914), both of which were released by Paramount.
Bosworth hooked up with the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co., making its Los Angeles facility on North Occidental Boulevard his headquarters. Subsequently Bosworth Inc. and Oliver Morosco Photoplay were absorbed by Paramount in 1916. Between 1913 and 1921 Hobart Bosworth Productions produced a total of 31 pictures, most of which starred Bosworth. The company ceased operations after producing The Sea Lion (1921).
The merger with Paramount ended the period in Bosworth's creative life where he was a major force in the motion picture industry, which was undergoing changes as the industry matured and solidified. He directed his last picture even before the merger, The White Scar (1915), which he also wrote and starred in for Universal Film Manufacturing Co. After his own production company wound up, Hobart Bosworth began playing supporting roles as an actor. He divorced his first wife, Adele Farrington, in 1919, the year after their son George was born.
He survived the transition to sound. Aside from appearing in Warner Bros.' showcase film Show of Shows (1929), his talking picture debut proper was in the short subject A Man of Peace (1928) for Vitaphone, while his first sound feature was Vitaphone's Ruritania drama General Crack (1929), starring John Barrymore.
Though he appeared in small roles in A-list films, including some classics, Bosworth primarily made his living as a prominently billed character actor in "B" westerns and serials churned out by Poverty Row studios. In his roles in A and B pictures, he typically was typecast as a fatherly type, such as dads, clergymen, judges, governors and the like, though occasionally he got to play a heavy. His most memorable roles included playing John Gilbert's father in both King Vidor's classic The Big Parade (1925) and Clarence Brown's A Woman of Affairs (1928), and Conrad Nagel's father in Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930). He also appeared in the Al Jolson vehicle Mammy (1930), directed by Michael Curtiz, and in the Little Rascals' only feature film, General Spanky (1936) (a flop).
In addition to Vidor, Brown and Curtiz, Bosworth worked with other great directors, including Ernst Lubitsch (in support of John Barrymore in Eternal Love (1929)), D.W. Griffith (playing Gen. Robert E. Lee in Abraham Lincoln (1930)), 'Frank Capra' (in Dirigible (1931)) and Lady for a Day (1933)) and John Ford (headlining Hearts of Oak (1924), starring in Hangman's House (1928) and playing the Chaplain in support of Will Rogers in Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)).
Bosworth had a featured role in the early science-fiction movie Just Imagine (1930) and played Chingachgook in support of star Harry Carey's Hawkeye in Mascot Pictures' serial The Last of the Mohicans (1932). As the sound era wore on, he was reduced to bit parts, frequently uncredited, in such A-pictures as the W.C. Fields comedy Million Dollar Legs (1932) and the Errol Flynn western They Died with Their Boots On (1941). He kept working until the year before his death, appearing in six films in 1942, including an uncredited bit role as a clergyman in support of Barbara Stanwyck in The Gay Sisters (1942), his penultimate picture. His last film was Universal Pictures' western Sin Town (1942), starring Constance Bennett and Broderick Crawford, which was advertised with the intriguing tagline "The Glory Hole of the Booming Oil Towns!"
Altogether, Hobart Bosworth acted in over 250 movies from 1908 to 1942, directed 44 known pictures from 1911 to 1915, and wrote 27 & produced 11 known pictures from 1911 to 1921. His actual count might be hundreds more.
Hobart Bosworth, the "Dean of Hollywood," died on December 30, 1943 of pneumonia in Glendale, CA. He was 76 years old. He was survived by his second wife, Cecile, and his son George.- Actor
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Thompson Blake is an American actor, dramatically trained and with an inherent comedic flair. His performances are often described as kinetic yet subtle, deeply rooted and explosive. Born and raised on the outskirts of Atlanta, Thompson moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduating high school. Today, he maintains a presence on both coasts.- Gabriel Chung was born on 13 January 2003 in Marietta, Georgia. He is an actor, known for May December (2023), Extraverting and The Heist.
- Until 2005, Randall's acting career was confined to his soccer field and school antics - the world was his stage! After a voice teacher discovered his musical talent and he won two overall awards at a national talent event for acting, commercial modeling and singing, Randall suddenly found himself in Hollywood.
His first TV role was as Colby Bates, the final case on the final episode of Judging Amy in 2005. He also performed in numerous commercials before landing the recurring role of "Lyle," "Claire's" brother in the NBC adventure/drama, Heroes, in 2006.
Randall's father appeared in two movies in the 1990's, and his sister, Elisabeth, sings and has performed numerous leading roles on stage. She currently attends the University of Georgia. Randall lives in Los Angeles.
Randall still loves to play a variety of sports, sing, play the guitar and throw cards at lightning speed (to the dismay of his mother.) He is also a whiz at chess, math and video games!
He is represented by Coast to Coast Talent Group in Los Angeles. - Actor
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Adam Fleming was born on 23 February 1979 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor, known for Winter's Tale (2014), Marci X (2003) and Dare (2005).- Actor
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A mainstay in the former wrestling organization, World Championship Wrestling, where he was employed with them since the age of 18. During his stint, he won the organization's tag team titles multiple times with different partners such as 2 Cold Scorpio, The Patriot, Scotty Riggs, and Shane Douglas. A long time face, he turned heel in 1996 and joined the infamous megastable, The New World Order. When WCW was acquired by its main competitor, World Wrestling Entertainment in 2001, Bagwell's contract was one of the ones picked up. He only made two appearances on WWE television before being released. Subsequently, he has been wrestling on the independent circuit and made a televised appearance in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling to endorse his former WCW alum Sting.- Actress
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Jaimie Kelton was born on 25 July 1987 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Happy! (2017), The Octonauts (2010) and Fairy Tale Forest.- The minor Ohio-born star of a few late 40s second-string westerns, James Warren is hardly remembered at all except maybe to trivia enthusiasts. Tall, taciturn, lean and durably handsome, he certainly had what it took. Jim worked as an illustrator in New York with his art at one time appearing in Life, Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post. While studying at the Pratt Institute of Art in New York, an MGM talent scout spotted the strapping actor whose looks and attitude somewhat resembled Gary Cooper.
In Hollywood from 1942, he was featured in about 20 pictures over a 3-year period but nothing much happened. While some of these pictures were higher quality pictures, such as Cry 'Havoc' (1943) and See Here, Private Hargrove (1944), Jim appeared unbilled in nearly all of them. MGM did not pick up his option, but RKO liked what it saw and took a chance on him heading up a series of Zane Grey westerns, including Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945), Sunset Pass (1946) and Code of the West (1947). Again, he met with lukewarm results and eventually he retired to Hawaii, returning full-time to his first passion - painting, especially watercolors. He died in 2001. - Althea Flynt was born on 6 November 1953 in Marietta, Ohio, USA. She was married to Larry Flynt. She died on 27 June 1987 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Tamar "Temi" Le Anne Epstein (also known as Tammy) is a former child actress, active in the middle 80s. Her best known movie is in Friday the 13th Part VI (1986), but her more remarkable role was the one of "young Ashton Main" on "North and South" (1985).
Epstein is a graduate of Northwestern University. On September 3, 2000 she married Evan Levy and she is using name Temi Epstein Levy. They are the parents of Leanna Rose, born December 1, 2003.
She is currently (2009 and earlier) a SAT Instructor of a Jewish community in Atlanta.