Don Abney (1923-2000) [Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); Cindy (1978) (TV)] was born in Baltimore, Maryland and became a jazz pianist accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Thelma Carpenter, and the Billy Williams Quartet
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John Russell (1921-1991) [Rio Bravo (1959); tv, Lawman (1958-1962) ]. Enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942. In WW II he was highly decorated for valor and received a battlefield promotion to lieutenant during the battle of Guadalcanal. It was there he was wounded and also contracted a severe case of malaria. He was sent back to the US, hospitalized, and eventually received a medical discharge from the Corps. 
Nipsey Russell (1918-2005) [Wiz on Down the Road (1978); Wildcats (1986)] was born in Atlanta Georgia. He served in Europe as a captain in the United States Army in World War II. Russell got his start in Rock and Roll and other music reviews in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Russell achieved his first major role as Officer Anderson in Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). After being on the show for a year Russell was a mainstay on variety shows, appearing on Laugh-In, The Dean Martin Show (1965), the Jackie Gleason Show, among many others. Russell also appeared in so many small shows in the 1960s as an always unique personality that would liven up almost any program. As the 1970s approached Nipsey Russell became a popular game show panelist, appearing mostly on To Tell The Truth, Match Game PM (1975), and many others. Nipsey was known as Television's Poet Laurete. On such shows like The Tonight Show, and many other very popular talk shows of the day. 
Robert Ryan (1909-1973), [Crossfire (1947); The Battle of the Buldge (1965)], served in the United States Marines as a drill instructor in WWII (winning a boxing championship) and went on to become a key figure in post WWII American film noir and western productions. 
Alfred Ryder (1916-1995) [The Story on Page One (1959); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)] was a radio, television and film actor. Ryder may best be remembered for appearing in over one hundered television shows, including the role of Professor Robert Crater in the first Star Trek episode The Man Trap in 1966. Ryder also appeared as one of the alien leaders in the TV series The Invaders. Ryder began acting at the age of 8 and later went on to study with the likes of Robert Lewis and Lee Strasberg. Ryder joined the Army Air Force during World War II, eventually appearing in the USAAF's gala Broadway stage show Winged Victory in 1943. The following year, he made his movie debut as PFC Alfred Ryder in the film version of the show Winged Victory (1944). After the war he made more films, including director Anthony Mann's classic 1947 film noir T-Men (1947). 
Eddie Saeta (1914-2005) [Riders of the Dawn (1937); This Property Is Condemned (1966)] was an American production manager and assistant director who directed and produced films. A native of Philadelphia, Saeta grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was head of the Columbia Pictures electrical department. At 18, Saeta got a job as Columbia boss Harry Cohn's messenger boy, which led to work as a 3rd assistant director on westerns at Columbia and subsequently Monogram. Following service in World War II in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Saeta returned to Columbia and spent nearly two decades as an assistant director. Subsequently he branched into work as a production manager, and produced and directed a few films as well. He received a Directors Guild Award for his work on the TV movie Brian's Song (1973). 
Albert Salmi (1928-1990) [The Bravados (1958); Breaking In (1989)] was born in Brooklyn, NY, to Finnish parents. After serving in the Army during WWII, he used the GI Bill to study at the Dramatic Workshop of the American Theater Wing and the prestigious Actors Studio. He became a stage actor, very soon landing on Broadway, where his role as Bo Decker in Bus Stop was his biggest stage success. A compromise between the stage and screen was live TV drama, in which he was cast regularly. His portrayal of Bruce Pearson in the "The United States Steel Hour" (1953)'s live 1956 broadcast of Bang the Drum Slowly was heart-tuggingly poignant. Salmi's very first film appearance was a choice role in The Brothers Karamazov (1958), for which he turned down an Oscar nomination. 
Harry Saltzman (1915-1994) [Produced: Call Me Bwana (1963); The Ipcress File (1965)] was a film producer best known for co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli until selling his share of the franchise to United Artists in 1975. He retired from the business at that point with the exception of producing the 1988 British-Italian-Yugoslavian co-production Time of the Gypsies. Saltzman was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada but moved to Britain where he entered the film business producing social dramas such as 1959's Look Back in Anger and 1960's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. He worked for the "OSS" during World War II. 
Telly Savalas (1922-1994) [Kelly's Heroes (1970); The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) which led to tv's "Kojak" (1973-1978)] was born Aristotle Savalas in Garden City, New York to Greek parents, Nicholas and Christina Savalas. He served during World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University, where he was studying psychology. It's not clear if he served overseas. One source indicates he recived a "Purple Heart disability" and was honourably discharged. But other sources say he was severely injured in a car crash in Virginia which may have resulted in a medical discharge. During the early 1950s, Savalas worked for ABC radio and eventually became the executive producer of his own popular talk show, Telly's Coffee House. He was in his thirties when he decided to turn to acting. 
Paul Scofield (1922- ) [The Train (1964); Tell Me Lies (1968).] is an English actor who was born in Sussex. Scofield is not well-known to cinema-goers, despite having won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Man for All Seasons (1966). He began his stage career in 1940, and was soon being compared with Laurence Olivier. He took on all the experience he could handle by joining touring companies and also entertained British troops during World War II. Although his range is considerable, he has tended to be selective, preferring classical roles to those which might have won him more popular acclaim. He has won several awards for his stage appearances, including a Tony for the original stage version of A Man for All Seasons, and was Salieri in the original stage production of Amadeus in 1979. 
George C. Scott (1927-1999) [Anatomy of a Murder (1959); Patton (1970)]. Joined the Marines Corps as a 17-year old in 1945, but the atomic bomb brought an end to World War II before he could see combat. After the war, he was stationed in the prestigious 8th and I Barracks in Washington, D.C. and was a guard at Arlington National Cemetery. 
Fred D. Scott (1918-2002) [Sins of Rachel (1972); Guilty as Charged (1991)] was a Black American character actor. A graduate of Ithaca College and Dillard College, he studied voice culture and performing arts. As a surgical technician for the U.S. Army in World War II, he was decorated for service in the South Pacific. He contracted tuberculosis during the war and was unable to continue plans to become an opera singer. He studied theatre at San Jose State College and began appearing in plays in and around San Francisco. He relocated to Hollywood in the early 1970s and spent the next three decades appearing in commercials, television programs and films. 
Gordon Scott (1926-2007) [Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955); Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)] was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland, Oregon, one of nine children of advertising man Stanley Werschkul and his wife Alice. He grew up in Oregon, where he discovered body-building, which he took up to attract women. He attended the University of Oregon for one semester. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, he served as a military policeman and drill instructor during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1947. For the next six or seven years, he worked at various jobs, mostly delivering soda pop for the beverage company owned by his brother Rafield. An offer of a job as a lifeguard at the Las Vegas Sahara Hotel led him to leave his delivery job. Soon thereafter, a Hollywood talent scout took note of him and signed him to a contract with Sol Lesser, producer of the Tarzan movies. 
Douglas Seale (1913-1999) [Once in a Lifetime (1937) TV; Palookaville (1995)] was born in London, England, the son of Robert Henry Seale and his wife Margaret Law Seale. The classical actor/ producer/ director enjoyed a 65-year transatlantic career that included stage, films and television. He studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and took his first professional curtain bow at London's Embassy Theatre in a production of The Drums Begin in 1934. He then appeared in repertory until the outbreak of World War II. He served with the British Army in 1940 and was commissioned in the Royal Signals. Following demobilization in 1946, Seale joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theater Company for two seasons at Stratford-on-Avon. He extended his noble talents to include stage producing. 
Jackie Searl (1921-1991) was a fairly well-known child actor who never made it to the ranks of a Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartolomew. Jackie Searl nevertheless gained a film following in the 30s. A bratty counterpart to Jane Withers, the blond, freckled, clean-cut Jackie was born in Anaheim, California in 1921 and started on L.A. radio in "The Children's Hour" at the age of three. By the end of the 20's film beckoned and Jackie hit it big playing mean little Sid Sawyer in the early Mark Twain film classic Tom Sawyer (1930). Paramount Pictures promptly signed the youngster up and he followed this with Finn and Hattie (1931), Huckleberry Finn (1931), Skippy (1931), Topaze (1933) and Alice in Wonderland (as The Doormouse) (1933). Infamous at playing sissified brats, obnoxious squealers and sandbox bullies he was a natural scene-stealer and aptly labeled on the Paramount sets as "The Kid Everybody Wants to Spank." He continued playing secondary parts into his teens with roles in Ginger (1935), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), That Certain Age (1938) and Small Town Deb (1941). He joined the service in World War II and tried to resurrect his career following his discharge but had a tough time of it. In the 1960s he played character parts, nominally as minor heavies, in such films as The Couch (1962) and Shotgun Wedding (1963) and on TV dramas. He retired in the 1970s. 
James Seay (1914-1992). The first studio contract for durable, dependable actor James Seay was initially designed for romantic leads after being signed by Paramount in 1940. Caught up in a number of uncredited roles, the actor seemed to fare better as a villain or stern, officious type. Although military service in World War II may have taken away any chance for outright stardom, he compensated in later years by focusing on minor character roles, finding steady employment in late 40s and 50s films as a voice of authority. He was the benign old folks home doctor who expounds on Kris Kringle's mental condition in Miracle on 34th Street (1947), portrayed Col. George Washington during his early military career in When the Redskins Rode (1951), and became a familiar figure in "B" sci-fi classics, notably The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), When Worlds Collide (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Killers from Space (1953), The Beginning of the End (1957), and as the ill-fated officer who is fatally pierced by a humongous hypodermic needle in The Amazing Colossal Man (1957). 
Peter Sellers (1925-1980) was born to a well-off English acting family. His mother and father worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. As a child, Sellers was spoiled, as his parents' first child had died at birth. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served during World War II. After the war he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music (he played the drums) and impressions. Then, all of a sudden, he burst into prominence as the voices of numerous favorites on "The Goon Show" (1951-1960), making his debut in films in Penny Points to Paradise (1951) and Down Among the Z Men (1952), before making it big as one of the criminals in The Ladykillers (1955). Small roles continued throughout the 1950s, but he got his first big break playing the dogmatic union man, Fred Kite, in I'm All Right Jack (1959). The film's success led to starring vehicles into the 1960s but after the relative failure of What's New Pussycat (1965), which was Woody Allen's first film, Sellers embarked on a rapid downfall to "Grade Z" movies in the 1970s, all of which he claimed to have made only because he needed the money. In 1972 he read the book "Being There" and decided to make it into a film. It took him seven years to finally bring it to the screen, but it earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination (he lost to Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of "Superdad" in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)). Being There (1979) proved to be somewhat of a last hurray for Sellers, as he died the following year. His last movie, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), completed just before his death, proved to be another flop. 
Milton Selzer (1918-2006) [The Last Mile (1959); Lady Sings the Blues (1972)] was born in Lowell, Massachusetts but moved with his family while young to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Graduating from Portsmouth High School in 1936, he studied at the University of New Hampshire before serving in the infantry in the Italian campaign during World War II. Moving to New York, he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and The New School in the 1940s and received his first big break with minor roles in the Broadway classical plays Richard III, Julius Caesar and Arms and the Man. In the late 1950s, Selzer turned to film and (especially) to TV's "Golden Age", making an early mark in solid ethnic roles (German, Arab, etc). 
Rod Serling (1924-1975) (Screen Writer) [Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962); The Twilight Zone, tv 1959-1964)]. Serling was a private in the 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila. 
Jacques Sernas (1925- ) [The Red Falcon (1949); La Dolce Vita (1960)]. Lithuanian-born actor Jacques Sernas (aka Jack Sernas) is best known for cutting a fine figure in European spectacles in the 1950s and 1960s. He was raised and schooled in Paris before joining up as a French Resistance fighter during World War II. Captured by the Germans and imprisoned for over a year in Buchenwald, he was eventually freed and began studying medicine in his early post-war years. Acting soon caught his fancy, however, and he made his unbilled debut in the French film Miroir (1947). 
Johnny Seven (1926-) [The Last Mile (1959); The Apartment (1960)] is a prolific American character actor born John Anthony Fetto in the Italian section of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, to Marie and John Fetto. He was the only boy in a family of six children, with sisters Lillian, Terry, Connie, Dolores and Jean. Considering that much of his future acting work consisted of playing tough gangsters and criminals, it may come as a surprise to discover that, until the age of 14, he was a boy soprano. He served 2-1/2 years in the US Army in World War II, with the 187th Gun Battalion in the Pacific, and was bitten by the acting bug when he appeared in several USO shows in the Philippines. He married Edith Piselli on October 8, 1949, and they had two children, John Jr. and Laura. Seven worked in the New York theater community and did much live television until he was brought to Hollywood in 1958 by Universal Pictures to work in their many television series. He has since appeared in more than 600 TV shows, over 25 films, and numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions. In addition to acting, he has also written and directed for the stage (his first play, "Salvage", was written in 1958), television and movies (he produced, directed and starred in a 1964 western, Navajo Run (1964), and has directed several TV shows and shorts since then). He enjoys gardening, golf and all kinds of fishing, ocean, lake and especially fly fishing. 
Doc Severinsen (1927- ) was born Carl Hilding Severinsen in Arlington, Oregon, the son of Minnie Mae and Carl Severinsen, who was a dentist. He was nicknamed "Little Doc" after his father, and had originally wanted to play the trombone. But the senior Severinsen, a gifted amateur violinist, urged him to study the violin. The younger Severinsen insisted on the trombone, but had to settle for the only horn available in Arlington's small music store — a trumpet. A week later, with the help of his father and a manual of instructions, the seven-year-old was so good that he was invited to join the high school band. At the age of twelve, Little Doc won the Music Educator's National Contest and, while still in high school, was hired to go on the road with the Ted Fio Rito Orchestra. However, his stay with the group was cut short by the draft. He served in the Army during World War II. He made his broadcasting debut playing live popular music on radio station KODL in The Dalles, Oregon. 
Mickey Shaughnessy (1920-1985) [Last of the Comanches (1953); The Boatniks (1970)] was born Joseph Michael Shaughnessy in New York City. As a performer, the young Mickey made his bones on the Catskill Mountains tourist resort circuit. During a stint in the Army during World War II, Mickey appeared in a service revue. After being demobilized, he made his living making the rounds of the nightclub circuit with a comedy act. His breakthrough as an actor came with his debut in support of the legendary Judy Holliday and great meat n' potatoes character actor Aldo Ray in George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952). 
Jim Siedow (1920-2003) [The Windsplitter (1971); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)] was a quirky and distinctive character actor who achieved instant cult favorite status with his portrayal of the weary and irascible the Cook in Tobe Hooper's immortal and outstanding horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Siedow was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and first acted in high school drama class. He moved to New York City at age 18 and continued to perform in touring shows for the W.P.A. theater. He served with the Army Air Corps during World War II. Following his tour of duty Siedow then moved to Chicago, Illinois and did radio soap operas. 
Jay Silverheels (1912-1980) [The Girl from Monterrey (1943); Walk the Proud Land (1956)]. Familiar Canadian Indian actor who shot to fame as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the masked man on the US television series The Lone Ranger (1949). A member of the Mohawk tribe, he excelled at wrestling, horse racing, football, boxing, and hockey, and became a renowned lacrosse player. With the help of actor Joe E. Brown, Silverheels obtained work as a stuntman and extra in Hollywood films. Following military service in World War II, Silverheels returned to film work and began landing small, often stereotypical roles as Indian warriors in Westerns. John Huston used him as one of the fugitive Osceola brothers in Key Largo (1948), and Silverheels followed this with the two roles that would define his career, Tonto and the Apache leader Geronimo, whom he would play several times beginning with the Western classic Broken Arrow (1950). 
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