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- Sawyer Sweeten was born on 12 May 1995 in Brownwood, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002) and Even Stevens (2000). He died on 23 April 2015 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Music Artist
- Actor
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Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, to Wilma Artie (Hukel), a teacher and gospel singer, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands. In 1970, he moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway musicals "Hair", "Rockabye Hamlet" and "The Rocky Horror Show," and Off Broadway in "Rainbow", "More Than You Deserve", "National Lampoon Show" and the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of "As You Like it;" as well as other productions at the famed New York Public Theatre. He made his film debut with a memorable role in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
In 1977, he and lyricist Jim Steinman released an operatic rock album called "Bat Out Of Hell"; the record was huge and has sold 50,000,000 copies worldwide and is tied with AC/DC for the 2nd best selling record of all time. The tour and promoting the album took a toll on Meat Loaf's voice and left him unable to sing for 2 years, but with months of rehabilitation, he was able to get back in the studio and record the album "Dead Ringer". Meat Loaf stayed in the dark through the 1980s in the US, recording 4 records which got very little airplay or high chart positions in the US but continued to have major chart success in Europe and Australia. The 1981 Single "Dead Ringer for Love", a duet with Cher, was a top 10 single in many countries outside the US, but which American radio refused to play.
Meat Loaf had many film and TV roles, including the lead character Travis Redfish in Roadie (1980); a pilot in Out of Bounds (1986); in The Squeeze (1987) with Michael Keaton; and Fred in Focus (2001) (based on the Arthur Miller book by the same name), with Laura Dern and William H. Macy. When Meat Loaf and Steinman got back together in 1993, they delivered a powerful sequel, "Bat Out Of Hell II", which went to #1 in the US and UK and 26 other countries. Bat II sold over 22,000,000 copies.
He appeared in many films, including Crazy in Alabama (1999), Formula 51 (2001) (with Samuel L. Jackson), and Fight Club (1999) (with Brad Pitt). TV credits included guest starring roles as a soldier being held prisoner in Vietnam in Lightning Force (1991), a newspaper reporter in the hit series Glee (2009), a slick landlord of a restaurant who ends up on the menu in HBO series Tales from the Crypt (1989) a blacksmith on Showtime's Dead Man's Gun (1997), as fur trader Jake in Masters of Horror (2005) episode Pelts (2006), in House (2004) as caring husband Eddie, and, most recently, in the supporting role of Doug in the SYFY series Ghost Wars (2017). Hugh Laurie (star of "House") played piano on the song "If I Can't Have You" on Meat Loaf's album "Hang Cool Teddy Bear", which was produced by award-winning music producer Rob Cavallo. (Jack Black also sang on the album.)
Marvin Lee Aday died on January 20, 2022 in Austin, Texas from COVID-19 complications.- Actress
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A bizarre, gloriously one-of-a-kind Hollywood gypsy and self-affirmed outcast, San Francisco-born actress Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer) was a teenager when she made her stage debut in "Time Out for Ginger" in 1962. A product of the entertainment industry, her father was a top agent at one time with the William Morris firm. She built up her resumé in summer stock and regional plays usually cast in standard ingénue roles. Her nascent career took an abrupt shift in direction, however, when, as a member of New York's Lincoln Repertory Company, she was cast in an array of seamy, salty-tongued, highly dysfunctional character parts. After striking performances on and off Broadway in such fare as "The Rimers of Eldritch" (1967), "A Cry of Players" (1968), "The Time of Your Life" (1969) and "Camino Real" (1970) Hollywood took keen notice of this special talent and, in the early 1970s, began to cast her in their more offbeat projects.
In only her fourth film, Susan earned an Academy Award nomination for her powerhouse portrayal of a cynical, low-life boozer girlfriend opposite Stacy Keach's has-been boxer in John Huston's potent but highly depressing Fat City (1972). Pulling out all the stops after this, she continued to show her fearless attraction toward the dark side throughout the late 1970s with flashy roles in lesser quality material such as The Killer Inside Me (1976), Andy Warhol's Bad (1977), Islands in the Stream (1977), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), and September 30, 1955 (1977) as various harridans and grotesques. The 1980s proved no different with manic behavior on full display in Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), Forbidden Zone (1980), Liar's Moon (1981), Fast-Walking (1982), Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981), Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and underground director John Waters' more mainstream film Cry-Baby (1990), many of which have now achieved cult status.
Toned down a bit for TV, she nevertheless demonstrated in both the one-season series Open All Night (1981) and on MacGruder and Loud (1985) that she wasn't about to change. When her TV and movie career started to simmer down, the Los Angeles-based actress opted for the avant-garde stage with such productions as "Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down" (1986), "Landscape of the Body" (1987), "The Geography of Luck" (1989) and her trenchant one-woman piece "My Rotten Life: A Bitter Operetta" (1989), which she performed over a long period of time.
Real-life tragedy struck in late April of 2000 when Susan contracted a near-fatal illness. Both of her legs had to be amputated below the knee as a result of multiple blood clots due to a rare blood disease -- thrombocythemia. Never say die, she valiantly tried to maintain a positive outlook, and continued to perform on occasion while going through rehabilitation. She also spent time writing and painting before passing away on June 16, 2012. A wild, boisterous trooper, she was the definitive underground raconteur for those who desired the more sordid side of Hollywood.- Billy Miller was born on 17 September 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), General Hospital (1963) and American Sniper (2014). He died on 15 September 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Cody Longo was an American actor and musician. The early stages of his career began onstage before eventually moving to Los Angeles to pursue film and television. He studied psychology and film at UCLA.
Cody had various film and television roles since he started his professional career in 2009. He was a singer/songwriter who broke into the Billboard Top 100 charts in 2014 with his song "She Said", which charted #3 along with his debut album. He was a music supervisor and executive producer on various film and television projects. He had his hand in charities and pushed to keep both art programs in schools domestically, and continue to help build housings that provides schooling for children around the world. He headed his own non-profit LiveAlive, and was heavily involved with Make a Wish foundation and Pencils of Promise.
Cody relocated to Nashville, Tennessee to write and produce music. He co-founded and served as chief music executive officer of Circle 11 Entertainment, a company that would help create and mold up-and-coming talent. He was poised to return to acting in 2023 before his untimely death.- Actor
- Producer
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Heath Freeman was born on 23 June 1980 in the USA. He was an actor and producer, known for NCIS (2003), ER (1994) and Skateland (2010). He died on 14 November 2021 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Actor
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American leading man of suave or sinister roles. A collateral relative of George Washington and William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, Scott was the son of a wealthy surgeon. Intending to follow his father into medicine, Scott studied at the University of Texas, but found he preferred the theater. He dropped out of college and signed on as a cabin boy on a freighter bound for England. There he found work in provincial repertory, gaining confidence and skill. Returning to Texas, he married actress Elaine Anderson and became active in local theater in Austin. He and his wife were spotted in a play there by Alfred Lunt, who recommended them to the producers of New York's Theatre Guild. Thus, Scott made a successful entry into the Broadway stage, appearing in several successes. In one of them he was noticed by Jack L. Warner, who signed him to a film contract and introduced him to film audiences in the title role of The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). He was well received in the part of the mysterious and debonair scoundrel and seemed destined for a top-level career in movies. Jean Renoir next cast the Texan in a touching and sensitive role in his classic The Southerner (1945). Though he received great acclaim for his performance, Scott was not particularly well promoted by Warners. His profile was immediately reversed by his well-received performance as the cad in Mildred Pierce (1945), which seemed likely to cement him as a star. However, it also led to his typecasting as a portrayer of amoral characters, and his subsequent films declined in prestige. In 1950, a divorce and a rafting accident, in which he was badly injured, sent him into a depression. Subsequently, he married actress Ruth Ford and began to concentrate more on stage and television work. Although he continued to work in films, including one for director Luis Buñuel, Scott never quite reclaimed the level of stardom that he'd achieved in the mid-1940s. In 1965, he was stricken with a brain tumor. Despite surgery, he succumbed in October of that year, at 51. He was buried in Austin, Texas.- Actor
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Johnny Hardwick was born on 31 December 1958 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for King of the Hill (1997), Natural Selection (1999) and The Collegians Are Go!! (1999). He died on 8 August 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Gary Poulter was born on 16 September 1959 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Joe (2013). He died on 19 February 2013 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) was Richard LeParmentier's third film after moving to Britain from the United States in 1974. Richard has appeared in over fifty films and TV shows. He used to reside in Bath, UK, and worked as a screenwriter. He also developed a comedy-drama series for the BBC and wrote a feature film.
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Excellent and engaging Texas-born character actor Lou Perryman never became a household name, but he nonetheless proved to be a substantial and delightful asset to the handful of movies he appeared in throughout the years. Perryman first became involved in the film business back in 1961 while on leave from the US Army. After getting out of the Army, Lou in 1968 worked as a production manager at the Texas Pavilion at the World's Fair in San Antonio and worked as a cinematographer, sound man and production manager at the Filmhouse in Austin from 1969 to 1971. In addition, Perryman worked as a sports cinematographer for both NCAA and ABC TV from 1969 to 1977. Lou was outstanding as Claude in the wonderful seriocomic indie sleeper gem "Last Night at the Alamo" (1984). Alternately funny and pitiable, Perryman as the despondent and excitable Claude spends a sizable amount of his screen time angrily (and profanely) berating his estranged wife on the phone while making game, albeit futile attempts at reconciling with her. Perryman brought a lovely, touching pathos and rueful, rumpled dignity to the role of Claude that's a true joy to behold. Lou was likewise memorable and personable as affable radio station engineer L.G. McPeters in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2" (1986). (Perryman worked behind the scenes on the classic '74 original as an assistant cameraman.) Moreover, Perryman had nice small parts as a hostile redneck bar patron in "The Blues Brothers" (1980), a construction worker in "Poltergeist" (1982), and the sheriff Hilary Swank relates in flashback what happened to her to in the acclaimed award-winning indie hit "Boys Don't Cry" (1999). Among the plays Lou appeared in are "The Time of Your Life," "Fool for Love," "The Night Hank Williams Died," and the especially well-received "In the West" (Perryman also co-wrote this latter play). He also acted under the alternate names of Lou Perry and Louis Perryman. Lou was tragically murdered in his home in South Austin, Texas on April 1, 2009. Lou Perryman was 67 years old. He's survived by his daughter Jennifer.- Paul Alan Partain was born on November 22, 1946 in Austin, Texas. Paul first started acting in his junior high school days, he was a member of the drama club and acted on a regular basis in school plays. Partain served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam war. After finishing his tour of duty, he returned to America and continued his acting career. Paul worked at an electronics manufacturing plant during the day, and acted in dinner theatre at night. Partain was laid off from his day job in the fall of 1972. He auditioned for the minor role of ranch hand Willy in Sidney Lumet's Lovin' Molly (1974) and got the part.
Paul gave a memorably obnoxious performance as the extremely whiny, hateful, and unsympathetic invalid Franklin Hardesty in the terrifying cult horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). He had small parts as a member of Peter Fonda's motorcycle crew in the hugely enjoyable car chase drive-in Satanic horror winner Race with the Devil (1975) and as Tommy Lee Jones's brother-in-law in the excellent revenge action thriller Rolling Thunder (1977). Alas, Partain's acting career stalled in the 1980s. Paul began acting in films again in the 1990s, when he made a cameo appearance as a hospital orderly in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), and portrayed a Militia of Texas minister in Burying Lana (1997). Partain worked as a regional sales manager for the Zenith Electronics Corporation. Paul died of cancer at age 58 on January 28, 2005 in Austin, Texas. - Actress
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This saucy and engaging Tennessee born-and-bred brunette beauty came into the world on March 2, 1913, the daughter of John Thomas Weaver and Ellen Martin, both non-professionals. She attended private and high schools while growing up and attended the University of Kentucky and the University of Indiana. Showing early signs of a musical talent, she instinctively made use of her beauty and singing capabilities as she strove to find a place for herself in the entertainment business.
Paying her dues as a band singer, model, and stage performer (with the McCauley Stock Company and in Billy Rose's Shrine Minstrels), Marjorie made an inauspicious film debut in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) in an uncredited bit part. 20th Century Fox saw something special in her, however, and signed her up in 1936. Her first few years were uneventful playing a round of alluring bit parts as chorus girls and secretary/receptionist types. Moving up the credits ladder she found lead and second lead femme roles coming her way, typically essaying the resourceful but wholesome daughter, paramour or "girl Friday" type opposite a number of virile and handsome leading men, including Ricardo Cortez in The Californian (1937); Tyrone Power in Second Honeymoon (1937); Warner Baxter in I'll Give a Million (1938); John Barrymore in Hold That Co-ed (1938); and Cesar Romero in The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939). In the comedy Sally, Irene and Mary (1938), Alice Faye, Joan Davis and Marjorie made up the distaff trio of starry-eyed hopefuls (Marjorie played "Mary"), while providing lovely distraction in a couple of The Ritz Brothers vehicles -- Life Begins in College (1937) and Kentucky Moonshine (1938). One of her best parts came opposite Henry Fonda as Mary Todd to his Abe Lincoln in the quality bio-drama Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). She was also top-billed in such programmers as Murder Among Friends (1941) and Man at Large (1941). Most of her assignments, however, were relegated to "B" pictures and following co-star roles in two "Charlie Chan" and three "Michael Shayne" mysteries, Marjorie left Fox (in 1942) by choice and free-lanced. Her rating did not improve much, however, although she was seen to good advantage in the serial The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944). She made her last inconsequential movies with Fashion Model (1945) and Leave It to Blondie (1945).
Marjorie decided to retire from the business in 1945 and, save for an unbilled part (by accident) in We're Not Married! (1952) over at Fox, that was all she wrote. Married to Don Briggs in 1943, she and her husband had a son and daughter, Joel and Leigh, and later owned and operated a classy liquor establishment in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. She died following a stroke in 1994.- Actor
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Peter Marquardt was born on 1 July 1964 in the USA. He was an actor and producer, known for El Mariachi (1992), Desperado (1995) and Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003). He died on 19 July 2014 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Paige Heard was born on 1 October 1956 in Midland, Texas, USA. She was married to David C. Heard. She died on 3 May 2020 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Freeman Morse was born on 16 February 1926 in Pampa, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Sky Commando (1953), Battle of Rogue River (1954) and The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957). He was married to Lucille Temple Hedges and Marion Ross. He died on 25 December 1993 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Roy Garber was born on 4 November 1964. He died on 17 January 2014 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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- Composer
- Stunts
Robert Jacks was born on 9 August 1959 in Monterey, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), A Troll's Bridge (2002) and Scary Movie (1991). He died on 8 August 2001 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Writer
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- Actor
James A. Michener was born on 3 February 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Adventures in Paradise (1959), South Pacific (1958) and Return to Paradise (1953). He was married to Mari Michener, Vange Nord and Patti Koon. He died on 16 October 1997 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Chloe Trueheart was an actress, known for Whip It (2009), Leave It on the Track (2013) and Bar Rescue (2011). She died on 11 August 2022 in Austin Texas, USA.
- Sally Ann Richards was born in 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for That Girl (1966), Breaking Point (1963) and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969). She was married to John Kelso. She died on 9 August 2005 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Marilyn Buferd was born on 30 January 1925 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Queen of Outer Space (1958), Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba! (1949) and The Unearthly (1957). She was married to Milton Stevens, Hans E. Orton and Franco Barbaro. She died on 27 March 1990 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Robert Shaw was born on 15 September 1915 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Son of the Guardsman (1946), 20, 000 Men a Year (1939) and Adam Had Four Sons (1941). He was married to Mary Sue Mills. He died on 3 January 2005 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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- Production Manager
Gary Kent was born on a wheat ranch at Walla Walla, Washington, the son of Arthur E. and Iola Kent. He graduated from Renton High School, Renton, Washington, and attended the University of Washington for one quarter, where he studied journalism, played football and pole-vaulted on the track team. He dropped out of college and entered the Naval Air Corps in 1952, where he wrote promotion and publicity for the Navy's elite flying team, The Blue Angels. After his stint in the military Gary began a career in theatre, working in productions throughout the South as writer, director and actor. He is an alumnus of both the Playhouse and Alley Theatres, Houston, Texas.
In l955 Kent moved to Hollywood with wife Joyce and son Greg, where he carved out a career in motion pictures. Over a 40-year period he has worked with such luminaries as Jack Nicholson, Penny Marshall, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Bruce Willis and Garry Marshall. He has directed action and supplied special effects for, among others, directors Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma, Richard Rush and Monte Hellman. He was Unit Production Manager on the Academy Award-nominated Phantom of the Paradise (1974). In the late 1980s he wrote and directed Rainy Day Friends (1985), which won Best Special Stunt in a Motion Picture at the International Stuntman Awards. In l997 his original screenplay, "Where's Bassett's Body?", won 1st Place, Outstanding Script by a Texas Writer, at the Lone Star Screenplay Competition in Dallas. In July of 2000 he was one of two Guests of Honor at the Bicknell International Film Festival, Bicknell, Utah, and is listed in Who's Who In Entertainment. He has six children: Greg, a theatre director; Colleen, a teacher; and Andrew, an attorney, by first wife Joyce Peacock; Chris, a musician; Alex, a paralegal; and Michael, a visual artist, by second wife Rosemary Gallegly.- Writer
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A comic book stylist noted for his horror illustrations, Wrightson helped revamp the horror comic in the 1970s. He combined a modern sensibility with a distinctive drafting ability rare to the then-moribund industry, bridging the gap between the previous decade's giddy optimism and the explosion of more sophisticated content ahead. Among his career high points were co-creating the Swamp Thing character for DC Comics and adapting classic horror tales for Warren Publications. He later worked in Hollywood production design.- Writer
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- Visual Effects
Monyreak "Monty" Oum was an Asian American web-based animator and writer. A self-taught animator, he scripted and produced several crossover fighting video series, drawing the attention of internet production company Rooster Teeth, who hired him. He was also the original creator, director, writer, lead animator and a voice actor of RWBY. He worked for Rooster Teeth Productions, where he originally started animating the popular Machinima series Red vs. Blue in its eighth season. He had also worked on several individual fan projects, such as Dead Fantasy and Haloid, although he had stated that his main goal was to create an original series, which came to pass with RWBY. He voiced Lie Ren.
Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing the hit video Haloid in 2007 on GameTrailers, which a Destructoid article called "the most interesting Halo-related fan movie in existence". The video has received more than 4 million views and is the most watched user-created content on the site. In October of the same year, he released the first video in his Dead Fantasy fan series which, like Haloid, featured fantastical combat sequences between characters from two different established games series (this time Dead or Alive and Final Fantasy). He released five episodes of Dead Fantasy, a preview of an additional episode and two music videos featuring the heroines of the series. After Oum announced that he had started working for Rooster Teeth, the series was put on hold. Oum suffered a severe allergic reaction during a medical procedure and fell into a coma on January 22, 2015. He died on February 1, 2015.
He was born on June 22nd, 1981 in Providence, Rhode Island. According to Monty Oum on his twitter, he said that he was "Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese" of descent. He dropped out of high school around 2002 and started creating fan videos. In 2007, he used model from Halo 2 and Super Smash Bros. Melee to have a Spartan (Halo) and Samus Aran (Metriod) fight in the "ultimate showdown". Afterwards, he worked at Midway Games as a combat designer and then worked at Namco Games as a combat designer and animator for Afro Samurai. In 2009, he met Burnie Burns at a SDCC International panel. A year later at PAX East 2010, he was announced to be working at Rooster Teeth. He started to animate in Season 8 of the show that started Rooster Teeth, Red v Blue. After working hours on end on RvB, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum decided to give him his own project. This project would later be known as RWBY. Monty brought on Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross to write the animated series. RWBY premiered in 2012. On January 22, 2015, Monty was rushed to the hospital due to a severe allergic reaction. The doctors operated on him and Monty fell into a coma for 10 days. He passed away at 4:24 P.M on February 1, 2015.- Ann Richards was born on 1 September 1933 in Lakeview, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Home on the Range (2004), Murphy Brown (1988) and Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995). She was married to David Richards. She died on 13 September 2006 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Bill Wittliff was born in Taft, a small town in south Texas, in 1940. After his parents divorced, he and his brother Jim moved with their mother to Gregory, Texas, where Mrs. Wittliff ran a small telephone office during World War II (these experiences provided the basis for "Raggedy Man," Wittliff's feature film). Later, when his mother remarried, the family moved to a ranch in Blanco, a rural community of 700 in the hill country of central Texas.
In 1964, shortly after graduating from the University of Texas, Wittliff, with his wife Sally, founded a book publishing company, The Encino Press, which specialized in regional material about Texas and the Southwest. To date, Encino has won over 100 awards for quality of design and content. The press operated out of a 19th-century Victorian house in Austin in which O. Henry once lived and wrote
An accomplished photographer, Wittliff's photographs documenting the life of the Mexican vaquero (taken 1969-71) have been exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions throughout this country and in Mexico, including the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and the Texas Capitol. In Japan, they represented the United States during its bicentennial year. After twenty years, the exhibit is still shown as a traveling display in the U. S. and Mexico under the auspices of the Institute of Texan Cultures.
At 29, Wittliff was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters. He served as president during 1974-78, and sat on the Executive Council until 1990. In 1993, he was elected Fellow of the the Institute. He is a member of the historic Texas Philosophical Society, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; and he served for six years on the Executive Board of Trustees of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute.
In 1985, with the donation of their lifelong collection of original manuscripts and books, Bill and Sally founded the Southwestern Writers Collection at Southwest Texas State University. Since that time the collection has grown rapidly, supported by donors from all over the country. It features original manuscripts by J. Frank Dobie, John Graves, Larry McMurtry, Walter Prescott Webb, Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Horton Foote, Preston Jones, Sam Shepard, Willie Nelson, and many others. It also includes paintings by numerous regional artists including William Lester, Tom Lea, John Groth, Jerry Bywaters, Kermit Oliver, Robert Wade. Expanding the scope of the current facility, in 1996 the Wittliffs endowed the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography which already includes works by Russell Lee, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Ansel Adams, Keith Carter, Henri Cartier Bresson, Lola Bravo, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, Graciela Iturbide, Edward Curtis, Nacho Lopez, Erwin E. Smith, Marco Antonio Cruz, Jim Bones, Paul Strand, Mariana Yampolsky, and many others. Both collections are housed in eight specially designed rooms and a large, chambered gallery on the top floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library on the university campus.
The Wittliffs have two grown children and live in Austin, Texas.- Actor
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Peyton E. Park was born on 8 May 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Michael (1996), On Valentine's Day (1986) and Wishbone (1995). He was married to Margaret L. Lacey and Shirley Sue Brantley. He died on 9 September 2008 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Writer
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Warren Skaaren was born on 9 March 1946 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Batman (1989), Beetlejuice (1988) and Top Gun (1986). He was married to Helen H. Griffin. He died on 28 December 1990 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Actor
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Having been born in Texas, he graduated from High School in Kerrville, Texas and went to the University of Texas at Austin in the Navy ROTC program. He also says he played football in the early 50s for UTexas and claims one knee was injured in a Texas football game in the early 1950s. He speaks Russian from a stint in the military, and spends much of his time in a wheelchair as both knees are in bad shape.- Teresa Taylor was born on 10 November 1962 in Arlington, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Slacker (1990), The Butthole Surfers Movie and Bar-B-Que Movie (1988). She died on 18 June 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Don Phillips, a native Texan, was living in Austin at the time of his death. He appeared in a number of television and film productions and did a considerable number of industrials and voice overs for clients such as UPS, USAA, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, Steck-Vaughn, Origin Systems, Texas General Land Office, U.S. Environmental Protective Agency and others. He was seen and heard in commercials for Anheuser-Busch, Century Telephone, Advantage Rent-A-Car, McDonald's, ShopRight Supermarkets and more.
- Ashley Mattingly was born on 10 September 1986 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She died on 16 April 2020 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA.
- John Henry Faulk was born on 21 August 1913 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), All the Way Home (1963) and The Best Man (1964). He was married to Elizabeth Peake, Lynn Smith and Harriet Elizabeth Wood. He died on 9 April 1990 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Franklin Dennis Jones was born on 26 March 1944 in Danville, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Reindeer Games (2000), Nebraska (2013) and Impostor (2001). He died on 15 February 2015 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Florence Hodges was born on 21 April 1896 in the USA. She died on 23 May 1996 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Terry Gilkyson was born on 17 June 1916 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for The Jungle Book (1967), Blast from the Past (1999) and The Aristocats (1970). He died on 15 October 1999 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., was one of the most prominent First Ladies in American history. Though Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton exercised more power, and Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolly Madison were more glamorous, Lady Bird made herself a force to be reckoned with. She was instrumental in her husband's rise to power, as she had beguiled Sam Rayburn, the powerful Speaker of the House, who was her husband's mentor. As First Lady, she was a major force in engendering an ecological consciousness in Americans, with her "Keep America Beautiful" campaign. A class act all around, she was warmly embraced by Americans.
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Blaze Foley was born on 18 December 1949 in Marfa, Texas, USA. He was a composer, known for American Folk (2017), Maine (2018) and Barracuda (2017). He died on 1 February 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Roky Erickson was born on 15 July 1947 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He died on 31 May 2019 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Molly Ivins was born on 30 August 1944 in Monterey, California, USA. She was a writer, known for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995), Dildo Diaries (2002) and Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life (1997). She died on 31 January 2007 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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- Music Department
Jerry Jeff Walker was born on 16 March 1942 in Oneonta, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for What Just Happened (2008), The Soloist (2009) and The Wanderers (1979). He was married to Susan Streit. He died on 23 October 2020 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Steven Beard was born on 27 November 1924 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was married to Celeste Beard Johnson and Elise Helen Adams. He died on 22 January 2000 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Ted Kazanoff was born on 30 August 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for American Playhouse (1980), Law & Order (1990) and The Little Sister (1985). He was married to Shirlienne (Lee) Dame. He died on 21 October 2012 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Martha Matthews was born on 3 April 1936 in Corsicana, Texas. She was married to Willie Nelson, Mickey Scott and ??? Andrews. She died on 29 November 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Dell Aldrich was born on 15 August 1931 in Brenham, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Michael (1996), Fast Money (1981) and Route 66 (1960). She died on 2 October 2022 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Leslie Denison was born on 16 June 1905 in Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Black Arrow (1948), The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946) and The Fighting O'Flynn (1949). He died on 25 September 1992 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Richard 'Cactus' Pryor was born on 7 January 1923 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Hellfighters (1968), The Green Berets (1968) and Trespasses (1986). He died on 30 August 2011 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Mel Pape was born on 13 January 1912 in New Braunfels, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Caddyshack (1980), Hot Stuff (1979) and Nothing in Common (1986). He died on 24 April 1995 in Austin, Texas, USA.