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- A native of south Arkansas, William began acting in community theater at age eleven. He was honored by the International Thespian Society during his high school years and, in his senior year, won National Society of Arts and Letters Drama competition at the state level, becoming the youngest participant ever to compete at the National Competition. After graduating from Hendrix College in Arkansas, he attended the Drama Studio London's American school in Berkeley, CA. While still in school he was asked by prominent casting director Jackie Burch to audition for the role of Rocky in the feature film Mask, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. He didn't get the role, but shortly thereafter was cast as Laura Dern's love interest in her very first film, Smooth Talk. Meanwhile, Burch remembered him for her next project, the Columbia Pictures horror classic Fright Night. Shortly after its premiere, he made his Broadway debut in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, replacing Matthew Broderick in the lead role of Eugene Jerome. He subsequently reprised his roles as Charlie Brewster in the sequel to Fright Night and Eugene for the national tour of Simon's Broadway Bound, with Nathan Lane. He began starring in television projects also around this time. After a few non-picked up pilots, he landed the role of Herman Brooks on the Fox Network's Herman's Head, which ran for three years, anchoring the networks Sunday night line up with The Simpsons, In Living Color, and Married With Children. His subsequent television credits, both as a series regular and guest work, are extensive.
- Primarily known as a "B" movie bad guy of hundreds of films, husky actor Steve Brodie was born John Daugherty Stephens on November 25, 1919, in El Dorado, Kansas. Raised in Wichita, he dropped out of school and raced cars, boxed and worked on oil rigs to get by. He initially entertained a criminal law career but that interest quickly wore off after having to toil as a property boy.
A passion for acting then was instigated and Brodie found early work in summer stock. Changing his stage name to "Steve Brodie", a move to New York did not pay off but a subsequent move to Los Angeles did. He broke into films after being spotted by an MGM talent scout in a Hollywood theatre production entitled "Money Girls". Loaned out for his first film, Universal's Ladies Courageous (1944), Brodie appeared in a few tough-guy bit parts in such MGM films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), The Clock (1945) and Anchors Aweigh (1945) before he was dropped. It wasn't long before he was signed by RKO and it was with studio that his reputation as a heavy in westerns grew, with such roles as notorious outlaws Bob Dalton in Badman's Territory (1946) and Cole Younger in Return of the Bad Men (1948). In between those two pictures were strong roles in three film noir classics: Desperate (1947) (leading good guy), Crossfire (1947) and Out of the Past (1947) (both supporting baddies).
A hard-living, hard-drinking actor, Brodie married "B" actress Lois Andrews in 1946 but the couple divorced four years later, not long after appearing together in the western programmer Rustlers (1949). He married Barbara Savitt--the widow of bandleader Jan Savitt--in September of 1950 and the union produced son Kevin Brodie two years later (Kevin later became a producer/director). Steve's second marriage lasted until 1966.
Interest in Brodie eventually waned at the studio and his contract was not renewed. Freelancing elsewhere, he appeared as a lead in Rose of the Yukon (1949) and another classic film noir, Armored Car Robbery (1950), and also earned good parts in Home of the Brave (1949), The Steel Helmet (1951) and Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) (as the Musketeer Athos). Most of his post-RKO film work, however, would be in low-budgeters: I Cheated the Law (1949), The Great Plane Robbery (1950), Army Bound (1952), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), Donovan's Brain (1953) and Under Fire (1957). He also appeared as the hero's nemesis in several Tim Holt / Richard Martin westerns, including The Arizona Ranger (1948), Guns of Hate (1948) and Brothers in the Saddle (1949). In the late 1950s he had leads in the "C"-level films Spy in the Sky! (1958), Arson for Hire (1959) and Here Come the Jets (1959).
A familiar presence on 1950s and 1960s TV, he worked on such crime series as Public Defender (1954), Hawaiian Eye (1959), Surfside 6 (1960), Perry Mason (1957), Burke's Law (1963) and such western series as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) (recurring part), The Lone Ranger (1949), Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951), Laramie (1959), Sugarfoot (1957), Maverick (1957), Rawhide (1959), Gunsmoke (1955) and comedies including The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), _"The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962)_ (qav). He also appeared in a touring production of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" starring Paul Douglas and Wendell Corey. The company ended abruptly when the liberal-minded Douglas, in a North Carolina interview, strongly criticized the conservative state and the resulting backlash forced the production's closure.
Brodie's later years were marred by drinking arrests. In the 1970s he made sporadic appearances, including a lead in the campy low-budget horror film The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) opposite Barbara Hale and a part in Delta Pi (1984) [aka "Mugsy's Girls"], which was written, produced and directed by son Kevin and was also his last film. He also provided voice work in commercials and showed up at nostalgia conventions, including The Knoxville Western Film Fair in 1991, less than a year before his death.
In 1973 Brodie married a third time, to Virginia Hefner, and they had a son Sean. Suffering from esophageal cancer and heart problems, Brodie died at age 72 on January 9, 1992, at a West Hills, California, hospital. - Actress
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Kaitlyn Dias was born on 11 May 1999 in El Dorado Hills, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Inside Out (2015), A Very Special Episode (2020) and Welcome to Blood Gulch.- Producer
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Tim Kring was born on 9 July 1957 in El Dorado County, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Heroes (2006), Chicago Hope (1994) and The Conspiracy for Good: London 2010 (2010).- Actor
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Eric Presnall is a 25-year-old star in the making. Currently touring the United States as part of the ensemble of the hit musical American Idiot, Presnall is probably best known for his role of Eric ,"Tillman's Personal Assistant" on the Animal Planet and Hallmark Channel 's popular TV series "Who Let The Dogs Out" which aired for two seasons. Launching an undeniable future in performing arts Presnall was first cast in the lead role of Danny Zucko in Grease at the El Dorado Musical Theater. Presnall has been in the touring company of High School Musical for Disney, as well as having appeared at Universal Studios Hollywood in their popular Halloween Horror Nights show for two years. He has also appeared in several films including The Long Day, F.U.B.A.R. and Xtra Space.- Director
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Do-It-Yourself Texas regional independent filmmaker S.F. Brownrigg might have only made a handful of highly distinctive and peculiar low-budget horror exploitation pictures, but he nonetheless carved out his own singular little niche with his small, yet unique and impressive body of cinematic work. His films are distinguished by a bleak, brooding tone, murky plots, startling twist endings, lively acting from a game no-name cast, shocking moments of gruesome violence, and a pungent and flavorsome down-home backwoods country atmosphere. Born as Sherald Brownrigg on September 30, 1937 in El Dorado, Arkansas, Brownrigg served in the army as a combat photographer and worked on numerous military training films during his tour of duty. Brownrigg first met fellow regional independent filmmaker Larry Buchanan in 1955. Brownrigg collaborated with Buchanan on several movies: He edited "The Eye Creatures" and did the sound on such pictures as "The Naked Witch," "Mars Needs Women," "Zontar, the Thing from Venus," "High Yellow," and "It's Alive!". Brownrigg worked for a spell as the head of the sound department at the motion picture lab Jameson Film Company. Brownrigg achieved his greatest enduring cult popularity with his debut theatrical feature "Don't Look in the Basement," a marvelously grungy and claustrophobic horror psycho winner that was a major drive-in hit in the early 1970's. Brownrigg followed this movie with the sleazy "Scum of the Earth," the moody "Don't Open the Door," and the grim "Keep My Grave Open." His last picture was the low-brow comedy "Thinkin' Big." Brownrigg wanted to make a sequel to Tod Browning's "Freaks," but alas this particular project never got past the planning stage. After his film career came to a close in the mid-1980s, Brownrigg wound up working in television doing such things as golf shows for ESPN as well as various hunting and fishing TV programs. In addition, Brownrigg was the president of the Dallas production facility Century Studios. His son Tony Brownrigg is an actor, writer, director, special effects artist, soundman, and cinematographer and his other son Stacy is a professional soundman. S.F. Brownrigg died at age 58 on September 20, 1996 in Dallas, Texas.- Composer
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Jack Marshall was born on 23 November 1921 in El Dorado, Kansas, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Hubie Halloween (2020), The Munsters (2022) and The Giant Gila Monster (1959). He was married to Eva Katherine Pellegrini. He died on 20 September 1973 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Charles Portis was born on 28 December 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was a writer, known for True Grit (2010), True Grit (1969) and Gringos. He died on 17 February 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
- Grace Ford was born on 23 May 1913 in El Dorado, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Devil-Doll (1936), Between Two Women (1937) and Big City (1937). She was married to Henry Salvatori. She died on 5 May 1990 in Sacramento, California, USA.
- Shayne Benton was born on 23 September 1974 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Emeril (2000), Ocean's 7-11 (2008) and Unsolved Mysteries (1987). He was previously married to Asia De Marcos.
- Denise McCluggage was born on 20 January 1927 in El Dorado, Kansas, USA. She was married to Michael Conrad. She died on 6 May 2015 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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Link Wyler was born on 25 October 1941 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Flash and the Firecat (1975), Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999) and The Red Pony (1973). He died on 10 May 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Donna Axum was born on 3 January 1942 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. She was married to J. Bryan Whitworth, Gus Franklin Mutscher and Michael Alan Buckley. She died on 4 November 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
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Dusty Fletcher was born on 7 July 1900 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Lolita (1997), Killer Diller (1948) and King for a Day (1934). He died on 15 March 1954.- Lamar Hunt was born on 2 August 1932 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was married to Norma Lynn Knobel and Rosemary Carr. He died on 13 December 2006 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Adrianne Reynolds moved to East Moline to live with her adoptive parents when she was 16. When Reynolds started school at Blackhawk Community College Outreach Center, she would meet Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory, both of which would become involved in her murder. They murdered Reynolds in a Taco Bell parking lot. Kolb and McGregory had a friend, Nathan Gaudet, dismember Reynold's body and tried to burn it. When burning the body failed, they hid the body the Black Hawk State Historic Site.
- Lee Carter, more famously known as Viper the Rapper, is an American rapper native to Houston, Texas. He graduated from the University of Houston in 2000 and became a rapper and real estate broker. Lee is most famous for his album, "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack", which was released in 2008 and became an internet meme. He starred in "Fifth Ward", which was directed by his brother, Greg. Viper is an extremely prolific artist, and once released over 300 albums in one year.
- J.R. Williamson was born on 9 October 1941 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He died on 11 July 2020 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Michael Fitzgerald was born on 19 December 1950 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor. He died on 14 February 2006 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA.
- Lou Brock was born on 18 June 1939 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was married to Jacqueline Layne, Virginia Daniels and Katie Hay. He died on 6 September 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Reece 'Goose' Tatum was born on 3 May 1921 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Harlem Globetrotters (1951), Go Man Go (1954) and Basketball Headliners of 1951 (1951). He was married to Nona. He died on 18 January 1967 in El Paso, California, USA.
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Mort Walker was born on 3 September 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas, USA. He was a writer, known for The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972), Hero's Reward (1962) and Psychological Testing (1962). He was married to Catherine Carty and Jean Marie Suffill. He died on 27 January 2018 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.- Sound Department
O.J. Connell III was born on 4 March 1943 in El Dorado, Kansas, USA. He is known for Changing Lanes (2002), Sabrina (1995) and Marvin's Room (1996). He was married to Mary Ellen Connell. He died on 10 August 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.- Glen Ray Hines was born on 26 October 1943 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He died on 1 February 2019 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.
- Adam Setliff was born in 1970 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He is known for Without Limits (1998), Where's Marlowe? (1998) and Just Shoot Me! (1997).
- Travis Williams was born on 14 January 1946 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was married to Arie. He died on 17 February 1991 in Martinez, California, USA.
- Bob Schroeder was born on 11 May 1926 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He died on 3 December 2011 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Marlon Green was born on 6 June 1929 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He died on 6 July 2009 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Willie Frazier was born on 19 June 1942 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA.
- Jamie Anderson was born on 13 September 1990 in El Dorado, California, USA.
- Charlie Loften was born on 15 November 1971 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA.
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- Art Department
- Make-Up Department
Michael Vines was born on 22 February 1973 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Novelties (2010), Decomposed (2009) and Who's the Badass (2004).- Roger Marshall was born on 9 August 1960 in El Dorado, Kansas, USA. He has been married to Laina Marshall since 1983. They have four children.