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Terry Serpico was born on 27 June 1964 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Yellowstone (2018) and Army Wives (2007). He has been married to Kadia Saraf since 8 June 2022. He was previously married to Erin M. Goodwin.- Writer
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Stephen McDannell Hillenburg is the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Nickelodeon's highest-rated cartoons for children and a staple of American television. He was born on August 21, 1961 in Fort Sill, a United States Army post in Lawton, Oklahoma, to Nancy (Dufour) Hillenburg and Kelly Neugent Hillenburg Jr.
Raised in Anaheim, California, he became fascinated with marine biology as a child and later developed an interest in art. He started his professional career in 1984 teaching marine biology at the Orange County Marine Institute. He wrote 'The Intertidal Zone', a comic book about tide-pool animals which he used to educate his students.
In 1989, two years after leaving teaching, Hillenburg enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts to pursue a career in animation. He was later offered a job on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rocko's Modern Life (1993), after his success with short films The Green Beret (1992) and Wormholes (1992), which he created while studying animation.
In 1994, Hillenburg began developing The Intertidal Zone characters and concepts for what would become SpongeBob SquarePants. The show premiered in 1999 and has aired since then. He also directed The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), which he originally intended to be the series finale. However, Nickelodeon wanted to produce more episodes, so Hillenburg resigned as the showrunner. He went back to making short films, with Hollywood Blvd, USA (2014).
In 2015, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) was released; the sequel to the 2004 film, it marked Hillenburg's return to the franchise, after he co-wrote the story and acted as an executive producer on the project.
Aside from two Emmy Awards and six Annie Awards for SpongeBob SquarePants, Hillenburg also received an accolade from Heal the Bay for his efforts on elevating marine life awareness, as well as the Television Animation Award from the National Cartoonists Society. Despite all this, he was involved in public controversies, including one that centered on speculation over the SpongeBob character's intended sexual orientation.
Hillenburg was diagnosed in 2017 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He stated that he would continue to work on his show for as long as possible. He died at age 57 on November 26, 2018 in San Marino, California, a year and a half after his diagnosis.- Actor
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Tony D. Head is an award nominated actor who returned to New York city in 2014 after being away from the business for over 20 years. Tony left the business to help take care of his special needs daughter Layla who requires full time supervision. He took parts now and then while working a full time job all the time devoting his efforts to finding her a safe environment for independent living.In 2013 he and his ex accomplished that and it allowed him to give acting another try after a long hiatus.. Since then he was featured in the critically acclaimed off Broadway production of "Hounds of War" at the Abingdon theatre. Tony played Major Bobby Reed in the HBO hit series The Wire (2002), and has appeared in HBO's The Corner (2000), Veep (2012), and numerous other prime time shows including more recently HBO's "The Deuce" in a recurring role, CBS's Madam Secretary (2018). In 2019, he will be appearing in Asunder the Series (2019) playing Austin Blair, the head of a powerful cosmetic company, the feature film Strive (2019) starring Danny Glover, and the new web series Bronx SIU (2018) nominated for 3 daytime Emmys in 2019. He also had the privilege of working with Director Todd Phillips in the blockbuster movie Joker(2019) starring Joaquin Phoenix. Tony will be appearing in Lazy Susan (2020) , starring Sean Hayes, Allison Janney, and Matthew Broderick and A New York Christmas Wedding starring Chris Noth(2020) . Tony just recently appeared in Law and Order, Special Victims unit and will be featured in the upcoming Lionsgate film Room Nine: They Turned us into killers.. Tony studied with Earle Hyman at HB studio,Ted Bardy studios(Ted Bardy and Glen Vincent) , Susan Batson Studio(Carl Ford) and Rob Mccaskill Studios(Rob Mccaskill). In April 2017 he was nominated best guest actor for the award winning drama Pride: The Series (2014) by The Indie Series Awards and in 2019 was nominated best actor in a Drama for Asunder the series by the Capital City Web Awards.
In 2020 Tony wrote and produced The Case which in 2021 has just entered the festival circuit and already won numerous awards Tony lives in Manhattan NY.- Actress
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Cassie Jaye was born at the Fort Sill United States Army post in Oklahoma, but spent most of her childhood in Brier, Washington. When Jaye was 8 years old she began acting in the Taproot Theatre Company in Seattle. When she was 15 years old she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she took film acting classes before deciding to move to Los Angeles when she turned 18. Between 2004-2008 she acted in numerous independent films and commercials in L.A., but during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Jaye decided to go behind the camera to direct and produce documentaries. In February 2008, she founded Jaye Bird Productions and directed her first feature documentary "Daddy I Do".
"Daddy I Do" premiered in 2010, won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and became an educational tool to promote Comprehensive Sexual Education in schools. "Daddy I Do"s success encouraged Jaye to continue pursuing directing. In February 2012, Jaye premiered her second feature documentary "The Right to Love: An American Family", which chronicled the fight for Marriage Equality in California and won four Telly Awards.
Jaye has also directed many short documentaries, including: "Faces Overlooked", which exposed Marin County's hidden hunger crisis; "Making Mothers Visible", which was created for the International Museum of Women; "The Story of GoldieBlox", which won the audience favorite award in Morgan Spurlock's 'Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition'; and "Emily's Oz", a documentary ad campaign that Jaye directed for Xfinity Comcast which brought to life the imagination of a 7 year old blind girl.
Jaye's latest feature documentary, "The Red Pill", follows her journey learning about the Men's Rights Movement and is set to be released on March 7, 2017.
Jaye has been celebrated for her attention to nuance and balanced approach when directing films about politically controversial topics.- Judith Lowry was born on 27 July 1890 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Cold Turkey (1971), The Anderson Tapes (1971) and Phyllis (1975). She was married to Rudd Lowry. She died on 29 November 1976 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Tom Platz is professional actor and bodybuilder. Known as Golden Eagle. Tacitly considered uncrowned Mr. Olympia 1981. In 1965, Thomas was 10 years old when he began to train, his parents bought him Joe Weider's guide in training along with full equipment. According to the athlete, when he first felt the bar in his hands, his life changed. The boy followed every word of the manual, devoting all his free time to training. Soon he caught the eye of a magazine with photographs of Dave Draper, and Tom firmly decided to devote his life to bodybuilding. Moving to California, Tom accidentally settled near Draper and often practiced with the idol of his childhood. Thomas managed to be Arnold Schwarzenegger's student, he learned to plan his actions from him. Debuting on the amateur world championship in 1978, which took place in Acapulco, Mexico Platz took 1st place in the middle weight category and won the "Absolute category". In the following 1979, participated in the tournament Mr. Olympia, he took 8th place. At the "World Championship Pro" in 1980, Platz took second place, letting forward Jusup Wilkosz. The best result of Tom in the competitive career was 3rd place on Mr. Olympia in 1981. Tom Platz finished his sport's career in 1987. After the completion of his career, the sportsman began to act in films. Was a bodybuilding coach, in addition, in the "International Association of Sports Science" Tom Platz took the chair of the head of the bodybuilding department.
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Studied under the late, great Sanford Meisner who told her "You may very well be a true character actress and can hold your own with anyone". Other Acting teachers include: Gene Bua, Silvana Gallardo, Sam Christensen (in LA), Floyd King at Folger Theatre (Shakespeare Theatre) in DC
Lived in Europe eight years, fluent in French, speaks some German. Won "Best Actress" award senior year at Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia, for "Eliza" in My Fair Lady 1970. Starred in all-original musical 'Sun, Son' at University of Kansas (won BMI Award 1970). Played "Chava" opposite Mandy Patinkin in 'Fiddler On The Roof' at University of Kansas, 1971.
Won "Paul Parady Memorial Award" 1981 GWU for "Outstanding Contributions to the University Theatre" (also played "Jenny" in Three Penny Opera 1981 GWU). Played opposite MASH's William Christopher in Marilyn Monroe role of "The Girl" in 'Seven Year Itch' at Hayloft Dinner Theatre,Manassas, Virginia 1986 and in The Nerd as "Tansy" at the American Heartland Theatre 1986-87. Sung / Performed one-woman show (in French and English) "Passions et Tendresses" at John F. Kennedy Center, "Inside Out" 1986. Won first prize at fabled Palomino in North Hollywood, California singing "Stand By Your Man" 1987. Was original French chanteuse at Moonlight Tango Cafe in Sherman Oaks, California, 1988. Sings/appears regularly with Catahoula in Hollywood at such venues as B B King's at Universal City Walk, Molly Malone's, Roxy, Whisky and Troubadour.
Also appears with Catahoula in Artie (2002). Soon stars as "Lady Macbett" in Ionesco's Macbett at Globe Theatre W. Hollywood, co-exec produced by Peter Dowling - http://www.macbettatglobe.org.- Producer
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Brad Yoder was born in Oklahoma and raised in High Point, North Carolina. He graduated from T. Wingate Andrews High School in 1989 and attended Appalachian State University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Yoder entered graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but chose to trade in his quest of a Master's degree in Sport Psychology for a career in the entertainment industry. After two years in Los Angeles, he launched his own production company. Yoder's ambition was to create and develop his own projects and has yet to look back. He has produced several projects including 'Til Death' (2008), the World's 1st 3-D film to compete in The 48 Hour Film Project, Bigger Is Better? (2004) picked up by National Lampoon's Comedy Night School (2003), Super Bitchin' Muscle Car (2004), and the television sit-com pilot 'Game On' (2004). Yoder has filmed numerous national commercials for such notables as Chrysler, IBM, Anheuser-Busch, UPS, Value City Furniture, Occidental Petroleum, Off Broadway Shoes, John Deere, and Mercedes.
On the silver screen, Brad can be seen playing Ethan Walker, one of the leads in the award winning feature film L.A. Proper (2007), and Detective Marshall in the film Anderson's Cross (2010), which just won "Best Picture" and "Best International Feature Film" at its first two festivals. Keep on the lookout for Brad to star in the upcoming feature film Red Dirt Rising (2011), scheduled for a 2011 release. Yoder's character is stock car racing legend and pioneer, Jimmie Lewallen.
Throughout 2009, Yoder produced Madhouse (2010)- a 13 episode television series with Triage Entertainment. The series documents the lives of several NASCAR Modified Division drivers and the sacrifices made each week enabling them to race. "Madhouse" is scheduled to air in 2010 on History Channel.
Upon wrapping Madhouse (2010), Brad will continue his focus on Ocean Drive (2012) - a feature length, historical drama chronicling the birth of beach music and shagging in the Carolinas from 1943-1955.
Brad is coordinating with the North Carolina Film Commission in its efforts to stimulate film and television production in North Carolina. He is involved with the development of several NC based projects, one of which is racing related and will be set at North Wilkesboro Speedway. Yoder is also producing episodic television for TLC, Animal Planet, and Sharp Entertainment.- Albert Stubblebine was born on 6 February 1930 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He was married to Rima Laibow and Geraldine Margaret Murphy. He died on 6 February 2017 in New Jersey, USA.
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Jerome Bethea was born on 17 May 1981 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Scot and the Aussie (2006), Love Letters (2007) and Soulmates (2005).- Sound Department
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Bill Devine was born on 19 April 1965 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. Bill is a production manager, known for Push (2009), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) and An American Crime (2007).- Art Department
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Jeremy Blake's short life was highlighted by great success, artistic achievement and an intense romance but, ultimately brought down by paranoia, despair, and ultimately suicide.
In October of 1971 in Fort Sill, Oklamhoma, a young married couple Anne and Jeffrey Blake had their first child, son Jeremy. Father Jeffrey worked as a real estate agent, and soon moved the small family to Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C. Jeremy's parents soon divorced and he split his time between his mother in the suburbs and his father in The District of Columbia. Mother Anne later recalled the young Jeremy filling notebooks with drawings, first of mazes, and his own comic book characters, and later becoming fixated with drawing Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) type spaceships.
Jeremy attended various schools in the Takoma area, taking his first art classes during the summer of his eighth grad year. Soon after, when he was seventeen, his father died of complications from AIDS. Jeremy eventually earned a bachelor's degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1n 1993, followed by his master's in 1995 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He had grown into a strikingly handsome young man, and he reportedly met his future romantic partner Theresa Duncan at a Washington area punk rock concert around this time.
Jeremy moved to New York City, where he soon again encountered Theresa Duncan, five years older than himself, who traveled in the same avant-grade and literary circles as he. They became romantically involved immediately, and quickly moved in together. She was a rising star in the computer gaming industry, specializing in designing and writing CD Roms for young girls. She helped Jeremy establish a career by hiring him as an illustrator, and soon Jeremy was exhibiting his computer-generated prints at galleries in New York and Washington. Jeremy was photographed for Vogue Hommes magazine in 2000, since he was such a glamorous rising star in the New York art scene. But the ambitious couple soon decided to move to Los Angeles, where Duncan intended to produce her screenplay. Jeremy continued with success to work on his digital video art, which he described as "moving paintings."
He was hired by Paul Thomas Anderson to create digital effects for a dream sequence in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and by alternative rock music icon Beck to design art for his album "Sea Change." Around this time, his girlfriend Duncan, having a difficult time getting her screenplay green-lighted, began having what has been describes as "paranoid delusions" revolving around The Church of Scientology. For unknown reasons, she believed that powerful Scientolgists were putting up roadblocks to her success in Hollywood. Jeremy soon joined her in her suspicions, and both would rant to their friends about the evil vendetta that the Church of Scientology had for them. They suspected almost everyone of being closet Scientologists, and began alienating friends, co-workers and most of their Hollywood connections. They began compiling evidence to file a lawsuit against The Church.
The couple decided to move back to New York City soon after being evicted from their rented Malibu bungalow because of erratic behavior. They secured an apartment in the rectory of St. Mark's Church, and began entertaining friends, and working on their separate projects. Their paranoia over The Church of Scientology followed them and soon both Blake and Duncan were sending emails to friends and acquaintances enumerating their grievances against the Church. The couple hosted a large fund-raising party for repairs on St. Mark's, and then refused to attend it to the dismay of their friends and acquaintances.
A few weeks later, on July 10, 2007, Jeremy arrived home at the apartment to find Theresa Duncan dead on the floor of their bedroom. She had ingested a fatal combination of pills and alcohol, leaving a suicide note telling Jeremy that she loved him and was at peace with her decision. Friends of Jeremy's hovered over the young artist for a week, in a discreet suicide watch. Jeremy eventually convinced his friends that he was restless, and needed to get back to work.
On July 17, 2007, Jeremy boarded the subway saying that he intended to go to his office at Rocksstar Entertainment. Instead he took the train to the end-of-the-line at Rockaway's 122nd Street Beach. He removed all his clothing and piled it neatly under a pier, placing his wallet on top along with a short suicide note written on the back of a business card. He walked naked into the Atlantic ocean.
On July 22 the body of Jeremy Blake was spotted by a fisherman four and one half miles off the coat of Sea Girt, New Jersey, 35 miles south of Rockaway Beach.- Sherry Sanford was born on 15 January 1945 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rainmaker (1997) and Serendipity Lane (1995). She died on 6 October 2018 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
- Dave Nelson was born on 20 June 1944 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA.
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Dennis Meyer was born in 1970 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Hope (2001), Badness (1999) and The Legend of Grassman.- Cullen Bryant was born on 20 May 1951 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He was married to Wanda Bryant. He died on 13 October 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
- David G. Harper was born on 10 November 1966 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for 18 Fingers of Death! (2006), Asleep at the Wheel on the Road to Nowhere (2004) and Boyz' Day (2003).
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Anne Nelson was born on 26 November 1954 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. She is a writer, known for A Show of Force (1990) and The Guys (2002).- Christopher Canary was born on 26 March 1973 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses and A Time for the Heart (2009).
- Steve Wilson was born on 19 May 1954 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA.
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Damon Montgomery II was born on 29 September 1990 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. He is a composer and producer, known for Amazing Stories (2020), Stories with Kev (2017) and The Bobby Brown Story (2018).