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James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather Thomas E. Dixon. He graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965, near the top of his class. James earned a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; dropping out during his senior year in 1969, he then headed off to New York with his fraternity brother Martin Donovan to pursue aspirations to appear on the stage. After appearing in a handful of New York City theater productions, Woods scored his first film role in All the Way Home (1971) and followed that up with meager supporting roles in The Way We Were (1973) and The Choirboys (1977).
However, it was Woods' cold-blooded performance as the cop killer in The Onion Field (1979), based on a Joseph Wambaugh novel, that seized the attention of movie-goers to his on-screen power. Woods quickly followed up with another role in another Joseph Wambaugh film adaptation, The Black Marble (1980), as a sleazy and unstable cable-T.V.-station owner in David Cronenberg's mind-bending and prophetic Videodrome (1983), as gangster Max Bercovicz in Sergio Leones mammoth epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and scored a best actor Academy Award nomination as abrasive journalist Richard Boyle in Oliver Stone's gritty and unsettling Salvador (1986).
There seemed to be no stopping the rise of this star as he continued to amaze movie-goers with his remarkable versatility and his ability to create such intense, memorable characters. The decade of the 1990s started off strongly with high praise for his role as Roy Cohn in the television production of Citizen Cohn (1992). Woods was equally impressive as sneaky hustler Lester Diamond who cons Sharon Stone in Casino (1995), made a tremendous H.R. Haldeman in Nixon (1995), portrayed serial killer Carl Panzram in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), and then as accused civil rights assassin Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996).
Not to be typecast solely as hostile hoodlums, Woods has further expanded his range to encompass providing voice-overs for animated productions including Hercules (1997), Hooves of Fire (1999), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). Woods also appeared in the critically praised The Virgin Suicides (1999), in the coming-of-age movie Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), as a corrupt medico in Any Given Sunday (1999), and in the comedy-horror spoof Scary Movie 2 (2001). A remarkable performer with an incredibly diverse range of acting talent, Woods remains one of Hollywood's outstanding leading men.- Actor
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Darin Scott is an American actor, writer, and director of English, Scottish, and German decent, born in the small town of Vernal, Utah. Most of his childhood and adolescence (12 years) was spent in Vancouver, Washington. A month before Scott's seventeenth birthday, his father died of a heart attack. As the youngest and last of five children in the home, Scott became the man of the house.
The school stage is where Scott's passion for acting began but he was also very into sports. After playing college football at Brigham Young University-Idaho, Scott finished his BA at the University of Utah. His football days led to his first acting role in the Disney film "Going To The Mat," working with Khleo Thomas as the football jock, "Yardley". The following year, Scott booked another role in Disney's "Halloweentown High," where he worked with Academy Award Nominated, Debbie Reynolds, as well as Teen Choice Nominated, Lucas Grabeel. Scott read for the role of Wylie in Disney's "Buffalo Dreams" and had the director all but convinced until he was asked his age (being 25 at the time). Though Scott is typically cast in younger roles, in this case, the director took Scott's age a bit too literally. Scott took a few roles in independent films and then landed a lead role in Discovery Channel's "I Shouldn't Be Alive."
In spite of his brewing film success, with a young family, Scott relocated to California to pursue a law degree. Shortly after moving, he booked a role in "127 Hours" where he worked with Golden Globe Winner (and Academy Award Nominated), James Franco. Although the role turned out to be smaller than anticipated, as the entire wedding scene was cut from the final edit, it did steer Scott from law school. He withdrew after one semester to attend Playhouse West Acting School in North Hollywood. While studying there, he booked roles in a number of films, including the title role of the mountain man scout Ephraim Hanks in "Ephraim's Rescue," where he showed his ability to carry a film. Later, Scott was also direct-cast as a younger character version of Emmy-Nominated, John Heard, in "Counting For Thunder." Not letting his law background go to waste, Scott followed by landing a supporting role as the lead Defense Attorney in "Just Let Go," where he worked opposite Emmy-Nominated Henry Ian Cusick and Sam Sorbo (Jenkins). Scott continued his success working opposite Teen Choice Winner, Josh Lucas, in Kevin Costner's acclaimed, Emmy-Nominated and Golden Globe winning series, "Yellowstone".
Scott is also the writer and director of over 30 commercials and short films, including the third all-time highest crowdfunded short film on Kickstarter in 2017, "Reign of Judges: Title of Liberty." In late 2021, Scott made his feature directorial debut, writing, directing, and starring in "The Oath," based on his award-winning short film, "Reign of Judges: Title of Liberty," also starring Billy Zane, Karina Lombard, and Eugene Brave Rock. "The Oath" is set to release in theaters in 2023.- Actor
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American actor and author Rodd Dana (also credited as Rod Dana or Robert Mark), was born as Roger Neal Francke in Vernal, Utah. He studied at UCLA and then took his first acting steps at the Pasadena Playhouse. Dana began in TV commercials before making his debut on the screen in the 1958 Poverty Row creature feature War of the Colossal Beast (1958) (the 'beast', in this instance, being a 60-foot man). He had several more no-name roles and cameos to his name before becoming temporarily disheartened with show biz. After moving to Rome, he studied medicine for a year, then lost interest in this career path and returned to acting.
Dana appeared in Italian TV ads and eventually found his way to Cinecitta, where he was cast as a Roman soldier of Caesar's entourage in the blockbuster epic Cleopatra (1963). Three years later, now billed as 'Robert Mark' and fluent in Italian, he became the star of a trio of sub-James Bond eurospy thrillers as jet-setting British (!) secret agents (Sicario 77, vivo o morto (1966), Operation White Shark (1966), Silenzio: Si uccide (1967)) and as gunslingers in two spaghetti westerns (Uccidi o muori (1966) and Dio non paga il sabato (1967)). Dana continued to work sporadically as a small part actor and voice dubber in the 70s and 80s.
In 2003, the much-travelled former actor reinvented himself as a writer of fiction, publishing his first novel Conversations with the Devil: Dialogues with the Soul on Amazon, under the nom de plume Jon Christian Eagle. Other books (described on his website as "Sci-Fi, and mind-altering Historical Fantasy"), followed in 2016 (The Portal), 2018 (Magdala Legacy) and 2020 (Orion Files Trilogy).- Earl Bascom was born on 19 June 1906 in Vernal, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Take Willy with Ya (1989). He was married to E. Nadine Diffey. He died on 28 August 1995 in Victorville, California, USA.
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Joshua L. Larsen was born in Vernal, UT in the youngest of 5. His father was born in Vernal as well and his mother is from Guatemala. He grew up in Southern San Diego, CA for 15 years in Chula Vista. He moved to finish High School in Provo, UT and later studied International Business at Utah Valley University with a Minor in Theater Arts. Joshua lived in Peru for 2 years serving an LDS Mission. He later in 2011 founded Trusted Home Solutions, an Alarm & Automation Company based in Utah, that also sponsors the "Educating the World" Charity group whose focus is bringing education to children throughout the world. Joshua first became interested in acting when he took a Drama course in High School trying to get out of taking an English course. After that he studied acting for stage and screen for several years. His first audition he landed a role at UVU for Lloyd Dallas in Noises Off! Later getting an agent in 2011 he has worked on different jobs including: "The Mule" w/Sharon Stone, "Hot Bot" w/Director Michael Polish, "Mistlestones" w/ABC Family, a web-series named "Propor Manors" as the character Alan Brand, and other commercial, industrial, independent productions as well.