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Tracey Ullman
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She holds dual British and American citizenship. Her earliest appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties, after a brief singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls on Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States where she starred in her own television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On. for which she garnered numerous awards and her sketch comedy series, Tracey Ullmans State of the Union, ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime. She has also appeared in feature films. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Since 2016, she stars in her own BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullmans Show, Ullman is currently the richest female British comedian and the third richest British comedian overall. She is also the second richest British actress, Tracey Ullman was born Trace Ullman in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the younger of two daughters, to Dorin and Antony John Ullman. Her mother was British, with Roma ancestry, and her father was a Roman Catholic Pole, on the subject of the spelling of her name, My real name is Trace Ullman, but I added the y. My mother said it was spelled the American way, but I dont think she can spell, I always wanted a middle name. My mum used to me it was Mary but I never believed her. I looked on my birth certificate and I didnt have one, Antony Ullman served in the Polish Army and was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He subsequently worked as a solicitor, a salesman. He also brokered marriages and translated among the émigré Polish community, Dorin recognized their younger daughters talents early on and encouraged her to perform. When that happens to you as a child, you can face anything, Youre always waiting for the other shoe to drop. If something great happens, youre like, Wow, thats great that happened, the most disappointing thing happened when you were younger Youre just braver and if good things happen youre really grateful. After died, our fortunes came and went because Mum couldn’t speak Polish and had to give up the business, Mother Dorin would go on to take a host of odd jobs. My mother was always doing things like driving parts around for a garage, all covered in oil
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Barbara Bain
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Barbara Bain is an American film and television actress. She is known for co-starring in the original Mission, Impossible television series in the 1960s as Cinnamon Carter, Bain was born Mildred Fogel in Chicago, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in sociology. Developing an interest in dance, she moved to New York City, dissatisfied with her career as a dancer, she went into modeling, jobs with Vogue, Harpers, and other publications followed. Still uninspired, however, Bain entered the Theater Studio to study acting, first under Curt Conway, progressing to the Actors Studio, she was instructed by Lee Strasberg. Bains first acting role was in Paddy Chayevskys play Middle of the Night, accompanying Bain was fellow actor and new husband Martin Landau, the final leg of the tour brought the couple to Los Angeles, where they settled permanently. After moving, Bain established herself at the Actors Studio West, in 1965, she guest-starred alongside series star Jerry Van Dyke in an episode of My Mother The Car, which also featured Avery Schreibers recurring role of Captain Bernard Manzini. She also appeared in the 1966 final episode of the series alongside Van Dyke and she won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in 1967,1968, and 1969, in addition to a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1968. She starred opposite Landau again in the science-fiction TV series Space,1999, as Dr. Helena Russell, and the made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligans Island. Bain also appeared in The Dick Van Dyke Show, in the episode Will You Two Be My Wife. and My So-Called Life, other appearances include Matroyoshka, an episode of the 1990s science-fiction series Millennium. In 1998, Bain appeared in the Walker, Texas Ranger episode Saving Grace, in 2006, she had a minor role in one episode of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. In 2008, co-starring with her daughter Juliet Landau, Bain voiced the character of Verdona Tennyson in What Are Little Girls Made Of. an episode of Ben 10, Alien Force. On April 28,2016, Bain was honored with the 2, 579th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, lifelong friends Edward Asner and Dick Van Dyke were on hand to speak and assist in the unveiling of the star. Bain married actor Martin Landau in 1957, they divorced in 1993, the couple has two daughters, actress Juliet Landau and film producer Susan Bain Landau Finch. She has contributed to charitable causes, including literacy. Barbara Bain at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Barbara Bain, October,2014, Ames Tribune
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Paul Dooley
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Paul Dooley is an American actor, writer and comedian. Dooley was born Paul Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene, a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. He has said that Parkersburg had few attractions that interested him, there were no theaters or cultural opportunities and he enjoyed listening to comedians on the radio, especially Jimmy Durante. Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a paper in Parkersburg. He joined the United States Navy, Dooley then returned home and graduated from West Virginia University in 1952. After graduating from West Virginia University, Dooley went to New York City to try his luck in the entertainment industry and he initially found work as a clown for childrens birthday parties. In New York he soon found success as a regular on the stage, in the early 1950s, he made his debut on the New York stage and was discovered by Mike Nichols. The director gave him his first break by casting him in 1965s The Odd Couple on Broadway, Dooley played a poker buddy and understudied Art Carney, who played Felix Unger. Eventually when Carney left the play Dooley got the part and he got an agent at William Morris Agency thanks to a referral from Walter Matthau, who played Oscar Madison in the play. Fellow members of The Second City at that time were Alan Arkin, Dooley also worked as a writer. He created and was one of the writers on The Electric Company. Dooley wrote runners, a series of sketches with 8 or 10 characters that were broadcast over the course of several weeks. He found out later that Carl Reiner had recommended him for the job. Dooley formed a company with Andrew Duncan and Lynne Lipton called All Over Creation to create commercials for radio and they produced around 500 TV commercials and 1,000 radio spots. A character named Paul the Gorilla that appeared in commercials was named after him. He worked with Robert Altman regularly and is known as a prolific journeyman, after Altman saw Dooley in the Jules Feiffer comedy Hold Me, he signed him for a role in his film A Wedding. He and Altman co-wrote the film Health and he was also in the directors cut of Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut. Dooley has worked with Christopher Guest on a number of films and he guest starred in other primetime shows like Bewitched, The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland, and Desperate Housewives
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Simon Helberg
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Helberg has appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv and is also known for his role as Moist in Joss Whedons web miniseries Dr. Horribles Sing-Along Blog. He has further performed in such as Old School, Good Night. For portraying Cosmé McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Helberg was born on December 9,1980, in Los Angeles. He is the son of actor Sandy Helberg and casting director Harriet Helberg and he was raised in Judaism, Conservative to Reform but more Reform as time went on. Helberg attended middle and high school at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, with Jason Ritter and he attended New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained at the Atlantic Theater Company. Since the early 2000s, Helberg performed with comedian Derek Waters as the comedy duo Derek & Simon. In 2007, the two starred together in Derek & Simon, The Show, a web series created with comedian Bob Odenkirk for the comedy website Super Deluxe. They also made two short films Derek & Simon, The Pity Card and Derek & Simon, A Bee, one of Helbergs earliest jobs in television was briefly joining the cast of MADtv for one season in 2002. Helberg appeared in the 2002 feature film Van Wilder as one of the students for whom Van Wilder was throwing a party. He had a role in the 2003 movie Old School. In 2004, he was in two episodes of Reno 911, student Driver in Raineesha X and Hooker Buying Son in Not Without My Mustache. He had a role in the sixth episode of Quintuplets, Get a Job, as a man called Neil working behind the counter at a shoe shop where Paige. In 2004, he appeared in the film A Cinderella Story, starring Hilary Duff, Helberg played the minor role of Simon in George Clooneys 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, where he had one line. In 2005, he had a bit part on Arrested Development as Jeff, from 2006–07, he had a minor supporting role as Alex Dwyer in the drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In 2006, he appeared in a series of comical TV commercials for Richard Bransons UK financial services company Virgin Money and he played a small role in the 2007 film Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story as a Jewish record producer. In 2007, Helberg was cast as Howard Wolowitz, in the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory and he appeared as the character Moist in Dr. Horribles Sing-Along Blog, and had a small role in the pilot of the Judd Apatow-produced sitcom Undeclared. In the 2009 Coen brothers film A Serious Man, he played junior Rabbi Scott Ginsler and he had a minor role in the season 4 finale of The Guild as one of the Game Masters. Helberg married actress Jocelyn Towne on July 15,2007, Townes uncle is screenwriter Robert Towne
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Leslie Jordan
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Leslie Allen Jordan is an American actor and playwright. Leslie was born in Memphis, Tennessee and later moved to Chattanooga, Jordan has discussed his early life in Chattanooga, saying that he had a difficult time with religion growing up in the South and that he was baptized 17 times. Whenever the preacher would ask if anyone had sinned, Leslie would always think of something, during an appearance on Today with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, Jordan discussed his personal life and career. He described his mother, Peggy Ann, as being supportive, when asked about his mother he said that she was a very private woman and that she still lives in Chattanooga. Jordans father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, Jordan left Tennessee and arrived in Los Angeles in 1982. During this time he involved with alcohol and other drugs and was arrested many times. When Jordan was seventeen years old, he started to write in every day. He said that writing in his journals helped him with recovering from drug, Jordan became involved in volunteer work. Early in the AIDS crisis, Jordan became involved in AIDS Project Los Angeles as a buddy, Jordan has made numerous appearances in both film and television. He is recognizable for his size and Southern drawl. He appeared as an editor named Mr. Blackly in the popular movie. He guest-starred on the comedy-drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs, in 2007, Jordan starred as Jesse Joe in the short-lived CW television program Hidden Palms. He also portrayed the ski patrol director in Ski Patrol and he is best known for his role as Karens pretentious, sexually ambiguous rival Beverley Leslie on the series Will & Grace. For that role he received an Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, Jordan starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the worlds first interactive, gay-themed comedy show. On August 18,2014, Jordan became a housemate in the celebrity edition of the British reality game show Big Brother and he was the second person to leave the Big Brother house. In January 2015, Jordan guest starred in the British sitcom Benidorm for two episodes as the character Buck-A-Roo, Jordan is an accomplished stage actor and playwright. In one of his best-known performances onstage, he played Earl Brother Boy Ingram in Sordid Lives, Jordan reprised the role in the Sordid Lives, The Series, a televised spin-off of the movie airing on Logo where he plays a character that is in a mental hospital. He wrote and starred in the autobiographical play Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel and he recently toured the country performing his one-man stage comedy, Like a Dog on Linoleum, to generally favorable reviews
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Rose Marie
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Rose Marie Mazetta, known professionally as Rose Marie, is an American actress. As a child performer she had a singing career as Baby Rose Marie. A veteran of vaudeville and one of its last surviving stars, her career includes film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares, Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name Baby Rose Marie, at five, she became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films. Rose Marie was a nightclub and lounge performer in her years before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as The Darling of the Airwaves, according to her autobiography, Hold the Roses, she was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the night of the Flamingo Hotel, which was built by Siegel. At her height of fame as a singer, from late 1929 to 1934, she had her own radio show, made numerous records. In 1929, the singer made a Vitaphone sound short titled Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder, now restored. DVD set of The Jazz Singer and she continued to appear in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and a feature, International House, with W. C. Between 1930 and 1938, she made 17 recordings, three of which were unissued and her first issued record, recorded on March 10,1932, featured accompaniment by Fletcher Hendersons band, one of the premier black jazz orchestras. According to Hendersonia, the bio-discography by Walter C and her recording Say That You Were Teasing Me also featured Hendersons orchestra and was a national Top 20 hit, peaking at #19 in May 1932. According to Joel Whitburn, Rose Marie is the only pre-World War II hitmaker still living as of 2016, in the 1960–61 season, Rose Marie costarred with Shirley Bonne, Elaine Stritch, Jack Weston, Raymond Bailey, and Stubby Kaye in the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen. She played Bertha, a friend of the Sherwood sisters, Ruth, a writer, played by Stritch, and Eileen. After five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rose Marie costarred in two seasons of CBSs The Doris Day Show as Doris Martins friend and coworker, Myrna Gibbons and she also appeared in two episodes of the NBC series The Monkees in the mid-1960s. She later had a seat in the upper center square on the original version of Hollywood Squares, alongside her friend and longtime Dick Van Dyke co-star. She also appeared on both the 1986 and 1998 syndicated revivals, Rose Marie performed on three 1966 and 1967 episodes of The Dean Martin Show variety series on NBC and also twice on The Hollywood Palace on ABC
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Cheech Marin
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He has also voiced characters in several Disney productions, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, Its Tough to Be a Bug. Cars, Cars 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, marins trademark is his characters strong Mexican accents. Marin was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Marin, a policeman in the LAPD, and his wife Elsa, Marin was born with a cleft lip, which was repaired. He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, marins nickname Cheech is short for chicharron, a fried pork skin that is a popular snack and an ingredient in Mexican cuisine. Looks like a little chicharrón, you know, Marin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School, and then studied at San Fernando Valley State College, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. Marin auditioned to sing for Frank Zappa in 1967, but he moved to Vancouver, Marin met his future comedic partner, Tommy Chong, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a part of the successful comedy duo Cheech & Chong, Marin participated in a number of comedy albums. Tommy Chong directed four of their films, while co-writing and starring in all seven with Marin, after Cheech & Chong disbanded in 1985, Marin starred in a number of films as a solo actor, most notably Born in East L. A. The Shrimp on the Barbie, Tin Cup, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico and he made a cameo appearance as a dockworker in Ghostbusters II. In recent years he has active in playing supporting roles in films. After appearing in a role in Judging Amy, playing an independently wealthy landscape designer, Marin starred in the CBS sitcom Rob. He provided his voice for several Disney animated films, most notably Tito the Chihuahua in Oliver & Company, Banzai the hyena in The Lion King and he reprised the Banzai role in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. In July 2007, the book Cheech the School Bus Driver was released, written by Marin, illustrated by Orlando L. Ramirez, in 2005, Marin lent his voice to the animated childrens series Dora the Explorer. He appeared in the episode A Crown for King Bobo, as the Puerto Rican folk hero Juan Bobo, in late 2006, Marin participated in Simon Cowells Celebrity Duets, having sung with Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Aaron Neville, and Al Jarreau. He was the fourth to be eliminated, in that same year, he voiced as Gaspar Gomez in Scarface, The World Is Yours. Marin had a role in the hit television series Lost, playing David Reyes. He was a co-host for WWE Raw on March 1,2010 with his comedy partner Tommy Chong, Marin also sings on the hidden track Earache My Eye on Korns album Follow the Leader. In 2009, he appeared in the Hallmark Channel movie Expecting a Miracle, on March 18,2010, Marin beat journalist Anderson Cooper and actress Aisha Tyler on Celebrity Jeopardy. s Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational
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Debbie Reynolds
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Mary Frances Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. In 1959, she released her first pop album, titled Debbie. She starred in How the West Was Won, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown and her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun, Divorce American Style, Charlottes Web, Mother, and In & Out. Reynolds was also a cabaret performer, in 1979 she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. In 1969 she starred on television in the The Debbie Reynolds Show, in 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love, at the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disneys Halloweentown series. In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, Debbie, My Life, in 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable, A Memoir. She served as president of The Thalians, a dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties, in January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, on December 28,2016, Reynolds was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a medical emergency, which her son Todd Fisher later described as a severe stroke. She died from the stroke that afternoon, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was born on April 1,1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene Minnie and Raymond Francis Ray Reynolds and she was of Scottish-Irish and English ancestry and was raised in a strict Nazarene church. She had a two years her senior. Reynolds was a Girl Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as the worlds oldest living Girl Scout and her mother took in laundry for income, while they lived in a shack on Magnolia Street in El Paso. And Im trying to inculcate in my children the same sense of values and her family moved to Burbank, California in 1939. When Reynolds was a student at Burbank High School in 1948. Soon after, she had a contract with Warner Bros and acquired the nickname Debbie via Jack L. Warner, One of her closest high school friends said that she rarely dated during her teenage years in Burbank
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George Schlatter
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George Schlatter is an American television producer and director, best known for Rowan & Martins Laugh-In and founder of the American Comedy Awards. For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Blvd, Schlatter was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Webster Groves, Missouri, a St. Louis inner-ring suburb. Born the son of a violinist mother and a salesman father, as a teenager, Schlatter sang for two seasons with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, where his mother also performed. He attended Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California and he was a Hollywood agent in the band and act department of MCA Records. After several years he left to general manager at the Sunset Strip nightclub Ciros. Following a short stint in Las Vegas, he started producing variety series, Schlatter began his long association with NBC in the 1950s, where he helped create variety shows for Dinah Shore, Nat King Cole, and Andy Williams. Between 1964 and 1970, he oversaw the annual telecast of the Grammy Awards, in 1968, he formed George Schlatter Productions, noted for Rowan and Martins Laugh In on NBC. In the 1970s and 1980s, Schlatter produced and/or directed several television series, in 1987, he started The American Comedy Awards, which has become an annual event. Schlatter also produced a few films, and owns The Editing Company. He is married to former actress Jolene Brand who was a regular on the The Ernie Kovacs Show, Andrea Justine is a champion equestrian rider. Maria S. Schlatter is an Emmy award winning television producer, as of 2016, Schlatter was collaborating with author Kliph Nesteroff on a memoir. He is continuing to produce, and recently created reality show The Boulevard in conjunction with David DiVona, a partial listing of his television achievements follows. A partial listing of films that he produced and/or directed follows and he was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America award in 1997. For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Blvd and he received the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters on February 10,2017. George Schlatter at the Internet Movie Database George Schlatter at TVGuide. com Official website George Schlatter interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Glenn Shadix
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William Glenn Shadix was an American actor known for his role as Otho in Tim Burtons horror comedy film Beetlejuice and as the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Shadix was born in Bessemer, Alabama and he added the surname Scott when his mother, Annie Ruth, remarried a few years after his birth. He attended Birmingham-Southern College for two years, studying with absurdist playwright-director Arnold Powell and he lived in New York City prior to moving to Hollywood in the late 1970s. He got his film role in Demolition Man as Associate Bob, while appearing in a stage play. Beetlejuice filmmaker Tim Burton went on to cast Shadix in 1993s The Nightmare Before Christmas, in 1995, Shadix was cast as Ray Cathode in the Space Mountain queue advertisements when the ride was sponsored by FedEx. In 2005, Shadix was cast as the voices of The Brain and his other voice work includes the aforementioned Nightmare, and episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures and Justice League Unlimited. He reprised his Nightmare Before Christmas role in the video game The Nightmare Before Christmas, Oogies Revenge, on stage, Shadix was set to begin rehearsals for a Birmingham production of Alan Bennetts History Boys. He also recorded a promo for Red Bar Radio, Shadix was openly gay throughout his life. According to an interview with the Truth Wins Out website, he out to his parents at the age of 17. They then enrolled him in so-called ex-gay therapy, which included shock treatments, when this failed to change his orientation, he attempted suicide by overdosing with Elavil. His parents rushed him to a hospital, where he survived a three-day coma, after the incident, his parents began to accept his sexuality. In 2007, after spending 30 years in Los Angeles, he retired to his native Bessemer, Alabama, the house was completely destroyed in a fire on December 13,2008. Shadix told reporters, I have lost my dream, on September 7,2010, according to Shadixs sister, Susan Gagne, he fell in the kitchen at his condominium in Birmingham, Alabama, and died of blunt trauma to his head. Shadix had mobility problems and was in a wheelchair, the Postman Always Rings Twice as Twin Oaks Customer Beetlejuice as Otho Sunset as Roscoe Arbuckle Heathers as Father Ripper Meet the Applegates as Greg Samson Sleepwalkers as Mr
