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Paul Newman - Actor who won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, six Golden Globe Awards (including three honorary ones), a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. He married actress Joanne Woodward in 1958, and they remained married for 50 years, until his death. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of 2014, these donations exceeded US$400 million.
Ellen DeGeneres - Comedian, TV host, actress, writer, and TV producer who was the star of the popular sitcom "Ellen" from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" since 2003As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong (1996), appeared in EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated film Finding Nemo (2003), for which she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010 she was a judge on "American Idol" for its ninth season. She has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys. She has authored three books, and started her own record company, Eleveneleven. She has won 13 Emmys, 14 People's Choice Awards, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. .
Scott Glenn - Actor whose roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch (2011).
Vito Scotti - Character actor who was known as a man of a thousand faces, for his ability to assume so many divergent roles in more than 200 screen appearances, in a career spanning 50 years. He was known for his resourceful portrayals of various ethnic types. Born of Italian heritage, he was seen playing everything from a Mexican bandit, to a Russian doctor, to a Japanese sailor.
Charles Lane - Character actor whose career spanned 64 years and more than 250 movies. He appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He was a favored supporting actor of Lucille Ball, who often used him as a no-nonsense authority figure and comedic foe of her scatterbrained TV character on her TV series "I Love Lucy", "The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour" and "The Lucy Show".
Joan Leslie - Retired American actress who appeared in such films as High Sierra, Sergeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy. On August 12, 2006, she received a Golden Boot Award for her contributions to the genre of Western television and movies. On 8 February 1960, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street.
William Hopper - Actor who is best remembered for playing private detective Paul Drake in more than 250 episodes of the TV series "Perry Mason", and for his role as the father of Natalie Wood's character in Rebel Without a Cause.
Maria von Trapp - The stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story served as the inspiration for a 1956 German film that in turn inspired the Broadway musical The Sound of Music (1959) and the 1965 film of the same name.
Colin O'Donoghue - Irish actor and musician known for his role as Captain Killian "Hook" Jones on the TV show "Once Upon a Time", and his role as Michael Kovak in "The Rite".
Bob Uecker - Retired American Major League Baseball player, later a sportscaster, comedian and actor. Uecker was given the title of "Mr. Baseball" by TV talk show host Johnny Carson. On TV, he played father/sportswriter George Owens on the 1980s sitcom "Mr. Belvedere". Since 1971 Uecker has served as a play-by-play announcer for Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts. In 2001, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. In 2010, he was inducted into the Celebrity Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame.
Wayne Gretzky - Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. He is the leading point-scorer in NHL history, with more assists than any other player has points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season – a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records. He still holds many of his NHL records.
Douglas MacArthur - American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.
Edward "Eddie" Van Halen - Musician and songwriter who is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest guitarists, and one of the most influential rock guitarists of the 20th century. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as #8 in the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. In 2012, he was voted in a Guitar World magazine reader's poll as #1 of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Van Halen - Jump
Anita Baker - Singer, songwriter who rose to stardom following the release of her platinum-selling album, "Rapture", which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". To date, she has won eight Grammy Awards and has five platinum albums and one gold album to her credit.
Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got
Andrew Ridgeley - English singer, songwriter and guitarist who was a member (with George Michael) of the music duo Wham!. Wham! produced four number one singles between 1984 and 1985: 'Wake Me Up Before You G-Go', 'Freedom', 'I'm Your Man', and 'The Edge of Heaven'. They would have had five consecutive number 1 records but 'Last Christmas / Everything She Wants' was partially eclipsed by the Band Aid single 'Do They Know It's Christmas'.
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Paul Newman - Actor who won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, six Golden Globe Awards (including three honorary ones), a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. He married actress Joanne Woodward in 1958, and they remained married for 50 years, until his death. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of 2014, these donations exceeded US$400 million.
Ellen DeGeneres - Comedian, TV host, actress, writer, and TV producer who was the star of the popular sitcom "Ellen" from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" since 2003As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong (1996), appeared in EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated film Finding Nemo (2003), for which she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010 she was a judge on "American Idol" for its ninth season. She has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys. She has authored three books, and started her own record company, Eleveneleven. She has won 13 Emmys, 14 People's Choice Awards, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. .
Scott Glenn - Actor whose roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch (2011).
Vito Scotti - Character actor who was known as a man of a thousand faces, for his ability to assume so many divergent roles in more than 200 screen appearances, in a career spanning 50 years. He was known for his resourceful portrayals of various ethnic types. Born of Italian heritage, he was seen playing everything from a Mexican bandit, to a Russian doctor, to a Japanese sailor.
Charles Lane - Character actor whose career spanned 64 years and more than 250 movies. He appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He was a favored supporting actor of Lucille Ball, who often used him as a no-nonsense authority figure and comedic foe of her scatterbrained TV character on her TV series "I Love Lucy", "The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour" and "The Lucy Show".
Joan Leslie - Retired American actress who appeared in such films as High Sierra, Sergeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy. On August 12, 2006, she received a Golden Boot Award for her contributions to the genre of Western television and movies. On 8 February 1960, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street.
William Hopper - Actor who is best remembered for playing private detective Paul Drake in more than 250 episodes of the TV series "Perry Mason", and for his role as the father of Natalie Wood's character in Rebel Without a Cause.
Maria von Trapp - The stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story served as the inspiration for a 1956 German film that in turn inspired the Broadway musical The Sound of Music (1959) and the 1965 film of the same name.
Colin O'Donoghue - Irish actor and musician known for his role as Captain Killian "Hook" Jones on the TV show "Once Upon a Time", and his role as Michael Kovak in "The Rite".
Bob Uecker - Retired American Major League Baseball player, later a sportscaster, comedian and actor. Uecker was given the title of "Mr. Baseball" by TV talk show host Johnny Carson. On TV, he played father/sportswriter George Owens on the 1980s sitcom "Mr. Belvedere". Since 1971 Uecker has served as a play-by-play announcer for Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts. In 2001, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. In 2010, he was inducted into the Celebrity Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame.
Wayne Gretzky - Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. He is the leading point-scorer in NHL history, with more assists than any other player has points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season – a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records. He still holds many of his NHL records.
Douglas MacArthur - American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.
Edward "Eddie" Van Halen - Musician and songwriter who is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest guitarists, and one of the most influential rock guitarists of the 20th century. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as #8 in the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. In 2012, he was voted in a Guitar World magazine reader's poll as #1 of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Van Halen - Jump
Anita Baker - Singer, songwriter who rose to stardom following the release of her platinum-selling album, "Rapture", which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". To date, she has won eight Grammy Awards and has five platinum albums and one gold album to her credit.
Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got
Andrew Ridgeley - English singer, songwriter and guitarist who was a member (with George Michael) of the music duo Wham!. Wham! produced four number one singles between 1984 and 1985: 'Wake Me Up Before You G-Go', 'Freedom', 'I'm Your Man', and 'The Edge of Heaven'. They would have had five consecutive number 1 records but 'Last Christmas / Everything She Wants' was partially eclipsed by the Band Aid single 'Do They Know It's Christmas'.
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
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