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Catherine Marie Thomas
Costume Design · Known for Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Leave the World Behind
“Kill Bill,” “A Prairie Home Companion” and “27 Dresses” have one thing in common besides being box-office hits: costumes designed by Kansas City Art Institute alumna Catherine Marie (“Cat”) Thomas (’93 fiber). For “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” and “Kill Bill: Vol. 2” she received two Costume Designers Guild award nominations. Her career has provided Thomas with opportunities to work with some of Hollywood’s highest profile directors, including Quentin Tarantino, Robert Altman, Neil Jordan, Richard Shepard, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Edward Burns. “Collaboration is crucial,” she said, emphasizing that any motion picture is the product of hard work and creative input by many individuals. “There are so many elements that go into making a film. It’s the actor’s voice, the director’s voice and my voice.”
Hope Summers
Cast · Known for The Andy Griffith Show
Hope Summers could portray a friendly neighbor or companion as she did for Frances Bavier's Aunt Bee character on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) or a seemingly amiable Satanist in Rosemary's Baby (1968). Born in Mattoon, Illinois, she developed an early interest in the theater. Graduating from Northwestern School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, she subsequently taught speech and diction there. This, in turn, led to her the head position in the Speech Department at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, teaching students privately on the side as well. In the 1930s Hope began to focus on acting. She found work in community and stock theaters in Illinois and earned some notice for putting on one-woman shows such as "Backstage of Broadway." She made use of her vocal eloquence by building up her resumé on radio, performing in scores of dramatic shows, including "Authors' Playhouse," "First Night," "Ma Perkins", and "Step-Mother". In 1950 Hope transferred her talents to the new medium of television and earned a regular role on the comedy series Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel (1950). By the age of 50 she was customarily called upon to play slightly older than she was, appearing in a number of minuscule matron roles in such films as Zero Hour! (1957), Hound-Dog Man (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Spencer's Mountain (1963), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), Charley Varrick (1973) and her last, Foul Play (1978). She never had any major stand-out roles in movies; TV would be a more prolific choice of medium. Her gently stern, old-fashioned looks allowed her to be a part of many small-town settings, including Dennis the Menace (1959) and Petticoat Junction (1963), and in various western locales such as Maverick (1957) and Wagon Train (1957). She played a rustic regular for many years on The Rifleman (1958). Usually assigned to play teachers, nurses and other helpful, nurturing types, her characters were also known to be inveterate gossips. Hope worked until close to the end of her life, passing away from heart failure in 1979.
Jaimi Paige
Jaimi Paige is an actress best known for her role as Olivia in the science-fiction companion web series Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, and as Jenna in A Mermaid's Tale.
Jackie Lane
Jackie Lane (1941-2021) is an English actress noted for her role as Dodo Chaplet, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She played the part from February to July 1966 alongside William Hartnell as the Doctor. She went on to become a theatrical agent, representing Tom Baker, who would play the Fourth Doctor, and Janet Fielding, who would play companion Tegan Jovanka and managed the late Nicholas Courtney. The agency which she manages is Jackie Lane Ad Voice.
Erica Rhodes
Erica Rhodes is an American actress and comedian. She has been performing on A Prairie Home Companion since the age of 10 and appeared in several movies and TV shows, including Plague Town, 1,000 Ways to Die, and The Consultants. She has also guest starred on New Girl, @midnight with Chris Hardwick, and Modern Family. She competed in the reality television comedy competition series Bring the Funny. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Cullimore Decker
Anne Cullimore Decker is an actress known for A Life Less Ordinary (1997), Darling Companion (2012) and The Last Sin Eater (2007).
Roland Curram
Roland Curram was an actor and novelist. His most famous credits include Julie Christie's travelling companion in her Oscar-winning film Darling and expatriate Freddie in the BBC soap opera Eldorado. He was married from 1964 until 1985 to the actress Sheila Gish, with whom he had two daughters, the actors Lou Gish (1967–2006) and Kay Curram (b. 1974). Curram came out as gay in the early 1990s, ahead of his role as Freddie, a gay man who had previously been married and had a daughter. Curram left acting in the early 00s to commence a second career as an author with novels such as The Problem with Happiness, Mother Loved Funerals, Man on the Beach, and his memoir, Which Way to Love? He died, aged 93, in 2025.
Anneke Wills
Anneke Wills is a British actress famous for playing Polly, the swinging sixties companion to the first and second Doctor in Doctor Who from 1966 to 1967. Other roles include Evelyn in the ITC drama The Strange Report (1969-1970) and guest appearances in The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Film roles include Anne in Some People (1962) and Angela in The Pleasure Girls (1965). From 1962 to 1979 she was married to Michael Gough but has subsequently twice remarried. The father of her first child was Anthony Newley, who left her for Joan Collins. In 1970 Wills effectively gave up acting to be a full time mum. Following her divorce from Gough, she left the UK in 1980 and lived in various places in the 16 years afterwards, including in Laos, Vietnam and India in the early 1980s, in the USA from 1983–1986, and in Canada from 1986–1996. She returned to live in the UK in 1996 and is a popular figure on the Doctor Who convention circuit. She has returned sporadically to acting for Doctor Who themed productions and has published three volumes of her memoirs: Self Portrait (2007), Naked (2009), and In Focus (2012).
Michael Craze
Michael Craze was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton
Herbert Knaup
Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Longtime companion of actress Natalia Wörner until 2001. Supports the SOS Children's Villages. Started a career as musician with his two nephews in their band "Neffen und Knaup" (Nephews and Knaup) (2007). Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from the Otto Falckenberg School, the Academy of Performing Arts in Munich, he made his stage debut in 1978.
J.D. Lifshitz
Producer · Known for Barbarian, Buddy, Companion
Jordan David Lifshitz (born October 13, 1992) is an American film producer. He is better known for producing films like Becky, Companion, Barbarian, and Woman of the Hour. He is also the co-founder of BoulderLight Pictures, a production company. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. D. Lifshitz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Megan Suri
Cast · Known for Companion
Megan Suri (born March 28, 1999) is an American actress, known for her roles in the films “The MisEducation of Bindu” and “Companion,” as well as the Netflix teen comedy series “Never Have I Ever.”
Bradley Walsh
Cast · Known for Doctor Who
Bradley Walsh (born 4 June 1960) is an English light entertainer, television actor, comedian and former professional footballer. He is best known as companion Graham O'Brien in Doctor Who, as detective Ronnie Brooks in Law and Order: UK, as Danny Baldwin in Coronation Street and as the presenter of the ITV gameshow The Chase and the variety show Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
John Bishop
John Joseph Bishop is an English comedian, footballer, presenter, and actor, known for his role as companion Dan Lewis in the long-running BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who.
Nicola Bryant
Cast · Known for Doctor Who
Nicola Jane Bryant (born 11 October 1960) is an English actress known for her roles as Peri Brown, a companion to both the Fifth and Sixth Doctors in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986 and as Martine Johnson the dance teacher in the school drama series The Biz from 1995 to 1997. She also played Miss Brown in The Stranger film series and Lana in Star Trek Continues.
Robert Jezek
Robert Jezek (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian stage, film and television actor based in the United Kingdom. In 1989, Jezek appeared as Sergeant Zbrigniev in the Doctor Who television serial Battlefield. He is known for playing companion Frobisher in a range of Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions and based on the BBC television series Doctor Who. In 2002, he guest-starred in Sarah Jane Smith: Ghost Town, an audio drama produced by the same company. He also lent his voice to the videogame The Getaway: Black Monday in 2004. He has also had minor roles in films including playing a Rescue 1 technician in Event Horizon (1997) a police officer in Casino Royale (2006) and the Polish neighbour in Last Chance Harvey (2008). He has also appeared in a number of short films. In April 2011, he appeared in British soap opera EastEnders, as the Polish father of a girl who was bullying Ben Mitchell (then Charlie Jones). He meets with Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) to discuss Tasha bullying Ben, and he agrees to talk to her. Ben since told Zsa Zsa Carter that Tasha is giving him no more problems. He has also had guest appearances in British television dramas Shameless, The Bill and Holby City. Jezek played the title role in the world theatre premier of Hayton on Homicide (2009) and is currently appearing in the West End in The Bodyguard.
Sarah Sutton
Sarah Sutton is a British actress best known for her role as Nyssa in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Nyssa was first the companion to Tom Baker and then to Peter Davison, from 1981 to 1983.
Andrew Childs
Executive Producer · Known for Companion, Hokum, The Long Walk
Andrew Childs is an American film producer at Vertigo Entertainment. He is best known for producing the films Nimona (2023), Cobweb (2023), 'Salem's Lot (2024) and Companion (2025).
Maureen O'Brien
Maureen O'Brien is a British actress and novelist. She is perhaps most famous for her role as Vicki, the companion to William Hartnell's First Doctor in Doctor Who, becoming the first change to the original cast line up in 1965. She also played Elizabeth Straker in the second series of the long running BBC drama Casualty in 1987.
Katy Manning
Cast · Known for Doctor Who
Catherine Ann "Katy" Manning (born 14 October 1946) is a British actress. Although she has made many appearances on both screen and stage, Manning is best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Manning initially played the role regularly from 1971 to 1973 but also reprised the role in the Doctor Who spin-off The 'Sarah Jane Adventures' in 2010, and 'Power Of The Doctor' in 2022. She is also well known for voicing Iris Wildthyme in the audio series 'Iris Wildthyme' for Big Finish Productions since 2005.
Deborah Watling
Deborah Watling (2 January 1948 – 21 July 2017) was an English actress known for her role as Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Watling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Wendy Padbury
Cast · Known for Doctor Who
Wendy Padbury (born 7 December 1947) is a British actress and former talent agent. She has appeared in television series since 1966, including as Zoe Heriot, a companion to Patrick Troughton's Doctor in Doctor Who, from 1968 to 1969. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Padbury, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Grigoriy Aronov
Grigoriy Aronov (1923-1984) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed a handful of films throughout his 30 year career but is best known for co-directing The Seventh Companion (1968), the directorial debut of fellow Soviet filmmaker Aleksei German.
Kouichi Sakaguchi
Cast · Known for Duel Masters
Kouichi Sakaguchi is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce. He also had a recurring role in both the Japanese and English language Pokémon anime which saw him voicing Jessie's Arbok up until Episode 6 of the Hoenn series which saw Arbok and its companion, Weezing being released to help protect a herd of Koffing and Ekans who had been captured by a hunter. He also appeared in the Orange League series, voicing the Orange Crew leader and champion Drake's Electabuzz and later reappeared during the Hoenn League series, voicing Morrison's Steelix in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the series.