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Gene Canfield
Cast · Known for Meet Joe Black, Scent of a Woman
Gene Canfield is known for Meet Joe Black (1998), Scent of a Woman (1992) and Murder by Numbers (2002).
Diane Kagan
Cast · Known for Meet Joe Black
Diane Kagan was born on November 25, 1935 in Maplewood, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Julie & Julia (2009), All Good Things (2010) and Meet Joe Black (1998).
Thomas Newman
Composer · Known for 1917, American Beauty, Finding Nemo
Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Film Awards, and 15 Academy Award nominations. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Little Women (1994), Meet Joe Black(1998), American Beauty and The Green Mile (both 1999), Pay It Forward (2000), In the Bedroom (2001), Road to Perdition and White Oleander (both 2002), Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), WALL-E (2008), the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), 1917 (2019), and Elemental (2023). In television, Newman has composed music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001), the 2003 miniseries Angels in America, and the Netflix biographical crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). In the latter, he co-composed with his daughter Julia Newman. He has collaborated with directors such as Robert Altman, Jon Avnet, Martin Brest, Frank Darabont, Todd Field, John Lee Hancock, John Madden, Sam Mendes, Andrew Stanton, and Steven Soderbergh. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kevin Wade
Writer · Known for Blue Bloods, Meet Joe Black
Kevin Wade (born March 9, 1954) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Born in Chappaqua, New York, Wade is a graduate of Connecticut College. He wrote the play Key Exchange, which was produced off-Broadway in 1981. Seven years later he received his first screen credit for Working Girl, which earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Additional film credits include True Colors, Mr. Baseball, Junior, Meet Joe Black, and Maid in Manhattan. Wade's most recent project was the short-lived ABC drama series Cashmere Mafia which he created and executive produced. He also wrote the seven episodes that were broadcast by the network before the show was canceled. He was married to Polly Draper (1983–1990; divorced).
Claire Forlani
Cast · Known for Meet Joe Black, CSI: NY, The Rock
Claire Antonia Forlani (born 17 December 1971) is an English actress. She became known in the mid-1990s for her leading role in the film Mallrats, and in the Jean-Michel Basquiat 1996 biopic Basquiat, later in 1998, she achieved wide recognition for starring in the fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black. Other notable films include Boys and Girls (2000), The Medallion (2003) and In the Name of the King (2007). Forlani also has appeared in numerous TV films and series, including her starring role on the historical-fantasy-drama series Camelot, and her recurring roles on the CBS action series CSI: NY, NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claire Forlani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Martin Brest
Director · Known for Beverly Hills Cop, Meet Joe Black, Scent of a Woman
Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988), which were critical and commercial hits. He then directed Scent of a Woman (1992), starring Al Pacino, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, and earned Brest nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. He followed it with Meet Joe Black (1998), which received mixed reviews. Brest's next film was Gigli (2003). After disagreements between Brest and Revolution Studios, creative control was taken from him, resulting in a radically re-written and re-shot version of the original film being released, which became his first and only unprofitable film and, in fact, a major box-office bomb and was widely panned. It remains his last film to date. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Brest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Bo Goldman
Writer · Known for Meet Joe Black, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman
Bo Goldman (born Robert Spencer Goldman; September 10, 1932 – July 25, 2023) was an American screenwriter and playwright. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He also received two BAFTA Award nominations. Goldman received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980). He also wrote The Rose (1979), Shoot the Moon (1982), Scent of a Woman (1992), and Meet Joe Black (1998).
Lois Kelly-Miller
Cast · Known for Meet Joe Black
Lois Kelly Miller, also spelled Lois Kelly-Miller and formerly known as Lois Kelly-Barrow, (15 October 1917 – 8 April 2020) was a Jamaican theatre and screen actress. She became a household name in Jamaica for her decades-long, professional career in theatre and pantomime, particularly with the Little Theatre Movement (LTM) National Pantomime. Kelly Miller was best known to international audiences for her role in the American film Meet Joe Black (1998) opposite Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Kelly-Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Anthony Hopkins
Cast · Known for Meet Joe Black, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Thor: The Dark World
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
William Smith
Cast · Known for Daniel Boone, Hawaii Five-O
William Smith was an American film and television actor who appeared in more than 300 feature films and television productions, best known for playing Anthony Falconetti on the TV mini series "Rich Man, Poor Man". He held a BA from Syracuse and an MA in Russian Studies from UCLA. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Smith began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942; he entered films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Louis. He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. One of his earliest leading roles was as Joe Riley, a Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo. In 1967, Smith guest starred as Jude Bonner on James Arness's long-lived western Gunsmoke. Smith was cast as John Richard Parker, brother of Cynthia Ann Parker, both taken hostage in Texas by the Comanche, in the 1969 episode "The Understanding" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days, which was hosted by Robert Taylor. In the story line, Parker contracts the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche warriors, and is rescued by his future Mexican wife, Yolanda (Emily Banks). He played outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown in the 1969 episode "The Restless Man". In that story line, Brown takes the job of sheriff to tame a lawless town, begins to court a young woman (again played by Emily Banks), but soon returns to his deadly outlaw ways in search of bigger thrills. On Gunsmoke, Smith appeared in a 1972 episode, "Hostage!"; his character beats and rapes Amanda Blake's character Miss Kitty Russell and shoots her twice in the back. Smith has been described as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time".
Christopher Gurr
Christopher Gurr [he/him/his] is an American actor and director known for playing a vast range of roles on Broadway and in theaters across the United States (as well as the more readily accessible reaches of Canada). He was born in the Deep South, educated in the Midwest, ripened by the sun and sea of California and matured in the mountains of Appalachia before making his home in New York City. Gurr starred as Bustopher Jones and Gus (“the cat at the theatre door”) in the Broadway revival of Cats at the Neil Simon Theatre. In that same theater, he made his Broadway debut playing Senator Strom Thurmond opposite Byran Cranston’s LBJ in the Tony Award-winning play, All The Way. Between that notorious Dixiecrat and cats both fat and thin, Gurr has been seen on Broadway as, among other things, a villainous fop and a hard-nosed sea captain (Amazing Grace), a factory owner and his fastidious foreman (two different stints in Kinky Boots), and a very, very strange man in a yellow suit (Tuck Everlasting). Recent Off-Broadway and regional productions featured Gurr in Marie, Dancing Still at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre, the world premiere of The Sting opposite Harry Connick, Jr. at The Paper Mill Playhouse, Titanic and Oklahoma! at Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera, and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Classic Stage Company in New York City opposite Raúl Esparza. Gurr made his commercial theatre debut in the first national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot. Sometimes as Mrs. Galahad and Sir Bedevere, sometimes as King Arthur, he performed all over North America for the better part of four years. His next first national tour found Gurr playing seven different types of mean white cracker in the Tony Award-winning musical, Memphis. Gurr’s other roles include Hitler (History of War), Heisenberg (Copenhagen), Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry (Getting The Band Back Together), Uncle Ernie (The Who’s Tommy), Ali Hakim (Oklahoma!), Aldolpho (The Drowsy Chaperone), Geoffrey (The Lion In Winter), and Rutledge (1776). His directing projects include productions of Nine, Camelot, Heartbreak House, Into The Woods, Die Fledermaus, Billy Bishop Goes To War, Wesley Middleton’s Tomato Plant Girl, James Still’s Meet Me Incognito, the world premiere of José Cruz Gonzáles’ Earth Songs, and Guys & Dolls: In Concert with Jeff Tyzik and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and staged readings of many, many new plays and musicals. Gurr has served as artistic associate with Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY, The Theatre Building in Chicago, and Metro Theater Company in St. Louis. He has taught with and designed curriculum for the internationally recognized education department of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He graduated from and has served as guest director and faculty member at Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre & Dance in St. Louis. Gurr’s voiceover work has included distressed dads, buttoned-up bankers, Boston Brahmins, and backwoods bloviators, to name a few.
Hank Garrett
As a child, Hank Garrett was glued to the radio and would imitate the voices he heard. His favorite show was “Can You Top This?” He would listen to the resident dialectician and master storyteller named Peter Donald to write down all the jokes he heard in a little book. He continued to regale family and friends with his budding comedy act. At the age of sixteen, he began a career working as a comedian in resort hotels. His first television acting job of major importance was Patrolman Ed Nicholsonon “Car 54, Where Are You?” He also provided a number of trick voices and dialects for radio commercials. Then he auditioned and got the job doing the voices for Fluffy and Fast Eddie on the animated “Here Comes Garfield” show. Soon after, Hank had the honor of providing the voice for the new G.I. Joe Communications Specialist: Dial-Tone on the “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero” animated series. This popular character appeared in the “G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise" mini-series as well as more than twenty-four of the syndicated episodes. He also reprised his voice acting role for Dial-Tone on the animated "G.I. Joe: The Movie". Convention Attendees can meet the man behind-the-voice for autographs and perhaps even get their 2011 Convention Exclusive Dial-Tone signed!
Pat Ast
Pat Ast was an American actress and model. She was best known for starring in Andy Warhol films and being a Halston model and muse in the 1970s. Ast enjoyed partying in her twenties on Fire Island, and her boisterous personality allowed her to meet and befriend influential people. She had aspirations to become an actress, singer and model despite her day job as a receptionist at a box factory. She made her screen debut after meeting director John Schlesinger on Fire Island, who cast her as a party guest in his film Midnight Cowboy (1969). Around that time, she caught the attention of fashion designer Halston, who gave her a job at his boutique and made her one of his models, despite her weighing 210 pounds, in a time when most models were extremely thin. In the early 1970s, with Pat Cleveland, Connie Cook, Alva Chinn, Anjelica Huston, Karen Bjornson, among others, Ast became one of Halston's favored troupe of models, nicknamed the Halstonettes. She also appeared in runway shows for Halston and Yves St. Laurent, closing the 1972 Coty Awards runway show for Halston by popping out of a giant cake. She later became associated with Andy Warhol, who gave her the role of landlady Lydia in his film Heat (1972) alongside Joe Dallesandro. In 1975, Ast moved to Hollywood to pursue her acting career. She has appeared in films such as The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Foul Play (1978), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), and Reform School Girls (1986). She became resentful of Los Angeles as her film career stalled. She went to New York to do Nine, a Broadway musical based on Federico Fellini’s movie 8 1/2, but was dismissed after three months.
Mike O'Hearn
If you want to meet a real-life super hero, Michael O'Hearn is the closest human alive that fits that description.. A Four-time Mr. Universe, O'Hearn has graced the covers of over 470 magazines worldwide earning him the title of 7-time Fitness Male Model of the Year and putting that title in retirement. O'Hearn is a champion with a resume a mile long. You can see him as Team Captain Titan in American Gladiators. In addition to 4-time Mr. Natural Universe titles, O'Hearn is also a 4-time Power Lifting Champion, and Iron Warrior: Decathlon of Strength Strongman Champion. He is a well-rounded athlete with a background in natural bodybuilding, strongman, power lifting, and martial arts. Women around the world will recognize O'Hearn as the cover model for Topaz romance novels. A life-long proponent of the natural approach to bodybuilding and life, O'Hearn authored "Proven Techniques for Drug Free Bodybuilders" to inspire and teach the next generation of weightlifters and bodybuilders that you can achieve success without the use of enhancers such as steroids or growth hormones. Known as the fittest couple in America, O'Hearn has teamed up with Miss Fitness California and Miss Tri-Fitness World Champion, Sherlyn Roy, to create S.H.I.F.T.I.N.G.-Serious High Intensity Fitness Training Integrating Nutritional Guidelines for their high profile clients of Hollywood executives and heavy hitters. O'Hearn, grew up on a farm in Kirkland, WA and comes from a large family of 9 siblings of which he is the youngest of 5 boys. He began competing in bodybuilding at the age of 15 when he won the Teenage Washington State competition. In college O'Hearn was a 3-time All State Defensive Tackle and All American football player. O'Hearn is tackling writing, producing, and directing his own movie about a character who discovers he is a superhero. O'Hearn has a leading role in National Lampoon's TV-The Movie. Other films include Barbarian and Keeper of Time. Upcoming film projects due to be released in Spring 2008 include Tumblers and Captain Ultimate.
Peter Bartlett
Cast · Known for The Princess and the Frog
With appearances on shows such as Law & Order and films such as Meet the Parents, Bartlett portrayed Nigel Bartholomew-Smythe on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He had portrayed this role from 1991 until the soap's cancellation in 2012. In 2009, he began portraying Nigel's English cousin Neville. In 2004 he appeared on Broadway playing the role of Pluto in The Frogs, the Stephen Sondheim-Burt Shevelove-Nathan Lane adaptation which played at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. His lively performance was well received by critics and audiences, and Stephen Sondheim has stated that Mr. Bartlett's delivery of the line, "Get out of town!" (preserved on the original cast recording by PS Classics) was a highlight of the show. He also starred in the 2009 Disney film The Princess and the Frog as a valet named Lawrence. He starred on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone as Underling, the butler. He opened to highly favorable reviews in the Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on March 3, 2013 playing the Prince's calculating Regent, Sebastian. He later played several roles in the hit Broadway musical Something Rotten!, and appeared as the flabbergasted "Head Waiter" in the Roundabout revival of She Loves Me in 2016.
Blair Treu
Blair Treu is known for Little Secrets (2001), Meet the Mormons(2014) and Wish Upon a Star (1996).
Pearce Quigley
Cast · Known for Small Prophets, The Gentlemen
Pearce Quigley is a Salford born actor known for his work on films such as Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Danny Boyle's Millions, The House of Mirth and The Way Back. He is also a familiar face on TV, specifically in comedy having appeared in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Car Share, Happiness, Rovers, and the detectorists, as well as dramas such as Three Girls, In The Dark, Cutting It, Prime Suspect 3 and Our Friends in the North. He is also a celebrated stage actor, performing at the National Theatre and the Globe.
David Gregory
David Michael Gregory is an American television personality and the former host of NBC News' Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press. Gregory has served as a CNN political analyst since 2016.
Patricia Cook
Patricia Cook is an actress, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000). Patricia played the role of Elizabeth Stabler, a recurring character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in the first season. The role was taken over by Kaitlyn Davidson as an adult on Law & Order: Organized Crime.
Alanna Ubach
Cast · Known for Coco, President Curtis, Venom: The Last Dance
Alanna Ubach (born October 3, 1975) is an American actress and voice actress. She is known for her film roles as Serena in the Legally Blonde films, Angela in Bad Teacher, Isabel Villalobos in Meet the Fockers, and Naomi in Waiting... and Still Waiting .... She's known for her TV roles as Tessa on Guilty Party, Suze Howard on Euphoria, Jo on Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Amy Hobbs on the sitcom See Dad Run. She played the first female assistant, Josie, on Beakman's World. She has provided voices for several characters in a number of animated shows, such as Miss Fussywiggles on Princess Power, Carla / Rosie on Monsters at Work, Queen Tulip on Crossing Swords, Ansi Molina on Welcome to the Wayne, Liz Allan on The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Lola Boa on Brandy & Mr. Whiskers. She has also written and performed a one-woman show.
Fernando Lindez
Cast · Known for Tell Me Softly, The Last Sunrise
Fernando Lindez is a Spanish model and actor. Fernando Lindez began his acting career in 2017 rather unusually when in between classes at school, he looked at his phone and saw a direct message from an agency asking him to come in and meet with them. A few months later, he made his runway debut during Madrid Fashion Week walking for Palomo Spain. His breakthrough moment came in January 2019 when he opened the Versace show. Lindez, who gave up golf and MMA to focus on modeling, has had a busy year since, opening DSquared2 and Dunhill and closing Prada’s Shanghai show and Jacquemus’ tenth-anniversary show set among the rolling lavender fields of Provence. He also walked in Virgil Abloh’s Place Dauphine takeover for Louis Vuitton in June 2019. He plans to return to school in the future for acting, and is currently playing the heartthrob Alejandro on the Spanish version of the hit Norwegian high school series Skam.
Blythe Danner
Cast · Known for Meet the Fockers, Focker-in-Law, Great Performances
Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress known for her roles in the Meet the Parents film series and as Izzy Huffstodt on the TV series Huff (2004–2006).
Stephen Sinclair
Writer · Known for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand filmmaker, playwright, and novelist. He has co-written several movies with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, notably Meet The Feebles, Braindead, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Sinclair also wrote and directed the feature film Russian Snark, which premiered at the 2010 New Zealand Film Festival in Auckland, and won numerous international awards.
Brighid Fleming
Brighid began her acting career at 3 years old when she saw "Seussical the Musical". After the show, she was asked if she would like to meet the Cat in the Hat. She thought about it and replied, "No, I want to be the Cat in the Hat. How do you get up there?" After a couple of years on the local Albuquerque theatre circuit, Brighid landed an international modeling job with LaCoste. From there, she began picking up small parts in films that were shooting in NM. Finally, in 2007 she made her way out to LA. On a flight home to Albuquerque to film "The Burrowers", she met a couple of directors, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. She landed the supporting role of Delia in their film, "Gamer", which starred Gerard Butler.She has since been working away in LA doing small Indies, student films, and theatre, as well as appearances on television and an occasional feature film. A couple of national commercials and a music video or two have also come her way. She won a maverick award for her role in "Sugar Rush", a USC film. She has also been nominated for festival awards for her work in "After the Shearing" (a UCLA Grad film for AARP). She won Best Actress for the short A.B.S at the Women's Independent Film Festival. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her part in "Criminal Minds." Deborah Dozier Potter, a former member of the Kennedy Center's President's Advisory Council for the Arts and the daughter of Joan Fontaine and niece of Olivia de Havilland, called Brighid's performance in the NM produced film "Hearts of Desire" extraordinary, remarking that she believed Brighid was destined for greatness. The LA Times said her performance in Woyzeck for the Gangbusters Theatre Company had disarming command. In 2011, Brighid wrote and directed her own short film, A.B.S. A.B.S is on the festival circuit where it has already won awards of distinction, including best short film, in several festivals. She has also picked up awards for directing and cinematography for A.B.S. Her dream is to get her production company, Phish Tank Philms, up and running and to turn A.B.S into a web series. (Bio taken from brighidfleming.com)