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Don Anderson

Don Anderson grew up near the MGM studios, and was a Jitterbug Dancer for the studios during WW2. He became a bit player, and worked as an actor/stand-in starting with Van Johnson. He did some stunts, and was one of the bikers, Shark, in The Wild One with Marlon Brando. Don enjoyed the business and was well known and liked. His last show was standing-in and working with Pierce Brosnan on Remington Steele. He was survived by his daughter, Misa Anderson and a brother.

Polly Morgan

Cinematographer · Known for A Quiet Place Part II, Where the Crawdads Sing

Polly Morgan is a British cinematographer who has worked on the studio feature films Lucy in the Sky (2019), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), and The Woman King(2022). She was also the cinematographer for multiple episodes of the TV series Legion (2017–2019). Morgan is accredited by the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). To date, she is the only woman to be a member of both, and she is the youngest member of ASC. Prior to becoming a cinematographer, Morgan worked in the film and television industries since the early 2000s as a production assistant and in multiple roles in the camera department. She worked under numerous cinematographers and attended the American Film Institute's AFI Conservatory as a Fulbright Scholar, graduating in 2010 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in cinematography. Morgan's first cinematography credit was the film Venom (2011). She worked as the cinematographer on other numerous films and TV series throughout the 2010s, with her first studio feature-film credit being Lucy in the Sky (2019). In 2024, she was the cinematographer for the films Marmalade and Back to Black. Description above from the Wikipedia article Polly Morgan (cinematographer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jason Leavy

Cast · Producer · Known for Terrifier, Terrifier 2

The path that Jason Leavy has taken to get to this point has been very similar to that of his older brother Michael Leavy. Jason has been at his brother's side from the beginning and will be to the end. Nothing to this point would have been possible without Jason's willingness to help and do whatever is asked of him in order to better the project. Jason plays a large role in rounding out the Fuzz on the Lens team, because whereas Steven Della Salla and Mike Leavy approach filmmaking more from the production standpoint, Jason approaches filmmaking more from an acting standpoint. He brings a different character driven perspective that is necessary to push our creativity and writing to a new level. Like his brother, Jason excels both behind the camera as well as in front of it. He was Michael's successor at Monsignor Farrell's television studio, WFBN-TV. He ran the studio and anchored the show each morning. Once he graduated, Jason went on to Kean University where he is studied to get his Bachelor's Degree in Communications with a concentration in TV & Film.

Orri P. Dyrason

Orri Páll Dýrason is the drummer for Sigur Rós. He joined the band in 1999, shortly after the recording of the studio album Ágætis byrjun, when the previous drummer, Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson, left the band.

Jody Lawrance

As the 1950s began, Jody Lawrance (born Nona Josephine Goddard) showed much promise as a contract player for Columbia. In 1951 alone, she was the female lead in four features including "Ten Tall Men," playing opposite Burt Lancaster. However, her reticence to appear in the Mickey Rooney musical, "All Ashore" (1953) because she didn't feel she had the singing ability required for the role and her reluctance to do publicity for the studio resulted in an early release from her contract. After her appearance as Pocahontas in the independent film, "Captain John Smith and Pocahontas" (1953) was a critical and commercial flop, Lawrance was effectively out of the movie business. Now working as a waitress in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, she was the subject of a feature article on her plight as an actress. Soon afterward, she received a surprise visit at the restaurant by her former co-star Burt Lancaster, who promised to help restart her acting career. This led to a role in the film noir, "The Scarlet Hour" (1956) and a contract with Paramount. While her billing had dropped a few notches from her Columbia days, her career was clearly on the mend. However, when Paramount learned that she had eloped and was expecting her first child, they terminated her contract. Despite this latest setback in her career, Lawrance found work on the small screen and appeared on some of the most popular television series of the late 1950s, including "The Loretta Young Show," "The Rebel," and "Perry Mason." She succeeded during this period despite the failure of her first marriage and the subsequent custody battle. After her second marriage, she effectively retired from show business to raise a family with her new husband.

Sergio Pablos

Writer · Known for Despicable Me

Sergio Pablos is a Spanish animator who started out working in the Disney Studios in Paris. He later on moved to the studio in Burbank. Pablos’s first assignments included working under Kathy Zielinski on Frollo in Hunchback and under Nik Ranieri on Hades in Hercules. After that on Tarzan he was the character designer and supervising animator on Tantor the elephant. He followed this up by supervising Doctor Doppler in Treasure Planet, an assignment he wishes turned out differently because he didn’t quick like the human-dog thing. After this Pablos came out on his own running Amimagicfilms, which has produced spectacular animation in recent years. Most recently he has worked with BluSky on making the film for his creation Despicable Me as well as designing characters for Rio.

Jyoti Deshpande

Producer · Known for Dhurandhar, Dorothy

President – Jio Studios (Media & Content Business – Reliance Industries Ltd) Jyoti Deshpande is one of India’s foremost media and entertainment leaders, with over 30 years of experience across content creation, distribution, media strategy, and digital transformation. As President of the Media & Content Business at Reliance Industries Limited, she spearheads the vision and operations of Jio Studios, India’s No.1 content studio and a market leader she built from inception. Her ability to blend creative instincts with business acumen has made her a pioneer in consolidating India’s fragmented content industry, often referred to as the “Jiofication” of Indian entertainment. Under her leadership, Jio Studios has delivered unprecedented box office success, led by the blockbuster Dhurandhar duology that has grossed over ₹3000 crore ($330 million) worldwide, setting new global benchmarks, securing a place among the top 10 highest-grossing films worldwide in 2026. Jio Studios also holds the rare distinction of producing India’s highest-grossing Hindi films for three consecutive years—Stree 2 (2024), Dhurandhar (2025), and Dhurandhar The Revenge (2026), cementing its leadership in theatrical entertainment. This sustained momentum extends across a diverse and culturally resonant slate of films, including Laapataa Ladies (India’s official entry to the Oscars 2025), Stree, Article 370, Shaitaan, and Singham Again, among others. In under a decade, Jio Studios has produced over 200 films and web series in multiple Indian languages, with over 60 titles winning more than 500 awards reflecting Jyoti’s commitment to scale, inclusion, and storytelling with cultural impact. Beyond theatrical success, Jyoti has driven Jio Studios’ strong expansion into the digital ecosystem. In 2025 alone, the studio delivered a robust slate of 12 OTT releases across genres, including Mrs., Dhoom Dhaam, Bhagwat, Saali Mohabbat and Baramulla, reinforcing its platform-agnostic content strategy. The acquisition of a majority stake in Oscar-winning Sikhya Entertainment further strengthens Jio Studios’ global ambitions and its ‘Make in India, Show the World’ vision. Beyond creative vision, Jyoti brings unique perspectives on navigating media convergence, strategic investments, and digital disruption in emerging markets. As former CEO of Viacom18, she remains the only woman to have led a ‘Big 4’ Indian media company. Her extensive leadership experience spans board roles at Network18, Balaji Telefilms, JioSaavn, and Sikhya Entertainment. A respected industry voice, Jyoti has also played a pivotal role in policy and advocacy as Chairperson of FICCI Media & Entertainment Committee. A BAFTA member, she consistently features among Fortune India and Business Today’s Most Powerful Women in Business. With her multi-functional experience from nurturing content to global platform partnerships, Jyoti brings a rich, hands-on industry perspective to conversations on leadership, storytelling, media & entertainment value chain, gender and diversity, and the future of media.

Vance Gerry

Writer · Known for The Jungle Book

Regarded as one of the most creative and talented story artists in the animation industry, Gerry joined the Walt Disney Studios in 1955 after studying at the Chouinard Art Institute. He rose quickly through the ranks to become a layout artist. He contributed to the television shows "Goofy's Cavalcade of Sports" and "How to Relax"; the short features "The Truth About Mother Goose" and "Donald in Mathmagic Land"; and the features "101 Dalmatians" and "The Sword in the Stone." Gerry moved to the studio's story department on "The Jungle Book," Walt Disney's last animated feature. Looking back on that collaboration, Gerry said, "There was an aura about Walt: When he came into the room, you felt it. He focused very closely on what the characters would do and say." Gerry later made major contributions to "Dalmatians," "The Aristocats," "Robin Hood," "The Rescuers," "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" and "The Fox and the Hound." In "The Rescuers," he drew the storyboards, a shot by shot blueprint, for the sequence in which kidnapper Madame Medusa primps before a mirror while cruelly dismissing Penny's wish to return to the orphanage: "Adopted? What makes you think anyone would want a homely little girl like you?" In the book "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists," animation historian John Canemaker noted that Gerry needed only a few drawings to establish the type of shot, the mood of the sequence, the character's expressions, etc. Working from Gerry's sketches, animators developed their characters' actions: when Medusa would pull off her false eyelashes; how Penny would bow her head in resignation. Gerry told Canemaker how he liked to work. "I'd just as soon start with a title of a picture and start dreaming into it," he said. "A script is restricting because it tells you too much. I'd rather start earlier than that and look for possibilities for animation and entertainment, rather than story elements or structure." Gerry later received a story adaptation credit for "The Great Mouse Detective" and worked on the storyboards for "Fantasia/2000." Gerry shifted to visual development and character design in 1995, and contributed to "Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Tarzan" and "Home on the Range." Gerry also operated the Weatherbird Press, which published fine books. -http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/11/local/me-gerry11

Tamara Hunter

Casting · Known for The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Tamara Hunter is the head of casting at Apple. Hunter was the head of feature casting for Sony Pictures Entertainment where she oversaw feature film casting for the studio and its Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems, and animation units. She has worked on blockbuster hits including Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom, The Equaliser 2, Hotel Transylvania, Charlie’s Angels, Men in Black, You Are My Friend, and Miss Bala. Before moving to SPE in 2016, Hunter was vice president casting at 20th Century Fox, where she worked on Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Hidden Figures. Hunter started her career at Sarah Finn Co., where she spent more than a decade and rose to casting director, working on Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Godzilla, and The Fast and the Furious. Hunter has a bachelor’s from UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and TV.

Lindsey Collins

Executive Producer · Producer · Known for Elio, Toy Story 5, Turning Red

Lindsey Collins is an American film producer and studio executive known for her long career at Pixar Animation Studios. She joined the studio in May 1997 and worked in a variety of production capacities on several Pixar feature films, including A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille. She also provided the voice of Mia in Cars. Before joining Pixar, Collins worked for three years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, where she managed creative teams on Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College.

Mime Gopi

Cast · Known for Vishwanath & Sons

Prior to his entrance into the film industry, Mime Gopi was a renowned mime actor in Chennai and headed G Mime Studio, a studio which exhibited the art form. In his role, he worked closely with children with special needs to help them adapt miming skills. He had set up the studio in 1994 and had worked to expand the art across Chennai. Mime Gopi made a breakthrough as a film actor after appearing as the local rogue, Perumal in Madras (2014). He has since appeared as the antagonist in films such as Maari (2015) and Kathakali (2016)

Natalya Negoda

Natalya Negoda was born in Moscow in the creative family of director Tamara Pavlyuchenko and actor of the Moscow Young Generation Theater Igor Negoda, which determined their daughter's addiction to theater and cinema. After graduating from school, Natalya Negoda entered the studio school of the Moscow Art Theatre, which she graduated in 1986. In 1987, Natalya Negoda first appeared in a full-length film — in the drama by Yuri Kara "Tomorrow Was the War." In 1988, the world saw the picture of Vasily Pichul “Little Vera”, in which Negoda played a major role. This work brought world fame to the Soviet actress, she received the Nika Award for Best Actress and was also awarded the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. In the early 1990's, Natalya emigrated to the United States, where she continued to work as an actress. In 2009, after a long acting career break, she starred in Alexei Mizgiryov's film “Tambourine, Drum,” for which she received prizes from the Russian Guild of Film Critics and the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress.

Brad Winderbaum

Executive Producer · Producer · Known for Black Widow, Daredevil: Born Again, The Punisher: One Last Kill

Brad Winderbaum is an American producer and the Head of Marvel Television, Animation, Comics & Franchise at Marvel Studios. He was formerly a VP of Production & Development at the company. Winderbaum joined Marvel Studios during the production of the company's first feature, Iron Man, as an assistant to Louis D'Esposito . He played a role in developing the studio's immersive marketing, contributing to the creation of behind-the-scenes documentaries and interactive campaigns for films such as Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and The Avengers (2012). In his current role, Winderbaum has been a driving force behind Marvel Studios' expansion into television and animation. He has overseen the development and production every TV series and special since What If...? (2021). Under his leadership, Marvel Studios introduced a new sub-banner of its Marvel Television banner called Marvel Spotlight, which is meant for select series that explore more grounded, character-driven stories and have little to no impact on the larger MCU narrative.

Dunja Bernatzky

Cast · Known for Monster Mia

Dunja Bernatzky is a European producer and the co-founder and CEO of arx anima, the Vienna-based animation studio she started in 2011, where she also heads IP development. The studio works across animated features, series and visual effects with teams in Vienna, Frankfurt, Leipzig and Madrid. She produced the animated feature Monster Mia (2026), which she also co-wrote, and is producer on Guardian Rabbits: The Secret of the Golden Egg (2027) and Pirate Mo and the Legend of the Red Ruby. She co-produced Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible (2022) and The Super Elfkins (2024), and was executive producer for arx anima on the first three seasons of the animated series Talking Tom & Friends, which the studio developed and produced together with Outfit7. She also directs the voice recordings on arx anima's own productions. On projects where arx anima works as a service studio she is credited as executive visual effects producer: the animated features The Elfkins: Baking a Difference (2019) and Raven the Little Rascal: Hunt for the Lost Treasure (2019), the science-fiction feature Rubikon (2022), the fantasy feature A Girl Named Willow (2025), the Sky series Django (2023), the comedy Hades (2023) and the documentaries Matter Out of Place (2022) and Mutzenbacher (2022).

Guido Quaroni

Cast · Known for Cars, Cars 3

Guido Quaroni began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in January 1997. He worked for two years in modeling, rigging and shading for "Toy Story 2," and then went on to work in effects for the film. Quaroni later became the sequence supervisor in the shots department for "Monsters, Inc." where he worked on hair and effects technology. From there, he continued to work with the Software Research and Development team, of which he was the leader for the asset/shading pipeline and later on lead of the Production Engineering team. In January 2007, Quaroni went on to work as supervising technical director for the Academy Award®-winning feature film "Toy Story 3." Quaroni was responsible for defining the various technologies used in the film, establishing the production pipeline, and managing the various technical teams. He also served as a Supervising Technical Director on "Monsters University." In May 2011, Quaroni was promoted to Vice President of Software R&D. In this role, he oversees the studio graphics and animation software including the Academy Award®-winning animation software "Presto." Quaroni has also contributed his voice talents to the Golden Globe® winning film "Cars" as the voice of Guido, the Italian forklift. Quaroni returned as the voice of Guido in both "Cars 2" in 2011 and "Cars 3" in 2017. Quaroni dreamt of working at Pixar from the moment he saw the short film "Luxo, Jr." He was passionate about computers, engineering, graphics and animation, and Pixar seemed to be the ideal place for him. Prior to working at Pixar, Quaroni worked for a software house in Italy, specializing in graphics and visualization applications running on NeXT computers. Born and raised in Italy, Quaroni did his studies in Milan and in 1993 moved to Vicenza, a town close to Venice. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pixar Official site

Artt Butler

Cast · Known for Her, Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Artt Butler started working in the voice-over industry in 1991 as the lead booth director of a talent agency, providing instruction and direction to voice actors during their recordings. Among the places he worked were VoiceTrax West, a recording studio in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, where he worked with hundreds of actors on such projects as television and radio commercials, animation and interactive CD-ROM titles. After 15 years in this profession, Butler began to start working in voice acting himself.

Itsuro Kawasaki

Itsurou Kawasaki joined I.G Tatsunoko as animator and stayed there after the studio's renaming to Production I.G in 1993. During that time he rose from animator to director. Today he is still working at Production I.G but has also often worked as director and storyboarder on series for animation studio Zexcs. Moreover he also works often as screenwriter, mostly on series he also directs.

Charles Leavitt

Writer · Known for Warcraft

After writing the 1996 film Sunchaser, the 1998 film The Mighty and the 2001 film K-PAX, Leavitt was hired by Warner Bros. in February 2004 to rewrite an early draft of the film Blood Diamond, then titled Okavango. The story had been stuck in "development hell" at the studio for years before producers Paula Weinstein and Gillian Gorfil finally decided on the story of an African farmer caught up in the conflict between an American smuggler and the local diamond mining organization. Leavitt researched the diamond industry to great lengths before he began writing the screenplay, explaining that he has "always been a stickler for immersing [himself] in research". He wrote the film with the assumption that it would offend the diamond industry, particularly De Beers, and so made sure to portray the industry truthfully, aware that he could potentially be sued by De Beers and other powerful mining corporations. Paula Weinstein was impressed by Leavitt's Blood Diamond draft, but hired writers Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz to rewrite the script again; by the time he had completed the script, Zwick had become so interested in the story that he agreed to direct the film as well. Leavitt was signed by Warner Bros. in October 2006 to adapt Vanity Fair editor Doug Stumpf's novel Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, which the studio had acquired the rights to in mid-2005. He has also since rewritten Scott Williams' original draft of The Express, a biographical film about American football player Ernie Davis. He wrote the screenplay for In the Heart of the Sea, for Intermedia and Spring Creek, and has written Animal Kingdom on spec. He re-wrote the 2014 film Seventh Son and the 2016 film Warcraft.

Jonathan Schwartz

Producer · Executive Producer · Known for Avengers: Doomsday, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Jonathan Schwartz is a Vice President of Production and Development at Marvel Studios. As a member of Marvel Studios’ Parliament, he helps guide the overall direction of the studio's projects. A longtime studio member since 2008, Schwartz has played a key role in shaping the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning as Kevin Feige's assistant on early MCU titles before rising to the creative executive role with Marvel's The Avengers.

Mary Parent

Producer · Known for Digger, Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Kong

Mary Parent (born 1968) is an American film producer and former studio executive. A native of Santa Barbara, California, Parent studied business at the University of Southern California before launching a modestly successful women's fashion company. Her interest in film led her to take an entry-level job at a talent agency, and she eventually entered the entertainment industry in the early 1990s. Parent began her executive career at New Line Cinema, where she rose to vice president and helped shepherd projects such as Set It Off and Pleasantville. She later joined Universal Pictures as senior vice president of production, where she oversaw films including 8 Mile (2002), helping launch successful collaborations with filmmakers like Judd Apatow. In 2005, she co-founded the production company Stuber/Parent at Universal. In 2008, Parent was named chairman and co-CEO of MGM, but left shortly after due to the studio’s financial struggles. She subsequently founded Disruption Entertainment, signing a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures and producing films such as Pacific Rim (2013), Noah (2014), and The Revenant (2015), the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. That year, she placed 28th on The Wall Street Journal's "50 Women to Watch 2008" list. Since 2016, Parent has served as vice chairman of worldwide production at Legendary Entertainment. She has overseen major projects including Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune (2021), which she had advocated for since 2013. Known for her ability to balance creative and financial priorities, Parent has been praised by collaborators for her dedication to storytelling and support of directors' visions. In 2022, Parent was announced as that year's recipient of the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Parent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Yutaka Okada

Producer · Known for Female Teacher

Worked at Nikkatsu and was a member of the “Hachiro Guryu” screenwriting group surrounding director Seijun Suzuki, working in various capacities at the studio as an assistant director and eventually becoming a film producer.

Mary Livanos

Executive Producer · Known for The Marvels

Mary Livanos is an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios. She began her career at the studio in 2012 as a research and development intern and has progressed through a range of production and development roles, contributing to both film and television projects across the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Before joining Marvel Studios, she worked as an assistant and worked as a motion picture and literary talent intern at William Morris Endeavor. Within Marvel Studios, Livanos has been involved in the development and production of numerous high-profile projects, including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Daredevil: Born Again. She transitioned into senior producing roles with Marvel Studios' expansion into serialized storytelling, serving as co-executive producer on Marvel Studios's first television production, WandaVision. As an executive producer, Livanos continued to oversee major Marvel Studios releases, including the feature film The Marvels, and the television miniseries Agatha All Along and VisionQuest. Earlier in her career, Livanos wrote, directed, edited, and produced the 2013 short film Commitment Issues.

Naohisa Inoue

Cast · Known for Whisper of the Heart

Naohisa Inoue is a fantasy artist influenced by both the Surrealism and Impressionism movements. Most of his paintings are set in the fantastical land of Iblard. He created reference and background art for the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart and also provided a cameo appearance as the voice of Minami.

George Montgomery

George Montgomery was boxing champion at the University of Montana, where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later, he decided to take up boxing more seriously, and moved to California, where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in Hollywood, he came to the attention of the studios (not least, because he was an expert rider) and was hired as a stuntman in 1935. After doing this for four years, George was offered a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1939, but found himself largely confined to leads in B-westerns. He did not secure a part in anything even remotely like a prestige picture, until his co-starring role in Roxie Hart (1942), opposite Ginger Rogers. Next, in Orchestra Wives (1942), he played the perfunctory love interest for Ann Rutherford -- though both, inevitably, ended up playing second trombone to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. In 1947, George got his first serious break, being cast as Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe, in The Brasher Doubloon (1947). Reviewers, however, compared his performance unfavourably with that of Humphrey Bogart and found the film 'pallid' overall. So it was back to the saddle for George. Unable to shake his image as a cowboy actor, he starred in scores of films with titles like Belle Starr's Daughter (1948), Dakota Lil (1950), Jack McCall Desperado (1953) and Masterson of Kansas (1954) at Columbia, and for producer Edward Small at United Artists. When not cleaning up the Wild West with his six-shooter, he branched out into adventure films set in exotic locales (notably as Harry Quartermain in Watusi (1959)). During the 60's, he also wrote, directed and starred in several long-forgotten, low-budget wartime potboilers made in the Philippines. At the height of his popularity, George attracted as much publicity for his acting, as for his liaisons with glamorous stars, like Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr (to whom he was briefly engaged) and singer Dinah Shore (whom he married in 1943). After his retirement from the film business, he devoted himself to his love of painting, furniture-making and sculpting bronze busts, including one of his close friend Ronald Reagan.