Danville High School photo

Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman first came to fame in 1967 with his
performance in Bonnie and Clyde. Other major films include The
French Connection (1971), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), and
Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven which won the Academy Award for
Best Picture in 1991. Hackman won an Oscar for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role in the film. Before his acting career, he was
a radio operator in the U.S. Marine Corps. 

Hackman in The French Connection

Gene Hackman as seen in Unforgiven

Actor Alan Alda (Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo) is a six-time
Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, best known
for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H
(1972-1983).

News conference following the wrapping of the series in 1983

High School yearbook, 1958

James Oliver Cromwell made his acting debut on the NBC-
TV show, ‘The Rockford Files’ in 1974. His notable films
include Babe (1995), for which he was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Star Trek: First
Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), and The Green
Mile (1999).

Singer-songwriter Neil Leslie Diamond has sold over 115 million
records worldwide including 48 million in the U.S. alone as of
2001. He is considered to be the third most successful adult
contemporary artist ever on the Billboard chart behind Barbra
Streisand and Elton John. Neil Diamond was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in 2011.

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Linda Denise Blair is best known for her role of a possessed
child in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, for which she was
nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes,
winning one. Prior to fame, Linda was a child model from
the age of six.