Robert De Niro, Jr. is a actor, director and producer. His first major film role
was in 1973’s Bang the Drum Slowly. In 1974 DeNiro played the young Vito
Corleone in the The Godfather Part ll, a role that won him the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1980 he earned an Academy Award
for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake La Motta in the Martin Scorsese film
Raging Bull. He was also nominated for an Oscar for Taxi Driver (1976),
Cape Fear (1991), and The Deer Hunter (1978). Robert’s role in Scorsese’s
Goodfellas (1990) earned him a BAFTA nomination. He also has earned four
nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical
or Comedy, one of them being for his role in Analyze This (1999). De Niro has
directed A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006).

De Niro in Raging Bull

Timothy  Hutton has the  distinction of being the youngest actor to win the 
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of the
20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980). Hutton
currently stars as Nathan “Nate” Ford on the TNT series Leverage which is
produced in Portland, Oregon.

Timothy Hutton with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar

1981

Timothy Hutton (left) with costar Christian Kane on the set of Leverage

Timothy Hutton (right) with Steve Karm, one of his Portland fans.

Jane Wyatt with Billy Gray

Jane Waddington Wyatt was a actress perhaps best known for her role as
the housewife and mother on the CBS television comedy Father Knows Best
(1954-1960), and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the
television Sci-Fi series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award winner.

The cast of “Father Knows Best”: clockwise from top left,
Elinor Donahue, Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray and
Lauren Chapin.

  
                               (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006)

Buck Owens (born Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr.) was a well known singer and guitarist
who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the
Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield Sound, a
reference to the city Owens called home, Bakersfield, California. Owens is a
member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville songwriters Hall
of Fame.

Buck Owens (left) and the Buckaroos

Buck’s guitar in the museum at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace.

"Act Naturally” became Buck Owens and the Buckaroos’ first No. 1
hit in 1963.

Dustin Lee Hoffman is a actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since
1960. Hoffman began his acting career in the Pasadena Playhouse. He got the
favorable attention of critics for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he
won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Hoffman’s first film break
role was The Graduate in 1967. Other movies that followed included Midnight
Cowboy (1969), All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man both in 1976. He 
has won two Academy Awards, one for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), 
and the other for his performance in Rain Man (1988). He is also received 
five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards’, a Genie 
Award and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman also received the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1999.

Dustin Hoffman with Anne Bancroft in a scene from The Graduate

Hoffman with costar Tom Cruse

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)