Sollie Paul Williams, known professionally as Tex Williams, was a Western
swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois. Williams is best known for his talking  
blues style such as his biggest hit novelty song, “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!
(That Cigarette)”. It held the number one position on the Billboard charts
for six weeks in 1947. "Smoke" was the No. 5 song on Billboard’s Top 100
list for 1947, and was No. 1 on the country chart that year. It can be heard
during the opening scenes of the 2006 movie, Thank You for Smoking.

Robert Redford, is a, film director, producer, businessman, model,
environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film
Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing the 
film Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. His
most popular films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and
All the President’s Men (1976).

Robert Redford with costar Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid

Arlene Carol Dahl is a actress and former MGM star who reached the
peak of her popularity in the 1950s. Some of her most successful films
include: Reign of Terror (1949), Three Little Words (1950), Woman’s
World (1954), Slightly Scarlet (1956), and Journey to the Center of the
Earth (1959). In 1953, Dahl hosted The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, a
dramatic anthology series on ABC-TV. She is the mother of actor
Lorenzo Lamas.

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Actor Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, California and later moved to
Oregon with his family during his teenage years. He graduated from David
Douglas High School in Portland and attended Clark College in Vancouver,
Washington, where he completed a two-year program. Elliott began his
career as a character actor; his appearance and bearing were ideally
suited to Westerns. One of his first film roles was as ‘Card Player #2’ in
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

In 1970-71, Sam Elliott starred as Doug Robert in the popular TV series
Mission: Impossible in 1970 to 1971, and played the lead character Sam
Damon in the NBC miniseries Once an Eagle (1976-1977). Sam was also 
the oldest brother in the made-for-TV NBC miniseries The Sacketts which 
also starred Tom Selleck.

 

Sam Elliott in Tombstone (1993)

Sam Elliott played "The Stranger" (above), a character narrating
the story of The Big Lebowski (1998).

Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is a popular singer known for his chart-topping hits
in the 1960s and 1970s such as “Hooked on a Feeling” in 1968 and in 1969
the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid featured Thomas singing the
Burt Bacharach/Hal David song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, which
won the Academy Award for best original song that year and became the
number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.