(August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997)

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was a film actor, author, composer and
singer who is #23 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male
American screen legends of all time. He appeared in Charles Laughton’s
only film as director, The Night of the Hunter (1955). Mitchum also starred
in Thunder Road (1958), Cape Fear (1962), and the Howard Hawks western
El Dorado (1966). Robert Mitchum recorded a song he had written for the
film Thunder Road, titled “The Ballad of Thunder Road”. The country-styled
song became a modest hit for Mitchum, reaching #69 on the Billboard Pop
Singles Chart.

Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum from Cape Fear

John Wayne (left) with Robert Mitchum in El Dorado

Michael Connell Biehn is best known for his roles in James Cameron’s science
fiction action films The Terminator (1984) as Kyle Reese, Aliens (1986) as Cpl.
Dwayne Hicks, and The Abyss (1989) as Lt. Coffey. He also had a role in the film Tombstone (1993). Biehn was also in the cast of the Emmy Award-winning NBC
television series Hill Street Blues which aired from 1981 to 1987.  

Michael Biehn in Aliens

The Gene Autry Show is a western/ cowboy television series which aired for
91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally
sponsored by Wrigley’s Doublemint  chewing gum. The series ran for 5
seasons. The first 4 were in black and white, and the final season, 13
episodes, was in color. Color was experimented with in two or three
episodes of the first season. The theme song Back In the Saddle
Again was written by Autry and Ray Whitley and sung by Gene
Autry. The Gene Autry Show had a 26 episode prime-time spin-
off called The Adventures of Champion from 1955 to 1956.

The television version of Gunsmoke ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975,
and was America’s longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635  
episodes. The show aired on the CBS television network.

                         (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990)

Barbara Stanwyck was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career 
as a skillful and versatile professional with a strong screen presence. After a short
but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38
years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Her 1961 to 1962 series The
Barbara Stanwyck Show was not that big a success but earned her first Emmy
Award. The ABC-TV series The Big Valley (1965-1969) made her one of the
most popular actresses on television, winning her another Emmy. Barbara
Stanwyck is ranked as the eleventh greatest female stare of all time by the
American Film Institute.