Kevin Michael Costner is an actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe awards.. Costner’s roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves (1990), Jim Garrison in JFK (1991), Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989), and Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987). Costner earned a B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton, in 1978.

  
   Kevin behind the camera directing Dances With Wolves

             

Kevin Costner singing with his band Kevin Costner and Modern West

The ABC-TV police series ran until 1978 and starred former child actor Robert Blake as police detective Tony Baretta.

                             Robert Blake with “Fred” the Cockatoo

Michael D. Roberts (above) played “Rooster”, a streetwise pimp and
Tony’s favorite informant. 

James Earl Jones, a multi-award-winning actor of stage and
screen is best known for providing his deep voice for Darth 
Vader in the Star Wars franchise. His first big role was the
part of boxer Jack Jefferson in the film version of the
Broadway play The Great White Hope, 1967.

James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope

Jones as B-52 bombardier Lt. Zogg in Dr. Strangelove

 
                                     Darth Vader

Carl Weathers, former football player turned actor, is best known
for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky film series (1976 – 1990).

    
                 Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky

LOS ANGELES — David Nelson, who starred on his parents’ popular television show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. He was 74.

Nelson died at his home in the Century City area of Los Angeles after battling complications of colon cancer, said family spokesman and longtime Hollywood publicist Dale Olson.

Nelson was the last remaining member of the Nelsons TV family, which included actor/bandleader Ozzie, his singer wife, Harriet Hilliard and his teen idol brother Rick. (AP)