Kenneth "Ken" Mars was born April 14, 1936. He was a television, movie and voice actor, best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968’s The Producers, and the relentless police 
Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974’s Young Frankenstein. He died 
Saturday, February 12th of cancer at the age of 74.

 
Peter Tork is a musician and actor, best known as a member of The Monkees. He was
a folk musician before joining the group in 1966, touring with several bands around  
the world. 

Joseph Frank "Joe" Pesci , actor, comedian, singer and musician has
starred in a number of  films such as Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), 
My Cousin Vinny (1992), JFK (1991), and Home Alone (1990). Pesci
won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1990 for his
role as movster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas.

James Byron Dean is a cultural icon, best thought of as being like the
title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which
he starred as a troubled  teenager, Jim Stark. The other two roles that
made him a star were as Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and the farmer, 
Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean’s continued popularity rests on his work
in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in car 
crash in 1955 helped establish his legendary status. He was only 24.

James Dean was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award for 
Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting
nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Dean the 18th best
male movie star on their AFI 100 Years…100 Stars list.

James Dean behind the wheel of his Porsche 550 Spyder, the car
he died in

Actor Miguel José Ferrer is often cast in roles as a villain. Ferrer was
born the oldest of five children of Academy Award-winner Jose’Ferrer 
and singer Rosemary Clooney. Ferrer began his career in the early
1980s making guest appearances on episodic television. He  had a
small part in Star Trek lll: The Search For Spock (1984) as the helm
officer Excelsior. A major role for the actor came in the 1987 action
movie Robocop.

                           Miguel Ferrer as helm officer in Star Trek lll.

                            Ferrer, far right, in a scene from Robocop