Eugene Allen “Gene” Hackman is a retired actor and a novelist.Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and
two British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards in a career that spanned
four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow
in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include his role as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection (1970) Hooseriers (1986), Unforgiven (1992) and
his final film role before retirement was in Welcome to Mooseport (2004). 

           Gene Hackman, left, and Warren Beatty from Bonnie and Clyde

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The first of 2,956 radio episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.The first actor to play the Long Ranger was George Seaton, seen in picture below. In 1941, the show’s announcer for several years, deep-voiced performer Brace Beemer took over the role and played the part until the end. The above photo shows Brace Beemer, center, with the rest of the radio shows cast in the studios of WXYZ.

                          Radio actor George Seaton

Christian (Charles Philip) Bale is an English actor who, In addition to starring
in big budget Hollywood  films,  has played in films produced by independent
producers and art houses. Bale first caught the public eye at the age of 13,
when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film Empire
of the Sun. He has recently received critical acclaim for his performance in
The Fighter (2010),earning him several awards including the Golden Globe
for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture and a  nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Christian Bale as a lost English boy in a Japanese interment
camp during World War ll. 

 
                  Bale as Batman in The Dark Knight (2008)

             
                Psychological thriller,The Machinist (2004)

Thomas William "Tom" Selleck  is an actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the CBS-TV
show Magnum, P.I.(1980 – 1988).Tom also plays Jesse Stone in a series of made-
for-TV movies. In 2010, he appeared as Chief Frank Reagan in the drama Blue
Bloods on CBS. His most successful movie release was Three Men and a Baby
which was the highest grossing movie in 1987. 

                        Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum

William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was a comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields was known for his comic roles as a cantankerous and
hard-drinking egotist who was a compassionate character despite his snarling
contempt for dogs, children, and women.