James Oliver Cromwell  is a  film and television actor. Some of his more notable roles are in Babe (1995), for which he earned Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mils (1999), and in the television series Six Feet Under (2003-2005). He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.

    
                                                Cromwell in Babe

 
      James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film W. (2008)

Shari Lewis was a ventriloquist/puppeteer and children’s TV show
host during the 1960’s and 1990’s. She’s best known as the original
puppeteer of Lamb Chop (seen above). Shari received numerous
awards including twelve Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. Her
career began in 1952 when she won first prize for her puppetry on
Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts TV show. Shari died of cancer on
August 2, 1998.

Loretta Young began as a child actress, she had a long and varied
career in films from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Best Actress
Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer’s
Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for work in 
Come to the Stable, in 1950. Loretta then moved to what 
was then the relatively new medium of television, where 
she had a dramatic anthology series from 1953 to 1961
called The Loretta Young Show. The series earned
three Emmy Awards. Loretta died August 12, 2000. 

  
                  Publicity photo for The Loretta Young Show

Robert Duvall received a Best Actor Academy Award for his role
in Tender Mercies (1983).  He was also awarded two Emmy Awards,
and four Golden Globe Awards during his busy film career.

      Robert Duvall as Arthur “Boo” Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird

                 Robert in a scene from The Godfather (1972)

   
   Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979)

               “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”!


Duvall played Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country
singer in Tender Mercies.

Actor Ted Danson is best known as bartender Sam Malone on the
CBS-TV sitcom Cheers (1982 – 1993). He has been nominated for
fourteen Primetime Emmy Awards during his career. Ted is listed
in second place on TV Guides list of the Top 25 TV Stars.