William Louis Petersen is best known for playing Dr. Gilbert “Gil”
Grissom on the CBS-TV series CSI:Crime Scene Investigation. He
also starred in the first Hannibal lecter film, Manhunter in 1986.
William Petersen in Manhunter
Petersen played a secret service agent (above) in William Friedkin’s
1985 action film To Live and Die in L.A.
John Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the ABC-TV series
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 – 1979) and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). His career faced a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction (1994), and he has since continued starring in many Hollywood films.Travolta has twice been nominated for the Academy Award For Best Actor.The first, for his role in Saturday Night Fever and the second for Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award For Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his 1995 performance in Get Shorty.
John Travolta as Vinny Barbarino in Welcome Back Kotter
John Travolta with Olivia Newton-John in Grease
Travolta in Pulp Fiction
Vanna White has been the hostess and puzzle-board turner of televisions
Wheel of Fortune (NBC/CBS) since 1982.
NBC-TV launched its first nightly newscast with a 10-minute program called Camel
Newsreel Theater hosted by John Cameron Swayze (above). It featured newsreels
from Fox Movietone News with Swayze providing voice-overs.
LeVar Burton, is a German-born actor, director, producer and author. He is
well-known for portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC-TV
miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also known for
his portrayal of Geordi LaForge on the syndicated science fiction series
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
LeVar Burton in Roots
