Louis Charles Hayward was a British actor born in South Africa.

Born in Johannesburg, Hayward’s screen work began in British films, notably as Simon Templar in Leslie Charteris’ In 1939 he played a dual role in The Man in the Iron Mask.

During World War II, Hayward enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and commanded a photographic unit that filmed the Battle of Tarawa in a documentary titled With the Marines at Tarawa (winner of the 1944 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Hayward was awarded the Bronze Star Medal

He also played the role of Philip Lombard in the 1945 version of And Then There Were None. Hayward starred in the 1954 television series The Lone Wolf. Hayward’s other television work includes a role as a judge in an episode, “Day of Reckoning”, of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor.

Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer. He began his career on stage and was subsequently lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, detectives, and police officers in many movie roles.

He was a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Although many critics hailed his acting ability and it was generally acknowledged that he never gave a bad performance, Nolan was relegated to B movies for the most part. Yet even so, he costarred with such actresses as Mae West, Dorothy McGuire, and the former Metropolitan Opera soprano, Gladys Swarthout. Under contract to Paramount and 20th Century Fox studios, he assayed starring roles in the late 30s and early-to-mid 40s and appeared as the lead character of the “Michael Shayne” detective series. Oddly, the first screen version of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window was transformed in 1942 from a Philip Marlowe adventure into part of the Michael Shayne series starring Nolan as Shayne. The film was remade five years later as The Brasher Doubloon with George Montgomery as Marlowe.

Loretta Swit is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. Swit is best-known for her portrayal of Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on M

In 1967, Swit toured with the national company of Any Wednesday, starring Gardner McKay. She continued as one of the Pigeon sisters opposite Don Rickles and Ernest Borgnine in a Los Angeles run of The Odd Couple.

In 1975, Swit played in Same Time, Next Year on Broadway opposite Ted Bessell. She also performed on Broadway in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. From there, she played Agnes Gooch in the Las Vegas version of Mame, starring Susan Hayward and later, Celeste Holm. Most recently, Swit has toured with The Vagina Monologues”.

Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film 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 her role in Come to the Stable, in 1950.

Young then moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series called The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. A devout Catholic, Young worked with charities after her acting career.

She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Michaela Young, of Luxembourgian descent. At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she was three years old.

Young and her sisters Polly Ann and Elizabeth Jane worked as child actresses, of whom Loretta was the most successful. Young’s first role was at the age of three, in the silent film The Primrose Ring. The movie’s star Mae Murray so fell in love with Young that she wanted to adopt her. Although her mother declined, Young was allowed to live with Murray for two years. During her high school years, Young was educated at Ramona Convent Secondary School.

Lorne Greene, was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.

His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction TV Series Battlestar Galactica. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness, and in television commercials as a dog food spokesman.

Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Russian Jewish immigrants, Daniel and Dora Green. He was called "Chaim" by his mother, and his name is shown as "Hyman" on his school report cards. In his biography, the author, his daughter Linda Greene Bennett, stated that it was not known when he began using "Lorne", nor when he added an "e" to Green.

Greene began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, where he also acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station CFRC. He gave up on a career in chemical engineering and, upon graduation, found a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation .