Kitty Carlisle was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush.

Kitty Carlisle was born as Catherine Conn in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family was of German Jewish heritage. Her grandfather, Ben Holtzman, was the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War and was a gunner on the Merrimac, the first ironclad warship. Carlisle’s father, Dr. Joseph Conn, was a gynecologist who died when she was 10. Her mother, Hortense Holtzman Conn, was a woman obsessed with breaking into the prevailing Gentile society.

Carlisle’s early education took place in New Orleans. In 1921, she was taken to Europe, where her mother hoped to marry her off to European royalty, believing the nobility there more amenable to a Jewish bride ? only to end up flitting around Europe and living in what Carlisle recalled as “the worst room of the best hotel.” Carlisle was educated in Switzerland, then at the Sorbonne

and the London School of Economics. She studied acting in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Klaus Landsberg was a pioneering electrical engineer who made history with early commercial telecasts and helped pave the way to today’s Television networks.

He appeared in many plays during his childhood. In his early teens he combined his technical skill and expressed desire to pursue his strong artistic inclination, setting out to prove that the two could be successfully blended.

In 1936 he was called upon to assist in the history-making telecast of the Berlin Olympic Games, an event that marked television’s rounding of one of the proverbial corners.

In 1937 Klaus was appointed laboratory engineer and assistant to Dr. Korm, the Inventor of picture telegraphy. During this association, Landsberg himself created many new electronic devices. The most outstanding of these achievements was the invention of an electronic aid to navigation and blind landings, considered so vital to the Third Reich that upon being patented was declared a military-secret, which Landsberg was determined to destroy as a Nazi weapon. This basic radar principle later became Landsberg’s passport to America.

Keye Luke (, Cantonese: Luk Sek Lam, -born American actor.

Luke was born in Guangzhou, China to a father who owned an art shop, but grew up in Seattle. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Hollywood, and worked on several of the murals inside Grauman’s Chinese Theater. He did some of the original artwork for the 1933 King Kong pressbook. Luke also painted the casino’s mural in The Shanghai Gesture.

Luke made his film debut in The Painted Veil, and the following year gained his first big role, as Charlie Chan’s eldest son in Charlie Chan in Paris. He worked so well with Warner Oland, the actor playing Chan, that “Number One Son” became a regular character in the series, alternately helping and distracting ‘Pop’ Chan in each of his murder cases.

Keye Luke left the Charlie Chan series in 1938, shortly after Oland died. The unfinished Oland-Luke film Charlie Chan at the Ringside was completed as Mr. Moto’s Gamble, with Luke now opposite Peter Lorre.

Kiefer Sutherland was honored with the 2,377th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Leron Gubler, President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, presided over the ceremony. Guests included Donald Sutherland and Joel Schumacher.

Hollywood Boulevard on December 9, 2008.

BIOGRAPHY

Kiefer Sutherland was born on December 21, 1966 in London, England to parents Shirley Douglas and the great actor Donald Sutherland. His first role was in the movie "Max Dugan Returns" and his first major motion picture role was in the Canadian drama, "The Bay Boy," which earned him a Genie Award nomination. Following his success in "The Bay Boy," Sutherland eventually moved to Los Angeles and landed a television appearance in an episode of "Amazing Stories."

Kiefer Sutherland currently stars in the critically acclaimed Fox drama, "24," for which he has won a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and two SAG Awards, for Best Actor in a Drama Series. The show has also garnered an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "Best Drama". The show has also enjoyed tremendous success overseas, making it one of the top international shows airing internationally.

Sutherland lent his voice to the character of General W.R. Monger in Dreamworks Animations' " Monsters vs Aliens" which was released on March 27, 2009.

Sutherland recently starred alongside Amy Smart and Paula Patton in New Regency's thriller "Mirrors." His other films include: "The Sentinel," "The River Queen," "Taking Lives," "Phone Booth", "A Soldier's Sweetheart," "Dark City" "Truth or Consequences," "Eye for an Eye," "A Time to Kill," "The Three Musketeers," "A Few Good Men," Sutherland's other film credits include "Flatliners," "1969," "Young Guns," "Young Guns 2," "Bright Lights, Big City," "The Lost Boys," "Promised Land," "At Close Range," and "Stand By Me." Sutherland also provided the narration for "NASCAR: The Imax Experience."

Sutherland is the owner of Ironworks Studio, record label, recording studio and publishing company, which he started along with his long time friend, singer/songwriter Jude Cole. Together they have signed the following acts, Rocco DeLuca, Ron Sexsmith Billy Boy on Poison and honeyhoney.

Despite his busy schedule, Sutherland finds the time to assist various charities by doing PSA's on their behalf. They include: The Red Cross, Malaria No More, C.A.R.E., City of Hope and many others.