Lloyd Vernon Hamilton was a major silent film star. Hamilton is best remembered as the stocky half of silent comedy’s “Ham and Bud”, and later, his own series of short comedies. Hamilton’s skill was admired by his fellow comedians, thus contributing to his reputation as a comedian’s comedian?according to Oscar Levant, Charlie Chaplin singled him out as the one actor of whom he was jealous, Buster Keaton in an interview praised him as “one of the funniest men in pictures,” while Charley Chase, who early in his career had directed Hamilton in a number of short subjects, stated that he would often ask himself “how would ‘Ham’ Hamilton play this?” before shooting a scene.

In his solo comedies, the husky Hamilton adopted the persona of a slightly prissy, overgrown boy, and his films often have surreal touches: in The Movies he tearfully bids goodbye to his mother to go to the city, turns his back on the family farm, and steps directly into the city which is right next door. In Move Along he neatly lays his trousers in the street, to have a steamroller press them. Few of Hamilton’s silent comedies survive; they were produced by Educational Pictures, which suffered a laboratory fire in 1937. Those of Hamilton’s films that do exist are often prized by comedy collectors and silent-film enthusiasts.

Hamilton was a heavy drinker, and it has long been claimed that he would often turn rather violent when intoxicated. In the late 1920s he was in a speakeasy when a boxer was murdered, and after the incident the motion picture authorities banned him from pictures. By 1929 he was back on screen in talking pictures but his continued drinking affected his health. Meanwhile, his alcoholism also affected his family life; he was married twice, first to Ethel Lloyd and later to Irene Dalton, but each marriage turned disastrous and did not last long.

Hamilton’s last starring series was a string of two-reel comedies produced by Mack Sennett. He continued to play the hapless victim of circumstance, as in Too Many Highballs where Hamilton tries to park his car and keeps getting boxed in by motorists. When the Sennett series lapsed, there was talk of Hamilton joining the Hal Roach studio, but Roach knew of Hamilton’s notorious alcohol abuse and declined to hire him. Hamilton’s facial features had acquired deep lines and hollows from heavy drinking, and he no longer looked like the “overgrown boy” in his final films.

Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.

She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith’s seminal Birth of a Nation. Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter. She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film,

The Whales of August.

The American Film Institute named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.

Lillian Roth was an American singer and actress.

Born as Lillian Rutstein in Boston, Massachusetts, she was only 6 years old when her mother took her to Educational Pictures, where she became the company’s trademark, symbolized by a living statue holding a lamp of knowledge. In her book, she described being molested by the man who painted her as a statue. The following year she made her Broadway debut in The Inner Man. Her motion picture debut came in 1918 in Pershing’s Crusaders. Together with her sister Ann she toured as “Lillian Roth and Co.” At times the two were billed as “The Roth Kids.” One of the most exciting moments for her came when she met U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The President took Lillian and her sister for a ride around the block in his chauffeur driven car, after attending a performance of their vaudeville act.

Roth entered the Clark School of Concentration in the early 1920s. She appeared in Artists and Models in 1923 and went on to make Revels with Frank Fay. During production for the former show, she told management she was nineteen years of age. When she was seventeen, she made the first of three Earl Carroll Vanities with comedienne Ray Dooley. This was soon followed by Midnight Frolics, a Flo Ziegfeld production.

Soon the young actress signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Among the films she made for Paramount were The Love Parade with Maurice Chevalier, “The Vagabond King,” the all-star revue Paramount on Parade, Honey, in which she introduced “Sing You Sinners,” Cecil B. DeMille’s Madam Satan with Reginald Denny, “Sea Legs” with Jack Oakie, and the classic comedy Animal Crackers with the Marx Brothers. She also played Ethel Merman’s stage role in the film version of “Take a Chance,” singing “Eadie Was a Lady.” After leaving Paramount, she had a supporting role in the women’s prison film Ladies They Talk About with Barbara Stanwyck.

Lindsay Jean Wagner is an American actress. She is probably most widely known for her portrayal of Jaime Sommers in the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman, though she has maintained a lengthy career in a variety of other film and television productions since.

Wagner was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Marilyn Louise and William Nowels Wagner. When she was seven years old, her parents divorced and her mother moved with her to the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, near Pasadena. Another move with her mother and stepfather brought her to Portland, Oregon, where she attended David Douglas High School and appeared in a number of school plays. She studied at the University of Oregon.

Wagner worked as a model in Los Angeles, and gained some television experience by appearing as a hostess in Playboy After Dark. However, it was not until she contacted a friend at Universal Studios and was cast in a small part in Marcus Welby, M.D. that her acting career gained momentum. Her appearances helped her win roles in the films Two People and The Paper Chase. Wagner played a total of four different roles on the Marcus Welby, M.D. series between 1971-75, as well as a recurring guest role in The Rockford Files.

In 1975, Wagner played the role of Jaime Sommers, a former tennis pro who was the childhood sweetheart of Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin. In a two-part episode entitled “The Bionic Woman”, Jaime was critically injured in a skydiving accident and, at Steve’s request, she was equipped with bionic limbs similar to his own. Unfortunately, Jaime’s body rejected her new bionics and she later died.