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Thea White was born on 16 June 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Chú Chó Nhút Nhát (1999), Cartoon Network Racing (2006) and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays (2000). She was married to Andy White. She died on 30 July 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Harvey Pekar was born on 8 October 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Huy hoàng kiểu Mỹ (2003), Hero Tomorrow (2007) and Harvey Pekar's Teo Macero (2015). He was married to Joyce Brabner. He died on 12 July 2010 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.

Mickey Deans was born on 24 September 1934 in Garfield, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Judy Garland. He died on 11 July 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Gerald Levert was born on 13 July 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Kẻ Lập Dị (2006), Coming to America (1988) and Quá Nhanh Quá Nguy Hiểm (2001). He died on 10 November 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Jane Alice Brandon was born on 3 October 1945 in Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Incredible Hulk (1977), Kojak (1973) and Another World (1964). She was married to Peter Schwartz. She died on 24 May 2015 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.

David J. Stewart was born on 8 January 1915 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Murder, Inc. (1960), Sunday Showcase (1959) and The Witness (1960). He died on 23 December 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Charles Brown was born on 15 January 1946 in Talladega, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for Sàn Kiếm Chác (1983), Kennedy (1983) and Legal Eagles (1986). He was married to Renee Lescook. He died on 8 January 2004 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Gail Lucas was born on 2 June 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Just for the Hell of It (1968) and The Andy Griffith Show (1960). She died on 7 January 1990 in East Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

On March 18, 1894, Buchanan was born in Benton, Iowa, as Paul Stuart Buchanan. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he received his undergraduate degree at Wooster College. He taught English and coached basketball at the University of West Virginia, then switched to Florida University, where he started the school's 5000-watt radio station.

Buchanan earned a Ph.D. at Harvard before giving up the education business in favor of what he called "making a living." He went to Hollywood and became a character in tough-guy acting roles and took on a job as director of the Pasadena Play House. In May of 1930, he took a job as program director at radio station KHJ in Los Angeles, where he directed episodes of the "Hollywood Hotel" and "Lux Radio Theatre."

Walt Disney hired Buchanan as a dialogue and casting director at the Disney studios in Hollywood and put him in charge of all foreign versions of Disney productions. Buchanan was the voice of "The Huntsman" in the 1937 Disney animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Managing the foreign versions of Disney films took him to Europe and South America to translate "Snow White" into ten languages. Buchanan also had cameo voiceover roles as a flight attendant in "Saludos Amigos" (1942) and "Super-Speed" (1935), and he voiced Goofy in "The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air" (1938).

In New York radio, Buchanan produced and directed many network shows. He was head of the script department and program supervision for American Broadcasting Co. before moving to Cleveland in 1947 to produce "The Ohio Story" radio and TV series sponsored by Ohio Bell Telephone Co. He also took on directing the radio and television department of McCann-Erickson advertising agency's offices in Cleveland. He remained in Cleveland for the rest of his life.

"The Ohio Story" ran state-wide from 1947 to 1955 on radio and 1953 to 1961 on TV. At the time, the filmed series held the record as the longest-running scripted radio and TV program in the nation. In more than 2,500 "Ohio Story" shows, Buchanan never missed a rehearsal or a program. Buchanan worked tirelessly with actors, musicians, and sound technicians to get precisely the right shade of meaning into every sequence. He made actors out of bank clerks, students, and homemakers. Buchanan picked Robert Waldrop, a nationally known radio personality, to narrate the "Ohio Story" radio series. He convinced Hollywood actor Nelson Olmsted, known for his adaptations of terror tales by Edgar Allen Poe and science-fantasy stories, to commute to Cleveland for seven years to host, narrate and act in the "Ohio Story" TV episodes and the final two years of the "Ohio Story" radio series.

In an article in the June 25, 1958, Columbus Dispatch, Buchanan talked about his love and loyalty to Ohio and the "Ohio Story" series: "There has never been - or will be, a radio series that commanded the respect and attention of this state, or, for that fact, the nation. The "Ohio Story" reached its peak in the heyday of radio... the late 1940s. Only one show in the nation had a higher rating ... that was the Jack Benny show. I guess of all the things I've done in my lifetime; I'm most proud to have had a hand in developing and producing "The Ohio Story."

Buchanan was married twice. His first wife was Anna Hall Hilditch (December 28, 1900 - November 10, 1987). His second wife was Rita Whearty (November 19, 1919 - March 31, 2009).

Buchanan died on February 4, 1974, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Anthony Santa Croce was born on 25 October 1947 in New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Monsters (1988), Tales from the Darkside (1983) and Đường đua trắng (1994). He died on 11 December 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

James Kisicki was born on 14 April 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Nhà tù Shawshank (1994), Chàng Trai Tuyệt Vời (2000) and The Oh in Ohio (2006). He was married to Deborah Kaiser Kisicki. He died on 27 November 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Ronald Sweed (The Ghoul) grew up in Cleveland, and would use his admiration for Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson), a popular Cleveland television personality, into a career. When Anderson made an appearance at a local amusement park (Euclid Beach Park), the adoring 13-year-old Sweed was in the crowd wearing a gorilla suit. Ghoulardi called him up to the stage where an unscripted "skit" took place. Anderson was so impressed with the 13 year old Sweed that he worked part-time for Anderson.

When "Ghoulardi" ran it's course, Anderson moved to Los Angeles. Sweed thought there was still life in the idea of a crazy, zany host for B movies for youngsters that he begged Anderson to return. Anderson refused. Sweed's only choice was to try it himself. Since "Ghoulardi" was copyrighted he dropped the "ardi" and went with "The Ghoul". Things didn't go well at first. Most kids though it was a bad attempt at imitating a much loved Ghoulardi. Sweed changed things up by being less of beatnik-like character, blowing anything and everything up firecrackers and updating the catch phrases from the 50's to the 60's. The combined effect of the chaos and firecrackers made him such a hit that Kaiser Broadcasting, which owned stations in Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, decided to syndicate the Ghoul. But Sweed could only duplicate his fame in Detroit.

Soon, television would change, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" would suck the oxygen out of the Saturday night time period after 1975. Television stations found it easier to sell infomercials in the late night hours. He would appear on and off on local stations in Detroit and Cleveland.During the last few years, he would make occasional appearances at metro Detroit clubs.

Kathryn Boyd was born on 13 September 1897 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Black Gold (1928), The Flying Ace (1926) and Deceit (1923). She was married to Abraham L. Roach, Milton M. Cloud, M.D. and Irvin C. Miller. She died on 16 March 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Kathy Gabriel was born in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for You Bet Your Life (1950). She died on 25 May 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

William Greene was born on 25 October 1926 in Iron City, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Saint (1962) and The Monsters (1962). He died on 12 March 1970 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.

He made his first major league start in August, striking out 15 St. Louis Browns. A month later, he set an American League rookie record fanning 17 Philadelphia Athletics in a game. Upon completion of his rookie campaign, Feller returned home to Iowa to finish his senior year of high school - his graduation was covered by NBC Radio.

Feller really began to hit his stride after his 19th birthday, rattling off a string of three straight 20-win seasons. It was during this time that Senators' manager Bucky Harris conveyed the following strategy to his players when facing Feller: "Go on up there and hit what you see. If you can't see it, come on back."

Just days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Feller put aside his 3-C draft deferment status and enlisted in the US Navy. With this selfless act, he gave up nearly four seasons of baseball in the prime of his career. But Feller had no regrets.

At the conclusion of the war, Feller returned to the game and picked up right where he left off, averaging more than 19 wins a season over the next six years.

Philip Bartlett grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and began his acting career while he was still in high school at various community playhouses in the area. At age 20, when he heard the movie, Brubaker, was being filmed in a small Ohio town, he camped out in the hotel lobby where the film people were staying and talked the producers into a part as an extra. They reportedly liked that Philip looked like "a starving prisoner". He eventually was given a line in the movie as the Young Reporter at the end of the film. He followed the film crew to Chicago to work on Blues Brothers, where he was an extra and the lighting stand-in for Dan Akroyd. When the Blues Brothers crew went to Hollywood to finish the filming, Philip went with them. While in Los Angeles, Philip worked as an extra in both television and film.

Philip eventually moved to New York City, taking classes at NYU and continuing to work in the industry. An opportunity with a film company in Paris presented itself, and Philip moved to France. It was there that he was discovered behind the camera of the casting director of Sam Suffit. After a day of filming auditions for the part of Peter, the casting director finally asked Philip to audition, and he got the lead male role in the movie. Promotional work for Sam Suffit took Philip to Tokyo, where he lived for more than a year doing modeling and commercial work. In 1998, Philip retired from acting and moved back to his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

Born in Ashtabula, she was the daughter of Chris R. and MaryAnn (Tulino) Alleman. Kelly graduated from Harbor High School class of 1995, Lakeland Community College with an Associates Degree and Cleveland State University with a BA in Film, where she worked on student films as production manager and crew. She died in 2017, after a courageous five year battle with cancer (Multiple Myeloma).

Albert T. Viola was born on 25 March 1932 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Preacherman (1971), A Woman in Love (1968) and Preacherman Meets Widderwoman (1973). He was married to Helen Pallas. He died on 15 December 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Sean Levert was born on 28 September 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Thành Phố Ma Túy (1991), Down in the Delta (1998) and Dope Case Pending (2000). He died on 30 March 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Victoria Karnafel was born on 19 November 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Kẻ Săn Hươu (1978). She died on 22 March 2004 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Thomas Cullinan was born on 4 November 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Những Kẻ Khát Tình (2017), The Beguiled (1971) and Lux Video Theatre (1950). He was married to Helen. He died on 11 June 1995 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.

Cecillia Stark was born on 2 March 1898 in Marosvararhely, Romania. She was an actress, known for Stranger Than Paradise (1984). She was married to Mojzesz Jozef Stark. She died on 2 March 1985 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Michael Stanley was born on 25 March 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for My Friend Dahmer (2017), Hraefn (1992) and Masters of the Gridiron (1986). He was married to Denise, Ilsa Glanzberg, Ilsa and Denise Skinner. He died on 5 March 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Bill "Smoochie" Gordon, who was once hailed as the most talked-about disc jockey in Cleveland history during a broadcast career that spanned six decades.

Gordon took Cleveland by storm when he joined WHK AM / 1420 radio in 1950. At one point he had three daily shows on the station, co-hosted the two-hour daily "One O'Clock Club" with Dorothy Fuldheim on WEWS Channel 5 and performed nightly at Smoochie's Hideaway in Shaker Heights.