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People From Dayton, Ohio
The following is a list of people from Dayton, Ohio. Actors, entertainers, and models *Tom Aldredge (1928–2011), actor *Ralph Byrd (1909–1952), actor *Nancy Cartwright (actress), Nancy Cartwright (born 1957), voice artist *Damian Chapa (born 1963), actor *Max Charles (born 2003), actor *Mystro Clark (born 1966), actor, comedian, and TV host *Bing Davis, Willis "Bing" Davis (born 1937), visual artist and teacher *Dr. Creep aka Barry Hobart (1941–2011), actor *Charles Michael Davis (born 1984), actor *Mel Epstein (1910–1994), film producer *Dorothy Gish (1898–1968), silent actress *Luke Grimes (born 1984), actor *Dorian Harewood (born 1950), actor *Drew Hastings (born 1954), comedian, actor, writer *Allison Janney (born 1959), actress *Ken Jenkins (born 1940), actor *Toccara Jones (born 1981), fashion model and TV personality *Gordon Jump (1932–2003), actor *Chad Lowe (born 1968), actor *Rob Lowe (born 1964), actor *Aaron O'Connell (born 1986), actor *Maulik Pancholy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metropolitan area had 814,049 residents and is the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area. Dayton is located within Ohio's Miami Valley region, north of Cincinnati and west-southwest of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus. Dayton was founded in 1796 along the Great Miami River and named after Jonathan Dayton, a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who owned a significant amount of land in the area. It grew in the 19th century as a canal town and was home to many patents and inventors, most notably the Wright brothers, who developed the first successful motor-operated airplane. It later developed an industrialized economy and was home to the Dayton Project, a branch of the larger Manhattan Project, to develop polonium triggers used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Jenkins
Ken Jenkins (born August 28, 1940) is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Bob Kelso, the chief of medicine on the American comedy series '' Scrubs'' (2001–2009). He has also had notable appearances in many popular TV shows. Early life Jenkins was born in Dayton, Ohio and graduated from Wilbur Wright High School, Ohio in 1958. Career In 1969, Jenkins joined Actors Theatre of Louisville under the leadership of Jon Jory, where he served as a company member for three years. Jenkins appeared on episodes of '' Homefront'', ''The X-Files'', ''Babylon 5'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', '' Wiseguy'', '' Early Edition'', and ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', and starred in '' Scrubs'' in the first eight seasons as a main cast member and guest-starred in the ninth and final season. His character, Dr. Bob Kelso, is his most recognizable role to date. Jenkins has appeared in many films throughout his career, including '' The Wizard of Loneliness'', ''Executive Decision'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. His work spans over six decades of television and film, and his accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Sheen rose to prominence in his breakthrough roles in Terrence Malick's crime drama '' Badlands'' (1973) and Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War drama '' Apocalypse Now'' (1979). Sheen is also known for such notable films as '' The Subject Was Roses'' (1968), '' Catch-22'' (1970), '' The California Kid'' (1974), '' Gandhi'' (1982), '' Wall Street'' (1987), '' Gettysburg'' (1993), '' The American President'' (1995), '' Catch Me If You Can'' (2002), '' The Departed'', '' Bobby'' (both 2006), and '' Judas and the Black Messiah'' (2021). He also portrayed Uncle Ben in '' The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012). He is also known for portraying Robert F. Kennedy in '' The Missiles of October'' (1974), Eddie Slovik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherri Saum
Sherri Michelle Saum (born October 1, 1974) is an American actress. Saum is best known for her co-lead role as Lena Adams Foster in the Freeform drama series '' The Fosters'' (2013–2018) as well as a subsequent guest star role in its spinoff '' Good Trouble'' (2019–2024). She is also known for her television roles in '' Beggars and Choosers'', '' Rescue Me'', ''In Treatment'' and ''Locke & Key'', as well as for her roles in the daytime soap operas '' Sunset Beach'' and ''One Life to Live''. Early life Saum was born in Dayton, Ohio,One Life to Live: Bios Accessed December 12, 2007 to a German mother and an African-American father. She got her start at a ''Model Search America'' convention near her home in |
Gary Sandy
Gary Lee Sandy (born December 25, 1945) is an American actor. He is best known for playing program director Andy Travis on the television sitcom ''WKRP in Cincinnati'' (1978–1982). Early life and education Sandy was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Austin and Dolores Sandy. He attended Fairmont High School in Kettering, Ohio, and lived in Moraine, Ohio. He later attended Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Television Sandy's early TV career included appearances on several soap operas in the early 1970s, and a number of appearances as a guest on shows including '' Medical Center'', '' Barnaby Jones'', '' Chips'', and ''Starsky & Hutch''. Sandy's most notable role was as Andy Travis, the new program director at a struggling radio station on the CBS sitcom ''WKRP in Cincinnati''. The idea for the show was based on the real experiences of several people who had worked in the industry, including creator Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Ross
Theodore Ross Roberts (June 30, 1934 – September 3, 2002) was an American actor best known for his role as the Lion in ''The Wiz'', an all-African American reinterpretation of ''The Wizard of Oz''. He won a Tony Award for the original 1975 Broadway production and recreated the role in the 1978 film version which also starred Diana Ross (no relation), Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell, and Lena Horne. Ross appeared in many films including the role of Bitterman in ''Arthur'' and on the television sitcoms '' Benson'', ''The Jeffersons'', ''What's Happening Now!!'', ''The Cosby Show'' and its spin-off ''A Different World''. His final role was in the 1991 movie ''The Fisher King''. Biography Ross was born in Zanesville, Ohio, but his mother, Elizabeth Russell, a nightclub singer in the 1920s and 1930s, moved the family to Dayton when young Ross was seven. He loved the clubs on West Fifth Street—Dayton's answer to Harlem in the first half of the 20th century. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Prentice
Keith Prentice (February 21, 1940 – September 27, 1992) was an American TV, film and stage actor, whose most famous role was the part of Larry in both the original stage and film version of '' The Boys in the Band''. He also appeared on the TV soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' during the series' final months in 1971. For a number of years, his picture was displayed on the Taster's Choice coffee label. Prentice studied in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His stage musical credits include '' Sail Away'', ''The Sound of Music'', '' Paint Your Wagon'', and ''The King and I''. In 1968, he appeared off-Broadway in the play ''The Boys in the Band'', a once controversial play featuring gay characters at a dramatic birthday party the summer before the Stonewall riots. He also appeared in the 1970 film version of the play. In 1971, Prentice joined the cast of ''Dark Shadows'' playing Morgan Collins in the show's 1841 plot with parallel time. He also appeared as Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Pepper
Anne Eustis Pepper Stewart (August 23, 1964 – November 12, 2017), known as Wendy Pepper, was a fashion designer who appeared on the first season of the reality television show ''Project Runway'', which aired on Bravo from December 2004 through February 2005. She was also a contestant on the second season of Project Runway All Stars. Early life and education Pepper was born in Dayton, Ohio and lived in the town of Middleburg, Virginia. She graduated from The Madeira School in 1982 and then attended the University of Washington in Seattle, earning a degree in anthropology. While in college, Pepper studied abroad in Nepal and began to sew carpets with local Nepali women. This sparked her interest in design and working with fabric. She returned home and continued to learn more about textiles, fabric-painting, and quilting. ''Project Runway'' Runway clothes Pepper won two of the challenges, with her design for the Banana Republic challenge and the Grammy dress for Nancy O'Dell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Patrick (Pugh)
Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), known professionally as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor. He hosts ''The Dan Patrick Show'' broadcast on radio on Premiere Radio Networks and streaming on Peacock. He co-hosted NBC's ''Football Night in America'' and served as a senior writer for ''Sports Illustrated''. He worked at ESPN for 18 years, where he often anchored the weeknight and Sunday 11 p.m. edition of ''SportsCenter''. He is unrelated to his partner Bill Patrick at ''SportsCenter''. He is also the host of the podcast "Dan Patrick Takes a Gamble", highlighting the world of sports wagering. Early life Daniel Patrick Pugh was born in Zanesville, Ohio and was raised in Mason, Ohio in a family of six children. He was a basketball player in high school at William Mason High School, where he scored a single-game personal best of 36 points and earned AP Class AA All-Ohio third-team honors. He graduated in 1974. He attended Eastern Kentucky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maulik Pancholy
Maulik Navin Pancholy (, born January 18, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Jonathan on ''30 Rock'', Baljeet Tjinder in ''Phineas and Ferb'', Neal in the first season of '' Whitney'', and as characters named Sanjay Patel in both ''Weeds'' and '' Sanjay and Craig''. His debut novel, ''The Best at It'' (from Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins), is about a gay, Indian American boy coming into his own. In 2022, he released ''Nikhil Out Loud'', which tells the story of eighth grade theater kids rising up against homophobia in their community. It won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Middle Grade Literature. Early life and education Pancholy was born in Dayton, Ohio to Gujarati parents Gita Jayantilal and Navin Chimanlal Pancholy. He moved around while growing up, living in Ohio, Indiana, and Texas before his family settled in Tampa, Florida, where he attended junior high and high school at Berkeley Preparatory School. His family comes from Gujarat, and his g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron O'Connell
Aaron John O'Connell (born April 8, 1986) is an American model and actor. O'Connell is known for his portrayal of Wyatt Cryer in the prime time television drama '' The Haves and the Have Nots'' which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Early life O'Connell is the only son of Mark O'Connell, a former player for the Cincinnati Bengals and Kathryn Deeble O'Connell. He has three sisters, Amy, Abby and Anna. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 2004 where he played football, basketball and baseball. As a child, his maternal grandfather Wayne taught him how to play the piano. In 2008, O'Connell graduated from Purdue University's College of Health and Human Sciences where he received a bachelor's degree in health and fitness. Career Modeling In 2006, O'Connell signed to Ford Models while still in college. He has been featured in publications, including '' GQ'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''Vogue'', ''Vogue Paris'', ''Arena Homme +'', ''VMAN''. O'Connell has also represented brands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, and entertainment host. Following numerous television roles in the early 1980s, he came to prominence as a teen idol and member of the Brat Pack with starring roles in ''The Outsiders (film), The Outsiders ''(1983), Class (film), ''Class'' (1983), ''The Hotel New Hampshire (film), The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), ''Oxford Blues'' (1984), ''St. Elmo's Fire (film), St. Elmo's Fire'' (1985), ''About Last Night (1986 film), About Last Night...'' (1986), and ''Masquerade (1988 film), Masquerade'' (1988). Lowe was involved in a sex tape scandal in 1988, which stymied his career for many years afterward. His notable credits during this time were supporting roles in comedy films such as ''Wayne's World (film), Wayne's World'' (1992), ''Tommy Boy'' (1995), and ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999). By the turn of the millennium, his career saw a resurgence when he ventured back into television, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
