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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Born in Cuero, Texas, Jo Morrow was still a baby when her parents took her to San Diego, where her father worked in aircraft manufacture and her mother encouraged Jo's acting aspirations. Entering a "Be a Star" contest which Morrow feels started out as a sham, she actually won a 20th Century-Fox contract (film-debuting in Gary Cooper's Ten North Frederick (1958)), and from there moved to Columbia. The 1964 birth of a deaf daughter forced Morrow to choose between movies and motherhood; the latter won out, although she made a comeback of sorts in 1970s exploitation fare like Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973) and Terminal Island (1973).- Actor
- Additional Crew
Charles Howerton was born in Cuero, Texas, in 1938, son of a Naval officer. At age ten he enjoyed exploring abandoned Japanese machine gun nests on Guam, at 12 sailing dinghies in Coronado bay amid navy ships, at 14 trekking in the Florida Everglades, and at 16 caught in the middle of a revolution to oust Juan Domingo Perón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He gathered clams and chased rheas near the Straits of Magellan, hunted and fished in the pristine forests and streams of the north and south of Argentina, visited Macchu Picchu in Peru, and played 2nd base on a city championship softball team. He was in the senior class play at the American school in Buenos Aires, his first taste of acting. At the University of North Carolina, Charles was Chief Announcer and co-production Manager of WUNC-FM, where he wrote, directed and performed in radio dramas for the NAEB and appeared on the Playmakers stage. He also caught a winning pass in intramural football and wrote plays and short stories, many of which have been published. He graduated with a B.A. in Communications in 1960. During the summers, He worked as a YMCA tennis counselor in Connecticut, on a surveying crew in Johnsville, PA, as a top-40 disc jockey at WKVA in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and as a cub reporter on his home town newspaper, The Cuero Record, in Texas. He then attended the Graduate School of Theatre at the University of Texas, where he majored in Playwriting, but also acted in productions with guest stars Rip Torn and Barbara Barrie, and in leading roles at the Austin Civic Theatre. Charles married his college sweetheart, Jeri Lynn Mooney (aka Susan Howard) and went west to Los Angeles in 1962, working in theatre with old-time actors Frank Faylen, Percy Helton,E.J. André, Lyle Bettger and Alan Mowbray at the Masquers Club. He wrote dialogue and narration for independent features. He and Susan divorced in 1966. They have one daughter, Lynn Howerton, and grandchildren Daniel and Noelle. Charles re-married, in 1967, to actress Linda Gary. In 1970, after working in TV and commercials, they vacationed in Europe, found film work in Rome, Italy, learned Italian and stayed four years, working in films and commercials, and doing foreign to English dubbing in Italy, Spain and Germany. Charles attended the Cannes Film Festival in '72 as a journalist for the Texas Press Association, and interviewed Gregory Peck, Groucho Marx and Alfred Hitchcock. They returned to L.A. in 1974 with new daughter Alexis Howerton, and Charles was hired to go on the road with Eve Arden in "Under Papa's Picture". After the birth of another daughter, Dana Howerton, Charles became the volunteer drama coach for the Gifted and Talented Program at their elementary school, for which he wrote and directed (with Linda) an original play, "Flashpants and the Magic Ring", a musical comedy, later selected for production by the Boston Children's Professional Theatre. Charles and his family made a tradition of vacationing in distant and exotic parts of the world -- with an itinerary of nature trips and museums, river rafting and camel rides, para-sailing and scuba diving and sampling the local cuisine, staying in local inns, never breaking the tradition no matter how many "jobs" Charles and Linda had to miss. After Linda's death in 1995, Charles re-married again in 1996, to singer Jeanne Page. He continues to perform in film and television and on stage, and to publish poetry and short stories.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Roland Rodriguez was born on 14 April 1959 in Cuero, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), Texas (1994) and Walker, Texas Ranger (1993).- Actor
- Stunts
- Camera and Electrical Department
Dirk is an America actor, stunt man, musician and producer. Born and raised in Texas, he has been an aspiring film maker since the age of 6 and had a lot of practice while growing up constantly creating new film ideas with the family's VHS camera once he was old enough to handle the large device. Drums, drawing and piano also became huge parts of his youth while growing up. In Highschool, he started a private entertainment group of drummers on trashcans. He attended Tyler Junior College on a band scholarship but only finished one year when he realized college wasn't for him. After a dozen or so jobs ranging from yard maintenance to Correctional Officer, at 22, he left Texas for Orlando FL to pursue a career in entertainment. After working for the theme park industry in the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore as an aerialist, costumed actor, stilt walker and drummer, he set his sights for Hollywood where he could develop and progress his career. He took on more challenges as well like stand-up comedy, voice impressions and film editing.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Actor
- Costume Designer
Stanley Moore was born in Cuero, Texas, USA. He is an actor and costume designer, known for War of the Worlds (2005), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and The Faculty (1998).- Stunts
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
Russell Towery was born on 28 January 1957 in Cuero, Texas, USA. He is an assistant director and actor, known for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), RoboCop (1987) and Cell (2016).- Arthur Whittington was born on 4 September 1955 in Cuero, Texas, USA. He died on 22 April 2024 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Music Department
Leo Frank was a New York-born Jew who moved to Marietta, Georgia. In 1913 he was the superintendent of the National Pencil Co., which was partly owned by his uncle, when he was arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl employed at the factory, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been raped and strangled and her body found in the factory's cellar on August 26. Frank was the last person known to have seen her alive. When authorities were told about rumors that he had been seen flirting with the young Phagan, he was regarded as the chief suspect and shortly thereafter arrested. Prosecutors, along with local and state politicians, cast him as a rich, arrogant Yankee Jew who had come to the South to prey on young Christian women. A former member of the US House of Representatives used the specter of Jewish predators "ravaging our little girls" to help revive the Ku Klux Klan. Frank, to no one's surprise, was found guilty of rape and murder and sentenced to death, even though there was little actual evidence to connect him to the crime.
In 1915 Georgia Gov. John Slaton, after investigating the case himself, came to the conclusion that Frank had been unjustly convicted and that the trial had been rigged against him from the beginning. He commuted Frank's sentence from death to life imprisonment. Local citizenry, however, were outraged. A large mob of at least 1000 people surrounded Slaton's home, shouting and protesting his action, some of them urging the crowd to break into the house and lynch the governor. In August of 1915 a group of approximately 30 armed men calling itself "The Knights of Mary Phagan" broke into the prison where Frank was being held, tied up the warden and guards and kidnapped Frank. They drove him 150 miles to a place called Frey's Gin, near Mary Phagan's home, and before a shouting, angry crowed, hanged him from a tree. After his dead body was cut down, members of the crowd stomped on and otherwise mutilated it, while others took pictures and some even took bits of the rope that was used to hang him and sold them as souvenirs. Many of the members of the lynch mob were known to people in the area, including authorities, but local newspapers never used their names in stories about the lynching and none were prosecuted for or even charged with the crime. Among the lynch mob were a former Georgia governor, several local police officers and sheriff's deputies, a Superior Court judge, the Sheriff of Cobb County, several prominent businessmen, a future District Attorney and a future mayor of Marietta.
Frank's mutilated body was driven to Atlanta and turned over to an undertaker. A crowd of several thousand showed up at the establishment, demanding to see his body to ensure that he had indeed been hanged. When the undertaker refused, the crowed threatened to break into the business and see for itself, and began throwing bricks and rocks through the windows. The undertaker relented and let the crowd file past the body, many of them spitting on it.
In the early 1980s a re-investigation of the case determined that Mary Phagan had in fact been raped and murdered by the company's janitor, a black ex-convict named Jim Conley, who police at the time had initially suspected but let go when they turned their attention to Frank. In 1986 the Georgia State Board of Paroles and Pardons granted Frank a posthumous pardon.- Roy Benavides was born on 5 August 1935 in Cuero, Dewitt County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Milagro de Vietnam (1992). He died on 29 November 1998 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Soundtrack
Country music singer/songwriter Sam Neely was born on August 22, 1948 in Cuervo, Texas. Neely learned how to play guitar when he was ten and moved with his family to Corpus Christi, Texas. At age fifteen Neely was playing guitar in bands at local dances. He joined a group called Buckle in 1966. Sam's professional music career started when at age nineteen he gave some material to a movie producer who was asking for song submissions for a film soundtrack. Neely contributed songs to the soundtracks of the motion pictures "Bonnie's Kids" and "Tilt." Moreover, Sam sang the song "The Party's Over (Farewell to M*A*S*H*)" for "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen," which was the final episode of the hit TV series "M*A*S*H*". Neely appeared as himself on the TV programs "The Merv Griffin Show," "American Bandstand," "The Midnight Special," and "Nashville Now." Among the artists he performed on stage with are Juice Newton, the Guess Who, Con Hanley, Janie Fricke, and John Conlee. Sam had a Top 30 country chart hit with "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" while both "Rosalie" and "You Can Have Her" were Top 40 country chart hits. Neely recorded albums on the MCA, Elektra, Capitol, and A&M labels. He not only performed at the clubs the Palomino, the Bitter End, and the Troubador, but also was the house musician at the club the Electric Eel in Corpus Christi, Texas. In addition, Sam ran and owned his own club called Neely's. He won a Golden Addy Award for a Coors beer radio commercial. Neely was honored with a star on the South Texas Music Walk of Fame on Water Street Market in 2005. Sam collapsed and died while mowing his lawn at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 19, 2006.- Alois Blackwell was born on 12 November 1954 in Cuero, Texas, USA.