GOSSETT CONTINUED ACTING IN HIGH-PROFILE FILMS, TELEVISION, PLAYS, AND VIDEO GAMES. IN 1982, FOR HIS ROLE AS GUNNERY SERGEANT EMIL FOLEY IN AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, HE WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR AND BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTOR TO WIN IN THIS CATEGORY.

LORETTA SWIT WAS AN AMERICAN ACTRESS AND ANIMAL ACTIVIST WON TWO EMMYS FOR HER PERFORMANCE ON M.A.S.H. AND WAS NOMINATED FOR EIGHT MORE. BEFORE HER BIG BREAK IN 1972, SHE SPENT YEARS IN TOURING PRODUCTIONS. SWIT WAS ALSO A FILM ACTOR, APPEARING IN FREEBIE AND THE BEAN, S.O.B., AND RACE WITH THE DEVIL.

WILLIAMS, BORN ANSON WILLIAM HEIMLICH TO A JEWISH FAMILY. HIS FATHER, HASKELL HEIMLICH, LEGALLY CHANGED THE SPELLING OF THE FAMILY NAME TO "HEIMLICK", HIS UNCLE BEING DR. HENRY HEIMLICH, NAMESAKE OF THE HEIMLICH MANEUVE. AFTER HAPPY DAYS AND A LONG CAREER AS AN ACTOR, WILLIAMS BECAME A PROMINENT TELEVISION DIRECTOR.

TAYLOR WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO TV AUDIENCES ON ED SULLIVAN SHOW AND LATE THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW WHERE HE WAS KNOWN AS “CRYING COMEDIAN”. HIS SIGNATURE CONFETTI TOSSING GAG CAME BOMBING AS A STAND-UP COMEDIAN.

IN OCTOBER 1984, HER ESCORT SERVICE WAS DISBANDED, AND AFTER PLEADING GUILTY AND BEING FINED $5,000 FOR PROMOTING PROSTITUTION, SHE WROTE A 1986 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MAYFLOWER MADAM: THE SECRET LIFE OF SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS.

KOENIG WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE BEING CAST ON STAR TREK. ONE OF ONLY TWO ACTORS TO AUDITION, HE WAS CAST AS CHEKOV ALMOST IMMEDIATELY PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF HIS RESEMBLANCE TO BRITISH ACTOR AND SINGER DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES.

RUTA LEE IS A CANADIAN-BORN AMERICAN ACTRESS AND DANCER OF LITHUANIAN DESCENT. RUTA LEE APPEARED AS ONE OF THE BRIDES IN THE MUSICAL SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS.

MARION ROSS, BEST KNOWN AS MRS. CUNNINGHAM FROM "HAPPY DAYS" SHARES SHARES HER EXPERIENCES WITH ICONIC STARS, AND INSIGHTS FROM HER BOOK "MY DAYS: HAPPY AND OTHERWISE."