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Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio. Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He... graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team. Thereafter, he worked locally in the theater in Seattle until he entered the military during the Second World War where he was assigned to the Army Air Force's radio service. After the war his career improved and he quickly got his first film role as an inmate in Brute Force. His other movies include The Naked City , All My Sons , Calamity Jane and Sam Bass , Panic in the City , In Search of America , A Wedding and No Way Out . Duff appeared in a number of films with his first wife, actress/director Ida Lupino. One of his later performances was as Dustin Hoffman's attorney in the Academy Award-winning Kramer vs. Kramer . On radio, Duff played Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade from 1946–1950, starring in The Adventures of Sam Spade on three different networks - ABC, CBS and NBC.
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Joseph David Wolfgang Pichler is a former American actor who has been missing since January 5, 2006. The second-youngest of five children, Pichler... relocated to Los Angeles as a child to pursue his acting career. He had some success, most notably appearing in several movies and television shows. With the exception of a handful of memorable supporting roles, he is probably most well known for his recurring role as Brennan Newton in the third and fourth installments of the Beethoven movies—family-oriented comedies about the antics of a mischievous St. Bernard. In 2003, at the insistence of his family, he returned to his hometown of Bremerton, Washington , and graduated from high school there in 2005. According to family, Pichler had planned to return to Los Angeles in the following year to continue with his acting career. At the time of his disappearance, Pichler lived on his own in Bremerton across town from his parents, his younger brother Matthew "A.J." Pichler and his older sister Samantha.
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Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans... five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”. In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995.
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Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio. Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He... graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team. Thereafter, he worked locally in the theater in Seattle until he entered the military during the Second World War where he was assigned to the Army Air Force's radio service. After the war his career improved and he quickly got his first film role as an inmate in Brute Force. His other movies include The Naked City , All My Sons , Calamity Jane and Sam Bass , Panic in the City , In Search of America , A Wedding and No Way Out . Duff appeared in a number of films with his first wife, actress/director Ida Lupino. One of his later performances was as Dustin Hoffman's attorney in the Academy Award-winning Kramer vs. Kramer . On radio, Duff played Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade from 1946–1950, starring in The Adventures of Sam Spade on three different networks - ABC, CBS and NBC.
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Joseph David Wolfgang Pichler is a former American actor who has been missing since January 5, 2006. The second-youngest of five children, Pichler... relocated to Los Angeles as a child to pursue his acting career. He had some success, most notably appearing in several movies and television shows. With the exception of a handful of memorable supporting roles, he is probably most well known for his recurring role as Brennan Newton in the third and fourth installments of the Beethoven movies—family-oriented comedies about the antics of a mischievous St. Bernard. In 2003, at the insistence of his family, he returned to his hometown of Bremerton, Washington , and graduated from high school there in 2005. According to family, Pichler had planned to return to Los Angeles in the following year to continue with his acting career. At the time of his disappearance, Pichler lived on his own in Bremerton across town from his parents, his younger brother Matthew "A.J." Pichler and his older sister Samantha.
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Tara Kirk is a former American swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke and Olympic silver medalist. She is a former world record holder in the... 100-meter breaststroke . She has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, three gold, seven silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, the World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Summer Universiade. Tara was the contributor for Episode 18, Season 6 of What Not To Wear. Kirk is the former American Record holder in the 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter breaststrokes. Kirk is the only woman to swim the 100-yard breaststroke in under 58 seconds . Kirk previously held the 100 short-course meter breaststroke world record at 1:04.79 but this was beaten by Leisel Jones on August 28, 2006. Kirk was named the "Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year" and took home the Honda-Broderick Cup for 2003-2004. She was also a recipient of the NCAA Top Eight Award as a member of the Class of 2005. In the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tara won a silver medal swimming in the preliminary heats of the 400 medley relay.
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Brent David Fraser is an American actor and musician. He was born in Bremerton, Washington.

Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie rock bands. He is the lead singer of Death Cab for... Cutie and The Postal Service, and is also known for his project ¡All-Time Quarterback! and his first band, Pinwheel. Gibbard was born in Bremerton, Washington, where he spent his formative years, during the time of the grunge musical explosion in the early 1990s. He graduated from Olympic High School in 1994. Growing up he was influenced by Elliott Smith, Nirvana, The Stone Roses, Superchunk, Built to Spill, Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Pavement, Daniel Johnston, Fugazi and Hall & Oates. He also cites Jack Kerouac as a major influence. He studied engineering at Western Washington University. He was raised Roman Catholic and referred to himself as "this indoctrinated Catholic even though I haven't been to church of my own volition in 10 or 15 years now." In a 2003 interview Gibbard stated that while he had previously been a vegan, he had recently become a pescetarian. He had a small role in the John Krasinski film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men based on the David Foster Wallace short story collection of the same title.
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