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Traci Lords , also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress, producer, film director, writer and singer. She first... achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic videos and Penthouse magazine , later becoming a successful television and B-movie actress. Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Louis and Patricia Kuzma . Her stage name is said to be a tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. She was raped at the age of ten. At 12, she fled from her abusive alcoholic father to Lawndale, California, with her mother and three sisters. Her mother's new boyfriend, Roger, was a cocaine dealer who molested her. In 1983, she began attending Redondo Union High School. At the age of 15, Nora had dropped out of school and was living with her mother's ex-boyfriend, Roger. Posing as her stepfather, he helped her respond to classified ads requesting models.
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Roland Glen Fingers is a retired American Major League Baseball relief pitcher. During his 18-year baseball career, he pitched for the Oakland... Athletics , San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers . He became only the second reliever to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992. Fingers is also one of only a few MLB players to have his number retired by more than one club . Fingers was born in Steubenville, Ohio to George Michael Fingers and Edna Pearl Fingers. His father , worked in a Steubenville steel mill. George Fingers came home from work fed-up one day, said "That's it, we're moving to California," and sold the house for $1,500 and bought a car and took the family to Cucamonga. They could not afford hotels so they slept in sleeping bags beside the highway. After getting to California George Fingers had to eventually go back to work in another steel mill.
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Charles Stanton Ogle was an American silent film actor. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Ogle first performed in live theatre, making his first... appearance on Broadway in 1905. He embarked on a career in film with Edison Studios in The Bronx, New York in 1908, appearing in The Boston Tea Party directed by Edwin S. Porter. He went on to portray the monster in the first film version of Frankenstein , and starred in the first ever serial film, What Happened to Mary? . He went on to become a prolific character actor, making the last of his more than 300 film appearances in 1926. Ogle died in Long Beach, California of arteriosclerosis.
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Scott Paulin is an American actor and television director. His work includes appearances in well-known television series like House M.D., ER, Cold... Case, 24 and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'. His film roles have included playing Deke Slayton in The Right Stuff, Brian Hunter in Pump Up The Volume, and roles in A Soldier's Story, Warning Sign,The Accused, I Am Sam and the Red Skull in the 1990 film, Captain America. He also is portraying the father of Kate Beckett in the series Castle. He and his wife actress Wendy Phillips have been married since 1981. They have a daughter, Jenny Dare Paulin. Paulin majored in Government at Pomona College , graduating in 1971.
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Nick Busick is a former police officer turned professional wrestler who competed in Georgia All-Star Wrestling and the Global Wrestling Federation,... but is best known for his brief stint in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name "Big Bully" Busick. Busick an accomplished powerlifter and former high school wrestler started his professional wrestling career in the World Wide Wrestling Federation , which used “local talent”. Busick was also a police officer, believed to be one of the first to be hired in the United States at age of 19 in 1973. Growing up in the Steel Town Tri State area of Pittsburgh, Busick followed Pittsburgh’s Studio Wrestling developing his passion for sports entertainment. Busick talked Mike Paidousis into a one week Professional Wrestling training course and Busick’s first match was in Pittsburgh around 1977 against Billy Red Lyons in Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Busick continued to get booked and learned the basics of professional wrestling by wrestling and not in an organized school. He was known for being so called “stiff” because of his folk style wrestling, Powerlifting and law enforcement defensive tactics background.
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Alfred Benito "Al" Mancini was an American stage, television and film actor, born in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1960, he appeared in Ted Flicker's... improvisational group The Premise Off-Broadway, and transferred with the show to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End. From there, he graduated to writing and performing for the British satire show That Was the Week That Was on BBC television, for producer Ned Sherrin and David Frost. Staying in London for several years, his foremost film role was as "Tassos Bravos" in Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen. In 1967 he appeared as the Announcer in the Prisoner episode 'The General'. In 1974, on British television, he played Captain Harry Nugent in the second series of BBC's WWII POW drama "Colditz". He returned to the United States in the mid 1970s, appearing in several TV series and films including Falling Down, Miller's Crossing, Loose Cannons, Turk 182!, and All in the Family. His last role, in 2005, was on an episode of Joan of Arcadia. He taught acting for over 30 years at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, and wrote for television.
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