Trivia: Rudy Solari was a busy actor, primarily on television and in theater, from the late '50s until the 1980s, but he was much better known within his profession as a gifted acting coach. Born in Modesto, CA, he graduated from San Francisco State College as a performing arts major and broke into feature films with a role in Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). His earliest television appearances date from this same period, on series such as Gunsmoke, 12 O'Clock High, Ben Casey, and The Fugitive, and later, on Mission Impossible and Star Trek. He also distinguished himself with his work in the anthology series The Outer Limits, and was a regular on two mid-'60s series, The Wackiest Ship in the Army and Garrison's Gorillas. During the 1970s, Solari formed his own repertory theater company in Los Angeles, and subsequently became well known as an acting teacher. He was later the director of the graduate program in acting at U.C.L.A. Solari died of cancer in 1991 at age 56.

Trivia: Actor Peter Haskell has from time to time showed up in theatrical films (he was in two of the three Child's Play flicks), but the lion's share of his work has been on television. Haskell has starred or co-starred in such made-for-TV films as The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969), The Eyes of Charles Sand (1970), The Phantom of Hollywood (1973), The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977) and The Cracker Factory (1979). His many regular weekly series assignments include Bracken's World (1969-71), as producer Kevin Grant, and The Law and Harry McGraw (1987), as assistant district attorney Tyler Chase; he was also seen on a daily basis in the soap operas Ryan's Hope and Rituals. In all of his appearances, Peter Haskell seems to have been born sitting behind an mahogany desk while wearing a three-piece suit.

Trivia: A veteran actor whose longtime association with the Screen Actor's Guild found him the recipient of the prolific Ralph Morgan Award for Distinguished Service to the Hollywood Branch of SAG, Ron Soble's decade-long association with the guild followed years as a popular actor in television and film as well as a notable athletic career. A native of Chicago, Soble took to sports early in life, becoming a Golden Gloves champion in 1944 before moving on to play football with the University of Michigan. His early acting career marked by numerous Western appearances, Soble made his film debut in 1959's Al Capone before appearing onscreen in such beloved John Wayne oaters as True Grit (1969) and Chisum (1970). On the small screen, Soble continued his career as a cowboy with frequent appearances on Rawhide, The Virginian, and The Monroes (the actor would also parlay his spurs into science fiction territory with an appearance as Wyatt Earp in an episode of the original Star Trek series). Moving into a more modern era (at least at the time) with appearances in Charlie's Angels, ChiPs, and Knight Rider, Soble's later roles in such features as Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills (1994) and Deuce Bigalo: Male Gigalo (1999) were a healthy indicator that after years in the business Soble had not lost his sense of humor. Following an extended battle with both lung and brain cancer, Ron Soble died in Los Angeles on May 2, 2002. He was 74.