Trivia: Trained at New York's Professional Children's School, Warren Berlinger made his first stage appearance at the age of 11. At 17, Berlinger was showered with critical praise for his performance in the 1955 Broadway production A Roomful of Roses, in which he appeared with his future wife, actress Betty Lou Keim. Both Berlinger and Keim repeated their roles in the 1956 film version of Roses, retitled Teen-age Rebel. In 1958, he won a Theatre World Award for his performance in Blue Denim, again re-creating his role in the 1959 film adaptation. He scored a huge hit in the 1963 London production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, essaying his favorite role, J. Pierpont Finch. In films, Berlinger's stock-in-trade has been the portrayal of plump, good-natured schmoes; he was still conveying this image into the 1980s and 1990s in films like The World According to Garp (1982) and Hero (1992). On television, he played the lead in the "Kilroy" episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color(1965) and had regular roles on The Joey Bishop Show (1961), as Joey's brother Larry, The Funny Side (1971), A Touch of Grace (1973), Operation Petticoat (1977) and Small and Frye (1983). Distantly related to comedian Milton Berle, Warren Berlinger appeared with "Uncle Miltie" in the 1975 feature Lepke.

Trivia: Actress Jeanne Cooper entered films in 1953. Though she worked often, Cooper appeared in only a handful of memorable movies, including the rare Roger Corman social-protest film The Intruder (1961) and The Boston Strangler (1968). She was seen to better advantage on television, guesting in a wide range of roles on such series as The Twilight Zone and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. From 1969 to 1970, she was seen as Grace Douglas on the prime-time "inside Hollywood" series Bracken's World. She is best known for her ongoing characterization of Kay Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Unlike many other daytime-drama actresses, who prefer to keep their onscreen characters and actual personalities separate, Cooper has invested many of her own life experiences in the role of Kay Chancellor. She harked back on her own bout with alcoholism to realistically portray Kay's recovery from a chronic drinking problem; and, when Jeanne underwent a facelift, so did Kay -- complete with in-progress shots of the actual operation. Jeanne Cooper is the mother of actor Corbin Bernsen. She passed away at age 84 in 2013.

Trivia: American actor Roger Bowen spent most of the 1960s playing "preppie" types on a number of TV commercials. His film bow was in 1968's Petulia, but Bowen's big movie break came in 1970, when he created the role of lackadaisical Colonel Henry Blake in the Robert Altman film M*A*S*H (1970). While it was another TV-ad veteran, McLean Stevenson, who would play Col. Blake on the television version of M*A*S*H, Roger Bowen hardly lacked exposure in the early 1970s. He gained a fan following as Hamilton Majors Jr., the pleasantly snooty Ivy League boss of Herschel Bernardi on the TV sitcom Arnie (1970-72). After Arnie, Bowen joined the cast of The Brian Keith Show (1972), then returned to commercials and movie cameo roles, showing up briefly in such films as Heaven Can Wait (1978), The Main Event (1979) and Zapped (1981). In the early 1980s, Roger Bowen enjoyed another round of weekly TV work with recurring roles on House Calls, At Ease, and Suzanne Pleshette is Maggie Briggs. He made his final film appearance in the Bill Murray/Richard Dreyfus vehicle What About Bob? (1991). In addition to performing Bowen was a talented comedy writer who penned satirical sketches for television and theatre. He co-founded Chicago's Second City and also wrote 11 novels including Just Like a Movie.

Trivia: With his trademark howls, distinctive gravelly voice (almost the personification of the R&B music he loved so well), and flamboyant but laid-back cool, radio personality Wolfman Jack tore up the airwaves of the 1960s with the dangerous, subversive sounds of black rhythm & blues, a new kind of ethnic music that had been thus far banned from mainstream AM radio. Broadcasting from the X, a shadowy but powerful radio station located just across the Mexican border, the Wolfman was an enigma to most of his audience. His voice, accent, and style revealed nothing of his origins, which turned out to be humble. He was born Robert Weston Smith in Brooklyn and spent much of his time growing up trying to stay out of gangs and other forms of trouble, preferring instead to nurture his love of pop radio. A high school dropout who would later excel in broadcasting school, Smith started out as a gofer for the Paramount radio network, the home of his hero Alan Freed. This led to experience at a New Jersey station and then night classes at Virginia's National Academy of Broadcasting. Graduating at the top of his class, Smith found work at a station in Shreveport, LA. Though popular there, Smith had bigger goals and moved to Mexico, to work first at XERF-AM (where he began developing his new lycanthropic character) and then the powerful XERB-AM in 1965. It was there that Wolfman became a radio legend. At the height of his popularity, the identity of the mysterious W.J. was the subject of widespread media speculation and thanks largely to his influence, R&B music was making its way into the mainstream. He was so popular that several rock musicians, including Todd Rundgren, the Guess Who, and Freddie King wrote songs about him.The mystery of Wolfman Jack was solved when Smith appeared as himself in longtime listener George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973); it was not his first involvement in feature films, as he had played himself in The Committee (1968), an experimental comedy anthology from San Francisco, and The Seven Minutes (1971), filmmaker Russ Meyer's one attempt at a serious, socially relevant film. Though no longer an enigma, his popularity continued and he made cameo appearances in movies and on television, where he hosted The Midnight Special for eight years and made countless appearances on other shows. Though in films he most frequently played himself, the Wolfman occasionally played other characters, as in Motel Hell (1980) and Mortuary Academy (1991).