Road House

Patrick Swayze (Actor) .. Dalton

Born: August 18, 1952
Died: September 14, 2009
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, United States

Trivia: An athlete practically from birth, Patrick Swayze was a football player in high school and then earned a gymnastics scholarship to pay for college. His father had been a dancer/choreographer, and Swayze began to study dance early on, eventually working with the prestigious Harkness and Joffrey Ballet companies. He made his professional debut as a dancer with the lead role of Prince Charming in a traveling company of Disney on Parade, but an old knee injury from his football days threatened to cut his dancing career short at any moment. Hedging his bets, Swayze opened his repertoire up to acting and made the transition to Broadway, landing the role of Danny in the hit musical Grease before heading to Los Angeles to make yet another transition, this time to the screen.Swayze cut his teeth on TV guest appearances, scoring a memorable role as a dying soldier in an episode of M*A*S*H. Finally, he got a role in Francis Ford Coppola's youth ensemble film The Outsiders (1983), a film of massive critical acclaim and box-office success. Steadily continuing his upward trajectory, he followed The Outsiders with the Cold War classic Red Dawn (1984) and with the Civil War TV miniseries North and South (1985). His real big break came in 1987, however, with a starring role in the hit Dirty Dancing. The film gave Swayze the chance to showcase both his acting and dancing abilities and, additionally, he wrote and performed one of the film's songs, "She's Like the Wind," which went on to become a major hit. The role made Swayze an undisputed star, and he scored big again with a tough-guy role in the movie Road House, as well as the romantic lead in the supernatural drama Ghost (1990), a box-office smash that ended up grossing more than $200 million.The '90s had started out for Swayze with a bang, but with so much of his success wrapped up in the films of the 1980s, the actor soon found himself fighting against the mentality that he was out of date. He found iconic roles like surfer Bodhi in the police thriller Point Break and even played a drag queen in 1995's To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, but transitioning into the next phase of his career proved challenging. In 2001, Swayze found a film to help him facilitate this change with the role of twisted self-help guru Jim Cunningham in the dark mystery drama Donnie Darko. There was an element of self-parody in Swayze's portrayal of the über-positive, deceptively clean-cut Cunningham, and audiences found the role refreshing. He continued to pick up projects as they appealed to him, appearing in everything from the romantic drama One Last Dance to the quirky British comedy Keeping Mum.Sadly, however, by the late 2000s some upsetting news arrived. Swayze announced to the press in March 2008 that he was suffering from inoperable stage IV pancreatic cancer. The star battled his illness for a reported 20 months, but in the end it took his life. He died at the relatively young age of 57 in September 2009.

Kelly Lynch (Actor) .. Doc

Born: January 31, 1959
Birthplace: Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States

Trivia: Contemporary American actress Kelly Lynch has been playing leads in Hollywood films since the late 1980s, but has yet to make it big. The daughter of show people, she has been acting since age four. Lynch studied dance and then spent two summers training to be a director at the Guthrie Theater. As a young woman she moved to New York to study drama with Sanford Meisner and Marilyn Fried. After briefly encountering the head of the Elite modeling agency in an elevator one day, Lynch was signed up for a $250,000 per year modeling contract. During the three years she modeled, Lynch made occasional TV appearances. She made her feature-film debut playing a bit part in Bright Lights, Big City (1988) but did not play her first leading role until the following year in Road House. Lynch first gained widespread acclaim for her portrayal of a suburban drug addict in Van Sant's Drug Store Cowboy (1989); it was a role she could relate to, as she had broken both legs in an auto accident when she was 20 and had come dangerously close to being addicted to painkillers. Though major stardom has as yet eluded Lynch, she has recently proven herself to be a competent and versatile actress, capable of playing in everything from light romantic comedies to high drama.

Sam Elliott (Actor) .. Wade Garrett

Born: August 09, 1944
Birthplace: Sacramento, California, United States

Trivia: Through a cruel twist of fate, American actor Sam Elliott came to films at just the point that the sort of fare in which he should have thrived was dying at the box office. A born cowboy star if ever there was one, the stage-trained Elliot made his debut in a tiny role in the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Within a few years, the western market had disappeared, and Elliot had to settle for standard good-guy roles in such contemporary films as Lifeguard (1976). Never tied down to any one type, Elliot's range has embraced sexy "other men" (Sibling Rivalry [1989]) and vicious rapist/murderers (the TV movie A Death in California [1986]). Still, one yearned to see Elliot playing frontiersmen; fortunately, the western genre had not completely disappeared on television, and Elliot was well-served with such hard-riding projects as The Sacketts (1977), I Will Fight No More Forever (1981), The Shadow Riders (1982), Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986) and Conagher (1991), in which he appeared with his wife, actress Katherine Ross. When westerns began showing up on the big screen again in the 1990s, Elliot was there, prominently cast as Virgil Earp in Tombstone (1993) and the made-for-cable sagebrusher The Desperate Trail (1995). Awarded Bronze Wrangler trophies for his involvement in Conagher, The Hi-Lo Country, and You Know My Name, Elliot also made an impression on Cohen Brothers fans with a memorable performance as the laid back Stranger in the cult hit The Big Lebowski. A featured role in the 2000 made for television remake Fail Safe found Elliot hanging up his duster to revisit rising Cold War tensions, and later that same year he would finally make the leap into the new millennium with his role as a presidential aid in Rod Lurie's Oscar-nominated hit The Contender. Rewarded with a double hernia as a result of his intense training efforts to prepare for a role in the 2002 Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers, the then fifty-seven-year-old endured the pain through the entire production and put of surgery until shooting had wrapped. Though Elliot would remain in the armed forces to portray a military general hell-bent on destroying the Hulk in 2003, his onscreen authority would weaken somewhat when he was cast as a cancer-riddled Marlboro Man in the 2005 comedy Thank You for Smoking. After traveling to the far corners of the globe to carry out a little vigilante justice in the 2006 made for television thriller Avenger, Elliot would next break a little new ground by venturing into the world of animation by lending his distinctive voice to the character of Ben the Cow in Steve Oedekerk's rural family romp Barnyard. He co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in The Golden Compass (2007), a film adaptation of the first installment of the wildly successful book series from author Philip Pullman. In 2009 he took on a role in the award winning comedy drama Up in the Air, and co-starred as an eccentric billionaire in director Tony Krantz's The Big Bang in 2011. He joined Robert Redford and Julie Christie to play a supporting role in 2012's comedy drama The Company You Keep.

Ben Gazzara (Actor) .. Brad Wesley

Born: August 28, 1930
Died: February 03, 2012
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States

Trivia: Both an accomplished character actor and leading man, Ben Gazzara made a name for himself on the stage, screen, and television. The son of an Italian immigrant, Gazzara was born in New York City on August 28, 1930. He channeled his excess energy into acting after dropping out of the engineering department at the City College of New York. After studying at the Actors Studio and with private coach Erwin Piscator, Gazzara exploded onto the Broadway scene in 1953, playing warped military academy upper-classman Jocko De Paris in End as a Man. He went on to create the role of Brick in the original 1955 production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He later starred in Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain, only to see his role go to Don Murray in the 1957 movie version, just as Paul Newman would portray Brick in the 1958 film version of Cat. Fortunately, Gazzara was permitted top film billing in 1957, reprising his stage role in End as a Man in the heavily laundered film-version, The Strange One. Two years later, Gazzara played arrogant murder-trial defendant Lieutenant Manion -- the one with the "irresistible impulse" -- in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, slyly stealing scenes from the film's "official" star, James Stewart. After this promising beginning in films, Gazzara had trouble finding adequate movie roles. He turned to television in 1963, first as a co-star with Chuck Connors in the experimental 90-minute crime weekly Arrest and Trial. In 1965, Gazzara starred as Paul Bryan, an ex-lawyer with only a short time to live, on the TV popular series Run for Your Life; in spite of his character's fatal illness, Gazzara was able to remain with Run for three healthy seasons. With 1970's Husbands, Gazzara made the first of four film appearances under the direction of his old Actors Studio buddy John Cassavetes. Four years later, Gazzara starred as the Leon Uris counterpart in television's first miniseries, QB VII (1974). In the decades that followed, Gazzara took roles that, while not always prestigious, permitted him ample creative elbow room; a fascinating example of this was his bisexual villain in the Patrick Swayze vehicle Road House (1989). In 1998, he did some of the best work of his career portraying a series of beautifully dysfunctional characters in Buffalo '66, Happiness, and the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski. The following year, he traveled into the realm of slick international caper with a supporting role in The Thomas Crown Affair, and then returned to his New York roots to portray the leader of organized crime in the Bronx in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Gazzara remained active up through the end of the following decade, continuing to make onscreen appearances even after severe throat cancer that ravaged his vocal chords. He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t'aime and the 2008 comedy-drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at age 86 in early February 2012.Gazzara was divorced from the late actress Janice Rule.

Julie Michaels (Actor) .. Denise

Born: July 20, 1970
Birthplace: Northwest, Washington D.C., United States

Trivia: Was born in a U.S. Air Force base.Was a member of the Huskies' NCAA Division-I Gymnastics Team.Discovered her passion for martial arts while touring Asia as a goodwill ambassador.Student of sensei Benny Urquidez.Is an accomplished equestrian.In 2014, became the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy or Variety Show.Has a production company called JMP Productions, Inc.

Red West (Actor) .. Red Webster

Trivia: Burly character actor, onscreen from the '60s. He was Elvis Presley's bodyguard.

Sunshine Parker (Actor) .. Emmet

Born: June 10, 1927

Jeff Healey (Actor) .. Cody

Born: March 25, 1966
Died: March 02, 2008

Kevin Tighe (Actor) .. Tilghman

Kathleen Wilhoite (Actor) .. Carrie Ann Nash

Born: June 29, 1964
Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California

Trivia: Sturdy, dependable actress Kathleen Wilhoite adroitly tackled supporting roles in American films from the early '80s (amid her late adolescence) onward. She began with feature work, in pictures of somewhat dubious quality, such as the 1983 exploitationer Private School, the disappointing Sidney Lumet thriller The Morning After (1986), and the disastrous superhero saga Brenda Starr (1993). Wilhoite scored, however, on the small screen with three memorable series portrayals: Rosalie Hendrickson on L.A. Law, Chloe Lewis on ER, and Liz Danes on Gilmore Girls. She returned to features in 2007, with a supporting role in the quirky Michael Douglas comedy The King of California.

Travis Mckenna (Actor) .. Jack

Born: July 18, 1960

Roger Hewlett (Actor) .. Younger

Born: May 02, 1958

Kurt James Stefka (Actor) .. Hank

Gary Hudson (Actor) .. Steve

Born: March 26, 1956

Terry Funk (Actor) .. Morgan

Born: June 30, 1944

Michael Rider (Actor) .. O'Connor

Born: April 05, 1952

John Young (Actor) .. Tinker

Born: March 16, 1922

Anthony De Longis (Actor) .. Ketchum

Born: March 23, 1950

Joe Unger (Actor) .. Karpis

Born: May 25, 1949

Tiny Ron (Actor) .. Mountain

Born: November 21, 1947

Sheila Caan (Actor) .. Judy

Born: September 17, 1952

Jon Paul Jones (Actor) .. Stroudenmire

Lauri Crossman (Actor) .. Stella

Keith David (Actor) .. Ernie Bass

Born: June 04, 1956
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States

Trivia: Actor, singer, and voice actor Keith David has spent much of his career on the stage, but also frequently works in feature films and on television. A native of New York City, David first performed as a child, singing in the All Borough Chorus and later attended the prestigious High School of Performing Arts. Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, where he studied voice and theater, David landed a role in a production of Coriolanus at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. He starred opposite Christopher Walken. David made his Broadway debut in Albee's The Lady From Dubuque (1980) and, two years later, had his first film role in John Carpenter's The Thing. He would not appear in another feature film until he played King in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986). In between, David alternated between stage and television work. He appeared in five films in 1988, including Clint Eastwood's Bird, where he gave a memorable performance as jazz sax player Buster Franklin. In 1992, David showed his considerable skill as a singer and dancer and won a Tony nomination for starring in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, opposite Gregory Hines. David's film career really picked up in the mid-'90s, with roles ranging from a gunslinger in Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead to a New York cop in Spike Lee's Clockers to an amputee who owns a pool parlor in Dead Presidents (all 1995). In 1998, David had a brief but memorable role as Cameron Diaz's boisterous stepfather in the Farrelly brother's zany Something About Mary. In one of the film's funniest scenes, David tries to help Diaz's prom date, Ben Stiller, extricate himself from an embarrassingly sticky situation. He is also well known to animation fans for his voice work in, among other projects, Disney's Gargoyles, HBO's Spawn, and the English-dubbed version of the Japanese-animated film Princess Mononoke. In 2000 he appeared in Requiem for a Dream, Pitch Black, and Where the Heart Is, as well as providing the narration of Ken Burns documentary on the history of jazz. He continued to work steadily in a variety of projects including Barbershop, 29 Palms, Agent Cody Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and the 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Crash. He also found work in Transporter 2, The Oh in Ohio, Meet Monica Velour, Lottery Ticket, and the 2010 remake of Death at a Funeral.

Ed DeFusco (Actor) .. Oscar

Humberto Larriva (Actor) .. Cruzado

Anthony Marsico (Actor) .. Cruzado

Gonzalo Quintana III (Actor) .. Cruzado

Marshall Rohner (Actor) .. Cruzado

John Oldach (Actor) .. Bandstand Tough Guy

Joey Plewa (Actor) .. Bandstand Tough Guy

Susan Lentini (Actor) .. Bandstand Babe

Patricia Tallman (Actor) .. Bandstand Babe

Born: September 04, 1957

Mike Fisher (Actor) .. Bandstand Bouncer

Born: December 29, 1960

Bob A. Jennings (Actor) .. Bandstand Bouncer

Dawn Ciccone (Actor) .. Steve's Girl

Julie Royer (Actor) .. Steve's Girl

Frank Noon (Actor) .. Barfly

Cristopher Collins (Actor) .. Sharing Husband

Cheryl Baker (Actor) .. Well-Endowed Wife

Born: March 08, 1954

Michael Wise (Actor) .. Gawker

Charles Hawke (Actor) .. Heckler

Tom Finnegan (Actor) .. Chief of Police

Christine Anderson (Actor) .. Party Girl

Lisa Axelrod (Actor) .. Party Girl

Debra Chase (Actor) .. Party Girl

Lisa Westman (Actor) .. Party Girl

Kymberly Herrin (Actor) .. Party Girl

Born: October 02, 1957

Kym Malin (Actor) .. Party Girl

Born: July 31, 1962

Heidi Paine (Actor) .. Party Girl

Jacklyn Palmer (Actor) .. Party Girl

Marta Rinchusiuso (Actor) .. Party Girl

Meg Thayer (Actor) .. Party Girl

Laura Albert (Actor) .. Strip Joint Girl

Christina Veronica Jasae (Actor) .. Strip Joint Girl

Michele Burger (Actor) .. Strip Joint Girl

Pamela Jackson (Actor) .. Strip Joint Girl

Daryl Marsh (Actor) .. Strip Joint Bartender

Born: March 15, 1937

Laura Lee Kasten (Actor) .. Nurse

Bill Dunnam (Actor) .. Car Salesman

Terrance Scott (Actor) .. Loudmouth

Sylvia Baker (Actor) .. Table Dancer

Dennis Ott (Actor) .. Bar Character

Born: June 13, 1958
Died: November 03, 1994

Trivia: Standing six-foot-11, character actor Dennis Ott's unusual height made him ideal for playing space aliens and menacing types. Though his career looked promising, it was cut short by AIDS. His film roles include that of the Devil in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), a Klingon in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), and an alien in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).

Ancel Cook (Actor) .. Grillman

Born: August 24, 1935

Chino Williams (Actor) .. Derelict

Born: July 26, 1933

Joseph Rockman (Actor) .. Member of Cody's Band

Thomas Stephen (Actor) .. Member of Cody's Band

Marshall R. Teague (Actor) .. Jimmy

John William Young (Actor) .. Tinker

Sheila Ryan (Actor) .. Judy

Born: June 08, 1921
Died: November 04, 1975

Trivia: Perky brunette leading lady Sheila Ryan became a television pioneer when, in 1938, she appeared on camera in an experimental Los Angeles broadcast. In 1940, Ryan was signed by 20th Century Fox, where she played energetic if unmemorable roles in such films as The Gay Caballero (1940) and Dressed to Kill (1941). She also appeared opposite Laurel and Hardy in two of their Fox vehicles, Great Guns (1941) and A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). Her best opportunity at Fox came in The Gang's All Here (1943), in which she was not only permitted to sing, but was afforded a special-effects "curtain call" in the film's finale. By the late '40s, Ryan's career had dwindled to B-pictures at the lesser studios. While co-starring with Gene Autry in 1950s Mule Train, Ryan fell in love with Autry's sidekick, Pat Buttram; they were married shortly afterward, and remained that way until Ryan's death in 1975. Sheila Ryan retired in 1958 after a handful of TV appearances and a featured role in something called Street of Darkness.

Tito Larriva (Actor) .. Cruzados

Tony Marsico (Actor) .. Cruzados

Michael J. Fisher (Actor) .. Bandstand Bouncer

Born: December 29, 1960

Bob Jennings (Actor) .. Bandstand Bouncer

Jackie Burch (Actor)

John Doe (Actor) .. Pat McGurn

Born: January 01, 1954

Trivia: John Doe is a man who balances two well-respected careers -- as a musician, Doe was the co-founder, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist of one of America's most acclaimed alternative rock bands, X, and while he continues to write and record new material, he has also carved out a reputation as a busy and well-regarded character actor. Born in Decatur, IL, in 1954 as John Duchac, John spent his young adult years in Baltimore, MD, where he began playing and singing in a number of bar bands. Fascinated by beat poetry and eager to hone his skills as a writer, Duchac moved to Venice, CA, in 1976; early the next year, John adopted the stage name John Doe and began dipping his toes into Los Angeles's burgeoning punk rock scene. Doe met guitarist Billy Zoom, who like Doe was eager to form a band, and when Doe met Exene Cervenka at a poetry workshop, they began comparing notes and soon started writing songs. They also began dating, and married a few years later, though they would divorce in 1985. With drummer D.J. Bonebrake, Doe, Zoom, and Cervenka formed the band X, which blended the power and speed of punk rock with the melodies and accents of rockabilly, blues, and roots rock, all coupled with Doe and Cervenka's hard-edged but literate lyrics about California's underclass. X quickly earned a reputation as one of the strongest bands to emerge from the American punk rock scene, and as X's popularity in Los Angeles grew, they began attracting the attention of a variety of filmmakers. Penelope Spheeris featured the band in her documentary about the L.A. punk scene, The Decline. . .of Western Civilization, the band performed their song "Beyond and Back" in Urgh! A Music War, and Jim McBride asked the band to record the title song for his remake of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. In 1985, independent filmmakers Allison Anders, Kurt Voss, and Dean Lent began making a movie about musicians living along the edges of Hollywood's music scene called Border Radio, and they cast Doe in his first acting role alongside such fellow L.A. punk scenesters as Chris D. and Dave Alvin. While the film was not released until 1987 and received poor distribution, Doe's rugged good looks and cool charisma registered well on screen, and he soon landed small roles in Oliver Stone's breakthrough film Salvador and Wayne Wang's neo-noir drama Slam Dance. In 1989, Jim McBride cast Doe in a small but substantial role in his Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire as J.W. Brown, Lewis' bassist and the father of the rocker's 13-year-old "child bride." By the time Great Balls of Fire was released, X had announced their breakup (though the band would stage several reunions throughout the 1990s), and while Doe began recording and touring as a solo act, he also devoted an increasing amount of his time to his acting career, so much so that by the end of the 1990s Doe's film work had outstripped music as his primary livelihood. Doe has since played a number of memorable supporting roles, often as musicians, in films running the gamut from Pure Country and Wyatt Earp to Georgia and Boogie Nights. In 1999, Doe reunited with Allison Anders and Kurt Voss for another film about the Los Angeles music community, Sugar Town, in which he gave a superb performance as a musician trying to hold his marriage and his career together; that same year, he also landed a recurring role on the TV series Roswell as Geoff Parker, father of teenaged protagonist Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby) and owner of Roswell diner The Crashdown Cafe.

Christina Veronica (Actor) .. Strip Joint Girl

Chino 'Fats' Williams (Actor) .. Derelict

Terri Lynn Doss (Actor) .. Cody's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Born: September 04, 1965

Jasae (Actor) .. Strip Joint Girl

Aaron Michael Lacey (Actor) .. Marine

Born: May 26, 1969

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