The Ride

Michael Biehn (Actor) .. Smokey Banks

Born: July 31, 1956
Birthplace: Anniston, Alabama, United States

Trivia: As a child, Michael Biehn moved from his Alabama hometown to Nebraska and finally Arizona, where he graduated high school. He went to college and later moved to Los Angeles to begin a film career, making his professional stage debut after two years of intensive training. In 1978, Biehn was cast as Mark Johnson, the hard-veneered but vulnerable ward of psychiatrist Robert Reed in the TV series Operation: Runaway. For the next few years, malevolence was Biehn's onscreen strong suit, first as the psycho title character in 1981's The Fan, then as the neofascist military-school upperclassman in The Lords of Discipline (1982). After switching gears with the sympathetic role of futuristic android-hunter Kyle Reese in James Cameron's The Terminator, Biehn became a member of Cameron's informal stock company, playing colorful leading roles in Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989). Biehn would remain a prolific actor and a cult favorite for the next few decades, appearing most notably in movies like The Rock, Clockstoppers, and Grindhouse, as well as TV shows like The Magnificent Seven and Hawaii. Biehn would also inhabit the director's chair, helming thrillers like The Victim.

Clarence Felder (Actor) .. Mike Stillwell

Born: September 02, 1938

Trivia: Supporting actor Clarence Felder first appeared onscreen in the '70s.

Brock Pierce (Actor) .. Danny O'Neil

Born: November 14, 1980

Jennifer O'Neill (Actor) .. Ellen Stillwell

Born: February 20, 1948

Trivia: Jennifer O'Neill's mother was still pregnant when she and her husband visited Jennifer's future grandfather, a bank president residing in Rio De Janeiro. Thus it was that O'Neill was born in the shadow of Sugar Loaf Mountain. Raised in New England and trained at New York's Professional Children's School, she became a successful cosmetics model in her teens. In films from 1968, O'Neill made her starring bow in 1970's Rio Lobo. Apparently director Howard Hawks intended to "create" O'Neill in the same way that he elevated another model, Lauren Bacall, to stardom in 1944's To Have and Have Not; alas, Hawks and O'Neill didn't see eye to eye, and it would be two years before the actress would achieve any measure of genuine stardom. In 1972, she became every pubescent boy's dream girl when she played Dorothy, the twentyish war widow who turns to teenager Gary Grimes for affection, in Summer of 42. Her career moved in fits and spurts after that triumph. O'Neill also starred on the 1983 series Bare Essence (1983), in which she was well cast as "international beauty" Lady Bobbi Rowan; in addition, she has continued making occasional films into the next century.

Jennifer Blanc (Actor) .. Linnette

Born: April 22, 1974

Chris Owen (Actor) .. Steve

Born: September 25, 1980

Martin Spanjers (Actor) .. George

Born: February 02, 1987
Birthplace: Tucson, Arizona

Trivia: An actor who initially tackled characterizations during his adolescent years, Martin Spanjers did much of his premier work on television, with a heavy emphasis on sitcoms. In his early years, he specialized in playing average (and unremarkable) teens, and was often cast as the son in sitcom families -- per his most visible role, as Rory Hennessy (the oldest child of John Ritter's patriarch Paul Hennessy) in 8 Simple Rules (2002-2005). Spanjers branched out into big-screen work with his supporting turn as Randy in the sports farce The Comebacks.

Gus Rethwisch (Actor) .. Enforcer

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