Jerry Hardin is an American actor who has has appeared in film and television roles. He is perhaps best known as the character Deep Throat in the series The X-Files.

Hardin began his acting career in New York, performing in regional theatre for twelve years. He first appeared on television in the 1950s with over hundreds of appearances by the 1990s in series including Sara, World War III, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Sliders, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. His first film appearance was in Thunder Road (1958), following around twenty other preceding appearances including Tempest (1982), Honkytonk Man (1982), Cujo (1983), Mass Appeal (1984), Warning Sign (1985), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and The Firm (1993).

William Randolph Hearst Jr. was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his interview with Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, and associated commentaries in 1955.

He was instrumental in restoring some measure of family control to the Hearst Corporation, which under his father’s will is (and will continue to be while any grandchild alive at William Randolph Hearst Sr.’s death in 1951 is still living) controlled by a board of thirteen trustees, five from the Hearst family and eight Hearst executives. When tax laws changed to prevent the foundations his father had established from continuing to own the corporation, he arranged for the family trust (with the same trustees) to buy the shares and for longtime chief executive Richard E. Berlin, who was going senile, to be eased out to become chairman of the trustees for a period. Later William Randolph Hearst Jr. himself headed the trust and served as chairman of the executive committee of the corporation. Today his branch of the family is represented on the trustees by his son William Randolph Hearst III.

He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Van Heflin was an American theatre, radio and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).

Heflin, born Emmett Evan Heflin, Jr., began his acting career on Broadway in the early 1930s before being signed to a contract by RKO Radio Pictures. He made his film debut in A Woman Rebels (1936). He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his greatest roles on Broadway were playing Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story, which ran for 417 performances from 1939-1940, and the Arthur Miller plays A Memory of Two Mondays (as Larry) and A View From the Bridge (as Eddie). His best-known film became the 1953 classic western Shane, among his other notable film credits are Presenting Lily Mars (1943), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Possessed (1947), Green Dolphin Street (1947), Act of Violence (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), The Prowler (1951) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957).

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio detective drama that aired from June 17, 1947, through September 15, 1951, first heard on NBC in the summer of 1947 starring Van Heflin. He also acted on the Lux Radio Theatre, Suspense, Cavalcade of America and many more radio programs.

In 1960, Heflin was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to motion pictures at 6311 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1964.

Don Herold was an American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist who wrote and illustrated many books and was a contributor to national magazines. He was born in Bloomfield, Indiana to Otto F. Herold and Clara Dyer Herold. He graduated from high school in 1907 and went on to the Art Institute of Chicago until 1908 when he transferred to the Indiana University. He lived in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s and New York City from 1940 to 1962.

Perhaps one of his more famous works is a poem called I’d Pick More Daisies, also known as “If I had My Life to Live over”, which was translated to Spanish as “Instantes” and misattributed to Jorge Luis Borges. The real poem, written by Don Herold, was also misattributed to Nadine Stair.

John Hillkirk has made a name for himself as the Executive Editor of USA TODAY. He majored in English and has been a writer and editor at USA TODAY since the newspaper launched in 1982. Before becoming Executive Editor in May 2004, he spent nine years as Managing Editor of the Money section.

Prior to joining The Nation’s Newspaper, Hillkirk was a business reporter at the Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y., and the Valley Dispatch in Tarentum, Pa. He has also co-authored three books. Those of which include, Xerox: American Samurai, Grots Guts and Genius, and A Better Idea: Redefining the Way Americans Work.

Wayland Holyfield moved from Arkansas to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a songwriting career in 1972. His first song was recorded in 1973 and his first number one hit was Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer. He achieved his first solo number one hit You’re My Best Friend recorded by Don Williams.

In addition, Holyfield’s songs have been recorded by numerous Nashville artists. During his career, Holyfield written over 40 Top Ten hits and 14 #1 hits. Holyfield is most famous for his song Arkansas, You Run Deep In Me which was written for the 1986 Arkansas Sesquicentennial celebration. It was named one of Arkansas’ official state songs in 1987. Holyfield played the song at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1992.

Holyfield is the current chairman of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, (NSAI) for almost 25 years. Since 1990 he has been serving on the ASCAP board of directors.

Holyfield received a Grammy Award nomination in 1972 for Could I Have This Dance and in 1979, he received the NSAI Presidential Award. Holyfield has won 14 BMI Performance Awards and 16 ASCAP Performance Awards.

Holyfield was the 1983 ASCAP Country Writer of the Year co-winner and in 1992 he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and to the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.

Jeffrey “Jeff” Hunter was an American film and television actor and producer. Hunter is known for his roles as the sidekick to John Wayne’s character in The Searchers, as Jesus Christ in the biblical film King of Kings, and as Capt. Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of Star Trek and appears in archival footage in the series’ only two-part episode, The Menagerie.

Robert McElhiney “Bob” James is an American two-time Grammy Award-winning smooth jazz keyboardist, arranger and record producer. He is recognized as one of the original founders of smooth jazz, is renowned for the complexity of his arrangements and instrumentals, and his work is frequently sampled.

Hans-Werner Janssen was an American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores.

Dean Hargrove is an American television producer, writer, and director. His background includes graduating the St. John’s Military School. He specializes in creating mystery series. He frequently works with television producer Fred Silverman and television writer Joel Steiger.

Early in his career, Hargrove received national attention, receiving an Emmy nomination for a short-lives NBC series with Bob Newhart, The Bob Newhart Show. A few years later in 1964, Hargrove became a writer for the television series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. After, Hargrove worked at Universal Studios’ on shows like It Takes a Thief, The Name of the Game and Columbo.

In more recent years, he worked for Viacom Productions and Paramount Network Television, producing the shows Matlock on NBC and ABC from 1986 to 1995, Jake and the Fatman on CBS from 1987 to 1992, and Diagnosis: Murder on CBS from 1993 to 2002. Hargrove won a Primetime Emmy Award for Columbo in 1974 and was nominated on four other occasions.