Kenneth Carpenter was a TV and radio announcer. Kenneth was more commonly know for being the announcer on Bing Crosby’s TV show, Kraft Music Hall. Kenneth announced for 27 years for Crosby’s Television show.

Dabney Coleman is an American actor with a well-deserved reputation as a fine character actor, and a reliable presence for almost any role in TV and movies. His early appearances in the cinema were in The Slender Thread (1965) and Downhill Racer (1969). On TV he starred in That Girl (1966).

Coleman is best known for his roles in the films 9 to 5, Cloak & Dagger, Tootsie, WarGames, You’ve Got Mail and on television as Burton Fallen on the CBS series The Guardian, Louis “The Commodore” Kaestner on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and the voice of Principal Prickly in the animated series Recess.

Coleman has appeared in a wide range of more than 60 films, and continues to pursue his acting career today. Movies he’s had roles in include Tootsie, On Golden Pond, You’ve Got Mail, and The Beverly Hillbillies.

Mike Connors, born Kreker Ohanian, is an American actor best known for paying detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix and the crime-fighting investigator, Nick, in the 1960 CBS series, Tightrope.

In high school Connors was an avid basketball player, nicknamed “Touch” by his teammates. During World War II, he served in the United Stated Army Air Corps, then attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a Basketball scholarship. Director William A. Wellman noticed his expressive face while playing basketball and got him into acting. At the time, he changed his last name because “Ohanian” was too close to the actor George O’Hanlon. He then appeared as “Touch Connors” in a few television episodes and in his early films, such as Island in the Sky (1953) and as an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston.

Connors later renamed himself “Mike.” Connor’s acting career spans six decades in which he has appeared in many television series, and numerous films. In 1969, he won a Golden Globe for his role as Joe Mannix on Mannix.

Jeff Conroy was promoted to President and Executive Producer of Original Productions, a Fremantle Media Company, in November, 2012. He joined the Original Productions team in 2001, was promoted to Vice President, Programming in 2007, and Executive Vice President, Programming in 2011.

Conroy is Executive Producer on the multi Emmy’ Award-winning Deadliest Catch. To date, the series has been honored with ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Reality Program in 2011. Also in 2011, accolades from the Producers Guild of America (PGA) were received with the Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television Award.

Early in his tenure at Original Productions, Conroy played a leading role in developing Monster Garage, a five season staple on Discovery, serving as Supervising Producer. Among Conroy’s development and production projects are three of the highest rated series on History: Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men and The Legend of Shelby The Swamp Man. He has also guided multiple seasons of Storage Wars, and Storage Wars: Texas, huge ratings hits for A&E; Bering Sea Gold for Discovery, and Black Gold for truTV.

Conroy holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications and Theater from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he is an alumni guest lecturer and a member of the Advisory Board to the Communications Department. Conroy is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS).

Tim Conway is an American comedian and actor. In 1961, the comic legend Steve Allen signed Conway to appear as a regular on The Steve Allen Show. Conway went on to serve as Ernest Borgnine’s second-in-command, Ensign Parker, on the ABC primetime sitcom McHale’s Navy, from 1962 to 1966. He made his big screen debut in 1964, reprising his role as Parker in the film version of McHale’s Navy.

In 1975, Conway found TV success again, this time on CBS’s The Carol Burnett Show. As a regular on the top-rated variety show, Conway delighted audiences with his hilarious characterizations and improvisations. Conway won four Emmy Awards, including one for his work as a writer and one for his guest appearance on the sitcom Coach.

On the big screen, he appeared in The Apple Dumpling Gang and from 1975 to 1986, he and Don Knotts starred in six feature comedy films. Conway also wrote the screenplays for several of his movies. In 1996, Conway appeared in the comedy film Dear God, co-starring Greg Kinnear. He also appeared in the 1997 action film, Speed 2: Cruise Control, starring Sandra Bullock.

Frank Crumit was an American singer, composer, radio entertainer and vaudeville star. He shared his radio programs with his wife, Julia Sanderson, and the two were sometimes called “the ideal couple of the air.”

Elbert Clifton Daniel, Jr. was managing editor of the New York Times from 1964 to 1969. Before assuming the top editorial job at the paper, he served as the paper’s London and Moscow bureau chief.

Clifton Daniel was married to former United States President Harry S Truman’s daughter, Margaret, and the couple reared four sons and resided in Washington D.C., and New York City.

Elmer Davis was a news reporter, author, the director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient. After attending Queen’s College, in Oxford, Elmer Davis became an editor for Adventure magazine, leaving after a year to work as a reporter and editor for the New York Times.

Davis’ best-known work is his company history, History of the New York Times, 1851-1921 and his coverage of Billy Sunday. In 1928 Davis published his one and only novel Giant Killer, a retelling of the Biblical story of David. In 1939, CBS asked Davis to fill in as a news analyst for H.V. Kaltenborn, through which he became an instant success. In 1941, Davis had a nightly five-minute newscast that was carried on 95 stations.

After two years of reporting news on the radio, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Davis director of the new created United States Office of War Information. Most notably, in this position, Davis advised President Roosevelt that Japanese-American be permitted to enlist for service and was instrumental in lifting censorship bans in the media surrounding graphic photographs of American soldiers during World War II. Davis then continued his career in radio. He was one of the four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, and was the host of the ABC television series, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse.

2013, 2012 & 2011 Emmy Award winner, Comedian/Travel & Foodie Expert Mark DeCarlo was thrilled to win back to back to back Emmys for contributing his comedic whimsy to Chicago’s #1 daytime show, ABC’s Windy City LIVE. On the show, which premiered in May 2011 in Oprah Winfrey’s historic time slot, Mark hosts and produces comedic segments celebrating the real people, places and slightly off-kilter characters that make Chicago the best city in America to work, play and live…May through October.

Prior to WCL, Mark rode the road less traveled for 4 seasons on the Travel Channel’s Taste of America with Mark DeCarlo, scouring the U.S. for delicious food and the quirky zealots who champion ancestral recipes and down-home stories over mass-produced mush. It took 400 cities, and a lot of napkins, but through it all, a portrait of America… and its hungry people emerged. These hilarious stories – and previously secret recipes – are collected in Mark’s best selling new book, A FORK ON THE ROAD: 400 Cities, 1 Stomach, a comedic travelogue/cook book published by Lyons Press to sparkling reviews. AFOTR was an Amazon best seller for 19 weeks, and spawned yet another travel show, but this time Mark shares the spotlight.

With over 750,000+ weekly subscribers, Mark and his wife, The Traveling Diva Yeni Alvarez, host the web’s #1 Travel-Foodie Entertainment program, A Fork on the Road Show. Recent guests include; Robert DeNiro, Emma Thompson, Samantha Brown, Dick Van Dyke, Slyvester Stallone. Each episode features interviews with celebrities, chefs, touring musicians, local characters and features travel deals and contests that reward listeners with prizes all around the country. The show is broadcast from studios in LA Studios and from Festivals around the country. The podcast is currently being developed for TV and Webisodes.

Mark’s companion Travel Blog for HuffingtonPost.com’s six million daily readers chronicles the characters he meets on his adventures around the globe, performing at festivals, comedy shows, and seeing the world, one forkful at a time.

Mark is in-demand as a keynote speaker and comedic host for corporate clients at dozens of Fortune 500 Companies. Mark also performs with his blues/rock band, Old Blues Eyes.

Mark produced and hosted a ground-breaking web series, EconomicalECO.com, that featured a complete home rebuild, green from the ground up. Unlike other ‘green’ shows, EcoEco isn’t about saving the planet, it’s about saving money. By using exclusively American-made, economical to purchase and use products, Mark completed the remodel for 33% less than a conventional job. He doubled the size of the home, while cutting energy usage by 20% with sizegenetics review. The combination of warranties, rebates and tax incentives for buying energy efficient products added yet another level of savings.

After founding the Second City’s West Coast Touring Company in Santa Monica, Mark hosted Fox’s hit dating show Studs for 580 episodes, birthing reality TV – for which he is truly sorry. Juicy roles on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tracey Takes On, and The Ben Stiller Show kept him in demand between live shows with his improv group, The Frayed Knots! In 2001 Mark starred in the Oscar Nominated Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius as befuddled cartoon dad Hugh Neutron, continuing for a decade on the award winning Nickelodeon TV series. Animated stints on Barnyard, Planet Sheen, Johnny Bravo, Handy Manny and the Thumb series of comedies Thumb Wars, BaTThumb and Thumbtanic keep Mark in demand as a cartoon voice actor. After Studs, Mark hosted 3 more hit shows; Fox’s extreme game show Big Deal, and FX’s late night talk show The X Show, before hitting the road from 2005-2009 for the Travel Channel.

Casey Donahew is a Texas country music singer in the band Casey Donahew Band. Starting off playing local bars in 2002 they soon became a favorite on the Texas bar circuit eventually working their way to national level in 2009 when one of the band’s self-released albums hit the country Top 30 album chart in Billboard magazine.

The band’s high energy level, throughout extra long live sets, started to attract Texas’ pre-teen bar crowd, when Pam Minick, from Texas’ famed club Billy Bob’s took notice, and she hired the Casey Donahew Band for a headlining spot and the college-age crowd came with. When the band released the album Lost Days in 2005, selling as many on the Internet as they did at shows. With guitarist Brent Wall, bass player Steve Stone, and drummer Taz, the band released their 2006 album simply titled The Casey Donahew Band and then in 2008 releasing the rowdy live album, Live-Raw-Real, in the Ville. With many of the sales coming from digital download services, they broke the Billboard charts with their album Moving On.

Despite the band’s growing national reputation, The Casey Donahew Band still keeps true to the Texas County standards.