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Battisone Sam
Sam Battistone co-founded Sambo's restaurant chain which grew to 1,117 national locations. Only the original in Santa Barbara is still going.
Battisone Sam 2
The Sambo's name came from a combo of 'Sam' and co-founder Newell Bohnett's nickname 'Bo'. The 1899 'Story of Little Black Sambo' was used later in marketing and decor, though its perceived racism contributed to the chain's demise.
Bone Scott
Scott Bone was the third Territorial Governor of Alaska, serving from 1921–1925. He also decided to use dog sleds rather than a plane to transport diphtheria antitoxin 674 miles in the now-famous 1925 Serum Run, from which the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race stems. He was the editor of the Washington Post, founded the Washington Herald and later was the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. When President Warren Harding was in North Nenana, Alaska to drive in the final spike for the completion of the Alaskan railroad on July 15,1923, Governor Bone inserted the final spike.
Brinkman Paul
Paul Brinkman acted as Paul Brooks in his debut in "The Dough Girls" (1944). Other films include "Those Endearing Young Charms" (1945), and many short features such as "Double Honeymoon" (1945), "What, No Cigarettes" (1945) and "Roaring City" (1951). He married actress Jeanne Crain in December 1945, retired from acting in 1951, and became a business exec and radio manufacturer.
Colman Ronald
Actor Ronald Colman was in Lost Horizon, and A Tale of Two Cities. He was nominated 4 times for the best actor oscar, winning for 1947's A Double Life.
Crain Jeanne
Jeanne Crain was in A Letter To Three Wives, State Fair, Cheaper By the Dozen, Apartment for Peggy, Belles On Their Toes, and Dangerous Crossing. She earned an oscar nomination for the 1949 film Pinky, in which she plays a light-skinned black woman who passes as white. Later in her career, she co-starred with Dana Andrews in Hot Rods To Hell (1967), and her last films were Skyjacked, and The Night God Screamed (1975). While in high school, she was crowned Miss Pan Pacific. Her ice skating ability was shown in 1946's Margie, as she and Conrad Janis danced around the ice rink as her boyfriend, Alan Young, slipped and stumbled his way along. She had 7 children with husband Paul Brinkman.
Gionfriddo Albert
Albert Gionfriddo played outfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1944 to 1947, then the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the 1947 World Series, he robbed Joe DiMaggio of what was then deemed a possible 2-run game-tying homer (later photo and film evidence show it to be well short of the wall) . He played and managed teams in the minors and Canada until 1959. He later owned a restaurant, and was a trainer and equipment manager for a high school.
Glaser Allan
Harvey Laurence
Actor Laurence Harvey was in I Am A Camera, Look Back In Anger, and most famously played the villain in The Manchurian Candidate. Daughter Domino was a bounty hunter and died of a drug overdose. The film Domino with Keira Knightly is loosely based on her life.
Hunter Tab
Tab Hunter, born Arthur Kelm, was an actor, singer, film producer and author. He was in Battle Cry, The Sea Chase, The Burning Hills, The Girl He Left Behind, Lafayette Escadrille, Gunman's Walk, and 1958's Damn Yankees co-starring Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston, and Ride the Wild Surf. He co-starred with Paul Newman in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), and co-starred opposite Divine in John Waters' Polyester (1981). He had his own TV show for a year, opposite the Ed Sullivan Show. Hunter wrote and starred in Dark Horse (1992), which was his last film. Hunter had a 1957 hit record with the song "Young Love," and another hit, "Ninety-Nine Ways". An award-winning 2015 documentary about his life, Tab Hunter Confidential, was directed by Jeffrey Schwarz and produced by Hunter's husband Allan Glaser. Hunter's autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005) was a NY Times best-seller. He has a star on the Walk of Fame.
Knapp George Owen
Parker Fess
Fess Parker is most famous for playing Davy Crockett (1955-56) and Daniel Boone (1964-70) on TV, popularizing the fad of coonskin caps. His appearances in movies include Old Yeller, and The Light in the Forest. He later had a 1,500-acre winery, and owned a resort.
Parker Suzy
Suzy Parker was an actress whose first role was a cameo in Funny Face, and was the first $100/hr and $100,000/yr model. She was married to actor Bradford Dillman.
Peabody Frederick
Frederick Peabody worked his way up in business, marketed Arrow shirts, and was chairman of the board of education in Sta Barbara. He donated a stadium to the high school, and land for Peabody Charter School.
Phillips Carmen
Ralston Vera
Věra Helena Hrubá was a Czech figure skater, placing 17th at the 1936 Olympics, where Hitler asked if she would like to "skate for the swastika." As she later recalled, "I looked him right in the eye, and said that I'd rather skate on the swastika. The Führer was furious." She acted in 26 movies, usually as a foreign women due to her limited English. She married a much older studio head who helped her career (and was sued by shareholders because of it) and left her $10 million. The authors of The Golden Turkey Awards nominated her as "The Worst Actress of All Time," along with Candice Bergen and Mamie Van Doren. They all lost to Raquel Welch.
Ramey Victoria
Rexroth Kenneth
Kenneth Rexroth was a poet on the leading edge of the 'beat generation', though he disliked the connection. He also translated writing, wrote essays, and taught at local UCSB.
Sansum William
Dr William Sansum develeped and applied insulin in the US in 1922. He founded Sansum Clinic Foundation in 1944 which has become Sansum Diabetes Research Institute.
Sinclair Robert
Robert Sinclair was a stage director before working in film, then TV's Telephone Time, The Shirley Temple Theatre, Johnny Stoccato, The Deputy, Maverick, Hawaiian Eye, and Lawman.
Thicke Alan
Alan Thicke, born Alan Willis Jeffrey, hosted a Canadian game show in Montreal called First Impressions in the late 1970s and the celebrity game show Animal Crack-Ups in the late 1980s. In 1997, he hosted a TV version of the board game Pictionary. In the early 2000s, he hosted the All New 3's a Crowd. Norman Lear hired Thicke to produce and head the writing staff of TV's Fernwood 2 Night, a tongue-in-cheek talk show based on characters from Lear's earlier show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In the late 1970s, he replaced The Alan Hamel Show with his own The Alan Thicke Show. Thicke later signed to do an American late-night talk show, Thicke of the Night, competing against the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, which was short-lived. Thicke had a successful career as a TV theme song composer, including Diff'rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life, The Wizard of Odds (he also sang the introduction), The Joker's Wild, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Diamond Head Game, Animal Crack-Ups, Blank Check, Stumpers!, Whew!, and the original theme to Wheel of Fortune. Thicke is best-remembered as Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist and father, on the family sitcom Growing Pains. Thicke reprised his role in two reunion TV movies, The Growing Pains Movie and Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers. In 1987, Thicke appeared as Dr. Jonas Carson in the Disney film Not Quite Human. He reprised his role in two sequels. In 1988, he hosted the Miss USA Pageant in El Paso, Texas, replacing Bob Barker, and again replaced Barker for the 1988 Miss Universe Pageant. In 1992, Thicke appeared as himself in the pilot episode of the sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. He appeared in the end-credits scene, alongside series star Mark Curry, humorously referencing the pilot episode being filmed on the same set used as the Seavers' home on Growing Pains. In October 2016, Thicke appeared as himself in the pilot episode of This is Us. His son, singer Robin Thicke, was from first marriage to Days of Our Lives actress Gloria Loring. In 1987 at age 40, Thicke began dating 17-year old Kristy Swanson. They became engaged but never married. In 1994, he married his second wife, Miss World 1990 Gina Tolleson. In 1999, he met model Tanya Callau, and they were married from 2005 until his death.
Varden Norma
Norma Varden acted in Casblanca, National Velvet, Strangers on a Train, Witness for the Prosecution, Doctor Doolittle, and TV's Hazel.
Cherrill Virginia
Virginia Cherrill was an actress best-known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. Her friendship with Sue Carol - the future Mrs. Alan Ladd - drew her to Hollywood where she met William Hearst and Charlie Chaplin. After City Lights, she appeared in Girls Demand Excitement with John Wayne, director John Ford's The Brat, Tod Browning's Fast Workers, the Gershwin musical Delicious with Janet Gaynor, followed by starring in two of James Mason's early films, including Troubled Waters (1936), which turned out to be her last. She then gave up her film career, claiming she was "no great shakes as an actress." Second husband was (briefly) Gary Grant. Fourth and last husband was Florian Martini. She has a star on the Walk of Fame.
Dillman Bradford
Bradford Dillman was an actor and author. After college at Yale, he enlisted in the Marines where he taught communication. After a successful Broadway run, he appeared in the films A Certain Smile, Love and Wars, and co-starred in Compulsion and shared a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. After making A Circle of Deception, Crack in the Mirror, and Sanctuary, he played the title role in Francis of Assisi (1961). During the mid-60's he appeared all over TV. Later movies include The Bridge at Remagen, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Way We Were, Gold, Bug, The Enforcer, The Swarm, Piranha, Sudden Impact, and Lords of the Deep. Dillman published a football fan book, Inside the New York Giants, in 1995 and an autobiography, Are You Anybody?: An Actor's Life, in 1997. Second wife was model/actress Suzy Parker. He said "Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony, theatrical name - so I kept it."
Ireland John
John Ireland was a Canadian-American actor, nominated for an Oscar for All the King's Men (1949). Ireland was in My Darling Clementine, Red River, Vengeance Valley, and Gunfight at the OK Corral, 55 Days at Peking, The Adventurers, Farewell My Lovely, and Spartacus. TV included The Cheaters, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Quincy ME, and Cassie & Co. He directed 1954's The Fast and the Furious, and 1953's Hannah Lee: An American Primitive. He attracted controversy by dating 16-year-old actress Tuesday Weld when he was 45. Later, he owned a restaurant, Ireland's, in Santa Barbara, where he concocted "Ireland Stew" and greeted patrons. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Haskin Byron
Byron Haskin worked as a newspaper cartoonist after college. In 1920, he became a commercial-industrial movie photographer, then cameraman, and an assistant director at Selznick Pictures. He worked on special effects and helped bring sound to films. He started directing at Warner Brothers and went to England in the early 1930s to make films there. Returning to the US, he became head of the Warner Brothers Special Effects department. He directed Disney's first live-action film, Treasure Island (1950). He also directed the science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds (1953), The Naked Jungle (1954), Conquest of Space (1955), Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), and The Power (1968), and 6 episodes of the Twilight Zone.
Carr Sabin
Sabin Carr was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. In 1927 he became the first man to clear 14 feet outdoors and in 1928 he was the first to clear 14 feet indoors. He won the gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He later went into the lumber business and became the president of the Sterling Lumber Co.
Battisone Sam

Battisone Sam  33 views

Battisone Sam 2

Battisone Sam 2  30 views

Bone Scott

Bone Scott  29 views

Brinkman Paul

Brinkman Paul  36 views

Colman Ronald

Colman Ronald  22 views

Crain Jeanne

Crain Jeanne  22 views

Gionfriddo Albert

Gionfriddo Albert  39 views

Glaser Allan

Glaser Allan  10 views

Harvey Laurence

Harvey Laurence  21 views

Hunter Tab

Hunter Tab  7 views

Knapp George Owen

Knapp George Owen  30 views

Parker Fess

Parker Fess  32 views

Parker Suzy

Parker Suzy  33 views

Peabody Frederick

Peabody Frederick  30 views

Phillips Carmen

Phillips Carmen  30 views

Ralston Vera

Ralston Vera  30 views

Ramey Victoria

Ramey Victoria  27 views

Rexroth Kenneth

Rexroth Kenneth  30 views

Sansum William

Sansum William  30 views

Sinclair Robert

Sinclair Robert  31 views

Thicke Alan

Thicke Alan  7 views

Varden Norma

Varden Norma  31 views

Cherrill Virginia

Cherrill Virginia  25 views

Dillman Bradford

Dillman Bradford  5 views

Ireland John

Ireland John  22 views

Haskin Byron

Haskin Byron  27 views

Carr Sabin

Carr Sabin  29 views

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