Big Top Pee-wee 1988 premiere
by mikeseravello-41380 | created - 22 Jul 2019 | updated - 18 Oct 2019 | PublicThursday July 21st, TCL Chinese Theatre 6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
1. Paul Reubens
Actor | Pee-wee's Playhouse
Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952 in Peekskill, New York, to Judy (Rosen), a teacher, and Milton Rubenfeld, a car salesman who had flown for the air forces of the U.S., U.K., and Israel, becoming one of the latter country's pioneering pilots. Paul grew up in Sarasota, Florida,...
2. Courteney Cox
Actress | Friends
Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother, Richard, Jr...
3. Tina Yothers
Actress | Family Ties
Green-eyed Tina Yothers began doing commercials when she was just three years old. The daughter of TV film producer Robert Yothers, she was born on May 5, 1973 in Whittier, California. Her three brothers (Jeff, Randy Poindexter Yothers and Cory 'Bumper' Yothers) had all acted in commercials. She ...
4. Arsenio Hall
Actor | Coming to America
Arsenio Hall was born on February 12, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Coming to America (1988), Coming 2 America (2021) and Harlem Nights (1989).
5. Blair Underwood
Actor | Deep Impact
A true multi-hyphenate, Blair Underwood is enjoying success in film, television and theatre, as an actor, director and producer. Underwood recently returned to Broadway starring opposite David Alan Grier in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Solider's Play" for director Kenny Leon and the ...
6. Khrystyne Haje
Actress | Head of the Class
An Emmy Award winning actress, Khrystyne started as a fashion model at age 14, appearing on magazine covers and billboards world-wide, soon after progressing to commercials, starring roles in Network TV movies & series, Best known for the role of Simone, on ABC's 5-year top 20 hit Head of the Class.
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7. Jackée Harry
Actress | 227
Jackée Harry was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and reared from the age of nine in Harlem, New York, by her mother, Flossie. At the tender age of fourteen, Jackée landed the lead role of the King in her school's production of The King and I. Upon graduation from New York City's High School ...
8. Mary Woronov
Actress | Eating Raoul
Mary Woronov was born on December 8, 1943, at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A surgeon's stepdaughter, she was raised in Brooklyn Heights and attended Cornell University as a sculpting major. After a class trip to Andy Warhol 's Silver Factory, she joined Warhol's entourage and starred ...
9. Paul Bartel
Actor | Eating Raoul
Paul Bartel was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He decided he wanted to direct animated movies when he was 11 and by 13 had spent a summer working at New York's UPA animation studio. He majored in theater arts at UCLA, and received a Fulbright scholarship to study film direction in Rome, producing a ...
10. Kelly Preston
Actress | Battlefield Earth
Kelly Preston was born on October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A talented and captivating performer, she first garnered international attention with her role as "Marnie Mason" in Ivan Reitman's Twins (1988), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. With her diverse character portrayals in ...
11. Barbara Chase
Actress | Ryan's Hope
Barbara Chase was born on February 6, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Ryan's Hope (1975), Ghosts of Hanley House (1968) and Money to Burn (1983).
12. Timothy Leary
Actor | Roadside Prophets
His mother was a teacher and his father a dentist. He attended West Point, joined the Army, and earned an undergraduate psychology degree at the University of Alabama while in service. Next he earned a master's degree from Washington State University and a doctorate in psychology from the ...
13. Cassandra Peterson
Actress | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Cassandra Peterson was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She began her career at age 17 as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history in the show "Vive Les Girls" at the Dunes Hotel. After receiving advice from "The King" himself, Elvis Presley, she traveled to ...
14. Laraine Newman
Actress | Coneheads
Laraine Newman is a founding member of The Groundlings. After seeing her in The Groundlings, Lorne Michaels cast her in a Lily Tomlin Special and later as an original cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975). She has worked from directors ranging from Woody Allen to Guillermo del Toro. She has a ...
15. Mark Mothersbaugh
Composer | Thor: Ragnarok
Graduate of Woodridge High School in Peninsula, Ohio.
Attended Kent State University (1970-73) in Kent, Ohio, to focus on attaining an art degree. While at Kent State Mothersbaugh met Jerry Casale and Bob Lewis, who ultimately joined him in forming the 1970-80s avant-garde band Devo.
Awarded an ...
16. Elayne Boosler
Actress | Cinemax Comedy Experiment
Elayne Boosler was born on August 18, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Cinemax Comedy Experiment (1985), Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990) and CBS Summer Playhouse (1987). She has been married to Bill Siddons since March 7, 2007.
17. Gary Busey
Actor | The Buddy Holly Story
A blond-haired, fair-complexioned actor with a toothy grin and capable of an unsettling glint in his eyes, Gary Busey was born in Goose Creek, Texas, and was raised in Oklahoma. He is the son of Sadie Virginia (Arnett), a homemaker, and Delmar Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager. He has ...
18. Jake Busey
Actor | Starship Troopers
Jake spent his childhood in sunny southern California, as well as a plethora of film sets around the country. His childhood similar to a "military brat", a series of strung-together extended-stay location shoots, alternating with tours on the road with his father's various bands and associates. In ...
19. Robert Townsend
Producer | Hollywood Shuffle
Robert Townsend transcends any medium he touches whether he's performing stand up, acting, writing, directing, producing, or running a television network. A Chicago native, Townsend is often referred to as one of the "Godfathers" of the Independent Film World." With over 30 years in the business, ...
20. Kimberly Russell
Actress | Head of the Class
Kimberly Russell was born on December 29, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Head of the Class (1986), Precious (2009) and The Game (1997). She has been married to Michael Bonewitz since June 17, 2000. They have eight children.
21. Valeria Golino
Actress | Rain Man
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and film director. She is known to English-language audiences for her role in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee and the two Hot Shots! films, especially the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. The second child of an Italian germanist and a Greek painter, Valeria Golino ...
22. Esai Morales
Actor | La Bamba
Award-winning actor Esai Morales is a graduate of New York's High School for the Performing Arts. He was born in Brooklyn, to Puerto Rican parents, and began his acting career on the stage, first appearing in El Hermano at the Ensemble Theatre Studio and at New York's Shakespeare Festival In The ...
23. Cindy Manella
Actress | Sex Crimes
Cindy Manella is known for Sex Crimes (1992) and Sex Crimes (1992).
24. Milton Rubenfeld
Actor | Big Top Pee-wee
Milton Rubenfeld was born on September 13, 1919 in Peekskill, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988). He died on February 21, 2004 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
25. Judy Rubenfeld
Actress | Big Top Pee-wee
Judy Rubenfeld was born on March 2, 1928 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988). She died on January 28, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
26. Donna Rice
Writer | Touched by an Angel
Donna Rice was born on January 7, 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Touched by an Angel (1994), American Scandals (2015) and Fox News @ Night (2017). She has been married to John Michael "Jack" Hughes since May 7, 1994.
27. James Grant
Actor | Braindead
James Grant was born on October 12, 1936 in Kiren, Argyllshire, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Braindead (1992), The Revenue Men (1967) and Prick Up Your Ears (1987).
28. Dennis Hopper
Actor | Easy Rider
Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...
29. Katherine LaNasa
Actress | The Campaign
Actress, former ballet dancer and choreographer Katherine LaNasa was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and originally trained as a ballet dancer, but had attended the North Carolina School of Arts, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as well as the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York. In 1989, she ...
30. Kris Kristofferson
Actor | Blade
Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson. His paternal grandparents were Swedish, and his father was a United States Air Force general who pushed his son to a military career. Kris was a Golden Gloves boxer and went to Pomona College in ...
31. Susan Tyrrell
Actress | Cry-Baby
A bizarre, gloriously one-of-a-kind Hollywood gypsy and self-affirmed outcast, San Francisco-born actress Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer) was a teenager when she made her stage debut in "Time Out for Ginger" in 1962. A product of the entertainment industry, her father was a top agent at ...
32. Penelope Ann Miller
Actress | Carlito's Way
Penelope Ann Miller is a distinguished artist in film, television, and theater. She has worked with some of the most notable actors and directors in Hollywood. This list includes Al Pacino and Sean Penn in director Brian de Palma's Carlito's Way, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination; ...
33. Wayne White
Actor | Pee-wee's Playhouse
Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film, television, and the fine art world. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, ...
34. Albert Henderson
Actor | Leaving Las Vegas
Albert Henderson was born on January 29, 1915 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and Coogan's Bluff (1968). He died on January 17, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
35. Kevin B. Kaplowitz
Actor | Big Top Pee-wee
Kevin B. Kaplowitz is known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988).
36. Jack Murdock
Actor | Rain Man
Jack Murdock during the 1960's and 1970's played in commercials for "Grandpas" discount stores in the Midwest. He was well known and played a "Grandpa" type character complete with overalls, bald head, glasses and a country accent to complete his character. Very successful and well received by the ...
38. David Byrd
Actor | Tango & Cash
David Byrd was born on September 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Tango & Cash (1989), Lost Highway (1997) and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He was married to Anne Gee Byrd. He died on January 26, 2001 in Studio City, California, USA.
39. Dustin Diamond
Actor | Saved by the Bell
Attended Zion Lutheran School in Anaheim, California. While in fifth grade, he portrayed 8th-grader Samuel "Screech" Powers in the television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987), which evolved into Saved by the Bell (1989) and its various television movies and spin-offs. Also appeared in the ...
40. Frances Bay
Actress | Blue Velvet
Cute, tiny, and prolific little old lady character actress Frances Bay worked constantly in both films and TV shows alike after making her debut at the age of 59 in life with a small part in the comedy Foul Play (1978) in 1978.
She frequently portrayed eccentric elderly women and good-hearted ...
42. Mary Jackson
Actress | The Exorcist III
One of those strikingly familiar matrons you just can't place, character actress Mary Jackson is probably best known for her recurring role as one of the delightfully eccentric bootlegging sisters, "Miss Emily" Baldwin, on the series The Waltons (1972) that ran for nine seasons. She was born ...
43. Lisa M. Ball
Actress | Big Top Pee-wee
Lisa M. Ball is known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Cold Feet (1989).
44. Leo Gordon
Actor | Maverick
Big, burly character actor, one of the toughest of screen heavies. New York-born Leo Gordon's combination of a powerful physique, deep, menacing voice and icy, withering glare was guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of even the bravest screen hero. Director Don Siegel, who used Gordon in his ...
45. Anne Seymour
Actress | Field of Dreams
The daughter of a copper expert (William Stanley Eckert) and an actress and museum curator (May Davenport), character actress Anne Seymour was born on September 11, 1909 in New York City. She was the seventh generation of a theatrical family that could be tracked back to Ireland in 1740. Her ...
46. Marie Hawkins
Actress | Big Top Pee-wee
Marie did her first commercial with Lavar Burton for Rice Crispies cereal in 1985. By age 11, she had completed over twenty commercials, one episode on Days of Our Lives, a photo shoot/flash back for the soap opera Santa Barbara (with a young Leonardo DiCaprio), and small role in Big Top Pee Wee. ...
47. Kenneth Tobey
Actor | The Thing from Another World
Born in Oakland, California, Kenneth Tobey was headed for a law career when he first dabbled in acting at the University of California Little Theater. That experience led to a year and a half of study at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, where his classmates included Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach and ...
49. Jay Robinson
Actor | The Robe
Character actor Jay Robinson owned a pair of the narrowest, cruelest-looking eyes in 1950s Hollywood. To complement them was an evil-looking sneer, crisp and biting diction and a nefarious-sounding cackle. These were all draped upon a lean, bony physique that could slither about menacingly like a ...
50. Eve Smith
Actress | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Eve Smith was born on August 31, 1905 in DeLand, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Romancing the Stone (1984) and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988). She died on August 28, 1997 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
51. Andrew Shalat
Actor | Big Top Pee-wee
Andrew Shalat is known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Coffee Break (2018).
52. Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros
Actor | Waxwork
Diminutive 2'9" actor and circus performer Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros was born in 1939 in Budapest, Hungary. Meszaros performed for the Hungarian National Circus prior to coming to America in the 1970s. Not surprisingly, he portrayed circus midgets in both "Big Top Pee-wee" and "Warlock: The ...
53. Franco Columbu
Actor | The Terminator
Francesco Columbu was an Italian actor, author, chiropractor, and former Amateur Boxer, Professional Bodybuilder and World's Strongest Man competitor. Franco was a longtime friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he met in 1965. He often appeared in small cinematic roles alongside Schwarzenegger at ...
54. Terrence Mann
Actor | Critters
Terrence Vaughn Mann was born to Charles and Helen Mann in Ashland, Kentucky on July 1, 1951. Terry left Jacksonville University after two years there (1969-1971), and later graduated with honors from the North Carolina School for the Arts (1971-73, 1975-76). During his first summer in Paul Green's...
55. Vance Colvig Jr.
Actor | UHF
Vance Colvig Jr. was born on March 9, 1918 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for UHF (1989), Ghost Warrior (1984) and The Yogi Bear Show (1961). He was married to Virginia G. Arslanian, Helen E. Ross and Helen Strahlmann. He died on March 3, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, ...
56. Matthias Hues
Actor | Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Matthias Hues was born on Valentine's Day in Waltrop, Germany, to the late Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany. Maria is the niece of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel.
Matthias was very involved in sports from an early age on. By the ...
57. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
...
58. Kevin Peter Hall
Actor | Predator 2
This African American actor attended Penn Hills High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started his junior year at 6' 5" and finished it at 6' 9"! He played basketball throughout his high-school years and won a scholarship. He averaged 18 points a game and 10 rebounds! He played basketball ...
59. Lynne Marie Stewart
Actress | The Running Man
Lynne Marie Stewart was born on December 14, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Running Man (1987), American Graffiti (1973) and Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985).
60. John Sherrod
Stunts | Die Hard
John Sherrod was born on May 19, 1942 in Mississippi, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Die Hard (1988), Colors (1988) and Commando (1985). He died on April 24, 1990 in Agua Dulce, California, USA.
61. Joey Arias
Actor | To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Joey Arias was born on October 3, 1949 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) and Flawless (1999).
62. Helen Siff
Actress | You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Helen Siff is known for You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Karate Kid (1984).
63. Carol Infield Sender
Actress | Earth Girls Are Easy
Carol Infield Sender is known for Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Taken (2002) and Big Top Pee-wee (1988).
64. Bunny Summers
Actress | Re-Animator
Bunny Summers was born on February 23, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986) and The Last Starfighter (1984). She died on September 9, 2010 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
65. Stephanie Hodge
Actress | Evolution
Stephanie Hodge was born on December 24, 1956 in Wilmington, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Evolution (2001), Unhappily Ever After (1995) and Nurses (1991). She has been married to Lance Lyon since 1992. They have one child. She was previously married to Scott Novotne.
66. April Tatro
Actress | Big Top Pee-wee
April Tatro was born on April 12, 1942 in Escondido, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988), Wonder Woman (1975) and Days of Our Lives (1965).
68. Joe Gibb
Actor | Big Top Pee-wee
Joe Gibb is known for Big Top Pee-wee (1988), The Quireboys: Brother Louie (1993) and In Living Color (1990).
69. Randal Kleiser
Director | Grease
Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, Grease (1978). Other features include The Blue Lagoon (1980) with Brooke Shields, Summer Lovers (1982) starring Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah, Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) with Jamie Lee Curtis, ...
70. Debra Hill
Writer | Escape from L.A.
Debra Hill was born on November 10, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a writer and producer, known for Escape from L.A. (1996), Halloween (1978) and Escape from New York (1981). She died on March 7, 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
71. Richard Gilbert Abramson
Producer | Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Richard Gilbert Abramson is known for Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) and Theodore Rex (1995).
72. George McGrath
Writer | Pee-wee's Playhouse
George McGrath was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for writing Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986-1991) Big Top Pee-wee (1988), writing and producing On the Television (1989-1990), Tracey Takes On (1998-2000) and Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003). His acting credits ...
73. Danny Elfman
Music_department | The Nightmare Before Christmas
As Danny Elfman was growing up in the Los Angeles area, he was largely unaware of his talent for composing. It wasn't until the early 1970s that Danny and his older brother Richard Elfman started a musical troupe while in Paris; the group "Mystic Knights of Oingo-Boingo" was created for Richard's ...
74. Steven Poster
Cinematographer | Donnie Darko
Steven Poster was born and raised In Chicago, and was first interested in still photography. He studied at Southern Illinois University, Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He first filmed commercials and documentaries. He ...
75. Jeff Gourson
Producer | Quantum Leap
Jeff Gourson was born on January 30, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and editor, known for Quantum Leap (1989), Tron (1982) and Somewhere in Time (1980). He has been married to Stacey Gourson since December 17, 2005. He was previously married to Joy Harmon.
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