Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine's joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago's Second City's Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in "The National Lampoon Show" with other Second City graduates including John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray. By 1976, he was head writer and a regular performer on the top Canadian comedy series Second City TV (1976). His Hollywood debut came when he collaborated on the script for National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) which was produced by Ivan Reitman. After that, he worked as writer with Ivan as producer on Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and acted in the latter three. Harold Ramis died on February 24, 2014 at age 69 from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis.
After serving in the US Army during World War I, British-born Harold S. Bucquet entered the film business, first as an extra and then as a set designer. He became an assistant to director Allen Holubar, and later was hired as an assistant director at MGM--a studio where he was to spend the rest of his career--in the shorts department and directed screen tests. He made his first feature in 1938, Young Dr. Kildare (1938). He was entrusted with an "A" feature such as Dragon Seed (1944) every so often, but his output was mainly "B" pictures, though at MGM they were often more polished and professional than many other studios' "A" pictures. He had to leave his last film, The Green Years (1946), because of illness, and died not long afterward.
The most famous henchman of the entire James Bond series of spy thrillers, Harold Sakata will forever be remembered as the villainous "Odd Job" in the ultimate Bond film, Goldfinger (1964), with his lethal martial arts and steel-brimmed bowler hat. He was born Toshiyuki Sakata in Hawaii, of Japanese descent. From a young age he was a proficient sportsman who developed a keen interest in wrestling, and won a Silver Medal in weightlifting for the light heavyweight division of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Sakata then went on to become a professional wrestler, and appeared under the name "Tosh Togo" where he became a "bad guy" wrestler who allegedly threw salt in his opponent's eyes. Although he had no acting background, Sakata came to the attention of Bond producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli when they were casting for the key role of the mute Asian villain "Odd Job". Sakata's steely gaze and powerful physique made him perfect for the role as Auric Goldfinger's (Gert Fröbe) deadly bodyguard, and the fight sequence between Sean Connery and Sakata in a glittering, gold-filled Fort Knox remains one of the highlights of the Bond series. Unfortunately, Sakata never broke free of the "Odd Job" stereotype, and his remaining film appearances saw him cast as military figures, muscle-bound brutes or further mute bodyguards. He died from cancer in 1982, but had assured himself a very unique place in modern film history.
Harold Skow is known for The Stolen Valley (2022).
Harold Stratton is known for Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission (2021).
Harold Torres graduated from a BFA in acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT or University Theater Center) at the UNAM (Mexico's National Autonomous University). He has participated in more than 30 feature films amongst them are Norteado, La Cebra, González falsos profetas, Espiral, Los Bañistas and Colosio el Asesinato. For television, he has participated in La ruta blanca for Imagen TV, Niño Santo and Crónica de castas for Canal Once, Texas Rising for the History Channel and Run Coyote Run and Sitiados Mexico for Fox, as well as Ingobernable for Netflix. He has been directed by María Novaro, Everardo Gout, Carlos Bolado and Julián Hernández, Marcel Sisniega, Nicolás Pereda and Rodrigo Plá. He was selected to participate at the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2011 and has been nominated in three occasions for the Ariel award as best actor in Norteado by Rigoberto Perezcano (2010) González falsos Profetas by Cristian Díaz Pardo (2014) and La Carga by Alan Jonsson (2015). In 2009 he was awarded as best actor at the Bratislava Film Festival for Norteado, and at the Morelia International Film Festival for González, falsos profetas for which he also won a Diosa de Plata award in 2015 for best actor.
Harold W. Griffin is known for Caught Up (1998), The Inconsiderables: Last Exit Out of Hollywood (2020) and Pepper Black in Black Pepper (2008).
Harold W. Thompkins III is known for Fatal Call (2012).
Harold Weed was born on December 23, 1962 in San Francisco County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Minority Report (2002) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
Harold Weir is known for Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019).