George Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. He was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kaufman added the middle initial to his name to lend it balance and rhythm.

Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 - August 29, 2006) was the author of the "Last Angry Man" and screenwriter of the mini-series "Holocaust". "Holocaust", while not at the level of "Schindler's List", is generally credited with making a profound impact on the current generation of Germans far beyond the non-dramatized material previously presented. The impact of "Roots" in America is a somewhat analgous situation.

Harold Pinter (born 10 October 1930) is a British Playwright. Born in 1930 in London. Considered one of the most important playwrights of the post-war era. His plays include "The Homecoming" and "The Caretaker".

Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography, Act One, adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart.

Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was the author of the great novel "The Naked and the Dead" (based on his WWII service); and several ground-breaking works of prose: "The Armies of the Night, "Of a Fire On the Moon"; "The Executioner's Song".

Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (March 21, 1880 – January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.

He was born Max Aronson in Little Rock, Arkansas, the sixth child of Henry and Esther Aronson, natives of New York. His younger sister Leona Anderson would achieve a degree of success in the 1950s as a novelty singer who specialized in singing off-key songs for comedic value.

Anderson, who was Jewish, is also claimed by Pine Bluff, where he was raised until age eight.

He then lived in St. Louis until he was 18, when he moved to New York City. He was a photographer's model and newspaper vendor before appearing on the stage. He performed in vaudeville, later working with Edwin S. Porter as an actor and occasional script collaborator.

Corey Allen (born Alan Cohen on June 29, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American film and television director, writer, producer and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He may be best known as the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor. He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow is on the Roses". He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers.

Ames was born in Malden, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish immigrants. He was one of nine children, five boys and four girls. Ames grew up in a poor household, but was educated in Classical and Opera music, as well as in Literature, such as Shakespeare.

Ezra Stone (b. Ezra Chaim Feinstone, December 2, 1917 New Beford, Massachusetts – d. March 3, 1994, Perth Amboy, New Jersey), an American actor and director, enjoyed a long career on stage, in films, and in radio and television, mostly as a director---but he may yet be remembered best for playing awkwardly mischievious teenager Henry Aldrich in the radio comedy hit, The Aldrich Family, for most of its fourteen-year life.