Charles Herbert, (born Charles Herbert Saperstein on December 23, 1948, in Culver City, California, U.S.), was an American film and TV child actor of the 1950s and 1960s.

Before reaching his teens, Herbert was renowned by a generation of moviegoers for an on-screen broody, mature style and wit that enabled him to go one-on-one with some of the biggest names in the industry, and his appearances in a handful of films in the sci-fi/horror genre have garnered him an immortality there. In six years he appeared in 20 Hollywood features.

Herbert supported his family from the age of five and went from being one of the most desired and highest paid child actors of his time to one of the multitude of performers Hollywood "discarded" upon reaching maturity. His situation and the lifetime of damage it created for him have only recently come to light.

Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian, and former cable talk show host.

Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Orthodox Jewish American parents Lena (née Moretsky), who worked as an assistant in the family's store and was a volunteer for disabled veterans, and Theodore Grodin, who sold wholesale supplies. His maternal grandfather, Emanuel Moretsky, was a Russian Jewish immigrant who came from a long line of Rabbis and moved to Pittsburgh at the turn of the 20th century. He has an older brother, Jack.

Patrick Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English playwright, director, actor and Academy Award nominated screenwriter.

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (born May 15, 1926) is an English dramatist, author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.
He was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, and is the twin brother of another playwright, Anthony Shaffer. He gained a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University to study history.Shaffer was a Bevin Boy coal miner during WW2 and took a number of jobs including bookstore clerk, and assistant at the New York Public Library, before discovering his dramatic talents.

S. J. Perelman, Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979), almost always known as S. J. Perelman was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker; he also wrote for several other magazines, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays

Perelman's parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who raised poultry on a small Rhode Island farm.