A former Olympic athlete, Amsterdam-born Renee Soutendijk began her film career in Germany. The blonde, powerfully built young actress scored a hit playing loose-cannon “heroines” in a brace of Paul Verhoeven-directed cult films, Spetters (1980) and Th…

Best known as Cindy Walsh, mother of Brenda and Brandon on TV’s Beverly Hills 90210, Carol Potter began her acting career on the stage, appearing in the Broadway play Gemini in 1977. She began dabbling in onscreen acting in the early ’80s, but her big …

Just over a decade into his young life, Scotty Leavenworth had already managed to accumulate an impressive list of credits to his name as an actor. Appearing in films that starred the likes of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Jim Carrey, the youthful perf…

Cambridge-educated leading man Anthony Steel had several seasons of theatrical work behind him when he first stepped before the movie cameras in 1948. His heyday was in the 1950s, a fact that can be attributed as much to his well-publicized marriage to…

Production designer Joe Alves is best known for his work with Steven Spielberg, with whom he has worked on four films. Before beginning his career, he studied at San Jose State, Chinaurd Institute (where he majored in motion picture design) and at USC….

With her curly blonde hair, kewpie doll looks and trim figure, it seemed almost inevitable that Soutendijk would abandon her ambitions as an Olympic gymnast to pursue an acting career. Upon graduating from the Academy of Performing Arts in her native T…

Saturnine, generously bearded character actor Richard Libertini cut his comic teeth with Chicago’s Second City Troupe. With MacIntyre Dixon, Libertini appeared in the nightclub comedy act “Stewed Prunes;” he then began toting up such New York stage cre…

A graduate of the ABC daytime drama All My Children, Richard Hatch managed to get off on the wrong foot with critics and audiences alike with his first starring prime-time TV role. In 1976, Hatch replaced Michael Douglas on the long-running cop series …