Welcome to a listing of Hoosiers that have or are making a contribution to Hollywood History.
I will try to list them and keep you updated.
Hoosier: Someone who was born, raised, educated, and/or worked for a period of time in Indiana, USA. ENTER
Under major reconstruction. Many links are broken if there was something special you were looking for please contact me hollywoodhoosiers@earthlink.net and I will try to fix it.
Hollywood Hoosiers in the 2008 National Film Registry The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Features Anthony Caruso as a safe cracker, Jean Hagen as the girl friend of the gun man and Helene Stanley as the teenager that attracts the brains of jewel robbery.
Foolish Wives (1922)Miss DuPont plays the wife.
In Cold Blood (1967)Will Geer is the Prosecutor.
Howard Hawk's Sergeant York (1941)The Terminator (1984)Pete Kleinow worked on the stop motion of the Terminator.
* American Teen 07/25/2008 [Documentary filmed in Warsaw, Indiana]
* Hollywood on Fire KEN WALES and CORY EDWARDS in documentary about faith in Hollywood films.
* ARIJA BAREIKIS Frame of Mind
* ABRAHAM BENRUBI 2008 - Calvin Marshall 2008 - 1% Current (ending 2008) - Men in Trees (ABC)
* AVERY BROOKS 2009 - For Love of Liberty: The Story of America' Black Patriots
* DAN BUTLER 2008 - Chronic Town (in film festivals) 2009/01 - Prayers for Bobby
* EZRA BUZZINGTON 2008 - Julia 06/13/2008 - Skeletons in the Desert 2008 - Doubting Thomas 08/15/2008 - Mirrors In Production - Black Friday
* EMBETH DAVIDTZ 01/28/2008 - In Treatment [HBO] 2008 - Winged Creatures
* POLLY DRAPER Current - The Naked Brothers Band (Nick)
* CORY EDWARDS 2008 - Andrew Henry's Meadow 2009 - Fraggle Rock: The Movie 2009 - Escape from Planet Earth 2010 - Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil
* MIKE EPPS 2008 - Next Day Air 2009 - Janky Promoter In talk - Richard Pryor bio-pic
* KENT ESTEP 2008 - American Inquisition
* CHAD EVERETT 07/07/2008 - Break
* JENNA FISCHER Current - The Office (NBC)
* VIVICA A. FOX 2008 - Glam God with Vivica A. Fox (VH1) San Saba Unstable Fables: Tortise vs. Hare Street Niss Nobody Caught on Tape Major Movie Star 10/31/2008 (LA) - Junkyard Dog Hollywood & Wine Shark City
* BRENDAN FRASIER 07/11/2008 - Journey to the Center of the Earth 08/01/2008 - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008 - Singularity 01/30/2009 - Inkheart 08/07/2009 - G.I. Joe 2009 - This Side of the Looking Glass
* FLORENCE HENDERSON Current - Florence Henderson Show (RLC) 09/23 - For Heaven's Sake! (Vangaurd video) Fall/2008 - Ladies of the House (Hallmark)
* JIM GAFFIGAN Current - My Boys (TBS) 2008 - Shoot First and Pray You Live
* RON GLASS 09/19/2008 - Lakeview Terrace
* MOLLY HAGEN 08/15/2008 - Henry Poole is Here 09/26/2008 - The Lucky Ones Love Shack 01/2009 - Princess Protection Program Peck
* DOUG JONES Hellboy II: The Golden Army 10/31/2008 - Carnies Super Capers Legion My Name is Jerry Silver Surfer
* LARRY KARASZEWSKI - Big Eyes Cell Ripley's Believe It of Not!
* GREG KINNEAR 04/25/2008 - Baby Mama Ghost Town Flash of Genius Green Zone
* NEIL LaBUTE 09/19/2008 - Lakeview Terrace
* FORREST LANDIS 2008 - Doubting Thomas
* MICHAEL MICHELE Relative Stranger
* DEAN NORRIS 08/2008 - Linewatch 2008 - Breaking Bad [AMC]
* PERENNIAL PICTURES (G. BRIAN REYNOLDS & RUSS HARRIS) 12/2008 - Random! Cartoons (Nick) Handycat
* BERNIE POLLACK 05/29/08 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Harrison Ford's costume designer)
* SYDNEY POLLACK 05/25/2008 - Recount (HBO) 12/12/2008 - The Reader 2008 - Margaret 05/02/2008 - Made of Honor
* DREW POWELL 2008 - Camp Hope
* JAMES REBHORN 04/25/2008 - Baby Mama 2008 - Boy of Pigs 2008 - The Box 2008 (Japan) - Sakura: Blue-Eyed Samurai
* CARLY SCHROEDER 2009/01 - Prayers for Bobby Forget Me Not
* STEVEN SOMMERS 08/01/2008 - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008 - When Worlds Collide 2008 - Airborn 2008 - Magic Kingdom for Sale 08/07/2009 - G.I. Joe
* SCOTT A. STONE 06/02/2008 - The Mole (ABC)
* MICHAEL E. USLAN 07/18/2008 - The Dark Knight The Spirit Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam True Believer: The Father of Super Heroes
* FRED WILLIAMSON 2008/11 - Last Ounce of Courage Resist Evil Part Two: God is Missing! Let Us Quest for God! Resist Evil Part Three: Don't Stop or We'll Die 4-Bidden I Wanna Dance Black Kissinger
* JO ANNE WORLEY 01/09/2008 - Performing in Wicked at the Pantages Theatre in LA.
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FILMED IN INDIANA
* 2009 - My Name Is Jerry
* 2009 - Kurt Vonnegut: American Made
* 2010/05/01 - Indianapolis 500
SET IN INDIANA
* 2008 - True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet (Lifetime)
* 2008 - Untitled Barry Blaustein Documentary [Southern Indiana high school musicals compete (Liongate).]
* 2008 - The Silence
* 2008 - Desertion
* 2008 - Jens Jensen: Harmonious World [Developed Indiana Dunes]
* 2008 - Redefining Normal
* 2009 - Murder at Random
* 2009 - Don't Look in the Basement!
* 2009 - Untitled Hunter Scott Project [About the student that researched the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (Universal)]
* 2009 - Fruit of the Tree [Lynching in 1930]
* 2009 - Red Gold [Love story about Italian soldier and a local Indiana girl. Based on a true event in Camp Atterbury, Indiana.]
* 2009 - Indianapolis [About the U.S.S. Indianapolis (WB)]
* 2010 - The Low Dweller
Original site began June 10, 1997
New site 8/5/2001
"What we have here is failure to communicate" Strother Martin (Kokomo) Cool Hand Luke
Under major reconstruction. Many links are broken if there was something special you were looking for please contact me hollywoodhoosiers@earthlink.net and I will try to fix it.
Last updated on 5/23/2008
