List of Ohio Wesleyan University People - Entertainment

Entertainment

• Fred Baron, Class of 1976; producer of Moulin Rouge; current executive producer for the BBS According to Bex.
• Jim Berry, Class of 1955; National Newspaper Cartoonist.
• Amelia Bigham, Class of 1890; Broadway actress in The Power of Gold, The Shaughraun, The Colleen Bawn, The Village Postmaster, Captain Impudence; inducted into the Ohio Hall of Fame.
• Emerson Burkhart, Class of 1927; National Painter.
• John Callaway, Class of 1958, Emmy award winning broadcast and print journalist.
• Frank Corrado, Class of 1968; actor (American Conservatory Theatre, Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, McCarter, Long Wharf).
• Trish Van Devere, actress, Curacao, Messenger of Death, Hollywood Vice Squad, Haunted, etc.
• Anne Flanagan, Class of 1987; film, TV actor/writer (The Comedy Store, Disclosure, Tracey Ullman Show, 7th Heaven).
• Jim Graner, attended only (1937–39); weeknight TV sports anchor for WKYC TV-3 and Radio color commentator for the Cleveland Browns.
• Clark Gregg, Class of 1984; actor, director, screenwriter (Spanish Prisoner, What Lies Beneath, West Wing).
• Perry Joslin, Class of 1983, Jazz Pianist, Musician.
• Gerald Kline, Class of 1966; TV, film, stage actor (Law and Order, All My Children,) Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Board member.
• Ron Leibman, Class of 1958; Emmy, Tony-winning actor (Angels in America, "Norma Rae", "Slaughterhouse Five", "Friends").
• Wendie Malick, Class of 1972; film, TV actor (Just Shoot Me (NBC), Dream On (HBO), The American President), and currently "Hot in Cleveland" (TV Land).
• Melvin Van Peebles, Class of 1953; actor and director,Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
• Robert Pine, Class of 1963; TV, film actor (CHiPs, Murder, She Wrote, Hoover vs. the Kennedys, Six Feet Under).
• Art Sansom, Class of 1942; Creator of the daily comic strip The Born Loser.
• Wayne Turney, Class of 1968; Emmy-winning Actor (Hickory Hideout, Cleveland Play House, Actors' Theatre Louisville).
• Patricia Wettig, Class of 1974; Emmy-winning actor (thirty something, The Langoliers, City Slickers, Boomtown, Brothers & Sisters).
• Eric Winzenried, Class of 1988; film, TV actor (ER, The Untouchables, Zoolander, Austin Powers).